Amerivision Song Contest

Amerivision Song Contest
Organising body	ABU
Founded	September 8 1956; 68 years ago
Region	International
Number of teams	Variable
Current champions	Martinique
Most successful team(s)	Canada; (7 wins)

The Amerivision IRL Song Contest is a constest created by me as an attempt to recreate the Eurovision formula in the american continent, while using the correct timestamps for each edition, which means the competition begins in 1956 and goes all the way through the present day, all while listening to songs from each respective year.

Participating countries

All countries located in the american continent can participate of the event, however, the event started to happen in an era that most american nations didn't have access to television, so they gradually joined in as television arrived in the nations. Below we have a list of debuts per edition.

Year	Country making its debut entry
1956	Argentina
	Brazil
	Canada
	Colombia
	Mexico
	United States
1957	Cuba
	Puerto Rico
	Uruguay
1958	Chile
1959	Peru
1961	Dominican Republic
1964	Trinidad and Tobago
1965	Panama
1965	Venezuela
1967	Jamaica
1967	Paraguay
1968	Netherlands Antilles

Year	Country making its debut entry
1969	Barbados
1970	Nicaragua
1972	Ecuador
1972	Martinique
1973	Bolivia
1974	El Salvador
1974	Guadeloupe
1978	Bahamas
1979	U.S. Virgin Islands
1980	Bermuda
1980	Suriname
1981	Costa Rica
1984	Guatemala
1988	Antigua and Barbuda
1989	Haiti
1991	Aruba
1996	Belize
1999	Guyana

Year	Country making its debut entry
2000	Honduras
2001	French Guiana
2003	Greenland
2007	St. Pierre & Miquelon
2008	St. Kitts & Nevis
2010	British Virgin Islands
2011	Curaçao
2013	Grenada
2014	Dominica
2015	Japan
	Saint Lucia
	St. Vincent & the Grenadines
2018	Cayman Islands
2021	Saint Barthélemy
2021	Turks and Caicos Islands
2024	Bonaire

The only american countries and territories that are left to debut in the competition are Anguilla, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, Saba, Saint Martin, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten.

Much like Australia in Eurovision, Japan was also invited to participate of Amerivision in its 60th anniversary, due to high viewership of the contest in the country, this was supposed to be a one time only event, but Japan eventually stayed in the contest.

