Welcome to Funchal
"An Abundance of Colorful and Exotic Flora"
Welcome to Funchal, the vibrant capital of Madeira, Portugal, where natural beauty, historic charm, and warm hospitality come together to create an unforgettable experience. Nestled along the rugged coastline of this stunning island, Funchal invites you to explore its lush landscapes, indulge in its exquisite cuisine, and immerse yourself in its rich culture. Begin your journey in the heart of Funchal's historic center, where cobblestone streets wind through colorful buildings adorned with traditional Portuguese tiles. Discover the Mercado dos Lavradores, a bustling market where you can sample fresh fruits, artisanal products, and exotic flowers. Funchal's botanical gardens are a true horticultural delight. Explore the Madeira Botanical Garden, home to a diverse collection of endemic plants, or visit the Monte Palace Tropical Garden, a serene oasis with tranquil lakes, Japanese bridges, and lush flora. Indulge your taste buds in Funchal's culinary treasures. Savor traditional dishes like espetada (grilled meat skewers) and black scabbardfish in local restaurants, and pair them with the renowned Madeira wine, a fortified wine with a rich history. Nature enthusiasts will find themselves in paradise amid the dramatic landscapes of Madeira. Hike along the Levada trails, ancient irrigation channels that crisscross the island, or venture into the rugged mountains for breathtaking views and thrilling outdoor adventures. For a cultural immersion, explore the Museu de Arte Sacra and the Frederico de Freitas Museum, which showcase religious art and historical artifacts. Attend a Fado performance, a traditional Portuguese music genre, to experience the soulful melodies of Madeira. As the sun sets over Funchal, the city comes alive with a lively nightlife. Enjoy live music in charming bars, dance to the rhythms of Latin and Cape Verdean beats, and sip cocktails while overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Funchal extends a warm welcome to travelers from around the world, inviting you to explore its history, embrace its natural beauty, and connect with its friendly residents. So why wait? Come and immerse yourself in the magic of Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, where every corner promises a new adventure and a deeper connection to the heart of the Atlantic. Your journey begins here!
Host City / Funchal, Portugal
Venue / Estádio do Marítimo
Hosts / Sara Sampaio and Jorge Corrula
Participating countries / 45
Debuting countries / Micronesia
Returning countries / Austria, Finland, Georgia, Japan, North Macedonia and Slovenia
Withdrawing countries / Guatemala, Kiribati, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Suriname and Togo
Debuting players / Adilson for Slovenia and Joseph for Japan
Venue / Estádio do Marítimo
Hosts / Sara Sampaio and Jorge Corrula
Participating countries / 45
Debuting countries / Micronesia
Returning countries / Austria, Finland, Georgia, Japan, North Macedonia and Slovenia
Withdrawing countries / Guatemala, Kiribati, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Suriname and Togo
Debuting players / Adilson for Slovenia and Joseph for Japan
Returning Artists
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Laura Pausini / 16 times for Italy, 3 times for San Marino and once for Australia / Silver Medallist
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Ira Losco / for Malta / her best result being 11th
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Delta Goodrem / 7 times for Australia and once for Solomon Islands and Ireland / Quadruple Global Music Champion
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Hadise / 4 times for Turkey, 3 times for Luxembourg and once for Belgium / her best result being 10th
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Michael Schulte / 4 times for Germany, twice for Liechtenstein and once for Netherlands / Double Global Music Champion
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Amir Haddad / 4 times for France and once for Tunisia and Greece / Global Music Champion
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Indila / 4 times for France and once for Comoros / Double Global Music Champion
Sam Smith / 3 times for United Kingdom and once for Nigeria and Pakistan / his best result being 5th Sarit Hadad / 4 times for Israel and once for Azerbaijan / her best result being 4th Vitaa / for Monaco / her best result being 6th |
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Sasa Kovacevic / for Serbia / Global Music Champion
Slimane Nebchi / 3 times for Monaco and once for France / his best result being 6th |
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Inis Neziri / for Albania / her best result being 10th
Karla Grunewaldt / for Chile / Global Music Champion Miki Núñez / for Andorra / his best result being 20th The Weeknd / twice for Canada and once for Ethiopia / Global Music Champion Zana Messia / for Bosnia-Herzegovina / her best result being 11th |
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Manuel Carrasco / once for Spain and Andorra / his best result being 11th
Matthew James / for Malta / his best result being 15th |
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Burna Boy / for Nigeria / not qualifying for the final
Girl in Red / for Norway / placing 25th Karetus / for Portugal / placing 21st Shem Thomas / for Switzerland / Global Music Champion Vlatko Lozanoski / for North Macedonia / not qualifying for the final |
Scoreboards and Live Voting
Live voting
Live televote
Scoreboard final
Scoreboard televote
