Australia in the ABU Radio Song Festival

Australia

Participating broadcaster| Commercial Radio Australia
Participation summary
Appearances| 2
First appearance| 2012
Last appearance| 2014
Highest placement| 2nd: 2012

Australia have participated in the ABU Radio Song Festival twice. Commercial Radio Australia, Australia's radio industry body, has been the organiser of the Australian entry since the country's debut in the contest in 2012.[1][2]

## History[edit]

### 2012[edit]

Commercial Radio Australia is one of the founder members in the ABU Radio Song Festivals, having participated in the very first ABU Radio Song Festival 2012.[2] Danielle Blakey was selected to represent Australia at the inaugural festival, she was the winner of N2AR (New Artists to Radio) a competition that finds unsigned talent and enables them to have commercial airplay. On 28 August 2014 it was announced that Danielle was to represent Australia.[3] In Seoul Danielle finished in 2nd place and received the Gold Award.

### 2014[edit]

Australia participated in the festival again in 2014, Commercial Radio Australia used First Break to select their participant. First Break was a revamped version of N2AR which had been used to select Australia's 2012 participant. Iluka, the winner of First Break in 2012 was selected to sing "12th of July".[4] The 2014 event was not competitive meaning that no prizes were given except for 'Tokens of Appreciation' to the performers as a sign of recognition of the diverse range of musical genre..

### 2015[edit]

Australia withdrew from the festival in 2015 and has not returned since then.

## Participation overview[edit]

Table key

Grand Prix

Gold Award

Silver Award

Bronze Award

Jury Award

Year  | Entrant  | Language  | Song  | English translation  | Place  | Award

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2012 | Danielle Blakey[5] | English | "Fearless"  | –  | 2  | Gold Award
2014 | Iluka  | English  | "12 July"  | –  | –  | –

## See also[edit]

* Australia in the ABU TV Song Festival
* Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest
* Australia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

## References[edit]

1. ^ "ABU Radio Song Festival website showcases a strong field of entries". Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
2. ^ a b Mikheev, Andy (4 October 2012). "ABU Radio Song Festival 2012 Participants". ESCKaz. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
3. ^ Fleming, Melissa. "Australian Radio winner in ABU Festival final". Commercial Radio Australia. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
4. ^ Granger, Anthony (April 2014). "ABU Radio Song Festival: 12 Finalists Announced". Eurovoix.com. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
5. ^ ABU (12 October 2012). "Billy Acoustie awarded the Grand Prix in the inaugural ABU Radio Song Festival". Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 12 October 2012.[permanent dead link]

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