Üsmile in Zendari Song Contest
Üsmile | |
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Member station |
ÜTV ÜTK |
National selection events |
Oofvision (#9) Smileyfestivalë (#11-present) |
Zendari Song Contest | |
Appearances | 6 (5 finals) |
First appearance | #9 |
Best result | 7th #11 |
Worst result | 18th (SF) #16 |
Zendarifestivalen |
History
Üsmile debuted in Zendari Song Contest 9. Üsmile has competed in 20 ZBA contests. ÜTV has broadcasted all of these shows, under different channels. The main contest is the most popular with Üsmilar audiences, because of their qualification rate. However, Üsmilar citizens have low attitudes surrounding the spin-off contests, due to their consistant non-qualifications.
Zendari Song Contest 9 - 13
Üsmile debuted this edition, with Rachel Row and her song "L Square" after winning the second Oofvision national final. It managed to qualify to the final where it placed 15th, scoring 79 points. The runner up was Jack River with the song "Fault Line", which represented Üsmile in the sixth edition of Zendarifestivalen, however, it flopped and it was placed 8th in the semi final. Notable national final artists, included Bobi Andonov, Siobhan Sainte, Miriam Bryant and Kanye West.
Üsmile then internally selected Girls Aloud to participate with "Can't Speak French" in the 10th edition, however it failed to qualify, scoring 12th in the semi final with 55 points.
A new national final will be made for the Üsmilar entrant for Zendari Song Contest 11, entitled Smileyfestivalë. Luca Hänni respectively won the first edition with his song "Powder". Other national final entrants included, Kasia Moś, AlunaGeorge and The Dawn of MAY. He scored 117 points in the grand final, placing 7th place, making it the country's best entry so far. The entrant did cause a lot of backlash for scoring too high, as it raised some disapproval from the fans.
Cosha (Previously known as Bonzai) was selected to represent her country in the 12th edition of the contest, who won the second edition of Smileyfestivalë. Notable artists in this national final included; Ministarke, Orla Gartland and Justin Jesso. It was the first time the national final used heats (semi finals). She sent her song "I Feel Alright". It placed second to last in the final scoring 62 points, as last place was tied between Marnos and Qyzylsha.
The husband and wife duo, Flora Cash, represented their country in Zendari Song Contest 14 after winning Smileyfestivalë 3 with their song "They Own This Town". The national final organisers removed the heats as they complicated matters, however, they did introduce a public 'superfinal', due to low jury voters. Notable artists in this national final included: Wåri's fifth edition representative, MANIZHA, Nilüfer Yanya and Isak Danielson. They managed to qualify to the grand final, where they scored 80 points, placing 18th place.
Zendari Song Contest 14 - present
The band, Holy Wars, won the national selection, by 1 point behind Irina Rimes with her song "Dans". They represented the country in the fourteenth edition with their song "Born Dark", they managed to qualify, where they scored 75 points in the grand final, placing 19th. The national selection caused backlash from many non-english Üsmilar fans, as they complained that the "english songs kept winning", when there was a diversity of languages in the selection. Noteworthy, Holy Wars nearly missed out on the final, as they only qualified from international jurors who are non-participants or participants from the other semi, as they placed 14th in the semi with 47 points.
The national selection, Smileyfestivalë was used again for the Zendari Song Contest 15. It is the sixth edition of the national final, where is consisted of 8 acts, due to the decline in interest of national finals between other country's delegations. Two of the acts in the national final were former Zendarifestivalen representatives, EDITA (A part of Ministarke, who represented the country in the fourth and debut edition and they were in Smileyfestivalë 2) and electronic, lesbian musician, COBRAH (Who represented the country in the seventh edition of Zendarifestivalen.) Claire Laffut, who participated in the first Zendari Song Contest national selection for the country, was in this national final with her song "Nudes", where it features the Violían singer, Yseult. COBRAH won the selection with her song "GLUE", scoring 58 points in the grand final and 8 points in the superfinal, with a margin of 5 points. The runners up were Claire Laffut and Yseult, with her song "Nudes", which represented Haña, after some controversy. The song managed to qualify to the grand final, where it placed 12th with 89 points.
