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Revision as of 17:45, 26 May 2013
| Internatia Song Contest | |
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Official logo of Internatia Song Contest since 12th edition | |
| Genre | Song contest |
| Country of origin | List of countries |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | List of host cities |
| Running time | 2 hours |
| Production company(s) | IBU |
| Distributor | Internatia |
| Broadcast | |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original run | 4 December 2011 – present |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
The Internatia Song Contest is an annual singing competition held among many of the active member countries of the Internatia Broadcasting Union (IBU).
Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and radio and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition. The Contest has been broadcast every edition since its inauguration in 2011. It is also one of the most watched non-sporting events in the Internatia.
Format
The format of the Contest has changed over the editions, though the basic tenets have always been thus: participant countries submit songs, which are performed live in a television programme transmitted across the Internatia Network by the IBU simultaneously to all countries. A "country" as a participant is represented by one television broadcaster from that country: typically, but not always, that country's national public broadcasting organisation. The programme is hosted by one of the participant countries, and the transmission is sent from the auditorium in the host city. During this programme, after all the songs have been performed, the countries then proceed to cast votes for the other countries' songs: nations are not allowed to vote for their own song. At the end of the programme, the winner is declared as the song with the most points. The winner receives, simply, the prestige of having won, and the winning country is invited to host the second next edition.
The programme is invariably opened by one or more presenters, welcoming viewers to the show. Most host countries choose to capitalise on the opportunity afforded them by hosting a programme with such a wide-ranging international audience, and it is common to see the presentation interspersed with video footage of scenes from the host nation, as if advertising for tourism. Between the songs and the announcement of the voting, an interval act is performed. These acts can be any form of entertainment imaginable.
As national broadcasters join and leave the IBU feed, the IBU/Internatia logo is displayed.
Participants
59 countries have participated at least once. These are listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:
| Edition | Country making its début entry |
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Winners
| Edition | Country | Performer | Song | Points | Margin | Runner-up | Date | Host city | Participants |
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| 1st | Katzenjammer | "Hey, Ho (On the Devil's Back)" | 44 | 4 | 4 December 2011 | 8 | |||
| 2nd | Nina Zilli | "Per Le Strade" | 93 | 7 | 18 September 2012 | 24 | |||
| 3rd | Alan Dawa Dolma | "Kuon No Kawa" | 101 | 9 | 13 October 2012 | 23 | |||
| 4th | NOX | "Szeretem" | 104 | 17 | 4 November 2012 | 21 | |||
| 5th | Of Monsters & Men | "Little Talks" | 120 | 18 | 26 November 2012 | 19 | |||
| 6th | Magazin | "Sijamski blizanci" | 87 | 8 | 16 December 2012 | 23 | |||
| 7th | Kristina | "Life is a Game" | 128 | 24 | 16 January 2013 | 26 | |||
| 8th | The Bird and the Bee | "Love Letter to Japan" | 177 | 42 | 14 February 2013 | 35 | |||
| 9th | Two Steps From Hell | "Archangel" | 133 | 3 | 23 March 2013 | 43 | |||
| 10th | Luar Na Lubre | "Romeiro Ao Lonxe" | 143 | 14 | 15 May 2013 | 47 | |||
| 11th | May 2013 | 43 | |||||||
| 12th | June 2013 |
By country

| Wins | Country | Editions |
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| 2 | 3rd, 4th | |
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Top ranking countries
