After a slight delay in the announcement, the long-awaited list of songs and acts who will be fighting out for the Maltese ticket to Stockholm has been revealed! The semi-finalists who will be hoping to make it to the final and then winning the contest and flying to Sweden in May hoping to follow in the footsteps of Destinty Chukunyere (who won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 last month) and Gaia Cauchi (who won the contest 2 years ago). The Semi-Final will be held on the 22nd of January followed by the Final on the 23rd of January 2016.
Here are the participants for the 2016 Maltese national Final:
| 96 | Francesca Bonanno |
| Alive | Jasmine Abela |
| All Around the World | Deborah C |
| Bare Your Soul | Chaya Fenech |
| Battle Zone | Kurt Cassar |
| Beautiful | Lyndsay Pace |
| Brave | Andre Curmi (Dre) |
| Breaking Point | Cherylis & Mikhail |
| Breathe | Cherylis |
| Can’t Let Go | Jessika |
| Castle | Danica Muscat |
| Chameleon (Invincible) | Ira Losco |
| Dancing in the Rain | Francesca Borg |
| Empty Hearted | Domenique Azzopardi |
| Exceptional | Jean Claude Azzopardi |
| Falling Glass | Corazon (Mizzi) |
| Feeling Alive | Kelly Ann Mintoff |
| Fire Burn | Dominic |
| Fireworks | Iona |
| Flashing Lights | Raquel Galdes |
| Flawless | Franklin Calleja |
| Frontline | Danica Muscat |
| Go Beyond The Shore | Paul Cuschieri |
| Golden | Brooke |
| Gone | Nazjo Rotin |
| Higher | Q |
| Hush Hush | Jessika |
| I Love You | Dario Mifsud Bonnici |
| I Won’t Surrender | Franklin Calleja |
| Kingdom | Christabelle Borg |
| Light Up My Life | Stefan Galea |
| Lighthouse | Kimberley Cortis |
| Little Love | Franklin Calleja |
| MI-MI-MIND | Neville Refalo |
| Paper Boats | Joseph Portelli |
| Reaching | Panama Band -Simaria |
| Right Here With You | Sarah Crystal |
| Rule The World | Aidan Cassar |
| Someday | Klinsmann Coleiro |
| Tell Me What You Wanna Do | Julienne Liberto |
| That’s Why I Love You | Ira Losco |
| The Flame | Jessika |
| Tonight | Kyle Mangani & Maxine Pace |
| Under the Sun | Daniel Testa |
| Victory | Amy Agius |
| Without You | Kaya |
| Young Love | Maxine Pace |
| Your Kiss | Malcom |
| You’re Beautiful | Laurence Gray |
The final 20 songs will be revealed in the usual way, on Xarabank, during the MESC announcement show!
