Irdminia in the Internatia Song Contest

Irdminia
Member station	ITVR
Participation summary
Appearances	38
First appearance	ISC 7
Last appearance	ISC 45
Best result	2nd: ISC 18, ISC 36, ISC 41
Worst result	26th SF: ISC 29

Irdminia made its debut at the Internatia Song Contest at ISC 7 in Lördsberg, San Monique and haven't missed any edition since then. Despite rather bad results, public interest is still high and the country is one of the most active one in terms of creating NF's and making an impact in regional press. After many unsuccesful attempts, Irdminia withdrew permanently from ISC after 45th edition, but decided to return to the Waiting List many months later and eventually came back to ISC at 86th edition.

History of Irdminia at the Interatia Song Contest

Internatia Song Contest 16-19

Following a series of rather mediocre results since it's debut and non-qualification of some of the biggest stars in the country, Irdminian broadcaster decided to create a special group of musicians and journalists to decide it's next entries and possible national finals. It paid off quickly, as Delerium - the representatives on the ISC 16 in Anselmsuusonia scored a great 7th place. The next group, Delain, scored even better, achieving a 6th place in the next edition held in Yazminia. However, the biggest success of a country came in the ISC 18 in Kosma, when early fan favourites to win - Sinine together with Sandra Nurmsalu performing the song "Sel Teel" - scored the 2nd place, loosing after a very tight race only to the winner, Kaledonii. After that, another top 10 result was achieved, this time in Pebbleland by Lilit Hovhannisyan. Now, because of the four top 10 results in a row, the interest about ISC in the country is massive again, even bigger than before.

Internatia Song Contest 20-24

After a non-qualification of LaFee in Kaledonii and a rather poor result achieved by Akira Yamaoka in Monteverde another strike of amazing results came. That includes two 4th places by "Nouveau Parfum" performed by Boggie in Beige and "Faster" by Within Temptation in Alexandria acquired in ISC 22 and ISC 23 consecutively. However a top 3 result was achieved by Oonagh with her song "Orome" in ISC 24 in Territrius, which scored 3rd place with 159, being second best result in the contest and the biggest amount of points received by Irdminia.

Internatia Song Contest 25-29

However, another line of bad and mediocre results came after that, as in ISC 25 held in Leshia, Kathleen Reiter with her ballad "Colourful" scored only 19th in the final and the next edition held in Chruno, a national star Ewelina Lisowska failed to qualify and actually scored the worst place to that date for Irdminia. This resulted in a dramatically low number of voters in a final, which was the main reason of not submitting Irdminian televotes in the ISC 26 grand final, but instead of that, points from the national jury were awarded. Next edition, Rocío Rivas qualified for the final in Pen Island and scored a decent 16th place. Probably the biggest dissapointment came in the 28th edition, when band maNga got 73 points and ended up on 24th place in the final, which is the worst final place Irdminia ever got - causing many discussions about potential Irdminian participation in the future. Even more opinions about Irdminian existence in the contest came out after achieving it's worst results ever at the ISC 29 in Kosma where Chylińsa with her song "Winna" scored only 30 points and came 2nd last in semi-final.

