Mystical Song Contest 32

The Mystical Song Contest #32 (also known as MSC 32) is the thirty-second edition of the Mystical Song Contest. It took place in Singapore, 🇸🇬 Singapore after Adia Tay won in Belgrade, 🇷🇸 Serbia.

It was confirmed that 48 countries participated in the 32nd edition. No countries returned, debuted, or withdrew.

The top 6 of last edition 🇸🇬 Singapore, 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇰🇷 South Korea, 🇧🇾 Belarus and 🇮🇹 Italy were automatically pre qualified for the Grand Final of this edition. The 42 other countries that participated were split into 2 semi finals.

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

Singapore
Singapore (/ˈsɪŋ(ɡ)əpɔːr/ (listen)), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country located in maritime Southeast Asia. Singapore lies about one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, and is situated off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, and, by extension, the southernmost extremity of continental Eurasia. The island country shares its southern maritime border with Indonesia's Riau Islands, its northern, western, and eastern maritime borders with the Johor state of Peninsular Malaysia, and is in the vicinity of Sumatra to its west and Borneo to its east. It is enveloped by the littoral waters of the Johore Strait to its north and the Singapore Strait to its south, and is geographically positioned within the confluence of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, being bounded by the Malacca Strait to its west and the South China Sea to its east. The country's territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet, the combined area of which has increased by almost 25% since the country's independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects.

Although Singapore has been a constituent part of several Malay Hindu-Buddhist thalassocratic empires and Islamic sultanates throughout its millennia-long history, modern Singapore, then part of the erstwhile Johor Sultanate, was founded in 1819 when Stamford Raffles, a British colonial officer, established a trading post of the East India Company on the main island. In 1824, the main island and its satellite islands were fully ceded by the Johor Sultanate, and in 1826, Singapore was incorporated into the Straits Settlements, a group of East India Company territories in the Malay peninsula. From 1830 to 1858, the Straits Settlements were administered as a Malayan subdivision of the East India Company's Bengal Presidency; following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Presidency and its constituent Settlements were reorganised into the British Raj. In 1867, Britain's colonial holdings in the Malay archipelago were separated from British India, and the administration of the Straits Settlements was transferred from Calcutta to London, bringing the Straits Settlements under the direct control of the British Crown as a crown colony.

Host of the show
On March 9, 2020 it was announced that Tabitha Nauser was the host of Mystical Song Contest 32.

Tabitha Nauser (born 23 February 1992) is a Singaporean singer.

Nauser was born to a Swiss father and a Singaporean Indian mother. In 2009, Nauser placed third in the third edition of Singapore Idol.

In 2017, Nauser's “Bulletproof” peaked at #1 on Spotify’s "SG Viral 50" chart and #4 on the iTunes “SG Top Charts”.

Nauser's second single ‘Body Language’ in September 2017 featured Malaysian rapper SonaOne.

Nauser also acted the role of Mimi Marquez in the Pangdemonium musical production of RENT. She has also performed at festivals such as the Mosaic Music Festival, Shine Fetival, Music Matters Singapore, and the F1 Singapore Grand Prix. She also perform at the White House in Washington DC for President Obama’s State Dinner.

In 2018, Nauser collaborated with Dutch DJ Trap Duo Yellow Claw, producing the track “Crash This Party”. Later in 2018, she worked with Grammy-nominated producer and songwriter Michael Fatkin for her single ‘Rules’ released in May 2018. Nauser also opened for the singer Khalid for his Asian leg of the “American Teen World Tour”.

In 2019, Tabitha released “Don’t Let Me Drown”, produced by Sacha Skarbek. Nauser's debut EP “Things I should have said” was also released in 2019.

Debuting/Withdrawing
No countries withdrew or debuted.

Returning Artists
Here is the list of the returning artists for the 32nd edition.

Semi Finals
On March 11, 2020 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 🇳🇴 Norway, 🇭🇷 Croatia and 🇮🇹 Italy had to vote.

Semi Final 2
In this semi final 🇸🇬 Singapore, 🇰🇷 South Korea and 🇧🇾 Belarus had to vote.

Grand Final
On March 21, 2020 the supervisor of the contest ESC Thømås revealed the running order of the Grand Final.