Special Melody Q3-2023

Special Melody Q3-2023
Geographical Names
Dates
Final	7 August 2023
Host
Venue	Impact Arena Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Executive supervisor	Denis Vorobyov
Executive producer	Maksim Bogomolov
Host broadcaster	Channel 3
Participants
Number of entries	16
Debuting countries	Australia Canada Cyprus Denmark Germany Greece Hungary Japan Kazakhstan Lebanon Netherlands Norway Portugal South Korea Thailand United Kingdom
Returning Countries	None
Non-returning Countries	None
Participation map
Vote
Winning song	Canada "Antarctica"

The Special Melody Contest Q3-2023 - was the 1st edition of the Special Melody Contest that has been ever made. It is set to take place in Bangkok, Thailand. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster Channel 3 (Thailand), the contest was held at the Impact Arena Bangkok, and was consisted a final on 7 August 2023.

Sixteen countries participated in the first contest. All sixteen countries took part in the competition for the first time.

The winner was the Canada with the song "Antarctica", performed by The Hardkiss. South Korea, Denmark, Australia and Japan rounded out the top five. Remarkably, the host country of the contest (Thailand) finished in last place.

Location

The venue for the first season was selected from among the countries that confirmed their participation in the season. Of the 16 participating countries, Australia, Portugal, Germany and Japan initially withdrew from the bid. Of the remaining 12 countries, 6 candidates were approved by the IECO Council: Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Norway and Thailand. During the discussions and voting, the right to host the first season went to Thailand. The host city was Bangkok - the capital of the chosen country.The venue for the competition was the Impact Arena Bangkok

Production

Visual Design

It was decided by the IECO that the contest shall follow a simple style with no theme and a permanent logo. Permanent logo was designed and presented to the IECO prior to the contest and got instantly approved. It comprises with the cursive wording of the wordmark "Special" where letter S shapes a heart and a music treble clef, followed by a country flag inside the heart and sans-serif geometric writing "Melody". Each year the heart changes flag to the host nation

An official logo for Special Melody

Format

The competition was held in the format of one final, which was also used in subsequent seasons of the competition. The difference from season to season was the change of themes of the seasons.

Rules of season

For the first edition of the competition, the main requirement for the application was the name of a geographical object in the title of the competition entry. Additional conditions included a restriction on using the same geographical object twice, but the restriction did not apply to other geographical objects located in the same country or continent with which there was already an application. Also, the song title had to include only the geographical object represented by the subject and should not include a definition. There were no restrictions on the language, year of the composition's release, or the number of views on the YouTube portal.

Participating Countries

Sixteen countries have confirmed their participation in the first season of the competition.

Final

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Denmark	Joan Thiele	Armenia	English	3	102
02	Portugal	Tungevaag	Peru	English	7	62
03	Greece	Nothing But Thieves	Amsterdam	English	12	42
04	Australia	Jess & Matt	Sydney to Me	English	4	82
05	Kazakhstan	Sting	Englishman in New York	English	15	34
06	Lebanon	Gia Gunn & Alaska Thunderfuck	La China Mas Latina	English,Spanish	14	35
07	Canada	The Hardkiss	Antarctica	Ukrainian	1	120
08	Germany	Zivert	Beverly Hills	English,Russian	9	57
09	United Kingdom	Lecomte de Bregeot	Paris 1985	English,French	10	46
10	Japan	Fergie	London Bridge	English	5	71
11	Norway	Katy Perry	Harleys In Hawaii	English	8	57
12	Cyprus	Marina And The Diamonds	Hollywood	English	11	46
13	Netherlands	Bastille	Pompeii	English	6	65
14	Hungary	George Ezra	Budapest	English	13	40
15	Thailand	Carabao	Unity Thailand	Thai	16	22
16	South Korea	Mirei	Lonely in Tokyo	English	2	105

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 Denmark Portugal Greece Australia Kazahstan Lebanon Canada Germany United kingdom Japan Norway Cyprys Netherlands Hungary Thailand South Korea Rest of the World Contestants Denmark 102 8 8 5 2 10 8 10 10 10 7 4 6 7 7 Portugal 62 3 1 2 12 3 8 4 8 2 10 4 5 Greece 42 8 6 5 5 8 3 1 6 Australia 82 7 10 5 4 10 3 8 7 5 1 6 8 3 5 Kazahstan 34 1 4 6 3 7 6 7 Lebanon 35 2 7 1 7 2 1 6 6 1 2 Canada 120 12 1 10 8 2 12 2 12 8 5 12 12 12 12 Germany 57 8 12 3 1 5 5 10 3 10 United Kingdom 46 4 7 4 5 5 5 2 2 1 10 1 Japan 71 6 4 6 6 6 12 4 12 1 8 6 Norway 57 5 3 3 3 2 7 1 4 10 3 4 8 4 Cyprus 46 1 12 12 3 4 3 7 4 Netherlands 65 12 5 10 10 7 1 2 8 2 8 Hungary 40 2 2 8 1 4 1 6 12 2 2 Thailand 22 3 6 3 10 South Korea 105 10 4 7 12 5 7 6 6 7 12 10 4 7 5 3

Detailed vote from the rest of the world Place Country Points ESP SWE SMR 1 Canada 12 4.3 4 6 3 2 Germany 10 5.3 1 9 6 3 Netherlands 8 6.0 9 7 2 4 Denmark 7 6.0 3 3 12 5 Japan 6 6.6 11 8 1 6 Australia 5 6.6 2 13 5 7 Norway 4 7.3 8 4 10 8 South Korea 3 7.6 5 2 16 9 Lebanon 2 8.3 6 11 8 10 United Kingdom 1 9 13 5 9 11 Greece 9.3 16 1 11 12 Cyprus 9.6 12 10 7 13 Kazakhstan 10 14 12 4 14 Portugal 11.6 7 14 14 15 Hungary 12.6 10 15 13 16 Thailand 15.3 15 16 15

12 Points

12 points awarded by the countries

#	Recipient	Countries giving 12 points
7	Canada	Hungary, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Thailand, United Kingdom, Rest of the World
2	South Korea	Australia, Japan
	Japan	Cyprus, Germany
	Cyprus	Greece, Kazakhstan
1	Netherlands	Denmark
	Portugal	Lebanon
	Germany	Canada
	Hungary	Netherlands