Microvision Song Festival

Not to be confused with the Microvision Song Festival 2011.

Microvision Song Festival
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Organizer	Micronational Broadcasting Union
Creation	2015
Editions	6 + 1 confirmed
Localisation	International
Number of participants	12 (in 2019)
Original languages	Spanish and English

The Microvision Song Festival, sometimes popularly called Microvision, is the longest-running micronational annual international TV song competition, held, primarily, among the member countries of the Micronational Broadcasting Union (MBU) since 2015.

Each participating country submits a song to be and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition. The contest has been broadcast every year since its inauguration in 2015.

History

The Microvision Song Festival is a contest updated from the Eurovision Song Contest. Under the leadership of UMR and Hispanic micronations, the contest was created in 2015. The first edition in 2015 was won by Valumar. The following year saw the arrival of new non-Spanish micronations like Coria or Toyoashihara who won the 2016 edition.The Microvision 2017 makes a great deal in the new technologies used. The host, Antares won the competition.

In 2018, Occitania won the Microvision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Ganas de matar" by Spanish drag queen "La Prohibida.". One year later, Troncopañya another Catalan Micronational (the third in three years) win the contest, marked by numerous technical incidents.

Winners

As of 2020, five different micro nations have won all five editions of the competition. Four winners were located in Europe while one was located in Asia.

Occitania holds the record for the highest number of runner-up placings and the nation with the most points since the first contest.

Year	Date	Host	Winner	Song	Performer	Language	Points	% of points	Runner up
2015	16 July	Soria	Valumar	Santiano	Celtic Fantasy	French	52	69% (58/84)	Rino Island
2016	17 June	Rino Island	Toyoashihara	Fubuki	Hayato Konoe	Instrumental	56	51% (56/108)	Antares Occitania
2017	27 May	Ciutat-Castell	Antares	Futur	Rosa López	Catalan	91	58% (91/156)	Occitania
2018	8 June	Aragon	Occitania	Ganas de Matar	La Prohibida	Spanish	91	63% (91/144)	Posaf
2019	30 November	Catonia	Troncopañya	In the night	Oques Grasses	Catalan	85	64,39% (85/132)	Hinata
2020	31 December	Troncopañya	Catonia	Tacones Baratos	Huecco	Spanish	57	20,88% (57/273)	Troncopañya
2021	TBD	Catonia	TBA

Three winners are nationals of Spain Rosa López, La Prohibida and Oques Grasses), one is French (Celtic Fantasy) and the last one is a national from de Micronational of Toyoashihara, Hayato Konoe.

Hayato Konoe is the only one Micronational citizen who won the competition.

Participants

Eligible participants include primarily Active Members of the Micronational Broadcasting Union. Active members are those who are active members of the organization.

Country making its debut entry

Year Country making its debut entry 2015 Ideas Numancia Rino Island Timeria Valumar Vontan UEGG 2016 Antares Coria Lundenwic Occitania Polanda Toyoashihara 2017 Iberia Ipainia Felinitia Freeland Montiber Navir Three Flowers 2018 Asgaria Iustus Kaion Levante Helitania Natia Posaf 2019 Draaken Hinata Troncopañya 2020 Alevican Overseas Territory of the Village of Pedro Artists Participants have the choice of their artist. Some were able to choose local musical productions, such as Hayato Konoe who won the contest in 2016 or to choose internationally recognized artists. Agustín Q.was the first artist to participate in the contest In 2016, three internationally renowned singers entered in the competition, Mireille Mathieu for Occitania, Verka Serduchka for Lundenwic and Zeljko Joksimovic for Coria. The famous Canadian singer Céline Dion sang for Coria in 2017. Hosting It is customary for the wining country to have a priority in organizing the next competition. If the latter can not, we look in the poduim and then to another member able to organize the event Country Years Numancia 2015 Rino Island 2016 Antares 2017 Occitania 2018 Catonia 2019 Troncopañya 2020 Catonia 2021 Logo Microvision 2015 Microvision 2016 Microvision 2017 Microvision 2018 Microvision 2019 Rules -The requirements for the song are as follows: The minimum duration of the songs is 1:30 minutes. The maximum Video clip length is 4:30 minutes. The maximum duration of the songs is 4 minutes. There is no limitation of language, the Agency may choose whoever wants There is also no limitation as to the nationality Representative, the National Agency has the right to choose the one you want. Wholly Songs Instrumentals are entitled to participate. The Covers and Instrumental versions are allowed. The Video Candidacy must have the following requirements : Logo must remain at all times of the station chain. (However, if you want to put a song of 1980 you could perfectly. The only limitation is the video)..It must be hosted on the server YouTube. Artists must have a minimum age of 16 It is not allowed the presentation of songs that have participated in previous Festivals of the Song of any kind, such as San Remo or Eurovision. The letter should not promote any organization, institution, political cause, company, brand or service(including profanity or ofendentes words to others, religious, sexual etc.) ... Political ideologies in the lyrics of the songs it is prohibited Languages Most used languages Rank Utilisations Language Country 1 15 Spanish UEGG/Catonia (4) Draaken Helitania Numancia (2) Occitania (2) Polanda Rino Island (3) Timeria 2 9 Instrumental Felinitia Iberia Ideas Polanda Timeria Toyoasihara Vontan Iustus Natia 3 9 English Asgaria Helitania Levante Lundenwic (2) Numancia Occitania Polanda Timeria 4 6 Catalan Antares (3) Montiber Nova-Occitania Troncopañya 5 5 French Arbreland Coria Iustus Posaf Valumar 5 3 Polish Freeland (2) Kaion 6 2 Japanese Hinata Polanda 6 1 Occitan Three Flowers 6 1 Portugese Ipainia 6 1 Serbian Coria 6 1 Ukrainian Lundenwic Winners by language Wins Language Year Country 2 Catalan 2017 2019 Antares Troncopañya 1 French 2015 Valumar 1 Instrumental 2016 Toyoashihara 1 Spanish 2018 Occitania Languages and their first appearance Order Language First apparance Country First performer First song 1 Instrumental 2015 Ideas Agustín Q. Limerencia 2 French 2015 Valumar Celtic Fantasy "Santiago" 3 English 2015 Numancia Sofía Karlberg "Take Me to Church" 4 Spanish 2015 Rino Island Chico Trujillo "Loca" 5 Serbian 2016 Coria Zeljko Joksimovic "Nije ljubav stvar" 6 Catalan 2016 Antares Rosa López "Et necesite" 7 Ukrainian 2016 Lundenwic Verka Serduchka "Chita Drita" 8 Japanese 2017 Polanda Hitomi Ishikawa "Koi" 9 Portugese 2017 Ipainia Renato Misiuk & DJ Claudinho RS "Real in Rio" 10 Occitan 2017 Three Flowers Lou Dalfin "Sem encar ici" 11 Polish 2017 Freeland Jeremi Sikorski "Prześliczna wiolonczelistka" Votes Years System of votes 2015 - 2016 Each country send 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 points. points to its six favorite songs. 2017 - present Every country gives 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points to its ten favorite songs.