Eighteenth Music World Cup qualification Dates June 18 – July 2 2023 Teams 231 (from 5 confederations)
International football competition
The Eighteenth Music World Cup qualification was the qualifying process which decided the 27 teams that would join Australia, Brazil, Canada, England and the United States, who received an automatic spot, at the World Cup.
The qualification process gives four automatic slots to Africa, six to the Americas, four to Asia, fourteen to Europe and one to Oceania, plus, one team of each continent is allowed to participate of the intercontinental play-off, which gives slots to three of them.
This qualifier featured the debut of three new teams, one from the Americas (Greenland ) and two from Asia (Hong Kong and Macau ). However, two teams, Nauru and Norfolk Island , from Oceania, were removed from the qualifier for lack of participating albums that led to their walkout in the previous qualifier. Due to that, Wallis and Futuna will also be removed from the next cup qualification.
It was also marked for notoriously strong nations failing to qualify, Norway got eliminated still in the second round after ending in fourth place in its group, Mali became the first country to not qualifiy to a world cup edition after becoming a world champion, and France got eliminated in the third stage of the european qualifier, making this cup the first in history where France didn't participate, reducing the number of full-presence countries to ten. (These being, Australia , Brazil , Canada , England , Germany , Ireland , Japan , Scotland , Sweden and the United States .)
The countries that qualified to the cup for the first time ever were Afghanistan , Ethiopia and Indonesia .
Qualified teams
Continent
Team
Classification Date (Order)
Participation
Best Performance
Current
Consec.
Last
Africa
Congo DRC
June 29 2023 (19)
3
1
#15
Round of 16 (#15)
Ethiopia
June 29 2023 (16)
1
1
–
Newcomer
Ghana
June 29 2023 (17)
4
2
#17
Group stage (#6, #14, #17)
Tunisia
June 29 2023 (18)
2
1
#11
Group stage (#11)
Americas
Brazil
June 17 2023 (3)
18
18
#17
Champion (#2, #16)
Canada
June 17 2023 (4)
18
18
#17
Champion (#14)
Jamaica
June 30 2023 (20)
14
4
#17
Fourth place (#4, #6)
Peru
July 2 2023 (31)
5
1
#11
Quarter-finals (#5)
Puerto Rico
July 1 2023 (28)
5
1
#11
Round of 16 (#3, #4)
Trinidad and Tobago
June 30 2023 (21)
3
1
#15
Round of 16 (#13)
United States
June 17 2023 (1)
18
18
#17
Runner-up (#1)
Asia
Afghanistan
June 30 2023 (22)
1
1
–
Newcomer
Indonesia
July 2 2023 (30)
1
1
–
Newcomer
Japan
June 30 2023 (24)
18
18
#17
Champion (#8, #15)
South Korea
June 30 2023 (25)
17
7
#17
Fourth place (#5)
Thailand
June 30 2023 (23)
2
1
#16
Group stage (#16)
Europe
Denmark
June 26 2023 (12)
11
4
#17
Champion (#17)
England
June 17 2023 (2)
18
18
#17
Champion (#4, #6. #10)
Finland
June 26 2023 (10)
13
2
#17
Quarter-finals (#15)
Germany
July 1 2023 (29)
18
18
#17
Champion (#1)
Ireland
June 30 2023 (26)
18
18
#17
Champion (#5)
Italy
June 26 2023 (6)
13
3
#17
Runner-up (#6)
Luxembourg
June 26 2023 (14)
2
1
#15
Round of 16 (#15)
Northern Ireland
June 26 2023 (13)
3
1
#11
Round of 16 (#11)
Poland
June 26 2023 (9)
4
3
#17
Quarter-finals (#14, #16, #17)
Scotland
June 26 2023 (8)
18
18
#17
Champion (#7, #12)
Spain
June 30 2023 (27)
7
2
#17
Round of 16 (#4, #8)
Sweden
June 26 2023 (11)
18
18
#17
Champion (#3, #9, #13)
Switzerland
June 26 2023 (15)
6
1
#15
Quarter-finals (#15)
Turkey
June 26 2023 (7)
3
2
#17
Group stage (#14, #17)
Oceania
Australia
June 17 2023 (5)
18
18
#17
Runner-up (#12)
New Zealand
July 2 2023 (32)
8
1
#14
Group stage (#2, #3, #9, #14)
Confederation qualification Africa The african qualification happened in five stages, the first one between just the ten lowest-populated countries in africa (excluding Cape Verde , since it qualified to the world cup before), with the remaining countries only joining in the second stage.
First stage The first stage of the African qualifications features the ten african countries with the lowest population in a singular album score match, with each winner moving to the second stage.
Seeding and drawing Results of the draw + game results
Album
Pot 1 team
Score
Pot 2 team
Album
"Tustumunhos di Aonti..." by Zé Manel
Guinea-Bissau 3.40 – 3.21
Comoros
"Kweli: Musique Afro-Orientale de l'océan Indien" by Nawal
"Treat Me Like a Woman" by Jackie Carter
Mauritius
2.91 – 3.63
Western Sahara "Tiris" by El Wali
"Lala Jobômbô' by El Vidêl
Equatorial Guinea
3.00 – 3.85
São Tomé and Príncipe "Bitori Nha Bibinha & Chando Graciosa" by Bitori Nha Bibinha & Chando Graciosa
"Agua Dulce" by Ale Hop & Laura Robles
Eswatini 3.38 – 3.09
Djibouti
"Afar Ways" by Yanna Momina
"Manka le Phallang 1" by Mosotho Chakela
Lesotho 3.33 – 3.00
Seychelles
"Gou Kréol" by Jean-Marc Volcy
Second stage The second stage consists of twelve groups of four, where the best performing country of each group gets qualified to the third stage.
Seeding and drawing Four pots were filled with twelve countries each, with the order of filling being stabilished by: Placing in the world ranking, followed by placing in the african ranking and then, population.
Results of the draw Game results The games behaved as the following: An album from each country in the duel is chosen at random, after that, both countries are compared, and the one with the highest score wins the match, if a battle is won by less of a decimal of difference (Such as 3.23 and 3.29) it's counted as a tie, but that may work as a tiebreaker criteria in the future.
Group 1
Team
Sudan
4
2
2
0
14.25
12.91
1.34
8
Gabon
4
2
1
1
13.62
12.88
0.74
7
Algeria
4
2
0
2
13.11
12.70
0.41
6
Zambia
4
1
1
2
12.53
13.73
-1.20
4
Liberia
4
0
2
2
12.12
13.41
-1.29
2
Round 1
(Killa - "Killa Instinct") Zambia
2.50 – 3.48
Sudan (Al Agarib & Saif Abu Bakr - "Jazz")
(Orchestre Thouraya d'Alger - "Musique d'Afrique du Nord") Algeria
3.31 – 2.64
Liberia (Zoe - "Exile African")
Round 2
(Orchestre Massako - "Amara Touré accompagné par l'orchestre Massako") Gabon
3.48 – 3.69
Zambia (The Broadway Quintet - "Amalume (Lekani Mowa)")
(Wafir - "Nilo Azul") Sudan
3.69 – 3.48
Algeria (Chaba Fadela & Cheb Sahraoui - "Hana Hana")
(Soulful Dynamics - "Soulful Dynamics") Liberia
2.80 – 3.27
Gabon (Pierre Akendengué - "Nandipo")
Round 3
(Hsissen - "Rah Tairi") Algeria
3.52 – 3.00
Zambia (Jane Osborne - "Hotel Ivoire Inter-Continental Presents Jane Osborne")
(Wad al-Bakri - "Eumri Allly Baqi") Sudan
3.59 – 3.50
Gabon (Jean-Baptiste Boussougou & Henri Roger - "Mourim")
Round 4
(Music Makers of Liberia - "Enjoyment") Liberia
3.43 – 3.49
Sudan (Ebo Krdum - "Diversity")
(Papé Nziengui - "Kadi Yombo") Gabon
3.37 – 2.80
Algeria (Ajris - "White Wolves From North Africa")
(Rikki Ililonga - "Sunshine Love") Zambia
3.34 – 3.25
Liberia (Jesse Markin - "Folk")
Group 2
Round 1
(Kaïssa - "Looking There") Cameroon
3.50 – 3.51
Burkina Faso (Jean-Bernard Samboué - "Jean-Bernard Samboué")
(Ahmed Fakroun - "Mots D'amour") Libya
3.33 – 3.00
Sierra Leone (Mariama - "Love, Sweat and Tears")
Round 2
(Nayim Alal - "Nar") Western Sahara
3.40 – 4.00
Cameroon (Fire Tongue & Chief Cook - "Wayo Bring War")
(Kady Diarra - "Burkina Hakili") Burkina Faso
3.38 – 3.00
Libya (Jonathan Steel - "IX Realms Descendant")
(Sorie Kondi - "Thogolobea") Sierra Leone
3.05 – 3.63
Western Sahara (El Wali - "Tiris")
Round 3
(Mohammed Assaf - "Ma Wahashnak") Libya
4.06 – 4.00
Cameroon (Gino Sitson - "Song 'Zin")
(Chasseurs Senoufo Tagoua de Ouolonkoto - "Burkina Faso") Burkina Faso
2.78 – 3.32
Western Sahara (Mariem Hassan - "El Aaiún Egdat")
Round 4
(Joni Haastrup - "Wake Up Your Mind") Sierra Leone
3.54 – 3.58
Burkina Faso (Youssouf Diarra Dit El Grand Ballake - "Rock Star")
(Group Doueh & Cheveu - "Dakhla Sahara Session") Western Sahara
3.37 – 3.14
Libya (Herbert Pagani - "Megalopolis")
(Hoïgen Ekwalla - "La Joie") Cameroon
3.50 – 3.50
Sierra Leone (Afro National - "Tropical Funkmusic")
Group 3 Group 4
Team
Ethiopia
4
2
1
1
13.59
12.38
1.21
7
Nigeria
4
2
0
2
13.38
12.63
0.75
6
Malawi
4
2
0
2
13.39
13.79
-0.40
6
Gambia
4
2
0
2
10.76
12.38
-1.62
6
Congo
4
1
1
2
13.82
13.76
0.06
4
Round 1
(Aktion - "Groove the Funk") Nigeria
3.37 – 3.00
