Updated Rules as of GMC 7 onward!

ELIGIBILITY:
- For an artist to be eligible for a specific country, they must have been from said country or have blood relations with parents from that country.
-- A group can represent a specific country if at least one of the members is from/blood related to anyone from said country.
-- Featured artists will NOT COUNT.
- The song must have been released as of January 1st, 2000.
(Includes songs that were in an Album before 2000 but released as a single as of 2000)
- The song must be 5 minutes in length or shorter.
- The song must not be a cover of a pre-existing song.
- The song must be a professional studio recording or live performance.
- The song must not have competed in the previous editions of Global Music Contest.
- No songs that have previously been used Eurovision and American Song Contest.
- Only YouTube embed-enabled links are allowed.

FORMAT:

Each edition will last for 2 weeks with mailers out Tuesday, the live show taking place Monday and the results taking place next Monday.

There will be 10 countries drawn randomly from 10 different pots containing 19 countries each sorted by population as it offers a wide range of countries for each edition.

You’ll have 6 days to submit your entry as your artist must either be born or be a citizen in your specific country or have their parents be from there.

Comments are OPTIONAL based on your preference but you must vote by sending the host your rankings of all the entries and if you don’t do this then you would be disqualified.

Here is the points system used based on your rankings and how many artists are in the edition:

12+ Artists: (12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1)
11-10 Artists: (12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1)
9-8 Artists: (12-10-8-5-3-1)
7-6 Artists: (12-8-4-1)

There will be a MAXIMUM of 26 Users and a MINIMUM of 6 Users who can take part each edition.

TIEBREAK:

In an event of a tie, the Artist with the highest amount of individual 12 points will place higher.

If there is still a tie then it would go down the points to see who has the higher amount.

If there is still a tie then the Artist who scored more points from more users would place higher.

If there is still a tie after this then both Artists would get the same placement.