Mysterious Song Contest 28

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**Mysterious Song Contest** welcomes the world to  Kazakhstan for the 28th Edition.

The Mysterious Song Contest #28 will be the 28th edition of the annual Mysterious Song Contest Wikia. It will take place in the **Central Concert Hall**, located in Astana,  Kazakhstan, following the country's victory at the 27th edition with Ayumi ft Batyr performing "Hey-La". This will be the first time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of 3 semi finals and finally the grand final, with official dates for the semi finals being **22nd April 2016** and the grand final being the **18th April 2016**. As of 20th April 2016, **41 countries** have announced their participation in the contest.

## Location

KTK  Kazakhstan, announced on **10th April 2016** that their first choice as host arena for the Contest was the **New Ice Palace** in Astana. However other cities and arenas were still able to apply. After  Kazakhstan win in Kallang, those making a bid had approximately three days to submit their offer to KTK.

The **Central Concert Hall** in Astana, which has a capacity of approximately 3,500 attendees, was announced as the host venue on 16th April 2016. This will be the Arena's first time hosting the contest.

## Presenters

On **17th April 2016**, KTK announced that Aliona Vilani and Kairat Nurtas will be the hosts of the 28th contest. Roza Rymbaeva will host in the Green Room.

## Format

The competition will consist of three semi-finals and a final, a format which has been used more regularly in the contest. The 07 countries with the highest scores in each semi-final will qualify to the grand final where they will join the top 3 countries from the previous edition  Germany,  Italy and the host nation  Kazakhstan. Once the 21 qualifiers have been announced there will be a 24 hour vote for the wildcard which will join the finalists to create a grand final of 25 countries.

Each participating country had their own national jury/HoD. Each member of a respective nation's jury is required to rank every song, except that of their own country, to produce an overall ranking from first to last place. The song which scored the highest overall rank received 12 points, while the tenth-best ranked song received 1 point.

## Participants

The following countries have confirmed their participation into the contest.

**Table key**

     *Participating Countries*
     *Withdrawing Countries*

## Returning Artists

We welcome back some artists who have previous joined us in MSC.

* Australia Sia {Prev. #11, #19}
* Finland Sanni {Prev. #08}
* North Macedonia Nicki Minaj {Prev.  Trinidad and Tobago #12}
* Singapore The Sam Willows {Prev. #27}
* Spain Sweet California {Prev. #05}

## Semi-final allocation draw

The draw that determined the semi-final allocation was held on TBA. The participating countries, excluding the automatic finalists  Kazakhstan,  Italy and  Germany. The countries were split into three pots which would either be semi final 1, semi final 2 or semi final 3. Then a random generator was used to allocate countries into the running order. The results were as follows:

It was decided that  Italy would vote in semi final #01,  Kazakhstan would vote in semi final #02 and  Germany to vote in semi final #03. This was to assure to make the results fair and even for all participants in the edition.

Once the qualifiers have been announced the finalists have 48 hours to vote for the country they want to see as their wild card from the non-qualifiers. That country would then join the finalist into the grand final.

## Semi Final 1

**13 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  **Italy** voting as 1 of the 3 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 07 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified
     Wildcard Qualifier

[1] Due to,, lack of voting, Ukraine was disqualified from semi final and therefore could not qualify to the grand final.

## Semi Final 2

**13 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  **Kazakhstan** voting as 1 of the 3 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 07 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified
     Wildcard Qualifier

## Semi Final 3

**12 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  **Germany** voting as 1 of the 3 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 07 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified
     Wildcard Qualifier

## Grand Final

25 Countries will create the grand final. 07 from Semi Final 1, 07 from Semi Final 2, 07 from semi final 3, 1 wildcard and the automatic qualifiers  Kazakhstan,  Italy and  Germany.

The draw on  Kazakhstan,  Italy and  Germany position in the running order was done prior to the Semi Finals.

This was the running order for the Grand Final

### **12points**

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the final:

## Voting & Spokespeople

This is the order of how the votes were released and the spokesperson from each country

First part of results

01.  Spain Maria Isabel and Xuso Jones

02.  Armenia Lilit Hovhannisyan

03.  North Macedonia Thea

04.  Singapore Gentle Bones

05.  Kazakhstan Keti Topuria

06.  Albania Ronela Hajati

07.  Ireland Markus Feehily

08.  South Korea Taeyeon

09.  Libya Ibrahim Abdeladim

10.  Sierra Leone Isha Sesay

11.  Denmark Simone Egeriis

12.  Taiwan Takeshi Kaneshiro

13.  South Africa Elizma Theron

14.  Sweden Charlotte Perrelli

15.  Monaco Enora Malagré

16.  Czech Republic Jakub Dekan

17.  Finland Tarja Turunen

18.  Philippines Charice

19.  Dominican Republic Danilo Medina

20.  United States Katy Perry

21.  Kenya Stella Mwangi

Second part of results

22.  Ukraine Jamala

23.  Malta Ira Losco

24.  India Priyanka Chopra

25.  New Zealand Emma Lahana

26.  Uganda Lilian Mbabazi

27.  Mexico Paulina Rubio

28.  Italy Mario Balotelli

29.  The Netherlands Renate Gerschtanowitz

30.  Belgium Phillipe Geubels

31.  United Kingdom Holly Willoughby

32.  Canada Ryan Gosling

33.  Russia Anna Kournikova

34.  Germany Lena Meyer-Landrut

35.  Australia Liam Hemsworth

36.  Japan Yuji Naka

37.  France Nolwenn Leroy

38.  Norway Adelen

39.  Luxembourg Désirée Nosbusch

40.  Venezuela Omar Acedo

41.  Serbia Novak Djokovic

### Voting Grid

This is how the votes were scored in each Semi Final.

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     Qualified

This is how the finalists scored in the wildcard battle.

     Qualified

Here is how the world voted in the grand final.

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