Wonderful Song Contest 42

Wonderful Song Contest 41 will be the forty-first edition of the Wonderful Song Contest. The contest took place in Bishkek after the Kyrgyz victory in the 40th edition. A total of 66 countries competed in Wonderful Song Contest 39. The top 6 from the last edition, , , , and  are directly qualified to the final, while the other competing countries are split intotwo semi-finals. ,, , , , , , , , , , , , and  are withdrawing from this edition. The Semi Final allocation draw took place on TBA March 2020 at the WBU headquarters in Prague, where the other competing countries were split into two semi finals. The running order was announced on TBA March 2020.

Information


On 12 March 2020 it was announced that Bishkek will serve as the host city of the Wonderful Song Contest 41.

Host City
Bishkek (Kyrgyz: Бишке́к, بىشکەک; IPA: [biʃˈkek]; Russian: Бишке́к, tr. Biškék, IPA: [bʲɪˈʂkʲek]), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz Republic). Bishkek is also the most commonly administrative centre of the Chuy Region. The province surrounds the city, although the city itself is not part of the province, but rather a province-level unit of Kyrgyzstan.

In 1825 Khokand authorities established the fortress of "Pishpek" to control local caravan routes and to collect tribute from Kyrgyz tribes. On 4 September 1860, with the approval of the Kyrgyz, Russian forces led by Colonel Apollon Zimmermann destroyed the fortress. In 1868 a Russian settlement was established on the site of the fortress under its original name, "Pishpek". It lay within the General Governorship of Russian Turkestan and its Semirechye Oblast.

In 1925 the Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast was established in Russian Turkestan, promoting Pishpek to its capital. In 1926 the Communist Party of the Soviet Union renamed the city as Frunze, after the Bolshevik military leader Mikhail Frunze (1885–1925), who was born there. In 1936, the city of Frunze became the capital of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, during the final stages of the national delimitation in the Soviet Union. In 1991 the Kyrgyz parliament changed the capital's name to "Bishkek".

Bishkek is situated at an altitude of about 800 meters (2,600 ft), just off the northern fringe of the Kyrgyz Ala-Too range, an extension of the Tian Shan mountain range. These mountains rise to a height of 4,855 meters (15,928 ft). North of the city, a fertile and gently undulating steppe extends far north into neighboring Kazakhstan. The Chui River drains most of the area. Bishkek is connected to the Turkestan-Siberia Railway by a spur line.

Bishkek is a city of wide boulevards and marble-faced public buildings combined with numerous Soviet-style apartment blocks surrounding interior courtyards. There are also thousands of smaller privately built houses, mostly outside the city centre. Streets follow a grid pattern, with most flanked on both sides by narrow irrigation channels, watering innumerable trees to provide shade in the hot summers.

Bidding phase
Only one main venue was announced as possible venue for the competition to be held. It has a capacity of 20,000 and several big concerts and sport events take place here.
 * The host city had to be near a major airport.
 * The venue must be available for at least six weeks before the contest and one week after the conclusion of the contest
 * The venue must not be open-air, but an air-conditioned building with a capacity of at least 10,000 and a minimum ceiling height of 15 metres (49 ft), insulated for sound and light.
 * The green room must be located as close to the arena as possible (or within it), with a capacity of 300.

Presenter
On 12 March 2020 it was announced that Aidana Deka will be host of Wonderful Song Contest 41.

Aidana Deka is a popular artist from Kyrgyzstan. Popnable collects information about 5 songs by Aidana Deka. Artist's songs reached 2.6M total impressions, 15.2K upvotes, and 1.2K downvotes. The highest Aidana Deka 's charting position is #3, and the worst ranking place is #149. Aidana Deka 's songs spent 14 weeks in the charts. Most climbed song of Aidana Deka reached +56 positions up. The worst movement is 18 places down.