Valdron in the Internatia Song Contest

Valdron
Member station	TCSV
Participation summary
Appearances	124 (as of 10/9/2024)
First appearance	ISC 23
Best result	2nd ISC 63, ISC 127
Worst result	26th (SF) ISC 65, ISC 104

Valdron made their debut in the 23rd edition of the Internatia Song Contest - which was held in Dalistra, Alexandria - alongside Bubblique and Huania. The nation has entered the contest on 102 occasions and continues to participate to this day, placing it 19th in the current roster in terms of participations. It has participated in every edition since its debut, except from the 36th and 66th editions. Valdron has a generally good voting record, though it has been disqualified in the semi-finals for invalid or non-existent votes on three occasions.

Upon its debut in 2014, Valdron's entries were largely conventional in terms of genre and sonic palette, though showed a limited degree of versatility within the realms of pop music. Soon after returning from its withdrawal in the 36th edition, Valdronian entries began to gradually shift further left-of-field, though the nation was still more comfortable in the field of pop. This less palatable approach to its entries has continued to develop throughout the nation's contest history, and Valdron has thus been recognised by numerous nations as having carved an individual, distinct sound for itself. In more recent editions Valdron has embraced experimentalism not only in some of its entries themselves, but also in song choice, at times vaulting from predominantly inaccessible genres to conventional pop songs in the space of merely an edition. Linguistically, the majority of Valdron's entries are performed in English though they have also sent songs in numerous world languages as well as a few instrumental compositions.

In terms of success, Valdron is currently one of the oldest participating nations to have not won the contest, behind Eriod and Spitzenbergen, and is statistically the most successful nation still participating without a win. Despite not winning, it has hosted the contest on one occasion - the 102nd edition - after the top two of the 100th edition turned down hosting rights. Since its debut, Valdron waited three years to record a podium result, eventually coming 2nd in the 63rd edition which is the nation's best result alongside a later 2nd place in the 127th edition. The nation has finished in the top five 9 times, the top ten 23 times - corresponding with around a fifth of its total participations - and the upper half of the final in over half of its final appearances. Valdron's qualification rate is roughly 50%, and has maintained this rate throughout much of its contest history.

Valdron has been placed in Pot 1 since the 25th edition, after initially being in Pot 2 the edition before, and has not moved pot since. For much of its early history, Valdron was a marginal Pot 1 member due to its voting patterns being more friendly to pop entries, as well as largely adhering to the genre itself. However, Valdron has since grown to become not only synonymous with Pot 1, but a secure and staple member of the pot as Valdron's entries became staunchly unconventional, likewise with their votes.

