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Mediterraneanvision Song Contest 4
#Unity
Dates
Semi-final 1	12 July 2018
Semi-final 2	28 July 2018
Final	19 September 2018
Host
Venue	Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre, Ta' Qali, Malta
Presenter(s)	Moira Delia
Broadcaster	Public Broadcasting Services (PBS)
Participants
Entries	36
Debuting	Andorra Austria Egypt Hungary Jordan Libya Monaco Slovenia Switzerland Tunisia
Returning	Albania Lebanon
Withdrawing	None
Participation map      Participating countries     Did not qualify from the semi final
Vote
System	Each country's professional jury award 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs. International viewers vote for their songs, and votes are converted to points by proportional representation.
Nul points	None
Winner	Albania "Piedestal"
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The Mediterraneanvision Song Contest 4 was the fourth edition of the Mediterraneanvision Song Contest. The contest took place in Ta' Qali, Malta, following Malta's victory at the third edition in Barcelona, Spain, with the song "We Are the Soldiers", performed by Ira Losco. All 36 countries that were eligible to take part at the time participated, with Andorra, Austria, Egypt, Hungary, Jordan, Libya, Monaco, Slovenia, Switzerland and Tunisia all making their debut. Albania and Lebanon both returned after a one and two-edition absence respectively. This edition was the first to include semi-finals.

The winner was Albania with the song "Piedestal", performed by Inis Neziri. This was Albania's first win. Serbia placed 2nd and Andorra placed 3rd.

Location

The contest took place in Malta, the winning country of the previous edition.

Bidding phase

Ta' Qali

Marsa

Valletta

Locations of the candidate cities: the chosen host city is marked in blue, while the eliminated cities are marked in red.

Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre, the host venue of the Mediterraneanvision Song Contest 4.

On the 12 June 2018, a bidding phase began. A day later on the 13 June 2018, the MBU and PBS announced that Ta' Qali had been selected as the host city, overcoming the bids from Marsa and Valletta. Below are the 3 cities and their bids:

Key:  †  Host venue

City	Venue	Capacity
Marsa	Malta Shipbuilding	4,500
Ta' Qali	Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre †	13,000
Valletta	Mediterranean Conference Centre	1,400

About the host city

Ta' Qali is a wide-open space in the limits of Attard in central Malta, which contains the national football stadium, Ta' Qali National Park, a crafts village, and a national vegetable market which is locally known as the Pitkalija.

Shortly before World War II, the area was used to build a military aerodrome and a station for the Royal Air Force(RAF), which the British called RAF Ta Kali; Maltese place names were often corrupted in this fashion. RAF Ta Kali was operational throughout the war and continued to be used as an RAF airfield until the mid-1950s. Latterly, U.K.-based squadrons visited Ta Kali as part of their annual proficiency training.

Since the departure of the RAF, the location has been transformed into a recreational area. The area is small in scale but considered by some in Malta as an ideal place to go for a picnic and spend weekend afternoons. The National Park also includes an amphitheatre. A number of international concerts were staged at the park, including artists as diverse as Status Quo, Deep Purple, Fish, Iron Maiden, Demis Roussos, Alannah Myles, Bonnie Tyler and many others. International artists such as Riccardo Fogli have also planted their own trees in the Park.

The newly built U.S. Embassy stands across from the Ta'Qali National Park. In July 2011 the embassy relocated to Ta'Qali from Floriana where it stood for nearly fifty years.

Ta' Qali National Park Ta' Qali still fulfils part of its former role as an airfield but the only aircraft that take off from the greatly diminished landing strip are scale models, whose owners make part of a club located in Ta' Qali. Today, many of the military huts and buildings have been converted into workshops where Maltese craftsmen produce their handiwork, and the Ta' Qali Crafts Village has become an important tourist attraction. There is also the Malta Aviation Museum where one can find different types of aircraft related to Maltese aviation history. Before being converted to a recreational park the airstrip was used in the first car races ever held by the Maltese; nowadays the Sport Muturi has its off-road tracks where the annual motorsport championship is held.

 Format

Contest

The contest consisted of 2 semi-finals and a final.

Visual design

The theme for the contest, "#Unity", was unveiled on the 13 June 2018 on the contest's Google+ Community.

Presenter

Moira Delia was chosen to be the presenter of the contest on the 13 June 2018.

Running order

The running order for the semi-finals was made randomly and the reveal took place on the 1 July 2018. The Grand Final running order was also made randomly, and it was revealed right after the second semi-final.

