Pen Island in the Internatia Song Contest

Pen Island
Member station	PEEN
Participation summary
Appearances	71
First appearance	ISC 17
Best result	1st: ISC 25, ISC 83
Worst result	27th SF: ISC 66

Pen Island made their debut in the 17th edition of the Internatia Song Contest.

History

Katy Perry, first Penislandic participant in ISC

Pen Island made their debut in the 17th Edition of the Internatia Song Contest.

In ISC 17 Pen Island entered as debutants after surviving all the waiting in the Waiting List. They chose Katy Perry to represent Pen Island with her hit "Unconditionally". That guaranteed their debut qualification as they placed 7th in semi with 70 points and that was enough to make it. In the final Pen Island scored 94 points and reached 15th place.

The edition after, Pen Island held their first national final ever including "Nebo" by Max Barskih, which went to ISC next edition. The winner of national final was Faydee ft. Lazy-J and their song "Laugh 'Till You Cry". Unfortunately, Pen Island failed to qualify by placing 25th (second last) with just 11 points.

Pen Island held yet another national final for ISC 19 consisting just of 2 songs, and Jaymes Young's "Stardust" won the "duel". Pen Island was accused of being unfair because this country "voted in Semi Final 2 a lot of minutes after deadline" and qualified afterwards. Tjärsklanjska and Sockistan became outraged because of this unjustice because they failed to qualify to the final by just a couple of points. Had Pen Island been disqualified for not voting, Tjärsklanjska would've qualified instead.

Next edition, which was ISC 20, Pen Island sent Dawid Kwiatkowski with "Na Zawsze" and guaranteed the outrage of some countries because, as Ova Anova explained, it was just "trying to invent poor man's Bieber". This didn't made Penislandic result better - they placed 24th in the semi with just 18 points and failed to qualify.

For ISC 21 Pen Island sent James Arthur with "Recovery", which came close to qualify, but that didn't upset Penislandians much after it was revealed that Hanzyuki, who reached 12th place in semifinal 1 with just one point ahead Pen Island, gave Pen Island their 12 points.

For ISC 22 Pen Island sent Aram MP3 with "If I Tried". The song qualified but Pen Island reached bottom 3 placing in final. Next edition Adham Nabulsi and "Ossetna Kholset" went to represent Pen Island but unfortunately failed to vote. Had Pen Island voted, they'd either qualify or end up borderline and miss the final.

Pen Island sent Wyke van Weelden to ISC 24 with "World Of Blue" and almost qualified once again, but according to TV, this song qualified the whole time until last set of votes came in. The following edition The Pierces were sent for the 3rd time in ISC with "Kings" and made Pen Island proud because they won that edition, therefore ensuring best Penislandic result ever in ISC and allowing Pen Island to host Internatia Song Contest 27.

The Pierces, who represented Pen Island in ISC 25 and won

The edition before Pen Island's hosting saw fresh new star on the music scene - Kendji Girac - as Penislandic participant which had great chances to qualify with his new uptempo tune called "Color Gitano". Sadly, it did not qualify because PEEN failed to submit votes yet again.

Edition 27 saw a Pen Islandic hosting with some hiccups, but Pen Island managed to pull it off, the joy of hosting totally overshadowing the 26th place on home soil. The subsequent edition Pen Island failed to qualify to the grand final co-hosted by Chruno and Bubblique with Ayneed's cover of "Kiss Kiss".

Pen Island has seen very mixed results since, making the final on a few occasions, with Aminata's 9th place in ISC 36 as a highlight.

Results

Table key

  Winner   Second place   Third place   Last place   Disqualified   Jury qualifier   Did not compete

