Halloween Yagredin Music Festival 04

Logo and slogan of the fourth edition

**Halloween Yagredin Music Festival 04**, often referred as **HYMF 04**, was the fourth edition of the Halloween Yagredin Music Festival. The edition was held in Yusawijeon, Kaechyeodae as it won the previous edition with the song "Pink Fantasy" by Fantasy. HeeJin and Yeves were selected as the presenters of the event.

Twenty-four countries participated in the third edition, Kosta Vera being a debutant. In order to participate, the countries had to be firstly approved to be members of the Yagredin Brodcasting Union (YBU). No country did return. Nevertheless Lakkusunmō did withdraw after two editions.

The recap has been published on the 15th of october, while the results were shown on the 30th of november 2020.

The winner of the edition was Harukona with the song "Scream" performed by Dreamcatcher, which scored 137 points, sixteen points over the runner-up, Kaechyeodae with 121 points and the song "Girls" from Nature. The top 3 complete made Aythmos and Zhavina with KLER's song "Nestrimna" with an amount of 104 points. Anteera received only 14 points and was therefore the last place of the fourth edition.

## Rules

Every special edition is named as that because only a certain type of songs is allowed to take part in this event.

For the Halloween Yagredin Music Festival the rules are as it follows. The song has either to be halloween themed, for example about skeletons, ghosts or anything alike or the song has to have a dark athmosphere or a gloomy video. So it is not necessary that a song competing in here is "scary". A song about muders, graveyards or political themes are also just as fine.

Allowed are every artists existing, from a very young age to a really old one. Also songs from the J/ESC national finals are fine. Not allowed are J/ESC songs itself and songs that already took part in the YMF main event.

The songs are checked by a certain commision, which discuss the acceptability of each song.

## Languages

To mark the versality of Yagredin, each edition has a language table to get an overview over the languages.

## Running Order

   The offical running order for the show was decided by the YBU to make the show as exciting as possible and to have the maximum of excitement in the show.

The show was opened by Hrojistan, finishing 6th and it was closed by Harukona, taking the 1st place. Meaning that the opening and closing act finished in the top 6.

## Participants

With twenty-four countries, there were also twenty-four artists debuting in the history of the YMF. We are deviding between men, women and groups. This edition had 13 female participants and only 10 male participant. Furthermore the edition had 7 groups. The percentages for the distribution are 43% woman, 24% groups and only 33% men.

## Results

Twenty-four countries participated in the final, with all of the participating countries had to cast in their vote.

## Voting Grid

To ensure that every vote was counted correctly, the YBU is publishing every voting grid of the certain edition after the end of it. So every country can take a look into the voting and knows who they did vote and who did vote for them.

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