In the middle of the summer, during the so-called post Eurovision depression period, there was another Eurovision winner interested in taking part again, after Loreen’s second win. Namely, Conchita Wurst was expected to submit a song to the Austrian public broadcaster for Eurovision 2024, but as things turn out, she is not interested.
Luxembourg, one of the founding countries of Eurovision, is officially back for Eurovision 2024. RTL’s return is intended to be spectacular. A national selection in planned in order to select its first Eurovision act in over 30 years. The preliminary auditions are over and we might have the name of one potential candidate.
Josh Island, a Luxembourg-based artist, recently gave an interview to “Luxembourg Times“, discussing about his upcoming debut album and his ongoing plans for 2024.
In order to promote his debut album “In My Head“, Josh has booked more than 16 dates inside and outside of Luxembourg. Malmö could also be a stop of his tour too, as he mentions that:
I’ve already applied [for Eurovision]! I can’t tell you which song I’ve applied with, but I can tell you that there will be a final televised competition at Rockhal on 27 January where Luxembourg’s song entry for Eurovision gets voted for.
Josh Island has also some connection to Eurovision as he has closely cooperated with Black Mamba, the Portuguese representatives in 2021. He opened their shows in The Netherlands and since then their relationship remains close.
We now have the very first information about an artist that submitted an entry to the Luxembourgish national selection. Meanwhile, more details and the full list of candidates are expected in the coming months.
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The new Eurovision season has officially kicked off and so have the rumors about the 2024 contest. Today, a list of the potential Melodi Grand Prix 2024 artists was published on Twitter.
It is important to note that the post specifically states that this is not an official list. Furthermore, the aforementioned artists could potentially participate not only as performers, but also as songwriters.
Of course, we never finished this list back in June, but this was the whole rumoured list and artists we thought could enter this year.
NOT CONFIRMED in any way. Just rumours. https://t.co/ejgnhG3Qpd pic.twitter.com/HPM0h52KpJ
— Eurovision Norway (@euroviNOR) September 1, 2023
Fans of the Eurovision Song Contest are already familiar with some of the named acts. A few of them are:
The following artists round out the list:
This year, Norway was represented by Alessandra and the song “Queen of Kings”. With a total of 268 points, Alessandra came in fifth place overall and third in the televote. Will Norway be able to maintain its success and secure a third consecutive top 10 finish?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUHSM_vTqTI
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Today at 19:15 CET, TVMonaco will begin its operations for the first time. The agenda of the new public broadcaster will include news, live sports, talk shows and documentaries and will also become a part of TV5 Monde, which signifies that its content will be broadcasted in 200 countries. The openness of the new broadcaster to the world, consecutively raises the question on whether it can also bring Monaco back to Eurovision.
https://twitter.com/tvmonaco_tv/status/1692200845209653569
The deadline for the Principality of Monaco to announce its participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is next Friday, September 15, and the channel has until then to confirm their participation.
However, before it confirms its participation, TVMonaco must first seek for EBU membership and be recognized by the Union before December 2023 and therefore replace TCM.
Monaco’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest was only possible through the Télé Monte-Carlo (TMC) channel. The latter stated in previous years that it lacked the financial resources to consider participating in Eurovision following administrative changes in 2010. In 2022, the channel ceased to be an EBU member.
It makes sense to assume that Monaco will return to the competition in the 2025 edition if the channel requests its entry into the EBU and takes into account that it wants to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest. This way, Monaco would have the time needed to prepare its entry in time for the contest.
In 2022, the Government of the Principality of Monaco included a $100,000 budget item to “start the Principality’s application to the Eurovision Song Contest 2023” in the documents that presented the budget for the year 2022, however months later it was revealed that the country would not participate.
Monaco is being absent from the competition for 17 years. Considering the comeback of Luxembourg after 30 years of absence, the return of Monaco doesn’t seem that impossible now!
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Today marked the start of the 62nd Festivali i Këngës entry period, which will, as usual, take place in December.
The Albanian broadcaster RTSH opened the submissions window today. As anticipated, the Balkan nation will once more select its artist through the popular festival, which has been utilized as a selection method since the country’s debut almost 20 years ago. Those interested shall send their submissions on the following email address: festivali62@rtsh.al. The announcement, however, did not specify a deadline.
In only a few months we will find out who will be the successor of Albina and Familja Kelmendi. Will Albania be able to surpass their 22nd-place finish from the previous year? The new Eurovision season has officially kicked off!
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No matter if Belgium “caught up” faster with the artist announcement for Eurovision 2024, the Cypriot Broadcaster is almost ready for the official announcement of the artist that will represent the country in next year’s contest. The announcement will take place next week and we will get to know the second artist that will fly to Malmö, barring anything unforeseen.
As you first read through EurovisionFun, RIK, after the inglorious end of Fame Story as a selection method for the representative of Cyprus in the contest, the broadcaster directly put forward the backup plan they had already planned. Thus, both the artist and the song will be selected by an internal selection in which Cyprus will participate in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.
