Hinata Island Music Festival

Hinata Island Music Festival ひなた島音楽祭
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Organizer	Chûô city and Hinata Broadcasting
Creation	Year II (2019)
Editions	2
Localisation	Chûô, Hinata
Number of participants	4
Original languages	Japanese

The Hinata Island Music Festival (in japanese: ひなた島音楽祭, Hinata-shima Ongaku Sai) is an annual music contest held in Hinata. Usually, the winner goes to sing in the Microvision Song Festival in representation of Hinata.

History

The contest was founded in the hinata second year (2019) by the mayor of Chûô district and minister Eric Nakajima to promove the internacionalization of the island and to make a national final to choose a representant for Microvision. Since the first edition Hinata Broadcasting was the official broadcaster.

Winners

Year	Artist	Composers	Label	Song	English translation	Points	% of points
2019	Mai Fuchigami	M. Fuchigami, Y. Matsui, K. Yamamoto	Lantis	リベラシオン	Liberation	14	34.15%
2020	GFriend	TBD	King Records	Flower	-	12	35.29%

Participants

Due the rule of the japanese language, the participants mostly are japanese, but artists with other nationalities can participate. For the second edition (2020) the korean k-pop female group GFRIEND will participate in the contest.

Artists

Artists who entered the contest twice

Artists	Years	Rank
Hiroshi Takeshima	2019	2
	2020	3
Bed In	2019	3
	2020	4

Venues

The venues of all the editions are in the Chûô beach if the weather conditions allow it. The first edition (2019) was presented by Lanna Harada, President of Hinata and former idol and assisted by the HBC subdirector, Ryûji Midoriya.

Presenters

• 2019: Lanna Harada and Ryûji Midoriya
• 2020:

Rules

The requirements for the song are as follows:

• All the songs will be in japanese language, partial or entirely.
• Only four songs can be presented in each edition.
• The minimum duration of the songs is 1:30 minutes.
• The maximum duration of the songs is 5 minutes.
• There is also no limitation as to the nationality Representative, the National Agency has the right to choose the one you want.
• The song must are maximum a two years ago song.

Voting system

Exists two methods to voting the songs. There are a jury composed by the Hinata Education Minister, the Chûô Mayor and the Hinata Broadcasting director, they votes the four songs with 3, 2 and 1 points. Also, the public can vote by tweeter. The two votes are added to make the results. In the first edition due the mayor of Chuo and the director of the television network was the same person, it was decided that as a representative of Hinata Broadcasting would be voted by deputy Ryuji Midoriya who also played in Hinata Broadcasting.

Years	System of votes
2019 - Now	Each member of the jury send 1, 2 and 3 points in addition of the votes of each member of the public (1 vote). The jury points to its three favorite songs.

Jury

2019

• Eric Nakajima, as mayor of Chûô district.
• Ferena Nakajima, as Director of the Department of Education of Hinata.
• Ryûji Midoriya, as sub-director of Hinata Broadcasting.

2020

• Eric Nakajima, as mayor of Chûô district.
• Pierre Nikaidô, as Director of the Department of Education of Hinata.
• Keiko Moriyama, as sub-director of Hinata Broadcasting.