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Music World Festival
Music World Festival (abbreviated as MWF) is a website based international online community and interactive experience where everyday people can exchange culture and get to know music from all over the world. Each participant represents one place in the world, submits a song for that place by an artist with a connection there, and then votes for their ten favorite songs as that place's jury. The person behind the winning song has hosting duties the following edition, and the cycle repeats each month.

MWF officially started in March of 2019 and has continued every month since. It was inspired by Eurovision Song Contest and follows that style of voting. This page provides a table showing the Top 3 songs of each iteration of the festival, as well as the Top 3 of the Heritage Award results.

Slogans
Below are the slogans that were created by the host of the respective editions. One slogan is in French ("Être Reconnaissant"), one song is in Portuguese ("O mundo vem"), and the rest are all in English. Hosts determined slogans based on a variety of factors. For example, some are motivational/inspirational while some are connected to the history of the city, such as "An Ancient Journey" connecting to the Ancient Silk Road that originated in Xi'an, or "Music Revolution" connecting back to Manchester's history with the Industrial Revolution. Some have geographic elements, such as "Let the music light up your day" connecting to the Northern Lights in Trondheim and "Listen to the Sound Waves" connecting to Cape Town's coastline. In some cases, the slogans are connected to the winning songs, such as "Dance Without a Chance" being the English translation of the Swedish language song that won the previous edition ("Dansa Tan Chans"), or "Down by the riverside" connecting to the lyrics in the winning song. The slogan for editions 37 and 44 were the same ("Rise from the Ashes").

Top Results
The inaugural edition was hosted in Kathmandu, Nepal per a random draw of all cities in the world. Subsequent editions are hosted by the winning place with exceptions for Special Editions.

Special Editions were held each February, as well as May of 2020. To celebrated one year of MWF, Edition 12 was a special edition where there were no rules in terms of the popularity or origin of the song. Edition 15 celebrated Eurovision 2020, where all submitted songs must have been a Eurovision song or a song from a national final for Eurovision that year. The 24th edition was the two year anniversary, where all songs submitted had to be live performances or recordings. There were also no rules regarding fame or origin of the singer. The three year anniversary theme for edition 36 was all about language diversity, where all songs had to be in a native or minority language. Each special edition winner hosts and determines the theme for the next special.

Heritage Award
The Heritage Award was introduced in Edition 33 to celebrate songs that are more cultural and/or unique from the typical mainstream music. Each participant votes for the one song that they believe fits the spirit of this award the most. Those on top are determined based on whoever earns the highest percentage of votes. Mongolia is the only place to have won the award more than once, while also having been in the top 3 at least six times. Armenia in Edition 39 remains the only place to have earned more than 50% of the vote.

Ties & Tiebreakers
* Ties for 1st place are broken by counting the number of unique voters for each place, with whoever has the most winning the tie-breaker. Since Edition 4, ties for all other places are not broken. Prior to that edition, the same tie-breaker applied to all placements.

Podium Ties

 * In Edition 2, Canada and Sweden tied for 1st place, with the tie-breaker going to Canada.
 * In Edition 8, Bangladesh and Norway tied for 3rd.
 * In Edition 9, China and Netherlands tied for 1st place, with the tie-breaker going to China. Germany and Albania tied for third.
 * In Edition 14, Andorra and China tied for 3rd.
 * In Edition 16, Indonesia and Sri Lanka tied for 2nd with 118 points.
 * In Edition 20, San Marino and Australia tied for 1st place, with the tie-breaker going to San Marino.
 * In Edition 21, a three-way tie occurred for 2nd place. Australia, Finland and Serbia all tied for 2nd with 121 points. Of the three, Finland received the most 12-points.
 * In Edition 31, Faroe Islands and France tied for 3rd.
 * In Edition 36, Antarctica and Spain tied for 3rd.

Heritage Award Ties

 * For the Heritage Award in Edition 38, Brazil and Indonesia tied for 2nd place.
 * For the Heritage Award in Edition 42, Mongolia, Spain and the United Kingdom tied for third with 7.4%
 * For the Heritage Award in Edition 45, China and Mongolia tied for first with 19%, Egypt and Israel tied for third with 15%
 * For the Heritage Award in Edition 46, Malaysia and Portugal tied for 2nd place.
 * For the Heritage Award in Edition 47, Israel and Mongolia tied for 2nd place.
 * For the Heritage Award in Edition 53, Jamaica and Botswana tied for 2nd Place.
 * For the Heritage Award in Edition 54, Albania and Bangladesh tied for 2nd place.

Featured Artists
* The following artists were featured in the winning songs above:
 * Black Leather by Keiino features Charlotte Qamaniq
 * Falene by Michele Bravi features Sophie and the Giants*Additional Notes

Voting Miscalculation
Due to an administrative error in Edition 10, Iran, previously announced as 1st place, lost by three points to the United Kingdom after votes were readjusted. This was due to Italy's votes originally being counted twice in place of Germany's votes. As recompense, Iran and Daniel hosted the special 12th Edition of MWF, with the winner of Edition 11 resuming duties in Edition 13.

Multiple Registrations
An individual who signed up under a different alias and email each edition and voted within minutes of songs being released was given a 1-year ban from the festival.

Voting Irregularity
In Edition 17, a televoting player had submitted their votes in the Grand Finale where all 10 of their votes were given to songs that came from the other semi-final that they were not part of. Due to this irregularity, a vote was held to determine what to do with the votes and establish a rule. It was decided that though it is theoretically possible one may like all the songs in one semi-final more than the other, it is an unlikely scenario and would only be accepted once every 100 years.

Greece Voting Scandal
In Edition 23, the player behind the Greek song allegedly submitted multiple votes by different names, all giving Greece 12 points. This was discovered immediately as the names the votes were under were not registered as participants in the Music World Festival and all came from the same IP address. Six of these votes had come in by the time the admin team notified the individual of their disqualification. The responsible individual stated it was the artist's fans who voted but understood the consequences and apologized.

Indonesia Voting Scandal
In Edition 31, multiple votes were received by non-registered accounts all giving Indonesia 12 points. While it was a similar situation to the Greece Voting Scandal from Edition 23, all of the votes came from different IP addresses. After contacting the individual who submitted the song, it appears that they shared the link to vote on their social networks thinking that anyone can vote in the festival. They immediately let their followers know to stop voting. As a result, the individual was allowed to continue without being disqualified, however, all of those votes were discarded.

Russia Hosting
* Russia won Edition 35 and was supposed to host Edition 37 as a result. However, with the invasion of Ukraine, the hosting player held a vote on whether it would be ethical for Russia to remain as host. Following the results of the vote, it was decided that Mongolia would serve as the alternate host after having won multiple Heritage Awards.

Host Disqualification
The hosting nation/player, South Africa voted after the results were revealed in Edition 43. This marked the first time that a hosting nation and player were disqualified for non-voting. Their votes were as follows: 12 to Ireland, 10 to Brazil, 8 to Norway, 7 to Estonia, 6 to Mongolia, 5 to Serbia, 4 to Iceland, 3 to Italy, 2 to Argentina, and 1 to South Korea. Had the votes come in time and counted, Mongolia would have won the televote and gone from 9th overall to 8th, Ireland would have finished second over the United Kingdom, and Brazil would have jumped from 25th to 16th place. Some other changes would have been Norway from 10th to 8th, Estonia 28th to 25th, Serbia 21st to 17th, and Iceland 21st to 18th. Italy, Argentina, and South Korea would have remained in the same position.