Poland: Participation confirmed for Eurovision 2024!

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Poland is the next country declaring their presence in Eurovision 2024.

TVP, the national public broadcaster, confirmed today that Poland will take part in the upcoming 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden. For the time being, there is no information available yet regarding the selection method of the next Polish representative.

This year Poland was represented by Blanka and the song “Solo” which after having qualified 3rd from the Second Semi-Final, they ended up in 19th place with 93 points.

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Eurovision In Concert: The 2024 edition will take place on April 13!

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One of the biggest pre-parties of the Eurovision season, Eurovision In Concert, will officially return for its 12th edition on April 13 2024.

Eurovision In Concert is held annually since 2009 in Amsterdam and includes many Eurovision performances. In this event, the contestants of each edition have the opportunity to meet each other, connect with their audiences and present their songs live before the official rehearsals. Many former Eurovision stars also reunite, making the show a true Eurovision celebration.

Eurovision In Concert is in fact considered as the biggest Eurovision pre-party of the season, gathering the majority of the participating acts. Indicatively in 2023, 29 out of 37 competing artists were present to Amsterdam in order to give a performance.

The event will take place once again at the AFAS Live Venue and news regarding the ticket sale are expected soon.

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Sweden: These are the dates for the six shows of Melodifestivalen 2024!

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Five days ago, was the last day of application for Melodifestivalen 2024. Through the contest’s social media accounts, confirmed that a total of 2624 songs were submitted, a tad less than the number of submissions SVT received last year!

Today SVT announced the dates of all six shows of next year’s Melodifestivalen tour!

This is the schedule of the six shows of the Melodifestivalen 2024 tour:

  • Heat 1: Malmö– Saturday 3 February 2023
  • Heat 2: Göteborg– Saturday 10 February 2023
  • Heat 3: Växjö– Saturday 17 February 2023
  • Heat 4: Eskiltuna– Saturday 24  February 2023
  • Heat 5: Karlstad– Saturday 2 March 2023
  • Final: Stockholm – Satuday 9 March 2023

The 68th Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Malmö, Sweden in 7, 9 and 11th of May 2024, after the second win of Loreen in Liverpool, with her song “Tattoo”:  

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Source: Melodifestivalen/SVT  

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Stefania is in the studio, working on a special project!

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Stefania posted an enigmatic Instagram story earlier today with the caption, “This is something special”. Through the story she revealed that she is working in the studio alongside the Dutch lyricist Anna Rose Clayton and the Greek composer Dimitris Kontopoulos.

Is it about Eurovision?

Stefania’s name is reportedly among those who will take part in the internal selection process of the Dutch public television for Eurovision 2024, according to information published in the Dutch media this summer.

Given that the 30th of September is the deadline for submissions, it is possible that the song or songs Stefania is now recording in the Netherlands have something to do with her candidacy to represent the country in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

Stefania represented Greece in Eurovision 2021 and brought her country back to the top 10 after eight years, with Last Dance, a song signed by Dimitris Kontopoulos.

Along with Dimitris Kontopoulos, Ilias Kokotos, the project manager for all of the Dream Team entries in the competition, is also in the Netherlands this time.

It might simply be a new song

Of course, none of the aforementioned scenarios are guaranteed to occur, and it may just be Stefania working on a new song or undertaking something similar to her past work on the Dutch national football team’s anthem.

Furthermore, Stefania and Dimitris Kontopoulos have worked together on a few occasions even after Eurovision, so it is not surprising that they will release another song together, this time for the Dutch market, as they are currently in the Netherlands for the recording process with a local lyricist.

What this recording is intended for will eventually become clear, and Eurovisionfun certainly will have more information soon!

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Greece: Evangelia is in the studio preparing her song for Eurovision 2024!

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Evangelia has shared in her instagram acount that she is in the studio right now finalizing her proposal for Eurovision 2024!

The young singer published a video saying:

“Hey guys, how are you? I am so excited because today I’m in the studio recording vocals for the song that I’m submitting for Eurovision!”

It would be her third attempt to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest after her prosopals in 2022 and 2023. Specificialy, Evangelia submitted three songs to ERT in 2022, one of them being “Onira“ and also a song to RIK called “Aphrodite“. Last year, she also sent three songs for Greece, one of them being “Pali“ which had a great success in the Greek Radio Stations.

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Slovenia: RTVSLO officially confirms their participation in Eurovision 2024!

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Judging from the happenings of the previous days, Slovenia is set to participate in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2024, and in fact, they will announce their plans in the next month!

As we have previously informed you, Slovenian participation in Eurovision 2024 was confirmed by the sayings of the website evrovizija.com; however, RTVSLO, the country’s public broadcaster, announced their participation just earlier today!

The public broadcaster will announce their plans on the selection method in October.

After Slovenia’s official announement, the number of countries taking part in Eurovision 2024, rises to 34:

  1. Albania
  2. Austria
  3. Azerbaijan
  4. Belgium
  5. Croatia
  6. Cyprus
  7. Denmark
  8. Estonia
  9. Finland
  10. France
  11. Georgia
  12. Germany
  13. Greece
  14. Iceland
  15. Ireland
  16. Israel
  17. Italy
  18. Latvia
  19. Lithuania
  20. Luxembourg
  21. Malta
  22. Moldova
  23. Netherlands
  24. Norway
  25. Poland
  26. Portugal
  27. San Marino
  28. Serbia
  29. Slovenia
  30. Spain
  31. Sweden
  32. Switzerland
  33. Ukraine
  34. United Kingdom

Lately, the name of the singer Raiven has been heavily rumored to be involved with the Eurovision Song Contest, however, public television’s respond on the matter was:

“The method of selecting the representative of Slovenia for the Eurovision Song Contest will be announced in October.”