Winners

Edition	Winner	Song	Artist	Points	Margin	Runner-up	Third place	Host City	P/C
1956	Brazil	"Tarde triste"	Maysa	19	1	Argentina	Canada	New York City	6
1957	Canada	"Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream)"	The Crew-Cuts	21	4	Colombia	Uruguay	São Paulo	9
1958	Uruguay	"Mi poncho"	Amalia de la Vega	22	5	Argentina	United States	Edmonton	9
1959	Canada	"Fourty Days"	Ronnie Hawkins	27	8	Peru	Brazil	Montevideo	10
1960	Uruguay	"Eso, eso, eso"	Los TNT	31	8	Canada	Mexico	Toronto	10
1961	Puerto Rico	"Ramona"	Cortijo y Su Combo	18	1	Dominican Republic	United States	Chicago	11
1962	Chile	"Twist del estudiante"	Los Ramblers	36	2	Brazil	Dominican Republic	Ponce	10
1963	Uruguay	"Madame Ivonne"	Julio Sosa	29	3	Chile	United States	Santiago	11
1964	Argentina	"Que suerte!"	Violeta Rivas	30	3	United States	Brazil	Montevideo	12
1965	Panama	"Casi, casi"	Raphael	35	2	Mexico	Puerto Rico	Buenos Aires	14
1966	Brazil	"Roda"	Elis Regina	33	5	Uruguay	Chile	Panama City	14
1967	Puerto Rico	"Use It Before You Lose It"	Bobby Valentín	25	6	Canada	Colombia	Rio de Janeiro	15
1968	Netherlands Antilles	"I Want You Around Me"	Euson & Stax	41	6	Brazil	Canada	Ponce	16
1969	Netherlands Antilles	"You're the One for Me"	Marva Hodge	39	3	Venezuela	Chile	New York City	17
1970	United States	"Les fleurs"	Minnie Riperton	47	11	Netherlands Antilles	Mexico	Caracas	17
1971	Brazil	"Esperar pra ver"	Evinha	37	7	Barbados	Canada	Jacksonville	18
1972	Colombia	"Este viento"	Ana y Jaime	68	4	Jamaica	Canada	Porto Alegre	18
1973	Mexico	"Soy rebelde"	Sola	79	16	United States	Paraguay	Bogotá	17
1974	Trinidad and Tobago	"On the Run"	Scorched Earth	76	17	Brazil	Colombia	Mexico City	19
1975	Canada	"Oowatanite"	April Wine	127	9	Mexico	Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	16
1976	Brazil	"Malandro"	Elza Soares	133	20	Trinidad and Tobago	Panama	Vancouver	17
1977	Chile	"Bebida mágica"	Los Jaivas	125	17	Brazil	Dominican Republic	São Paulo	17
1978	Canada	"La banqueroute"	La Bottine Souriante	119	2	Chile	United States	Valparaíso	18
1979	Netherlands Antilles	"Going Insane"	Sumy	129	15	Canada	Puerto Rico	Montreal	17
1980	Trinidad and Tobago	"We Are Family"	Mac and Katie Kissoon	122	14	Colombia	Uruguay	San Francisco	18
1981	United States	"Bette Davis Eyes"	Kim Carnes	145	15	Trinidad and Tobago	Canada	Port of Spain	17
1982	Uruguay	"Adiós juventud"	Jaime Roos	138	5	Netherlands Antilles	Jamaica	Miami	20
1983	Colombia	"Canto al Avila"	Ilan Chester	129	5	Barbados	Paraguay	Montevideo	20
1984	Canada	"Lovers in a Dangerous Time"	Bruce Cockburn	134	9	United States	Peru	Medellín	20
1985	Brazil	"Escrito nas estrelas"	Tetê Espíndola	141	2	Jamaica	Puerto Rico	Toronto	19
1986	Canada	"Powerline"	Lee Aaron	153	12	Suriname	Mexico	Rio de Janeiro	18
1987	Mexico	"Ahora te puedes marchar"	Luis Miguel	116	11	Uruguay	Costa Rica	Calgary	16
1988	Bahamas	"Just Got Paid"	Johnny Kemp	148	21	Trinidad and Tobago	Martinique	Mexico City	20
1989	Mexico	"Dr. Psiquiatra"	Gloria Trevi	146	25	Suriname	Canada	Nassau	22
1990	Haiti	"Pa gad sou lot"	Sakaj	139	13	Barbados	Bahamas	Ciudad Juárez	23
1991	Bahamas	"Emmalene (That's No Lie)"	Errol Brown	138	6	United States	Guadeloupe	Houston	24
1992	Bahamas	"Back to the Island"	Baha Men	164	28	Uruguay	Argentina	Nassau	24
1993	Netherlands Antilles	"Send Me an Angel"	CB Milton	140	19	Guadeloupe	Brazil	Rosario	24
1994	Jamaica	"Here Comes the Hotstepper"	Ini Kamoze	137	7	Argentina	Canada	Atlanta	24
1995	Jamaica	"Shy Guy"	Diana King	185	10	Colombia	Aruba	Kingston	24
1996	Trinidad and Tobago	"Woman to Woman"	Ardis	173	39	Jamaica	Brazil	Barranquilla	24
1997	Suriname	"Touch Me There"	Total Touch	152	15	Dominican Republic	Mexico	Arima	24
1998	Chile	"Fotofobia"	La Ley	148	6	Brazil	Peru	Santo Domingo	24
1999	Guadeloupe	"Septième ciel"	Jane Fostin	167	0	Mexico	Colombia	Concepción	24
2000	Canada	"Tattooed"	Damhnait Doyle	172	14	Chile	Panama	Acapulco	24
2001	Martinique	"Vivre la vie"	Kelly Joyce	188	32	United States	Netherlands Antilles	Vancouver	25
2002	Trinidad and Tobago	"He Is"	Heather Headley	157	8	Honduras	United States	Fort-de-France	25
2003	United States	"Are You Happy Now?"	Michelle Branch	222	17	Argentina	Suriname	Arima	32
2004	Nicaragua	"Bulería"	David Bisbal	258	26	Brazil	Mexico	Los Angeles	33
2005	Mexico	"Chicle de menta"	María Daniela y su Sonido Lasser	199	22	Barbados	Costa Rica	Managua	31
2006	Martinique	"Femme de couleur"	Shy'm	214	35	French Guiana	United States	Monterrey	31
2007	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	Fort-de-France	TBA

Note to self: Remember to check this list before starting a new edition.

Winners by country

Wins	Country	Edition
7	Canada	1957, 1959, 1975, 1978, 1984, 1986, 2000
5	Brazil	1956, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1985
4	Uruguay	1958, 1960, 1963, 1982
	Netherlands Antilles	1968, 1969, 1979, 1993
	Trinidad and Tobago	1974, 1980, 1996, 2002
	Mexico	1973, 1987, 1989, 2005
3	Bahamas	1988, 1991, 1992
	Chile	1962, 1977, 1998
	United States	1970, 1981, 2003
2	Puerto Rico	1961, 1967
	Colombia	1972, 1983
	Jamaica	1994, 1995
	Martinique	2001, 2006
1	Argentina	1964
	Panama	1965
	Haiti	1990
	Suriname	1997
	Guadeloupe	1999
	Nicaragua	2004

Winners by language

Wins	Language	Edition
24	English	1957, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003
17	Spanish	1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1998, 2004, 2005
5	Portuguese	1956, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1985
4	French	1978, 1999, 2001, 2006
1	Haitian Creole	1990

Highest scores

Top five winners by percentage of all votes

This table shows top five winning songs, by the percentage of all votes cast.

