Edition 55

The fifty-fifth edition of the **Global Music Festival** took place at the Coliseo Amauta in Lima, Peru. It was the first time the country hosted the contest, after Peru's first victory in the fifty-fourth edition with the song Chemicals performed by Alexia Bosch - which scored 256 points. This edition consisted of two semi-finals which were all launched on the 21 July 2019 and a grand final which took place from the 28 July 2019. All three of the shows in this edition were hosted by television presenters Zahira Benavides and Jennifer Cerecida.

This edition was one of the special thematic editions of the competition and this meant that the admin team chose a theme to compete with in this edition. The admin team decided to select to theme based around the inspiration that brought the Global Music Festival, which was the Eurovision Song Contest. The participants were asked to send any song that has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. The rules for the Global Music Festival disallows Eurovision songs to be used so this gives the participants to send their favourite Eurovision song. Any song could be used (including winning entries) except for any song that has already been used prior to the fifty-fifth edition.

Fifty-nine countries participated in this edition of the contest. Two countries who both haven't participated since the fortieth edition returned and they were Azerbaijan and Serbia. Another eight countries also made their return to the contestand they were as follows; Cyprus, Czech Republic, Eswantini (Swaziland), Greece, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Portugal, San Marino and Sweden. On the other three countries decided to leave the contest and they were Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ethiopia and Turkey.

The power six for this edition were Peru, The Netherlands, Belgium, Monaco, France and Australia - these were the delegations that placed in the top six from the previous edition. Their placement in the power six means that they received an automatic place to perform in the final of this edition, while also being allowed to vote in one of the semi-finals in this edition.

 Slogan
 Venue
 Presenter(s)
 Participants
 Winner

## Other Participants

* Ethiopia
* Turkey

## Semi-Final Allocation Draw

The draw to determine the allocation of the participating countries into their respective semi-finals took place on the 21 July 2019. The fifty-three semi-finalists were allocated to five pots, based on the previous results of each participating country, calculated by the averages of the past results. Drawing from each pot helps to create an equal split of successful and not-so successful countries in each semi-final to give countries an equal chance of qualification.
Ireland and Finland were not included in the pots because the head of delegations for these countries are on the admin team and are in charge of the first and second semi-finals respectively; as a result, the countries were automatically assigned to another semi-final: Finland were assigned to semi-final one, and Ireland were assigned to semi-final two.
Also, in the semi-final allocation draw the power six nations (Peru, The Netherlands, Belgium, Monaco, France and Australia) were all drawn to vote in one of the respective semi-finals. The Netherlands, France and Australia were assigned to vote in the first semi-final and Peru, Belgium and Monaco were assigned to vote in the second semi-final.

## Semi Final One

 The Netherlands,  France and  Australia from the power six were randomly allocated to vote in this semi-final, as well as, the countries who participated in this semi-final - as always countries not in this semi-final had the choice whether they wanted to vote in this semi-final or not.  Finland were automatically assigned to this semi-final because the head of delegation for Finland is on the admin team and is the organiser for the second semi-final - this is done to allow the admins to have the uncertainty of their countries' result.

## Semi Final Two

 Peru,  Belgium and  Monaco from the power six were randomly allocated to vote in this semi-final, as well as, the countries who participated in this semi-final - as always countries not in this semi-final had the choice whether they wanted to vote in this semi-final or not.  Ireland were automatically assigned to this semi-final because the head of delegation for Ireland is on the admin team and is the organiser for the second semi-final - this is done to allow the admins to have the uncertainty of their countries' result.

## Grand Final

Thirty countries participated in the final of this edition of the **Global Music Festival** - the power six and the twenty-four qualifiers from the two semi-finals. All fifty-nine participating countries were eligible to vote in the final; however, only the thirty finalists were obligated to vote! The votes of the non-qualifiers and non-participants were all combined in to the televote. However, only thirty non-qualifiers and non-participants could vote. The running order for the final was announced shortly after the semi final results on the 28 July 2019. The results for the final were released on the 04 August 2019.