French Song Contest Wiki

The **French Song Contest**, often called **FSC,** is a song contest on Discord held among the FSC Group since June 2018. The competition was based upon the existing Eurovision Song Contest. The current and official executive supervisor is French ESC, with the help of AlexIBAF, Marcolatine & Yakbhumi as moderators.

Each cities's head of delegation gets to select an entry for each edition either by internal or local selection. Then the cities get to vote for each show *(semi-final or final)* to determine the qualifiers and the winner of the edition. The contest has been broadcast around the hexagonal country *(around the world sometimes).*

So far, 60 cities won the competition. **Bourges**, the collectivity of the **Dom-Tom** and **Paris** won thrice. The acts with the most victories are **Marina Kaye** & **Storm Orchestra** *(2 wons)*, who scored 163 points during the edition 1 in Nantes, 136 points during the edition 19 in Agen. The rock band won the edition 22 held in **Marseille** with 133 points, and the edition 58 with 208 points in Lille. **Minsk** currently signs the record for points obtained in the final *(222)* and in semi-final *(261)*.

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## History of the contest

On Avril 2018, Damien Lambrun, producer of the French Song Contest Group decided to open an french music contest, in that every full user of the FSC Group can take part by sending artists representing their city with songs. But the success was not at the *rendezvous* and the idea didn't come. 2 months later, the producer tries to revive his idea... And it works ! The *French Song Contest* start officialy in June 2018. The name of the competition comes from the desire to create a french version of Eurovision for the french fanbase of the ESC, and lovers of French "chanson", no mater of their origins. The choice to make a english title came with the wish to attarct non french-speaking people who love France to participte in the contest.

The first ever edition started on 6 June 2018 *(birthday of the producer)*. It was held in Nantes, largest city in the region of origin of French ESC, but also first ever automatic qualifer. Sixteen cities took part in edition 01, each cities awarded 12 points to their favorite, 10 points to their second favourite, 8 points for their third favorite, 4 points for their fourth favorit and 6 points for the fifth favorite, in semi-final. The votes system change in the final and became like the Erovision Vote Sytem *(12, 10, 8-1pt)*. The voting procedure changed at the edition 02 and become the ESC Vote System. Since, the voting procedure has not changed since then.

Pau, is the first ever city who won the contest, and it hosted edition 2. After this, the winner of the competition would always host the next edition. It has not changed still... Except during special seasons or in rare cases *(tie, second win in a row).*

## Rules

Règles en français 🇫🇷
* Les chansons de l'Eurovision ne sont pas autorisés, cependant les titres qui ont participés aux sélections nationales sont autorisés.
* Pas de titre incluant du trolling, violence, insultes, actes sexuels, politique ou autres outrages.
* Les titres avant 2010 sont interdits.
* Les titres d'artistes décédés ne sont pas autorisés.
* Pas de triche dans les votes, au risque d'être disqualifié immédiatement.
* Les titres comportant de l'anglais *(ou autres)* sont autorisés tant que le titre est interprétés par un/e artiste français/e.L'inverse fonctionne aussi, les artistes d'origine étrangères avec un titres comportant suffisamment de paroles en français sont autorisés.
* Ne pas voter vous fera perdre la moitiés de vos points reçu par les jurys.
* Ne pas respecter son rôle de televote *(NQ non inclus)* sans raisons valables seront éjecter du serveur.
* Si la ville hôte remporte l'édition qu'il accueille, c'est la ville arriver à la seconde place qui accueillera l'édition suivante.
* Si vous vous inscrivez pour participer à une édition mais que vous n'envoyez pas votre titre,vous ne serez pas autorisés à participer pour l'édition qui suivra.
* En cas de départ du serveur pendant une participation en cours, la personne concerné se verra utomatiquement disqualifié.
* Les villes francophones étrangères doivent être représenter par un artiste venant du pays de a ville choisies *(une/canadien/ne pour Montreal, un/e belge pour Bruxelles ect...)* avec un titre en français.
* Les artistes étrangers basés en France sont autorisés seulement si ils sont basés en France depuis plus d'un an !
* Si vous vous montrer absent durant la phase des votes sans donner de nouvelles, j'estimerais que ce sera un manque de respect en tant que participants *(pas en tant que personne)*, vous serez donc banni pour 1 édition.
* Quand une édition compote plus de 30 participants, 8 villes sont qualifiés en demi-finale *(et non 7)*.
* Un/e artiste ne peut participer plus 2 ou 3 fois de suite.Celui/Celle-ci devra attendre d'avoir compléter une pause de 4 édition pour revenir.

