Edition 7

The seventh edition of the Global Music Festival was back (for the third time) in the United Kingdom (taking place in Glasgow in edition one and in Newcastle in edition three) in the Northern Irish city of Belfast.  The show was hosted at the Odyssey Arena by two beloved stars: Graham Norton, most famous for his self-titled talk show and for being the commentator for the United Kingdom for the Eurovision Song Contest; and the second singer is someone who has taken part in the contest twice previously, the winner of edition six, it is Anne-Marie.  Anne-Marie also performed as the interval act for the grand final, performing her songs that have competed in the Global Music Festival: "Rockabye" and "Ciao Adios".  This edition saw 40 countries competing for the win: Albania, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Bulgaria, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Estonia, Finland, France, FYR Macedonia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kosovo, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom (host) and the United States.  The power six for edition seven, consisting of the top 6 from the previous edition, were the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Kosovo, South Korea and Finland - who all got an automatic place in the grand final of this edition.  This was the third thematic edition of the Global Music Festival and was selected by a poll on the Facebook group - the theme that was selected by our participants was Disney songs (this meant that each of the participants could send any Disney song from any country).  The seventh edition was won by Jamaica who were represented by Scottish folk singer Julie Fowlis with the hit song from the movie *Brave*​ - "Touch the Sky" - Jamaica won with 147 points.

 Slogan
 Venue
 Presenter(s)
 Participants
 Theme
 Winner

## ​Participants

* Cyprus
* Denmark
* Poland

## ​Theme Poll

The themes in this poll were selected by the previous four winners of this contest (the United Kingdom, Australia, Estonia and Finland). The poll was uploaded to the Facebook group on Wednesday 19 April 2017 and the members were allowed to vote for one of the theme options - the results were announced on Friday 21 April 2017.

 Songs From the 1980s [Australia]
 Songs by Bands or Groups [Estonia]
 Songs in Native Languages [Finland]

## ​Odds

Odds returned for the seventh edition of the Global Music Festival and featured in both the semi finals as well as the final. The odds for the semi finals were released on Tuesday 02 May 2017 by the admins in charge of their respective semi finals, below you can see the odds for the top ten in each semi final:

And, below are the odds for the favourites for the final of the seventh edition:

  Jamaica
  Albania
  United Kingdom
  Cuba
  FYR Macedonia
  Trinidad & Tobago
  Barbados
  France
  Greece

## ​Semi Final One

 Germany,  Sweden and the  United Kingdom voted in the semi final, following the allocation draw, as well as the countries participating in this semi final. Also, Finland was automatically placed in this semi final because the head of delegation is on the admin team and is in charge of the second semi final.  After the results were announced the admin team discussed selecting a wild card entry from this semi final to progress to the final, after much deliberation...  Austria was announced as the wildcard act.  Also, Spain were disqualified for failing to vote before the deadline, however, this did not affect the results because Spain would have come last (seventeenth place) with 26 points.

## Semi Final Two

 Finland,  Kosovo and  South Korea voted in the semi final, following the allocation draw, as well as the countries participating in this semi final. Also, Germany was automatically placed in this semi final because the head of delegation is on the admin team and is in charge of the second semi final.  After the results were announced the admin team discussed selecting a wild card entry from this semi final to progress to the final, after much deliberation between the entries from Russia, Ghana and South Africa...  Ghana was announced as the wildcard act.

## ​Grand Final

Albania unfortuately did not vote before the deadline and as a result they were disqualified... If Albania had voted they would have placed in fifth with a total of 97 points.