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Amerivision Song Contest

Amerivision Song Contest

Organising body	ABU
Founded	September 8 1956 (September 8 1956)
Region	International
Number of teams	Variable
Current champions	Bahamas
Most successful team(s)	Canada (6 wins)

The Amerivision IRL Song Contest is a constest created by me as an attempt to recreate the Eurovision formula in the american continent, while using the correct timestamps for each edition, which means the competition begins in 1956 and goes all the way through the present day, all while listening to songs from each respective year.

Participating countries

Further information: List of countries in the Amerivision Song Contest

Maysa Matarazzo, winner of the first contest, representing Brazil with the song "Tarde triste"

All countries located in the american continent can participate of the event, however, the event started to happen in an era that most american nations didn't have access to television, so they gradually joined in as television arrived in the nations. Below we have a list of debuts per edition.

Year Country making its debut entry 1956 Argentina Brazil Canada Colombia Mexico United States 1957 Cuba Puerto Rico Uruguay 1958 Chile 1959 Peru 1961 Dominican Republic 1964 Trinidad and Tobago 1965 Panama Venezuela 1967 Jamaica Paraguay 1968 Netherlands Antilles

Year Country making its debut entry 1969 Barbados 1970 Nicaragua 1972 Ecuador Martinique 1973 Bolivia 1974 El Salvador Guadeloupe 1978 Bahamas 1979 American Virgin Islands 1980 Bermuda Suriname 1981 Costa Rica 1984 Guatemala 1988 Antigua and Barbuda 1989 Haiti 1991 Aruba 1994 Dominica 1996 Belize

Year Country making its debut entry 1999 Guyana 2000 Honduras 2001 French Guiana 2003 Greenland 2007 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 2008 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2010 British Virgin Islands 2011 Curaçao 2013 Grenada 2015 Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2018 Cayman Islands 2021 Saint Barthélemy Turks and Caicos Islands 2024 Bonaire

The only american countries and territories that are left to debut in the competition are Anguilla, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, Saba, Saint Martin, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten.

Cuba participated once of the cup in 1957 and withdrew of the contest, only to return again in 1997.

Winners

Edition	Winner	Song	Artist	Points	Margin	Runner-up	Third place	Host City	P/C
1956	Brazil	"Tarde triste"	Maysa	19	1	Argentina	Canada	New York City	6
1957	Canada	"Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream)"	The Crew-Cuts	21	4	Colombia	Uruguay	São Paulo	9
1958	Uruguay	"Mi poncho"	Amalia de la Vega	22	5	Argentina	United States	Edmonton	9
1959	Canada	"Fourty Days"	Ronnie Hawkins	27	8	Peru	Brazil	Montevideo	10
1960	Uruguay	"Eso, eso, eso"	Los TNT	31	8	Canada	Mexico	Toronto	10
1961	Puerto Rico	"Ramona"	Cortijo y Su Combo	18	1	Dominican Republic	United States	Chicago	11
1962	Chile	"Twist del estudiante"	Los Ramblers	36	2	Brazil	Dominican Republic	Ponce	10
1963	Uruguay	"Madame Ivonne"	Julio Sosa	29	3	Chile	United States	Santiago	11
1964	Argentina	"Que suerte!"	Violeta Rivas	30	3	United States	Brazil	Montevideo	12
1965	Panama	"Casi, casi"	Raphael	35	2	Mexico	Puerto Rico	Buenos Aires	14
1966	Brazil	"Roda"	Elis Regina	33	5	Uruguay	Chile	Panama City	14
1967	Puerto Rico	"Use It Before You Lose It"	Bobby Valentín	25	6	Canada	Colombia	Rio de Janeiro	15
1968	Netherlands Antilles	"I Want You Around Me"	Euson & Stax	41	6	Brazil	Canada	Ponce	16
1969	Netherlands Antilles	"You're the One for Me"	Marva Hodge	39	3	Venezuela	Chile	New York City	17
1970	United States	"Les fleurs"	Minnie Riperton	47	11	Netherlands Antilles	Mexico	Caracas	17
1971	Brazil	"Esperar pra ver"	Evinha	37	7	Barbados	Canada	Jacksonville	18
1972	Colombia	"Este viento"	Ana y Jaime	68	4	Jamaica	Canada	Porto Alegre	18
1973	Mexico	"Soy rebelde"	Sola	79	16	United States	Paraguay	Bogotá	17
1974	Trinidad and Tobago	"On the Run"	Scorched Earth	76	17	Brazil	Colombia	Mexico City	19
1975	Canada	"Oowatanite"	April Wine	127	9	Mexico	Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	16
1976	Brazil	"Malandro"	Elza Soares	133	20	Trinidad and Tobago	Panama	Vancouver	17
1977	Chile	"Bebida mágica"	Los Jaivas	125	17	Brazil	Dominican Republic	São Paulo	17
1978	Canada	"La banqueroute"	La Bottine Souriante	119	2	Chile	United States	Valparaíso	18
1979	Netherlands Antilles	"Going Insane"	Sumy	129	15	Canada	Puerto Rico	Montreal	17
1980	Trinidad and Tobago	"We Are Family"	Mac and Katie Kissoon	122	14	Colombia	Uruguay	San Francisco	18
1981	United States	"Bette Davis Eyes"	Kim Carnes	145	15	Trinidad and Tobago	Canada	Port of Spain	17
1982	Uruguay	"Adiós juventud"	Jaime Roos	138	5	Netherlands Antilles	Jamaica	Miami	20
1983	Colombia	"Canto al Avila"	Ilan Chester	129	5	Barbados	Paraguay	Montevideo	20
1984	Canada	"Lovers in a Dangerous Time"	Bruce Cockburn	134	9	United States	Peru	Medellín	20
1985	Brazil	"Escrito nas estrelas"	Tetê Espíndola	141	2	Jamaica	Puerto Rico	Toronto	19
1986	Canada	"Powerline"	Lee Aaron	153	12	Suriname	Mexico	Rio de Janeiro	18
1987	Mexico	"Ahora te puedes marchar"	Luis Miguel	116	11	Uruguay	Costa Rica	Calgary	16
1988	Bahamas	"Just Got Paid"	Johnny Kemp	148	21	Trinidad and Tobago	Martinique	Mexico City	20
1989	Mexico	"Dr. Psiquiatra"	Gloria Trevi	146	25	Suriname	Canada	Nassau	22
1990	Haiti	"Pa gad sou lot"	Sakaj	139	13	Barbados	Bahamas	Ciudad Juárez	23
1991	Bahamas	"Emmalene (That's No Lie)"	Errol Brown	138	6	United States	Guadeloupe	Houston	24
1992	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	Nassau	24
1993	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Note to self: Remember to check this list before starting a new edition.

Winners by country

Wins	Country	Edition
6	Canada	1957, 1959, 1975, 1978, 1984, 1986
5	Brazil	1956, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1985
4	Uruguay	1958, 1960, 1963, 1982
3	Mexico	1973, 1987, 1989
	Netherlands Antilles	1968, 1969, 1979
2	Bahamas	1988, 1991
	Chile	1962, 1977
	Colombia	1972, 1983
	Puerto Rico	1961, 1967
	Trinidad and Tobago	1974, 1980
	United States	1970, 1981
1	Argentina	1964
	Haiti	1990
	Panama	1965

Winners by language

Wins	Language	Edition
15	English	1957, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991
14	Spanish	1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1989
5	Portuguese	1956, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1985
1	French	1978
	Haitian Creole	1990