Sound Of Asia

Sound Of Asia Asia Pacific Song Festival (abbreviated Sound Of Asia / SoA), is an online song festival, created as an equivalent to the America's Song Festival. Each member country submits a song to be performed and then casts votes for the other countries songs to determine the most popular song in the competition. The contest has started in August, 2016.

Origins
The name of the contest was inspired from America's Song Festival,

The first contest was held in the town of Sydney, Australia. The final took between 15 May 2015 and 24 May 2015. Twenty five countries participated. The first contest was won by Kiribati.

Competition history
In August 2016, appeared the idea of creating a spin-off to America's song festival as of contest's 3rd anniversary. Asian and Pacific countries that were not participate in Eurovision Song Contest (except Turkey) were allowed to participate in the contest.

Selection procedures
Each country must submit one song to represent them in any given edition they participate. There has been a rule which forbids any song being entered which has been previously commercially released or broadcast in public before year 2011.

Countries may select their songs by any means, whether by an internal decision of the participating contry or a public contest that allows the country's public to televote between several songs, these public selections are known as national finals.

Regardless of the method used to select the entry, the song's details must be finalised and submitted before a deadline some days before the international contest.

Hosting
The contest is considered to be a unique opportunity for promoting the host country as a tourist destination. Below is a list of cities that have hosted the Sound of Asia, one or more times.