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The music competitions with the largest audiences are widely televised events in the genre of popular music, such as the Eurovision Song Contest and American Idol. The Open Mic UK and Live and Unsigned contests in the United Kingdom each garner approximately 10,000 contestants annually, making them the largest contests in the region.
According to 2005 statistics, more than 650,000 visitors attend the World Music Contest (Kerkrade, the Netherlands), which has 19,000 contestants from over 30 countries, making it one of the largest competitions in Europe. The All-Japan Band Association annual contest appears to be the world's largest music competition in terms of the number of active contestants, with approximately 800,000 competing musicians in more than 14,000 bands. A new competition which is just hit the United Kingdom music scene is called SoundWave Music Competition. This competition allows for acts and bands of all genres a chance to play at the O2 Academy as well as win a day in a top United Kingdom recording studio. One of the most pretigious music competitions organization in the United States became American Protege, with its Piano and Strings Competition, Romantic Music Competition, Concerto Competition, Music Talent Competition and Internet Competition.
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