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Around The Continent 2024: Episode 8

Doron Lahav

We will continue our exciting Eurovision journey with a series of posts, “Around The Continent,” where we will share a recap of the Eurovision season news.
Let’s travel through country by country, to collect all the exciting stories and updates.

General

SVT has revealed that Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi will host the semi-final allocation draw. The ceremony will be held on Tuesday, the 30th of January 2024 at 19:00 CET

Eurovision 2024 stage design has been revealed:

This year it will be all about the audience. The stage will be located in the center of the audience. The stage will be cross-shaped with multiple LED cubes and an LED floor. The design will provide 360-degree experience.

Florian Wieder and Fredrik Stormby are behind the design and concept.

“Festivali i Këngës 62” has come to an end, after 4 nights. 31 artists competed in the festival.
Professional jury granted 5 awards:

The public voted for their favorite act to go to Eurovision 2024: Besa Kokëdhima will prerform the song Zemrën n’Dorë (Eng: Heart in Hand) at Eurovision 2024:

The playlists can be found here


Could it be that ITV has progressed with its internal selection even more?
Some unofficial reports from Azerbaijan claim that Aisel might be the choice:

Will Church, who competed in the German selection for Eurovision 2023 (and ended in 2nd place), was rejected from “Das Deutsche Finale 2024″

The 6th,7th and 8th episodes of “The Rising Star” for Eurovision 2024 were broadcast.
An additional 10 candidates qualified for the next round:

The next episodes will follow next week.

On Tuesday, the final of “Sanremo Giovani 2023″ took place.
The top3 were: Clara, bnkr44, and Santi Francesi.

In addition, the song titles of the “Sanremo 2024” songs have been revealed:

  1. Fiorella Mannoia – “Mariposa” (Eng: Butterfly)
  2. Geolier – “I p’me, tu p’te” (Eng: Me For You, You For Me)
  3. Dargen D’Amico – “Onda alta” (Eng: High Wave)
  4. Emma – “Apnea”
  5. Fred De Palma – “Il cielo non ci vuole” (Eng: The Sky Doesn’t Want Us)
  6. Angelina Mango – “La Noia” (Eng: The Boredom)
  7. La Sad – “Autodistruttivo” (Eng: Self-destructive)
  8. Diodato – “Ti muovi” (Eng: You Move)
  9. Il Tre – “Fragili” (Eng: Fragile)
  10. Renga & Nek – “Pazzo di te”
  11. Sangiovanni – “Finiscimi” (Eng: End Me)
  12. Alfa – “Vai!” (Eng: Go)
  13. Il Volo - “Capolavoro” (Eng: Masterpiece)
  14. Alessandra Amoroso – “Fino a qui” (Eng: Until Now)
  15. Gazzelle – “Tutto qui” (Eng: That’s All)
  16. Negramaro – “Ricominciamo tutto” (Eng: Let’s Restart It All Again)
  17. Irama – “To No” (Eng: Not You)
  18. Rose Villain – “Click Boom!”
  19. Mahmood – “Tuta gold” (Eng: Golden Suit)
  20. Loredana Bertè – “Pazza” (Eng: Crazy)
  21. The Kolors – “Un ragazzo una ragazza” (Eng: A Boy, A Girl)
  22. Big Mama – “La rabbia non ti basta” (Eng: Anger Isn’t Enough For You)
  23. Ghali – “Casa Mia” (Eng: My Home)
  24. Annalisa – “Sinceramente” (Eng: Sincerely)
  25. Mr Rain – “Due Altalene” (Eng: Two Swings)
  26. Maninni – “Spettacolare” (Eng: Spectacular)
  27. Ricchi e Poveri – “Ma non tutta la vita” (Eng: But Not The Whole Life)
  28. bnkr44 – “Governo punk” (Eng: Punk Government)
  29. Clara – “Diamanti grezzi” (Eng: Rough Diamonds)
  30. Santi Francesi – “L’amore in bocca” (Eng: Love in the Mouth)

This is what the “Sanremo 2024” stage will look like

More details about the format of the results have been given by Amadeus

  1. The national selection will include 5 semi-finals and a grand final.
  2. In each semi-final, 8 artists will take part, and 2 of them will qualify for the final
  3. The first semi-final will be held on Saturday, the 13th of January 2024. The final will be held on the 17th of Februrary 2024.
  4. The results of the shows will be determined by a combination of jury and public vote
  5. However, the grand final will include a “Super-Final” round, where the top 3 artists will compete for the 1st place. This round will be solely determined by the public.