Scoreboard semi final one
Scoreboard semi final two
Live televote
Scoreboard final
Scoreboard televote
Scoreboard semi final one
Scoreboard semi final two
The Result
Countries receiving most 12 points / United Kingdom, 4
Countries giving 12 points to the winner / Russia and Slovenia
Countries receiving points from most juries / Finland and United Kingdom, 22
Highest placing country not scoring a top mark / Belgium in 4th with 10 points from Australia, San Marino, North Macedonia, Denmark and Iran as highest marks
Lowest placing country scoring a top mark / Ireland in 24th getting 12 points from Germany, Italy and Netherlands
Ireland received the first 2 top marks and thus took an early lead, but after a few juries they had to pass on the lead, as their points dried up. Several countries took turns on top of the scoreboard, before it apparently became a race between Belgium, Germany and United Kingdom. When all juries had voted United Kingdom was in the lead ahead of Belgium, Finland, Canada and Sweden. But as we have seen several times before, the televote told a different story, favouring Finland ahead of Georgia, Canada, North Macedonia and Albania. When United Kingdom as the last country were to receive their points from the televote they needed 37 points to beat Finland. The televote rewarded the UK with 36 points (6th place) leading to a tie for first place. According to the rules, the winner was then the country scoring most points with the televote. Here Finland outscored the UK 57-36 and was crowned the winner. United Kingdom had to settle for the silver, while Canada took home the bronze. Belgium and Sweden rounded out the top five.
Finland has been part of the GM family ever since the very first edition and has done consistantly well over the years. They won their first medal in their 13th attempt in GM15, when Agnes took the silver. Another two medals followed with Johanna Kurkela and Anna Abreu both winning the bronze medal in GM25 and GM37 respectively, before Finland could finally lift the trophy in GM41, when Poets of the Fall finished on top. Another 2 medals for Jenni Vartiainen followed, before Finland had the first change of HoD. With a new captain Finland saw a string of top 10 results and came very close to a second victory twice, before Lovex claimed gold in GM92 at the hands of Finland's 3rd HoD. After this, Finland had strong results including 6 consecutive top 10 finishes, but after a while participations became less frequent and the HoD changed several times. GM133 resulted in another silver medal, but a few editions later Finland took a 27 edition break. Current HoD, David, came onboard in GM172 and has reached the top 10 three times and now brings the trophy back to Finland for the third time. This is his first victory in GM, despite having represented different countries throughout his several years in the contest. Well done Portion Boys, Finland and David!
Countries giving 12 points to the winner / Russia and Slovenia
Countries receiving points from most juries / Finland and United Kingdom, 22
Highest placing country not scoring a top mark / Belgium in 4th with 10 points from Australia, San Marino, North Macedonia, Denmark and Iran as highest marks
Lowest placing country scoring a top mark / Ireland in 24th getting 12 points from Germany, Italy and Netherlands
Ireland received the first 2 top marks and thus took an early lead, but after a few juries they had to pass on the lead, as their points dried up. Several countries took turns on top of the scoreboard, before it apparently became a race between Belgium, Germany and United Kingdom. When all juries had voted United Kingdom was in the lead ahead of Belgium, Finland, Canada and Sweden. But as we have seen several times before, the televote told a different story, favouring Finland ahead of Georgia, Canada, North Macedonia and Albania. When United Kingdom as the last country were to receive their points from the televote they needed 37 points to beat Finland. The televote rewarded the UK with 36 points (6th place) leading to a tie for first place. According to the rules, the winner was then the country scoring most points with the televote. Here Finland outscored the UK 57-36 and was crowned the winner. United Kingdom had to settle for the silver, while Canada took home the bronze. Belgium and Sweden rounded out the top five.
Finland has been part of the GM family ever since the very first edition and has done consistantly well over the years. They won their first medal in their 13th attempt in GM15, when Agnes took the silver. Another two medals followed with Johanna Kurkela and Anna Abreu both winning the bronze medal in GM25 and GM37 respectively, before Finland could finally lift the trophy in GM41, when Poets of the Fall finished on top. Another 2 medals for Jenni Vartiainen followed, before Finland had the first change of HoD. With a new captain Finland saw a string of top 10 results and came very close to a second victory twice, before Lovex claimed gold in GM92 at the hands of Finland's 3rd HoD. After this, Finland had strong results including 6 consecutive top 10 finishes, but after a while participations became less frequent and the HoD changed several times. GM133 resulted in another silver medal, but a few editions later Finland took a 27 edition break. Current HoD, David, came onboard in GM172 and has reached the top 10 three times and now brings the trophy back to Finland for the third time. This is his first victory in GM, despite having represented different countries throughout his several years in the contest. Well done Portion Boys, Finland and David!
