Welcome to Cairo
"chaos at its most magnificent"
Host City / Cairo, Egypt
Venue / Cairo Opera House
Hosts / Arwa Gouda and Tamer Hosny
Participating countries / 40
Debuting countries / None
Returning countries / Netherlands and Zimbabwe
Countries taking a break / Germany, Ghana, Japan, Kosovo, Mongolia and Venezuela
Debuting players / None
Venue / Cairo Opera House
Hosts / Arwa Gouda and Tamer Hosny
Participating countries / 40
Debuting countries / None
Returning countries / Netherlands and Zimbabwe
Countries taking a break / Germany, Ghana, Japan, Kosovo, Mongolia and Venezuela
Debuting players / None
Returning Artists
Demi Lovato / for Germany and United Kingdom / Global Music Champion
Fabrizio Faniello / for Malta / hist best result being 6th Fangoria / for Spain / their best result being 6th Isabelle Boulay / for Canada and France / her best result being 20th Luis Fonsi / for Puerto Rico / his best result being 8th Mahmut Orhan / for Turkey / Silver Medallist Matoma / for Norway and United States / Silver Medallist |
Alfie Arcuri / for Italy / Bronze Medallist
Armin van Buuren / for Netherlands / not qualifying for the final Daby Touré / for Mauritania / placing 15th G.E.M. / for China / placing 20th JP Cooper / for United Kingdom / Bronze Medallist Louane Emera / for Monaco / placing 23rd Milica Todorovic / for Serbia / placing 14th Moshe Peretz / for Israel / placing 18th Priscilla Betti / for Monaco / placing 6th Romy Low / for Andorra / placing 25th Troye Sivan / for South Africa / Silver Medallist Younha / for South Korea / placing 6th |
The Result
Countries receiving most 12 points / Poland, 5
Countries giving 12 points to the winner / Poland, Russia, Cyprus and Spain
Countries receiving points from most juries / Cyprus, Italy and Netherlands, 19
Highest placing country not scoring a top mark / Iceland in 9th with 10 points from Malta, Poland, Australia, Canada and Switzerland as highest marks
Lowest placing country scoring a top mark / Australia in 24th getting 12 points from Egypt
It was another tight battle for the medals in this edition, though Italy led for most of the voting and ended up on top at the end. Poland had a strong finish and was only a handfull of points behind, taking home the silver, while San Marino won the bronze. Cyprus and Netherlands rounded out the top 5.
Italy made their debut in GM/08 and reached the top 10 for the first time only 2 editions later. After that Italy struggled to make a dent in the scoreboard, but following a short break, they came back stronger than ever, winning 3 consecutive medals including their first victory in GM/27, when Nek triumphed. Since then In-Grid took home the gold medal in GM/55 and Giorgia did it in GM/74 followed by Elisa in GM/122. Only a few editions later, in GM/126 Italy stroke gold again with Alessio Bernabei finishing on top, and now Alfie Arcuri becomes the 6th Italian champion. Italy has now taken part 127 times. They have been to 100 finals, reaching the top 10 in 45 of those and winning a total of 17 medals! This gold medal is the 5th for Raquel, who took over the Italian delegation back in GM/38. Well done Italy, Alfie and Raquel!
Countries giving 12 points to the winner / Poland, Russia, Cyprus and Spain
Countries receiving points from most juries / Cyprus, Italy and Netherlands, 19
Highest placing country not scoring a top mark / Iceland in 9th with 10 points from Malta, Poland, Australia, Canada and Switzerland as highest marks
Lowest placing country scoring a top mark / Australia in 24th getting 12 points from Egypt
It was another tight battle for the medals in this edition, though Italy led for most of the voting and ended up on top at the end. Poland had a strong finish and was only a handfull of points behind, taking home the silver, while San Marino won the bronze. Cyprus and Netherlands rounded out the top 5.
Italy made their debut in GM/08 and reached the top 10 for the first time only 2 editions later. After that Italy struggled to make a dent in the scoreboard, but following a short break, they came back stronger than ever, winning 3 consecutive medals including their first victory in GM/27, when Nek triumphed. Since then In-Grid took home the gold medal in GM/55 and Giorgia did it in GM/74 followed by Elisa in GM/122. Only a few editions later, in GM/126 Italy stroke gold again with Alessio Bernabei finishing on top, and now Alfie Arcuri becomes the 6th Italian champion. Italy has now taken part 127 times. They have been to 100 finals, reaching the top 10 in 45 of those and winning a total of 17 medals! This gold medal is the 5th for Raquel, who took over the Italian delegation back in GM/38. Well done Italy, Alfie and Raquel!
The Winner
Scoreboards and Live Voting
Deadlines
February 14th / Voting in the semi finals
February 14th / Nominating an artist for Global Music Royalty March 2018
February 25th / Voting in the final
February 28th / Voting for Global Music Royalty February 2018
March 1st / Submitting a song for Global Music / 146
February 14th / Nominating an artist for Global Music Royalty March 2018
February 25th / Voting in the final
February 28th / Voting for Global Music Royalty February 2018
March 1st / Submitting a song for Global Music / 146
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
Watching the Videos
All the videos are in the YouTube playlist at TVGlobalMusic