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Ukraine announces participation in Eurovision 2024

‘Suspilne’ Broadcaster has announced that Ukraine will participate in ‘Eurovision 2024’ in Malmo, Sweden. Dmytro Shnurov will remain to be Music Producer of ‘Vidbir’ for the second year in a row. He encourages everyone to be involved in the creation of a song that will conquer hearts of Europeans. In the release he stated: “In a few days, the acceptance …

🇸🇪 Sweden: Melodifestivalen 2024 Song Submissions are now open!

For all of us national season and contests lovers, we have a real treat coming our way from Sweden, the host of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024! SVT has announced the the commencement of the song submission period for Melodifestivalen 2024, Sweden’s national selection event for the Eurovision Song Contest, starting August 25 until September 15, 2023. The songs that …

🇸🇪 ESC 2024: We’re officially heading to Malmö!

Just about two months ago, everyone got to witness a historic win, not only for Loreen, but also for Sweden. The country will host it’s 7th contest in 2024 and now we know exactly where we are going. Malmö 2024 Shortly after Sweden’s victory in Liverpool, the interest for hosting the contest was expressed across the country, but some cities …

Luxembourg’s Prime Minister discusses the return to the contest

With the official announcement by the EBU of Luxembourg’s return to the contest, the country’s Prime Minister and Minister for Communications and Media, Xavier Bettel, has talked about the Grand-Duchy’s ambitions ahead of the preparations for the contest. Talking to RTL, the Prime Minister has spoken about the objectives of the country in the contest and explained the reasoning behind the …

SVT announces big changes to the semi-finals of Melodifestivalen in 2024

SVT has released the new format for their 2024 national selection, Melodifestivalen, including significant changes to the qualification heats. Since 2007 the 6-week competition consisted of 4 qualification heats of 7 songs each, with the top 2 advancing directly to the final and the 3rd and 4th places of each heat battling through a second chance round for the last …

The 23 entries for the 2023 OGAE Second Chance Contest revealed

This year’s OGAE Second Chance Contest will feature a total of 23 entries from the 24 national finals hosted during the 2023 season. This year 22 OGAE clubs across Europe and their members voted on their favorite entries from their national selection shows, with the winner being selected to represent them in the Second Chance Contest. Since both San Marino …

ESC 2024: Will there be a change in the jury system?

It’s been one month now, since Loreen managed to become the second ever artist, to ever win the competition twice, as well as tying Sweden as the most succesful country in the contest, with Ireland. However, as most might even recall, she didn’t quite convince the televote and yesterday, the debate continued, but this time, it happened within a broadcaster. …

Örnsköldsvik confirms host bid for Eurovision 2024, would use cruise ships to increase accommodation capacity

This morning it was confirmed by SVT that the municipality of Örnsköldsvik had submitted a bid to host the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. They are the third bid to be confirmed alongside previous host locations Stockholm and Gothenburg. Their intended host venue will be the Hägglunds Arena, which has hosted a number of heats during the 2007, 2010, 2014, and …

Bjorn Ulveaus has not ruled out a Eurovision 2024 appearance

After much speculation, and confirmation from some ABBA members that they would not perform at Eurovision 2024, Bjorn Ulveaus has not ruled out a performance in Sweden. In an interview on SVT’s morning show, Morgonstudion, Bjorn answered questions on whether ABBA would appear at Eurovision saying; “It almost gets a little weird, doesn’t it? That it is exactly in Sweden, …

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