AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2001
| AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2001 | |
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| Dates | |
| Final | 16th of May 2001 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Lemur Hall, Victoria of Bristol, BR |
| Presenter(s) | Jen, Alton, and Michael Harrison |
| Musical director | James Lawyer |
| Directed by | Maria Cortanavais |
| Executive supervisor | Ishaq Nurqifli |
| Executive producer | Ellie Sal |
| Host broadcaster | Royal Bristolian Radio |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 18 |
| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each region sends five-member juries where each votes 1,3,5,7, and 10 for the best 5 songs, added with online vote using Propotional Vote. |
| Winning song | "Mijn hart is gemaakt van diamanten" by Ozhlana |
AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2001 is the fourty-fourth edition of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs. The competition was held as usual in 16th of May 2001 by the authorities of Royal Bristolian Radio (BR). This is the fourth time that Bristol hosted the competition after previously hosting in 1960, 1976, and 1997 after the victory of "The Night" sung by the trio of Jen, Alton, and Michael Harrison. They also presented the festival, where they continued a random occurence of last year's winner presenting the present year's festival after Mika'il Sanjaya presented the 1996 competition together with Arinika Yanni.
The competition was won by Ozeul Marie-Anne Ancic or more known as Ozhlana with the song "Mijn hart is gemaakt van diamanten". Her victory marks the first time a song sung in Dutch won the competition and the first time Pantabang Islands won the competition after previously earning three second places and one third place. Pantabang Islands thus become the second territory to win the festival after Daya Island. Her song is also the first song to earn and win the festival with over 300 points. Another thing to note is that the song didn't won neither the Jury or Public vote, earning second place on each.
Zafizamarrah and Bristol concludes the top three in this year's festival, with Zafizamarrah earning its' fifteenth second place and fourty-third title, and Bristol earning its' fourth third place and eleventh title. On the other side, Mosin-Nagan earned last place again. Pantabang Islands' victory left Mosin-Nagan as the sole holder of the longest non-winning region to participate since 1966.
This is the second time that Victoria which is the capital of Bristol, hosted the festival. Victoria was surprisingly selected after a bidding process hold by BR. For the first time, the competition to the rights of the festival were held using a two-round system. In the first round, Victoria, Breganny, Aubergine, Port Cherry, and Saintwells bid for the festival. On the second round, Victoria won over last Bristolian host city Breganny.
Victoria, or also known as Victoria of Bristol or Victoria of Alezian Bristol in order to avoid confusion. The 2000 Alezian Census showed that as of 2000, around 1,002,383 people called VoB (as its coloquially known) their home. As a territory of the United Kingdom with high supervision from North Alezia (until 2021 where the territory was given back to the Alezian Union), the region operated differently from other regions in North Alezia in many aspects, such as law, economy, and many more.
Due to the complications of hosting the competition again in the Royal Theatre (which hosted the festival back in 1976) with its obsolete design especially with its small seating size, BR decided to host the festival in the still-being-built at the time Grand Theatre Complex (GT Complex). located 3 kilometers from the old border of Victoria, it has 5 theatres (Beaver, Platypus, Penguin, Tarsius, and Lemur) arranged in a circular shape.
For the competition only, the five theatres were combined into one MegaTheatre able to host 20,000 people. Initially, only one was going to be used (Lemur Theatre, hence why it was "technically" hosted in the Lemur Theatre), with Lemur Theatre being temporarily turned into a stage, orchestra pit, scrutineer box, commentary room, and green room. After the competition concluded, the walls of each theatre were closed again and Lemur Theatre was turned into another theatre.
The voting system was updated once again, giving all regions five juries with the right to vote in ARFOS jury votes. This year also combines phone and internet votes into one Proportional System voting.
The year was met with a solemn situation as Soeradi who was supposed to conduct the Basnaharian entries for that year's festival passed away suddenly on 17th of January 2001 due to an unknown complication. Soeradi was given a moment of silence for contributing to ARFOS' success where he has conducted all Basnaharian entries for 12 years from 1987 to 2000 (except for 1996 where he didn't conduct due to overexhaustion), making him one of the longest-serving conductors at the festival. Soeradi himself was substituted by Ali Hisaraudin.
