ABU Radio Song Festival 2016

For the TV Festival, see ABU TV Song Festival 2016.
ABU Radio Song Festival 2016
Dates
Final 26 April 2016
Host
Venue China National Radio Auditorium, Beijing, China
Host broadcaster China National Radio (CNR)
Participants
Number of entries 13 songs from 10 countries
Debuting countries
Withdrawing countries
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The ABU Radio Song Festival 2016 was the fourth edition of the ABU Radio Song Festivals, organised by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). Originally a biennial event, the festival organisers changed its format to an annual festival commencing from 2014. The festival took place on 26 April 2016 in Beijing, China. Thirteen songs from ten countries took part in the festival. The hosts China, along with Macau, Nepal, Romania, and Turkmenistan all made their début in the festival. Brunei had withdrawn from the festival stating that they had not received an invitation to participate from the broadcasting union. Indonesia failed to qualify from the pre-selection stage of the festival.

Location

For more details on the host city, see Beijing.

It was announced that the 2016 ABU Radio Song Festival would take place in Beijing, China.[1]

Format

Unlike the format used in the Eurovision Song Contest there are two versions of the Song Festivals, ABU Radio and ABU TV Song Festivals. The ABU Radio Song Festival took place alongside the Radio Asia 2016 event took place in April 2016.

Host broadcaster

China National Radio (CNR), was the host broadcaster for the festival on 26 April 2016.[1]

Participating Countries

A total of fourteen countries took part in this years festival. Host country China made their début in this years festival along with Macau, Nepal, Romania and Turkmenistan. Brunei withdrew from the contest. The following entries had been selected by the ABU to participate in the final of the ABU Radio Song Festival 2016.[2]

Country[3] Artist[3] Song[3] Language
 China Wang Yi, Zhang Yingying, Ren Yanmin, Zhenmin, Hua Shukai "Youth Never Ends" Mandarin
 China China Broadcasting Children's Chorus "Singing in the Drizzling Rain" Mandarin
 India Thokchom Lansana Chanu "Creation" English
 South Korea Seungjin Han "Little Wings" English
 Macau Josie Ho "Who Am I" Cantonese
 Maldives Bathool Ahmed "Unikan" Maldivian
 Myanmar Eastern & Phoe Pyae "New Fangled Harmony" English
   Nepal Suman Gurung "Aaja Mero Man Ma" Nepali
 Romania Analia Vicotria Selis "Viento Del Sur" Spanish
 Singapore Ling Kai "Year,Month,Day" Mandarin
 Thailand Nawapol Roadsomjit (Ome) "Take On This World" English
 Turkmenistan Atajan Berdiyev "Folk song" Turkmen
 Vietnam Phan Thi Thu Lan "Good news bring by the bird" Vietnamese

Did Not Qualify

Of the seventeen preliminary entries, thirteen were selected to proceed to the final of the ABU Radio Song Festival. The remaining three did not qualify (as shown in the following table)[3]

Country[4] Artist[4] Song[4] Language
 India Vince Costa "Home Before Christmas" English
 Indonesia Debora Febricia Romauli "Mati Rasa" Indonesian
 Indonesia Novri Batteny "Diantara Kita" Indonesian
 Maldives Abdulla Ziyau "Eid Ufaa" Maldivian

Other countries

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "China: Beijing To Host The 4th ABU Radio Song Festival". eurovoix-world. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Granger, Anthony. "ABU Radio Song Festival'16: Macau, Nepal & Romania Debut". Eurovoix-world.com. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "ABU Radio Song Festival 2016". abu.org.my. Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 Granger, Anthony. "ABU Radio Song Festival'16: 14 Songs Selected To Participate". Eurovoix-World.com. Eurovoix World. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Granger, Anthony. "Brunei: ABU Radio Song Festival 2016 Participation Unlikely". Eurovoix-world.com. Retrieved 20 February 2016.

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