Rules in english 🇬🇧
* ESC songs are not allowed while songs from Selections are.
* No title including trolling, violence, insults, sexual acts, politics or other outrages.
* Songs released before 2010 are forbidden.
* Songs from deceased artists are not allowed.
* No cheating. Cheat involves a disqualification of your city.
* Songs in English are allowed as soon as the artist is French *(ex: Marina Kaye, David Guetta, Kungs, ...)*.
* Reciprocally, foreign artists can be allowed if the song is in French *(ex: Måns Zelmerlöw, Ginta, ...)*.Or content many words in french, just 1 word is not enough.
* Don’t vote will reduce your points by 50% your juries points *(since edition 12).*
* Not respecting his televote role *(NQ not included)* without valid reasons will be ejected from the server.
* If the host city wins the contest that it welcomes then the upcoming contest would be hosted by the runner-up.
* If you make the wish to participate but you dont send your entry, you couldn't participate on the next edition.
* In case of departure from the server during an ongoing participation, the person concerned will be automatically disqualified.
* Foreign cities must be represented by an artist/group from the country of the chosen city with a song whose lyrics are in French. *(Montreal with Canada, Casablanca with Northen Africa, Bruxelles with Belgium, Barcelone with Spain)*.
* Foreigners artists and bands based in France since more than 1 year are allowed.
* Users who didn't send their entries, or send their entries late will have a strike.
* If you didn't vote during an edition or try to clam, you accumulate several delays, or i estimate you're not respectful to me as participants (not persons !), you'll be ban for 1 edition.
* When an edition count more than 30 subscribers, 8 cities are qualify by semi-finals *(not 7).*
* An artist can't participate 2 or 3 times in a row.He/She has to wait 4 editions to participate again, same for featuring *(about members of bands, check with me in private).*

## Visual Identity

### Logos

Until July 2020, a most generic logo was introduced ahead of the edition 26. Before that, the logo of the competition was composed of a font that was intended to reflect the image of France that people outside France have... Elegant, chic and refined.

### Theme Arts

Theme arts are created differently in each edition. They have a different color scheme, different logo and slogan. Theme arts are modeled on and inspired by previous winners or current host city, or period of the year *(example : Paddy's Day at the February 2020 edition).* Theme arts are usually of the same color, but they are often combined. But there is always one dominant color. Nevertheless, it happened that the logo did not accompany an edition. As in edition 33 and during the Americain edition.

### Slogans

Like theme arts, the slogans are inspired by previous winners as well as the origin of cities. In many cases, the slogan is also the main theme of the editing as all cities names are related to it. The slogan is always in English, but may have annotations from other languages most often from the host country (ex: *"Sfumature Di Bellezza" at the edition 11 held in Corsica)*.

## Hosting

### Host the contest

The winning cities traditionally hosts the follow month's event, with some exceptions. Hosting the contest can be seen as an unique opportunity for promoting the host cities and start an edition as automatically user qualified for the final. The winning participant got also the privilege to discover the theme art of the edition he going to host, and this, before of the following edition.

Among the cities that have won an edition of the competition, some have had the opportunity to be organizer several times, in rare cases, being host city.

As mentioned previously, there were rare occasions when the winning city did not organize the next edition. Either because of a second victory in a row, As it was for **Pau** in season 3 or **Reims** in season 24. In these cases, the city that came in 2nd place in the final becomes the host city. Nevertheless, the winning city remains automatically qualified but with the title of *"previous winner"*. This process is also used in the event that the user is not able in the following month.

Another case where the winning city does not host the next edition: international editions !
In this case, the winning participants choose the country of their choice from a wide choice. The capital of this country becomes the host city. As for **Copenhagen** in the Europe season or **Seoul** for the Asia/Oceania season.

### The TOP 3

From July 2023, and following the Group's 5th anniversary, the competition will see the arrival of a "TOP 3"! Eager for change and novelty, the supervisor has decided to take inspiration from the BIG 5 of the Eurovision Song Contest. This will consist in automatically qualifying the podium of the previous season for the following season.

The winning city will remain the host city, unless it wins at home or if the person behind the delegation cannot host.

