French Song Contest 08

Previous edition: French Song Contest #07

Following edition: French Song Contest #09

The eighth edition of the French Song Contest will be hold in  Dom-Tom, accurately in Guadeloupe, following Dom-Tom victory with the song *"If You Only"* by **Anna Leone** during the sixth edition.

Among all Dom-Toms, Guadeloupe has been selected to be the host considering the winner Anna Leone has a Guadeloupean father.

All cities which took part in the sixth edition are back after the special edition except  Perpignan &  Nantes.

 Toulouse is returning after they withdrew in the fifth French Song Contest and  Mauritius appeared as a guest for one edition.  Montreal is finally still competing after a good result.  Angers make his debut also, but gonna compete in semies.

An amount of 31 cities are consequently competing this edition, an absolute record for the contest.

Two semi-finals of 15 cities occured to determine which 7 cities in each semi-final would join  Dom-Tom, the host, and the winner of the seventh edition  Limoges, in the final. 7 cities will qualify for the Grand Final in each semi-final.

 Avignon won the contest with 138 points.

 Rennes finished at the 2nd place with 131 points.

 Dom-Tom was at the 3rd place with 124 points.

## Trailer

The trailer announced the withdrawal of  Perpignan, the comeback of  Toulouse and the debut of  Angers (as "basic city") &  Mauritius was a guest city named in the French way « Île Maurice ».

## Slogan & logo

The eight season is the very 1st of 2019. To celebrate the new year in the French Song Contest, supervisor choose fireworks as logo.

The slogan "Let Your Colors Burst" was an echo self-acceptance and the song *"Firework"* by Katy Perry.

## Local Selections (NF)

### **By videos**

* Lyon held the second edition of *Destination Dom-Tom*containing 5 songs fighting for a place in the eight French Song Contest. The show concluded by the winnning of **Her** and the song "Five Minutes" with 102 points.
* Dom-Tom produced a second edition of *The Next Flop**,* the Local Selection which brought Anna Leone to the victory but with another topic: French-speaking Africa. 7 African countries and one song from DOM-TOM competed to choose which song would represent DOM-TOM in the eighth French Song Contest in Guadeloupe after two semi-finals and one Grand Final. After 2 semi-finals and the Grand Final, it's **Bantu & Shungudzo** and their song "Roll with me" who've been choosen with 70 points to be the host song and represent Dom-Tom in Guadeloupe.

### **By polls**

* Avignon held a Local Selection called *Une chanson pour Avignon*. The contest putting 5 songs in competition, concluding by the winning of **Seemone** and the song "Nightbird' " with 78 points.
* Lille putting 5 songs in competition, concluding by the winning of **Corentin Grevost** and the song "Parle-moi" with 62% of the votes.
* Nice held a Local Selection with 6 songs. 2 semi-finals and 1 Grand Final have been necessary to choose the song who gonna represent the South city at the eight French Song Contest. **Priscilla Betti** and the song "Changer le monde" take the crown with 65% of votes.
* Rouen held a Local Selection called *"Rouen's Local Final"* putting in competition two singers, Naestro & TAL. After few hours, it's **TAL** who've won with the song "ADN" & 71% of votes.
* Amiens held a Local Selection called *"France, You Decide"* who putting 4 acts in competition. At the end, the poll results have désignated **Betta Lemme** with her song "Give It" and 50% of votes.

## Nantes's withdraw

 Nantes withdraw of the competition because the broadcaster asked to change his song, and this request was no acceptable for the supervisor. For French ESC, it's to late for making his kind of changement, 5 days before entering in competition. The contest had already started and it would have been too late given the speed of search of Nantes's broadcaster. After seeing his request refused, Nantes makes immediatly know his wish to withdraw for "personnal issues". Wish who've been accepted by the supervisoir of the contest to avoid falling behind in the competition.

Initially, the song planned by Nantes was "On brûlera" by the artist **Pomme** and it should have competed in the second semi-final with the number 3.

## Returning artists

 Suzanne
 Sasha
 Léa Paci

## Semi-Finals

For the first time in history, every prequalifers had to vote in each semies. So we've seen the  Dom-Tom,  Limoges &  Mauritius juries gives their points three times in a contest. If an AQ city miss the deadline, he start the GF with an handicap 10 points (5 points by semis missing).

Color key
     Qualified for the Grand Final

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final

Out of the 15 participating cities in this semi-final, 7 will qualify for the Grand Final.

Among the fourteen songs competing in this semi-final, 6 are in English, 8 are in French and one is in this both language.

### Second Semi-Final

Due to the withdraw of  Nantes, it's finally 13 cities who compete in this semi-final, 7 will qualify for the Grand Final.

Among the thirteen songs competing in this semi-final, 6 are in English, 6 are in French & 1 in this both languages.

## Grand Final

Color key
     Winning city

     Runner-up

     Third place

     Dead last

17 cities fought to win the eighth French Song Contest: the seven qualified cities from the first semi-final, the seven from the second semi-final, the host  Dom-Tom, the previous winner  Limoges and the guest  Mauritius.