Amazing Song Contest 2

Previous edition: Amazing Song Contest 1  Following edition: Amazing Song Contest 3

Amazing Song Contest #2 was the second edition of The Amazing Song Contest series. The contest took place in Paris, France after Lisandro Cuxi’s victory in the first edition in Blackpool.

All countries that competed in Edition #1 will compete in ASC #2 again along with the four new countries Iceland,  Liechtenstein,  Brazil and  Switzerland.

After being in The Top 6 the previous edition France, Bulgaria, Israel, Finland, Ireland and Moldova will be automatically qualified to the Grand Final not having to compete in a Semi-Final.

The 40 countries not in the Big 6 were split into Two Semi-Finals of 20 countries. The Top 10 from each Semi-Final will qualify to The Grand Final.

The Semi-Final Allocation Draw took place on 6 August 2018 in the ASC Headquarters in Blackpool, Scotland, United Kingdom. The Running Order was announced on 9 August 2018

New countries' best scores
As they are debuting, Brazil, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland will automatically reach their best placing this edition.

France managed to win again getting a higher score. Germany placed 8th in ASC #1 so now their best score is 6th. United Kingdom goes from 11th to 8th. Cyprus goes from 15th to 13th. Spain was at 17th and now jumped up 10 places to 7th. Sweden jumped 15 places from 20th to 5th. Denmark went from 21st to 19th and United States was at 23rd now 10th. South Korea jumped 2 places from 24th to 22nd. Greece and Faroe Islands both entered the Final for the first time in 12th place and 9th place. Poland got to 24th in the Grand Final and Austria got to 20th. New Zealand went from 16th in the SF up to 3rd and Portugal went from 15th in the SF to 2nd. Uzbekistan, Italy and Latvia entered the final for the first time placing 4th, 16th & 17th place. China, Romania & Egypt stayed in the Semi-Final but got to a better place.

Returning Artists
Representative of Aland Islands Sini Yasemin will be returning for the second edition after representing Aland Islands in ASC #1 in a tie for last place in Semi-Final 2 with 24 points. Yasemin failed to qualify to the Grand Final again but also came last place in the Semi-Final again.

German representative Alice Merton represented Germany in ASC #1 finishing 8th place in the Grand Final.

Big 6
The Big 6 were the 6 countries who were in The Top 6 the previous edition.

France, Bulgaria, Finland and Moldova are for the first time in big 6 for the second edition of Amazing Song Contest while Ireland and Israel pile their second big 6 in a row as they were among the 6 first countries to announce their participation during the first edition.