NowNewMusic Contest #03 - May 2016

SIMPLIFIED RULES:

Players:
1. Player limit is 25.
2. Countries are first come, first serve, unless they were claimed last edition.
3. If you participated last edition and want to change countries, announce your withdrawal of your current country so that another player may claim it.
Countries:
4. Only UN member countries + Palestine, Taiwan, and Vatican City are eligible to participate.
5. Some countries are allowed to borrow; if you have questions, ask me.
Artists:
6. Artists must be alive and be of any age.
7. Artists can represent a certain country if they were born in the country and/or their (grand)parents are from there.
8. An act of 2-4 people requires at least one person to satisfy rules to represent a specific country.
9. An act of 5 or more people requires at least one person to be 100% of a specific country.
Entries:
10. Please provide a 25-second time slot for the recap.
11. Only entries released within March-April 2016 are eligible for this edition. This is probably the most important rule that identifies this contest.
12. Music/lyric videos uploaded by an official YouTube channel (VEVO, record label, artist) within March/April 2016 are allowed regardless of their first release date. YouTube offers possible entries. Live performances are also accepted if they are from an official channel as well.
13. No ESC entries are allowed (The contest is a few weeks away, so... that would be awkward.)! National selection entries are allowed, however.
14. Covers/remixes are allowed if they were officially released within February/March/April.
15. Instrumentals are accepted.
16. Record labels can send artists for their home country regardless of the artist.
17. No National Selections until we get a board.
Voting:
18. Don't publish votes and don't vote for yourself.
19. If you made a mistake in voting, I will notify you ASAP; you will be given a one-day extension.
20. If you can't vote, give me an explanation. I'll gladly attempt to provide a replacement. You will not be punished if you do.
21. Any replacement will be given a two-day extension, but I would still like the original player's votes at best.
22. Ties are broken by whichever country received votes from the greater number of countries.

P.S. - I may ask questions related to the rules just in case, but I hope to not do it a lot.

Last month's player for Greece (@wmpcontest16) was inactive last month, so Greece is now free to take by anyone.

CONFIRMED COUNTRIES:
- France (HOST) - Tufkai - Nehuda ft. Cris Cab - "Paradise"
- Philippines - MaRtIn - Jonalyn Viray - "Heart of Glass"
- F.Y.R. Macedonia - Boyan08 - Bebe Rexha ft. Nicki Minaj - "No Broken Hearts"
- Taiwan - SUNGPIN - Diana Wang - "Home"
- Romania - ✨💃 - XOXO - "In grija ta"
- Poland - 𝖱𝖠𝖣𝖤𝖰𝖰 - Kovalczyk - "Turlaj się"
- United Kingdom - Grace - Lauren Aquilina - "Kicks"
- Japan - チバシゲヒト - Keyakizaka46 - "Silent Majority"
- Russia - ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴀᴛᴛᴀᴄᴋ - Quest Pistols Show - "Nepokhozhie"
- Netherlands - Talitha - Tessa Belinfante - "Turn Around"
- Croatia - vaneedas - Berislav Sertić - "Ostajem tu"
- Sweden - @aalto - Julia Frej - "Blood On Their Hands
- United States - ✨ Forrest ✨ - Meghan Trainor - "NO"
- Belgium - @ori2002 - You Raskal You - "Everyone's Trying"
- Finland - alexeh - Laura Närhi - "Supersankari"
- Czech Republic - Matilda - Mirai - "Divadlo"
- Germany - vincentfrance - Mark Forster - "Wir sind groß"

DEADLINE: May 1, 2016, 15:30 MST

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