Malawi (Kid Acne & Spectacular Diagnostics - "Null and Void")
(Hirut Bèqèlé - "Hirut Bèqèlé") Ethiopia
3.38 – 3.38
Congo (Djo Balard - "Passage Obligé")
Round 2
(Dembo Jobarteh - "Gambia Banko") Gambia
2.00 – 3.26
Nigeria (Apostles - "Black Is Beautiful")
(The M.B.C. Band and the Chichiri Queens - "Kokoliko Ku Malawi") Malawi
3.50 – 3.36
Ethiopia (Demisse Desta - "Lab le Wold / Tsadik Ethiopia")
(Fredy Massamba - "Ethnophony") Congo
3.01 – 3.13
Gambia (Yankuba Saho - "Yan Kuba: Kora Music from Gambia")
Round 3
(Aster Aweke - "Inēmi Hageri Alenyi") Ethiopia
3.63 – 3.50
Nigeria (The Black Hippies - "The Black Hippies")
(Donald Kachamba's Kwela Band - "Simanje-Manje and Kwela From Malaŵi") Malawi
2.89 – 3.63
Gambia (Ifang Bondi and The Afro Mandingue Sounds - "Saraba")
Round 4
(Youlou Mabiala - "100% de Pourcentage") Congo
3.43 – 4.00
Malawi (Doctor Kanuska Group - Mutende Mizimu. Vimbuza from Mzimba North")
(Sidiki Diabaté - "Ba Togoma") Gambia
2.00 – 3.22
Ethiopia (Chalachew Ashenafi & Ililta Band - "Fano")
(Robo Arigo - "Sexy Thing") Nigeria
3.25 – 4.00
Congo (Orchestre Sinza Kotoko - "10 ans d'animation")
Group 5
Round 1
(Black Coffee - "Subconsciously") South Africa
2.84 – 3.72
Ivory Coast (Various Artists -"Ivory Coast Soul: Afrofunk in Abidjan From 1972 to 1982")
(Moussa Poussy & Saadou Bori - "Niamey Twice") Niger
3.12 – 3.58
Guinea (M'Mah Sylla - "Le Rossignol de Guinee")
Round 2
(Camilo Domingos - "Dinheiro") São Tomé and Príncipe
2.90 – 3.13
South Africa (Kongos - "Lunatic")
(Various Artists - "The Baoule of the Ivory Coast" ) Ivory Coast
3.18 – 3.50
Niger (Sidi Abdallah - "Issiktane")
(Cheikh M. Smith - "Toubabou Balafola") Guinea
4.00 – 3.85
São Tomé and Príncipe (Chando Graciosa - "Bitori Nha Bibinha & Chando Graciosa")
Round 3
(Group Inerane - "Guitars From Agadez (Music of Niger)") Niger
3.55 – 3.52
South Africa (Nduduzo Makhathini - "In the Spirit of Ntu")
(Alpha Blondy - "Apartheid Is Nazism") Ivory Coast
3.32 – 3.45
São Tomé and Príncipe (Pedro Lima - "Maguidala")
Round 4
(Sekou Kouyate - "Sabaru") Guinea
2.86 – 3.00
Ivory Coast (François Lougah - "François Lougah au Zaïre")
(Jorge Neto - "Jorge Neto") São Tomé and Príncipe
4.00 – 3.55
Niger (Group Bombino - "Guitars From Agadez Vol. 2")
(The Blue Notes - "Blue Notes for Mongezi") South Africa
3.70 – 3.50
Guinea (Wassa - "Guinée")
Group 6
Round 1
(Maître Gims - "Mon Cœur Avait Raison") Congo DRC
2.68 – 3.50
Madagascar (Hanitra - "The New Voice of Madagascar: Omeko Anao")
(Angélique Kidjo - "Remain in Light") Benin
3.45 – 2.50
South Sudan (Emmanuel Kembe - "Shen Shen: Cry for South Sudan")
Round 2
(Nancy Vieira - "No Amá") Guinea-Bissau
3.45 – 3.87
Congo DRC (Defao - "Afro-Rhythmes Présente Defaô du Choc Stars")
(Vakoka - "Introducing Vakoka") Madagascar
3.48 – 3.18
Benin (Sezonmon Alosse - "Sezonmon Alosse")
(Wayo - "Trance Percussion Masters of South Sudan") South Sudan
3.00 – 3.00
Guinea-Bissau (N'Pans - "Dvigayem Rep")
Round 3
(Bessanvi Gbessi - "Et Son Troupe") Benin
3.29 – 3.72
Congo DRC (Raiza Biza - "Dream Something LP")
(Fenoamby - "Ravo") Madagascar
3.48 – 3.71
Guinea-Bissau (Allen Halloween - "Híbrido")
Round 4
(Isaac Moro - "Let's Get Together") South Sudan
3.50 – 3.53
Madagascar (Les Surfs - "Les Surfs")
(Normal Nada - "Transmutação Cerebral") Guinea-Bissau
3.24 – 3.69
Benin (Avolonto Honoré & Black Santiago - "Honore Avolonto et l'orchestre Black Santiago")
(Abeti Masikini - "Abeti") Congo DRC
3.85 – 2.52
South Sudan (Marko Ahou Majok - "Man Mith")
Group 7
Round 1
(Mayra Andrade - "Manga") Cape Verde
3.40 – 3.50
Somalia (The Sharero Band & Faadumo Qaasim - "Maxkamaddii Jacaylka")
(Brigitte Engerer - "Nocturnes") Tunisia
3.90 – 3.36
Rwanda (Bizimungu Dieudonne - "Inzovu Y'Imirindi")
Round 2
(Bholoja - "Swazi Soul") Eswatini
2.96 – 3.62
Cape Verde (Tazinho - "Hora di Bai")
(Sahra Halgan Trio - "Faransiskiyo Somaliland") Somalia
3.33 – 3.70
Tunisia (Annkrist - "Bleu Cobalt")
(Sky Bird - "Sky Bird") Rwanda
4.04 – 3.28
Eswatini (Uncle Waffles - "Asylum")
Round 3
(Lotfi Jormana Group - "The Music of Islām: Volume Eight") Tunisia
3.57 – 2.00
Cape Verde (ILO - "Gather People Together")
(Yayoyanoh - "Yayoyanoh") Somalia
3.00 – 3.46
Eswatini (Carl Crack - "Black Ark")
Round 4
(Kid Safari - "Wow!") Rwanda
2.96 – 2.91
Somalia (Saba - "Jidka (The Line)")
(Tlale Makhene & Ziyawa Kazitha - "SG 2.0") Eswatini
3.50 – 2.70
Tunisia (Vomit the Hate - "Of Ignorance And Self Destruction")
(Ana Firmino - "Carta De Nha Cretcheu") Cape Verde
4.25 – 3.50
Rwanda (Munyakasi Deo - "Isoko Dusangiye")
Group 8
Team
Ghana
4
3
0
1
13.09
12.24
0.85
9
Zimbabwe
4
3
0
1
12.54
12.51
0.03
9
Namibia
4
2
0
2
12.07
13.13
-1.06
6
Togo
4
1
0
3
13.33
12.52
0.81
3
Kenya
4
1
0
3
13.06
14.07
-1.01
3
Round 1
(F. Kenya - "The Power House of Ghana and Ivory Coast") Ghana
3.48 – 2.84
Zimbabwe (The Cool Crooners - "Blue Sky")
(Shad - "The Old Prince") Kenya
3.59 – 3.21
Togo (Fifi Rafiatou - "Nwassa")
Round 2
(The Dogg - "You Can't Ignore") Namibia
3.00 – 2.72
Ghana (Bello Figo - "Smorza Candela")
(The Four Brothers - "Bros") Zimbabwe
3.87 – 3.18
Kenya (Odd Okoddo - "Auma")
(Togo All Stars - "Fa") Togo
3.67 – 3.05
Namibia (Chieff - "Untold Story, pt. 1")
Round 3
(Eric Wainaina - "Sawa Sawa") Kenya
2.90 – 3.49
Ghana (Myles Sanko - "Forever Dreaming")
(Headroom - "Acid Trip Advisor") Zimbabwe
3.35 – 2.52
Namibia (Arcana XXII - "This Burning Darkness")
Round 4
(Itadi - "Watch Your Life") Togo
3.33 – 2.48
Zimbabwe (Ephat Mujuru & The Spirit of the People - "Mbavaira")
(Namib Marimbas - "Namib Marimbas II") Namibia
3.50 – 3.39
Kenya (Kenge Kenge - "Introducing Kenge Kenge")
(Star Lovers - "Boafo ne Nyame") Ghana
3.40 – 3.12
Togo (Peter Solo - "Miadome")
Group 9
Team
Mali
4
4
0
0
14.54
12.04
2.50
12
Burundi
4
3
0
1
13.33
12.60
0.73
9
Egypt
4
2
0
2
13.68
13.55
0.13
6
Chad
4
1
0
3
12.20
13.35
-1.15
3
Botswana
4
0
0
4
10.32
12.53
-2.21
0
Round 1
(Kedou ag Ossad - "Unknown Cassette") Mali
3.88 – 3.31
Chad (Maitre Gazonga - "Les Jaloux Saboteurs")
(Dina El Wedidi - "Turning Back") Egypt
3.21 – 3.50
Burundi (Shani Musical Club - "Taarab: Pendo La Dharau")
Round 2
(Zeus - "Freshly Baked") Botswana
2.50 – 3.50
Mali (Le Mystère Jazz de Tombouctou - "Le Mystère Jazz de Tombouctou")
(Ngone Saar - "Racine Espoir") Chad
3.30 – 3.47
Egypt (Abyusif - "Wa7ed Wa7ed")
(Kebby Boy - "Nalia") Burundi
3.02 – 2.60
Botswana (Metal Orizon - "Ancestral Blessings")
Round 3
(Démis Roussos - "Forever and Ever") Egypt
3.42 – 3.53
Mali (Anansy Cissé - "Anoura")
(Croquemort - "Apprenons à les Comprendre") Chad
2.43 – 2.00
Botswana (Ludo Freshe - "Learning My Name")
Round 4
(Sat-B - "Satura") Burundi
4.00 – 3.16
Chad (Sadek Metwaly - "Eshet el Basata")
(Anita Zengeza - "Natural Journey") Botswana
3.22 – 3.58
Egypt (Hamza El Din - "Eclipse")
(Ensemble instrumental Raoul Follereau de Bamako - " La Seule Vérité C'est de S'aimer")Mali
3.63 – 2.81
Burundi (Khadja Nin - "Sambolera")
Group 10
Round 1
(Daudi Kabaka & The Eagles Lupopo - "Kenyafrica! Vol. 3") Uganda
2.62 – 3.26
Tanzania (Sengerema (Kagunga) S.D.A. Choir - "Simba Wa Yuda, Vol (5)")
(Amina Alaoui - "Siwan") Morocco
3.45 – 3.00
Mauritania (Tahra - "Yamen Yamen")
Round 2
(Feven - "Hela Vägen Ut") Eritrea
3.18 – 3.51
Uganda (Samite - "Silina Musango")
(Balaa MC - "26kipaji Singeli Album") Tanzania
3.79 – 3.36
Morocco (Bachir Attar - "The Next Dream")
(Ousmane Hamady Diop - "Alamari") Mauritania
2.85 – 2.90
Eritrea (Teklemicael Ghebru - "Star of the Blacks")
Round 3
(Hindi Zahra - "Handmade") Morocco
3.17 – 3.12
Uganda (Metal Preyers - "Metal Preyers")
(Cool James - "Soft Like a Pillow") Tanzania
2.00 – 2.89
Eritrea (Kaleab Teweldemedhin - "Vol. 1 - 2010")
Round 4
(Maître Ledy Youla - "Alou Kèlè Dabila - Soukabè") Mauritania
2.50 – 3.49
Tanzania (Culture Musical Club - "Mkutano")
(Police Orchestra - "Amharic Music") Eritrea
3.43 – 4.62
Morocco (7liwa - "#WF")
(Rachel Magoola - "Resilience: Songs of Uganda") Uganda
3.24 – 3.05
Mauritania (Ensemble El-Moukhadrami - "Songs of the Griots")
Third stage For the third stage, all qualified teams were split for a last time in two pots, organized by from which group they originally came from, and after, they were divided in two groups of five.