Smileyfestivalë ran on for it's seventh edition, after alleged speculations of an internal selection for Zendari Song Contest 16. Mahmut Orhan and Irina Rimes (Irina was a runner up in Smileyfestivalë 5 with her song "Dans") won this edition of the national final with their empowering song "Hero". The runner up was Naaz with her song "Taped". However, it failed to qualify to the grand final, and broke their five edition qualification streak, it placed 17th with 28 points, their worst entry of the contest to date.
Despite, the non-qualification the previous edition, Smileyfestivalë ran for the eighth edition, which consisted of 3 songs all sang by the same artist, which was selected to be Mehdi Bahmad. His song, "H.E.N.N.A." won the national selection and was send to Zendari Song Contest 17 where it placed TBA.
Contestants
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Edition | Artist | Language | Title | Final | Points | Semi | Points | Selection |
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#9 | Rachel Row | English | "L Square" | 15 | 79 | 7 | 72 | Oofvision 2 |
#10 | Girls Aloud | English | "Can't Speak French" | Failed to qualify | 12 | 55 | Internal Selection | |
#11 | Luca Hänni | English | "Powder" | 7 | 117 | 6 | 85 | Smileyfestivalë 1 |
#12 | Bonzai | English | "I Feel Alright" | 25 | 62 | 10 | 61 | Smileyfestivalë 2 |
#13 | Flora Cash | English | "They Own This Town" | 18 | 80 | 5 | 81 | Smileyfestivalë 3 |
#14 | Holy Wars | English | "Born Dark" | 19 | 75 | 14 | 47 | Smileyfestivalë 5 |
#15 | COBRAH | English | "GLUE" | 12 | 89 | 10 | 66 | Smileyfestivalë 6 |
#16 | Mahmut Orhan ft. Irina Rimes | English | "Hero" | Failed to qualify | 17 | 28 | Smileyfestivalë 7 | |
#17 | Mehdi Bahmad | English, Arabic | "H.E.N.N.A." | 18 | 32 | Smileyfestivalë 8 | ||
#18 | Perfume Genius | English | "Not For Me" | Smileyfestivalë 9 |
Spin-offs
Üsmile is set to participate in two spin-offs
Themedari Song Contest
Üsmile is a regular participant in the Themedari Song Contest until the contest was stopped again at the end of edition 5.
Contest | Theme | Artist | Language | Title | Final | Points | Semi | Points |
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#1 | Less than 50,000 views | BYRTA | Faroese | "Andvekur" | Failed to qualify | 14 | 49 | |
#2 | Live Performances only | Jelena Karleuša | Serbian | "Upravo Ostavljena" | Cancelled | |||
#3 | Minority Languages | Teske | Dutch | "Lavendel" | Failed to qualify | 18 | 33 | |
#4 | Second Chances | Girls Aloud | English | "Sound Of The Underground" | 20 | 41 | No Semi Finals | |
#5 | Music from the 1990s | No Doubt | English | "Just A Girl" | 19 | 55 | 5 | 80 |
Zendarifestivalen
Contest | Artist | Language | Title | Final | Points | Semi | Points | Selection |
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#4 | Ministarke | Serbian | "Kiseonik" | Failed to qualify | 5 | 63 | Internal Selection | |
#5 | Tom Grennan | English | "Barbed Wire" | 5 | 133 | 3 | 85 | Internal Selection |
#6 | Jack River | English | "Fault Line" | Failed to qualify | 8 | 64 | Oofvision 2 | |
#7 | COBRAH | English | "IDFKA" | 4 | 65 | Internal Selection | ||
#8 | AlunaGeorge | English | "Attracting Flies" | 6 | 78 | Smileyfestivalë 1 | ||
#9 | MARSHEAUX | English | "To The End" | 5 | 75 | Internal Selection | ||
#10 | Gülşen | Turkish | "Bangır Bangır" | 15 | 64 | 4 | 71 | Internal Selection (Previously Smileyfestivalë 4) |
#11 | Simge | Turkish | "As Bayrakları" | Failed to qualify | 3 | 83 | Internal Selection | |
#12 | NAVA | English | "Ritual" | 3 | 158 | 2 | 121 | Internal Selection |
#13 | Frock Destroyers | English | "Break Up Bye Bye" | Internal Selection |
Junior Zendari Song Contest
Edition | Artist | Language | Title | Final | Points | Selection |
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#1 | Willow Smith | English | "Whip My Hair" | 11 | 46 | Internal Selection |
#2 | Malou Prytz | English | "Left & Right" | 1 | 197 | Internal Selection |
#3 | Emery Bingham | English | "Being Myself" | Internal Selection |
Other spin-offs
Contest | Artist | Language | Title | Final | Points | Semi | Points |
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Holiday Special 2018 | Wham! | English | "Last Christmas" | 14 | 57 | No semi-finals | |
Halloween Special 2019 | Manizha | Russian | "Mama" (мама) | 10 | 74 |
Gallery
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BYRTA performing at the first edition of Themedari, hosted in Xaliqtyva.