## Presenters

To animate all its editions, different personalities have gone through the French Song Contest. After a few months, the FSC Group can count on the presence of 4 emblematic figures of the Eurovision France brand :

* **Elodie Gossuin :** French beauty pageant titleholder, model, radio and television presenter, columnist and regional politician. She give the french points during grand final in Eurovision *(2016-18, 2022)* and host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 held in Paris. Elodie was the only presenter of the FSC until the arrival of Laurence Boccolini in the FSC Group at the edition 31 in December 2020.
* **Laurence Boccolini :** French radio and television host. She comment the semi-finals of the Eurovision since 2021 and share the role with Stephane Bern since the Grand Final of the same year.Also in 2021, she co-host the French selection for the Eurovision, *"Eurovision, c'est vous qui décidez !"* The pair were confirmed in their roles for 2022.
* **Stéphane Bern :** OBE French-Luxembourgish journalist, radio host and television presenter. Stephane take part in the Eurovision familly in 2015 as co-commentator. He sign in the FSC Group as presenter at the edition 41 and find back her *"partner in crime of Eurovision"* : Laurence Boccolini.
* **Olivier Minne :** Belgian-born French television presenter, actor and producer. He was the French commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest from 1995 to 1997, having previously acted as the French vote spokesperson for the 1992 and 1993 contests. He co-present the 2021 Junior Eurovision Song Contest alongside Carla and Elodie Gossuin. Olivier join the FSC Group in January 2022 during the edition 44 held in Bruxelles.

Since July 2021, it happen guest came as co-presenter. These people as chosen in fonction of the city host or during special edition. The very first guest to appear at the presentation is Barbara Pravi. She co-animate the edition 38 with Laurence Boccolini held in Dunkerque.

## Participating cities

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Since its creation, the French Song Contest has seen 106 cities compete. Among them, 8 are foreign but they've been invited as guests for their strong connection with France or french languages.

Any member from the FSC Group is able to pick a city only able in a shortlist made by spervisor and moderators. They're all allowed during standard editions, and also dring specials ones for few of them. With 53 participations*,* **Paris** is the city with the highest participation record. Every cities present in the FSC Group participate at least once !

## Entries and participants

The contest has seen a lot of icon french singer & worldwide artists since his creation in 2018. And despite the rule prohibiting an artist from being chosen several times in a row, some of artists become regular artists, even if it means being controversial and seen as a lack of originality on the part of few users.

Among all these artists, there are few in particular who are not unknown to the french Eurofans. These includes Amir, Alma, Barbara Pravi, Bilal Hassani, Madame Monsieur, Anggun, Amandine Bourgeois or La Zarra per example. But also non-French Eurovision artists like Dotter, Loïc Nottet or Felicia Lu notably.

If the French Song contest saw so many great names participate, it is largely thanks to the Discord users who chose them with the hope of winning the trophy for an edition. Become now a community between Eurofans, some of them have managed to multiply the feat of victory more than once.

## Editions and spin-offs

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From the original 16 cities which entered the first contest in June 2018, the number of competing cities has steadily grown over time. 25 cities participated in the contest's second edition, and until reaching the number of 47 delegations for the second European edition. If it often happens that editions exceed the number of 30 cities, the average, today, is around 25 participating cities per edition.

Themed editions have been organised by the FSC Group with host delegation. The first one was a Junior edition, in December 2018. Since this time, we can count more than 10 special editions.

While the French Song contest followed its course, other contests took up the idea by highlighting other countries. This was the case of the Spanish Song Contest, the German Song Contest or the Japanese Song Contest. A partnership was then established between these spin-offs and the FSC.

## Marie Myriam Prizes

The Marie Myriam Prizes are monthly awards given out within the framework of the French Song Contest.
They crown the best performers and finalist songs.

The Marie Myriam Prizes were founded by the supervisor in order to celebrate the 5th year of the competition.
These different prizes are awarded after consultation between the managers of the server.

The Prizes were baptized in honor of the last Eurovision winner for France : Marie Myriam.

Among these prizes, there are 4 prizes in 4 distinct categories :

* **The price of charisma** *(for the most fun title, good vibes ect...)*
* **The visual prize** *(for the best clip)*
* **The musical prize** *(for the best composition/writing)*
* **The FSC Group prize** *(for the best title of the season according to the mods)*

> 🕊️ *Winners of Marie Myriam prizes.*
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## Languages

Since his debut in 2018, the French Song Contest count close than 30 different languages heard. No surprise, french and english are the most representated... But thanks to musical industries and different musical tastes of subscribers, its happen ofter to see different european languages or beyond appear in one edition.