Seeding and drawing Results of the draw Game results The games behaved as the following: An album from each country in the duel is chosen at random, after that, both countries are compared, and the one with the highest score wins the match, if a battle is won by less of a decimal of difference (Such as 3.23 and 3.29) it's counted as a tie, but that may work as a tiebreaker criteria in the future.
The two best performing teams of each group get qualified to the world cup, and the third place moves to the fourth stage.
Group 11
Round 1
(Ramadan Akr - "Mandy") Sudan
3.50 – 3.65
Ghana (Ebo Taylor - "My Love and Music")
(El Wali - "Tharwa") Western Sahara
3.50 – 3.71
Ethiopia (Kuku Sebsebe - "Kuku Sebsebe")
Round 2
(Mila na Utamaduni - "Spices of Zanzibar") Tanzania
3.34 – 3.25
Sudan (Sadek Metwaly - "Eshet el Basata")
(Sammy Cropper and His Wire Connections - "Papa Akwasi") Ghana
3.55 – 3.22
Western Sahara (Mariem Hassan - "Deseos")
(Yilma Hailu - "Tewahedo Vol. 1") Ethiopia
3.22 – 2.77
Tanzania (Makame Faki - "Kidumbaki Asilia")
Round 3
(Various Artists - "Sáhara, Terra Mía") Western Sahara
3.33 – 3.49
Sudan (Ebo Krdum - "Diversity")
(Ata Kak - "Obaa Sima") Ghana
3.59 – 3.50
Tanzania (National Service Jazz Band - "Zilizo Pendwa")
Round 4
(Zerfu Demissie - "Akotet: Songs of the Begena") Ethiopia
3.49 – 3.39
Ghana (Bryte - "Too Good for Your Liking")
(Morogoro Jazz Band - "Morogoro Jazz") Tanzania
3.19 – 3.36
Western Sahara (Group Doueh - "Guitar Music From the Western Sahara")
(Jantra - "Synthesized Sudan") Sudan
3.15 – 3.44
Ethiopia (Woubeshet Feseha - "Woubeshet Feseha")
Group 12
Round 1
(Bavon Marie Marie - "L'intrépide Bavon Marie Marie") Congo DRC
3.35 – 3.13
Senegal (Pape & Cheikh - "Mariama")
(Jean-Marc Luisada - "17 Valses") Tunisia
3.51 – 3.11
Mali (Supreme Talent Show - "Danbe")
Round 2
(Civil Twilight - "Civil Twilight") South Africa
3.16 – 3.36
Congo DRC (Ry-Co Jazz - "Fantastique Ryco-Jazz")
(Mansour Seck - "N'der Fouta Tooro Vol. 1") Senegal
3.54 – 4.00
Tunisia (Yuma - "Chura")
(Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - "Segu Blue") Mali
3.67 – 3.24
South Africa (Kalahari Surfers - "Sleep Armed")
Round 3
(Saber al Robai - "Al Ghorba") Tunisia
3.90 – 3.32
Congo DRC (So Kalmery - "Brakka System")
(Laba Sosseh - "Monguito El Unico Presents Laba "Sosseh" in U.S.A.") Senegal
3.59 – 3.36
South Africa (Dasychira - "xDream")
Round 4
(Bamba Wassoulou Groove - "Farima") Mali
3.73 – 3.33
Senegal (El Hadj N'Diaye - "Thiaroye")
(Dudu Pukwana & Spear - "In the Townships") South Africa
3.47 – 2.71
Tunisia (Fawzi Chekili - "Taqasim")
(Mayaula Mayoni - "Bon Anniversaire") Congo DRC
3.54 – 3.15
Mali (DJ Diaki - "Balani Fou")
Fourth stage For the fourth and final stage, the third places participate in a duel together, with the winner being qualified to the intercontinental play off.
Americas The american qualifier happened in three stages, the first one featuring only the eighteen lowest populated nations and all the others joining for the second stage.
First stage The first stage of the American qualifications features the eighteen countries with the lowest population in a singular match, with each winner moving to the second stage.
Seeding and drawing Results of the draw + game results Second stage The second stage features the winners of the first stage plus all the other american countries.
Seeding and drawing Five pots were filled with eight countries each, with the order of filling being stabilished by: Placing in the world ranking, followed by placing in the american ranking and then, population.
Results of the draw Group stage The games behaved as the following: An album from each country in the duel is chosen at random, after that, both countries are compared, and the one with the highest score wins the match, if a battle is won by less of a decimal of difference (Such as 3.23 and 3.29) it's counted as a tie, but that may work as a tiebreaker criteria in the future.
Group 1 Group 2
Round 1
(Tainy - "NEON16 Tape: The Kids That Grew Up on Reggaeton") Puerto Rico
2.99 – 2.75
Guyana (King Fighter - "Trinidad Calypso Devil")
(Benazir - "Nuevos Cuentos Modernos") Ecuador
3.72 – 3.07
Belize (Errollyn Wallen - "The Girl in My Alphabet")
Round 2
(Ophélia - "Ophélia") Dominica
2.88 – 3.88
Puerto Rico (Vico C - "Aquel Que Había Muerto")
(Celia Samaroo - "Guyana Superstar") Guyana
2.50 – 2.98
Ecuador (Mathan - "Darkroot Tzantza")
(Bro David - "No Fear") Belize
3.36 – 4.00
Dominica (De Boys an Dem - "De Boys An'Dem")
Round 3
(Gerardo - "Mo' Ritmo") Ecuador
1.48 – 3.56
Puerto Rico (Batacumbele - "Con Un Poco de Songo")
(Terry Gajraj - "Funky Chatni") Guyana
3.10 – 3.73
Dominica (Julian Jay Savarin - "Waiters on the Dance")
Round 4
(Kill the Whore - "First Stage of Decomposition") Belize
2.38 – 2.59
Guyana (Harry Panday - "Hot-O-Hot Harry")
(Free Joseph - "Speaking in Tongues") Dominica
2.50 – 3.50
Ecuador (Paola Navarrete - "Verde Fugaz")
(Prettiest Eyes - "Vol. 3") Puerto Rico
3.37 – 3.97
Belize (The Original Turtle Shell Band - "The Beginning")
Group 3
Round 1
(Hojas - "Mis Sueños Piden") Uruguay
3.29 – 2.98
El Salvador (Dreamlore - "Black Plague Possessed")
(Raoul Denis Jr. - "Ti Ra Mizikasion") Haiti
2.94 – 2.74
Grenada (T-Shyne - "Confetti Nights")
Round 2
(Infinite Love Experience - "Love Will Never Die!") American Virgin Islands
2.79 – 3.61
Uruguay (Tenchio - "Crosshatching Holographs of a Cityscape (Antiopus)")
(Metamorffosis - "Escrito en las Estrellas") El Salvador
2.48 – 3.38
Haiti (Ti Paris et Sa Guitare - "Ti Paris et Sa Guitare")
(Ajamu - "Ah Go Party") Grenada
3.84 – 3.56
American Virgin Islands (Insight - "The Blast Radius")
Round 3
(Teiji Ito - "Meshes: Music for Films and Theater") Haiti
3.41 – 4.11
Uruguay (Francisco Fattoruso - "Khronos")
(Lamentos Ancestrales - "Lamentos Ancestrales") El Salvador
2.52 – 2.50
American Virgin Islands (The Invaders Steel Band - "Steel Band")
Round 4
(Mighty Sparrow - "Knock Dem Down")Grenada
4.32 – 2.15
El Salvador (Mare Tenebraum - "Cruzando la Oscuridad a Tu Lado")
(Jamsie And The Happy Seven - "Culturally Yours") American Virgin Islands
4.00 – 3.42
Haiti (Boukman Eksperyans - "Revolution")
(Diego Piñera - "Odd Wisdom") Uruguay
3.33 – 2.59
Grenada (Mr. Killa - "Rolly Polly")
Group 4
Round 1
(Sly & Robbie & Nils Petter Molvær - "Nordub") Jamaica
3.46 – 3.33
Costa Rica (Advent of Bedlam - "Behold the Chaos")
(Gaby Moreno - "Spangled!") Guatemala
3.33 – 3.24
Martinique (Vlg Rocki - "Débwida")
Round 2
(Mighty Dow - "Soca-Salsa-Rumba") Sint Maarten
2.50 – 3.78
Jamaica (Hugh Mundell - "Africa Must Be Free by 1983")
(Manuel Monestel - "One Pant Man") Costa Rica
4.04 – 2.65
Guatemala (Ricardo Arjonas - "Si el Norte Fuera el Sur")
(Dinah Vero - "Savan'") Martinique
3.50 – 2.35
Sint Maarten (Yung Pheenom - "Hvyheart")
Round 3
(Alux Nahual - "Alux Nahual") Guatemala
3.32 – 3.54
Jamaica (Lone Ranger - "M16")
(Eddie Mora - "Música de Cámara") Costa Rica
4.00 – 3.07
Sint Maarten (Marie Richards - "Folklore Melodies")
Round 4
(Malavoi - "La Case à Lucie") Martinique
3.49 – 3.62
Costa Rica (Chavela Vargas - "Con El Cuarteto Lara Foster")
(Mighty Dow - "Soca-Salsa-Rumba") Sint Maarten
2.50 – 3.54
Guatemala (Facundo Cabral - "Facundo Cabral")
(Leroy Brown - "Prayer of Peace") Jamaica
3.77 – 4.00
Martinique (Ti-Émile - "Nouveaux Cantiques de Noël")
Group 5
Team
Peru
4
3
0
1
13.89
12.92
0.97
9
Chile
4
2
1
1
13.98
13.28
0.70
7
Panama
4
2
0
2
12.81
12.15
0.66
6
Montserrat
4
1
1
2
11.79
13.85
-2.06
4
Guadeloupe
4
1
0
3
12.27
12.54
-0.27
3
Round 1
(Sismo en Bucarest - "Indigentes") Peru
3.45 – 2.66
Panama (Equinox - "Equinox")
(Fother Muckers - "El paisaje salvaje") Chile
3.62 – 3.20
Guadeloupe (Exile One - "Exile One")
Round 2
(Jah Marnyah - "A New Day") Montserrat
4.00 – 3.45
