Singing Man 2

"Singing Man 2"  (Koran: 싱깅맨 2 회, Namimorish: シングマン 2 挿話) is the second edition of the Namimorish music festival, Singing Man, to select Namimori's entry to the Fantasia Contest 19.

On 4 January, 2020, the Namimorish delegation under the lead of Kinoshita Hisashi has confirmed that the broadcaster will continue the special spinoff Running Man for selecting an entry for Fantasia Contest. The winning artist was given a right to compete for Namimori at the Fantasia Contest 17 which was held in Torlova.

The format of the competition consisted of one final show consisting of 10participants. Initial 10entries were selected for the competition through one method : an open call for song submissions separately held by each broadcasting company.

Namimori-based Niol band Parade of Planets won the selection with the percentage of 64.29 in the super-final show from all votes with their song "Où est ton amour?".

Format
Singing Man 2, organised by Namimorish Television (nmtv°) was the first edition of the contest in which the competition was take place in Chikara City. The delegation team had received the amount of 458 submissions which 6 of them competed in a one final show.

Entry selection
Entries for the competition were solely selected through the public submission.

Namimorish Television opened the submission line that accepted entries between 15 December 2019 to 5 January 2020 for interested artists and songwriters to submit their proposals for the competition. Entries submitted for the competition were required to be released after 2012 and with singer/band that holds Namimorish citizenship or permanent residency. The choice of language is free.

Following the conclusion of the submission periods, nmtv° received 458entries. The delegation team created a shortlist of entries from the received submissions and formed a selection panel that was tasked to select 210 entries for the competition.

Presenters
At a press conference held in Chikara City on 24 December 2019, the producer team introduced the host presenter, Kang Gary from the main show Running Man.

Final
Seven acts were competing in the final event held in Cyrille-Toman.