donderdag 24 januari 2013

Results of ISC#4

After a very exciting voting process, the results of ISC#4 can now be announced. The differences are smaller than ever, also due to the fact that the amount of voters in this edition was smaller than ever. However, I am happy to announce that the 9 voters represent in total 8 different nationalities, which makes this a truly international song contest. :)
You can click here to see the full voting process in Eurovision style. The only thing that is missing are the pretty ladies and excited gentlemen that are announcing the votes, but I'm sure you can do without them.
A big thanks goes out to all people who have voted in my contest! Without you this contest wouldn't have been possible and without you the results would have also been different. Unfortunately I have decided that this has been the last edition of ISC. From now on I will share my music in a different way. Every two weeks I will write about 3-5 unknown songs related to a certain theme. More information about the themes will be available in my next post.

For those of you who actually enjoyed this kind of online song contest, I can recommend that you take a look at two online song contests that I participate in: World Song Contest On Net and Planet Earth Song Contest. My role in those contests is usually the same role as the Netherlands play at the real Eurovision song contest: I'm usually eliminated in the semi-finals, although unlike the Netherlands at Eurovision I actually do send in good quality music. However, I really enjoy participating in these contests and finding new music from other countries.

zaterdag 12 januari 2013

ISC #4

Ladies and gentlemen,

The moment has arrived again. It's time for the fourth edition of the International Song Contest on this blog. This time I took a bit more time to collect only the very best songs for you. I found most of these songs via the online song contests I participate in, however this time I also had a little help from my friends. So a special thanks goes to Laura (Estonia), José (Mexico), Līna (Latvia) and Tiina (Finland) for helping me select a song from their country!

Unfortunately some reasonably good songs didn't make it through the strict selection procedure, such as the Swedish modern-day equivalent of the band Europe (you know, those guys from the Final Countdown), the Kazakh Amy Winehouse and the Uzbek Shakira. Below you can find the list of all 22 songs that did make it, the links to YouTube and a recap video with a fragment of each of the 22 songs.

If you want to help decide who will win this edition of the ISC, I kindly ask you to make a top 10 of your favourite songs and submit them via the form at the bottom of this post. You can vote until 24 January 9:30pm CET. You can vote for your own country (or even the song you helped pick for this contest), as long as you vote honestly. After the voting has ended I will publish the results on my blog and make a fancy animation of the voting process, to give you the feeling like you're watching the results of the real Eurovision song contest. Thank you in advance for voting!


Recap video:

 
I had some issues with uploading the video to YouTube which did't allow me to place the video on my blog due to a copyright claim. You should also be able to access the video without ads on my YouTube-channel by clicking here.

List of participants:


1. Norway Tone Damli Never Look Back
2. Czech Republic Verona Hey Boy
3. Netherlands Nielson Beauty & The Brains
4. Switzerland TinkaBelle The Man I Need
5. Germany Revolverheld Keine Liebeslieder
6. Sweden Paulina Starborn Never Gonna Let Me Go
7. Italy Modà feat. Emma Arriverà
8. Slovakia Celeste Buckingham Run Run Run
9. Lithuania Marijonas, Mantas & Mia Celebrate Basketball
10. Romania Connect-R Vara Nu Dorm
11. South Africa Elvis Blue Lighthouse
12. Estonia Greip Vihma Loits
13. Slovenia Atomik Harmonik Choco La
14. Portugal Aurea Busy (For Me)
15. Australia Sam Clark Broken
16. Latvia BrainStorm Lantern
17. South Korea Yisabel I Wish I Can Fly
18. Finland Satellite Stories Family
19. Mexico Julieta Venegas Me Voy
20. Greece Demy Poses Xiliades Kalokairia
21. Faroe Islands Eivør Undo Your Mind
22. Denmark Christopher Against All Odds

Voting is over!