World Musicon Edition 3

### Venue

**Opening Ceremony:** Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park Gymnasium, Nanjing**Grand Final:** Beijing National Indoor Stadium, Bejing

**Semi Final 1:** Dong’an Lake Arena, Chengdu

**Semi Final 2:** Guoxin Gymnasium, Qingdao

**Semi Final 3:** Hainan Province Sports Center, Haikou,  Hainan

**Semi Final 4:** Shenzhen Dayun Arena, Shenzhen,  Guangdong

### Host Broadcaster

 CCTV alongside with Hunan TV and Zhejiang Television

## Countries Competing

### Debuting Countries

 Åland Islands,  Albania,  Armenia,  Atlantis,  Azerbaijan,  Bikini Bottom,  Bulgaria,  Cambodia,  Cape Verde,  Cayman Islands,  Congo Kinshasa,  Croatia,  Curaçao,  Dominican Republic,  Easter Island,  Ecuador,  East Timor,  Ethiopia,  Florida,  French Polynesia,  Friesland,  Greenland,  Guam,  Haiti, Hungary,  India,  Isle of Man,  Latvia,  Lithuania,  Liechtenstein,  Luxembourg,  Malaysia,  Minnesota,  Mozambique,  Myanmar,  Northern Ireland,  Pakistan,  Romania,  Rhodes,  Russia,  Rwanda,  Sealand,  Somalia,  South Africa,  Svalbard,  Switzerland,  Suriname

## Edition(s)

### Upcoming Edition

Edition 4

Following the victory of  Mainland China. The third Edition of World Musicon will be in China. On the same day the International Music Organisation along with China have confirmed that there will be four semi finals across 4 cities. The final will be held in Beijing. In addition the opening ceremony will be held in Nanjing. After finalising the results  Mainland China,  Iceland,  Venezuela,  New Zealand and Bonin Islands will automatically qualify for the Grand Final. This edition also marks to returning of fourth placer Lorde, sixth placer Stromae, Ed Sheeran, Krezip and the winners of Within Temptation.

 Lorde
 Within Temptation
 Krezip
 Ed Sheeran

## Venues

It was announced by China and the IMO that this edition will be the first edition to be held across several cities. The cities of Harbin, Shenyang, Yinzhou, Tianjin, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Zhoukou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Changsha, Nanning, Kumming, Dongguan, Canton, Lhasa and Ürümqi all confirmed interest in competing. Eventually it was decided that Beijing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Qingdao, Haikou and Shenzhen would host the show.

## Confirmed Entities

* Cayman Islands
* Curaçao
* Dominican Republic
* Florida
* Greenland
* Haiti
* Michigan
* Minnesota
* United States

**South America (3)**
* Ecuador
* Suriname
* Venezuela
* Austria
* Belgium
* Canary Islands
* Cornwall
* Denmark
* England
* Finland
* France
* Friesland
* Germany
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Isle of Man
* Italy
* Liechtenstein
* Limburg
* Luxembourg
* Netherlands
* North Brabant
* Northern Ireland
* Norway
* Portugal
* Rijnmond-Rotterdam
* Scotland
* Sealand
* Spain
* Svalbard
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Vatican City
* Wales
* Congo Kinshasa
* Ethiopia
* Mozambique
* Rwanda
* South Africa
* Uganda

**Oceania (7)**
* Australia
* Bikini Bottom
* Bonin Islands
* Easter Island
* French Polynesia
* Guam
* New Zealand
* Cambodia
* Mainland China
* East Timor
* Hokkaido
* India
* Indonesia
* Japan
* Malaysia
* Myanmar
* Mongolia
* North Korea
* Okinawa
* Philippines
* Siberia
 **Historical (1)*** Prussia

**Middle East (5)**
* Morocco
* Pakistan
* Somalia
* Turkiye
* Turkmenistan
* Interakia
* Nocturnia
* Teknetos

**Communities (2)**
* Esperanto Community
* LGBT Community
* Armenia
* Azerbaijan
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Greece
* Hungary
* Kazakhstan
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Poland
* Rhodes
* Romania
* Russia
* Ukraine

## References

1. ↑ In the original SpongeBob series. Bikini Bottom is reffered to the borttom of the lagoon in Bikini Atoll. Bikini Atoll lays in the Marshall Islands. Thus it is refered as an Oceanian island.
2. ↑ Since nobody could prove it's existence nor it's location. It's classified as a fictional rather than historic entity.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sweden to continue sending quality in Swedish.