World Music Festival

Official Titlecard of World Music Festival the BIG4.

José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum

*This article of a defunct song competition in the Philippines is now outdated. See The first era of the World Music Festival for more information.*

**World Music Festival** (also known as WMF) is a weekly song contest held in Instagram and Discord by Valfierce founded on January 27, 2020. World Music Festival had a total of 4 seasons.

The participants of World Music Festival are primarily from Europe and Asia, although all continents could participate in the contest.

World Music Festival was discontinued on July 3rd, 2020.

## History

World Music Festival began its first edition on February 28, 2020 that was hosted at the Philippine Arena in Philippines.

World Music Festival was discontinued in July 3, 2020 and failed to continue its competition.

Some rumors that the contest will redo on July 8, 2020 and it will be hosted in the Philippines.

## Overview

### Confirmations

* All participants are composed of countries or independent states from all over the world.
* As of Season 3, Confirmations will be opened in the following day after the results of the previous season.
* As of Season 3, Confirmations last at least 1 week once it was opened.
* Confirmations are opened in both Discord and Instagram.

* As of Season 2, there are 2 auto qualifiers (The owner and the previous Grand Winner).
* All participants must be UN recognized states or countries to be part of the contest. Unrecognized states or countries are prohibited.

### Allocation Draw

* The allocation draw is where to determine the official running order of all participants.
* The allocation draw used an online "list randomizer" to determine the official running order of all participants.
* The running order for Semi Finals and Grand Finals differ from each other, so there will be 2 different allocation draws per season.

### Semi Finals

* Semi Finals are going to be introduced in Season 4 (World Music Festival BIG4).

### Grand Finals

* The Grand Finals usually last for 1 week.
* As of Season 3, all confirmed countries will be partaking the Grand Finals automatically.
* All participants are considered as juries, they are required to vote for the other participant's entries. The juries are expected to follow the ESC voting template.
* As of Season 3, online voters can vote for their favorite entries by submitting the codes in each entry (can be found in the description). Online voters can have a minimum of 3 favorites while a maximum of 5 favorites.
* The Grand winner will be determined once voting period ends.
* The Grand winner of the previous season will be hosting the next season's contest.

## Seasons

A **green background** represents **current edition**.

Play With Me by CROSS GENE
 **2** | Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan | Tokyo Dome | 16
Human by Christina Perri
 **3** | San Juan, Puerto Rico | José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum of Puerto Rico | 17
Toutes Les Machines Ont Un Cdeur by Maëlle
 **BIG4** | Paris, France | Dôme de Paris | 20

**World Music Festival the BIG4** was cancelled and failed to continue its competition on July 3rd, 2020 due to "participants loss its presence to continue the competition" after being delayed for 2 months.

## Controversies

World Music Festival had previous controversies while running the contest.

* World Music Festival was suspected for copying the name of the contest World Music Festival, a song contest in YouTube.
* On World Music Festival's third edition, the official results of the contest were miscalculated. The winner was announced after calculation checks.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/worldmusic.festival/