Year	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Percentage of all points cast	Percentage of maximum possible points
1960	Uruguay	Los TNT	"Eso, eso, eso"	31	31.00%	34.44%
1959	Canada	Ronnie Hawkins	"Fourty Days"	27	27.00%	30.00%
1958	Uruguay	Amalia de la Vega	"Mi poncho"	22	24.44%	27.50%
1962	Chile	Los Ramblers	"Twist del estudiante"	36	24.00%	80.00%
1957	Canada	The Crew-Cuts	"Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream)"	21	23.33%	26.25%

Top five winners by percentage of the maximum possible score

Contest	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Percentage of all points cast	Percentage of maximum possible points
1962	Chile	Los Ramblers	"Twist del estudiante"	36	24.00%	80.00%
1981	United States	Kim Carnes	"Bette Davis Eyes"	145	14.71%	75.52%
1986	Canada	Lee Aaron	"Powerline"	153	14.65%	75.00%
1975	Canada	April Wine	"Oowatanite"	127	14.67%	70.55%
1973	Mexico	Sola	"Soy rebelde"	79	16.59%	70.53%

Top ten participants by number of points

Contest	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Percentage of all points cast	Percentage of maximum possible points
2004	Nicaragua	David Bisbal	"Bulería"	258	13.48%	67.19%
2004	Brazil	Vanessa da Mata	"Eu sou neguinha?"	232	12.12%	60.42%
2003	United States	Michelle Branch	"Are You Happy Now?"	222	11.96%	59.68%
2006	Martinique	Shy'm	"Femme de couleur"	214	11.90%	59.44%
2003	Argentina	Chenoa	"Soy lo que me das"	205	11.05%	55.11%
2006	French Guiana	Melissa M feat. Arkhenaton	"Avec tout mon amour"	179	9.96%	49.72%
2005	Mexico	María Daniela y su Sonido Lasser	"Chicle de menta"	199	11.07%	55.28%
2001	Martinique	Kelly Joyce	"Vivre la vie"	188	12.97%	65.28%
1995	Jamaica	Diana King	"Shy Guy"	185	13.29%	67.02%
2005	Barbados	Rihanna	"Pon de Replay"	177	9.84%	49.17%
1995	Colombia	Shakira	"Estoy aquí"	175	12.57%	63.40%

Participants that scored no points

Contest	Country	Artist	Song
1959	Puerto Rico	Ramito	"Sabor boricua"
1960	Puerto Rico	Odilio González	"Saludo a lares (Mapeyé)"
1966	Colombia	Andrés Landero	"Cumbia en la India"
1983	Argentina	Los Twist	"Pense que se trataba de cieguitos"
1992	Dominican Republic	Antony Santos	"Voy pa 'lla"
1999	Bermuda	Mishka	"One True"

Gallery

Maysa, winner of the inaugural 1956 contest for Brazil.
The Crew-Cuts, winners of the 1957 contest for Canada.
Ronnie Hawkins, winner of the 1959 contest for Canada.
Los TNT, winners of the 1960 contest for Uruguay.
Julio Sosa, winner of the 1963 contest for Uruguay.
Violeta Rivas, winner of the 1964 contest for Argentina.
Raphael, winner of the 1965 contest for Panama.
Elis Regina, winner of the 1966 contest for Brazil.
Minnie Riperton, winner of the 1970 contest for the United States.
Evinha, winner of the 1971 contest for Brazil.
Billy Ocean, lead singer of the winning band Scorched Earth for Trinidad and Tobago in 1974.
April Wine, winners of the 1975 contest for Canada.
Elza Soares, winner of the 1976 contest for Brazil.
Los Jaivas, winners of the 1977 contest for Chile.
La Bottine Souriante, winners of the 1978 contest for Canada.
Katie Kissoon, one of the winners of the 1980 contest for Trinidad and Tobago.
Kim Carnes, winner of the 1981 contest for the United States.
Jaime Roos, winner of the 1982 contest for Uruguay.
Ilan Chester, winner of the 1983 contest for Colombia.
Bruce Cockburn, winner of the 1984 contest for Canada.
Tetê Espíndola, winner of the 1985 contest for Brazil.
Lee Aaron, winner of the 1986 contest for Canada.
Luis Miguel, winner of the 1987 contest for Mexico.
Gloria Trevi, winner of the 1989 contest for Mexico.
Errol Brown, winner of the 1991 contest for the Bahamas.
Baha Men, winners of the 1992 contest for the Bahamas.
CB Milton, winner of the 1993 contest for the Netherlands Antilles.
Ini Kamoze, winner of the 1994 contest for Jamaica.
Trijntje Oosterhuis, lead singer of the group Total Touch, winners of the 1997 contest for Suriname.
La Ley, winners of the 1998 contest for Chile.
Damhnait Doyle, winner of the 2000 contest for Canada.
Kelly Joyce, winner of the 2001 contest for Martinique.
Heather Headley, winner of the 2002 contest for Trinidad and Tobago.
Michelle Branch, winner of the 2003 contest for the United States.
David Bisbal, winner of the 2004 contest for Nicaragua.
María Daniela, lead singer of the winning band María Daniela y su Sonido Lasser for Mexico in 2005.
Shy'm, winner of the 2006 contest for Martinique.