Arjastan in the Nation Song Contest

From Nation Song Contest

Arjastan is a country located in the northern continent. It was a founder member of NSC, and hosted the debut contest in Crnovac, the capital city, which has also hosted the 2nd and 4th editions of the contest. The Arjan broadcaster is ATV.

Contents 1 Overview 2 NSC1 3 NSC2 4 NSC3 5 NSC4 6 NSC5 7 NSC6 8 NSC7 9 NSC8 10 NSC9 11 NSC10 12 NSC11 13 NSC12 14 NSC13 15 NSC14 16 NSC15 17 NSC16 18 NSC17 19 NSC18 20 NSC19 21 NSC20 22 NSC21 23 NSC22 24 NSC23 25 NSC24 26 NSC25 27 NSC26 28 NSC27 29 NSC28 30 NSC29 to 31 31 NSC32 32 Arjastan In Special Edition Contests

[edit] Overview

Edition	Draw	Artist	Song	Points	Rank
1	3	Belén Arjona	No Habrá Más Perdón	40	1
2	1	The Veronicas	4ever	47	11
3	15	Tata Young	Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy	83	1
4	20	Marie Serneholt	I Need A House	67	9
5	8	Savage Garden	Two Beds And A Coffee Machine	61	9
6f	18	Oceania	Kotahitanga	79	15
7s	12	Aurora	Summer Son	98	8
7f	23	Aurora	Summer Son	82	16
8s	1	Saving Jane	Happy	121	5
8f	10	Saving Jane	Happy	87	11
9f	2	Sandy	Living Without You	68	14
10f	28	Manca Špik	Marinero	79	14
11f	3	Tina Cousins	Forever	92	15
12f	9	Lifehouse	Storm	56	20
13s	19	Alessia Blue	I Can't Forget You	46	22
14s	8	Aurora	The Day It Rained Forever	177	3
14f	15	Aurora	The Day It Rained Forever	202	2
15f	26	Di-Rect ft Wibi Soerjadi	Blind For You	59	24
16s	23	Mikeyla	Young & Stupid	116	12
16f	10	Mikeyla	Young & Stupid	107	11
17f	1	Jurgen Vries & CMC	Brave New World	111	6
18f	28	The Veronicas	Somebody Wake Me Up	88	17
19s2	8	Chesney Hawkes	The One And Only	47	14
20s2	8	Ellie Campbell	Don't Want You Back	89	5
20f	13	Ellie Campbell	Don't Want You Back	138	7
21s1	3	Angel City	Sunrise	52	17
22s	22	Luca Dirisio	Calma E Sangue Freddo	94	1
22f	11	Luca Dirisio	Calma E Sangue Freddo	133	3
23f	2	DJ Smash pts Fast Food	Moscow Never Sleeps	81	17
24s2	18	Royworld	Dust	94	2
24f	14	Royworld	Dust	97	17
25s2	7	Wunder	Was Hält Uns Wach	74	9
25f	8	Wunder	Was Hält Uns Wach	69	26
26s1	22	Flip & Fill ft Kelly Llorenna	True Love Never Dies	60	14
27s1	22	Tisuby & Georgina	Ruleta Del Amor	88	3
27f	23	Tisuby & Georgina	Ruleta Del Amor	123	8
28s	5	Lââm	Petite Soeur	70	11
29s2	7	Pay-TV	Fashion Report	111	4
29f	2	Pay-TV	Fashion Report	180	2
30f	12	Lisa Miskovsky	Lady Stardust	85	23
31s2	25	Jody	Entre L'ombre Et La Lumière	76	8
31f	28	Jody	Entre L'ombre Et La Lumière	102	18
32s1	19	The Rocket Summer	Never Knew	58	12*
32f	14	The Rocket Summer	Never Knew	108	13
33s1	21	NKD	What I Believe	36	23
34s1	9	The Getaway Plan	Where The City Meets The Sea	121	1
34f	11	The Getaway Plan	Where The City Meets The Sea	117	13
35s1	22	Saving Jane	Nobody Loves You (Like You Do)	81	8
35f	22	Saving Jane	Nobody Loves You (Like You Do)	126	9
36s2	7	Aura & Doobie ft Ludmiła Kac & Ivan Busłaj	Nočču Na Kupalle	82	5
36f	20	Aura & Doobie ft Ludmiła Kac & Ivan Busłaj	Nočču Na Kupalle	128	9
37s1	14	Lost Witness	7 Colours	55	13
38s1	5	Ultrabeat	Paradise & Dreams (NSC Edit)	31	21
38f	24	Ultrabeat	Paradise & Dreams (NSC Edit)	89	20
39s2	22	Ort	U Mojim Mislima	66	10
39f	15	Ort	U Mojim Mislima	93	20
40s1	23	Tin Tin Out ft Shelley Nelson	Sometimes	53	14
41s1	10	Ameerah	The Sound Of Missing You	95	5
41f	10	Ameerah	The Sound Of Missing You	111	14
42s1	12	Naimee Coleman	My Star	72	12
43s2	14	Nadia Ali	Love Story	59	13
44s1	14	Nick Nolan	Free For All

