The 2024 Karaoke World Championships (KWC) finals will be sung at the Logomo Venue in Turku, Finland.
KWC 2024 PRIZES
Prizes include World Champion titles in both solo and duet categories as well as additional prizes for second and third places, public favourites and some new surprise categories.
Cash prizes in KWC 2024 Turku are:
SOLO 1st place €5000
SOLO 2nd place €2000
SOLO 3rd place €1000
DUETS 1st place €3000
DUETS 2nd place €1500
DUETS 3rd place €1000
The solo winner also receives a paid trip to perform at World finals 2025 and the opportunity to record and release an original song with the international music production company Up!HitMusic
There will be additional prizes from the karaoke platform Singa and other sponsors.
KWC 2024 TURKU IS IN OCTOBER
The global karaoke year 2024 culminates in the second week of October. More than 60 singers are expected to represent over 30 countries at KWC finals between October 7th-12th.
KWC is the largest global talent competition. Preliminaries are held simultaneously in more than thirty different countries, and thousands of singers strive to reach their own national finals and finally World finals.
For most contestants the big prize is to be among the 50-60 singers who get a paid trip to World finals and become a member of this ever growing community, also called the international KWC Family. But eventually some of the contestants will win other prizes too, it is a competition after all.
A record number of participating countries have already signed up for the October World finals.
Luca Gargano, the producer of KWC for the past 10 years, is excited about the appeal of the competition.
- It feels especially great that a record number of participants are arriving in Turku and that Logomo will become the center of the international song festival. In addition to Logomo, the joy of singing will be experienced all over Turku throughout the summer and early autumn. This year, Turku is the karaoke capital of the whole world, says Gargano, who works for the Finnish karaoke platform Singa, the owner of KWC.
According to the city of Turku event director Antti Kirkkola, the city is hoping that the KWC finals could even be held in Turku for a few years.
- The wonderful surroundings of Turku and Logomo have aroused exceptionally high interest among international contestants. It's great that a record number of international and domestic karaoke stars are coming to Turku to show what karaoke can be at its best. I believe that KWC will also change some people's perception of karaoke, says Kirkkola.
JOIN KWC NOW
KWC is the world's largest and longest-running international karaoke competition. For more than 20 years, thousands of singers have annually participated in the KWC competitions of their own countries, and the best have represented their countries at World finals.
The competition was organized for the first time in 2003, and we have seen World finals in Bangkok, Stockholm, Singapore, Vancouver, Tokyo, Årnes and Panama among other cities. Now it's time head towards Turku on the Southwest coast of Finland.
How to get there? Follow the instructions on the Event Info page!
KWC home page: www.kwc.fi
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