Austria: Bye, bye, bye! Teya & Salena announce split!

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Sad news for the fans  of Austrian superduo Teya & Salena.  The Austrian representatives at Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool have confirmed they will part ways.  Teya & Salena made this announcement during an interview for The Euro Trip.

The duo represented Austria with the song Who the Hell Is Edgar?  After this they released the single Bye bye bye and are currently promoting their Christmas song Ho Ho Ho.  In their promotion, the musical duo mentioned that they have decided to end their collaboration as an artistic couple.

The duo Teya & Salena was formed at the end of 2022, right before they were internally selected by Austrian broadcaster ORF.  Actually, they said that when they music as solo artists their music style is very different from each other.  Nevertheless, Teya & Salena do not rule out to collaborate in the future.

Teya & Salena represented Austria with the song “Who the Hell Is Edgar?”.  They came in  2nd place in the second semi-final and finished in 15th place, in the Grand Final, with 120 points.

https://youtu.be/8uk64V9h0Ko?si=19XWIm930qUTBRU-

Source: The Euro Trip

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Austria: The announcement of the artist in December!

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The national broadcaster of Austria, ORF, is expected to announce in December the artist who will represent the central-european country in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden.

ORF’s scout Eberhard Forcher posted yesterday the below comment:

“The day before yesterday was the deadline for submissions to the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. WOW ! Unbelievable, how many great songs have come in the last few weeks. Over 60 ! Most of them are still active scouting . Peter Schreiber and my smallness have been on broadband since June probing & motivating . . . . Now the editors will invite the 15 (?) best acts to the ORF Zemntrum for video casting. The clips will then be released to the juries and the ORF will announce its choice in December at the latest. The idea of the planned public voting cannot be implemented this year for legal reasons. So much for that !”

This year Austria was represented in Liverpool by Teya and Salena with the song “Who the Hell Is Edgar?”. They qualified from the 2nd place of the Second Semi-Final, and finished in 15ht place of the Grand Final with 120 points.

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Austrian, German, Swiss broadcasters join forces for Eurovision 2024 programming!

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Public broadcasters ORF (Austria), ADR (Germany) and SRF (Switzerland) are working together to increase their cooperation in different programming areas including the Eurovision Song Contest.

The decision was taken in a joint meeting in Munich.  The three partner channels agreed on bi and trilateral plans for future coordination broadcasting in the areas of culture, documentaries, entertainment.  The 140 billion euros agreements allow the channels to share their expertise and resources in future productions.  This would include future cooperation for the Eurovision Song Contest.

For instance, last May, Austrian and Swiss broadcasters broadcasted together ARD’s programmes “ESC – der Countdown” and “ESC – die Aftershow” hosted by Barbara Schöneberger.  In a similar fashion, the three channels will work together in the broadcasting of next Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö.

Source: SRF

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Austria: Is the country organizing a National Final for Eurovision 2024?

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After the announcement that Conchita Wurst, is not going to take part in the Austrian national selection for Eurovision 2024, there are numerous scenarios going around, that the public will have their own say at the selection.

Despite their inicial proclamation, that the country is going to have an internal selection once again, the public broadcaster of Austria, ORF, talked about the possibility of a live show selection for picking the representative of Eurovision 2024. If in the end, this scenario ends up being true, then it will be the first national final in Austria since 2016.

As we have informed you, more than twelve artists have been approached directly from the broadcaster. However, anyone interested, can submit their entry until September 30, through the email address songcontest@orf.at.

The national selection of Austria last year, besides the jury panel, included live performances in front of a focus group of Eurovision specials.

Teya & Salena represented Austria at Eurovision 2023 with the song “Who The Hell is Edgar” and finished 15th in the Grand Final, bringing their country to the Final after three consecutive non-qualifications:

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Austria: Conchita Wurst will not submit a song for Eurovision 2024!

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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.

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Austria: The selection process for Eurovision 2024 begins! | Conchita Wurst among interested artists?

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The search for the next representative for Eurovision 2024 has officially begun for Austria, with a former winner of the contest reacting to the call for artists!

Austria’s selection process has begun for Eurovision 2024, with experts looking for artists to potentially represent the country in Sweden. Peter Schreiber, working with ORF in the search for a representative, posted on his instagram a few days ago, aiming to encourage artists to participate in the selection.

Among those who responded to Peter Schreiber’s invitation was Conchita Wurst, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The singer reacted to the post and even commented that she will send a message to Peter Schreiber. However, it is still too early to know whether Conchita is really interested in returning to the contest.

In recent years, the internal selections of ORF, brought Austria a variety of results, icluding the win of Conchita Wurst back in 2014:

2017 – Nathan Trent – “Running On Air” – 16th place in the final

2018 – Cesar Sampson – “Nobody But You” – 3rd place in the final

2019 – PÆNDA – “Limits” – 17th place in the semi-final

2021 – Vincent Bueno – “Amen” – 12th place in the semi-final

2022 – LUM!X ft. Pia Maria –“Halo” – 15th place in the semi-final

2023 – Teya & Salena – “Who The Hell Is Edgar?” – 15th place in the final

Teya & Salena represented Austria at Eurovision 2023 with the song “Who The Hell is Edgar” and finished 15th in the Grand Final, bringing their country to the Final after three consecutive non-qualifications:

https://youtu.be/8uk64V9h0Ko

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Austria: Watch the stand-in rehearsal of “Who The Hell is Edgar?”!

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It has already been two months since the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool. 37 performers stepped on the stage of the M&S Bank Arena giving it all and representing their countries in the biggest song competition in the world, after months of intense preparations.

The impressive stage performances that they pulled off were first tried on the Eurovision stage a few days before their arrival through simulations, known as stand in rehearsals. Stand in rehearsals are usually executed by local artists and performers so all participants can know in advance the television result of the performances. On a later stage, they have the opportunity to ask for changes during the technical rehearsals executed by the representatives themselves.

A few days ago the stand-in rehearsals of Switzerland, Israel, Serbia, Portugal, Italy, Finland and Cyprus were leaked. You can watch all of them in our article.

A little while ago another rehearsal was released and it is none other than that of Austria. It is the song “Who The Hell is Edgar?” performed by Teya & Salena. You can see the rehearsal in the video below:

What do you think of Austria’s stand-in rehearsal? Did you see any difference between this and the final performance?

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Austria: Internal Selection for 2024!

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For a seventh consecutive year ORF, the national broadcaster of Austria, decided to go internal for the selection of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden! The last time that Austria held a national selection show was in 2016 through the show “Wer Singt für Österreich?” 

Stefanie Groiss-Horowitz, the program director of ORF, stated that they are still looking for the exact method that the internal selection will be carried out. He also revealed why a national selection show is not an option.

“We already have a big talent show in the ORF 1 program with “Die große Chance – Let’s sing and dance”.

This year Austria was represented at Liverpool by Teya & Salena and the song “Who the Hell is Edgar?” which brought the country back to the final after 2018 and finished in the 15th place with 120 points.

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Source: Kleine Zeitung

 

Weird broken records of EUROVISION 2023!

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Every year, including this one, we witnessed numerous peculiar results, variations between finals and semifinals, top rankings in records, and so forth. So, let’s examine each of them individually, shall we?

1. Albania

 

Albania, despite finishing 9th in the televote of the semi-final, achieved the second-best result among the countries from the second semi-final in the final itself, following Poland. This success led Albania to secure the 10th place overall in the final audience. Well done Albania!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI9rSDhXwyc&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

2. Austria

 

In contrast, even though Austria achieved the second position in the semi-final audience, in the final unexpectedly ended up in the very last position among the countries from the second semi-final. Unfortunately, Austria could only manage to secure the 22nd place in the final. Ouch.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uk64V9h0Ko&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

3. Serbia

 

Serbia managed to get the beloved ticket to the final, earning just 37 points and maintaining a significant gap of 37 points(!) from the next contestant in 9th place. Interestingly, 9th place had twice as many points as the 10th place. Wow, that’s symmetry brah. However, Serbia achieved a new record for the lowest number of points obtained by a contestant in the 10th place during the semi-final, surpassing Iceland’s previous record of 39 points in 2022.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRfg9wzbpw&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

4. Australia

 

Australia pulled through and won their semi-final, convincing the crowd that they had the best track among the 16. The crowd must have been forgotten somewhere in the final, as Australia only climbed to 20th place, earning the record for worst-placed semi-final winner in the final, when it comes to the televote. Followed by Greece in 2010 and Romania in 2013, with 7th place in the final, as semi-final winners. I think they completely forgot about Australia, they might have been snacking during the “promise” performance and not paying attention. Shame, shame, shame, first the music then the eating people!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSoy_mJMlMY&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

5. Sweden

 

Sweden overtook Ireland in wins, Loreen became the first woman to win the trophy twice and also this year’s Nordic country’s entry managed to set a new record by winning Eurovision with no 12 points from the audience. Like it or not, these are the trade-offs. Finally, this year’s Swedish entry managed to win, having a distance of 133 points from the winner of the televote, breaking the previous record, which was again its own, in 2015 with a distance of 87 points. In conclusion, 4 records for this year’s winner. Well played!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE2Fj0W4jP4&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

6. Estonia

 

Alika, just 20 years old, against all odds, made it to the final by finishing 10th in her semi-final. Hopefully, the judges had other plans, and while in the audience of the final she finished in 19th place (one place above the winner of her semi-final, Australia!), they shared her 146 points, giving her a decent place in this year’s top ten! Not being among the 10 favourite to pass in the big final, and finally reaching the final top ten, is undoubtedly something that even she did not expect. (credits to Katerina Mitika)

 

 

Did we miss any record or something peculiar this year? Let us know in the comments below!

 

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Eurovision 2023: See the results of Press Poll just before the grand final!

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As we informed you, Press Poll 2023 has begun. After all countries have had all technical rehearsals, it is now time for the accredited to vote for the country that believes she will be the winner of the 67th Eurovision Song Contest.

Below are the results of the final of today’s 13/5 at 21:45:

In the vote for the winner, Finland leads, Sweden is second, and Spain is third!

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Source: Ogae International