Peru (The (St. Thomas) Pepper Smelter - "Soul & Pepper")
(Valkeryon - "Vision of Fire") Panama
2.89 – 3.70
Chile (Dolorio & Los Tunantes - "Esas Mutancias")
(Robert Oumaou - "Sans Comment Terre") Guadeloupe
3.50 – 1.86
Montserrat (Maizie Williams - "Call Upon Jesus")
Round 3
(Trementina - "Almost Reach the Sun") Chile
3.26 – 3.69
Peru (Miki González - "Puedes Ser Tú")
(Kremathorium - "New Wave of Latinamerican Metal") Panama
3.50 – 2.43
Montserrat (Arrow - "Soca Savage")
Round 4
(MC Janik - "MC Janik") Guadeloupe
2.57 – 3.76
Panama (Sech - "Sueños")
(Black the Ripper - "High End Weed Music") Montserrat
3.50 – 3.40
Chile (Mortify - "Fragments at the Edge of Sorrow")
(Carnivorous Eyaculation - "Grotesque Inhuman Extermination") Peru
3.30 – 3.00
Guadeloupe (Galaxy - "Galaxy')
Group 6
Round 1
(Ed Maverick - "Eduardo") Mexico
3.28 – 3.01
Bolivia (Than - "Voices")
(Alberto Beltrán & Conjunto Casino - "El Negrito del Batey") Dominican Republic
3.61 – 3.35
Saint Lucia (Boo & The Tru-Tones - "Show the World")
Round 2
(OPrehay - "Hungry Soul") Cayman Islands
3.00 – 3.37
Mexico (Control Machete - "Mucho Barato")
(Domínguez, el Gringo, Cavour - "Folklore") Bolivia
3.73 – 3.39
Dominican Republic (Mula - "Aguas")
(Nerious Joseph - "Guidance") Saint Lucia
2.42 – 3.00
Cayman Islands (The Memory of Justice Band - "Right on Time")
Round 3
(Raulín Rosendo - "Llegó la Ley") Dominican Republic
3.03 – 3.69
Mexico (La Barranca - "El Fuego de la Noche")
(Últimos Glaciares - "Últimos Glaciares") Bolivia
3.46 – 2.00
Cayman Islands (Radley Gourzong & Aunt Julia - "Traditional Music of the Cayman Islands")
Round 4
(Poté - "A Tenuous Tale of Her") Saint Lucia
3.10 – 4.33
Bolivia (Llegas - "El Pesanervios")
(Suckerbox - "Suckerbox") Cayman Islands
1.79 – 3.50
Dominican Republic (Primitivo Santos - "Primitivo Santos y Su Orchestra")
(Natalia Lafourcade - "De Todas las Flores") Mexico
3.92 – 2.50
Saint Lucia (Supa Dupa Humble - "Dirty Playlist")
Group 7
Round 1
(Neurosis - "Verdun 1916") Colombia
3.48 – 2.94
Paraguay (Riverwave - "Undine Media")
(Fimber Bravo - "Lunar Tredd") Trinidad and Tobago
3.40 – 2.00
Barbados (Madd - "Tuh Jenkins and Back")
Round 2
(Bobby Farrell - "The Best of Boney M.") Aruba
2.50 – 3.49
Colombia (Muro - "Pacificar")
(Crispin - "La Cruz del Diablo") Paraguay
3.50 – 2.93
Trinidad and Tobago (David Rudder - "1990")
(Ayoni - "Iridescent") Barbados
3.40 – 1.00
Aruba (Amy Sorinio - "Amy Sorinio, Vol. 1")
Round 3
(Abdool "Kush" Razack - "Tent Singing by Abdool 'Kush' Razack") Trinidad and Tobago
3.70 – 2.96
Colombia (Parabellum - "Rehearsal")
(Violent Attack - "The Final Massacre") Paraguay
3.41 – 3.46
Aruba (Euson - "Both Sides Now")
Round 4
(Tyrone and the Clouds - "Steel Band and Calypso") Barbados
3.00 – 4.00
Paraguay (Carlos Sosa - "El Crack")
(Marlon Titre - "Chitarra") Aruba
2.73 – 3.10
Trinidad and Tobago (The Jonestown Band - "The Last Days of Jonestown")
(Elia y Elizabeth - "Elia y Elizabeth") Colombia
3.51 – 3.27
Barbados (Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew - "The World's Greatest Entertainer")
Group 8
Round 1
(Don Cornelio y La Zona - "Don Cornelio y La Zona") Argentina
3.58 – 3.00
Nicaragua (Necrosis - "XX")
(Sebastian Bach - "Angel Down") Bahamas
3.13 – 3.26
Suriname (Winne - "Winne Zonder Strijd")
Round 2
(The Brute Force Steel Band - "Brute Force Steel Bands of Antigua, B.W.I.") Antigua and Barbuda
2.54 – 3.57
Argentina (Él Mató a un Policía Motorizado - "La Síntesis O'Konor")
(Sunshine Christo - "Remixes from Inazawa") Nicaragua
4.25 – 3.94
Bahamas (Arthur Loves Plastic - "Higher Fruit")
(Alberto & Gemengd koor "Gloria" - "Kerstmis in Suriname") Suriname
3.50 – 4.50
Antigua and Barbuda (El-A-Kru - "Antigua Nice")
Round 3
(King Errisson - "The Magic Man") Bahamas
3.05 – 3.54
Argentina (Pablo El Enterrador - "Pablo El Enterrador")
(Veins - "Ad Hominem") Nicaragua
3.00 – 3.00
Antigua and Barbuda (Mighty Swallow - "Rocking & Funking with.. King Swallow")
Round 4
(Sangrafu - "Na Wan Ray") Suriname
4.50 – 2.50
Nicaragua (Otto de la Rocha - "Managua Linda Managua")
(Roland Prince - "Color Visions") Antigua and Barbuda
3.19 – 2.88
Bahamas (Count Bernadino - "Calypso Bacchanal")
(Lalo Schifrin - "The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music From the Past...") Argentina
3.51 – 4.00
Suriname (Lachman Bhageloe - "Oestaad Lachman's Sparkling Old Memories")
Third stage In the third stage, the same group proccess happens between all eight participants, this time, divided in two groups of four, with the best performing teams of each group being qualified to the world cup and the runner-ups moving to the fourth stage.
Group A is formed by the winners of groups 1 to 4, and Group B is formed by the winners of groups 5 to 8.
Group A
Round 1
(Bill Quick - "Maravillosa Gente") Venezuela
3.33 – 3.08
Uruguay (Fernando Cabrera - "Viveza")
(Roberto Roena y Su Apollo Sound - "Lucky 7") Puerto Rico
3.88 – 3.73
Jamaica (Horace Andy - "Dance Hall Style")
Round 2
(Gil Sansón & Lance Austin Olsen - "Works on Paper") Venezuela
3.44 – 3.66
Puerto Rico (Orquesta El Macabeo - "Salsa Macabra")
(Ernest Ranglin - "Below the Bassline") Jamaica
4.00 – 3.56
Uruguay (Ossuary - "Silence Means Gold")
Round 3
(Echoes - "Nature | Existence") Venezuela
3.45 – 3.80
Jamaica (Junior Delahaye - "Showcase")
(Buenos Muchachos - "Amanecer Búho") Uruguay
3.57 – 3.25
Puerto Rico (Gabriel Rios - "Ghostboy")
Group B
Round 1
(Ayllu Sulca - "Music of the Incas") Peru
3.40 – 3.36
Trinidad and Tobago (Lord Christo - "Authentic Calypso")
(Trío Aguilillas - "Sones of Mexico") Mexico
3.41 – 3.08
Suriname (Sabrina Starke - "Yellow Brick Road")
Round 2
(Supay - "Confusión") Peru
3.44 – 3.30
Mexico (Tayhana - "Tierra del Fuego")
(Humphrey Campbell - "No Questions") Suriname
3.00 – 4.50
Trinidad and Tobago (Crazy - "Jump Leh We Jump")
Round 3
(Fiesta Bizarra - "Sadness Sorrow Imathgination") Peru
3.50 – 3.00
Suriname (John Russell - "Rhythm and Blues")
(Anti-Everything - "Children of a Globalised World") Trinidad and Tobago
3.75 – 3.63
Mexico (Shub Niggurath - "The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon on Earth)")
Fourth stage Finally, after all the groups are done, the runner ups go on a final match to determine which team gets qualified directly to the cup, with the loser moving to the intercontinental play-off.
Asia The asian qualifier happened in four stages, the first one only for the eighteen less populated nations participating, with all other nations joining form the second stage onwards.
First stage The first stage of the Asian qualifications features the twelve asian countries with the lowest population (Excluding Lebanon and Singapore , since they qualified to the World Cup before.) in a singular match, with each winner moving to the second stage.
Seeding and drawing Results of the draw + game results
Album
Pot 1 team
Score
Pot 2 team
Album
"Maghrur Ealaa Shinahu" by Ali Bahar
Bahrain 3.50 – 2.53
East Timor
"Infernu" by Klak
"City of Love" by Ashkhabad
Turkmenistan
3.18 – 3.34
Brunei "Super Depressed and Best Dressed" by Pagan Stitches
"A Place for Everything" by A.M.R.
Qatar 3.38 – 3.19
Bhutan
"Endless Songs from Bhutan" by Jigme Drukpa
"Where the Vampires Live" by Babylon
Oman
1.31 – 3.50
Kuwait "Eaysh Hayatik" by Bashar Sultan
"Zövkhön Chinii Tukhai" by Ariunaa
Mongolia
3.17 – 3.21
Macau "Because of Your Love" by Jenny Tseng
"Terre de Ma Patrie" by Mustapha el Kurd et La Troupe al Balaline
Palestine 3.70 – 2.75
Maldives
"Hidhaaee noor" by Shalabee Ibrahim
Second stage For the second stage, all teams were split in four pots, again with the same criterias as before, but now, they were divided in ten groups of four, where the best performing teams of each group would be qualified to the third stage.