Edition	Artist	Song Title	Place	Points	Semi	Points
17th	Katy Perry	"Unconditionally"	15	94	7	70
18th	Faydee ft. Lazy J	"Laugh 'till You Cry"	Failed to qualify		25	11
19th	Jaymes Young	"Moondust"	12	108	10	58
20th	Dawid Kwiatkowski	"Na zawsze"	Failed to qualify		24	18
21st	James Arthur	"Recovery"	Failed to qualify		13	60
22nd	Aram Mp3	"If I Tried"	25	73	11	60
23rd	Adham Nabulsi	"Ossetna kholset"	Failed to qualify		25	47
24th	Wyke van Weelden	"World of Blue"	Failed to qualify		13	59
25th	The Pierces	"Kings"	1	172	6	88
26th	Kendji Girac	"Color Gitano"	Failed to qualify		25	63
27th	Emis Killa	"Soli (Assieme)"	26	54	Prequalified
28th	Ayneed	"Kiss Kiss"	Failed to qualify		24	32
29th	Cathedrals	"OOO AAA"	Failed to qualify		25	33
30th	Conchita Wurst	"Heroes"	17	108	8	66
31st	Moxiie	"Jilted"	Failed to qualify		20	36
32nd	Nora Jabri	"Berlin Wall"	23	85	12	54
33rd	Rok	"Find a Better Man"	Failed to qualify		13	58
34th	Maraaya	"Lovin' Me"	20	95	11	60
35th	Broiler ft. Anna Bergendahl	"For You"	Failed to qualify		21	42
36th	Aminata	"Land of Nibiru"	9	130	10	66
37th	Krum ft. Emanuela	"Skorpion"	Failed to qualify		24	33
38th	Leona Lewis	"I Am"	Failed to qualify		25	37
39th	Atiye	"Bring Me Back"	25	92	5	72
40th	Marina Kaye	"Dancing with the Devil"	24	83	12	58
41st	Shura	"White Light"	Failed to qualify		21	25
42nd	Xhesika Polo	"Fati jemi ne"	Failed to qualify		15	50
43rd	Janne	"Meeting the Wolf"	Failed to qualify		23	29
44th	MORTEN ft. Frida Sundemo	"Beautiful Heartbeat"	Failed to qualify		19	47
45th	Elliphant ft. Skrillex	"Spoon Me"	Failed to qualify		20	41
46th	Alex Vargas	"Shackled Up"	27	74	12	53
47th	Astrid S	"Paper Thin"	22	87	9	62
48th	LYRA	"Emerald"	Failed to qualify		13	57
49th	Dua Lipa	"Hotter Than Hell"	Failed to qualify		14	63
50th	Bloom Twins	"A M N E S I A"	23	78	12	58
51st	BOBI	"One Dance"	Failed to qualify		20	33
52nd	Ricky Martin ft. Maluma	"Vente Pa' Ca"	Failed to qualify		24	33
53rd	Monika Lewczuk	"Ty i ja"	Failed to qualify		15	54
54th	Imany ft. Filatov & Karas	"Don't Be So Shy"	7	143	8	70
55th	Lucia	"Making Me Go"	Failed to qualify		13	56
56th	Leah McFall	"Wolf Den"	Failed to qualify		21	45
57th	ERIA	"Ochi"	6	135	1	115
58th	Eugénie	"Puis danse"	Failed to qualify		16	56
59th	Ace Wilder	"Voodoo Amore"	Failed to qualify		26	31
60th	Levante	"Non me ne frega niente"	26	66	20	40
61st	Jiydesh Idirisova	"Kim bilet"	17	99	2	86
62nd	Skott	"Mermaid"	Failed to qualify		15	52
63rd	Eleni Foureira	"To kati pou exeis"	16	112	4	76
64th	NAVIBAND	"Biažy"	7	138	1	93
65th	Loïc Nottet	"Mud Blood"	Failed to qualify		17	49
66th	OG Maco	"U Guessed It"	Failed to qualify		27	11
67th	Jax Jones ft. Ina Wroldsen	"Breathe"	Failed to qualify		20	41
68th	Diogo Piçarra	"Dialeto"	Failed to qualify		18	41
69th	Emina ft. Milica	"Limunada"	Failed to qualify		18	45
70th	LUHA	"SHE"	Failed to qualify		20	47
71st	Ólafur Arnalds	"re:member"	7	133	4	75
72nd	KAZKA	"Sama"	Failed to qualify		14	54
73rd	Kasia Moś ft. Norma John	"Wild Eyes"	25	81	24	34
74th	Rosalía	"Pienso en tu mira"	Failed to qualify		18	47
75th	Maisey Rika	"Tangaroa Whakamautai"	19	106	4	85
76th	The Hardkiss	"Forever More"	Failed to Qualify		13	56
77th	Faouzia	"This Mountain"	Failed to Qualify		24	35
78th	Arilena Ara	"I'll Give You My Heart"	Failed to Qualify		14	45
79th	Echos	"1216"	22	97	8	64
80th	Fleur East	"Favourite Thing"	5	135	12	67
81st	Noa Kirel	"Drum"	Failed to Qualify		14	52
82nd	2WEI	"Toxic"	Failed to Qualify		25	20
83rd	AURORA	"The Seed"	1	179	2	102
84th	CLANN	"I Hold You"	Failed to Qualify		17	48
85th	Thegiornalisti	"Maradona y Pelé"	21	93	Prequalified
86th	SuperSonya	"Uhodi"	2	183	12	60
87th	Ellie Goulding ft. Juice WRLD	"Hate Me"	Failed to qualify		26	30
88th	Camila Cabello	"Shameless"	Failed to qualify		13	57
89th	Marco Mengoni	"Duemila volte"	25	70	5	79
90th	Bendik	"Perfekt"	27	80	12	58
91st	Duke Dumont	"Ocean Drive"	12	119	12	65
92nd	ONUKA	"Zenit"	8	136	2	97
93rd	The Pussycat Dolls	"React"	17	105	20	43
94th	Via Dacă	"Paparuda"	8	137	1	109
95th	Nathan Ball	"Borders"	Failed to Qualify		14	58
96th	Little Big	"Hypnodancer"	4	142	3	92
97th	BEHM	"Hei Rakas"	19	100	4	68
98th	Tuuletar	"Odotan"	Failed to Qualify		22	38
99th	Irina Rimes	"Nicaieri"	22	86	9	64