Special Melody Q3-2024

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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.

Special Melody Q3-2024
Underrated Gems
Dates
FinalTBD 1st half of September 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
Q2-24Special Melody Q3-2024Q4-24

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
  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 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

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
Australia
Rest of the World
Contestants


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