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Girls Aloud performing "Sound of the Underground" in the Themedari Song Contest 4
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No Doubt, performing "Just A Girl" in the Themedari Song Contest 5.
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Tom Grennan performing at Zendarifestivalen 5
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AlunaGeorge, performing at Zendarifestivalen 8 in Titonüi with their song "Attracting Flies".
Voting history
As of their debuting edition in Zendari Song Contest, Üsmile's voting history is as follows:
Noteworthy, before Üsmile debuted in Zendari Song Contest 9, the grand finals only votes were based from the "Rest of World" voting, due to Üsmile voted a part of them since Zendari Song Contest 6 to Zendari Song Contest 8.
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Spokespersons
Zendari Song Contest
Edition | Host City | Spokesperson | Commentators | Main Broadcaster | Head of Delegation |
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#1 | Titonovia | Did not vote | Did not broadcast | ||
#2 | Jorlynn | ||||
#3 | Ul-Azaar | ||||
#4 | Senippiku | ||||
#5 | Titonovia | Fearne Cotton | ÜTV | Jelena Karleuša | |
#6 | Aether Ridge | Raiven[1] | |||
#7 | Sarhém | Jiggly Caliente[1] | Ministarke | ||
#8 | Junkertown | Luca Hänni[1] | Raini Rodriguez | ||
#9 | Kunurum | Tom Grennan | Tamta & Christabelle | Mia Khalifa | |
#10 | FarmVille | Bobi Andonov | Wendy Williams | ||
#11 | Xel Aviv | Kat Slater | Abiola Allicock | ||
#12 | Xerusalem | China Anne McClain | Wendy Williams & Jelena Karleuša | ||
#13 | Xaris | Bella Thorne | Wendy Williams | ||
#14 | Liudzi | Irina Rimes | |||
#15 | City of Ir | Gülşen | Wendy Williams (ÜTV) & Maryam Nemaze (Ü:TËLEKÖRP) | ||
#16 | Diamantique | Vicky Kaya | |||
#17 | Modisha | NAVA | Wendy Williams (ÜTV) & Jelena Karleuša (Ü:TËLEKÖRP) | Ü:TËLEKÖRP (Üsmilar Tëlevizyön Korpöratsiya) |
Kris Jenner |
Zendarifestivalen
Edition | Host City | Spokesperson | Commentators | Broadcaster |
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#1 | Junkertown | Did not participate and broadcast | ||
#2 | Xel Aviv | |||
#3 | Jorlynn | |||
#4 | MosCow | Louane | Marjorie Dawes | ÜTV |
#5 | Junkertown | Ministarke | ||
#6 | Akita | Tom Grennan | ||
#7 | Ogalia | Jack River | ||
#8 | Titonovia | COBRAH | Jelena Karleuša | |
#9 | Xaris | AlunaGeorge | Marjorie Dawes | |
#10 | Alertia | MARSHEAUX | Tamta | Ü:TËLEKÖRP |
#11 | Liudzi | Gülşen | ||
#12 | TBA | Simge | Maryam Nemaze |
12 Points from Üsmile
Zendari Song Contest
Edition | Final | Semi-final 1 | Semi-final 2 | |||||||||
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Country | Artist | Song | Result | Country | Artist | Song | Result | Country | Artist | Song | Result | |
#6 | Olkenland | MUNA | "I Know A Place" | 5th | Sosij | FAUX | "Take Back Time" | 1st | Yuvia | Merna | "Better Run" | 15th |
#7 | Yuvia | Janice | "Love You Like I Should" | 3rd | Elune | Dreamcatcher | "You and I" | 5th | Xobrania | Sabina Ddumba | "Small World" | 14th |