Participating countries

  Countries in the first semi-final

  Countries voting in the first semi-final

  Countries in the second semi-final

  Countries voting in the second semi-final

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous edition(s)
Annalisa	Vatican City	#1 (for San Marino with Benji & Fede)
Kida	Kosovo	#2
Severina (with Leon)	Serbia	#3 (with Jala Brat)
Zaho	Algeria	#3 (with MHD)

Semi-final 1

Malta, Romania, and Spain also voted in this semi-final.

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Maya Berović feat. Buba Corelli & Jala Brat	"Mala lomi"	13	68
02	Israel	Anna Zak	"Bang Bang"	12	87
03	Italy	Urban Strangers	"Runaway"	10	117
04	Cyprus	Eleftheria Eleftheriou	"Nychtes Kaftes"	3	195
05	FYR Macedonia	Elena Risteska	"Tequila & Lemon"	7	142
06	Montenegro	Sergej Četković feat. Jana Sustersić	"Bar Da Odeš"	14	67
07	Greece	Kelly Kelekidou	"Sti Thessaloniki"	2	208
08	Switzerland	Annella	"Perfume"	8	138
09	Libya	Sultan & Shepard feat. Nadia Ali & IRO	"Almost Home"	11	116
10	Tunisia	Mark Kelly & Soraya Ksontini	"Under The Jasmine Tree"	9	131
11	Kosovo	Kida	"Bileta"	6	167
12	Syria	Safiya	"One Blood (Qui coule dans mes veines)"	15	59
13	Andorra	Yall feat. Gabriela Richardson	"Hundred Miles"	1	237
14	Vatican City	Annalisa	"Bye Bye"	5	173
15	Egypt	Xenia Ghali	"Under These Lights"	4	183

Semi-final 2

France, Gibraltar, and Liechtenstein also voted in this semi-final.

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Portugal	Luciana Abreu feat. Dj Maci	"Pula Pula"	3	198
02	Serbia	Severina feat. Leon	"Hazarder"	2	251
03	Morocco	Saad Lamjarred	"Ya Allah"	15	34
04	Slovenia	Lea Sirk	"Back to Being Me"	8	139
05	San Marino	IROL	"Decollo"	10	96
06	Hungary	Herceg, Opitz Barbi & Missh	"La La La"	11	85
07	Monaco	Stéphanie	"Winds of Chance"	13	56
08	Turkey	Edis	"Olmamış mı?"	6	172
09	Jordan	Ferras	"Coming Back Around"	14	39
10	Croatia	Petra Kovačević	"Nije Katastrofa"	7	162
11	Albania	Inis Neziri	"Piedestal"	1	277
12	Austria	Zoë	"Danse avec moi"	4	197
13	Algeria	Zaho	"Bonne nouvelle"	12	73
14	Bulgaria	4Magic	"Together (Vecherai, Rado)"	5	197
15	Lebanon	Nina Abdel Malak	"Eza Hajarta"	9	112

Final

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Switzerland	Annella	"Perfume"	9	192
02	Malta	Amber	"What They Say"	21	90
03	Albania	Inis Neziri	"Piedestal"	1	400
04	France	Mennel	"Je pars mais je t'aime"	14	139
05	Romania	Havana & Ioana Ignat	"Vivere"	7	232
06	Croatia	Petra Kovačević	"Nije Katastrofa"	23	58
07	Lebanon	Nina Abdel Malak	"Eza Hajarta"	19	107
08	FYR Macedonia	Elena Risteska	"Tequila & Lemon"	11	176
09	Austria	Zoë	"Danse avec moi"	8	205
10	Serbia	Severina feat. Leon	"Hazarder"	2	316
11	Andorra	Yall feat. Gabriela Richardson	"Hundred Miles"	3	284
12	Greece	Kelly Kelekidou	"Sti Thessaloniki"	6	234
13	Egypt	Xenia Ghali	"Under These Lights"	4	282
14	Spain	Barei	"Wildest Horses"	12	161
15	Vatican City	Annalisa	"Bye Bye"	15	127
16	Liechtenstein	Glasperlenspiel feat. Summer Cem	"Royals & Kings"	25	20
17	Gibraltar	Cher Lloyd	"Sirens"	16	125
18	Italy	Urban Strangers	"Runaway"	22	82
19	Bulgaria	4Magic	"Together (Vecherai, Rado)"	24	53
20	San Marino	IROL	"Decollo"	26	3
21	Cyprus	Eleftheria Eleftheriou	"Nychtes Kaftes"	10	179
22	Tunisia	Mark Kelly & Soraya Ksontini	"Under The Jasmine Tree"	18	110
23	Kosovo	Kida	"Bileta"	20	92
24	Portugal	Luciana Abreu feat. Dj Maci	"Pula Pula"	5	235
25	Turkey	Edis	"Olmamış mı?"	13	154
26	Slovenia	Lea Sirk	"Back to Being Me"	17	120

