AwlaVision Song Contest

**AwlaVision Song Contest** (abbreviated **ASC**), is an international song competition organised almost monthly by the Awla Broadcasting Union among its member states, which are primarily European countries, together with some north African and middle eastern ones. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the ABU's television and radio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine a winner. The current and official ASC developer is the Finnish Jooseppi Gabriel Rautio.

The contest has received good criticism for its artistic quality, spanning ethnic and international styles, and claims regarding a geopolitical element in the voting system and the competing entries, with varying relations between both participating countries and other territories' broadcasters. AwlaVision has gained great popularity for its kitsch appeal and has entered LGBT culture, resulting in a large active fan base and influence on popular culture, including television and film, both in Europe and worldwide. Performing at the AwlaVision Song Contest often provides artists with a local career boost and in some cases long-lasting international success. The competition features among the world's most watched non-sporting events every year, with hundreds of millions of viewers globally, and has spawned and inspired similar contests internationally.

## About the contest

**AwlaVision Song Contest**'s name comes from the name of Awla Broadcasting Union, organisation that created and develops the contest. The first edition started at the end of 2015. The current supervisor is Jooseppi Gabriel Rautio. The contest is created for European countries inside the Awla Broadcasting Area. The winner chooses the host city of the next edition. Each member country submits a song to be performed and then casts votes for the other countries songs to determine the most popular song in the competition.

The first edition was held in Helsinki, Finland. It took from 06/12/2015 to 23/12/2015, and fastly the popularity of the competition started to grow inside and outside the ABU broadcasting area.

## Rules

### **Main Rules**

1. Any country part of the ABU can take part in the competition.
2. The artists may only represent one country at the same time.
3. The participants must send a song from any singer and sang in any language.
4. The singer has to be older than 16 years old.
5. The songs that appeared in previous editions can not be selected.
6. (Junior) Eurovision songs are not allowed to participate.
7. The same singer can represent any country unlimited times.
8. Covers songs from amateurs singers can not participate in the competition.
9. Voting takes place in the system of the Eurovision Song Contest. (12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point.)
10. Voting for the own country is not allowed.
11. If a country does not't send its jury and televoting results within the allowed time, it will be disqualified.
12. The winner will be the one who achieve the most points received from other countries.
13. The country winner can host the next edition and decide the host city. If it does not want, any country can present its application.
14. Present a singer that was born or live in any of the countries of his/her group.

### **All rules**

https://awlavision.fandom.com/es/wiki/Rules

## Competition Story

### **Debuting**

Any full member of the ABU is allowed to send a song for the **AwlaVision Song Contest**. Each full member has got a certain broadcaster that is responsible for the choice of the artists and songs the country is sending for each edition. Lot of countries have participated at least once. These are listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:

### **Withdrawing**

This is the list with the editions in which some countries withdrew from the contest:

### **Returning**

This is the list with the editions in which some countries returned to the contest:

## History

### **Slogans**

The general logo of AwlaVision, which was designed by a Finnish team, appeared for the first time in the debuting edition of the contest. Since the first edition as well, the general logo was accompanied by special slogans that were designed and used for each edition. In each edition, the host broadcaster is in charge to decide the slogan of the edition and based on it, develop the contest's theme and visual design. Usually, these slogan and graphic designs are related to the hosting country's culture, the last winning song, or they simply are an ode to music and diversity.

### **Winners**

Sweden was the first country that won the competition, and also the first one in repeating a victory, doing it also in the third edition. Poland was the second winner. Every winner was a woman, except Kadebostany, that won for Switzerland in ASC4, and Walking On Cars, that won for Ireland in ASC5. In ASC6, Finland won with a singer featuring a duo. In ASC9 and ASC10 the first men won the competition. In ASC12, Netherlands won for the first time. In ASC13, Algeria gave the victory to the first non-European country. In ASC14, after several second places, England won breaking a new points record, broken again in next edition by Kosovo's first victory. In ASC16, England won for the second time in three editions, same as Sweden did in the first and third editions. After several third places, Scotland broke the points record again in ASC17 thanks to the victory of Hurts and their song "Beautiful ones", but this record was broken again by Spain in next edition. In ASC21, Sweden became the first country in winning three times. In ASC28, Iceland broke the points record with 392 points. Ukraine became the first country winning four editions, making it in ASC37. Ten editions after, in ASC38, Georgia broke again the points record winning with 410 points. In ASC45, Sweden won for the fourth time breaking a points margin record with 152 of distance between the first and second place. In ASC47, Lithuania became the first country in winning twice in a row, also Gabrielius Vagelis became the only singer that has won the contest more than once. In ASC53 won again for the fifth time.

#### **Awlavision Winners Edition**

Every fifteen editions, ABU organizes a contest where every winner participates and fights to be the winner of the winners. The host city is chosen between the second and third places of last fifteen editions that have not won the contest. The first edition was held in Barcelona, Spain, due to the touristic importance of the city that can make the competition more known.