Seeding and drawing Four pots were filled with ten countries each, with the order of filling being stabilished by: Placing in the world ranking, followed by placing in the asian ranking and then, population.
Results of the draw Group stage The games behaved as the following: An album from each country in the duel is chosen at random, after that, both countries are compared, and the one with the highest score wins the match, if a battle is won by less of a decimal of difference (Such as 3.23 and 3.29) it's counted as a tie, but that may work as a tiebreaker criteria in the future.
Group 1
Team
Cambodia
3
2
0
1
9.68
8.34
1.34
6
Israel
3
2
0
1
10.40
9.21
1.19
6
Yemen
3
2
0
1
8.72
8.47
0.25
6
Brunei
3
0
0
3
7.68
10.46
-2.78
0
Round 1
(The Pinpeat Orchestra - "The Music of Cambodia, Volume One: 9 Gong Gamelan") Cambodia
2.59 – 2.85
Yemen (Margalit Ankory - "Travel With Me My Dove and Listen to Me!")
(Trespass - "In Haze of Time") Israel
3.62 – 3.09
Brunei (Bluemoongirl - "1996")
Round 2
(VannDa - "Skull 2 (Season 1)") Cambodia
3.56 – 3.40
Israel (Arafel - "For Battles Once Fought")
(Clyde - "Clyde 2") Brunei
2.50 – 3.31
Yemen (Margalit Tzan'ani - "Na'ari Shuva Elai")
Round 3
(Voy Ho - "MP Khmer Traditional Instrumental Music CD") Cambodia
3.53 – 2.09
Brunei (Perfect Scums - "Chapter 13")
(Ahmad Fathi - "Akher El Akhbar") Yemen
2.56 – 3.38
Israel (Amaseffer - "Exodus: Slaves for Life")
Group 2
Round 1
(M. Nasir - "Saudagar Mimpi") Singapore
3.90 – 3.42
Syria (Camanecroszcope - "Echoes ov a Beckoning Arcanum")
(Sheikh Saad Al Ghamdi - "The Holy Quran") Saudi Arabia
4.50 – 0.50
United Arab Emirates (Slackerman & Guidomania - "The Beautiful Impossible")
Round 2
(Draconis Infernum - "The Sacrilegious Eradication") Singapore
3.48 – 3.25
Saudi Arabia (Creative Waste - "Slaves to Conformity")
(Fatiniza - "Nothing Is Impossible") United Arab Emirates
3.00 – 3.07
Syria (Krnx - "Casseur.euse.s")
Round 3
(Boon Hui Lu - "Honestly Me") Singapore
2.74 – 3.28
United Arab Emirates (Narcy - "World War Free Now")
(Ecliptic Dawn - "Elysian Hypnosis") Syria
2.32 – 3.20
Saudi Arabia (Al- Namrood - "Enkar")
Group 3
Team
China
3
2
0
1
10.20
9.81
0.39
6
Nepal
3
2
0
1
9.10
9.66
-0.56
6
Iran
3
1
1
1
10.34
8.97
1.37
4
Qatar
3
0
1
2
8.96
10.16
-1.20
1
Round 1
(Zhaoze - "1911") China
3.36 – 3.60
Nepal (Ram Thapa - "Lok Suseli")
(Nex Carnis - "Obscure Visions of Dark") Iran
3.41 – 3.38
Qatar (A.M.R. - "A Place for Everything")
Round 2
(Li Jianhong - "San Sheng Shi") China
3.59 – 3.38
Iran (Forelunar - "Sonorous Colours of Dolour")
(Saad Al Fahad - "Yahi Gawiya") Qatar
2.75 – 3.50
Nepal (Shyam Nepali - "Himalayan Sounds of Sarangi")
Round 3
(Lyu Hong-Jun - "The Legend of the Dragon") China
3.25 – 2.83
Qatar (Tony Raut & Talibal - "Bad Pazific")
(Jugaa - "Fuck the Scene") Nepal
2.00 – 3.55
Iran (Mojtabâ Mirzâdeh - "Iranian Violin Improvising")
Group 4
Round 1
(Lang Lee - "There Is a Wolf") South Korea
3.50 – 3.07
North Korea (Isang Yun - "My Land, My People!")
(Thxa Soe - "Aw Sam Paungghkyaote") Myanmar
4.50 – 3.52
Hong Kong (Karen Mok - "Golden Flower")
Round 2
(Underwears Band - "우리는 속옷도 생겼고 여자도 늘었다네")South Korea
3.46 – 3.49
Myanmar (Mandalay Thein Zaw - "Shway pw Ng Lwhar")
(Prune Deer - "Chemistry") Hong Kong
3.32 – 2.86
North Korea (Choi Yang Sook - "Kkoch Piuneun Ai")
Round 3
(E Sens - "The Anecdote") South Korea
3.73 – 2.70
Hong Kong (Jackie Chan - "Love Me")
(Kim Jeong-yeon - "Seodosori - Chang") North Korea
3.00 – 2.86
Myanmar (Sai Lao Perng - "Take It")
Group 5
Round 1
(The Ananda Shankar Experience & State of Bengal - "Walking On")Pakistan
3.37 – 2.50
Afghanistan (Uber Killer - "The Worst")
(Trần Quang Hải - "Landscape of the Highlands") Vietnam
3.43 – 3.50
Macau (Chan Fai-Young - "12 Faces of Woman")
Round 2
(Tabahi - "Tabahi")Pakistan
2.60 – 3.53
Vietnam (Giang Trang - "Lênh đênh nhớ phố")
(Blademark - "Blademark") Macau
2.00 – 2.17
Afghanistan (HXNJV & UNDXRTVKER - "Blasphemous Inferno")
Round 3
(Ali Zafar - "Huqa Pani") Pakistan
3.23 – 3.25
Macau (Jenny Tseng - "Because of Your Love")
(Abdul Rauf - "Robab Dhol Nagma") Afghanistan
3.69 – 2.95
Vietnam (Sword of Darkness - "Heathendom")
Group 6
Round 1
(Ghada Shbeir - "Al Muwashahat") Lebanon
3.49 – 3.25
Uzbekistan (Yunus Rajabi - "Yunus Rajabi")
(Wu Qing-feng - "Tuesday in Mallarmé") Taiwan
3.60 – 3.25
Kuwait (Nabil Shuayl - "1986")
Round 2
(Ali Jihad Racy - "Ancient Egypt") Lebanon
3.41 – 3.27
Taiwan (The Fur - "Serene Reminder")
(Samo Zaen - "Akhiran") Kuwait
3.12 – 3.09
Uzbekistan (Farhôd Qôri Halimov - "Chants Classiques Tadjiks)
Round 3
(Sœur Marie Keyrouz - "Chant Byzantin")Lebanon
3.45 – 2.63
Kuwait (Nura -"Habibi")
(Batyr Zakirov - "Poet Batyr Zakirov") Uzbekistan
3.33 – 3.35
Taiwan (Scattered Purgatory - "Sua-Hiam-Zun")
Group 7
Team
Indonesia
3
3
0
0
10.33
8.72
1.61
6
Philippines
3
1
1
1
9.91
9.90
0.01
4
Laos
3
1
0
2
9.18
9.64
-0.46
3
Iraq
3
0
1
2
9.01
10.17
-1.16
1
Round 1
(No Rome - "It’s All Smiles") Philippines
3.08 – 3.07
Iraq (Ashur Bet Sargis - "Ashur Sargis Sings for Ancient Assyria")
(Taco - "After Eight") Indonesia
3.01 – 2.58
Laos (Soulscape - "Four Invisible Walls")
Round 2
(Grace Nono - "Diwa") Philippines
3.50 – 3.74
Indonesia (Gamelan Orchestra - "Dancers of Bali")
(Perpetual Gestation - "Excremental Uremic Fragrance") Laos
3.51 – 3.30
Iraq (Sargon Gabriel & The East Bird - "Atturiyah")
Round 3
(Tide/Edit - "Lightfoot") Philippines
3.33 – 3.09
Laos (Pathomporn Pathomporn - "The Prince of the Sea")
(Erragal - "The Sunrise of Mankind") Iraq
2.64 – 3.58
Indonesia (Transs - "Hotel San Vicente")
Group 8
Round 1
(Periya Mēḷam - "Temple of Chidambaram") India
3.55 – 3.09
Jordan (Diana Karazon - "SuperStar El Arab")
(Debabrata Biswas - "Aprakasito Gaan er Sankalan") Bangladesh
4.00 – 4.12
Kyrgyzstan (Djunushov Brothers - "Ergime")
Round 2
(Tetragrammacide - "Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix") India
3.51 – 3.78
Bangladesh (Sachin Dev Burman - "Zindagi Zindagi")
(Project Zero - "Gremlin Raša") Kyrgyzstan
3.75 – 3.10
Jordan (Bilocate - "Sudden Death Syndrome")
Round 3
(Ismail Darbar - "Devdas") India
3.58 – 2.91
Kyrgyzstan (Idrol / Human Bait - "Visions of Hate")
(Amjad Shahrour - "Thu Shara") Jordan
3.20 – 3.62
Bangladesh (Ustad Bahadur Khan - "Sarod")
Group 9
Round 1
(The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band - "21st Century Molam") Thailand
3.45 – 3.46
Kazakhstan (Skryptonite - "Uroboros: Ulitsa 36")
(Ivy - "I") Malaysia
3.07 – 2.00
Bahrain (Flipperachi - "9arat")
Round 2
(Khun Narin Electric Phin Band - "Electric Phim Band") Thailand
3.43 – 3.11
Malaysia (Zee Avi - "Zee Avi")
(Sarah Haras - "Mirage") Bahrain
3.09 – 3.37
Kazakhstan (Asleep Country - "Fake Opulent")
Round 3
(Zygoatsis - "S.K.U.D. Satanic Kultus - Unholy Desecration") Thailand
3.44 – 3.30
Bahrain (Ensemble Muhammad bin Fâris - "The Sawt of Bahrain")
(Kalampyr Rakhimova - "Ak Kerbez: Kalampyr Rakhimova Sings") Kazakhstan
3.41 – 3.27
Malaysia (Silent Death - "Before the Sunrise")
Group 10
Round 1
(Geinoh Yamashirogumi - "Ecophony Rinne") Japan
3.78 – 3.05
Sri Lanka (Elephant Foot - "Rain Forest")
(Davlatmand Kholov - "Musiques Savantes et Populaires du Tadjikistan") Tajikistan
3.41 – 3.50
Palestine (Gabriel Hason - "Chamber of the Changing Colors")
Round 2
(Toshiki Kadomatsu - "After 5 Clash") Japan
3.72 – 3.37
Tajikistan (Khurmo Shirinova - "La'li Badaxşon")
(Kobi Aflalo - "Audio") Palestine
3.52 – 3.00
Sri Lanka (Dhamika - "Energy Flow")
Round 3
(Serani Poji - "Ochamekan") Japan
3.80 – 3.25
Palestine (Julmud - "Tuqoos")
(Local - "Local") Sri Lanka
2.50 – 3.06
Tajikistan (Aqnazar - "Rumi")
Third stage For the third stage, the countries were divided in two groups, one for the winners of uneven numbered groups and other for the winners of even numbered groups in the previous stage. The two best performing teams of each group get qualified to the World Cup, and the third placers move to the fourth stage.
