The AI Song Contest 2021 gathered a total 5906 votes from 3759 voters (1.6 songs per voter on average). Each voter rated the song on three characteristics – how much they liked it, how original they thought it was, and whether they would recommend it to a friend – to yield a total score between 0 and 12 points. In total, 74 countries participated in the voting, although for privacy reasons, we only show countries with 20 or more voters on this dashboard. A professional jury also evaluated each song, again on a scale of 0 to 12 points.
The final score was the sum of each song’s average score from the voters and its score from the jury. In general, the jury and the voters agreed, with some notable differences. In particular, the jury favourite, ‘Listen to Your Body Choir’ was less appreciated by the public and the public favourite, ‘I Feel the Wires’, was less appreciated by the jury.
The average score differed widely across voters and across countries, as is visiblity on the Voters and Countries tab. Thus, we also compute an unofficial adjusted voters’ score, which we can imagine as the score a song would have achieved if every voter had voted for every song. These adjusted voter scores reduce the ‘groupie effect’, and are better correlated with the jury scores.