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Around The Continent 2024: Episode 14

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

The Eurovision semi-finals allocation draw took place last Tuesday. Each one of the 31 semi-finals countries got a location for one of the 2 semi-finals and one of the halves of the show:

In addition, the big 5 and Sweden got an allocation to the semi-final they will vote in:

Dannii Minogue gave an interview to the Australian media, where she denies the rumors regarding participating at Eurovision 2024

Kaleen has travelled to Los Angeles, where she will film the official video clip for “We Will Rave”. The song will be officially released at the beginning of March 2024


Mustii will probably release his Eurovision 2024 entry on Tuesday, the 20th of February 2024

Silia Kapsis song (“Liar”) will reportedly be released on the 29th of February 2024

“UMK 2024” will be held next Saturday, the 10th of February 2024

  1. Sini Sabotage – ”Kuori mua” (Eng: “Peel Me”)
  2. Cyan Kicks – ”Dancing With Demons”
  3. Jesse Markin – “Glow”
  4. Mikael Gabriel x nublu – ”Vox populi” (Eng: The Voice of the People)
  5. Sara Siipola – “Paskana” (Eng: Fucked Up/Wrecked)
  6. Sexmane – “Mania”
  7. Windows95Man – ”No Rules!”

Links to playlists on different digital platforms:

YouTube

Spotify

Apple Music

You can read Doron‘s review of the songs here:

The song submissions for Nutsa‘s Eurovision 2024 song closed, with over 300 entries submitted. Most of them are written by foreign writers.
Nutsa will have a final say regarding the chosen song

4 artists remained on the the secondary path in the German selection, “Ich will zum ESC“.
2 of them will compete in the final of “Ich will zum ESC” on the 8th of February 2024

You can listen to their songs for Eurovision here:

The winner of “Ich will zum ESC” will join the 8 artists who have already been announced for the German selection, which will be held on the 16th of February

“Söngvakeppnin 2024” songs have been revealed:

Semi-Final 1 (17th of February 2024)

  1. CeaseTone – Ró / Flow
  2. Blankiflúr – Sjá þig / Love You
  3. Anita – Stingum af / Downfall
  4. Sunny – Fiðrildi (Eng: Butterfly)
  5. VÆB – Bíómynd/ Movie Scene

Semi-Final 2 (24th of February 2024

  1. Hera Björk – Við förum hærra / Scared of Heights
  2. Heiðrún Anna – Þjakaður af ást (Eng: Tormented By Love)
  3. Bashar Murad – Vestrið villt / Wild West
  4. Sigga Ózk – Um allan alheiminn / Into the Atmosphere
  5. MAIAA – Fljúga burt / Break Away

2 artists will qualify from each semi-final. The jury will have an option to grand a wild-card to one of the non-qualifiers.
The final will be held on the 2nd of March 2024.

You can find the playlists here:

YouTube Playlist (Icelandic Versions)

YouTube Playlist (English Versions)


The final of “The Rising Star For Eurovision 2024” will be held on Tuesday, the 6th of February 2024. The 4 finalists are:

The submission window for songs will close on the 11th of February 2024

“Sanremo 2024” will be held next week and will last for 5 night, from Tuesday to Saturday:

One of the guests will be John Travolta (on Wednesday):

Here is the recap of the format:

And this is how the voting will work:

The semi-final of “Supernova 2024” will be held next Saturday, the 3rd of February 2024.
The running order will be:

  1. Agnese Rakovska| – “AI” 
  2. Patrīcija Spale – “Heaven’s Raining Down on Me” 
  3. B/H – “Amsterdam“
  4. Alekss Silvers – “For the Show“
  5. Jar of Kings – “Wildfire“
  6. Saint Levića – “Tick Tock”
  7. Sasha Sil – “Love is a Language”
  8. Papīra Lidmašīnas – “Mind Breaker“
  9. AVÉI – “Mine“
  10. ECTO – “Outsider” 
  11. Dons – “Hollow“
  12. Katrīna Gupalo – “The Cat’s Song”
  13. Funkinbiz – “Na Chystu Vodu”
  14. Vēstulēs – “kur?”
  15. Edvards Strazdiņš – “Rock n’ Roll Supernova” 


You can find the playlists here:

YouTube Playlist

Spotify Playlist

You can read Doron‘s review here:

The 4th semi-final of “Eurovizija.LT 2024” will be held today (Saturday, 3rd of February 2024). 8 artists will compete for 2 spots in the final:

