The ABU TV Song Festival 2021 was the tenth annual edition of the ABU TV Song Festival.
Event
The non-competitive music showcase event was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as part of the 58th General Assembly of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). The program, as well as the entire general assembly, was held virtually for the second year in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The show was presented in-studio by TV and radio host Azura Zainal and commercial voice-over artist and emcee Sharizan Borhan. Each participating performance was pre-recorded and aired during the live stream.
Kazakh singer Dimash Kudaibergen, who performed for Kazakhstan in the 2015 and 2019 editions made a special appearance. He performed a cover of Kōji Tamaki's 1989 song "Ikanaide" (). The pre-recorded performance, also produced for the Tokyo Jazz Festival, was aired between the entries from Japan and Kazakhstan, the second and third participating acts, respectively.
List of participants
Ten countries were represented in the ABU Song Festival 2021, the lowest number of participants to date. China, Nepal, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vanuatu did not return from last year's edition. Kazakhstan returned after a one-year hiatus.
RunningOrder Country Artist Song Language 1ITZY"LOCO"Korean 2milet"inside you"Japanese, English 3Amre "Waves of Life"Kazakh 4Summersalt"Public Address System of the Khasi people"Khasi 5Dr. Jen"Say You Love Me"English 6İlyas Yalçıntaş"Come, My Sky"Turkish 7Denny & Nonoy with Mixline Band"Sense of Nusantara"English 8Suzan Maidin"I’m A Woman"Brunei Malay 9Amir Jahari"Ingga"Malay 10The Pentatonic"White Snow And Red Azalea"Vietnamese
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