Spanish Song Contest 03

Previous edition: Spanish Song Contest #02

Following edition: Spanish Song Contest #04

The third edition of the Spanish Song Contest has been held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife after ELYELLA's victory with the song "We Are Dreamers" at the previous edition.

16 cities took part in this edition with Perpignan  and Oviedo  debuting in the contest. Perpignan  came in the SSC for the three editions of summer 2020.

Two semi-finals of 7 cities occurred to determine which 5 cities in each semi-final would join Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the host and the new city Perpignan  , in the final.

 Madrid won finally the contest after a perfect top 5 during editions without reaching the crown in the final. He took the crown with 112 points thanks to Agony and the song "Black".

 Oviedo was the runner-up with 99 points.

And it's  Ibiza who've taken the 3rd place with 91 points.

The host,  Santa Cruz de Tenerife finally taken the 7th place with 66 points.

## Host City and Participants

Santa Cruz de Tenerife  hosted the second edition of the contest after winning in Melilla the first edition.

Oviedo  decided to participate for the first time, while Perpignan  were making their debuts.

Sadly, Bilbao , Logroño , Melilla , Mérida  and Palma de Mallorca  retired for the third edition of the contest.

## Slogan & logo

This edition will start at the beginning of summer and, summer is known to be the best season to see meteor showers. Besides, Tenerife is known to be one of the spots in Spain to see them with the best conditions. So basically... This is where the theme art is going to.

The slogan of this edition is *"We are dreamers"* It is inspired from the winner of the last edition.

## Semi-Finals

     Qualified for the Grand Final

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final :

Out of the 7 participating cities in this semi-final, 5 qualified for the Grand Final:  Ceuta,  Oviedo,  Sevilla,  Valencia,  Vitoria-Gasteiz. Oviedo qualified for their first participation, Ceuta qualifying for the first time in three editions, Sevilla and Vitoria-Gasteiz qualified for the third time in a row.

Vitoria-Gasteiz won this semi-final with an amount of 124 points followed by Oviedo with 122 points and Sevilla closing the Top 3 with 118 points. Among the seven songs, three were in Spanish and four were in English.

### Second Semi-Final :

Out of the 7 participating cities in this semi-final, 5 qualified for the Grand Final:  Barcelona**,**  Ibiza**,**  Madrid,  Pamplona,  Valladolid. Valladolid qualifying for the first time in three editions, Ibiza qualified for the second time in a row and Madrid qualified for the third time in a row. Barcelona and Pamplona returns after a failure at the second edition.

Pamplona won this semi-final with an amount of 130 points followed by Barcelona with 124 points and Ibiza closing the Top 3 with 106 points. Among the seven songs, four were in Spanish, two were in English and one was in Basque.

The name of the 10 qualifiers was announced the 20/07/20.

## Grand Final

**Color key**

     Winning city

     Runner-up

     Third place

     Dead last

Twelve cities fought to win the first Spanish Song Contest : the five qualified cities from the five semi-final and the five from the second semi-final and the host Santa Cruz de Tenerife which has been prequalified following Santa Cruz de Tenerife's victory last edition. Madrid wins the whole with 112 points making a gap of 13 points with the runner-up Oviedo with 99 points and Ibiza closing the Top 3 with 91 points.