Edition 5

The fifth edition of the Global Music Festival took place in Tallinn Estonia at the Saku Suurhall, following Uku Suviste's victory in the fourth edition.  It was presented by Elina Born - the representative for Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 (along with Stig Rasta) with their duet "Goodbye to Yesterday" and she also participated in Eesti Laul in 2017 with the song "In or Out" where she came 10th in the final.  This edition saw 42 countries battling for the title: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kosovo, Lithuania, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey and the United Kingdom.  The power six for this edition were Estonia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom.  We saw the debut of five countries: Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Malta, Morocco and Pakistan.  This edition also had no theme and as a result participants had to send entries from their selected country.  During the final of this edition, the interval act was the band who represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow in 2009 - Urban Symphony - they will be performing their performing their Eurovision entry "Rändajad."  The fifth edition was won by Finland with an impressive 145 points - they were represented by the Finnish singer Benjamin featuring the Spanish girl group Sweet California with their collaboration on the song "Man On the Moon".

 Slogan
 Venue
 Presenter(s)
 Participants
 Theme
 Winner

## ​Participants

* Dominican Republic
* Ghana
* Malta
* Morocco
* Pakistan
* Brazil
* Kazakhstan
* New Zealand
* Ukraine
* United States

## Semi Final Allocation Draw

The draw for the semi finals took place on Friday 31 March 2017. One of the admins did a live stream on the Facebook group and pulled countries from a number of pots:

The pots were organised by the countries previous results in the contest.  The countries received an average of their previous positions to organise them by the most successful nations (the power six [Andorra, Australia, Colombia, Greece, Ireland and the United Kingdom] were not added to the pots because of their automatic places in the grand final, also Dominican Republic and Finland were not added to the pots because both of these participants are admins and were in charge of each semi final).  The debuting countries were put in their own pot (pot six) so that they would be evenly spaced along with the rest of the participating countries.

The allocation draw was done by choosing one country from each pot, one after the other, and each country was combined with a randomly drawn position - showing where each country would perform in each semi final.

## ​Odds

Odds returned for the fifth edition of the Global Music Festival and featured in both the semi finals as well as the final. The odds for the semi finals were released on Saturday 01 April 2017 by the admins in charge of their respective semi finals, below you can see the odds for the top ten in each semi final:

And, below are the top ten in the odds for the final of the fifth edition:

  Finland
  Russia
  Barbados
  Kosovo
  Croatia
  Spain
  Bulgaria
  Italy
  Poland

## ​Semi Final One

 Greece,  Italy and  Portugal voted in the semi final, following the allocation draw, as well as the countries participating in this semi final. Also, Finland was automatically placed in this semi final because the head of delegation is on the admin team and is in charge of the second semi final.  After the results were announced the admin team discussed selecting a wild card entry from this semi final to progress to the final - two songs were short-listed, those being Andorra and Mexico.  After deliberation, the admin decided the wildcard entry would be  Andorra.

## Semi Final Two

 Estonia,  Sweden and the  United Kingdom voted in the semi final, following the allocation draw, as well as the countries participating in this semi final. Also, Dominican Republic was automatically placed in this semi final because the head of delegation is on the admin team and is in charge of the second semi final.  Albania were disqualified because they failed to vote before the deadline and if they had voted they would have placed in ninth place with 71 points.  After the results were announced the admin team discussed selecting a wild card entry from this semi final to progress to the final - two songs were short-listed, those being Jamaica and Lithuania.  After deliberation, the admin team decided the wildcard entry would be  Lithuania.