Participants & Results

Table key

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

Edition	Artist	Song Title	Genre	Language	Place	Points	Semi	Points
23rd	Anna McLuckie	Little Man on the Moon	Chamber pop	English	26	69	12	45
24th	Bat for Lashes	Daniel	Art pop	English	Failed to qualify		16	50
25th	Iveta Mukuchyan	Target	Pop rock	English			21	34
26th	The Gaslamp Killer	Nissim	Hip hop	Instrumental			19	36
27th	Nena	99 Luftballons	Neue Deutsche Welle	German			17	43
28th	Lindsey Stirling	Crystallize	Classical dubstep	Instrumental	15	109	7	78
29th	Ace of Base	All That She Wants	Pop	English	Failed to qualify		19	43
30th	Greta Salóme	In the Silence	Pop	English			14	56
31st	Enya	Orinoco Flow	New age	English	5	129	6	77
32nd	Secret Garden	Sleepsong	New age	English	12	112	7	66
33rd	Helene Bøksle	Mot søvn	Folk pop	Norwegian	Failed to qualify		19	40
34th	Sandra van Nieuwland	Hunter	Pop	English	7	138	2	89
35th	Zaz	Si	Chamber pop	French	Failed to qualify		18	48
36th	Did Not Compete
37th	Latifa Soyuoz	Hədəf	Symphonic metal	Azerbaijani	10	136	10	75
38th	Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà	Experience	Classical	Instrumental	6	140	10	58
39th	Narsilion	Montserrat	Neofolk	Catalan	14	110	4	86
40th	Rebekka Karijord	The Noble Art of Letting Go	Chamber pop	English	Failed to qualify		24	33
41st	Emma Shapplin	L'absolu	Operatic pop	French			25	73
42nd	Emel Mathlouthi	Kelmti horra	Arabic pop	Arabic			21	32
43rd	Enya	Isobella	New age	Irish			23	30
44th	Bat for Lashes	The Haunted Man	Art pop	English			23	35
45th	Lambert	Finally	Modern classical	Instrumental			21	33
46th	Efterklang	Dreams Today	Art pop	English			25	27
47th	Illuminine ft. I will, I swear	Armor	Ambient pop	English			23	38
48th	Camila Moreno	Tu mamá te mató	Art pop	Spanish	12	113	17	55
49th	Ed Harcourt	The Saddest Orchestra (It Only Plays for You)	Chamber pop	English	6	142	6	77
50th	Narsilion	El retorn a la infantesa	Neofolk	Catalan	Failed to qualify		15	46
51st	Mélanie Laurent	En t'attendant	Chamber pop	French	12	119	11	61
52nd	Young Magic	Lucien	Art pop	English	20	93	12	59
53rd	Exitmusic	Passage	Dream pop	English	7	133	9	75
54th	Rökkurró	Svanur	Chamber folk	Icelandic	11	127	5	93
55th	Kitaro & Jane Zhang	Impressions of the West Lake	New age	Mandarin	7	138	2	103
56th	Keren Ann	Strange Weather	Art pop	English	Failed to qualify		15	50
57th	Lisbonne Télégramme	Miroirs d'automne	Chamber folk	French			24	24
58th	Emma Louise	17 Hours	Art pop	English	8	141	3	94
59th	Camille	Fontaine de lait	Art pop	French	13	120	5	84
60th	Kishi Bashi	In Fantasia	Art pop	English, Japanese	5	141	6	81
61st	Eve Ai	Waterfall	Pop	Mandarin	27	72	11	57
62nd	Jordan Klassen	No Salesman	Indie folk	English	14	104	10	63
63rd	Myrkur	Ulvinde	Black metal	Danish	2	159	5	74
64th	Chelsea Wolfe	Flatlands	Chamber folk	English	Failed to qualify		17	54
65th	Beach House	Myth	Dream pop	English			26	65
66th	Did Not Compete
67th	Cocteau Twins	Blue Bell Knoll	Dream pop	Imaginary	3	170	15	51
68th	Lights On Moscow	Lord, Let Me Know	Dream pop	English	Failed to qualify		19	43
69th	Beach House	Space Song	Dream pop	English			16	52
70th	Anna von Hausswolff	The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra	Experimental rock	English	21	93	8	63
71st	Jun Miyake ft. Bruno Capinan	Pontual	Dark jazz	Portuguese	13	121	15	53
72nd	Frightened Rabbit	I Wish I Was Sober	Indie rock	English	27	81	9	74
73rd	Faye Wong	Divide (分裂)	Dream pop	Mandarin	Failed to qualify		23	37
74th	Marissa Nadler	Hungry Is the Ghost	Shoegaze	English			19	44
75th	Slowdive	Everyone Knows	Shoegaze	English	26	73	23	24
76th	Thom Yorke	Suspirium	Chamber pop	English	6	152	3	90
77th	Blood Orange	Charcoal Baby	Contemporary R&B	English	Failed to qualify		19	40
78th	Fishmans	ゆらめき in the Air (98.12.28)	Progressive pop	Japanese, English			24	35
79th	Feu! Chatterton	L'ivresse	Nouvelle chanson	French			20	51
80th	Amália Rodrigues	Cansaço	Fado	Portuguese			20	44
81st	Jessie Ware	Adore You	Deep house	English	14	115	4	81
82nd	Tamaryn	Love Fade	Shoegaze	English	12	123	6	79
83rd	Weyes Blood	Movies	Progressive pop	English	16	106	9	70
84th	Andrea Laszlo De Simone	Sogno l'amore	Canzone d'autore	Italian	Failed to qualify		14	52
85th	Helena Deland	Claudion	Dream pop	English	13	111	5	76
