World Song Contest

The World Song Contest is back in April 2005 for a second edition. From the 17 countries that took part in WSC .01, only Bosnia & Herzegovina and Denmark missed the Contest. But new countries joined in and a total of 24 participants was finally reached. After the United States of America, the WSC goes Down Under with the first participation of Australia. Asia is not far away as Turkey also joined.

The World Song Contest is inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest. This is thus logical that some of the artists are related to it. In the first edition of the WSC, Olivia Lewis, who represented Malta, and Judy, for Hungary, came second in their national selection for the ESC with the same songs. Sweden's Jill Johnson, Bosnian Dino Merlin and Tose Proeski for F.Y.R. of Macedonia took part at the ESC respectively in 1998, 1999 and 2004. Things didn't change in the second edition of the contest with the participation of Helena Paparizou, who represented Greece in 2001 and 2005, Magazin, who took part in 1995 for Croatia and finished 2nd with Nazaret at this year's national final, Marlain, member of Hi-5, represented Cyprus in 1999 and last but not least Carola, for Sweden, won the ESC in 1991. And believe me, that's only a beginning.

Another things wich is similar to the ESC is how the countries vote... Serbia & Montenegro, Croatia, F.Y.R. of Macedonia and Bosnia & Herzegovina appear to be good friends. But that can be explained by the fact that the artists (and song) are famous in the whole Balkans. But as 24 people sent their votes for this edition, the final results wasn't really affected by that. In fact, the race for victory only concerned two countries: The Netherlands and Greece which finally came 1st and 2nd with a difference of 5 points in favour of The Netherlands, with the song "Automatic", sung by EliZe.

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