Singing Man 3

Singing Man 3
Dates
Final	1 June 2020
Host
Venue	Asuka
Presenter(s)	Taeyeon
Executive supervisor	Kinoshita Hisashi
Executive producer	Kinoshita Hisashi
Host broadcaster	nmtv°
Participants
Number of entries	12
Vote
Voting system	Televiewers vote for their favorite songs up to five songs
Winning song	"Religions" by Abigail Knudson

"Singing Man 3" (Koran: 싱깅맨 3 회, Namimorish: シングマン 3 挿話) is the third edition of the Namimorish music festival, Singing Man, to select Namimori's entry to the Fantasia Contest 21.

On 1 June, 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 21 which was held in Neocastria.

The format of the competition consisted of one final show consisting of 12 participants. Initial 10entries were selected for the competition through one method : an open call for song submissions separately held by each broadcasting company.

Namimorish singer Abigail Knudson won the selection with the percentage of 52.94 in the super-final show from all votes with her song "Religion".

Format

Singing Man 3, 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 653 submissions which 12 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 1 May 2020 to 2 May 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 653 entries. The delegation team created a shortlist of entries from the received submissions and formed a selection panel that was tasked to select 14 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

Ten acts were competing in the final event held in Cyrille-Toman. Two songs achieved highest scores advanced to the super-final. However due to technical problems, number of votes for other entries went missing.

Draw	Artist	Song	Languages	Songwriter(s)	Votes		Place
					Total	Percentage
1	Younha feat. RM	"Winter Flower (雪中梅)"	Koran, Everish	Younha, Kim Namjoon, EDEN		10.77%	4
2	AMIT	"A Bloody Love Story (引路的風箏)"	Amelian	HUSH, Jonic Lee Thompsett		6.15%	8
3	Rei Yasuda	"Asymmetry"	Namimorish, Everish	Hidenori Tanaka, Rei Yasuda, Seika Kishii, Kenji Tamai		16.92%	1
4	Dust	"BYE BYE"	Ayuthayan, Everish	Postcard, Jacoboi, S-Ter, Joanichg		3.08%	10
5	Milet	"Inside You"	Namimorish, Everish	Milet, Toru		7.69%	6
6	Su Yunying (Sue)	"Moment (Su Yunying)"	Amelian	Su Yunying		9.23%	5
7	Kotone	"Ima (今)" (Now)	Namimorish	Kotone, Ishizaki Hikaru		1.54	12
8	The Girl and The Robots	"Bu rang ni (不讓你)" (Don't forget)	Amelian	Jungle, Riin		3.08%	10
9	Abigail Knudson	"Religion"	Everish	Abigail Knudson		16.92%	1
10	Sbor Elpida & Never Sol	"Nur" (Where is your love?)	Sylvan	Never Sol		12.31%	3
11	Bùi Lan Hương	"Sa Ngã" (Fallen)	Hailiniese	Bùi Lan Hương		4.62%	9
12	Neoni	"Never Say Die"	Everish	Caitlin A Powell, Dustin Burnett, Sidney D Powell		7.69%	6

Super Final

Draw	Artist	Song	Votes		Place
			Total	Percentage
3	Rei Yasuda	"Asymmetry"		47.06%	2
9	Abigail Knudson	"Religion"		52.94%	1

Notes

• Sue was later selected to represent Katsyria in the twenty-sixth edition with the same entry.