The list of 40 participants includes:

  1. Agnė Buškevičiūtė – “Puppeteer”
  2. Aistay – “You”
  3. Aistè – “Hero”
  4. Andrius Pojavis – “Sing me a hug”
  5. Antoine Wend – “Say No More”
  6. Anžela – “Paskubėk” (Hurry up)
  7. April Frey – “New Years”
  8. Baltos varnos – “In the Night”
  9. Clockwork Creep – “Empty”
  10. Danielė – “Cold Shower”
  11. Deividas Valma – “Blood On Your Hands”
  12. Eley – “Rock My Body”
  13. Emilija V – “Trophy Wife”
  14. Freya Alley – “Serenade”
  15. Hansanova – “Dragons and rainbows”
  16. Il Senso – “Time”
  17. Kàro – “Weightless”
  18. Kasparas – “Fool”
  19. Kotryna – “Let‘s get lost”
  20. Lina Štalytė – “Perfect”
  21. Luka – “Move On”
  22. Mary Mo – “Done”
  23. Martin – “Jigsaw”
  24. MeidĖ – “Zoo”
  25. Monika Marija – “Starting Tommorow”
  26. Multiks – “Vėjas galvoje” (Wind in the head)
  27. Paula Urbana – “It Is What It Is”
  28. Petras – “Run”
  29. Pluie de Comètes – “Be careful”
  30. Queens of Roses – “Walk through fire”
  31. Shower – “Impossible”
  32. Sid Hallow – “Here We Go Again”
  33. Silvester Belt – “Luktelk” (Wait)
  34. Sun Francisco – “Trauka” (Traction)
  35. The Roop – “Simple Joy”
  36. Thomas G – “Us”
  37. VB gang – “KABOOM!!!”
  38. Vilija – “Save Me”
  39. Žalvarinis – “Gaudė Vėjai” (Catching the winds)
  40. Živilė Gedvilaitė – “Save Me”

The songs of the “Luxembourg Song Contest” will be released in the beginning of January 2024.

The national selection will be held on January 27th.
Susanne Georgi, who represented Andorra at Eurovision 2009, will be the vocal mentor for the finalists.

The submission window for “Etapa Națională 2024” has closed yesterday.
A total of 51 songs were submitted for the national selection this year. Live auditions wil be held on the 13th of January


One of the submitted songs is Iulia Teleucă – Runaway:


28 artists will take part in “Pesma za Evroviziju 2024″. The list of acts is:

  1. Nemanja Radošević – Jutra bez tebe (Eng: Morning Without You)
  2. Bojana x David – No No No
  3. Marko Mandić – Dno (Eng: Bottom)
  4. Dušan Kurtić – Zbog tebe živim (Eng: I Live Because of You)
  5. Milan Bujaković – Moje tvoje (Eng: My Own)
  6. Hydrogen – Nemoguća misija (Eng: Mission Impossible)
  7. Kat Dosa – Tajni začin (Eng: The Secret Spice)
  8. Filarri – Ko je ta žena? (Eng: Who is this woman?)
  9. M.IRA – Percepcija (Eng: Perception)
  10. Saša Báša i Virtual Ritual – Elektroljubav (Eng: Electronic Love)
  11. Hristina – Bedem
  12. Kavala – Vavilon (Eng: Babylon)
  13. Martina Vrbos – Da me voliš (Eng: If You Love Me)
  14. Breskvica – Orlovo gnezdo (Eng: Eagle’s Nest)
  15. Ivana Vladović – Jaka (Eng: Strong)
  16. Lena Kovačević – Zovi me Lena (Eng: Call Me Lena)
  17. Keni nije mrtav – Dijamanti (Eng: Diamonds)
  18. Zejna – Najbolja (Eng: The Best)
  19. Konstrakta – Novo, bolje (Eng: New, Better)
  20. Iva Lorens – Dom (Eng: Dom)
  21. Zorja – Lik u ogledalu (Eng: Image In The Mirror)
  22. Yanx – Kolo (Eng: Wheel)
  23. Chai – Sama (Eng: Alone)
  24. Durlanski – Muzika (Eng: Music)
  25. Nadia – Sudari (Eng: Collisions)
  26. Džordži – Luna park
  27. Filip Baloš – Duga je noć (Eng: It’s a Long Night)
  28. Teya Dora – Ramonda


Raiven gave an additional interview to RTV SLO and shared more details about her Eurovision 2024 song, “Veronika”:

The song will feature an electronic genre and will showcase feminism, but not in a stereotypical way. The harp won’t be part of the melody.

You can read our review of “Benidorm Fest 2024″ songs here

More news regarding the semi-final allocation should come around 9th of January 2024

You can find the playlists here:

YouTube

Spotify

Apple Music

Based on an Instagram story by Yves Schifferle, the head of the Swiss delegation for Eurovision 2024, we can learn Switzerland won’t select a ballad performed by a man for Eurovision 2024.


The last update was that 5 artists remained in the race for Eurovision 2024

“Vidbir 2024” line-up has been completed, after the wildcard was determined by ANKA as the winner.
Therefore, the 11 finalists are:

  1. Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil — Teresa & Maria
  2. ANKA – Palala
  3. Drevo — Endless chain
  4. INGRET — Keeper
  5. Mélovin — Dreamer
  6. Nahaba— Glass
  7. Nazva — Slavic English
  8. Skylerr — Time is running out
  9. Yagody — Tsunamia
  10. Yaktak— Lalala
  11. Ziferblat — Place I Call Home

The BBC has announced Olly Alexander as the Eurovision 2024 act.
The work on his song has just ended.


Some fans claim his song might be named “Dizzy”:

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