Special Melody Q3-2024

From IECO - International Eurofan's Countries Organisation
Special Melody Q3-2024
Underrated Gems
Dates
Final27 October 2024
Host
VenueBrisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisben, Australia
Executive supervisor Denis Vorobyov
Executive producer Mark Solovyov
Host broadcaster SBS
Participants
Number of entries18
Returning Countries Italy
Non-returning Countries Japan
Poland
Vietnam
Participation map
Vote
Winning song Israel "Monaco"
Q2-24Special Melody Q3-2024Q4-24

The Special Melody Contest Q3-2024 - was the 5rd edition of the Special Melody Contest that has been ever made. It is set to take place in Brisben, Australia.

Location

After the previous edition has been won by Australia, the broadcaster was immediately approached to form the reference group for the contest organisation. The Executive Supervisor and the head of IECO joined to the discussion of the potential city selection to host the show.

The Q3-2024 The selected venue is the 13.600-seat Brisbane Entertainment Centre is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the Brisbane suburb of Boondall, Queensland, Australia.

City bidding process

A few hours after the results of Special Melody Q3-24, the winner of the last episode of the competition and reference group decided to entrust the hosting of the competition to the city of Brisbane as applicable venue and infrastructure to host the fifth edition of the contest.

Format

Rules of season

In this episode, only Official videos that has been released between 2010 and 2024 and gained less than 100k views on YouTube are being accepted. The video must be released by a verifiable artist on its official channel and the song must be performed in English, French or an official language of the participating country.

The artist can be verified, if: having a fan base, other videos, a Google search profile with the artist/musician tag and/or a Wikipedia page, or sufficient presence on social platforms.

The producers also reserves the right to discuss the verification of artists in the IECO council and not allow the artist in case of controversial situations or lack of materials to verify artist’s credibility.

Artists that have participated at Eurovision in the past are not allowed to be submitted.

There is also a ban on covers, remixes, parodies of songs, songs created with the help of AI, and so on.

Participating Countries

Final

The following 18 countries have publicly confirmed their intention to participate in Q3-2024. Italy returns to the contest for its last appearance in the second episode of the contest. Japan, Poland and South Korea have decided to withdraw from the fifth episode of the contest due to various circumstances, but have not ruled out returning in future episodes of the Special Melody.

# Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points
01 United Kingdom SACHI Wildfire English 9 64
02 Norway Boy Epic I`m Still Here English 3 93
03 Italy Valentina Parisse Tutto Cambia Italian 12 51
04 Switzerland Roniit Through the Night Englsih 7 68
05 Portugal ELPORT & Max Landry Upside Down English 15 37
06 Lebanon Elyanna Kon Nasfak English, Arabic 13 47
07 Canada Abbie Ozard Everything still worries me English 17 12
08 Israel Jude York Monaco English 1 117
09 Albania Villia Oceanul Romanian 5 90
10 San Marino Xenia Ghali feat. Jessica Sutta Out with a Bang English 8 66
11 Thailand SUI UZI Flames of Desire English 18 6
12 Spain RUGGERO Mil kilos de cemento Spanish 14 47
13 Australia Vetta Borne 40-40 English 6 84
14 Germany Cutts Honey English 10 60
15 France MDMC Paninaro English, French 16 18
16 Denmark Tara Lee Drive English 2 96
17 Netherlands The Band Loula A Liile At A Time English 11 53
18 Hungary Lake Malice Bloodbath English 4 93

Voting

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their top ten songs.

Grand Final voting results
Total score
United Kingdom
Norway
Italy
Switzerland
Portugal
Lebanon
Canada
Israel
Albania
San Marino
Thailand
Spain
Australia
Germany
France
Denmark
Netherlands
Hungary
Rest of the World
Contestants
United Kingdom
Norway
Italy
Switzerland
Portugal
Lebanon
Canada
Israel
Albania
San Marino
Thailand
Spain
Australia
Germany
France
Denmark
Netherlands
Hungary


The Rest Of The World Voting

Detailed vote from the rest of the world
Place Country Points
KOR

JPN

USA
1 Israel 12 24.85 8.21 12.00 4.64
2 Australia 10 19.01 3.17 3.84 12.00
3 Norway 8 18.22 4.64 6.79 6.79
4 Albania 7 17.70 5.61 9.92 2.17
5 Denmark 6 14.64 12.00 0.84 1.80
6 Italy 5 12.62 3.84 5.61 3.17
7 Spain 4 11.63 9.92 0.69 1.02
8 Portugal 3 11.42 1.02 0.48 9.92
9 Hungary 2 10.49 0.48 1.80 8.21
10 Netherlands 1 10.44 6.79 1.02 2.63
11 Lebanon 9.62 0.84 8.21 0.57
12 United Kingdom 9.27 1.49 2.17 5.61
13 Canada 7.96 2.63 1.49 3.84
14 Germany 6.92 1.80 4.64 0.48
15 Switzerland 6.03 2.17 3.17 0.69
16 France 5.35 1.23 2.63 1.49
17 San Marino 3.15 0.69 1.23 1.23
18 Thailand 1.98 0.57 0.57 0.84

12 Points

12 points awarded by the countries
# Recipient Countries giving 12 points
6 Israel Germany, Hungary, Italy, San Marino, Thailand, Rest of the World
3 Germany Canada, Norway, Switzerland
2 Denmark Albania, Australia
San Marino Portugal, United Kingdom
1 Norway Israel
Hungary Lebanon
Albania Spain
Switzerland France
Lebanon Denmark
Spain Netherlands