As the new season is slowly picking up, broadcaster across Europe are preparing their shows, and Malta is one of those countries. For 2024, they’ve chosen to pick a total of 36 songs, that will be competing for the chance to represent the tiny island in Malmö. Last week, we got the very first 9 performances, and today we got …
More details have emerged about Festivali i Këngës 62, Albania’s upcoming music festival and national final process … including a disappointing shake up in this year’s line up for Eurovision fans. Earlier today, at a press conference held by FiK62 artistic director Bojken Lako, Albanian broadcaster RTSH announced that two artists previously announced to be competing at this year’s contest, …
After more than two weeks of delay, The Rising Star will begin airing this Tuesday, October 31st, and will officially select the Israeli representative for Eurovision 2024 in Malmö. The filming of the show has been renewed recently at a lower scale than usual in order to comply with the current security instructions. The decision came after discussions within KAN …
Earlier this month, the submission window for the German national final was extended by one week to October 15th; now that it has closed, NDR have confirmed that almost 700 submissions were received! There were 693 unique contributions submitted, with 572 entering at least one original song. 121 people applied without an original song, which was allowed this year and …
Its back! In the words of Aftonbladet, Melodifestivalen Silly Season has returned and as always back with a bang! Each year, Swedish magazine Aftonbladet releases details of the likely Melfest acts for the year ahead. In 2023 they were successful in naming 24 of 28 artists who competed across the 6-week show. In 2021, that was 27 of 28. Artists …
As the 2024 season is slowly approaching, Israel’s national selection is delayed until further notice due to the ongoing conflict in the country. KAN has decided to select the Israeli representative using the singing competition ‘The Rising Star’ earlier this year. The first stage of auditions was completed in September, and filmed audition episodes were due to begin next week. …
Earlier this week, the Dutch broadcaster (AVROTROS) could relieve to the public, that a record number of submissions had been received by the end of the deadline, and now the Dutch broadcaster will have the difficult task to pick the one song, that will make the country proud in Malmö next year. 600+ submission In the end, the broadcaster revealed …
RTL has revealed that 459 entries were submitted for the Luxembourgish preselection for the 68th Eurovision Song Contest. The Luxembourgish broadcaster closed yesterday the submissions for the remaining categories of singers and songwriters, as they revealed in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that 459 entries were received for the preselection. A jury will decide in November which songs will …
UMK is back! And bigger than ever, well the arena that it is in anyway. Today YLE has announced their plans for the UMK final coming to our screens on the 10th of February 2024. This year, they are moving from its previous home in Turku to the big Nokia Arena in Tampere. The organisers thanked Turku for being a …
There are certain traditions within the Eurovision circle, and among them is Denmark pulling a victory when the contest is hosted in Sweden. The Olsen Brothers did it in 2000, when the contest was hosted in Globen, in Stockholm and Emmelie de Forest did it in 2013, when the contest was hosted in Malmö Arena. However, that did not happen …