The Winner
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Deadlines
May 16th / Voting in the semi finals
May 16th / Nominating an artist for Global Music Royalty
May 27th / Voting in the final and for Global Music Royalty
June 3rd / Submitting a song for the next edition of Global Music
May 16th / Nominating an artist for Global Music Royalty
May 27th / Voting in the final and for Global Music Royalty
June 3rd / Submitting a song for the next edition of Global Music
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
The Final
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Finland Portion Boys Kyläbaari 150 points |
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United Kingdom Steps Scared of the dark 150 points |
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Canada The Weeknd Save your tears 130 points |
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Belgium Mustii Blind 124 points |
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Sweden Smash Into Pieces My wildest dream 114 points |
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Georgia Yaseniya Lyubov-karusel 108 points |
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Germany Michael Schulte Stay 96 points |
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Chile Karla Grunewaldt Ni siquiera el dinero 86 points |
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North Macedonia Lozano Vardare 85 points |
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Albania Inis Neziri Pendesë 84 points |
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Spain Chica Sobresalto Fusíon del núcleo 82 points |
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South Korea Rosé On the ground 82 points |
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Italy Laura Pausini Io sì 80 points |
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Denmark Claudia Campagnol Abracadabra 80 points |
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Lebanon Hollaphonic feat. Xriss Jor Save me 79 points |
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Netherlands Tim Dawn Prove you wrong 79 points |
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Australia Delta Goodrem Billionaire 72 points |
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France Slimane & Vitaa Ca va ca vient 71 points |
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Portugal Karetus & Romeu Bairos Saudade 70 points |
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San Marino La Rappresentante di Lista Amare 69 points |
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China Lizzy Wang What you made 65 points |
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Liechtenstein Loi I follow 60 points |
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Israel Sarit Hadad & Offer Nissim Shufuni 55 points |
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Ireland The Vard Sisters Seol 54 points |
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Andorra Miki Núñez Sin noticias de gurb 41 points |
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Ukraine Gorim! Bih 38 points |
Semi Final One
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Belgium Mustii Blind 112 points |
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Finland Portion Boys Kyläbaari 112 points |
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Liechtenstein Loi I follow 90 points |
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Canada The Weeknd Save your tears 90 points |
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North Macedonia Lozano Vardare 86 points |
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Denmark Claudia Campagnol Abracadabra 82 points |
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Israel Sarit Hadad & Offer Nissim Shufuni 75 points |
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Australia Delta Goodrem Billionaire 74 points |
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Germany Michael Schulte Stay 74 points |
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Italy Laura Pausini Io sì 70 points |
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South Korea Rosé On the ground 70 points |
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Greece Afanis Iroas Apeira kena 58 points |
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Lithuania KaYra Alligator 54 points |
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Slovenia Amaya Goodbye 52 points |
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Serbia Sasa Kovacevic Moja Malena 49 points |
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United States Jason Chen Runner up 35 points |
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Austria Cesár Sampson Lazy suit 29 points |
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Japan Reol Phanto(me) 29 points |
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Norway Girl in Red Serotonin 25 points |
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Micronesia Ozeky A fatala 10 points |
Semi Final Two
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United Kingdom Steps Scared of the dark 146 points |
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Sweden Smash Into Pieces My wildest dream 92 points |
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Georgia Yaseniya Lyubov-karusel 91 points |
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Lebanon Hollaphonic feat. Xriss Jor Save me 90 points |
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Albania Inis Neziri Pendesë 87 points |
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China Lizzy Wang What you made 86 points |
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Chile Karla Grunewaldt Ni siquiera el dinero 82 points |
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San Marino La Rappresentante di Lista Amare 74 points |
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Netherlands Tim Dawn Prove you wrong 72 points |
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Andorra Miki Núñez Sin noticias de gurb 71 points |
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Monaco Amir feat. Indila Carrousel 66 points |
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Switzerland Shem Thomas Do it 58 points |
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Malta Ira Losco & Matthew James Tbissem 53 points |
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Nigeria Sam Smith feat. Burna Boy My oasis 46 points |
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Russia Manizha Mama 42 points |
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Bosnia-Herzegovina Zana Messia Battlefield 41 points |
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Turkey Hadise Olsun 41 points |
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Venezuela Georgina feat. Manuel Carrasco Cero 41 points |
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Iran BowLand Don't stop me 39 points |
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Brazil Luísa Sonza Boa menina 16 points |