#8 | Teardrop Islands | TLC | "No Scrubs" | 12th | Purple Country | Emigrate | "Eat You Alive" | 17th | Cefloana | Didi J ft. Shaggy | "Say No More" | 14th |
#9 | Moo | The Struts ft. Kesha | "Body Talks" | 1st | Sutru | Yaeji | "Raingurl" | 12th | Moo | The Struts ft. Kesha | "Body Talks" | 2nd |
#10 | Nuevo Province | Mariah Carey | "All I Want For Christmas" | 28th | No International Jurors | Rhosỳna | Grace Carter | "Why Her Not Me" | 1st | |||
#11 | Yuvia | Let's Eat Grandma | "Hot Pink" | 5th | Yuvia | Let's Eat Grandma | "Hot Pink" | 7th | Achalasia | Dream Lake | "Runaway" | 12th |
#12 | Yakolira | Sundara Karma | "Flame" | 9th | Cyan | Jenifer | "Notre Idylle" | 9th | Yakolira | Sundara Karma | "Flame" | 6th |
#13 | Xaliqtyva | Charlotte Adigéry | "High Lights" | 1st | Haña | James Blake ft. Rosalía | "Barefoot in the Park" | 8th | Xaliqtyva | Charlotte Adigéry | "High Lights" | 1st |
#14 | Moo | Cobi | "Church of the Lonely" | 5th | Xobrania | Katy Perry | "Never Really Over" | 1st | Moo | Cobi | "Church of the Lonely" | 3rd |
#15 | Violía | M.I.A. | "Bad Girls" | 1st | Junker | Charlotte Lawrence | "Why Do You Love Me?" | 3rd | Violía | M.I.A. | "Bad Girls" | 1st |
#16 | Xobrania | The Saturdays | "All Fired Up" | 10th | Xobrania | The Saturdays | "All Fired Up" | 1st | Chattahoochee | Miranda Lambert | "Mess With My Head" | 11th |
#17 | Sosij | MIKA | "Tomorrow" | 16th | Sosij | MIKA | "Tomorrow" | 9th | Sangviland | Kesha | "Die Young" | 2nd |
Zendarifestivalen
Edition | Final | Semi Final | ||||||
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Country | Artist | Song | Result | Country | Artist | Song | Result | |
#4 | Did not qualify | Chattahoochee | Halflives | "Crown" | 1st | |||
#5 | Yuvia | Empara Mí | Alibi | 3rd | Aquazia | Jorja Smith | "Where Did I Go?" | 4th |
#6 | Did not qualify | Violía | Au/Ra | "Emoji" | 1st | |||
#7 | Titonüi | K/DA | "POP/STARS" | 1st | Dodo | Albin Lee Meldau | "Lou Lou" | 2nd |
#8 | Fiorenza | Lilly Among Clouds | "Wasting My Time" | 4th | Haña | San Mei | "Wonder" | 1st |
#9 | Fiorenza | Inna Modja | "Outlaw" | 12th | Xaliqtyva | Oliver Heldens ft. Shungudzo | "Fire In My Soul" | 1st |
#10 | Xobrania | Miley Cyrus | "Mother's Daughter" | 3rd | Laigheann | Leon Else | "What I Won't Do" | 1st |
#11 | Rhosỳna | Izzy Bizu | "Give Me Love" | 1st | Draydal | Arma Del Amor | "The Watcher" | 6th |
Themedari Song Contest
Edition | Final | Semi-final | ||||||
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Country | Artist | Song | Result | Country | Artist | Song | Result | |
#1 | Vasseau | Wooly and the Uke | "Circus" | 3rd | Fokland | Crime Sea | Escape | 9th |
#2 | Cancelled | Did Not Vote | ||||||
#3 | Yuvia | Panivalkova, Morphom | "SUPERHІT" (СУПЕРХІТ) | 7th | Laigheann | Fallgrapp | "Vlasy" | 6th |
#4 | Yakolira | Glass Animals | "Life Itself" | 12th | No Semi Finals | |||
#5 | Laigheann | Nirvana | "Smells Like Teen Spirit" | 16th | Birmanda | Los Del Rio | "Macarena" | 2nd |
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