Borealis Song Contest

For the current edition see Borealis Song Contest 3.

The Borealis Song Contest, often shortened to BSC, is a song contest on Youtube held among the members of the Borealis Broadcasting Union (BBU) since October 2019. The competition was based upon the existing Eurovision Song Contest. The executive supervisor is Marco.

Each country's head of delegation gets to select an entry for each edition either by internal or national selection. Then the countries get to vote for each show to determine the qualifiers and the winner of the edition.

So far, 3 different countries have won the competition and therefore hosted the contest. Apart from Estonia, who hosted the very first edition, Norway, The Netherlands and the United States have been winners and hosts of the contest. The highest scoring winner so far is BANKS from the United States. She won the 3rd edition with her song "Gimme", which got 342 points.

History
On 27 October 2019, Marco (executive supervisor of the Borealis Broadcasting Union) decided to start an international music contest, in which every full member of the BBU can take part by sending artists representing their countries with songs. It was called Borealis Song Contest. The name was inspired by "Aurora borealis" (Northern Lights). Only 14 countries located in the North of the world were selected to take part as full BBU-Members in the first edition.

The first ever Borealis Song Contest started on 10 November 2019. It was held in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Fourteen nations took part in the first edition, each submitting an entry to the contest. Each country rated every competing song from 1 to 10 points. The voting procedure has not changed since then.

Norway was the first ever country to win the contest. The winner is traditionally set to be the host of the following edition. This method was used in every further edition of the Borealis Song Contest.

Logo and theme
The general logo was introduced in the 1st edition of the contest. The word "Borealis" was formed in a bold font while the letter "O" was replaced by a star. The flag of the host country appears in this shape in the edition-specific logo. Furthermore, the host city and edition can be found below.

Rules
See: Rules of the Borealis Song Contest

Slogans
Since the first edition, slogans were used for the contest. In each edition, the host broadcaster decides the slogan and logo of the edition and based on it, develops the contest's theme and visual design.

Countries
Any full member of the BBU is allowed to send a song to the Borealis Song Contest. Each full member has got a certain broadcaster that is responsible for the choice of the artists and songs the country is sending to an edition. Forty-two countries have participated at least once. These are listed below alongside the edition in which they made their debut: