Season 9

General Information
The eighth Season of the Doubled Song Contest took place in Bucharest, Romania after Roxen won Season 7 with her songs "Over and Over" and "Escape". The Slogan of the Season was "Escape", based on Roxen's winning songs. The semi finals took place on the 31st of May 2020 and the Grand Final took place on the 9th of June! The Hosts of this Season were Roxen, known from Eurovision 2020 & 2021 and of course as the winner of Season 7 of the Doubled Song Contest, and Ester Peony, known from Eurovision 2019. In this edition there were 39 countries participating. Romania was automatically qualified for the Grand Final because of winning the last season. In both Semi-Finals, 19 countries were fighting for the 12 spots for the big final which means that in total 25 countries qualified for the final (including the pre-qualified Romania). 14 countries non-qualified and missed the chance for the title of the eighth Doubled Song Contest Edition! In this Season, these 5 Mystery Countries participated: Brazil, Canada, China, India and United States! It was the first appearance of Brazil, Canada and China in this contest. Moreover Luxembourg debuted in this season which was available since Season 1 but never was chosen to participate in the Doubled Song Contest and managed to score the 6th place with 252 points! We also had the third appearance of Mathea in the Doubled Song Contest this season - she came back to represent Austria once again and placed 15th after she scored 8th in Season 2 and 21st in Season 7.

Ireland took the win with the songs "The Come Down" and "Blood In The Water" by Empara Mi, with a total of 330 points. She won with a difference of 15 Points. The runner-up was a Mystery Country - United States, represented by Valerie Broussard with her songs "Killer" and "Battle Royale". She got 315 points.