86th	Gustavo Cerati	Tabú	Art rock	Spanish	15	111	8	70
87th	Ex:Re	Romance	Art pop	English	Failed to qualify		15	58
88th	Perfume Genius	Eye in the Wall	Neo-psychedelia	English	16	113	10	63
89th	Naiwen Yang	Repentance	Art pop	Mandarin	Failed to qualify		18	51
90th	Tennis	Runner	Dream pop	English			13	62
91st	Basia Bulat	Your Girl	Indie pop	English			18	45
92nd	For Tracy Hyde	Sakura no Sono (櫻の園)	Shoegaze	Japanese			16	51
93rd	Eefje de Visser	Bitterzoet	Art pop	Dutch	8	130	1	99
94th	Yves Tumor ft. Diana Gordon	Kerosene!	Art rock	English	Failed to qualify		17	46
95th	I Break Horses	The Prophet	Synthpop	English	10	129	8	65
96th	Maria del Mar Bonet	Les illes	Nova cançó	Catalan	14	116	12	63
97th	Letrux	Déjà-vu frenesi	Pop rock	Portuguese	21	99	12	62
98th	Susumu Hirasawa	TOWN-0 PHASE-5	Electro-industrial	Japanese	21	96	9	75
99th	Julia Holter	Finale	Ambient	English	15	110	12	60
100th	L'Ham de Foc	Lluna d'algeps	Sephardic folk	Catalan	3	161	1	100
101st	Eartheater	Volcano	Art pop	English	Failed to qualify		24	34
102nd	Angel Olsen	Lark	Art pop	English	22	96	Host country
103rd	Rihanna	Kiss It Better	Alternative R&B	English	Failed to qualify		21	41
104th	Chelsea Wolfe & Emma Ruth Rundle	Anhedonia	Dark folk	English			26	83
105th	Wolf Alice	The Last Man on Earth	Chamber pop	English	3	160	2	93
106th	Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés	Fiera de mí	Glitch pop	Spanish	19	118	4	80
107th	Lau Nau	Elina	Chamber folk	Finnish	4	155	8	67
108th	Zella Day	Dance for Love	Boogie	English	Failed to qualify		24	39
109th	Sarah Davachi	Play the Ghost	Ambient pop	English			17	52
110th	Thy Catafalque	Vadak (Az átváltozás rítusai)	Progressive metal	Hungarian	14	116	10	65
111th	Shortparis	Strashno	Coldwave	Russian	6	133	4	81
112th	Indigo De Souza	Kill Me	Indie rock	English	Failed to qualify		13	59
113th	Sadness	I Want to Be with You	Blackgaze	English	6	146	11	60
114th	Juçara Marçal	Crash	Art punk	Portuguese	24	91	11	58
115th	Oklou	god's chariots	Alternative R&B	English	26	70	6	73
116th	Emma Tricca ft. Judy Collins	Solomon Said	Psychedelic folk	English	Failed to qualify		25	33
117th	ANOHNI and the Johnsons	Fistful of Love	Soul jazz	English			17	51
118th	Guernica	Akebono	Art pop	Japanese			14	58
119th	Soleá Morente	Fe ciega	Dream pop	Spanish	6	142	2	102
120th	Laura Stevenson	State	Noise pop	English	7	148	5	82
121st	Perfume Genius	Hellbent	Experimental rock	English	21	100	21	41
122nd	Auktyon	Padal	Art rock	Russian	Failed to qualify		18	51
123rd	Keeley Forsyth	I Stand Alone	Ambient	English			18	49
124th	Dominique A	L'horizon	Folk rock	French	5	134	3	94
125th	Alvvays	After the Earthquake	Jangle pop	English	11	134	3	83
126th	Karen Mok	Fan Dance	Gabber	Cantonese	Failed to qualify		15	55
127th	Expresso Transatlântico ft. Conan Osíris	Barquinha	Folk rock	Portuguese	2	181	3	85
128th	Kimbra	replay!	Electropop	English	11	127	9	68
129th	Hiperson	Spring Breeze	Art rock	Mandarin	15	114	5	83
130th	A.A. Williams	Melt	Post-metal	English	6	135	9	61
131st	Rocío Márquez & Bronquio	Niña de sangre (Verdiales)	Flamenco nuevo	Spanish	8	143	3	93
132nd	The Weather Station	Atlantic	Sophisti-pop	English	16	104	12	61
133rd	Tetê Espíndola	Amor e guavira	Vanguarda paulista	Portuguese	Failed to qualify		17	49
134th	Julie Byrne	Hope's Return	Psychedelic folk	English	6	143	2	95
135th	Yumiko Cheng	Think (想)	Synthpop	Cantonese	Failed to qualify		24	40
136th	Glasser	Vine	Art pop	English	5	155	1	88
137th	Little Moon	Wonder Eye	Noise pop	English	4	153	3	79
138th	Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou	The Valley	Post-metal	English	Failed to qualify		15	50
139th	Daniela Pes	Carme	Art pop	Imaginary	7	131	8	75
140th	Pambikallio	Vesimusiikkia (Laguuni 1)	Neo-psychedelia	Finnish	22	91	9	67
141st	El Perro del Mar	Kiss of Death	Art pop	English	Failed to qualify		14	54
142nd	Sofia Kourtesis	Si te portas bonito	Deep house	Spanish			15	56
143rd	Ana Frango Elétrico	Insista em mim	Sophisti-pop	Portuguese			15	56
144th	Karina	Teko	Dream pop	Finnish	4	150	2	96
145th	SASAMI	Honeycrash	Alternative rock	English	Failed to qualify		22	38
146th	Alcest	Flamme jumelle	Shoegaze	French	7	143	1	93
147th	Fievel Is Glauque	As Above So Below	Jazz fusion	English	Failed to qualify		15	57
148th	Nala Sinephro	Continuum 10	Space ambient	Instrumental