Contestants

Table key

  Winner

  Second place

  Third place

  Last place

  Disqualified

  Jury qualifier

  Did not compete

Edition	Host City	Artist	Title	Place	Points	Semi	Points
07th	Lördsberg	Schiller feat. Anggun	"Innocent Lies"	20	31	No semi finals
08th	Violetta	Kelly Sweet	"Ready for Love"	17	64	4	69
09th	Woodchester	Archive	"Bullets"	17	67	12	56
10th	Pixopolis	Elliot Minor	"Silently"	7	101	10	62
11th	Amor	Lidia Kopania	"Sleep"	13	74	5	71
12th	Platonia	Jenni Vartiainen	"Missä muruseni on"	14	100	2	105
13th	Siegeslinde	Hollywood Undead	"Outside"	Failed to qualify		14	45
14th	Lovendalen	Edyta Górniak	"Consequences"	16	90	9	58
15th	Tramandi	GloZell Green	"Cinnamon Tried to Kill Me"	Failed to qualify		13	57
16th	Pensa	Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan	"Silence"	7	111	9	62
17th	Liechgrado	Delain	"April Rain"	6	135	3	83
18th	Astrée	Sinine feat. Sandra Nurmsalu	"Sel teel"	2	155	7	70
19th	Rosetown	Lilit Hovhannisyan	"Requiem"	8	123	4	89
20th	Śānti	LaFee	"Ring frei"	Failed to qualify		16	50
21st	Stettino	Akira Yamaoka	"Room of Angel"	22	82	8	72
22nd	Tuscan City	Boggie	"Nouveau parfum"	4	139	3	108
23rd	Dalistra	Within Temptation	"Faster"	4	134	2	96
24th	Aquaticia	Oonagh	"Orome"	3	159	2	110
25th	Leshkent	Kathleen Reiter	"Colourful"	19	96	9	70
26th	Yottobán	Ewelina Lisowska	"We mgle"	Failed to qualify		21	42
27th	Lumturi	Rocío Rivas	"Las puertas del pasado"	16	111	8	79
28th	Costalis1	maNga	"Fly to Stay Alive"	24	73	2	89
29th	Pallas	Chylińska	"Winna"	Failed to qualify		26	30
30th	Bulle	Stina Girs	"Mä tahdon tietää mitä rakkaus on"	11	119	7	64
31st	Sanggumdang	Lorde	"Yellow Flicker Beat"	8	118	3	83
32nd	Ljuvdam	Billy Boyd	"The Last Goodbye"	Failed to qualify		20	42
33rd	Dramaskus	Kas Dunn	"I No You"	24	82	21	38
34th	Ción	Eluveitie	"The Call of the Mountains"	3	156	3	94
35th	Madakia	Amy Macdonald	"Don't Tell Me That It's Over"	18	98	4	84
36th	Tlahuilco	The Veronicas	"Lolita"	2	155	2	91
37th	Esonáth	SVĒ	"Riot"	Failed to qualify		14	52
38th	Ithist	M83 feat. HAIM	"Holes in the Sky"	14	106	1	93
39th	Ithist	Niyaz	"Mazaar"	Failed to qualify		21	36
40th	Capucarnaisa	Margaret Berger	"Scream"	19	107	6	76
41st	Nolvena	Black M	"On s'fait du mal"	2	175	2	102
42nd	Baus-Ia	Digital Daggers	"Still Here"	15	113	15	49
Did not participate in ISC 43
44th	Lovendalen	Loreen	"Under ytan"	7	143	4	81
45th	Kinzeropolis	Kristina Maria	"FML x2"	Failed to qualify		15	56
Did not participate from ISC 46 to ISC 85
86th	New Pixopolis	zalagasper	"Come to Me"	9	132	3	102
87th	Vorobiesheck	SOFI TUKKER	"Swing"	27	61	11	62
88th	Slag	SVRCINA	"Meet Me on the Battlefield"	Failed to qualify		15	52
89th	Nék Menage	Natalia Nykiel	"Kokosanki"	24	87	6	78
90th	Stockhagen Helviklo	Malú	"Ciudad De Papel"	5	142	3	83
91st	Marimea	Olya Polyakova	"Ночная Жрица (Nochnaya Zhritsa)"	24	92	25	29
92nd	Kina	Crywolf	"Anachronism"
93rd	TBU	Go_A	"Рано-Pаненько (Rano-Ranenʹko)"

¹ The 28th edition was co-hosted by Bubblique with semi-final 1 being held in Burbuja, Bubblique.

Gallery

Artists representing Irdminia in the Internatia Song Contest

Schiller & Anggun. Schiller & Anggun.   Kelly Sweet. Kelly Sweet.   Archive. Archive.   Elliot Minor. Elliot Minor.   Lidia Kopania. Lidia Kopania.   Jenni Vartiainen. Jenni Vartiainen.   Hollywood Undead. Hollywood Undead.   Edyta Górniak. Edyta Górniak.   GloZell Green. GloZell Green.   Delerium. Delerium.   Delain. Delain.   Sinine & Sandra Nurmsalu. Sinine & Sandra Nurmsalu.   Lilit Hovhannisyan. Lilit Hovhannisyan.   LaFee. LaFee.   Akira Yamaoka. Akira Yamaoka.   Boggie. Boggie.   Within Temptation. Within Temptation.   Oonagh. Oonagh.   Kathleen Reiter. Kathleen Reiter.   Ewelina Lisowska. Ewelina Lisowska.   Rocío Rivas. Rocío Rivas.   maNga. maNga.   Agnieszka Chylińska. Agnieszka Chylińska.   Stina Girs. Stina Girs.   Lorde. Lorde.   Billy Boyd. Billy Boyd.   Kas Dunn. Kas Dunn.   Eluveitie. Eluveitie.   Amy Macdonald. Amy Macdonald.   The Veronicas. The Veronicas.   SVĒ. SVĒ.   M83 & HAIM. M83 & HAIM.   Niyaz. Niyaz.   Margaret Berger. Margaret Berger.   Black M. Black M.   Digital Daggers. Digital Daggers.   Loreen. Loreen.   Kristina Maria. Kristina Maria.   zalagasper. zalagasper.   SOFI TUKKER. SOFI TUKKER.   SVRCINA. SVRCINA.   Natalia Nykiel. Natalia Nykiel.   Malú. Malú.   Olya Polyakova. Olya Polyakova.   Crywolf. Crywolf.   Go_A. Go_A.