Scoreboard

Semi-final 1

Jury

Split jury/online voting results
Place	Jury	Points	Online voting	Points
1	Andorra	108	Andorra	129
2	Egypt	105	Greece	121
3	Kosovo	98	Cyprus	112
4	Greece	87	Vatican City	104
5	Cyprus	83	FYR Macedonia	95
6	Switzerland	78	Tunisia	86
7	Italy	74	Egypt	78
8	Vatican City	69	Kosovo	69
9	Libya	64	Switzerland	60
10	Israel	52	Libya	52
11	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51	Italy	43
12	Montenegro	50	Israel	35
13	FYR Macedonia	47	Syria	26
14	Tunisia	45	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17
15	Syria	33	Montenegro	17

		Results
		Total score	Online voting	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Israel	Italy	Cyprus	FYR Macedonia	Montenegro	Greece	Switzerland	Libya	Tunisia	Kosovo	Syria	Andorra	Vatican City	Egypt	Malta	Romania	Spain
Contestants	Bosnia and Herzegovina	68	17			10	4	1			3	12	1	10	3		1	5		1
	Israel	87	35	8				4	3	1		10	2	1	12		8	1			2
	Italy	117	43	2	4		10		6	10	1	7	3	3		12	6		2	7	1
	Cyprus	195	112	12	6	1				6		1	4	5	5	8	4		12	12	7
	FYR Macedonia	142	95				2		4		5	2	5	8	7		2	10		2
	Montenegro	67	17	4	1	12					4		6	7		3			7	6
	Greece	208	121	10	7	7	3	3	2			3	7		4	10	3	2	8	10	8
	Switzerland	138	60	3	5	5	6	10	10	3		4	8			5		3	6	5	5
	Libya	116	52	6	2	3	12	7	1		6		10	6	1		5		5
	Tunisia	131	86			4	5			12						2		12			10
	Kosovo	167	69	7	8		7	6	5	2	7	6	12		6	1	12	7	3	3	6
	Syria	59	26			8		5		5	2					4		8	1
	Andorra	237	129		12	2		12	8	8	10			12	2		10	6	10	4	12
	Vatican City	173	104	5	3		1	2	12	7	8	8		2	8	6		4			3
	Egypt	183	78	1	10	6	8	8	7	4	12	5		4	10	7	7		4	8	4

12 points

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 4 Andorra FYR Macedonia Israel Kosovo Spain 3 Cyprus Bosnia and Herzegovina Malta Romania 2 Kosovo Tunisia Vatican City Tunisia Egypt Greece

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina Libya Egypt Switzerland Israel Syria Italy Andorra Libya Cyprus Montenegro Italy Vatican City Montenegro

Semi-final 2

Jury

Split jury/online voting results
Place	Jury	Points	Online voting	Points
1	Albania	121	Albania	156
2	Serbia	117	Serbia	134
3	Austria	101	Portugal	125
4	Turkey	87	Bulgaria	115
5	Croatia	85	Austria	96
6	Bulgaria	82	Turkey	85
7	Portugal	73	Croatia	77
8	Slovenia	71	Slovenia	68
9	Lebanon	58	Lebanon	54
10	San Marino	50	San Marino	46
11	Hungary	48	Hungary	37
12	Algeria	46	Algeria	27
13	Monaco	40	Monaco	16
14	Morocco	33	Jordan	7
15	Jordan	32	Morocco	1

