Alezian Union at the Worldvision Song Contest
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| Member Station | ABA |
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| Participation Summary | |
| Appearances | 14 |
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| Best Result | WV 94 : 1st |
| Worst Result | WV 82: 17th |
The Alezian Union has participated in the Worldvision Song Contest a total of thirteen times, 8 times as separate countries of North Alezia and South Alezia, and then 5 times as a reunified country.
North Alezia debuted in Worldvision Song Contest 82, with Imara Syafani's You Are placing 17th. Since then, North Alezia has touched the top 10 four times including the runner up position in the 83rd Worldvision Song Contest held in St. Christopher, Llalta.
Meanwhile, South Alezia debuted in Worldvision Song Contest 83, with Kay Wattefs. During its course of participation, South Alezia has always received bottom 10, and would become a laughingstock of the world.
As a unified country, the nation has received top 10 positions in every edition since it's debut in Worldvision Song Contest 90. The nation won the competition for the first time in Worldvision Song Contest 94.
History
Pre-Reunification (WV 82- WV 88)
The Alezian Union has been a huge market for musical events and TV shows. North Alezia has been enjoying a locally made AleziRadio Festival of Songs beginning from the year where the country earned independence from Great Britain which was in 1958, where it continues even into the present era. In South Alezia, it used to host their own local show of the Alezian Song Festival from 1979 to 1982.
Weeks after Worldvision 81 concluded, Alezian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) signed up for Worldvision participation. It has been one of the top goals of the Alezian Broadcasting Authority which is to broadcast international events, such as The Worldvision Song Contest. ABA tried broadcasting Worldvision 81 held in Boschke, Britonisea. However, view ratings were pretty low as there's no singer representing the country thus reducing the need to watch the contest. ABA announced that the Alezimania format won't be used in order to prepare for more editions to come and not to surprise singers and to prepare for their second attempt. And thus, lines were open for the first season of Alezimania even before Worldvision 82 begins. For Worldvision 82, ABA announces that they will be using internal selection for the competition.
The country finally debuted in Worldvision 82 in Tiferet, Ertzei Kishim with Imara Syafani's You Are. North Alezians suddenly started to flock and watch the contest and suddenly it's the most watched TV show in North Alezia. Every edition broke the previous edition's view records. However, in this edition, North Alezia fails to gain attention and earned 17th.
After Worldvision 82 concluded, the national final for searching North Alezia's representative for Worldvision Song Contest 83 was held. The contest is called Alezimania and thus selected Samara and Izdar to represent the country with "My Life Falls Apart Before Me". The song was not the favorite to earn top 10. However, to everyone's surprise, North Alezia earned its best result until it's reunification, which is 2nd.
North Alezia then started to use Alezimania as a source for finding new singers and sending a representative to the Worldvision Song Contest plus the World Hit Festival for the runner up of the national final. The country continues to stay on the top 15 on the other two occasion with Mina Al Diyyah's 11th and Nisran Yaqrina's 15th.
There was some rumors that North Alezia was going to withdraw and have a hiatus at some point, but ABA for now confirmed this as a false rumour and North Alezia would stay for the world class entertainment and won't go anywhere soon unless an emergency struck the country.
From the debut, all songs from North Alezia has been using English and Arabic as their language. However, with Tel Hadiv winning Alezimania Season 4 with Idresh Noam-Khaled's "Bevakasha", For the first time the North Alezian entry won't use Arabic, instead using Hebrew. Idresh earned 8th place, returning the country into good Worldvision reputation status
After that, Tel Hadiv would win the nationals again with Kelsi Meshzan's "No" earning a major landslide inside the juries of the 5th season of Alezimania. Kelsi would once again give the country another 8th place.
After Kelsi's great result, ABA announced that Alezimania will be redesigned into a new (although season will still continue from there) National Final called Alma. Alma adds a new televoting system and standardized the design altogether. Thus the 6th Season of Alma was held and Tel Hadiv won again with Unique Times Four's "Enjoy Life, Love Yourself". However, this proved to be not as successful as other entries, only reaching 15th place.