Voting History

As of 91st edition, Irdminia's voting history is as follows:

Most points given in the grand finals only
Rank	Country	Points
1	Sunetti	122
2	Zephyrus	108
3	Aonach	94
4	Lost Islands	86
5	Ova Anova	83
6	Saint Eva & Lepland	66
7	Lacrea	61
8	Grolskira	59
9	Chruno	58
	Tikata	58

Most points received in the grand finals only
Rank	Country	Points
1	Saint Eva & Lepland	154
2	Aonach	128
3	Lost Islands	124
4	Alma Livre	122
5	Amsteris	96
	Monteverde	96
	Pen Island	96
8	Nicolas' Neighbour	87
9	Tashkveny	86
10	Kaledonii	79

Most points given in the semis and finals
Rank	Country	Points
1	Sunetti	305
2	Aonach	269
3	Zephyrus	256
4	Lost Islands	234
5	Ova Anova	233
6	Edoriada	200
7	Grolskira	170
8	Saint Eva & Lepland	161
9	Tikata	160
10	Amsteris	158

Most points received in the semis and finals
Rank	Country	Points
1	Saint Eva & Lepland	321
2	Lost Islands	264
3	Aonach	262
4	Amsteris	223
5	Alma Livre	222
6	Nicolas' Neighbour	196
7	H Kim Jong Il's AD Hangug	191
	Lacrea	191
9	Tikata	182
10	Monteverde	176

NOTE1: The totals in the above "semis and finals" tables include points in the International Juries and Waitilng List Juries, except ISC 22. NOTE2: Received and given points from Novatlantida and Alma Livre are counted together as one set and are shown in the tables under a name Alma Livre. NOTE3: The totals in the above tables does not include points from the time, when Irdminia voted as part of Waiting List.

12 Points

Table key

     Winner – Irdminia gave 12 points to a winning song / Irdminia won the contest.

     Second place – Irdminia gave 12 points to a runner-up song / Irdminia was runner-up in the contest.

     Third place – Irdminia gave 12 points to a third place song / Irdminia came third in the contest.

     Qualified – Irdminia gave 12 points to a song that qualified to the Grand Finals / Irdminia qualified to the Grand Finals.

     Jury Qualifier – Irdminia gave 12 points to a song that qualified to the Grand Finals thanks to International Jury / Irdminia qualified to the Grand Finals thanks to International Jury.

     Non-qualified – Irdminia gave 12 points to a song that did not qualify to the Grand Finals / Irdminia did not qualify to the Grand Finals.

Italics – Irdminia voted as part of the International Jury.

