ABU Radio Song Festival 2016

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 Brunei had withdrawn from the festival stating that they had not received an invitation to participate from the broadcasting union.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.

ABU Radio Song Festival 2016
Dates
Final26 April 2016
Host
VenueChina National Radio Auditorium, Beijing, China
Host broadcasterChina National Radio (CNR)
Participants
Number of entries13 songs from 10 countries
Debuting countries
Non-returning countries
  •      Participating countries     Did not qualify to the final     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2016
2015 ← ABU Radio Song Festival → 2018

Location

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

Format

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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

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

Participating Countries

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A total of thirteen 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 Victoria Selis & Mariano Castro "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

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Of the seventeen preliminary entries, thirteen were selected to proceed to the final of the ABU Radio Song Festival. The remaining four songs 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 "Di Antara Kita" Indonesian
  Maldives Abdulla Ziyau "Eid Ufaa" Maldivian

Other countries

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  •   Brunei - Radio Televisyen Brunei (RTB) announced on 20 February 2016 that they had not been invited to the festival, making their participation unlikely.[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "China: Beijing To Host The 4th ABU Radio Song Festival". eurovoix-world. Archived from the original on 27 February 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  2. ^ Granger, Anthony. "ABU Radio Song Festival'16: Macau, Nepal & Romania Debut". Eurovoix-world.com. Archived from the original on 27 February 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d "ABU Radio Song Festival 2016". abu.org.my. Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  4. ^ a b c Granger, Anthony. "ABU Radio Song Festival'16: 14 Songs Selected To Participate". Eurovoix-World.com. Eurovoix World. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  5. ^ Granger, Anthony. "Brunei: ABU Radio Song Festival 2016 Participation Unlikely". Eurovoix-world.com. Archived from the original on 27 February 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
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