Canticum Certamine

Canticum Certamine, often shortened to CC, is a song contest held among the members of the Certamine Broadcasting Union since February 2020. The competition was based upon the existing Eurovision Song Contest held among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956.
Each country's head of delegation gets to select an entry for each edition either by internal or national selection. Certain countries conduct national selections, where various artists or groups compete against each other for the opportunity to represent their nation. In these selections, the winner is chosen through a combination of public votes and a professional jury. Alternatively, some countries opt for internal selection, wherein a broadcaster or a group of experts selects an artist and a song to represent their country. The selection process can vary significantly between countries, but the ultimate objective is to identify the most suitable entry to represent their nation at the contest.
So far, 20 different countries have won the competition and therefore hosted the contest. Apart from Finland during the first edition, who hosted due to being the organizer of the contest, Israel, Albania, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Belarus, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, Hungary, Spain, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia, the Netherlands, Georgia, Monaco, Lebanon, Latvia, and Switzerland have all been winners and hosts of the contest. Albania, Belarus, Poland, Portugal, and Spain have all won the contest twice. Mexico is the only guest country to ever win the contest. The highest scoring winner, is Israel's The Pussycat Dolls which won the first edition with their song "React" which got 501 points, 74 points ahead of the runner-up, Croatia.
===Slogans===
Since the first edition, slogans were used for the contest. In each edition, the host broadcaster is in charge to decide the slogan of the edition and based on it, develope the contest's theme and visual design.
The fourth edition was the first edition to include a sub-slogan along with the main slogan.
Edn.	Host city 	Slogan
#01 	Helsinki 	"Grace Upon Us"
#02 	Tel Aviv 	"Feel The Magic"
#03 	Tirana 	"Stronger Than Before"
#04 	Dublin 	"shout. don't be silenced."
#05 	Warsaw 	"New Horizons"
#06 	Lisbon 	"Lost In Time"
#07 	Minsk 	"The Last Call"
#08 	Berlin 	"strike a pose!"
#09 	Malmö 	"Wanted - on the run."
#10 	Mexico City 	"anticipating"
#11 	Budapest 	"Welcome To Our Island"
#12 	Valencia 	"Valoramos Juntos - Valorem Junts!"
#13 	Almaty 	"Intertwined"
#14 	Oslo 	"Glimpse of Emotion"
#15 	Minsk 	"Second Lap"
#16 	Barcelona 	"Own Ballads"
#17 	Gdańsk-Sopot 	"Małomiasteczkowe Disco"
#18 	Saint Petersburg	"heavun."
#19 	Rotterdam 	"» Bejeweled «"
#20 	Tbilisi 	"Return to Morality"
#21 	Fontvieille 	"The Art of"
#22 	Lisbon 	"Till the Sun"
#23 	Sidon 	"ignite - إشعال"
#24 	Riga 	"Galore"
#25 	Korçë 	"Breaking Moulds"
#26 	Bern 	"Present ➤ Future"
==Participation==
Any full member of the CBU is allowed to send a song for Canticum Certamine. Countries that are not full members can apply for becoming one.
Each full member has got a certain broadcaster that is responsible for the choice of the artists and songs the country is sending for each edition. Fifty-five countries have participated at least once. These are listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:
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==Winners==
Twenty different countries have won Canticum Certamine, six of them being Eastern European nations (Belarus, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, and Russia). Most of the winners have so far been female artists except from the winner of the twenty-third edition being the first solo male act to win the contest.
Sweden is the country with the most second places so far with the country ending up as the runner-up in the eleventh, fourteenth, and eighteenth editions. 
Edn.	Country	Singer 	Song 	Points
#01 	 	The Pussycat Dolls	"React" 	501
#02 	 	Ava Max 	"Kings & Queens" 	373
#03 	 	Empara Mi 	"Shout" 	401
#04 	 	Marysia Starosta 	"Hibiskus" 	322
#05 	 	SEA 	"Player 2" 	365
#06 	 	HELENA 	"Poslednij Zvonok" 	384
#07 	 	Kim Petras 	"Close Your Eyes" 	400
#08 	 	Namasenda 	"Wanted" 	408
#09 	 	Rebecca Black 	"Crumbs" 	441
#10 	 	Caroline Polachek 	"Welcome To My Island" 	345
#11 	 	Marina Herlop 	"abans abans" 	441
#12 	 	Nazima 	"Lenty" 	473
#13 	 	Amalie Holt Kleive	"Sier ingenting" 	414
#14 	 	HEZEN 	"So We Happen" 	448
#15 	 	Pipolas 	"Romancero Propio" 	354
#16 	 	Margaret 	"Tańcz głupia" 	405
#17 	 	Green Apelsin 	"Stantsuyu Na Tvoyey Mogile" 	488
#18 	 	Merol 	"Applaus" 	405
#19 	 	Madlena 	"Manifest" 	424
#20 	 	Cocanha 	"Que son aüros" 	428
#21 	 	Sónia Trópicos 	"Nina" 	438
#22 	 	Khansa 	"Sirna" 	385
#23 	 	Múr 	"summer is over and so are we"	393
#24 	 	Dua Lipa 	"Training Season" 	414
#25 	 	Sans Soucis 	"I Know Your Present" 	444