The country votes and chooses! bestcover.world is a musical project in which everyone can participate

The first qualifying semi-final of the bestcover.world competition took place on the last Sunday of June. The semi-final was broadcast live on social networks. As the organizers noted, despite the absence of many contestants live, the interest of the audience to this format of the competition was great. For the first live broadcast, over 2,000 online viewers, this is an excellent result.

bestcover.world is a competition where contestants perform cover versions of songs by foreign artists and compete for the opportunity to be nominated for the bestcover.world award. The interest from the contestants is increased by the fact that the winner of bestcover.world will represent their country at the international Best Cover World competition.

Russian musical compositions are still represented by only two songs: the groups Balagan Limited "Che te nho" and "Broken is broken" by Kirill Darevsky.

The producer of the Balagan Limited group, Sergey Kharin, notes the high popularity of cover versions in the music industry and believes that such a competition is really very interesting and unusual to popularize artists. According to Sergey, many artists are now shooting after their track is copied by bloggers, for example, Tiktoka. Previously, everything was quite simple - I recorded a song, shot a video. The track was given to the radio, the video to television and the artist "star". Now this mechanism does not work. Whether this competition will turn into something global - time will tell. But even today, at the stage of "startup" - the Balagan Limited group, it is very pleasant to participate here, Sergey Kharin said.

The bestcover.world competition has already presented covers of the song "Che are necessary". One of the entries is distinguished by an unusual duet. Musician Alex6652 and Nikolai Efutin recorded their version of the famous song with a sign language translation.

As it happens, Alex6652 accidentally saw an advertisement on the Internet about a cover contest for Balagan Limited. As Alex6652 says, the track "Che are necessary" was one of his favorite tracks in his childhood. Plus, for any musician, closeness to the roots is important, and Russian folk music is a source of inspiration and good mood. So, for Alex6652, the choice was obvious - participation in the competition.

The idea of ​​a video for the competition was born in just 5 minutes. Alex6652 loves funny videos, characteristic. The Russian folk costume (sundress and shirt) sat down like a glove, but at the fitting of kokoshniks, the entire film crew laughed heartily: some hung on their ears, others crawled on their foreheads, and others fell from any movement of the head. They searched for nature for a long time and stopped at the Park of Fairy Tales in Yasenevo, while they were filming, we were photographed, probably with the whole area.

It is also worth mentioning separately about the second participant of the video, who "sang" a cover in Russian sign language. Nikolay Efutin is a hard of hearing, is a member of the creative team "Petersburg Lexema", works as a guide in museums of St. Petersburg on the RSL. Nikolay and Alex6652 met at the VII International Competition of Video Clips of Songs on the RSL. Among Alex6652 fans there are many deaf and hard of hearing children, so all his performances are necessarily translated into sign language. The musician is a supporter of inclusive programs, when creativity becomes available to everyone.

Alex6652 personally attended the live broadcast of the first semi-final of the bestcover.world competition and, as noted by the artist, is strongly impressed by the high professionalism of the organizers and the frantic energy of the participants.

The cover competition for Balagan Limited is essentially a competition within a competition, so he decided for himself that he would make another cover in a foreign language and take part in the main part of the bestcover.world competition with another, original duet.

The Balagan Limited group followed the contestants and their work online with their entire staff. Sergey Kharin, the producer of the group, was present in person and was very impressed with the entries. Sergey is sure that the real popularity of an artist is when the people sing the song. And he considers all the entries to be very worthy.

The organizers took a serious approach to the organization, both to the concept itself, the idea of ​​the competition, and its implementation. Separately, it should be noted that all competitive works undergo a licensing procedure (clearing rights). Legal and legal use of cover versions of world hits in bestcover.world is another undeniable advantage of the competition.

The original concept and unusual presentation of the entire model of the bestcover.world competition aroused interest not only among novice musicians and music lovers, but also in the professional musical environment.

You can watch the full version of the first semi-final of the bestcover.world contest on the official Youtube channel. Competition work Alex6652 feat. Nikolay Efutin - What do you need (Balagan Limited rzhya / rsl cover) https://youtu.be/3wEUXW0LdkM

Competition website https://bestcover.world