Mysterious Song Contest 39

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**Mysterious Song Contest** welcomes the world to  Norway for the 39th Edition.

The Mysterious Song Contest #39 will be the 39th edition of the annual Mysterious Song Contest Wikia. It will take place in the **Telenor Arena**, located in **Oslo**,  Norway, following the country's victory at the 39th edition with Sigrid performing "Strangers". This will be the 2nd time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of 02 semi finals and finally the grand final, with official dates for the semi finals being **30 April 2018**. The grand final official date being the **18th May 2018**. All three live shows were hosted by **Adelén** and **Kjetil Mørland**.

As of **10th April 2018**, **46** countries participated in the contest. **0** countries have made their debut this edition. **16** countries returned to the contest after absences, while **15** countries withdrew.

This will be the fourth edition where a 'wave voting' system will be sued to reveal the results of the grand final. A wave voting system is where the points awarded are given in a big reveal with each set reveals at a time. Wave one reveals the points the one point that each country gave. The wave voting has ten waves and each wave reveals the results until all the scores are revealed.

## Location

**NRT1**  Norway, announced on **25th March 2017** that with the contest being held in  Norway that any city, town or arena that would like to host the contest would had four days to apply to the broadcaster with their interest.

The following selection criteria were outlined for the selection of the host city:-

* The venue must be covered with a capacity of at least 7,000 but ideally up to 10,000 attendees.
* An international press centre must be able to accommodate no less than 1,550 journalists.
* Venues must also be provided for the opening and closing ceremonies of at least 3,000 attendees.
* The host city must be able to guarantee the safety and security of participants, members of delegations and guests.
* The host city must provide a social program alongside their bid, showcasing the hospitality, originality, cultural values and identity of both the city and Fiji.

     **Host City**

 Oslo
 Oslo
 Stavanger
 Trondheim
It is the home arena of the Nidaros ice hockey team. The arena also hosted the home games of the Trondheim Black Panthers and Rosenborg ice hockey team.

The **Telenor Arena** in **Oslo**, which has a capacity of approximately **23,000** attendees, was announced as the host venue on **31st March 2017**. This will be the Arena's 1st time hosting the contest and the 1st time an arena has hosted both the Adult and Junior version of the contest.

## Presenters

On **26th March 2017**, **NRT1** announced that **Adelén** and **Kjetil Mørland** will be the host of the 39th contest.

**Spokesperson #01**:-Adelén
Adelén Rusillo Steen (born 4 November 1996), known professionally as Adelén, is a Spanish-Norwegian singer.

Born to a Spanish mother and Norwegian father, Adelén was raised in Tønsberg, Norway. Adelén participated in the Norwegian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Oslo with the Spanish-influenced song "Bombo", written by Ina Wroldsen and Quiz & Larossi and came in second place.

In 2014, she recorded "Olé" for the 2014 FIFA World Cup's album One Love, One Rhythm – The 2014 FIFA World Cup Official Album, which went straight to number 1 on the Norwegian iTunes.

**Spokesperson #02**:-Kjetil Mørland
Kjetil Mørland (born 3 October 1980), better known as simply Mørland, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. He represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 along with Debrah Scarlett with his song "A Monster Like Me".

Mørland fronted the band Absent Elk from its 2008 inception, releasing the album Caught in the Headlights in the spring of 2009. The band supported The Script, The Hoosiers and Girls Aloud on UK tours before going on to tour the UK themselves in June 2009.

## Format

The competition will consist of 02 semi-finals and a final, a format which is being reintroduced into the contest to maximise the chances for all countries qualifying. The 10 countries with the highest scores in each semi-final will qualify to the grand final where they will join the top 6 countries from the previous edition  Azerbaijan,  France,  Italy,  Slovakia,  Ukraine and the host nation  Norway.

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.

