Own Song of the Year

Own Song of the Year (also known/abbreviated as OSOTY) is the annual award show held to honour the best songs from each of the own contests collectively from the entire year. The first ceremony was held in 2020 in Lagos, Nigeria.

A various amount of songs which are nominated from the 5 Own Contest franchises (Own Eurovision Song Contest, Own Asiavision Song Contest, Own Americavision Song Contest, Own Africavision Song Contest and Own USAvision Song Contest) will compete in one grand final with no more than 30 songs to allow the grand final to have as much quality as possible. Own Contest winning entries are not allowed to be nominated as these songs will be allocated to their respective Own Contests’s winner edition competition which is hosted at every 10th edition.

Format
The users are able to nominate their 10 favorite songs from the editions that were held within the year of the respective ceremony of each contest. The most nominated songs advance to the final round where the users are able to vote by giving 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favorite songs (the number of songs per ceremony will vary based on the number of voters, the number of overall votes, and the number or respective editions that are head in each Own Contest franchise each year). In case of a tie while counting the nominations the song with the best score in their contest wins the tie, if it isn't enough the points and semifinal placements will be taken into consideration.

History
The first ceremony was held in 2020, with two nations bidding to host the inaugural competition, Michigan and Nigeria, with the latter winning the bid for the contest, therefore being held in Lagos. 30 songs were competing in the inaugural competition. The users were able to nominate among the songs that participated between the twelfth and seventeenth editions. The thirty songs were revealed on 4 December 2020. The winner was "Ruz Nadidam" by Firuza Hafizova, which placed third in Own Asiavision Song Contest #24, while "Moy Vibe" by Uzari from Own Eurovision Song Contest #54 and "Chalo" by Celina Sharma from Own Asiavision Song Contest #23 completed the rest of the top 3.

The second edition kicked off later than the previous year due to certain Own Contests finishing later than scheduled. Regardless, a record 6 bids were placed to host the contest, with Mississippi winning the bid by a narrow margin to the Cambodia-Laos joint bid. Despite some uncertainties regarding the number of songs set to compete in the second edition, in the end it was decided that 30 songs would compete in Own Song of the Year 2021, the same amount of songs that took part the previous year.