12 points Table
Edition	Given			Received
	Final	Semi 1	Semi 2	Final	Semi
ISC 7	Saint Eva & Lepland	No semi finals		Novatlantida	No semi finals
ISC 8	Novatlantida	Not awarded	Novatlantida	Oalia Saint Eva & Lepland	Irlandia Novatlantida Oalia Saint Eva & Lepland
ISC 9	Yazminia	Not awarded	Yazminia	Lacrea Mukaltin	Lacrea
ISC 10	Dulcet Ebullience	Dulcet Ebullience	Kwonia	San Remo	San Remo
ISC 11	Lacrea	Lacrea	Lost Islands	DPR Jindalea Dulcet Ebullience	None
ISC 12	Alexandria	Alexandria	Volnytaria	None	San Remo Spitzenbergen Territrius
ISC 13	Edoriada	DimkaRUS	Edoriada	Did not qualify	None
ISC 14	Volnytaria	Volnytaria	Monteverde	None	None
ISC 15	Fierce	Angellandia	Fierce	Did not qualify	H Kim Jong Il's AD Hangug
ISC 16	Edoriada	Fierce	Edoriada	None	None
ISC 17	Anselmsuusonia	Novatlantida	Anselmsuusonia	Aonach Haven Keohretcha	Haven Lost Islands Novatlantida
ISC 18	Stylé	Stylé	Lost Islands	Aonach Spitzenbergen	None
ISC 19	Tonallán	Aonach	Tonallán	Lost Islands San Remo	Anselmsuusonia Fierce San Remo
ISC 20	Spitzenbergen	Chruno	Lost Islands	Did not qualify	Rata Sum
ISC 21	Zephyrus	Tikata	Zephyrus	None	None
ISC 22	Sunetti	Grolskira	Ova Anova	Amsteris Saint Eva & Lepland	Amsteris
ISC 23	Alexandria	Tashkveny	Spirevo	Edoriada Keohretcha	Keohretcha Porielana
ISC 24	Lacrea	Yazminia	Kaledonii	Bubblique Yutuland	Alexandria Yutuland
ISC 25	Kaeros Islands	Bubblique	Kaeros Islands	Pen Island	DPR Jindalea
ISC 26	Chruno	Nicolas' Neigbour	Alteus	Did not qualify	None
ISC 27	Leshia	Leshia	Aonach	Amsteris Pen Island Saint Eva & Lepland	DimkaRUS
ISC 28	Tikata	Tikata	Zephyrus	Lost Islands	Alexandria Yazminia
ISC 29	Lost Islands	Lost Islands	Alteus	Did not qualify	H Kim Jong Il's AD Hangug
ISC 30	Ova Anova	Ova Anova	Valdron	Saint Eva & Lepland	None
ISC 31	Tashkveny	Tashkveny	Nicolas' Neighbour	Alexandria Kaeros Islands	Alexandria Evergreen Lands Kaeros Islands
ISC 32	Leshia	Tjärsklanjska	Edoriada	Did not qualify	Territrius
ISC 33	Aonach	Porielana	Nicolas' Neighbour	Lacrea Men̈́sa Tjärsklanjska Valdron	Lost Islands
ISC 34	Lacrea	Spitzenbergen	Sunetti	Lost Islands	Aonach Dulcet Ebullience Yazminia
ISC 35	Zephyrus	Pebbleland	Zephyrus	Nicolas' Neighbour	Alexandria Edoriada
ISC 36	Pen Island	Kaeros Islands	Pen Island	Chruno	None
ISC 37	Grolskira	Grolskira	Amsteris	Did not qualify	None
ISC 38	Sunetti	Porielana	Sunetti	None	Tashkveny
ISC 39	Kaledonii	Kaledonii	Monteverde	Did not qualify	None
ISC 40	Noxus	Ova Anova	Sunetti	Monteverde Pebbleland	Pebbleland
ISC 41	Zephyrus	Auspikitan	Zephyrus	Amsteris Ova Anova Sunetti Zephyrus	Gandhara Ova Anova
ISC 42	Háttųka	Zephyrus	Saint Eva & Lepland	Alma Livre	Alma Livre Ponásikwa
Did not participate in ISC 43
ISC 44	Hanzyuki	Porielana	Hanzyuki	Monteverde Pebbleland Pen Island Ruthsina Thorway Waiting List	Kaledonii Lacrea Pebbleland
ISC 45	Auspikitan	Chruno	Auspikitan	Did not qualify	None
Did not participate from ISC 46 to ISC 85
ISC 86	Bubblique	Pen Island	Bubblique	Saónas Fe Pier Waiting List	Saónas Fe Pier Sunetti
ISC 87	Saint Eva & Lepland	Limnoupolitana	Saint Eva & Lepland	Sunetti	Noxus Sunetti
ISC 88	Sunetti	Sunetti	Territrius	Did not qualify	None
ISC 89	Noxus	Noxus	Mărium	Tashkveny	Ova Anova Tashkveny
ISC 90	Zephyrus	Zephyrus	Limnoupolitana	Caprika Pinnipedia Tikata	Pen Island Pinnipedia Tonallán
ISC 91	Amsteris	Faĺvarak	Zephyrus	Tashkveny	None

Voting Similarities

Highest similarity:
Edition	Nation	%
17th	Aonach	71
18th	Saint Eva & Lepland	64
19th	Tonallán	62
20th	Lost Islands	77
21st	Saint Eva & Lepland	58
22nd	Lost Islands	75
23rd	Saint Eva & Lepland	75
24th	Yutuland	60
25th	Aonach	79
26th	Stylé	62
27th	Leshia	65
28th	Lost Islands	54
29th	Lost Islands	64
30th	Ova Anova	64
31st	Alexandria	58
32nd	Dulcet Ebullience	63
33rd	Saint Eva & Lepland	60
34th	Lost Islands	58
35th	Nicolas' Neighbour	73
36th	Amsteris	58
37th	Sanlyona	75
38th	Porielana	62
39th	Keohretcha	74
40th	Tashkveny	56
41st	Ova Anova	65
42nd	Lacrea	65
86th	Lost Islands	66

