ABU Song Contest 2020
cancelled international song competition
The ABU Song Contest 2020 was set to be the inaugural edition of the ABU Song Contest, to be held in Qingdao, China. The contest was due to consist of a semi-final on 16 April 2020 and a final on 18 April 2020. It was expected to become the first ever televised and big-scale music competition across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond since the ABU Golden Kite World Song Festivals which were held between 1989 and 1991. The fate of the contest remains unclear.
Development
The 2020 contest was set to take place in Qingdao, China. The nation had previously hosted the ABU Radio Song Festival 2016 in Beijing and the ABU TV Song Festival 2017 in Chengdu, Sichuan.
In 2015, China's Hunan Television raised the prospect of co-organising a competitive song contest similar to the Eurovision Song Contest with the ABU during the organisation's general assembly in Istanbul, Turkey. Notably, Hunan Television had also been the official broadcaster for Eurovision in China from 2015 to 2018. The initial working title of the project was named as the "ABU TV Cup Song Contest" and it was expected to debut in 2017.
However, the contest was not held in 2017.
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