[edit] NSC1

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Jury	Total	Place
1	Lee Ann Womack	I Hope You Dance	25,222 (0)	1	1	15
2	Mikeyla	Just A Girl	23,126 (0)	6	6	13
3	Belén Arjona	No Habrá Más Perdón	196,464 (48)	41	89	1
4	Ginie-Line	Jusqu'à La Tolérance	30,150 (8)	6	27	6
5	The Attic	A Life To Live	31,259 (12)	12	24	8
6	Jewel	Good Day	4,486 (0)	8	8	12
7	Milk & Honey	Habibi (Je T'aime)	36,238 (16)	6	22	9
8	Sofia Loell	Utopia	12,436 (0)	4	4	14
9	The Veronicas	Nobody Wins	83,634 (28)	22	50	5
10	Mika	Relax (Take It Easy)	88,547 (32)	19	51	4
11	Ann Winsborn	La La Love On My Mind	124,426 (40)	30	70	2
12	Sylver	Lovesong	19,645 (0)	9	9	11
13	Groove Coverage	Moonlight Shadow	27,186 (4)	13	17	10
14	Maya Buskila	Say That You Will	79,351 (24)	31	55	3
15	Dorina	Szeretném Az Igazit	43,132 (20)	5	25	7

In NSC1, 4 foreign jurors voted on the songs in NSC style (1-8, 10 & 12), and an Arjan televote was also held, with the top 10 songs in that getting 4 times a single juror vote.

Belén Arjona went on to win NSC1 with 40 points.

[edit] NSC2

NSC2 was the first, and to date, only, time that ATV decided to hold an internal selection.

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Jury	Total	Place
01	The Veronicas	4ever	-	-	-	1
02	Saving Jane	-	-	-	-	2
03	Tina Cousins	-	-	-	-	3
04	Szeifert vs Krash ft Regina Dukai	Rhythm Of Noise	-	-	-	4
05	Da Buzz	-	-	-	-	5

The Veronicas went on to achieve only 11th place at NSC, totalling 47 points.

[edit] NSC3

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Jury	Place
01	Tata Young	Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy	44.3%	6	1
02	RBD	Aún Hay Algo	46.9%	3	2
03	Hikaru Utada	First Love	8.9%	0	3

From now on, Arjan televotes would not affect the results unless there was a case of a draw. The Arjan televote was held purely to indicate what opinions within the country were.

Tata Young went on to win NSC3, receiving 83 points.

[edit] NSC4

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Jury	Place
01	Marie Serneholt	I Need A House	67.5%	7	1
02	Lifehouse	Hanging By A Moment	15.8%	5	2
03	Indo Aminata	Love Will Be On Your Side	16.7%	2	3

Marie Serneholt went on to come 9th at NSC, receiving 67 points.

[edit] NSC5

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Jury	Place
01	Shannon Noll	Shine	11.3%	2	2
02	Savage Garden	Two Beds And A Coffee Machine	71.3%	2	1
03	Lââm	Petite Soeur	17.5%	1	3

For the first time since NSC1, the Arjan televote decided the winner as there was a draw. Savage Garden went on to finish 9th in Hibernia, with 61 points.

[edit] NSC6

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Jury	Total	Place
01	Shaan	Bhool Ja	12%	7%	19	3
02	Shahzoda & Shahriyor	Birinchi Sevgi	5%	53%	58	2
03	Khajda Nin	Mama	7%	8%	15	4
04	Oceania	Kotahitanga	75%	33%	108	1

NSC6 was the first of the "themed selections" for Arjastan, with the theme of "world music".

ATV did not run an open selection for songs but instead contacted artists directly. The 4 entrants in "A Song For NSC6" were from India, Burundi, Uzbekistan and Tuvalu.

Oceania went on to finish 15th in the final.

