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.
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.
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.
Kelly Sweet.
Archive.
Elliot Minor.
Lidia Kopania.
Jenni Vartiainen.
Hollywood Undead.
Edyta Górniak.
GloZell Green.
Delerium.
Delain.
Sinine & Sandra Nurmsalu.
Lilit Hovhannisyan.
LaFee.
Akira Yamaoka.
Boggie.
Within Temptation.
Oonagh.
Kathleen Reiter.
Ewelina Lisowska.
Rocío Rivas.
maNga.
Agnieszka Chylińska.
Stina Girs.
Lorde.
Billy Boyd.
Kas Dunn.
Eluveitie.
Amy Macdonald.
The Veronicas.
SVĒ.
M83 & HAIM.
Niyaz.
Margaret Berger.
Black M.
Digital Daggers.
Loreen.
Kristina Maria.
zalagasper.
SOFI TUKKER.
SVRCINA.
Natalia Nykiel.
Malú.
Olya Polyakova.
Crywolf.
Go_A.
SHANGUY.
John Murphy.
Bonobo & Nick Murphy
Eiko Shimamiya.
Amelia Lily.
Quallm.
Evanescence.
Ibeyi.
Eivør.
Girls Aloud.
Billie Eilish & Khalid.
The Dumplings.
NK.
Doja Cat.
EMPiRE.
Anastacia.
Daria Zawiałow.
AURORA.
Blackbriar.
Voting History
As of 110th edition, Irdminia's voting history is as follows:
Most points given in the grand finals only
Rank
Country
Points
1
Sunetti
166
2
Zephyrus
136
3
Ova Anova
115
4
Grolskira
110
5
Amsteris
107
6
Aonach
98
7
Lost Islands
96
8
Ladoga
92
9
Territrius
90
10
Saint Eva & Lepland
89
Most points received in the grand finals only
Rank
Country
Points
1
Saint Eva & Lepland
160
2
Aonach
141
3
Lost Islands
138
4
Alma Livre
134
5
Amsteris
126
6
Tikata
124
7
Pen Island
123
8
Tashkveny
122
9
Luzze
120
10
Faĺvarak
117
Most points given in the semis and finals
Rank
Country
Points
1
Sunetti
453
2
Ova Anova
315
3
Grolskira
303
4
Zephyrus
296
5
Amsteris
294
6
Aonach
288
7
Lost Islands
254
8
Territrius
251
9
Kaledonii
240
10
Tonallán
228
Most points received in the semis and finals
Rank
Country
Points
1
Saint Eva & Lepland
343
2
Aonach
301
3
Lost Islands
285
4
Tikata
282
5
Lacrea
281
6
Amsteris
269
7
Luzze
265
8
Sunetti
253
9
Alma Livre
245
10
Nicolas' Neighbour
225
NOTE1: 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.
NOTE2: 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.