The ABU TV Song Festival 2024 is set to take place on October 20 in Istanbul, Türkiye.
The 13th edition of the ABU TV Song Festival will take place this October in Istanbul, Türkiye hosted by the Turkish public broadcaster TRT. This will be the second time that Istanbul has hosted the event, the first time being in 2015.
The festival is set to be held at the Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Center in the Anadolu Auditorium. Up to 2,000 guests will be able to watch the contest live, the event will be broadcast from 17:00 to 19:00 CET.
The ABU TV Song Festival was held for the first time in 2012 and is a non-competitive showcase from across the Asia-Pacific region. The following nations have taken part in the event:
- Afghanistan (2012 to 2013, 2015 to 2018)
- Australia (2012 to 2014, 2019)
- Benin (2018)
- Brunei (2013 to 2014, 2020 to 2021)
- China (2012 to 2014, 2016 to 2017, 2019 to 2020, 2023)
- Hong Kong (2012 to 2019, 2023)
- India (2015, 2017 to date)
- Indonesia (2012 to 2022)
- Iran (2013)
- Japan (2012 to date)
- Kazakhstan (2015 to 2019, 2021 to 2022)
- Kyrgyzstan (2013, 2018)
- Macau (2014 to 2021, 2023)
- Malaysia (2012 to 2013, 2015, 2017 to 2018, 2020 to 2021, 2023)
- Maldives (2014 to 2018, 2022)
- Nepal (2020)
- Russia (2018)
- Singapore (2012 to 2013)
- South Korea (2012 to date)
- Sri Lanka (2012 to 2013, 2016, 2023)
- Thailand (2013 to 2014)
- Tunisia (2016)
- Turkey (2014 to 2015, 2018 to date)
- Turkmenistan (2017 & 2018, 2020, 2022 to date)
- Uzbekistan (2018, 2020)
- Vanuatu (2020)
- Vietnam (2012 to date)
- Zambia (2017)
You can watch the 2023 event from Seoul, South Korea below:
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