### Participant Map

**Table key**

     *The Big '6' Countries*
     *Participating Countries*
     *Withdrawing Countries*
     *Countries That Have Participated Before*

## Returning Artists

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

* Australia Sia [Prev. #11, #19, #28]
* Austria Nathan Trent [Prev. #38]
* Azerbaijan Sabina Babayeva [Prev. #09]
* Cuba Camila Cabello [Prev. #35]
* Faroe Islands Byrta [Prev. #22]
* Israel Tal [Prev. #27,  Monaco #30]
* Italy Annalisa [Prev. #22, #25,  San Marino #36]
* Liechtenstein Oonagh [Prev.  Germany #34, #36]
* Mexico Selena Gomez [Prev.  Norway #33]
* Morocco Daddy Yankee [Prev.  Puerto Rico #34]
* Poland Margaret [Prev. #02]
* Romania Inna [Prev. #26, #29, #31]
* South Korea BTS [Prev. #12]
* Slovakia Kristina [Prev. #09]
* Sweden Rhys [Prev. #34]
* Ukraine Zlata Ognevich [Prev. #04, #17]
* United Kingdom Sigala [Prev. #35]
* Vietnam Toc Tien [Prev. #29]

## Semi-final allocation draw

The draw that determined the semi-final allocation was held on 27th October. The participating countries, excluding the automatic finalists  Azerbaijan,  France,  Italy,  Slovakia,  Ukraine and the host nation  Norway.. The countries were split into two pots which would either be semi final 1 or semi final 2. Then a random generator was used to allocate countries into the running order. The results were as follows:

It was decided that  Azerbaijan,  Italy and  Norway would vote in semi final #01 and  France,  Slovakia and  Ukraine would vote in semi final #02. This was to assure to make the results fair and even for all participants in the edition.

## Semi Final 1

**20 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  **Azerbaijan**,  **Italy** and  **Norway** voting as 3 of the 6 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 10 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified

## Semi Final 2

**20 Countries** are participating in this Semi Final with  **France**,  **Slovakia** and  **Ukraine** voting as 3 of the 6 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 10 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified

## Grand Final

26 Countries will create the grand final. 10 from Semi Final 1, 10 from Semi Final 2 and the automatic qualifiers  Azerbaijan,  France,  Italy,  Slovakia,  Ukraine and the host nation  Norway.

The draw on  Azerbaijan,  France,  Italy,  Slovakia,  Ukraine and the host nation  Norway positions in the running order were 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.

01.  Ukraine Jamala
02.  Cuba William Levy
03.  Vietnam Tsui Hark
04.  Mexico Paulina Rubio
05.  Liechtenstein Claudia Schanza
06.  Canada Shawn Mendes
07.  The Netherlands Waylon
08.  Belgium Loic Nottet
09.  Armenia Iveta Mukuchyan
10.  North Macedonia Esma & Lozano
11.  Norway Julie Bergan
12.  Iceland Greta Salome
13.  Brazil Anitta
14.  Kosovo Era Istrefi
15.  Israel Chen Arahoni
16.  France Alma

17.  Serbia Tijana Bogicevic
18.  Indonesia Anggun
19.  Azerbaijan Dilara Kazimova
20.  Sweden Felix Sandman
21.  San Marino Valentina Monetta
22.  Philippines Jessica Sanchez
23.  Finland Saara Aalto
24.  Poland Kasia Mos
25.  Italy Il Volo
26.  Albania Besa
27.  Romania Andra
28.  Croatia Nina Kraljic
29.  Hungary András Kállay-Saunders
30.  Morocco Samira Said
31.  South Korea Psy
32.  Faroe Islands Kristel Lisberg

33.  Slovenia Maja Keuc
34.  Slovakia TWiiNS
35.  Ireland Louis Walsh
36.  Japan Tadanobu Asano
37.  Germany Lena
38.  Australia Guy Sebastian
39.  Denmark Emmelie De Forest
40.  United Kingdom Ella Henderson
41.  Russia Sergey Lazarev
42.  Afghanistan Azita Ghanizada
43.  Austria Conchita Wurst
44.  Malta Ira Losco
45.  Albania Besa
46.  United States Ariana Grande

### **Scoreboards**

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

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#### Here is how the world voted in the grand final.

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