Daya Islander Maria Naavasulainen returned to the festival after earning fourth for her region last year.
Conductors
The list of conductors can be seen below.
| Region | Conductor |
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| Basna | Ali Hisauradin |
| Zafizamarrah | Andi Mizannur Ahzanaruddin |
| Pyalivostok | Maria Nairadiva |
| Tel Hadiv | Hayel Sharonov |
| Mosin-Nagan | Isa Nagavishan |
| Bristol | Dawn Rickison |
| Aramna | Chicherina Mariabella |
| Pantabang Islands | Cherea Alisaunitaian |
| Daya Island | Amilea Samidana |
Commentators
| Region | Radio Broadcaster | Commentators |
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| NATIONWIDE | ABA |
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| Zafizamarrah | Radio Zafizamarrah |
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| Pantabang Islands | Radio Zafizamarrah / Pa'ana'taba'angi |
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| Tel Hadiv | Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu |
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| Bristol | Royal Radio of Bristol |
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| Pyalivostok | Radio Pyalivostok |
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| Basna | Radio Basna Raya |
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| Mosin-Nagan | Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu / Mosinannaganyan |
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| Daya Island | Radio Pyalivostok / Dayain Saari |
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| Aramna | Araminhaes Radioues |
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Spokepersons
| Region | Domicile | Spokespersons |
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| Basna | Basna Kota |
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| Pyalivostok | Pyalivostokgrad |
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| Zafizamarrah | Metropolitan Zafizamarrah |
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| Bristol | Victoria |
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| Pantabang Islands | Bucinnois |
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| Tel Hadiv | Tel Hadiv |
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| Daya Island | Aaren |
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| Mosin-Nagan | Trishi |
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| Aramna | Las Araminhaes |
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Participating Entries and Results
- "*" = the singer won the Independence Award which was held the day before the competition.
- The song for the Independence Award for the year was "What To Do, What To Do" sung by Ilmada Nadira on 1943
| No. | Region | Singer | Song | Translation | Language | Place | Points |
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| 01 | Bristol | ERIN | So What? | -none- | English | 3 | 282 |
| 02 | Pyalivostok | Merlikanova Yasiliyeva* | Даx-Даx | (Goodbye in Indonesian) | Russian | 9 | 135 |
| 03 | Zafizamarrah | Adlan and Imria Alisanuddin | سينتهي قريبًا | It'll End Soon | Arabic | 2 | 290 |
| 04 | Daya Island | Maria Naavasulainen | Muista Vanhoja Aikoja | Remember the Old Times | Finnish | 17 | 2 |
| 05 | Tel Hadiv | Luzhniki | Agħti Tel Hadiv Tiegħi Lura Lili | Give My Tel Hadiv Back to Me | Maltese | 14 | 44 |
| 06 | Aramna | Islan Ben Dari | Dounat | Donut | Aramnan | 16 | 3 |
| 07 | Daya Island | Ika Herinilund | Gråt inte, min älskade | Don't Cry, My Love | Swedish | 11 | 99 |
| 08 | Zafizamarrah | Sasha Rika | سنتان ضوئية | Two Light Years | Arabic | 5 | 179 |
| 09 | Basna | Mizlinda | Cemburu | Jealous | Indonesian | 4 | 254 |
| 10 | Bristol | Jane and The Crossers | Bleak Times | -none- | English | 10 | 121 |
| 11 | Pyalivostok | Olga Mariniveyan | Показать мою любовь? | Show My Love? | Russian | 8 | 142 |
| 12 | Basna | Perlis, Kedah, Trengganu | Melawan | Fighting | Indonesian | 15 | 30 |
| 13 | Mosin-Nagan | Beli Bang! | არასოდეს კარგი | Never Okay | Georgian | 7 | 149 |
| 14 | Pantabang Islands | Ozhlana | Mijn hart is gemaakt van diamanten | My Heart is Made of Diamonds | Dutch | 1 | 319 |
| 15 | Pantabang Islands | Hulahoop | Haat me zoveel je wilt | Hate Me All You Want | Dutch | 6 | 174 |
| 16 | Aramna | Lidle | Idle | -none- | Aramnan | 13 | 54 |
| 17 | Tel Hadiv | Maria Cortis | Meta Kollox Jieqaf | When Everything Stops | Maltese | 12 | 61 |
