ABU Radio Song Festival 2016

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For the TV Festival, see ABU TV Song Festival 2016.
ABU Radio Song Festival 2016
Dates
Final 26 April 2016
Host
Venue China National Radio Auditorium, Beijing, China
Host broadcaster China National Radio (CNR)
Participants
Number of entries 14 songs from 13 countries (to date)
Debuting countries
Withdrawing countries

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         Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2016
ABU Radio Song Festival
◄2015 • 2016

The ABU Radio Song Festival 2016 will be 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 will place on 26 April 2016 in Beijing, China. As of 25 April 2024, twelve songs from nine countries have confirmed their participation. The hosts China, along with Macau, Nepal, Romania, and Turkmenistan will all make their début in the festival. Brunei have withdrawn from the festival stating that they had not received an invitation to participate from the broadcasting union.

Location

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Format

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

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

Participating Countries

A total of fourteen 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.

Country[2] Language Artist[3] Song[3] English Translation
 China Mandarin China Broadcasting China's Chorus "Singing in the Drizzling Rain" —
 China Mandarin Wang Yi, Zhang Yingying, Ren Yanmin, Zhenmin, Hua Shukai "Youth Never Ends" —
 India English Thokchom Lansana Chanu "Creation" —
 Indonesia Indonesian Novri Batteny "Diantara Kita" Between us
 Macau Cantonese Josie Ho "Who Am I" —
 Maldives Maldivian Bathool Ahmed "Unikan" —
 Myanmar English Eastern & Phoe Pyae "New Fangled Harmony" —
   Nepal Nepali Suman Gurung "Aaja Mero Man Ma" —
 Romania Spanish Analia Vicotria Selis "Viento Del Sur" South wind
 Singapore Mandarin Ling Kai "Year,Month,Day" —
 South Korea English Seungjin Han "Little Wings" —
 Thailand English Nawapol Roadsomjit (Ome) "Take On This World" —
 Turkmenistan Turkmen Atajan Berdiyev "Folk song" —
 Vietnam Vietnamese Phan Thi Thu Lan "Good news bring by the bird" —

Did Not Qualify

Of the seventeen preliminary entries, fourteen were selected to proceed to the final of the ABU Radio Song Festival. The remaining three did not qualify (as shown in the following table)

Country [2] Language Artist Song English Translation
 India English Vince Costa "Home Before Christmas" —
 Indonesia Indonesian Debora Febricia Romauli "Mati Rasa" Numb
 Maldives Maldivian Abdulla Ziyau "Eid Ufaa" —

Other countries

  •  Brunei - Radio Televisyen Brunei (RTB) announced on 20 February 2016 that they have not been invited to the festival, making their participation unlikely.[4]

See also

References

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External links

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