Special Melody Q3-2024

Special Melody Q3-2024
Special Melody Q3-2024
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Dates
Final	TBD 1st half of September 2024
Host
Venue	Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisben, Australia
Executive supervisor	Denis Vorobyov
Executive producer	Mark Solovyov
Host broadcaster	SBS
Participants
Number of entries	18
Returning Countries	Italy
Non-returning Countries	Japan; Poland; Vietnam
	Participation map
	Q2-24 ← Special Melody Q3-2024 → Q4-24

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)
	Albania	Villia	Oceanul	Romanian
13	Australia	Vetta Borne	40-40	English
	Canada	Abbie Ozard	Everything still worries me	English
	Denmark	Tara Lee	Drive	English
	France	MDMC	Paninaro	English, French
	Germany	Cutts	Honey	English
	Hungary	Lake Malice	Bloodbath	English
	Israel	Jude York	Monaco	English
	Italy	Valentina Parisse	Tutto Cambia	Italian
	Lebanon	Elyanna	Kon Nasfak	English, Arabic
	Netherlands	The Band Loula	A Liile At A Time	English
	Norway	Boy Epic	I`m Still Here	English
	Portugal	ELPORT & Max Landry	Upside Down	English
	San Marino	Xenia Ghali feat. Jessica Sutta	Out with a Bang	English
	Spain	RUGGERO	Mil kilos de cemento	Spanish
	Switzerland	Roniit	Through the Night	Englsih
	Thailand	SUI UZI	Flames of Desire	English
	United Kingdom	SACHI	Wildfire	English