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Special Melody Q4-2024
Special Melody Q4-2024
Diversity of Languages
Dates
Final	5 February 2025
Host
Venue	Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa, Israel
Executive supervisor	Denis Vorobyov
Executive producer	Nikolay Serb
Host broadcaster	Kan
Participants
Number of entries	18
Debuting countries	North Macedonia
Returning Countries	Japan; South Korea
Non-returning Countries	Canada; San Marino; Thailand
	Participation map
Vote
Winning song	United Kingdom "Most Na Adi"
	Q3-24 ← Special Melody Q4-2024 → Q1-25

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Revision as of 19:48, 17 February 2025

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	12
02	Australia	Bao Thy	La Con Gai Phai Xinh	Vietnamese	4
03	Germany	Soulfia	Mirame A La Cara	Spanish	6
04	Albania	Tjarl & Dani Lia	Ganz Nach Vorn	German	3
05	Hungary	Anna Zak	Lech Lishon	Hebrew	15
06	Denmark	Sonia	Dzwonie	Polish	2
07	France	Neeraj Shridhar, Mellow D & Bob	Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Title Track	Hindi
08	United Kingdom	Teodora	Most Na Adi	Serbian	1	110
09	Norway	Eir Aoi	Tsubasa	Japanese	17
10	Lebanon	Roxy Dekker	Sugardaddy	Dutch	9
11	Israel	Federico Rossi	Maledetto Mare	Italian	10
12	Italy	Erdenechimeg	Toiron Bujie	Mongol	8
13	Switzerland	Crystallized	Fota	Greek	16
14	Portugal	Issam Alnajjar & Elyanna	Hada Ghareeb	Arabic	7
15	Spain	Bini	Salamin, Salamin	Tagalog
16	North Macedonia	Ilta	Ei Kukaan Muu	Finnish	11
17	South Korea	Irdorath	Vaukalak	Belarusian	5
18	Japan	Perola	Tens Sorte	Portugese	18

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	Netherlands	Australia	Germany	Albania	Hungary	Denmark	France	United Kingdom	Norway	Lebanon	Israel	Italy	Switzerland	Portugal	Spain	North Macedonia	South Korea	Japan	Rest of the World

Contestants	Netherlands
	Australia
	Germany
	Albania
	Hungary
	Denmark
	France
	United Kingdom	110
	Norway
	Lebanon
	Israel
	Italy
	Switzerland
	Portugal
	Spain
	North Macedonia
	South Korea
	Japan

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