| 18 | Mosin-Nagan | Anita Lilishnadze | სად არის ჩემი სივრცე? | Where Is My Space? | Georgian | 18 | 2 |
Voting by Region
| BR1 | BR2 | BR3 | BR4 | BR5 | PY1 | PY2 | PY3 | PY4 | PY5 | ZF1 | ZF2 | ZF3 | ZF4 | ZF5 | DI1 | DI2 | DI3 | DI4 | DI5 | TH1 | TH2 | TH3 | TH4 | TH5 | AR1 | AR2 | AR3 | AR4 | AR5 | BN1 | BN2 | BN3 | BN4 | BN5 | MN1 | MN2 | MN3 | MN4 | MN5 | PI1 | PI2 | PI3 | PI4 | PI5 | JURY TOTAL | PUBLIC TOTAL | GRAND TOTAL | |
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| So What? | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 5 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 183 | 99 | 282 | |||||||||||||
| Даx-Даx | 1 | 10 | 7 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 3 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 98 | 37 | 135 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| سينتهي قريبًا | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 10 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 10 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 160 | 130 | 290 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Muista Vanhoja Aikoja | 1 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Agħti Tel Hadiv Tiegħi Lura Lili | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 42 | 2 | 44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dounat | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gråt inte, min älskade | 7 | 3 | 7 | 7 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 3 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 70 | 29 | 99 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| سنتان ضوئية | 5 | 5 | 10 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 5 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 90 | 89 | 179 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cemburu | 7 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 5 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 62 | 192 | 254 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bleak Times | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 108 | 121 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Показать мою любовь? | 5 | 7 | 3 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 5 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 83 | 59 | 142 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Melawan | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 26 | 4 | 30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| არასოდეს კარგი | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 92 | 57 | 149 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mijn hart is gemaakt van dimanten | 7 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 179 | 140 | 319 | |||||||||||||||
| Haat me zoveel je wilt | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 57 | 117 | 174 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Idle | 1 | 5 | 1 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 1 | 1 | 9 | 45 | 54 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Meta Kollox Jieqaf | 1 | 1 | 1 | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 1 | 4 | 57 | 61 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| სად არის ჩემი სივრცე? | XX | XX | XX | XX | XX | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Online Voting Results
According to the AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2001 Public Vote Collection Committee, Exactly 564,013,769 votes combined from online and televoting (including those who voted more than once) were valid which were sent over ARFOS Week.
| No. | Song | Percentage | Votes |
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| 01 | So What? | 8.49% | 99 |
| 02 | Даx-Даx | 3.15% | 37 |
| 03 | سينتهي قريبًا | 11.13% | 130 |
| 04 | Muista Vanhoja Aikoja | 0.04% | 0 |
| 05 | Agħti Tel Hadiv Tiegħi Lura Lili | 0.14% | 2 |
| 06 | Dounat | 0.26% | 3 |
| 07 | Gråt inte, min älskade | 2.46% | 29 |
| 08 | سنتان ضوئية | 7.60% | 89 |
| 09 | Cemburu | 16.44% | 192 |
| 10 | Bleak Times | 9.22% | 108 |
| 11 | Показать мою любовь? | 5.05% | 59 |
| 12 | Melawan | 0.33% | 4 |
| 13 | არასოდეს კარგი | 4.85% | 57 |
| 14 | Mijn hart is gemaakt van dimanten | 11.93% | 140 |
| 15 | Haat me zoveel je wilt | 10.01% | 117 |
| 16 | Idle | 3.86% | 45 |
| 17 | Meta Kollox Jieqaf | 4.87% | 57 |
| 18 | სად არის ჩემი სივრცე? | 0.16% | 2 |