Mystical Song Contest 57

The Mystical Song Contest #57 (also known as MSC 57) was the fifty-seventh edition of the Mystical Song Contest. It took place in Trondheim, 🇳🇴 Norway after Sigrid won in Vienna, 🇦🇹 Austria.

It was confirmed that 52 countries participated in the 57th edition. No one debuted, withdrew or returned.

The top 6 of last edition 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇲🇰 North Macedonia, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇰🇷 South Korea, The Netherlands and 🇺🇦 Ukraine were automatically pre qualified for the Grand Final of this edition. The 46 other participating countries were split into 2 semi finals and a Pre-Qualification Round which consists of the countries which ended in the bottom 4 of each semi final of the previous edition.

The running orders were made by the supervisor of the contest ESC Thømås.

Trondheim
Vienna (/viˈɛnə/ (listen); German: Wien [viːn] (listen); Austro-Bavarian: Wean [veɐ̯n]) is the national capital, largest city, and one of nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's most populous city, with about 2 million inhabitants (2.6 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one third of the country's population), and its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 6th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, Vienna was the largest German-speaking city in the world, and before the splitting of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I, the city had 2 million inhabitants. Today, it is the second-largest German-speaking city after Berlin. Vienna is host to many major international organizations, including the United Nations, OPEC and the OSCE. The city is located in the eastern part of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. These regions work together in a European Centrope border region. Along with nearby Bratislava, Vienna forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants. In 2001, the city center was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In July 2017 it was moved to the list of World Heritage in Danger. Additionally, Vienna is known as the "City of Music" due to its musical legacy, as many famous classical musicians such as Beethoven and Mozart called Vienna home. Vienna is also said to be the "City of Dreams", because of it being home to the world's first psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Vienna's ancestral roots lie in early Celtic and Roman settlements that transformed into a Medieval and Baroque city. It is well known for having played a pivotal role as a leading European music center, from the age of Viennese Classicism through the early part of the 20th century. The historic center of Vienna is rich in architectural ensembles, including Baroque palaces and gardens, and the late-19th-century Ringstraße lined with grand buildings, monuments and parks.

Vienna is known for its high quality of life. In a 2005 study of 127 world cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city first (in a tie with Vancouver and San Francisco) for the world's most livable cities. Between 2011 and 2015, Vienna was ranked second, behind Melbourne. Monocle's 2015 "Quality of Life Survey" ranked Vienna second on a list of the top 25 cities in the world "to make a base within." Monocle's 2012 "Quality of Life Survey" ranked Vienna fourth on a list of the top 25 cities in the world "to make a base within" (up from sixth in 2011 and eighth in 2010). The UN-Habitat classified Vienna as the most prosperous city in the world in 2012/2013. The city was ranked 1st globally for its culture of innovation in 2007 and 2008, and sixth globally (out of 256 cities) in the 2014 Innovation Cities Index, which analyzed 162 indicators in covering three areas: culture, infrastructure, and markets. Vienna regularly hosts urban planning conferences and is often used as a case study by urban planners. Between 2005 and 2010, Vienna was the world's number-one destination for international congresses and conventions. It attracts over 6.8 million tourists a year.

The English name Vienna is borrowed from the homonymous Italian name. The etymology of the city's name is still subject to scholarly dispute. Some claim that the name comes from vedunia, meaning "forest stream", which subsequently produced the Old High German uuenia (wenia in modern writing), the New High German wien and its dialectal variant wean.

Others believe that the name comes from the Roman settlement name of Celtic extraction Vindobona, probably meaning "fair village, white settlement" from Celtic roots, vindo-, meaning "bright" or "fair" – as in the Irish fionn and the Welsh gwyn –, and -bona "village, settlement". The Celtic word vindos may reflect a widespread prehistorical cult of Vindos, a Celtic deity who survives in Irish Mythology as the warrior and seer Fionn mac Cumhaill. A variant of this Celtic name could be preserved in the Czech, Slovak and Polish names of the city (Vídeň, Viedeň and Wiedeń respectively) and in that of the city's district Wieden.

The name of the city in Hungarian (Bécs), Serbo-Croatian (Beč; Cyrillic: Беч) and Ottoman Turkish (Beç) has a different, probably Slavonic origin, and originally referred to an Avar fort in the area. Slovene-speakers call the city Dunaj, which in other Central European Slavic languages means the river Danube, on which the city stands.

Host of the show
On October 12, 2021 it was announced that Kristine Frøseth will be the host of Mystical Song Contest 57.

Kristine Frøseth (born 21 September 1996) is an American and Norwegian actress and model.

She is known for playing Kelly Aldrich in the Netflix series The Society and Alaska Young in the Hulu series Looking for Alaska.

Froseth was born in the United States to Norwegian parents and her early life was spent traveling back and forth between Oslo, Norway and New Jersey due to her father's work.

She started modeling after being discovered on a catwalk audition at Ski Storsenter in Norway, and was also scouted by IMG Models while in New Jersey at a local mall fashion show.

She has modelled for brands such as Armani, Juicy Couture, Miu Miu and H&M.

Her acting career began when a casting director found her photos and encouraged her to audition for the film adaptation of John Green's novel Looking for Alaska.

This film adaptation was never made.

In 2016, she was cast in the pilot for a potential series adaptation of Let the Right One In.

Froseth began her acting career with the 2017 film Rebel in the Rye.

In 2018, she starred in two Netflix movies, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser and Apostle, and a Sky mini-series, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair.

On 9 May 2018, it was announced that Hulu would be adapting the John Green novel Looking for Alaska into an 8-episode miniseries.

On 30 October 2018, John Green announced Kristine Froseth would be playing Alaska Young, one of the main characters.

She stars in the 2021 Amazon Prime Video film Birds of Paradise directed by Sarah Adina Smith.

Debuting/Withdrawing
On September 10, 2021 it was announced that 1 country won't participate in the 57th edition.
 * 🇱🇧 Lebanon : LBCI, the Lebanese broadcaster, stated that the country will withdraw from the contest because there was no interest from viewers and artists in the contest. The last participation of the country was in the 56th edition.

Returning Artists
Here is the list of the returning artists for the 57th edition.

Pre-Qualification Round
On October 12, 2021 the supervisor of the contest ESC Thømås revealed the running order of the Pre-Qualification round.

Semi Finals
On October 12, 2021 the supervisor of the contest ESC Thømås revealed the running order of both semi finals.

The big 6 members were assigned to a semi final where they had to vote.

A total of 21 countries competed in each semi final and 10 countries qualified in both.

Semi Final 1
In this semi final 🇲🇰 North Macedonia, 🇰🇷 South Korea and 🇺🇦 Ukraine had to vote.

Semi Final 2
In this semi final 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇸🇪 Sweden and The Netherlands had to vote.

Grand Final
On November 4, 2021 the supervisor of the contest ESC Thømås revealed the running order of the Grand Final.