Group A
Round 1
(Sot Savuth - "Khmer Wedding Song") Cambodia
3.31 – 2.00
Afghanistan (SadiQ & Dú Maroc - "Narkotic")
(Nine Treasures - "Nine Treasures") China
3.47 – 3.37
Indonesia (Zoo - "Khawagaka")
Round 2
(Polycat - "80 Kisses") Thailand
3.69 – 3.12
Cambodia (Conrad Keely - "Original Machines")
(Ustad Jilani - "Robab Mehfil") Afghanistan
3.65 – 3.20
China (Be Persecuted - "I.I")
(Uwalmassa - "Malar") Indonesia
3.22 – 3.29
Thailand (Christina Aguilar - "Dancing Queen")
Round 3
(Baby Formula - "Baby Formula") China
3.46 – 2.96
Cambodia (Kong Nay - "Un Barde Cambodgien")
(Dawood Sarkhosh - "Bazi") Afghanistan
3.25 – 3.11
Thailand (Phensi Phongsi - "Luk Thung Sao So")
Round 4
(Shark Move - "Ghede Chokra's") Indonesia
3.32 – 4.00
Afghanistan (Jalil Zaland - "Vol. 10")
(Crub - "View") Thailand
3.83 – 3.43
China (Anna Guo - "Chinese Traditional Yang-Qin Music")
(Sonny Thet - "Zauberland") Cambodia
3.10 – 3.63
Indonesia (Gong Kebyar of Sebatu - "Gamelan Music from Bali")
Group B
Round 1
(Etab - "Etab") Saudi Arabia
3.50 – 3.16
Lebanon (MoTrip - "Mama")
(DJ Soulscape - "180g Beats") South Korea
3.58 – 3.27
India (Demonic Ressurection - "Dashavatar")
Round 2
(Daisuke Tobari - "Drum") Japan
3.83 – 3.50
Saudi Arabia (Aamir Zaki - "Signature")
(Stéphane Rives - "Axiom for the Duration") Lebanon
3.27 – 3.47
South Korea (Mydreamfever - "Rough and Beautiful Place")
(Kala Ramnath - "Singing Violin") India
3.72 – 3.83
Japan (DJ Sprinkles - "Midtown 120 Blues")
Round 3
(Fog - "Fogesque") South Korea
3.49 – 3.41
Saudi Arabia (Sijjeel - "Salvation Within Insanity")
(Ibrahim Maalouf - "Illusions") Lebanon
3.54 – 3.87
Japan (Nobue Kawana - "Nobue no Umi")
Round 4
(L. Subramaniam - "Le violon de l'Inde du Sud") India
3.75 – 3.17
Lebanon (Ayat - "Six Years of Dormant Hatred")
(Midori - "Aratamemashite, Hajimemashite, Midori Desu.") Japan
3.86 – 3.54
South Korea (Lee Jung Hyun - "Let's Go to My Star")
(Grieving Age - "Merely the Fleshless We and the Awed Obsequy") Saudi Arabia
2.55 – 3.50
India (Igor Wakhévitch - "Hathor")
Fourth stage Finally, after all the groups are done, the third placers go on a final match to determine which team moves to the intercontinental play off.
Europe The european qualifier happened in three stages, the first one only for the eight less populated nations participating, with all other nations joining from the second stage onwards.
First stage The first stage of the european qualifications features the six european countries with the lowest population in a singular match, with each winner moving to the second stage.
Seeding and drawing Results of the draw + game results
Album
Pot 1 team
Score
Pot 2 team
Album
"Vinalög" by Friðrik Ómar & Jógvan Hansen
Faroe Islands 3.00 – 2.18
San Marino
"La storia di Valentina Monetta - Crisalide - Chrysalis" by Valentina Monetta
"An Taal vo üs" by Rääs
Liechtenstein
2.88 – 4.00
Monaco "ICMC 2002: Göteborg Sweden" by Oliver Schneller
"Homemade" by The Third Twin
Andorra
2.77 – 3.50
Gibraltar "Reach" by Reach
Second stage For the second stage, the countries were divided in ten groups of five, with the winner of each group being qualified to the cup and the runner ups moving to the third stage.
Seeding and drawing Five pots were filled with ten countries each, with the order of filling being stabilished by: Placing in the world ranking, followed by placing in the asian ranking and then, population.
Results of the draw Groups Group 1 Group 2
Round 1
(Deformity - "Murder Within Sin") Belgium
3.61 – 3.93
Turkey (Da Poet - "Poetika")
(Black Cilice - "A Corpse, a Temple") Portugal
3.52 – 3.47
Azerbaijan (Alexander Rabinovich - "Tantric Coupling – Maithuna & Jiao, Sinfonias Concertantes")
Round 2
(Sferi - "Sound of the Spheres") North Macedonia
2.99 – 3.46
Belgium (Girls in Hawaii - "From Here to There")
(Şam - "P.I.Ç.") Turkey
3.47 – 3.45
Portugal (Mão Morta - "Mutantes s.21")
(Niyameddin Mussayev - "Niyameddin Mussayev") Azerbaijan
2.29 – 3.59
North Macedonia (Svetlost - "Odron Ritual Orchestra")
Round 3
(Xutos & Pontapés - "Circo de Feras") Portugal
3.49 – 3.57
Belgium (Oathbreaker - "Rheia")
(Mazhar Fuat Özkan - "Ele Güne Karşı Yapayalnız") Turkey
3.74 – 3.05
North Macedonia (Arian - "Arian")
Round 4
(National Folk Ensemble of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan - "Music of Azerbaijan") Azerbaijan
3.37 – 3.41
Turkey (Mehmet Ali Şimayli - "Portait and a Dream")
(Dubnotic - "Earth Fragment") North Macedonia
3.35 – 3.77
Portugal (Nerve - "Trabalho & Conhaque")
(Roméo Poirier - "Plage Arrière") Belgium
3.54 – 3.89
Azerbaijan (Kamil Jalilov - "Azerbaydzhanskiye Mugamy")
Group 3
Team
Scotland
4
2
1
1
15.14
15.04
0.10
7
Georgia
4
2
1
1
13.53
13.46
0.07
7
Greece
4
1
2
1
14.05
14.01
0.04
5
Cyprus
4
1
1
2
14.12
13.79
0.33
4
Slovenia
4
1
1
2
13.19
13.73
-0.54
4
Round 1
(Cocteau Twins - "Blue Bell Knoll") Scotland
3.81 – 3.48
Slovenia (Joker Out - "Demoni")
(Purple Overdose - "Reborn") Greece
3.67 – 3.28
Georgia (Ensemble Riho - "Georgia: Vocal Polyphonies From Svaneti")
Round 2
(Zivanished - "100% Pure Cypriot Beating") Cyprus
4.50 – 3.68
Scotland (The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Darkland")
(Noctiferia - "Death Culture") Slovenia
3.33 – 3.41
Greece (Subheim - "Approach")
(Asiq Nargile - "Qərib Həyat") Georgia
3.29 – 3.08
Cyprus (Godblood - "Flowers")
Round 3
(Chain Cult - "Shallow Grave") Greece
3.47 – 4.00
Scotland (Boards of Canada - "Geogaddi")
(Panikk - "Discarded Existence") Slovenia
3.32 – 3.14
Cyprus (Solitary Sabred - "By Fire & Brimstone")
Round 4
(Enguri - "Enguri") Georgia
3.37 – 3.06
Slovenia (Mephistophelian - "Anotos")
(Doros Georgiadis - "Pérasan 2000 Chrónia") Cyprus
3.40 – 3.50
Greece (Sacral Rage - "Beyond Celestial Echoes")
(Teenage Fanclub - "Bandwagonesque") Scotland
3.65 – 3.59
Georgia (Ennui - "End of the Circle")
Group 4
Round 1
(CMAT - "If My Wife New I’d Be Dead") Ireland
3.51 – 3.37
Croatia (Vortex - "Thrash is Alive")
(Lech Janerka - "Historia Podwodna") Poland
3.75 – 3.52
Bulgaria (Zguba - "Znój")
Round 2
(Reach - "Reach") Gibraltar
3.50 – 3.51
Ireland (Sega Bodega - "Romeo")
(Aerodrom - "Kad Misli Mi Vrludaju") Croatia
3.06 – 3.61
Poland (Evilfeast - "Elegies of the Stellar Wind")
(69 - "Porednata Vŭlna") Bulgaria
3.35 – 3.22
Gibraltar (Melon Diesel - "Hombre en el Espejo")
Round 3
(Nigel Kennedy & Kroke - "East Meets East") Poland
3.60 – 3.43
Ireland (Steven Stapleton & David Tibet - "The Sadness of Things")
(Arsen Dedić - "Čovjek Kao Ja") Croatia
3.49 – 2.66
Gibraltar (Taxi - "Libre")
Round 4
(Hajduk - "Ruins of Humanity") Bulgaria
3.56 – 2.48
Croatia (Darko Rundek - "Ruke")
(Breed 77 - "In My Blood (En Mi Sangre)") Gibraltar
3.36 – 3.68
Poland (Michał Urbaniak - "Fusion III")
(Perry Blake - "California") Ireland
3.61 – 3.05
Bulgaria (Nightsky Bequest - "Keep the Lonely Trees")
Group 5
Round 1
(Oksennus - "Sokea Idiootti") Finland
3.69 – 3.63