		Results
		Total score	Online voting	Portugal	Serbia	Morocco	Slovenia	San Marino	Hungary	Monaco	Turkey	Jordan	Croatia	Albania	Austria	Algeria	Bulgaria	Lebanon	France	Gibraltar	Liechtenstein
Contestants	Portugal	198	125		4	10	6	6	3	4			7	8	1	3	2	4	7	8
	Serbia	251	134	12		7	10		10	3	10	6	10		10	5	10	12		10	2
	Morocco	34	1		5		7		5		3					1	6		6
	Slovenia	139	68	5	3	8		7	8		12	3	4	10				1	2	7	1
	San Marino	96	46	3	2		4		4	6	2		1	6	3	12			1	2	4
	Hungary	85	37	4	1	3	2					5	8	5	5		4			6	5
	Monaco	56	16			6	3	12	6							2	1	5	5
	Turkey	172	85	6		4		2	2	12		1	6	4	7	10	7	7	4	3	12
	Jordan	39	7			5		5	1	2				2	2				12		3
	Croatia	162	77	8	12	1	5			1	4	12		1	12	8	3	3	3	5	7
	Albania	277	156	10	7			10	7	7	8	10	12		6		12	10	10	12
	Austria	197	96	7	6		8	8	12	5	1	8	3	12		4		8	8	1	10
	Algeria	73	27			12	1	1			7	2		3			8	6			6
	Bulgaria	197	115	2	10	2	12	4		8	5	7	5	7	8	6		2		4
	Lebanon	112	54	1	8			3		10	6	4	2		4	7	5				8

12 points

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 3 Albania Bulgaria Croatia Gibraltar Croatia Austria Jordan Serbia 2 Austria Albania Hungary Serbia Lebanon Portugal Turkey Liechtenstein Monaco

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 1 Algeria Morocco Bulgaria Slovenia Jordan France Monaco San Marino San Marino Algeria Slovenia Turkey

Final

Jury

Split jury/online voting results
Place	Jury	Points	Online voting	Points
1	Albania	218	Albania	182
2	Serbia	146	Serbia	170
3	Egypt	137	Andorra	149
4	Andorra	135	Egypt	145
5	Romania	132	Portugal	127
6	Greece	112	Greece	122
7	Portugal	108	Romania	100
8	Austria	106	Austria	99
9	Switzerland	95	Switzerland	97
10	Cyprus	93	FYR Macedonia	89
11	FYR Macedonia	87	Turkey	88
12	Spain	85	Cyprus	86
13	France	74	Spain	76
14	Vatican City	67	France	65
15	Turkey	66	Gibraltar	62
16	Gibraltar	63	Vatican City	60
17	Slovenia	61	Slovenia	59
18	Tunisia	56	Lebanon	57
19	Kosovo	53	Tunisia	54
20	Lebanon	50	Italy	51
21	Malta	42	Malta	48
22	Croatia	39	Kosovo	39
23	Italy	31	Bulgaria	34
24	Bulgaria	19	Croatia	19
25	Liechtenstein	11	Liechtenstein	9
26	San Marino	2	San Marino	1

		Results
		Total score	Online voting	Spain	Bulgaria	Greece	Switzerland	Israel	France	Hungary	Tunisia	Egypt	Turkey	Andorra	Kosovo	Syria	Cyprus	Morocco	Albania	San Marino	Algeria	Croatia	Lebanon	Libya	Montenegro	Vatican City	Austria	Serbia	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Portugal	Liechtenstein	FYR Macedonia	Jordan	Gibraltar	Romania	Italy	Slovenia	Monaco	Malta
Contestants	Switzerland	192	97		3				3	10		6		8			7		7	8	2				8	3			6		1	7	4			2		6	4
	Malta	90	48		1	1					1	2		2			1			2	5						12		3	3	4				4	1
	Albania	400	182	10	12	12	8	10	10	2	10	10	12	1		2	3			1	10	12	8	6			8			8		4	3	10	7	12	8	7	12
	France	139	65			3	6	3		5						8			4		3		6	4	5	8						6			3	10
	Romania	232	100				5	4	5	12			8	12	12	12				12			5					12	5		10		2			4	12
	Croatia	58	19	4			3	6			2		2		7								3				1	7					1				3
	Lebanon	107	57								3				6		6				4					10		6	8		7
	FYR Macedonia	176	89				7	7		4		12			8		2	12					7	3			3	8					5				1	8
	Austria	205	99	3	2				1					7	5	5	4	2	12	7				5	7	4		5	4		6		8			7		12
	Serbia	316	170	8	8	8	12	8				5	10					1				10	12	12			7			12				7	6		10	2	8
	Andorra	284	149	12		10		2			7		3		10	10	8		2			8		8	3		6	10		10				8	1		7		10
	Greece	234	122	1	6				7		8	8	5	10			12	4		10		1							7	6	5				5	6	5		6
	Egypt	282	145	6	7	4		12	2		12		6				10		6		12	7			1	7	5			4		12		12	10				2
	Spain	161	76		5				12		4							10	5						4	2			2		3		6	5	8	8	6	4	1
	Vatican City	127	6 0			2			6	3	5			5	3				8	5					10			3					7					10
	Liechtenstein	20	9		4														1						2		4
	Gibraltar	125	62	5						6	6		1			6		5				2							12	7	8	5
	Italy	82	51			7	1							3						3		3	1			12								1
	Bulgaria	53	34				2								4			7					2					4
	San Marino	3	1																							1						1
	Cyprus	179	86	2	10					1			4	4		4				4	7	6		7						2			10	4	12		4	5	7
	Tunisia	110	54	7		6						1						8						10						5		8		6		3	2
	Kosovo	92	39				10					4									1		10			6	10					10			2
	Portugal	235	127			5	4	1	8			7	7	6		3		6	3	6	6	5	4	2	6							2	12	2		5		3	5
	Turkey	154	88						4	8					2	1	5	3				4				5	2	2	10	1	12	3						1	3
	Slovenia	120	59					5		7		3			1	7			10		8			1	12			1	1		2			3

