AI Song Contest 2020

The AI Song Contest 2020 was the inaugural edition of the AI Song Contest, organised by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO, in collaboration with NPO 3FM and NPO Innovation. It was held at 8:30 pm on May 12, 2020 and was held in the Netherlands, presented by Lieven Scheire. Thirteen teams from eight countries took part in the contest. The contest was won by the Australian team Uncanny Valley with the song "Beautiful the World".

Format
Each participating team had to submit a "Eurovision-like" song of up to three minutes that had been composed using artificial intelligence (AI). Human input was allowed, but the more AI was used, the more points the entry would get from the jury. The entries were also evaluated by the public through online ratings. The winner was announced that evening.
Venue
The contest was online by cause of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and was broadcast via a live stream on YouTube and was presented the points from the online voting were announced by Dutch television presenter Emma Wortelboer.

Competing entries
The contest count with thirteen teams from eight countries. As there were no pre-qualifying rounds, multiple teams from each country could enter the competition. The contest featured the following competing entries:

CountryTeamSongLanguagePointsPlaceJuryPublicTotalUncanny Valley"Beautiful the World"English109.819.81Beatroots"Violent Delights Have Violent Ends"English65.311.38Polaris"Princess"English48.112.17Algomus & Friends"I Keep Counting"English87.515.54DataDada"Je secoue le monde"French56119Dadabots x Portrait XO"I'll Marry You, Punk Come"English127.419.42Ligatur"Offshore in Deep Water"English44812OVGneUrovision"Traveller in Time"Instrumental54.69.611Can AI Kick It"Abbus"English107.817.83COMPUTD / Shuman & Angel-Eye"I Write a Song"English58.813.85KTH/KMH+Doremir"Come To Ge Ther"English46.910.910New Piano"Painful Words"English23.25.213Brentry"Hope Rose High"English85.713.76

References

Other websites
Official website
VPRO page for the AI Song Contest
Oficial account on Twitter
AI Song Contest 2020 on YouTube

Category:2020 in music
Category:2020 in the Netherlands
Category:Artificial intelligence