[edit] NSC7

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Jury	Total	Place
01	Aurora	Summer Son	64%	74%	138	1
02	Ana Johnsson	Days Of Summer	18%	0%	18	3
03	Len	Steal My Sunshine	8%	20%	28	2
04	Solar Stone	Seven Cities	10%	6%	16	4

The theme of the NSC7 preselection was "summer". Aurora went on to qualify for the final, but could only reach 16th place there.

[edit] NSC8

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Jury	Total	Place
01	La Differenza	Che Farò	25%	18%	43	2
02	Crystal	Hajnali Fény	4%	18%	22	3
03	Saving Jane	Happy	71%	64%	135	1

Saving Jane went on to qualify in 5th place to the finals, where they came =11th.

[edit] NSC9

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Jury	Total	Place
01	The Wreckers	Lay Me Down	43%	11%	54	2
02	The Veronicas	When It All Falls Apart	11%	11%	22	3
03	Sandy	Living Without You	46%	78%	124	1

Sandy started in the final, where she came =14th.

[edit] NSC10

The Arjan national final for NSC 10 took place in two rounds: 10 songs were selected for round 1, which faced a regional vote in Arjastan alone, the top 4 of which went through to an international vote.

Round 1:

Draw	Artist	Song	Total	Place
1	Yvonne Catterfeld	Sag Mir	49	5
2	Vision	Nem Kérek Mást	31	7
3	Feeder	Just A Day	83	=1
4	Sandrine François	Il Sait	39	6
5	Mor ve Ötesi	Bir Derdim Var	26	8
6	Lisa	Oceano	83	=1
7	LOG	Fan Phur	19	10
8	Eleni Tsaligopoulou	Ego S'agapisa Edo	21	9
9	Miri Mesika	Ba'a Elekhem	61	3
10	Manca Špik	Marinero	53	4

Round 2:

Draw	Artist	Song	Total	Place
1	Manca Špik	Marinero	162	1
2	Feeder	Just A Day	106	4
3	Lisa	Oceano	150	2
4	Miri Mesika	Ba'a Elekhem	122	3

Manca went on to finish 14th in the final.

[edit] NSC11

Draw	Artist	Song	Total	Place
1	Tina Cousins	Forever	-	1
2	Stan van Samang	Scars	-	2
3	Laith al-Deen	Das Weiss Ich	-	3

ATV chose between a short list of 3 songs, with Tina Cousins emerging the winner. Tina Cousins went on to finish 15th in the final.

[edit] NSC12

Draw	Artist	Song	Total	Place
1	Lifehouse	Broken	5	2
2	Lifehouse	Come Back Down	3	3
3	Lifehouse	Storm	17	1

ATV again made an internal selection for NSC12, with the NSC8 entrants Saving Jane due to return to the contest, before finally changing their minds and opting for Lifehouse instead. Lifehouse presented 3 songs to the ATV jury, of which "Storm" was chosen. Lifehouse finished 20th in the final, Arjastan's worst result to date.

[edit] NSC13

ATV internally selected an amateur singer, Alessia Blue, to represent the country in Vorhota with "I Can't Forget You". Despite a good performance, she could only finish 20th in the semi and became the first Arjan representative not to qualify for the final.

[edit] NSC14

Draw	Artist	Song	Total	Place
1	Solid Harmonie	I'll Be There For You	62	3
2	Thrillseekers & Sheryl Deane	Synaesthesia (Fly Away)	50	5
3	Aurora	The Day It Rained Forever	94	1
4	Varvara	Tayal Sneg	56	4
5	Club 54	Ne Felejtsd El	88	2

After the disasterous result in NSC14, ATV decided to return to the national final format, directly inviting 3 famous acts and selecting 2 entries from the public call for songs as well. After a close voting, Aurora emerged the winners and therefore became the first ever act to represent Arjastan more than once. Aurora went on to finish 2nd in the final after a very close race with Scorpionia, making it Arjastan's highest ever score and best position since NSC3.

[edit] NSC15

Draw	Artist	Song	Votes	Place
01	Foo Fighters	Best Of You	3	3
02	Mighty 44 & Anna Nordell	This Love Ain't Goin' On!	4	2
03	Di-Rect ft Wibi Soerjadi	Blind For You	5	1

[edit] NSC16

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Jury	Place
01	Mikeyla	Young And Stupid	57%	53%	1
02	Lillix	It's About Time	43%	47%	2
03	Saving Jane	Writing On The Wall	-	-	3
04	Natasha Thomas	Young Hearts	-	-	4

The voting was done in two stages: first to select the top 2, and then to select the winner. The Vorhotan judge was the one who casted the deciding vote, meaning that Mikeyla went forward to represent Arjastan in Prasia. Mikeyla successfully qualified from the semi finals, and ended up in 11th place in the final, thus prequalifying Arjastan for the NSC17 finals.

