Second Chance Yagredin Music Festival 04

Logo and slogan of the fourth edition

**Second Chance Yagredin Music Festival 04**, often referred as **2YMF 04**, was the fourth edition of the Second Chance Yagredin Music Festival. The edition was held in Ivreehok, Casacolburg as it won the previous edition with the song "Tinta". Lindsey Morgan and Greta Menchi were selected as the presenters of the event.

Twenty-seven countries participated in the second edition Hrojistan and Pluviøterra being debutants. In order to participate, the countries had to be firstly approved to be members of the Yagredin Brodcasting Union (YBU). Vulpihjel and Ynaiven returned to the contest. Nevertheless Agartias, Astenau, Hmltša and Mirtylanza withdrew.

The recap has been published on the 18th of april, while the results were shown on the 15th of may 2021.

The winner of the edition was Ryza with the song "Friendzone" performed by Katja Krasavice, which scored 113 points, one points over the runner-up, Aythmos and Zhavina with 112 points and the song "Jelagim" from Hosila Rahimova. The top 3 complete made Skaarvaag with Abir's song "Yallah" with an amount of 102 points. Djivača received only 17 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 Second Chance Yagredin Music Festival the rules are as it follows. The competing songs has to be from previous national selections for the YMF main event. Therefore it does not matter whether it was in ESC national finals or worldcharts. As soon as a song did not win a selection, it can be sent to the 2YMF.

Of course not the winner, or better the song that gets chosen to represent the country. Furthermore it has not be the runner-up, any song that didn't get send is allowed.

The songs are still 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 Ynaiven, finishing 9th and it was closed by Djivača, taking the 27th place. Meaning that the opening act finished in the top 10, while the closing position finished last.

## Participants

With twenty-seven countries, there were also twenty-seven artists debuting in the history of the YMF. We are deviding between men, women and groups. This edition had 14 female participants and only 6 male participant. Furthermore the edition had 9 groups. The percentages for the distribution are 54% woman, 35% groups and only 11% men.

### Returning Artists

1Many members of LOONA did take part in the contests before but are not mentioned here due to space issues.

## Results

Twenty-seven 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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