The ABU Radio Song Festival 2016 was the fourth edition of the

ABU Radio Song Festival The ABU Radio Song Festival is a biennial non-competitive gala that showcases songs or instrumentals by musicians across Asia, organised by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), and is based on the Eurovision Song Contest. The format consist ...

s, organised by the

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(ABU). Originally a

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event, the festival organisers changed its format to an annual festival commencing from

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. The festival took place on 26 April 2016 in Beijing, China. Thirteen songs from ten countries took part in the festival. The hosts , along with , , , and all made their début in the festival. had withdrawn from the festival stating that they had not received an invitation to participate from the broadcasting union. failed to qualify from the pre-selection stage of the festival.

Location

It was announced that the 2016 ABU Radio Song Festival would take place in Beijing, China.

Format

Unlike the format used in the

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there are two versions of the Song Festivals, ABU Radio and ABU TV Song Festivals. The ABU Radio Song Festival took place alongside the Radio Asia 2016 event took place in April 2016.

Host broadcaster

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(CNR), was the host broadcaster for the festival on 26 April 2016.

Participating Countries

A total of thirteen countries took part in this years festival. Host country China made their début in this years festival along with Macau, Nepal, Romania and Turkmenistan. Brunei withdrew from the contest. The following entries had been selected by the ABU to participate in the final of the ABU Radio Song Festival 2016.

Did not qualify

Of the seventeen preliminary entries, thirteen were selected to proceed to the final of the ABU Radio Song Festival. The remaining four songs did not qualify (as shown in the following table)

Other countries

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Radio Televisyen Brunei Radio Television Brunei ( ms, Radio Televisyen Brunei, Jawi alphabet, Jawi: راديو تيليۏيشين بروني, officially abbreviated as RTB) is the national public broadcasting, public broadcaster of Brunei. Radio Brunei made its first ...

(RTB) announced on 20 February 2016 that they had not been invited to the festival, making their participation unlikely.

References

External links

Official website of ABU Radio Song Festival
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