Mysterious Song Contest 27

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**Mysterious Song Contest** welcomes the world to  Singapore for the 27th Edition.

The Mysterious Song Contest #27 will be the 27th edition of the annual Mysterious Song Contest Wikia. It will take place in the Singapore Sports Hub, located in Kallang,  Singapore, following the country's victory at the 26th edition with Gentle Bones performing "Sixty Five". This will be the second time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of 3 semi finals and finally the grand final, with official dates for the semi finals being **22nd February 2016** and the grand final being the **09th March 2016**. As of 13th February 2016, **45 countries** have announced their participation in the contest.

## Location

Mediacorp  Singapore, announced on **05th February 2016** that their first choice as host arena for the Contest was the Singapore Sports Hub in Kallang. However other cities and arenas were still able to apply. After  Singapore win in Taipei, those making a bid had approximately three days to submit their offer to Mediacorp.

The Singapore Sports Hub in Kallang, which has a capacity of approximately 55,800 attendees, was announced as the host venue on 08th February 2016. This will be the Arena's second time hosting the contest.

## Presenters

On **13th February 2016**, Mediacorp announced that JJ Lin and Tanya Chua will be the hosts of the 26th contest after hosting the 10th edition of the contest. Stephanie Sun will host in the Green Room.

## Format

The competition will consist of three semi-finals and a final, a format which has been used more regularly in the contest. The 07 countries with the highest scores in each semi-final will qualify to the grand final where they will join the top 3 countries from the previous edition  San Marino,  Ghana and the host nation  Singapore. Once the 21 qualifiers have been announced there will be a 24 hour vote for the wildcard which will join the finalists to create a grand final of 25 countries.

Each participating country had their own national jury/HoD. Each member of a respective nation's jury is required to rank every song, except that of their own country, to produce an overall ranking from first to last place. The song which scored the highest overall rank received 12 points, while the tenth-best ranked song received 1 point.

## Participants

The following countries have confirmed their participation into the contest.

**Table key**

     *Participating Countries*
     *Withdrawing Countries*

## Returning Artists

We welcome back some artists who have previous joined us in MSC.

* Dominican Republic Melanie Martinez [Prev. #25, #26]
* Greece Helena Paparizou [Prev. #09, #11, #23, #26]
* Kosovo Rita Ora [Prev.  United Kingdom#23]
* Kosovo Sigma [Prev.  United Kingdom#18]
* San Marino Valentina Monetta [Prev. #09]
* South Korea T-Ara [Prev. #06]
* Spain Xuso Jones [Prev. #07]

## Semi-final allocation draw

The draw that determined the semi-final allocation was held on TBA. The participating countries, excluding the automatic finalists  Singapore,  Ghana and  San Marino. The countries were split into three pots which would either be semi final 1, semi final 2 or semi final 3. Then a random generator was used to allocate countries into the running order. The results were as follows:

It was decided that  San Marino would vote in semi final #01,  Ghana would vote in semi final #02 and  Singapore to vote in semi final #03. This was to assure to make the results fair and even for all participants in the edition.

Once the qualifiers have been announced the finalists have 48 hours to vote for the country they want to see as their wild card from the non-qualifiers. That country would then join the finalist into the grand final.

## Semi Final 1

14 Countries are participating in this Semi Final with  San Marino voting as 1 of the 3 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 07 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified
     Wildcard Qualifier

## Semi Final 2

14 Countries are participating in this Semi Final with  Ghana voting as 1 of the 3 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 07 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified
     Wildcard Qualifier

## Semi Final 3

14 Countries are participating in this Semi Final with  Singapore voting as 1 of the 3 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 07 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified
     Wildcard Qualifier

## Grand Final

25 Countries will create the grand final. 07 from Semi Final 1, 07 from Semi Final 2, 07 from semi final 3, 1 wildcard and the automatic qualifiers  Singapore,  Ghana and  San Marino.

The draw on  Singapore,  Ghana and  San Marino position in the running order was done prior to the Semi Finals.

This was the running order for the Grand Final

### **12points**

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the final:

## Voting & Spokespeople

This is the order of how the votes were released and the spokesperson from each country

First part of results

01.  Germany Jamie Lee Kriewitz

02.  United States Taylor Swift

03.  Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach

04.  Armenia Inga and Anush Arshakyan

05.  North Macedonia Aleesia Stamkos

06.  Taiwan Eddie Peng

07.  Sweden Anna Book

08.  Belarus Uzari

09.  San Marino Anita Simoncini

10.  Spain Maria Isabel

11.  Liechtenstein Tina Weirather

12.  Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne

13.  Belgium Natalia Druyts

14.  Dominican Republic Melanie Martinez

15.  Croatia Severina Vuckovic

Second part of results

16.  Iran Faramarz Aslani

17.  Morocco Jamila

18.  Austria Allessa

19.  Kazakhstan Keti Topuria

20.  South Korea Tiffany Hwang

21.  Singapore Dee Kosh

22.  Italy Claudio Ranieri

23.  Kosovo Xherdan Shaqiri

24.  Finland Opera Skaala

25.  Czech Republic Tereza Kerndlová

26.  Egypt Shady Srour

27.  South Africa Brendan Peyper

28.  Ghana Tinchy Stryder

29.  Haiti Jason Derulo

30.  Mexico Guillermo Del Toro

Third part of results

31.  The Netherlands Esmee Denters

32.  Venezuela Lele Pons

33.  Ukraine Max Barskih

34.  United Kingdom Joe and Jake

35.  Denmark Soren Bregendal

36.  Switzerland Zazou Mall

37.  Norway Alexandra Joner

38.  Poland Joanna Krupa

39.  Albania Albert Stanaj

40.  France Willy William

41.  Serbia Bojana Stamenov

42.  Greece Nikos Oikonomopoulos

43.  Russia Anna Shurochkina

44.  Slovenia Maja Keuc

45.  Israel Yehonathan Gatro

### Voting Grid

This is how the votes were scored in each Semi Final.

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     Qualified

This is how the finalists scored in the wildcard battle.

     Qualified

Here is how the world voted in the grand final.

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