Plangainer in the WorldVision Song Contest

Plangainer in the WorldVision Song Contest
Participating broadcaster	AIM
Participation Summary
Appearances	9
First Appearance	98th Edition
Best Result	2nd: 114th Edition
Worst Result	15th: 98th Edition
Hostings	1
Participation history
98th 99th 103rd 104th 106th 108th 111th 114th 115th
Hosting history
117th

Plangainer has participated in the WorldVision Song Contest 8 times since its debut in the 98th edition of the contest, where Camille finished fifteenth, the country's worst placement in the contest. Plangainer's best result comes at the 114th edition of the contest, where Stefanie Feliciano earned second place by a margin of one point from the edition's reigning winner Gallicelèstia, shared alongside Norma Savoie with her second placement in the following edition with 207 points combined.

As of the country's last participation in the 115th edition, Plangainer has yet to win the contest.

History

Plangainer debuted in the 98th edition of the WorldVision Song Contest after prolonged interest in participation prior to the debut dating all the way back to the 95th edition, with the national broadcaster having previously deliberated participation due to potential effort to boost engagement with the creation of the Melodine Song Festival and viewership of entertainment programmes on the network, and with the admittance of AIM into the International Broadcasting Alliance, the broadcaster pushed to begin participating in the contest. The contest and each broadcasted edition is archived and watchable on PORTAL, a video on demand service hosted by AIM.

Since the 104th edition of the contest, Plangainer had used various means to select their performer with various results, alternating between an internal method of selecting a performer to utilizing the Melodine Song Festival to establish their representative, efforts were later concentrated to establish an independent show for the purpose of being the core selection process for selecting future acts, the broadcaster revealed that the plans were eventually canned and that the broadcaster would continue utilizing Melodine further as the format of selection.

Absences

Plangainer has withdrawn from the WorldVision Song Contest a number of times. The first withdrawal after their debut was two editions after their initial debut, during the centennial edition of the WorldVision Song Contest when AIM had reported that the participant had incurred injuries in a vehicular collision during the preparation period of the contest in Monterra, Kalosia, and that the broadcaster had come to an agreement to put contest preparations on pause, later the next day it was announced that the conditions were deemed unfit for the delegation and the people involved to continue rehearsing without putting substantial risk to the recovery of the affected parties.

The broadcaster later remained absent until the 103rd edition and then withdrawing from the 105th edition citing internal complications with delegation and broadcaster affairs that would impede the involvement and organization of the act to perform in the contest.

The country would then proceed to withdraw for the 107th, 109th, 110th and a period between 111th and 114th citing from internal discussion to be absent to conflicts of interest and scheduling. AIM would later clarify that while participation is always on the table every proceeding edition, appearance in the contest at a constant basis may not be possible for a multitude of factors, but will continue to broadcast the show to audiences in the country regardless of their status of participation.

Hostings

The country has successfully won the rights to host the 117th edition of the WorldVision Song Contest following an extensive selection process organized by AIM and the final broadcast delegation voting ticket held from 14 October to 21 of October. Orley and Concord were amongst the two shortlisted out of nine total cities who expressed interest in hosting the contest, with the broadcaster announcing the selection process a few days after the first round of cities were eliminated from the running. On the 21 October, it was announced by the WorldVision Committee that Concord would host the contest at the Phoenix Arena.

Participation overview

Table key

1	First Place
2	Second place
3	Third place
†	Upcoming event

Edition	Artist	Song	Language	Points	Placement	Peak chart positions
						PLN
98th	Camille	"Darling"	English	109	15th	23
99th	Jason Blume and Carrie Mill	"Stars"	English	170	9th	31
103rd	Melanii	"Give A Try"	English	175	6th	12
104th	Aurelia Wei and Harrison Osborne	"Atbusti"	Lithuanian	204	3rd	1
106th	Sami Noble	"Make It"	English	196	4th	4
108th	Oscar Sly	"Restricted"	English	161	10th	14
111th	Aurelia Wei	"Pameluos"	Lithuanian	207	4th	5
114th	Stefanie Feliciano	"Žydroje"	Lithuanian	216	2nd	1
115th	Norma Savoie	"Say Hello"	English	207	2nd	1
117th	Mercey Sofi	"Under the Starlight"	English	246	1st	1

Songs by language

  English (66.6%)

  Lithuanian (33.3%)

Songs	Language	Years
6	English	98th, 99th, 103rd, 106th, 108th, 115th
3	Lithuanian	104th, 111th, 114th

Related involvement

Heads of delegation

Edition	Head of Delegation
98th–108th	Lincoln Watts
111th–	Jonas C. Nielsen

Heads of press

Edition	Head of Press
98th–99th	Ronald B. Innis
103rd–108th	Gemma Atkinson
111th–	Keira Ruthven

Commentators and spokespersons

Edition	Commentator	Spokesperson
98th	Roan Hay	Michele Lacombe
99th
100th		Did not participate
101st
102nd	Erica Williams
103rd		Michele Lacombe
104th	Jeremy C. Navarrete
105th	Roan Hay	Did not participate
106th	Jessica Ridley	Roan Hay
107th		Did not participate
108th		Roan Hay
109th		Did not participate
110th
111th		Roan Hay
112th		Did not participate
113th
114th		Marinda Adams
115th

Audience reception

Reception of the WorldVision Song Contest in Plangainer is largely positive. While viewership is considered to be amongst the average when compared to more larger participating countries, audience numbers have steadily increased since the debut in the 98th edition and the show is considered to be the second most popular entertainment programme in the country, with peak viewership averaging at around 8 to 10 million people, behind only Melodine which consistently averages at around 11 to 13 million viewers per broadcast.

Reactions in the country to contest winners have varied depending on the year, however most contestants have been generally received positively by the general public and the national jury, with criticism often stemming from performances of certain songs that are considered controversial in Plangainer, however this has garnered little pushback from the general audience or any associated press.

Due to the funding model of the broadcaster, the show is broadcast without commercials and is limited to an age minimum of 10 for the public viewing of the show, the average audience has consisted predominantly of middle aged audiences between the ages of 25 and 34, though the show has also seen a large number of teenage and youth audiences that have deemed the show entertaining to watch, with the demographic of both female and male audiences in the country receiving the show evenly. Audience surveys conducted by AIM suggesting that viewership of the contest is considered an anticipated event in the year to watch, as the show has shown constantly to receive a high overall market share in viewership with editions that include the participation of Plangainer, but dropping significantly if the country is absent from the contest.

Table key

✔	Participated in the contest

Viewership by edition

Edition	Broadcast Channel	Avg. viewers (millions)	Share (%)
98th	AIM	8,60	45.2%
99th		7,59	47.1%
100th		6,20	37%
101st		6,69	37.3%
102nd		6,87	33.1%
103rd		9,10	47,7%
104th		10,35	48%
105th		7,10	37,3%
106th		9,01	53.5%
107th		7,86	35.2%
108th		10,66	67%
109th		9,12	53.6%
110th		7,79	48.9%
111th		9,35	49.7%
112th		6,40	40%
113th		7,43	45.7%
114th		9,66	60.7%
115th		9,12	47,9%