Globalvision Season 23

The 23rd season of the Globalvision Song Contest is expected to begin on the 14th of May, right after the Eurovision final, with a special early reveal of the first 4 participating countries in the newly created forum for the contest, although the game is still expected to be hosted mainly on Gagadaily. An early sign up was opened on the 1st of May.

Location
Following the tradition, the Globalvision winner gets the right to choose the venue of the next one, in this case that duty was appointed to @alsemanche. Despite him choosing to represent the United States for this season, it was still Sweden the country appointed to host, as it was the one that won the previous season. The venue was finally announced on the 16th of May, The Royal Hall of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

Participating countries
Mali was meant to be part of the contest, but its representant @Florian gave up on it, later getting to play with France, which was initially granted to @SwissMonster, who got Switzerland after @DiamondKing agreed to switch to Kazakhstan. Algeria was meant to debut brought by @Candy Gaga although he had to switch to Morocco. Tunisia was also expected to debut, it was @FameMonster01 who was in charge of sending its first entry, but sadly it was rejected as the artist chosen to represent the country wasn't actually from it.

Returning artists
Lola Marsh return to represent Israel after appearing already in season 16, they were previously sent by @Dutch and reached a 6th placement. Lana Jurčević already appeared in season 6, brought back then by @blackstar and scored a 20th placement; with her return after 16 seasons, she broke the previous record for longest gap between participations, held by Highasakite.

DUDA BEAT was the first returning artist announced on the 2nd day of reveals, she already appeared in season 20 but, sadly, didn't manage to reach the final. ANTONIA was announced right after the brazilian returnee, she also appeared in season 20 although, in this case, she managed to reach the final where she scored a 29th placement.

Mon Laferte was the last artist to be revealed on day 3 and the only returning one announced on that day. She already appeared twice in the past, the first time in season 3, representing Mexico, and in season 9 representing Chile. Her double nationality made it possible for her to represent both countries in the past, although, under the current rules, she will be allowed to compete for Chile only from now on.

Aitana was the last returning artist to be announced. She already represented Spain twice in the game, in season 13 and in season 18, scoring a 20th position in her first attempt and a 36th in the second.

Uniqueness Award
For the full list of recipients of the award, see Uniqueness Award

Other participants

 * @DeluluSwine, @Jose P and @Varys didn't fill the early sign-up forms nor they didn't even show up on the new thread during the submission period for new entries.


 * @Cello returns as a jury member.


 * @Nuggets failed to send his points on time which led him to a disqualification. He initially wanted to represent Italy but went with Colombia in the last day for sign ups. His entry "Aguardiente" by Greeicy was aiming for a 29th position in the final.

Algeria & France sending the same song
As the host confirmed on the thread, unexpectedly two participants had sent the same song by the same artist for two different countries, Algeria and France, surprisingly, in a span of 40 minutes. The participant that chose it to represent Algeria, @Candy Gaga, had to give it up as rules were in favor of France, played by @Florian, due to the origin of the artist were mainly from that country. Algeria was meant to debut this season, but sadly, due to this incident, @Candy Gaga chose to replace it with Morocco.

A similar case happened in the previous season were two participants wanted to send the same artist, although with different songs.

South Korean entry replacement
The original South Korean entry, "After Like" by the girl group IVE, was announced on the third day of reveals. It instantly sparked controversy as the song was already known by many participants and those who didn't know it were surprised that the song was allowed to compete having a huge sample of Gloria Gaynor's hit, "I Will Survive" and also cause of the big number of streams and success the song achieved.

The song originally wasn't allowed to compete, but eventually the host let the remaining participants decide if it should compete or not. After getting a bunch of reports and many negative reactions, it was confirmed that the song would be replaced with a new one, revealed separately a day after the last songs were revealed.