  1. Agnė Buškevičiūtė – “Puppeteer”
  2. Il Senso – “Time”
  3. Kasparas – “Fool”
  4. Monika Marija – “(Unlove You) Starting Tommorow”
  5. Vilija – “Save Me”
  6. Danielė – “Cold Shower”
  7. Martin – “Jigsaw”
  8. Hansanova – “Dragons and Rainbows”

Last week, Shower and Pluie de Comètes qualified for the final

You can find the playlists here:

YouTube

Spotify

Apple Music

Luxembourg held its national selection last Saturday.
The winner is Tali with the song “Fighter”:

The final of “Malta Eurovision Song Contest” will be held this Saturday:

The 12 finalists and their songs:

  1. J.anvil – Man
  2. Haley Azzopardi – Tell Me That It’s Over
  3. Erba’ – Sirena
  4. Nathan – Ghost
  5. Lisa Gauci – Breathe
  6. Sarah Bonnici – Loop
  7. Greta Tude – Topic (Bla Bla)
  8. Miriana Conte – Venom
  9. Ryan Hili – Karma
  10. Gail Attard – Wildcard
  11. Denise Mercieca – Mara
  12. Matt Blxck – Banana

YouTube Playlist (Official Videos)

YouTube Playlist (Live Performances)

  1. At the end of the show, 5 awards will be given:
    • Top 3 Places
    • Best Newcomer
    • Best Video Clip
  2. The results will be based on a combination of public and jury votes.


The final of “Melodi Grand Prix 2024″ will be held tonight (3rd of February 2024):

The running order will be:

  1. KEiiNO – “Damdiggida“
  2. AnnPrincess – “Save Me“
  3. Gothminister – “We Come Alive“
  4. Ingrid Jasmin – “Eya“
  5. MIIA – “Green Lights“
  6. Margaret Berger – “Oblivion“
  7. Anne Fagermo feat. Dag Erik Oksvold – “Judge Tenderly of Me“
  8. Gåte – “Ulveham“
  9. Erika Norwich ft. Super Rob – “My A.I“

The results will be based on 60% public vote and 40% international jury.

Playlists

YouTube Playlist

Spotify

The deadline for submitting songs for the Polish internal selection is February 2nd.
To date, more than 60 songs have been submitted

129 artists will participate in the semi-finals of “Una Voce Per San Marino 2024″.
They will compete in 5 semi-finals, and around 20 artists will qualify for the final.
They will join additional 10 established artists who have already guaranteed their spots if the final

The majority of the artists are from Italy, while the rest are from:  Malta, San Marino, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, Poland, Germany, Slovenia, The Netherlands, Romania, Greece, Estonia and Sweden

The final of “Benidorm Fest 2024” will be held tonight.
The running order for the semi-finals will be:

  1. María Peláe – Remitente
  2. St. Pedro – Dos extraños (cuarto de cuerda)
  3. Angy Fernández – Sé quién soy
  4. Jorge González – Caliente
  5. Nebulossa – Zorra
  6. Sofia Coll – Here to stay
  7. Miss Caffeina – Bla bla bla
  8. Almácor – Brillos platino

YouTube Playlist

Spotify Playlist

Apple Music

The results will be based on 50% jury, 25% demoscopic jury and 25% public vote.
The members of the jury panel will be:

Today, the the first heat of “Melodifestivalen 2024” will take place:

You can listen the audio snippets and watch the rehearsals snippets:

  1. Adam Woods – “Supernatual” (Audio / Video Snippet)
  2. Samir & Viktor – “Hela Världen väntar” (Eng: The Whole World is Waiting) (Audio / Video Snippet)
  3. Melina Borglowe – “Min Melodi” (Audio / Video Snippet)
  4. Elisa Lindström – “Forever Yours” (Audio / Video Snippet)
  5. Lisa Ajax – “Awful Liar” (Audio / Video Snippet)
  6. Smash Into Pieces – “Heroes Are Calling” (Audio / Video Snippet)

2 artists will qualify for the final, while additional 2 will get an opportunity in the second chance round.

This is how the stage of “Melodifestivalen 2024” will look like:

“Vidbir 2024” will be held today (at 17:00 CET)

The public has chosen the 3 jury members: Andriy Danilko (“Verka Serduchka”), Jamala, and Sergiy Tanchinets.

The running order will be:

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

YouTube Playlist

Spotify Playlist

The show will feature plenty of special guests who will perform live: Ruslana, Jamala,Verka Serduchka, Tvorchi, Anastasia Dymyd (JESC 2023) & Svetlana Tarabarova, and Tina Karol

You can watch read Doron’s review here:

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