[edit] NSC17

Jurgen Vries & CMC (Charlotte Church) were internally selected with their song "Brave New World".

[edit] NSC18

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Jury	Place
01	Fragma	Say That You're Here	-	-	4
02	Plumb	Real Life Fairytale	48%	45%	2
03	Delight	Divided	-	-	3
04	The Veronicas	Someone Wake Me Up	52%	55%	1

The Veronicas & Plumb advanced to the second round, where The Veronicas won. The Veronicas went on to finish 18th in the NSC final, returning Arjastan to the semis for NSC19.

[edit] NSC19

As Arjastan was busy with other things around the time for NSC19, ATV selected an amateur singer from an open call for songs opened at the last minute, sending Chesney Hawkes with "The One & Only" to Maccha-Brugia. Despite a competent performance, Chesney became the second Arjan entrant to date not to make it to the finals, finishing 14th in the semi final.

[edit] NSC20

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Jury	Place
01	Plumb	In Your Arms (Bimbo Jones Remix)	-	-	3
02	DJ Tatana	Words	17%	10%	2
03	Ellie Campbell	Don't Want You Back	83%	90%	1
04	Feel	A Gdy Jest Już Ciemno	-	-	5
05	Emmie	More Than This	-	-	4

ATV rejuvinated the Arjan National Final for NSC20, inviting a mixture of up & coming artists and old favourites. In the end, it was an old favourite, Ellie Campbell, that scored a crushing victory and went on to finish 7th in the final after successfully qualifying from the second semi final in 5th place. NSC20 was to mark the beginning of a second era of huge interest in the contest on the part of the Arjan nation.

[edit] NSC21

Draw	Artist	Song	Round 1	Round 2	Place
01	Angel City	Sunrise	177	10	1
02	Bif Naked	Lucky	118	-	5
03	Évi	Jégbörtön (Shane 54 Radio Edit)	127	-	4
04	Madasun	Don't You Worry	75	-	6
05	Therese	Time	135	-	3
06	We Are Scientists	After Hours	160	6	2

The NSC21 NF was the largest field in an Arjan national final since the first one way back in NSC21, with 6 competitors. Originally, ATV selected just 5, but then a wildcard searching for an upcoming new rock band gave We Are Scientists the 6th slot in the final. Angel City and We Are Scientists made it to the head-to-head final round, where Angel City won 10-6. However, Angel City went on to cause a shock to the Arjan viewers after becoming the first Arjan entry selected through a national final not to qualify to the final.

[edit] NSC22

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Place
01	Dimitris Korgialas ft Katerina Mutsatsu	Mia Fora	14%	2
02	Luca Dirisio	Calma E Sangue Freddo	72%	1
03	Edyta Górniak	Nię Prosze O Wiecej	7%	3

After the NSC21 debacle, and the increasing difficulty in convincing famous Arjan artists to take part in the contest, ATV decided to revert to the simple 3-song national final that had given the nation such success in the early editions in the competition, including a win in NSC3. Luca Dirisio won convincingly, and ended up winning the first semi final, and wound up 3rd in the final held in Jastistia.

[edit] NSC23

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Place
01	Ascension	For A Lifetime	27%	2
02	DJ Smash pts Fast Food	Moscow Never Sleeps	29%	1
03	Paffendorf	Be Cool	23%	3
04	Tukan	Light A Rainbow	21%	4

In the first in a series of new attempts from ATV to diversify Arjan entries, the handling of the selection of the Arjan entry for NSC23 was handed over to the popular dance magazine 'mixARJ', who co-operated with dance music channel MTV Dance in order to contact famous dance artists to submit a song for the national final. In the closest-run Arjan national final to date, DJ Smash pts Fast Food ended up winning with "Moscow Never Sleeps", and became the first Arjan entry not to reach #1 in the charts, stalling at #2. Ironically enough, all 3 of the other entries did end up being #1 in the Arjan charts at one point or another. The results of the NSC 23 final are currently still to be announced.

