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ABU TV Song Festival 2018

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ABU TV Song Festival 2018
Dates
Final2 October 2018
Host
VenueAshgabat Ice Palace, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Presenter(s)Tahyr Hojaev
Zybagozel Muhammedova
Host broadcasterState Committee of Turkmenistan for Television, Radio Programs and Cinematography (TVTM)
Websitewww.abu.org.my/ABU_TV_Song_Festival-@-ABU_TV_Song_Festival.aspx Edit this at Wikidata
Participants
Number of entries
  • 16 countries
  • 18 songs
Debuting countries
Returning countries
Non-returning countries
2017 ← ABU TV Song Festival → 2019

The ABU TV Song Festival 2018 was the seventh annual edition of the ABU TV Song Festivals.

History

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The event, which is non-competitive, took place in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan and coinciding with the 55th General Assembly of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU).

List of participants

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A total of sixteen countries took part in the ABU TV Song Festival 2018. Benin, Russia and Uzbekistan made their debut in the event, with Kyrgyzstan and Turkey returning. China, Malaysia and Zambia all withdrew from the festival. Benin represented the entry from the African Union of Broadcasting.

Draw Country[1] Artist[1] Song Language
1  Afghanistan Negar Mandegar "Delbar" Persian
2  Indonesia Lana Nitibaskara "Reach For The Stars" English, Indonesian
3  Kazakhstan Nursultan Zhexenbin "I'm inflamed" Kazakh
4  Japan Eir Aoi "Ignite" Japanese
5  Turkmenistan Myahri Pirgulyeva "Mondjukatdy" Turkmen
6  Hong Kong Thye Cho Yee "Chasing Dream" Cantonese
7  Russia Indzhihan Gulmuhometova "My Turkmenistan" Russian
8  Kyrgyzstan Gulzhigit Kalykov "Rain" Kyrgyz
9  Benin Tiboy Shalla "Numba" English, Fon, French
10  India Kushal Paul & Mehul Grover "Raaj Kapoor Medley" Hindi
11  Turkey Güliz Ayla & Bahadır Tatlıöz "Kimin umrunda" Turkish
12  South Korea K.Will "Talk Love/Please don't..." Korean
13  Macau Germano Bibi Guilherme "Nai de zhu jimo" Mandarin
14  Turkmenistan Begench Charyev "Love" Turkmen
15  Maldives Mohamed Abdul Ghanee & Mariyam Ashfa "Flower" Maldivian
16  Vietnam Pham Khanh Linh "Back to winter" Vietnamese
17  Uzbekistan Fahriddin Hamdamov "Come to me" Uzbek
18  Turkmenistan Gulshat Gurdova & Parahat Amandurdyev "Turkmenistan" Turkmen

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "2018 ABU TV Song Festival – Meet the Performers". Abu.org.my. September 2018. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
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