Czech Republic (Symphonity - "Voice From the Silence")
(Focusrights - "Ew, Music!") Ukraine
3.31 – 3.50
Albania (Djemte e Vjoses - "Dola Që kur Doli Ylli")
Round 2
(Röövel Ööbik - "Popsubterranea") Estonia
3.27 – 3.65
Finland (Luomo - "Vocalcity")
(Grandmother Is Dead - "Trust Christ Today") Czech Republic
3.38 – 3.48
Ukraine (Corn Wave - "Philosophy of Structures")
(Noizy - "Pak Më Ndryshe") Albania
2.16 – 3.52
Estonia (Must Missa - "Martyr of Wrath")
Round 3
(Vezha Khmar - "Plač") Ukraine
3.73 – 3.64
Finland (Ensiferum - "Ensiferum")
(Appaling Spawn - "Freedom, Hope & Fury (The Second Spawn)") Czech Republic
3.64 – 3.43
Estonia (Discrucior - "Mundus Subterraneus")
Round 4
(Tristeria - "Anagrama") Albania
2.62 – 3.44
Czech Republic (DVA - "Hu")
(Freakangel - "The Faults of Humanity") Estonia
3.44 – 3.61
Ukraine (Vin de Mia Trix - "Palimpsests")
(Demigod - "Slumber of Sullen Eyes") Finland
3.80 – 2.00
Albania (Pirro Çako - "Herët a Vonë")
Group 6
Team
Sweden
4
3
1
0
14.81
12.83
1.98
10
Wales
4
3
0
1
13.64
13.14
0.50
9
Russia
4
1
1
2
14.12
14.12
0.00
4
Austria
4
1
1
2
13.46
13.58
-0.12
4
Kosovo
4
0
1
3
11.48
14.02
-2.54
1
Round 1
(The Flower Kings - "Stardust We Are") Sweden
3.67 – 3.69
Austria (Miasma - "Changes")
(Melys - "Life's Too Short") Wales
3.92 – 3.57
Russia (7 H.Target - "Fast-Slow Demolition")
Round 2
(Albina Kelmendi - "Nana Loke") Kosovo
2.50 – 3.57
Sweden (The Hellacopters - "High Visibility")
(HVOB - "Rocco") Austria
3.27 – 3.38
Wales (Art School Girlfriend - "Is It Light Where You Are")
(Solomennye Enoty - Nedostovernyye Dannyye o Schast'ye) Russia
3.50 – 3.50
Kosovo (Blero - "Fiksimi Im")
Round 3
(The Blackout - "The Best in Town") Wales
2.99 – 3.80
Sweden (Cult of Luna - "Somewhere Along the Highway")
(W. Ambros - "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof") Austria
3.60 – 2.98
Kosovo (Irina Karamarković - "Songs from Kosovo")
Round 4
(2H Company - "Psixoxirurgi") Russia
3.55 – 3.20
Austria (Autistic Daughters - "Uneasy Flowers")
(Kaos - "X") Kosovo
2.50 – 3.35
Wales (Stereophonics - "Word Gets Around")
(Nasum - "Helvete") Sweden
3.77 – 3.65
Russia (Lenina Paket - "Nas Sponsiruyet Zyuganov")
Group 7
Team
Denmark
4
3
1
0
14.43
13.47
0.96
10
France
4
2
2
0
14.58
13.74
0.84
8
Armenia
4
1
1
2
13.20
13.39
-0.19
4
Serbia
4
1
1
2
13.62
13.88
-0.26
4
Monaco
4
0
1
3
13.31
14.47
-1.16
1
Round 1
(Nehëmah - "Requiem Tenebrae") France
3.64 – 3.28
Serbia (Paleowolf - "Megafauna Rituals")
(Svartsot - "Ravnenes Saga") Denmark
3.49 – 2.91
Armenia (Sirusho - "Havatum Em")
Round 2
(Godkiller - "The End of the World") Monaco
3.31 – 3.63
France (Emmanuelle Parrenin - "Maison Rose")
(Tales of Dark - "Fragile Monuments") Serbia
3.39 – 3.53
Denmark (Eussoupi - "Aktiv Dødshjælp")
(Benik Abovian & Zaven Azibekian - "Armenia: Traditional Musicians From Tavush") Armenia
3.50 – 3.00
Monaco (Black Knight Symfonia - "Ancestral Torments")
Round 3
(Sulphurous - "The Black Mouth of Sepulchre") Denmark
3.57 – 3.67
France (Daïtro - "Laisser Vivre les Squelettes")
(Šaban Bajramović & Mostar Sevdah Reunion - "A Gypsy Legend") Serbia
3.50 – 3.50
Monaco (Louis Abbiate - "Deux Poèmes Symphoniques")
Round 4
(Ambehr - "Sword's Song") Armenia
3.21 – 3.45
Serbia (Organized Chaos - "Divulgence")
(Colette Deréal - "À la Gare Saint-Lazare") Monaco
3.50 – 3.84
Denmark (King Diamond - "Conspiracy")
(Diabologum - "#3 (Ce N'est Pas Perdu pour Tout le Monde)") France
3.64 – 3.58
Armenia (Komitas - "Patarag")
Group 8
Round 1
(The 3rd and the Mortal - "Tears Laid in Earth") Norway
3.54 – 3.68
Northern Ireland (Fruupp - "Future Legends")
(Eskorbuto - "Anti Todo") Spain
3.72 – 3.43
Belarus (Yobeteveaĭuemate Myagkiĭ Znak - "Veshch' Izmenivshaya Fso")
Round 2
(Rambo Amadeus - "Oprem Dobro") Montenegro
3.21 – 3.60
Norway (A-Ha - "Scoundrel Days")
(Darkest Era - "Severance") Northern Ireland
3.54 – 3.69
Spain (Ictus - "Imperivm")
(Rational Diet - "At Work") Belarus
3.54 – 5.00
Montenegro (Vicko Nikolić - "Uspavanka Moru")
Round 3
(Dano - "Istmo") Spain
3.80 – 3.64
Norway (Høst - "På Sterke Vinger")
(Ash - "1977") Northern Ireland
3.42 – 2.67
Montenegro (Vizant - "Sjene živih")
Round 4
(Ksilema - "Ksilema") Belarus
3.48 – 3.60
Northern Ireland (Paul Brady - "Welcome Here Kind Stranger")
(Larry Vuckovich - "Blue Balkan") Montenegro
4.50 – 3.71
Spain (Loquillo y Trogloditas - "El Ritmo del Garage")
(Taake - "...Doedskvad") Norway
3.69 – 3.28
Belarus (Dead Silence Hides My Cries - "The Wretched Symphony")
Group 9
Round 1
(Manfred Schoof - "European Echoes") Germany
3.73 – 4.50
Luxembourg (Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson - "Glugginn Hennar Kötu)
(Ákos Rózmann - "Images of the Dream and Death") Hungary
3.42 – 3.13
Lithuania (The Roop - "Concrete Flower")
Round 2
(Nicky Bomba - "Drums and Lions") Malta
3.50 – 3.70
Germany (Hoedh - "Hymnvs")
(The Home Current & Peter Wix - "Unfortunes") Luxembourg
3.98 – 3.61
Hungary (Nouvelle Phénomène - "Glory of Romance")
(Infestation - "Social Cannibalism") Lithuania
3.44 – 3.34
Malta (Colourblind - "Spectre")
Round 3
(Rothadás - "Kopár Hant... az Alvilág Felé) Hungary
3.41 – 3.97
Germany (Kraftwerk - "Die Mensch-Maschine")
(Plaguewielder - "Chambers of Death") Luxembourg
3.21 – 3.00
Malta (Devil's Breath - "Devil's Breath")
Round 4
(Juodvarnis - "Nerimo Dienos") Lithuania
3.51 – 3.23
Luxembourg (Quentin Lagonza - "Quentin Lagonza")
(A Broken Design - "Another Day in Hell") Malta
3.00 – 3.58
Hungary (Gabor Szabo - "Bacchanal")
(Gamma Ray - "Land of the Free") Germany
3.77 – 3.14
Lithuania (Altorių Šešėliai - "Margi Sakalai")
Group 10
Round 1
(Skáphe & Wormlust - "Kosmískur Hryllingur") Iceland
3.52 – 3.48
Romania (Sunset in the 12th House - "Mozaic")
(Island - "Pictures") Switzerland
3.65 – 3.23
Moldova (Harmasar - "Din pământ")
Round 2
(Sudden Lights - "Vislabāk ir Rur, Kur Manis Nav") Latvia
3.53 – 3.59
Iceland (Low Roar - "0")
(Lucian Ban - "Transylvanian Folk Songs: The Bela Bartók Field Recordings") Romania
3.36 – 3.50
Switzerland (Anachronism - "Orogeny")
(Sergey Rogojin - "Dva Serdtsa") Moldova
3.45 – 3.07
Latvia (Līvi - "Iedomu Pilsēta")
Round 3
(Circus - "Movin' On") Switzerland
3.75 – 3.13
Iceland (Mugison - "Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?")
(Illuminati - "The Core") Romania
3.05 – 3.14
Latvia (Eschatos - "The Grand Noir")
Round 4
(Raketobil - "Vremya Dozhdey") Moldova
3.33 – 3.33
Romania (Iris - "Iris")
(Mu Tate - "Let Me Put Myself Together") Latvia
3.25 – 3.55
Switzerland (Skeleton Crew - "Learn to Talk")
(Yagya - "Rigning") Iceland
3.55 – 3.43
Moldova (Dan Mândrilă - "Alter Ego")
Third stage For the third stage, only the runner ups moved to it, they were put in two groups of five, Group A having the runner-ups of groups 1 to 5 and Group B having the runner-ups of groups 6 to 10, with the best performing teams of each group being qualified to the world cup and the runner ups moving to the fourth stage.