Even though Slovenia tends to organize a national final almost every year, in the last three years, they have conducted two internal selections (2021, 2023). Only time will now tell whether Slovenia is going yet again for an internal selection, or if we will watch another national final.

Joker Out were the representatives of Slovenia in Eurovision 2023 with their song “Carpe Diem”, ending up in 21st place in the Grand Final:

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Source: zurnal24.si

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Albania: Festivali i Këngës 62 submissions will remain open until October 10!

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The submissions for the 62nd edition of Festivali i Këngës, have opened almost three weeks ago, on the 1st of September.

Although the announcement did not include any deadline for the submissions, it was now confirmed that the deadline is set to be on the 10th of October. Until then, those interested can send their submissions on the following email address: festivali62@rtsh.al.

 

Albania has been utilizing Festivali i Këngës as a selection method since the country’s debut almost 20 years ago. So far, it is unknown whether the seperate jury-public vote winner method that was used last year, will also be implemented in this year’s edition, marking that the public will decide the Albanian representative in Malmö.

The 62nd edition of Festivali i Këngës is expected to take place in late December, when we will know who will be the successor of Albina and Familja Kelmendi.

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Germany: The first artists who have expressed interest in representing the nation in Malmö!

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Will “The German Finale 2024” the national final for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest, in Malmö feature a significant reunion of the “Our Song for Liverpool” contestants from the previous year? The chance is real, as five (out of 14) participants who ran for German representation last year intend to run again in 2024. The first new names are already being circulated.

Melissa Mantzoukis

Melissa was not able to represent Greece this year in Eurovision, but she hopes to achieve it in 2024 with Germany. This time and according to our exclusive information, she has registered for “Das Deutsche Finale 2024“,  the national final which will be held by the country’s public television to select the artist and song that will represent the nation in Malmö. More exclusive Eurovisionfun information can be read here .

Betül

Betül intended to represent Germany in Liverpool with her song “Heaven”, she made it all the way to the TikTok vote and ended up in the 4th place. The singer and her team have already expressed interest in applying again. Except “Heaven”, Betül has so far created a stir in Germany, mostly because of her Turkish sound. Since Turkey is no longer participating in Eurovision, a Turkish sound or the choice of singing in Turkish will cause a sensation and might upset people.

From Fall To Spring

The group was defeated last year in the TikTok vote by Ikke Hipgold. This year, however, with “Draw the Line” they gained a lot of new fans in the Eurovision community. They even claimed in February that they were still interested in competing in Eurovision. The band has confirmed it once again and has already released the song with which they want to take part in “The German Finale 2024” next year. FFTS is likely to be among the favorites if selected for the national selection.

 

Ikke Hüftgold

ULFL runner-up Ikke Hipgold has already expressed his interest in re-entering the national selection, announcing last month that he would prefer to go to Eurovision representing Germany. His song is considered to be ready. He is currently storming the German charts with Vanessa Mai and their song “Igel”.

Mitchy and André Katawazi

Mitchy and André Katawazi have confirmed that they want to take part in the German National Selection again next year and are already working on new music.

Will Church

It has been known for some time that the runner-up and jury winner in “Our Song for Liverpool” Will Church , also wants to try again. He shared it on his YouTube account in May. Therefore, we can assume that he will apply for “The German Finale 2024”.

Basti Schmidt

“FameMaker” winner and “The Voice of Germany” finalist Basti’s interest for Eurovision is yet to be confirmed. There seems to be some interest for the upcoming contest, as he attended a songwriting camp in Norway along with JOWST, EMMY and the Norwegian head of delegation Stig Karlsen. Basti also recently released a new single, “Forevermore”.

These are the first names, which are most likely to set an official participation for the representation of Germany. We now have to wait for the official announcements so we can see who will be the successor of Lord of the Lost!

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Source: esc-kompakt.de

Sweden: Malmö’s Eurovision 2024 budget is set at 30 million SEK!

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With less than 8 months to go until Eurovision 2024, the planning has gradually began in Malmö, the host city.

According to Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, the Head of the Malmö Municipality Board, the city of Malmö intends to invest 30 million SEK (or roughly 2,5 million euros) to host the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest.

The Malmö Municipality’s investment for Eurovision 2024 has increased by 5 million SEK compared to 2013, when the budget for the contest was 25 million SEK (about 2,1 million euros). However, the tourism industry brought in an amazing 185 million SEK (about 15,5 million euros) in 2013.

However, it will be a less expensive organization than the one in 2016, which was held in Stockholm. In Stockholm, 100 million SEK were invested in the event’s organization, with half of that heading toward renovations and arena-related costs.

Obviously, 30 million SEK will not be the only source of funding for Eurovision 2024. The contribution of the SVT has yet to be declared.

Malmö may be a less expensive option for Sweden when compared to Stockholm. Sweden’s 2024 goal may be the same as in 2013, “less is more.” This rationale will help cut delegation costs by creating good presentations on a lower budget, which is a great motivation for smaller countries, especially during a worldwide energy crisis.

Loreen brought Eurovision 2024 back to Sweden and once again back to Malmö after her second win in Liverpool, the past May with her song “Tattoo”.

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Source: epochtimes

Junior Eurovision 2023: Listen to Germany’s song | The first song for the contest is out!

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We’re almost two months away from Junior Eurovision 2023, which is going to take place in Nice, France, with 16 countries taking part.

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