WorldMusic Song Contest

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The **WorldMusic Song Contest** (WMSC) is a competitive music festival between countries all over the world, where every participating country sends a song to compete in the event. At the end, the results are made by a jury and televoting. The contest is based on the European version: the EuroMusic Song Contest

## History

The origins of the contest date back to 2021. The idea was extended to the EuroMusic Song Contest. The EBU wanted to organise a new contest for countries all over the world because the contest gained popularity.

For the first edition, thirteen countries were invited to participate. Paris hosted the first edition. Hong Kong won this very first edition. Kelvin Kwan received 107 points. Canada finished at the second place followed by Sweden. Because of Hong Kong's victory, they organised the next edition. During a very exiting voting, Australia was decleared as winner of of the second edition. The UK and South Korea completed the top three.

21 countries decided to take part in the third edition, hosted in Sydney, Australia. Australia won this edition. This was the first time in the history of the contest that a country won the festival in two consecutive editions. Russia finished at the second place, followed by Brazil at the third place. In the fourthedition, the same number of countries took part. Colombia howeer withdrew while Kazakhstan debuted. Sweden won this edition followed by the UK and France. Australia won the fifth edition. It was their third victory.

Because of the ungoing political tensions, it was decided not to host a sixth edition.

## Format

Every country send one song to the contest. At least there are 11 countries, and the maximum are 15 countries. However this maximum, in the second edition 16 countries took part. In the third edition, 21 countries took part. Later on, it was announced that 21 would be the new maximum of participating countries. In the first and second edition, the participants had to perform a song in the official language of the country. Since the third edition, there is a free-language-rule.

As in the EuroMusic Song Contest, the winner has to host the next edition.

## Number of victories and hosting

 1
  Sweden | 04 | 0

## Slogans

 02 |  Hong Kong | Wan Chai
 03 |  Australia | Sydney
 04 |  Australia | Gold Coast
 05 |  Sweden | Stockholm

## Participating countries

From the beginning of the contest until the most recent edition 22 countries/regions took part in the contest. Only in the first edition, countries were invited to participate.

On this map, the countries in green are the countries that took part in at least one edition. The yellow countries are the countries who are able to participate but didn't made their début yet and the grey ones, are the nations who can't participate in this contest.

## Statistics

For more statistics, you can have a look to the following page: Statistics of the WorldMusic Song Contest

Here you can see the top 10 prestations from each country.

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     *Withdrawn* – Countries who have participated in the past but have withdrawn.