Group A
Round 1
(Vladimír Godár - "Mater") Slovakia
3.49 – 3.56
Georgia (Valery Meladze - "Сэра")
(Banda do Casaco - "Dos Benefícios dum Vendido no Reino dos Bonifácios") Portugal
3.57 – 3.47
Ireland (Fionn Regan - "The End of History")
Round 2
(Schloss Tegal - "The Grand Guignol") Czech Republic
3.37 – 3.60
Slovakia (Amorbital - "Invidia")
(Georgi Mikadze - "Georgian Microjamz") Georgia
3.28 – 3.44
Portugal (DJ Lycox - "Sonhos & Pesadelos")
(The Chieftains - "The Chieftains 4") Ireland
3.63 – 3.41
Czech Republic (Modern Day Babylon - "Travelers")
Round 3
(Lio - "Lio") Portugal
3.38 – 3.20
Slovakia (Autumn Nostalgie - "Esse Est Percipi")
(Beqa Ungiadze - "Station") Georgia
3.28 – 3.97
Czech Republic (Antonín Dvořák - "Aus der Neuen Welt")
Round 4
(The Bothy Band - "Old Hag You Have Killed Me") Ireland
3.69 – 3.34
Georgia (LaoZi - "Lunatica")
(Ecstasy of St. Theresa - "Sussurate") Czech Republic
3.50 – 3.61
Portugal (António Variações - "Anjo de Guarda")
(Krolok - "Flying Above Ancient Ruins") Slovakia
3.53 – 3.71
Ireland (The Divine Comedy - "Absent Friends")
Group B
Team
Spain
4
3
1
0
14.88
14.23
0.65
10
Germany
4
2
2
0
14.87
14.23
0.64
8
France
4
1
2
1
14.84
14.73
0.11
5
Wales
4
0
2
2
14.08
14.67
-0.59
2
Iceland
4
0
1
3
13.92
14.73
-0.81
1
Round 1
(The Partisans - "The Partisans") Wales
3.53 – 3.72
Spain (El Último de la Fila - "Nuevas Mezclas")
(Lunatic - "Mauvais œil") France
3.78 – 3.71
Germany (The Frank Wright Quintet - "Your Prayer")
Round 2
(Zhrine - "Unortheta") Iceland
3.57 – 3.54
Wales (Anhrefn - "Defaid, Skateboards A Wellies")
(Kase.O Jazz Magnetism - "Kase.O Jazz Magnetism") Spain
3.77 – 3.66
France (La Tenè - "Abandonnée/Maléja")
(Tangerine Dream - "Phaedra") Germany
3.76 – 3.44
Iceland (Bang Gang - "Something Wrong")
Round 3
(Taï Phong - "Taï Phong") France
3.68 – 3.68
Wales (Acrimony - "Tumuli Shroomaroom")
(Barón Rojo - "Volumen Brutal") Spain
3.71 – 3.34
Iceland (Haleikr - "Heart of Lead")
Round 4
(Carol of Harvest - "Carol of Harvest") Germany
3.70 – 3.68
Spain (Eduardo Bort - "Eduardo Bort")
(Sól án Varma - "Sól án Varma") Iceland
3.57 – 3.72
France (Air - "Moon Safari")
(Alphane Moon - "The Echoing Grove") Wales
3.33 – 3.70
Germany (Skee Mask - "Compro")
Fourth stage Finally, after all the groups are done, the third placers go on a final match, the winner gets qualified to the cup, and the loser moves to the intercontinental play off.
Oceania The oceanic qualifier was divided in two stages, the first one featuring only the twelve less populated countires participating, with the remaining countries only joining in the second stage.
First stage The first stage consisted of one-way matches between the countries, where the winner is qualified to the second stage.
Seeding and drawing Results of the draw + game results Second stage The second stage consisted of a four team bracket, with the winner qualifying to the intercontinental play off. To determine the matches, the countries were placed in four pots of four countries, with the standard organization method.
Seeding and drawing The filling of the pots is based first on if the country has already participated of the cup or not, if so, it goes on the first pots with priority to the best performing countries, after that, the pots are filled based on the population of the countries.
Results of the draw Knockouts
Round of 16
(Dezine - "Fionah') Solomon Islands
2.68 – 2.45
Tonga (Rizván - "Neverland")
(Rosalio - "Samoan Serenade") Samoa
4.00 – 3.50
Marshall Islands (Chaninway - "Vol. 1")
(Painim Wok - "Painim Wok") Papua New Guinea
3.97 – 3.50
Guam (Joe Taimanglo - "Gi Inai")
(OK! Ryos - "Wa Coco le Meilleur d'Ok! Ryos") New Caledonia
2.22 – 3.50
Wallis and Futuna (Poli Lautoka - "Folklore de Futuna")
(Snakebeings - "Gamelan Glitch - Port Chalmers Inventions and Recordings") Fiji
4.00 – 2.00
Micronesia (Xavier X. Fethal - "Micronesian Ginger Lei")
(Eddie Lund - "Tahiti Dances") Tahiti
3.02 – 3.19
Cook Islands (Garth Young - "Keyboard Pops")
(Surface of the Earth - "Surface of the Earth") New Zealand
3.65 – 1.65
Kiribati (Elijah L - "Pretty Woman")
(Vanessa Quai - "Light It Up") Vanuatu
2.17 – 2.56
Niue (T.A.5 of Niue Island - "Music of Niue")
Quarter-Finals
(Ensemble de flûtes de Pan 'Au Keto - "Flutes de pan mélanésiennes: 'Are'are Vol. 2") Solomon Islands
2.84 – 2.96
Samoa (Western Samoa Teachers Training College - "Samoa i Sisifo")
Papua New Guinea
W / O
Wallis and Futuna
(Paulini - "One Determined Heart") Fiji
1.80 – 3.09
Cook Islands (Ta'akoka Dance Troupe - "Tiare Tipani Ei")
(The Clean - "Vehicle") New Zealand
3.50 – 3.01
Niue (90sFlav - "Collection")
Third place match
(Alir Pukai Stringband - "Songs of the Volcano") Papua New Guinea
3.06 – 3.24
Cook Islands (Ta'akoka Dance Troupe - "Tiare Tipani Ei")
Final
(The Samoan Surfriders - "Let Me Hear You Whisper") Samoa
2.94 – 3.38
New Zealand (Jonathan Bree - "Sleepwalking")
Intercontinental play-off The intercontinental play-off consists of one team of each continent that barely qualified to have a second chance in doing so, with that, all five teams are placed in a group where the three best performing teams get qualified to the world cup.
Participating teams Qualification
Team
Indonesia
4
2
2
0
14.23
13.47
0.76
8
Peru
4
2
2
0
14.22
13.70
0.52
8
New Zealand
4
1
2
1
14.19
14.19
0.00
5
Mali
4
1
0
3
13.07
13.96
-0.89
3
Portugal
4
0
2
2
13.66
14.05
-0.39
2
Round 1
(Orchestre Régional de Ségou - "Orchestre Régional de Ségou") Mali
3.26 – 3.53
Peru (Insumisión - "Perú Pueblo Imbécil")
(Sambasunda Quintet - "Java") Indonesia
3.38 – 3.48
Portugal (Midnight Priest - "SAggressive Hauntings")
Round 2
(Avantdale Bowling Club - "Avantdale Bowling Club") New Zealand
3.62 – 3.45
Mali (Kokanko Sata - "Kokanko Sata")
(Sonora Casino - "Trompeteros") Peru
3.66 – 3.57
Indonesia (Isyana Sarasvati - "Lexicon")
(Ironsword - "Overlords of Chaos") Portugal
3.51 – 3.54
New Zealand (This Kind of Punishment - "A Beard of Bees")
Round 3
(Yayah Ratnasari & Karawang Group - "Daun Sorga") Indonesia
3.49 – 2.82
Mali (Aya Nakamura - "Nakamura")
(Pax - "May God and Your Will Land You and Your Soul Miles Away From Evil") Peru
3.44 – 3.52
New Zealand (The Terminals - "Touch")
Round 4
(Analepsy - "Atrocities From Beyond") Portugal
3.35 – 3.59
Peru (La Ira de Dios - "Hacia el Sol Rojo")
(Shihad - "Killjoy") New Zealand
3.51 – 3.79
Indonesia (Jirapah - "Planetarium")
(Habib Koité & Eric Bibb - "Brothers in Bamako") Mali
3.54 – 3.32
Portugal (Carolina & Refree - "Lina_Raül Refree")
Congo DRC
Ethiopia
Ghana
Tunisia
Brazil
Canada
Jamaica
Peru
Puerto Rico
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
Afghanistan
Indonesia
Japan
South Korea
Thailand
Denmark
England
Finland
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Northern Ireland
Poland
Scotland
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Australia
New Zealand
Equatorial Guinea
Comoros
Eswatini
Djibouti
Guinea-Bissau
São Tomé and Príncipe
Lesotho
Seychelles
Mauritius
Western Sahara
Mali (#13 W)
Egypt (#60 W)
Tanzania (#21 A)
Guinea
Eritrea
Zambia (#16 W)
Kenya (#65 W)
Sudan
Rwanda
Namibia
Nigeria (#20 W)
Mozambique
Burundi
Gambia
South Africa (#24 W)
Madagascar
South Sudan
Botswana
Senegal (#27 W)
Algeria (#2 A)
Ivory Coast
Togo
Gabon
Niger (#7 A)
Burkina Faso
Sierra Leone
Uganda (#50 W)
Angola (#16 A)
Malawi
Congo
Morocco (#17 A)
Chad
Liberia
Cameroon (#54 W)
Benin (#19 A)
Somalia
Central African Republic
Cape Verde (#55 W)
Libya (#20 A)
Zimbabwe
Mauritania
American Virgin Islands
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
British Virgin Islands
Aruba
Bermuda
Bonaire
Greenland
Cayman Islands
Montserrat
Curaçao
St. Kitts and Nevis
Dominica
Saint Martin
Grenada
Sint Maarten
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Turks and Caicos Islands
Haiti (#46 W)
Bolivia
Suriname
Colombia (#25 W)
Honduras
Belize
Chile (#51 W)
Paraguay
Cuba (#33 W)
Venezuela (#68 W)
El Salvador
Martinique
Bahamas (#6 A)
Nicaragua
Barbados
Argentina (#37 W)
Dominican Republic (#12 A)
Costa Rica
Uruguay (#44 W)
Ecuador
Panama
Saint Lucia
Mexico (#45 W)
Guatemala
Guyana
Bahrain
Bhutan
Mongolia
Brunei
Oman
East Timor
Palestine
Kuwait
Qatar
Macau
Turkmenistan
Maldives
Israel (#63 W)
Iraq
United Arab Emirates
Taiwan (#6 A)
Laos
India (#30 W)
Bangladesh (#9 A)
Saudi Arabia
Hong Kong
China (#40 W)
Vietnam (#11 A)
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan
Philippines (#41 W)
Yemen
Lebanon (#42 W)
Malaysia (#15 A)
Nepal
Singapore (#58 W)
Syria (#20 A)
North Korea
Iran (#21 A)
Sri Lanka
Cambodia (#61 W)
Tajikistan (#22 A)
Kazakhstan
Pakistan (#62 W)
Myanmar
Jordan
Andorra
Gibraltar
Faroe Islands
Monaco
Liechtenstein
San Marino
Wales (#22 W)
Bosnia-Herzegovina (#30 E)
North Macedonia
Russia
Latvia
Serbia (#56 W)
Azerbaijan
Kosovo
Greece (#29 W)
Romania (#57 W)
Belarus
Estonia
Portugal (#31 W)
Austria (#64 W)
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Norway (#12 W)
Georgia
Montenegro
Iceland (#14 W)
Croatia (#20 E)
Armenia
Malta
Netherlands (#38 W)
Czech Republic (#22 E)
Lithuania
Ukraine (#39 W)
Slovakia (#23 E)
Albania
Belgium (#21 W)
Hungary (#43 W)
Slovenia (#28 E)
Moldova
American Samoa
Cook Islands
Marshall Islands
Niue
Northern Mariana Islands
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Palau
Fiji
New Caledonia
Guam
Tahiti
Kiribati
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Micronesia
Solomon Islands
Vanuatu