Amazing Song Contest 5

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Amazing Song Contest #5 (or ASC #5) will be the fifth edition of the contest. The contest was held in Lisbon, Portugal after Isaura won for the country in ASC #4.

San Marino and Zimbabwe will debut to the contest, Egypt and Liechtenstein will return and 24 countries will withdraw

After being in the Top 6 last edition Portugal, Romania, Brazil, Norway, Slovenia and United Kingdom will be automatically qualified to the Grand Final while the other 40 competing countries will have to compete in one of two semi-finals where the 10 countries with the most points will qualify to the Grand Final

The Semi-Final Allocation Draw took place on 22 October 2018 at the ASC Headquarters in Blackpool, Scotland. The Running order was announced on 24 October 2018

New countries’ best scores
As debuting this edition, San Marino and Zimbabwe will automatically reach their best placing this edition.

Jamaica qualified to the final for the first time this edition. Albania placed 11th this edition beating their previous best place of 14th and Czech Republic got to 10th. Poland placed 7th beating 25th place so Lanberry is the only Polish artist to qualify in ASC. UK got to 3rd and Romania had won the contest for the first time ever. Greece and Libya placed in the Big 6 for the first time.

Returning Artists
This edition 3 of the Big 6 artists were the same from last edition, IZA from Brazil, Kygo from Norway and MANCHE & RALE & DINNA from Slovenia. Alan Walker returned with Sofia Carson this edition after recently representing Norway in ASC #3. Nathan Trent and Mikolas Josef both participated in ASC #3. Nathan Trent placed 20th in the final and Mikolas Josef placed 16th in the semi-final. Ira Losco represented Malta in ASC #1 with Jason Derulo and their song Colours, They placed 7th in the final. Ananya Birla and G.E.M both participated last edition for their countries and both qualified to the Grand Final and Eleni Foureira represented Cyprus in ASC #1 and #3 with her songs Ti Koitas and Caramela qualifying once but then placed 13th in the semi with Caramela.