[edit] NSC24

NSC24 saw an internal selection done by popular indie & rock magazine AME. The magazine decided to award the ticket to newcomer band Royworld, with their song "Dust". The song ended 2nd in its semi final in NSC24, but dropped to a lowly 17th in the final after technical problems meant that the link to the Arjan entry actually led to Astique's for most of the voting period of the final.

[edit] NSC25

NSC25 was originally meant to be an internal selection done by folk & ethnic music magazine FEA, but ATV decided to take the winner of the FEA contest, Alternature, and put it up against 2 more established Arjan acts, Angelzoom and Wunder, and make a small internal selection between the three due to a lower budget than usual for NSC. Wunder ended up winning the internal selection and went forward to Vorhota with "Was Hält Uns Wach". Wunder start as the Arjan entrants with the least interest around them in NSC to date.

[edit] NSC26

The Arjan entry for NSC26 will be selected in an internal selection due to continuing problems within ATV. The song is an uptempo dance song, with anthemic lyrics.

[edit] NSC27

Draw	Artist	Song	Round 1	Round 2	Place
01	SMS	Idi	56	-	5
02	Nu Pagadi	Sweetest Poison	74	-	4
03	Natalia Lesz	Fall	82	36%	2
04	Tisuby & Georgina	Ruleta Del Amor	90	47%	1
05	Twarres	She Couldn't Laugh	82	15%	3

Tisuby & Georgina went on to finish 8th in the final.

[edit] NSC28

Lââm failed to qualify from the semi final.

[edit] NSC29 to 31

From NSC29 onwards ATV outsourced the responsibility of the Arjan entry, meaning that less usual entries could be chosen. The commitee first of all decided to send Pay-TV to the contest in Noizeland, where they surprised Arjan media by finishing 2nd in the final with "Fashion Report".

In NSC30 popular singer-songwriter Lisa Miskovsky, who narrowly missed out to Pay-TV when chosing the representative for NSC29, was dispatched to Scorpionia with "Lady Stardust". Although expectations were low, the committee felt that this was a good time to send a relatively chanceless entry as Arjastan was pre-qualified to the final anyway. In the end, Lisa Miskovsky finished 23rd in the final with 85 points, including Arjastan's first ever 12 points from Xanadu.

For NSC31, the panel decided to opt for an unknown artist, Jody, and her song "Entre L'Ombre Et La Lumière". The stated goal was to reach the final, which Jody achieved, and went on to finish 18th in the final.

[edit] NSC32

The panel couldn't decide on a single entry for NSC32, so put their top 2 towards a traditional-style 3 song Arjan national final, with ATV selecting Zuzana Smatanová as a third option to make the voting more interesting.

Draw	Artist	Song	Votes	Place
01	MissMatch	Breathe In/Breathe Out
02	The Rocket Summer	Never Knew
03	Zuzana Smatanová	Entirely Good

[edit] Arjastan In Special Edition Contests

Arjastan was knocked out in the first round of the first NSC World Cup, but went on to win the whole thing the second time it was held.

Arjastan in the Nation Song Contest: Eurovision Special

Edition	Draw	Artist	Song	Points	Rank
1	6	Lise Darly	Tout De Moi	27	17
2	4	Tommy Nilsson	En Dag	19	19
3	10	Natalia Barbu	Fight	63	9
4	24	Sandrine François	Il Faut Du Temps	61	11
5	3	Maryon	Prenez Soin De Notre Planète	19	26
6		Fazla	Sva Bol Svijeta

Arjastan in the Nation Song Contest National Finals

Edition	Draw	Artist	Song	Points	Rank
1	15	Sister Sway	Until You Saved My Life	94	4
2	12	Kerli	Beautiful Inside	44	15
3		Raf van Brussel	Chemistry	46	20
4		Offside	Dreaming About You	71	9

Arjastan in other specials:

Edition	Draw	Artist	Song	Points	Rank
Movie	23	Kate Winslet	What If	66	9
Language	17	Kurt Darren	Ek Laaik Haar	62	12
Anthem	20	Kyrgyz Anthem	Kyrgyz Mamlekettik Gimni	49	14
Congratulations 10	25	Marie Serneholt	I Need A House	94	2
AATW Norway	19	Anneli Drecker	You Don't Have To Change	49	17
Christmas	13	Banaroo	Coming Home For Christmas	92	5
AATW Montenegro	6	Goran Vukošić	Poljubac Za Kraj	39	14
AATW Italy		La Differenza	Che Farò
AATW Canada	18	Neverending White Lights	The World Is Darker	58	13
Countries Spinoff (Lebanon)	9	Darine	Aiwa	51	10