Lowest similarity:
Edition	Nation	%
17th	Eriod	2
18th	Sockistan	6
19th	Eriod	0
20th	Eriod, Sockistan, Tjärsklanjska	9
21st	Anselmsuusonia, Tjärsklanjska	0
22nd	Luzze	2
23rd	Evergreen Lands Rata Sum	2
24th	Eriod, Sockistan	2
25th	Pebbleland	4
26th	Kaministiquia	0
27th	Tjärsklanjska	5
28th	Territrius	1
29th	Kaledonii, Spitzenbergen	4
30th	Huania	2
31st	Ruthsina	3
32nd	Alteus	2
33rd	Alexandria, Háttųka	2
34th	Valdron	3
35th	Tonallán	1
36th	Eriod	2
37th	Eriod	2
38th	Grolskira, RC Laranjeiras	7
39th	Pen Island, Tjärsklanjska	2
40th	Chruno, Valdron	4
41st	Leshia	4
42nd	Edoriada	6
86th	Valdron	2

ISCC

Edition	Host City	Artist	Title	Place	Points
01st	Surme	India Arie	"Ready for Love"	8	45
02nd	Perla	Hollywood Undead	"Circles"	14	42
03rd	Palma	LaFee	"Mitternacht"	3	81
04th	Saimanabad	Alexandra Stan	"Lemonade"	7	68
05th	Zbąszynek	Ross Copperman	"If I"	3	73
06th	Öö	Uniqplan	"Wilderness"	2	87
07th	Prima	Ladytron	"Destroy Everything You Touch"	11	45
08th	Sonâtaf	LaFee	"Virus"	10	53
09th	Dilmoff	Jeremy Soule	"Dragonborn"	1	89
10th	Nchunz	Within Temptation	"Our Solemn Hour"	1	79
11th	Láirge	The Birthday Massacre	"Midnight"	4	72
12th	Woodchester	Triinu Kivilaan	"Fallen"	5	71
13th	Partido	Indica	"Vuorien taa"	4	75
14th	Samhraidh	Kavinsky	"Nightcall"	12	52
15th	Valenetta	Miley Cyrus	"Who Owns My Heart"	8	49
16th	Madevra	Kerli	"Scar Tissue"	1	86
17th	Rakvaarja	Flipsyde	"When It Was Good"	6	61
18th	Nineveh	Bjørnskov	"Lysår"	4	68
19th	Gheimhridh	Leah	"Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep"	1	82
20th	Tyköön	Isis Gee	"Hidden Treasure"	5	72
21st	Endehó	Woodkid feat. Lykke Li	"Never Let You Down"	18	49
22nd	Mariapolo	All Time Low	"Time-Bomb"	1	75
23rd	Uiniiai	Jane Zhang feat. Big Sean	"Fighting Shadows"	9	57
24th	Manas	Young Guns	"Rising Up"	10	51
25th	Rhea	Honey	"No One"	15	34
26th	Cundere Sul	Amelia Lily	"Shut Up (And Give Me Whatever You Got)"	6	60
27th	Rue	B2B	"Leave the Cradle"	18	38
Did not participate from ISCC 28 to ISCC 46
47th	Turzy	Jorja Smith ft. Stormzy	"Let Me Down"	8	48
48th	Surme	Dawid Podsiadło	"Najnowszy Klip"	12	41

ISC -1

Edition	Host City	Artist	Title	Place	Points
01st	Skårsvik	Did not participate
02nd	Nakatonka	Blondie	"Call Me"	1	120
03rd	Kag Renzel	Boney M.	"Rasputin"	1	127
04th	Mzelft	Amanda Lear	"Enigma (Give a Bit of hmm to Me)"	12	58
05th	Invertulloch	Amy Irving	"Why Don't You Do It Right?"	13	48
06th	Llanfairngultrumlocus	The Boston Pops Orchestra	"Tara's Theme"	2	90
07th	Bonaventure	Bananarama	"Cruel Summer"	4	68
08th	Ašra	Shirley Bassey	"Diamonds Are Forever"	2	74
09th	Cercela	Toto	"Africa"	1	102
10th	Arminvik	Bee Gees	"Stayin' Alive"	16	39
11th	Laomainn	Nancy Sinatra	"These Boots Are Made for Walkin’"	3	74
12th	Montrose	Corona	"Baby Baby"	4	79
13th	ʔə	ATB	"Ecstasy"	14	46
14th	Huttiheita	The Chordettes	"Mr. Sandman"	5	69
15th	Nakatonka	Donna Summer	"Hot Stuff"	1	99
16th	Termina	Sam Brown	"Stop!"	8	55
17th	Jokkmokk	Nightwish	"Moondance"	2	99