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Special Melody Q4-2024

From IECO - International Eurofan's Countries Organisation
Special Melody Q4-2024
Diversity of Languages
Dates
FinalTBA Winter 2025
Host
VenueSammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel
Executive supervisor Denis Vorobyov
Executive producer Nikolay Serb
Host broadcaster Kan
Participants
Number of entries18
Debuting countries North Macedonia
Returning Countries Japan
South Korea
Non-returning Countries Canada
San Marino
Thailand
Participation map
Vote
Winning songTBD
Q3-24Special Melody Q4-2024Q1-25

The Special Melody Contest Q4-2024 - was the 6th edition of the Special Melody Contest that has been ever made. It took place in the city of Haifa in Israel, following the country's victory at the previous edition of Special Melody Q1-2025 in Australia with the song "Monaco" perfromed by Jude York. The contest was organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and the host broadcaster Kan. The contest was held at the Sammy Ofer Stadium and consisted of a single show (Grand Final).

A total of 19 countries took part in the competition. This was the show with the first ever appearance of North Macedonia, which debuted the contest, along with Japan, Poland and South Korea returning back to the contest. While Canada, San Marino and Thailand were competing in the previous edition and has decided not to take part in the current one due to various reasons.

Location

City Bidding Process

Format

Season Rules

On January 7, 2025, it was announced, that the theme of the 6th edition of the contest would be "Diversity of Languages". Each participating country would join the language allocation draw, where it will be randomly determined in which language they need to find their entry in order to participate. Traditionally, the theme idea and the list of the languages were discussed between the Supervisor of the competition along with the National Broadcaster. To make it fair, the list didn't include English or French, so each of the participating country would need to bring additional effort in securing their performance.

Approved list of 20 different options has been published at the same day and the confirmation process has started. While some countries found the idea quite interesting and appealing, another countries expressed their concerns that the edition theme was very difficult. At the end, 19 countries has expressed their interest and has been confirmed to take place in the language draw.

Participating Countries

Japan and South Korea has returned to the competition, while Canada San Marino and Thailand took part in the previous edition, but has decided not to take part in this one. One of the reasons why Canada has decided to withdraw from the competition, would be the edition's theme and its difficulty. San Marino has not stated the official reason of its non-participation, however rumors say that it might be due to contest being held in Israel. From the other hand, some countries has expressed their interest in participation even before the theme would be announced like North Macedonia that has announced it's debute irregardless of the theme. Poland has confirmed its participation and were allocated with Korean language, but later has not appeared in the final list of the participants and withdrew from the competition due to unknown reason.

Grand Final

# Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points
01 Netherlands Munisa Rizayeva & Konsta O'ylamading Uzbek
02 Australia Bao Thy La Con Gai Phai Xinh Vietnamese
03 Germany Soulfia Mirame A La Cara Spanish
04 Albania Tjarl & Dani Lia Ganz Nach Vorn German
05 Hungary Anna Zak Lech Lishon Hebrew
06 Denmark Sonia Dzwonie Polish
07 France Neeraj Shridhar, Mellow D & Bob Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Title Track Hindi
08 United Kingdom Teodora Most Na Adi Serbian
09 Norway Eir Aoi Tsubasa Japanese
10 Lebanon Roxy Dekker Sugardaddy Dutch
11 Israel Federico Rossi Maledetto Mare Italian
12 Italy Erdenechimeg Toiron Bujie Mongol
13 Switzerland Crystallized Fota Greek
14 Portugal Issam Alnajjar & Elyanna Hada Ghareeb Arabic
15 Spain Bini Salamin, Salamin Tagalog
16 North Macedonia Ilta Ei Kukaan Muu Finnish
17 South Korea Irdorath Vaukalak Belarusian
18 Japan Perola Tens Sorte Portugese

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
Rest of the World
Contestants


The Rest Of The World Voting

12 Points

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