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| - So far, the contest has produced seven winners: three male soloists, three female soloists and one group. The winner of the Song Contest has been chosen by a mixture of a jury panel and televoting, by a ratio of 50%/50%, except for 2007 & 2008, when the vote was 60% public and 40% jury. Voting by SMS was introduced in 2006. The competition makes a considerable impact on music charts in New Cambria, and many of the participating songs have gone on to be country-wide hits.
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| - So far, the contest has produced seven winners: three male soloists, three female soloists and one group. The winner of the Song Contest has been chosen by a mixture of a jury panel and televoting, by a ratio of 50%/50%, except for 2007 & 2008, when the vote was 60% public and 40% jury. Voting by SMS was introduced in 2006. The competition makes a considerable impact on music charts in New Cambria, and many of the participating songs have gone on to be country-wide hits. In its first three years, the contest consisted of three Semi-Finals, a Wild Card Semi-Final and a Grand Final Gala. A shake-up of the format occurred for the 2007 contest, and a fourth Semi-Final round was added, among several other changes. The shake-up proved to be successful, and ratings for the 2007 contest increased more than 60% over the previous year. The format was expanded yet again for the 2009 contest to include more performances. While English-language pop has been the most represented genre of music in the contest, it has also given French- and Hejvat-language music a wider audience, and hip-hop, soul, folk and even popera songs have been featured.
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