12 points

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 7 Romania Andorra Hungary Kosovo San Marino Serbia Slovenia Syria 6 Albania Bulgaria Croatia Greece Italy Malta Turkey 5 Egypt Algeria FYR Macedonia Gibraltar Israel Tunisia

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 4 Serbia Lebanon Libya Portugal Switzerland 2 Austria Albania Monaco FYR Macedonia Egypt Morocco 1 Andorra Spain Cyprus Romania Gibraltar Bosnia and Herzegovina Greece Cyprus Italy Vatican City Malta Austria Portugal Jordan Slovenia Montenegro Spain France Turkey Liechtenstein

Other countries

Further information: List of countries in the Mediterraneanvision Song Contest

Eligibility for potential participation in the Mediterraneanvision Song Contest requires a national broadcaster with active MBU membership that will be able to broadcast the contest. The MBU had issued an invitation of participation in the contest to all active members.

Spokespersons

The spokespersons announced the 12-point score from their respective country's national jury in the following order:

Spain – Álvaro Soler Bulgaria – Poli Genova (Bulgarian representative in #3) Greece – Helena Paparizou (Winner of the first edition with Anastasios Rammos, Cypriot representative in #2) Switzerland – ZiBBZ Israel – Tal France – Amir Hungary – Reni Tolvai Tunisia – Latifa Egypt – Enta Saab Turkey – Hadise (Turkish representative in #2 and #3) Andorra – Marta Roure Kosovo – Nora Istrefi Syria – Maher Zain (Syrian representative in #2) Cyprus – Maria Elena Kyriakou Morocco – Faouzia (Maltese representative in #10) Albania – Orgesa Zaimi (Placed 5th at Kënge Shqiptarë 1) San Marino – Valentina Monetta (Sammarinese representative in #3 with Joshua de Cadenex)

Algeria – Khaled Croatia – Franka Batelić Lebanon – Yasmine Hamdan (Lebanese representative in #1) Libya – Sofyan el Gidi Montenegro – Slavko Kalezić Vatican City – Francesca Michelin Austria – Cesár Sampson Serbia – Seka Aleksić Bosnia and Herzegovina – Deen Portugal – Suzy Liechtenstein – Oonagh (Liechtensteiner representative in #3) FYR Macedonia – Jana Burčeska Jordan – Gigi Hadid Gibraltar – Ellie Goulding (Gibraltarian representative in #3) Romania – Alexandra Stan (Romanian representative in #2) Italy – Emma Marrone (Italian representative in #2) Slovenia – Tinkara Kovač Monaco – Séverine Malta – Christabelle

Official album

Mediterraneanvision Song Contest: Ta' Qali #4
Compilation album by Mediterraneanvision Song Contest
Released	1 November 2020
Genre	Pop
Length	2:06:00
Mediterraneanvision Song Contest chronology
Mediterraneanvision Song Contest: Barcelona #3 (#3) Mediterraneanvision Song Contest: Ta' Qali #4 (#4) Mediterraneanvision Song Contest: Tirana #5 (#5)

Mediterraneanvision Song Contest: Ta' Qali #4 is the official compilation album of the contest, put together by the Mediterranean Broadcasting Union and released on 1 November 2020. The album features all 36 entries including the semi-finalists that failed to qualify for the final.

Spotify playlist

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