Welcome to Johannesburg
"an urban Renaissance"
Host City / Johannesburg, South Africa
Venue / TicketPro Dome
Hosts / Charlize Theron and Chris Jaftha
Participating countries / 44
Debuting countries / Mauritania
Returning countries / Dominican Republic, Iceland, Kosovo and Mongolia
Countries taking a break / Bhutan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia and Ireland
Debuting players / None
Venue / TicketPro Dome
Hosts / Charlize Theron and Chris Jaftha
Participating countries / 44
Debuting countries / Mauritania
Returning countries / Dominican Republic, Iceland, Kosovo and Mongolia
Countries taking a break / Bhutan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia and Ireland
Debuting players / None
Returning Artists
Ha*Ash / for Mexico / their best result being 12th
James Blunt / for United Kingdom, Italy and Algeria / his best result being 16th Jón Jónsson / for Iceland / not qualifying for the final Lauren Aquilina / for Malta / her best result being 15th Madeline Juno / twice for Liechtenstein and once for Germany / her best result being 4th |
A-Studio / for Kazakhstan and Russia / their best result being 11th
Celeste Buckingham / for Slovakia and Switzerland / her best result being 26th Gergö Rácz / for Hungary / Global Music Champion Ida Corr / for Denmark and Gambia / her best result being 19th Melendi / for Andorra and Spain / his best result being 5th Velvet / for Sweden / her best result being 4th |
Adel Tawil / for Liechtenstein / placing 5th
Bahadir Tatliöz / for Turkey / not qualifying for the final Diogo Garcia / for Portugal / placing 13th Elhaida Dani / for Albania / not qualifying for the final Eva Ruiz / for Spain / placing 16th Francisco Gabbani / for Italy / placing 19th Gentleman / for Liechtenstein / placing 22nd Gromee / for Poland / placing 10th Ina Wroldsen / for Norway / placing 5th Juan Luis Guerra / for Dominican Republic / placing 14th Leonard Cohen / for Canada / not qualifying for the final Lina Mayer / for Slovakia / placing 11th Mayré Martínez / for Venezuela / placing 10th Tanja Savic / for Serbia / not qualifying for the final Tanya van Graan / for South Africa / not qualifying for the final Therese Grankvist / for Sweden / Silver Medallist Youssou N'Dour / for Denmark / placing 9th |
The Result
Countries receiving most 12 points / Norway, 5
Countries giving 12 points to the winner / Kazakhstan and South Korea
Countries receiving points from most juries / Egypt, 21
Highest placing country not scoring a top mark / Iceland in 10th with 10 points from Venezuela and Hungary as highest marks
Lowest placing country scoring a top mark / Malta in 26th getting 12 points from Iceland
Norway gave out with full force at the beginning of the voting and for a long time they looked like the sure winner. However, their points became fewer, and Egypt caught over, battling with Norway for the leading position, until Russia joined the two, making the race for victory a threesome. With the last set of votes, the North African country inched past Norway, claiming victory with a margin of just a single point! Norway had to settle for the silver and Russia took home the bronze with Slovakia and Kazakhstan rounding out the top 5.
Egypt was actually present in the very first edition of Global Music and finished strongly in 4th place. That was not enough though to keep them interested in the contest, and we had to wait until GM / 53 to see Egypt on the stage for the second time and until GM / 128 before they finally reached the final again. This was Egypt's 10th participation and up until now their only top 10 result was their debut entry, and this time they competed in the final for only the third time. Gretchen took over as HoD for Egypt just last edition, but was also responsible for their latest trip to a final. She has previously won medals for Jamaica, Ecuador and Uganda, but this is her first medal of gold. Well done Egypt, Adel, Mohamed, Youssou and Gretchen!
Countries giving 12 points to the winner / Kazakhstan and South Korea
Countries receiving points from most juries / Egypt, 21
Highest placing country not scoring a top mark / Iceland in 10th with 10 points from Venezuela and Hungary as highest marks
Lowest placing country scoring a top mark / Malta in 26th getting 12 points from Iceland
Norway gave out with full force at the beginning of the voting and for a long time they looked like the sure winner. However, their points became fewer, and Egypt caught over, battling with Norway for the leading position, until Russia joined the two, making the race for victory a threesome. With the last set of votes, the North African country inched past Norway, claiming victory with a margin of just a single point! Norway had to settle for the silver and Russia took home the bronze with Slovakia and Kazakhstan rounding out the top 5.
Egypt was actually present in the very first edition of Global Music and finished strongly in 4th place. That was not enough though to keep them interested in the contest, and we had to wait until GM / 53 to see Egypt on the stage for the second time and until GM / 128 before they finally reached the final again. This was Egypt's 10th participation and up until now their only top 10 result was their debut entry, and this time they competed in the final for only the third time. Gretchen took over as HoD for Egypt just last edition, but was also responsible for their latest trip to a final. She has previously won medals for Jamaica, Ecuador and Uganda, but this is her first medal of gold. Well done Egypt, Adel, Mohamed, Youssou and Gretchen!
The Winner
Scoreboards and Live Voting
Deadlines
January 14th / Voting in the semi finals
January 15th / Nominating an artist for Global Music Royalty February 2018
January 25th / Voting in the final
January 31st / Voting for Global Music Royalty February 2018
January 31st / Submitting a song for Global Music / 145
January 15th / Nominating an artist for Global Music Royalty February 2018
January 25th / Voting in the final
January 31st / Voting for Global Music Royalty February 2018
January 31st / Submitting a song for Global Music / 145
Voting
12, 10, 8...1 point for your top 10
In the final you also have to choose 3 substitutes
The voting forms are here / Semi final and Final
In the final you also have to choose 3 substitutes
The voting forms are here / Semi final and Final
Getting the Songs
All the songs can be found in the Dropbox folder entitled "144 Johannesburg"
Watching the Videos
All the videos are in the YouTube playlist at TVGlobalMusic