Irdminia made its debut at the Internatia Song Contest at ISC 7 in Lördsberg, San Monique. 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.
Ofenbach feat. Ella Henderson.
PVRIS.
Apashe & Alina Pash.
Spice Girls.
Night Club.
Nelly Furtado.
S10.
Lawless.
Junior Caldera & Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
RAYE.
Roxen.
Voting History
As of 123rd edition, Irdminia's voting history is as follows:
Table key
Italics – The country as of now is not part of the main Roster.
Most points given in the grand finals only
Rank
Country
Points
1
Sunetti
197
2
Zephyrus
151
3
Amsteris
123
4
Grolskira
122
5
Ladoga
119
6
Ova Anova
118
7
Tonallán
112
8
Tikata
102
9
Saint Eva & Lepland
101
Territrius
101
Most points received in the grand finals only
Rank
Country
Points
1
Tikata
190
2
Faĺvarak
181
3
Saint Eva & Lepland
180
4
Alma Livre
160
5
Kaledonii
151
6
Nicolas' Neighbour
148
7
Luzze
146
8
Aonach
141
9
Pen Island
140
10
Tashkveny
139
Most points given in the semis and finals
Rank
Country
Points
1
Sunetti
523
2
Amsteris
341
3
Zephyrus
337
4
Grolskira
323
5
Ova Anova
320
6
Kaledonii
310
7
Aonach
288
8
Territrius
284
9
Tikata
283
10
Lacrea
281
Most points received in the semis and finals
Rank
Country
Points
1
Tikata
366
2
Saint Eva & Lepland
365
3
Aonach
301
4
Luzze
299
5
Lacrea
296
6
Nicolas' Neighbour
295
7
Faĺvarak
289
8
Lost Islands
285
9
Amsteris
284
10
Kaledonii
273
Sunetti
273
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.