Everything is ready, even some pending procedures have been resolved and so it’s a matter of time for the official announcement of RIK. Although, the announcement will not only include the artist reveal but we do not want to spoil anything further and ruin the suprise of the Cypriot delegation, where they hope for a good result, even higher than the last attempt with Andrew Lambrou who ended up in the 12th place with the song “Break A Broken Heart”.
However, the preperation of the Cypriot delegation for Malmö has been already intesive, having started their planning even for the stage presence.
A few more days of patience and soon all our questions will be answered!
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DR, the public broadcaster of Denmark, has already started preparing the country’s greatest music show for 2024, namely the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, the national final for Eurovision 2024. With the submission window opening today, the country is ready to select their new representative.
The submission window will be open until Friday October 27, and those interested can read the rules and apply their proposals, in the specified website.
“The winning song, with its high quality, must have the potential to represent Danish music and Danish culture in the most distinguished way at the Eurovision Song Contest.”
For yet another year, the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, will take place directly with the Grand Final and with eight songs competing. What is more, some of the rules stat that:
The previous winner of DMGP and Denmark’s representative in Eurovision 2023, was Reiley with his song “Breaking my Heart”, who didn’t manage to qualify for the final, leaving his country out for the third year in a row:
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Source: dr.dk
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Yesterday, RTBF, the French-language broadcaster from Belgium, was the first to announce its artist for Eurovision 2024. 33 years-old Mustii will be the one to fly the Belgian flag to Malmö, a well known artist in the French-speaking part of Belgium.
During an interview with VRT, Mustii announced that his Eurovision entry will be released in February. Meanwhile, he got into details about his Eurovision participation as well as what to expect from him.
According to Mustii, RTBF contacted him, bearing in mind that he is also a judge on Drag Race Belgium, which is produced by RTBF.
Mustii mentions that:
My style evolves into pop with a dark edge. I have influences from new wave and rock, but they remain pop albums. I contrast pop with fragile subjects, I like to play with them. My last album, for example, was a homage to my uncle who had schizophrenia.
He also says that:
My idea is to go to the Eurovision Song Contest with my own DNA. I don’t want to lie, I want to be sincere and authentic. I don’t want to create a fake character.[…] But I have been working in the studio for a while. I also want the song to be part of an album and not just a random song for the Eurovision Song Contest.
So, we can expect that Mustii will keep his artistic identity on the Eurovision stage and his song will be similar to his music style.
Belgium seeks to keep its qualification streak and respectable results. Gustaph’s unexpected success in Liverpool seems that was the motivating force that led to an as early as possible and professional selection procedure.
The search for the successor of Noa Kirel has just started for Israel. Despite the great success of the internal selection method in 2023, which came up with one of Israel’s biggest stars and a third place result, KAN announced that it will choose its next Eurovision artist through “The Next Star”. “The Next Star” format was first used in 2015 with Eden Alene being the last Israeli participant to be chosen through this show. During these editions, Israel managed to qualify to the Grand Final each year and even won the contest in 2018 with Netta Barzilai.
Open preliminary auditions for “The Next Star” will take place on Sunday 10th of September, at the Tel Aviv Expo and Convention Centre in Pavilion 2, where Eurovision was hosted in 2019.
These preliminary auditions are open to all Israeli participants aged 16 and above, and will require all aspirants to prepare two songs to be sung acapella. Acoustic instruments, such as guitars, can also be used. These preliminary auditions will not be televised, though candidates are warned that video from the day, such as images of the waiting crowd, will be utilized in the show “The Next Star.”
Those who prove to be successful on the day will advance to the show’s auditions, which will be hosted by Assi Azar(Eurovision 2019 host) and Rotem Sela, as they have done since 2014. On the judging panel we will also see Shiri Maimon, who represented Israel in 2005.
Recorded auditions will take place in late September and the show is set to premiere in November.
22 years-old Noa Kirel represented Israel this year in Liverpool with her song “Unicorn“, taking the third place and soon becoming a Eurovision sensation!
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Ukraine has started its preparations for Vidbir 2024, the Ukrainian national selection for Eurovision. Today, August 30, the applications opened for artists to submit their entries and will remain open until the 22nd of October. Those who are interested in representing Ukraine in Eurovision 2024 shall apply through this form on the eurovision.ua website.
Dmytro Shurov(Pianoboy) remains as the music producer of Vidbir and calls for participants to apply:
The acceptance of applications for participation in the National Selection for Eurovision 2024 has started! I want to appeal to all the musicians of our country: you have almost eight weeks to create your own victory song. The song of the year, which will represent Ukraine on the global international stage, will break all the charts and win the first place at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. I’m really looking forward to your songs, your talent and energy are very much needed in our country now.
Vidbir 2024 will see an online vote in order to determine a finalist on the selection. Specifically, Shurov stated that:
This year, I will not only choose the finalists of the National Selection. A vote will be held among the longlisters that I don’t have enough space on the finalist list, which was my biggest pain last year. Spectators will choose their favorite, who will get a chance to compete for victory in the final.
Ukraine despite being in war, managed to host an impressive national selection last year, which crowned TVORCHI as a winner and therefore gave them the ticket to Liverpool. TVORCHI with their song “Heart of Steel” achieved the 6th place, securing the third consecutive top ten result for Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neIscK1hNxs
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