Cattala in the AINVision Song Contest

Cattala has participated in the AINVision Song Contest six times and is one of the most successful countries to compete in the contest. Since first competing in the fourth contest in Winter 2010, Cattala has won the title of AINVision winners once and came in the top four at every one of its first four competitions, a feat matched by no other nation in the history of the contest.

Since hosting the contest in June 2013, Cattala has suffered its two worst AINVision results, with 19th place in Kingston and Boyce and 6th place in Neu Westfalen. The selection process by RMI, the state broadcaster, was highly criticised in late 2013 and overhauled following the Neu Westfalen contest.

History
In its first AINVision Song Contest in the Winter 2010 edition, Cattala's entry by club band Yolanda Be Cool and producer DCUP achieved the country its first podium position, coming in third with 85 points. RMI selected the group through an internal audition process for the RMI Radio network, the only time that the decision would be made by the Radio division.

For the second contest in Corraile in AINVision 2012, Jennai-born artist Florence Welch achieved fourth place, in a highly competitive contest with 44 points, one point behind third place and just five points behind the runners-up position. RMI Events selected Welch from the RMI Introducing programme, a scheme to develop homegrown artists run in co-ordination with RMI Radio One.

RMI Introducing was expanded in 2012, to include unsigned and new artists that had been nominated for the RMI Sound of the Year award. Celeste Buckingham became the second singer-songwriter from the country's largest city to represent Cattala in the Ascadylea 2012 edition. She won the contest, scoring 100 points and beating Lower Columbian favourites FUN by nine points.

At the home contest in June 2013, RMI Sound of the Year singer Nina Nesbitt, from Calora, represented Cattala and was amongst the favourites to win the contest, which would have been the first time a country had ever won back-to-back victories. Nesbitt finished third in the grand final, six points behind past winner Sara Bareilles of Corraile and 28 points behind the winners from Kingston and Boyce, despite beating Celeste Buckingham's points record.

In November 2013, a protracted row within RMI about the future selection process became public and led to the announced act, HAIM, withdrawing from the contest. Conflict between RMI and the government over funding resulted in a significant cut to the Events budget and the cancellation of the live broadcast of the contest for the first time. A highlights package was shown in prime time the following day instead. Replacement act AlunaGeorge achieved the lowest Cattalian score ever of 34 points and finished in 19th place. HAIM went on to launch the highest grossing album of the year in Cattala with "Days are Gone".

An internal inquiry was commissioned by Director General Andrew Dasnell and reported in January 2014 that the selection process was potentially rigged by executives for political and financial reasons, due to looming government funding cuts. Reforms were announced after his final review in June 2014 that included public selection, juries and the full integration of RMI Introducing into the selection process, as had been the case in 2011 and 2012.

In the June 2014 Contest, RMI selected Sound of the Year winner Ella Eyre to represent Cattala. Coming off the back of the country's worst-ever result, the broadcaster set out its ambition to return to the top five. Eyre finished sixth with her song "If I Go", with 66 points. Escambia came in fifth with 67 points and winners Sainte-Croix scored 109. Continuing diplomatic tensions between the Cattalian and Croisian governments after a military crisis in the Black Sea in December meant that Cattala was one of few countries not to reward Sainte-Croix's act the top points in the contest.

Voting history
In Illu'a 2010 and Corraile 2012, the individual scores were not displayed. Since Ascadylea 2012, Cattala's voting history is as follows: