Season 9

General Information
The ninth Season of the Doubled Song Contest took place in Dublin, Ireland after Empara Mi won Season 8 with her songs "The Come Down" and "Blood In The Water". The Slogan of the Season was "Dripping Gold", based on the winning songs by Empara Mi. The semi finals took place on the 21st of June 2020 and the Grand Final took place on the 30th of June! The Hosts of this Season were the beautiful Lyra together with the incredible singer - Hozier! In this edition there were 51 countries participating, which means that it was the biggest Season ever until this point. Ireland was automatically qualified for the Grand Final because of winning the last season. In both Semi-Finals, 25 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 Ireland). 26 countries non-qualified and missed the chance for the title of the ninth Doubled Song Contest Edition! In this Season, these 5 Mystery Countries participated: Japan, Thailand, Brazil, Uzbekistan and Mexico! It was the first appearance of Japan, Thailand, Mexico and Uzbekistan in this contest. We also had the third appearance of GJan in the Doubled Song Contest this season - she came back to represent Lithuania once again and placed 19th after she scored 18th in Season 2 and again 18th in Season 7. The best Mystery Country was Thailand - the only Mystery Country that managed to qualify in this season. They scored 176 points finishing 20th.

Latvia took the win with the songs "When It's All Over" and "Who Are You" by Raign, with a total of 422 points. She won with a big difference of 80 Points. The runner-up was Bulgaria represented by Gery-Nikol with her songs "I'm The Queen" and "One Of A Kind". She got 342 points.