Transition (WV 89)
During Worldvision Song Contest 89, South Alezia was experiencing an overthrowing of its national monarchy which has been criticized for over-spending and for "killing" the economy of the country. Even then, both North Alezia and South Alezia still competed separately. During the hours before the live broadcast of the competition, the South Alezian government was overthrown and the reunification process famously was announced in the contest's voting session.
Around this time, North Alezia itself earned it's second best result, which is 5th. After this, a referendum was held which was overly in support of reunifying the Alezian Isles into a single nation called the Alezian Union.
After Reunification (WV 90 - present)
After reunification, a restructured ABA (Alezian Broadcasting Authority) immediately plans for future Worldvision participations. In order to ensure fairness, a cycle rule was introduced where after a national selection was held for one edition, the future four editions would be given to the four regions of the Alezian Union starting from North Alezia then rotating clockwise to Pantabang Islands, South Alezia, before ending in Mosin-Nagan and restarting the cycle with another National Final. The National Final in question ends up being a restructured version of the North Alezian preselection, Alma.
In Worldvision Song Contest 90, the ABA announced that they would use Alma as its selection method. In this National Final, it was initially predicted that North Alezia was going to win. However, this was proven to be false as South Alezia's Quarter Again won the national final. The girl group ended up earning 10th.
Editions after that sees regions trying and showcasing their musical culture representing the Alezian Union. This resulted in North Alezia's 8th, Pantabang Islands 7th, South Alezia's 8th, and an unexpected victory from the combination of Mosin-Naganese soloist Aziz-Lutfi Garanov and band called Time-Killers in Marina Point, Nekoni,
Around this time, the nation has also successfully held the competition in its soil where the 93rd edition was held in the National Stadium of Metropolitan Zafizamarrah. Previously, the region of North Alezia (previously its own nation) has tried bidding for hosting the competition in Zafizamarrah, however, this was met with failure when they tried for hosting in 83 (2nd place in bidding) and 84 (3rd place in bidding).
As a reunified nation, the Alezian Union has successfully stayed in the top 10 position in all of its participations.
Contestants
| Edition | Artist | Region | Language | Title | Place | Points |
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| 82 | Imara Syafani |  North Alezia (Zafizamarrah) |
English, Arabic | "You Are" | 17 | 117 |
| 83 | Samara and Izdar | North Alezia (Zafizamarrah) |
English, Arabic | "My Life Falls Apart Before Me" | 2 | 208 |
| 84 | Mina Al-Diyyah | North Alezia (Zafizamarrah) |
English, Arabic | "Antahiyat" | 11 | 135 |
| 85 | Nisran Yaqrina | North Alezia (Zafizamarrah) |
English, Arabic | "When Love Speaks For Itself" | 14 | 121 |
| 86 | Idresh Noam-Khaled | North Alezia (Tel Hadiv) |
English, Hebrew | "Bevakasha" | 8 | 158 |
| 87 | Kelsi Meshzan | North Alezia (Tel Hadiv) |
English, Hebrew | "No" | 8 | 160 |
| 88 | Unique Times Four | North Alezia (Tel Hadiv) |
English | "Enjoy Life, Love Yourself" | 15 | 143 |
| 89 | Arlinna Safarudiyyah | North Alezia (Zafizamarrah) |
English, Arabic | "Paramedical" | 5 | 195 |
| 90 | Quarter Again |  South Alezia |
English | "If I Can Repeat The Past" | 10 | 158 |
| 91 | FIRE | North Alezia |
English | "FIRE" | 8 | 179 |
| 92 | NESIANA |  Pantabang Islands |
English | "I Am Lady Night" | 7 | 166 |
| 93 | Elstrou Maatscheld | South Alezia |
English | "Dammit, I'm In Love Again" | 8 | 147 |
| 94 | Aziz-Lutfi Garanov ft. Time-Killers |  Mosin-Nagan |
English, Georgian | "I've Faith In You" | 1 | 223 |
| 95 | Irlene Lilvouw | South Alezia |
Dutch, Indonesian | "Sorry, Niet Sorry" | 16 | 113 |
| 96 | tba | North Alezia |
English, French | "Aime-Moi" | tba | tba |