The first edition of New Music Festival took part in Stockholm, Sweden. Globen Arena was the venue chosen to host the contest and the hosts were Carina Berg and Kristian Luuk, two people very famous and program hosts in Sweden. The contest started with a lot of energy, since 37 countries participated. Most part of the edition was held in July 2009. There weren't big problems during the contest, but the most notable was that Russia withdraw in final. Final Top Five was constituted by Spain, United Kingdom, Moldova, USA and Sweden, 1st to 5th places, respectively.
Contents
Semifinals
3 semifinals supported the first part of this edition. The first semi had 13 countries participating, and the last 2 semis, took 12 contestants, each one. As this was the first edition, anybody was yet in final, so, the semifinals took all the participants that were trying to be qualifiers. A lot of kinds of music were taken by the players. From "House" to "RnB", the songs were played and the contest was very great, according to the most part of the players. The reason that made the manager took 3 semifinals, instead of 2, was that he wanted to take this contest attractive and original.
Final
As Russia didn't vote because the player withdraw from the contest, 36 participants voted in the contest. 25 countries were placed at final and 12 countries didn't pass the semifinal elimination. The final mixed a lot of music and some voters classified as "hard to vote", just due to this variety, that was good. A recap was made to present in a 10-minute video, all the finalists - Some voters used this way to vote - Maybe they knew all songs.
Semifinal 1
Semifinal 1 Qualifiers
Semifinal 2
Semifinal 2 Qualifiers
Denmark, Spain, Lebanon, Netherlands, USA, Moldova, Norway, South Korea and Finland.
Semifinal 3
Semifinal 1 Qualifiers
Ukraine, Greece, Estonia, Armenia, Sweden, Ireland, Australia and United Kingdom.