An archive thereof
UFOPOP is a roughly annual music competition that I have hosted since 2008. In each edition, I choose two songs from six different countries (or regions) around the world and invite friends over to grade them. The scores received by each country's two songs are added together, and the higher scoring entry of the three overall most popular countries advance to the super final, in which the winner is decided in two rounds of voting. The super finalist countries also qualify to a special edition (every third year) where they compete again with new songs against each other and the other year's winners. Every tenth edition is a best-of contest which is the only one where past entries return.
| Contest | Date | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UFOPOP 1 | 2008-02-10 | Japan | Italy | Korea |
| UFOPOP 2 | 2009-09-27 | India | UK | USA |
| UFOPOP 3 | 2012-01-21 | Korea | USA | Japan |
| UFOPOP 4 | 2012-09-29 | Japan | Ukraine | Middle East |
| UFOPOP 5 | 2013-09-22 | Netherlands | Korea | Italy |
| UFOPOP 6 | 2014-10-11 | Korea | Middle East | Italy |
| UFOPOP 7 | 2015-10-04 | Turkey | Japan | Canada |
| UFOPOP 8 | 2016-10-23 | Middle East | Portugal | Italy |
| UFOPOP 9 | 2017-10-22 | Portugal | Turkey | Canada |
| UFOPOP 10 | 2018-04-15 | Middle East | Korea | Turkey |
| UFOPOP 11 | 2018-11-11 | Yugoslavia | Italy | China |
| UFOPOP 12 | 2019-11-09 | Korea | ||