Cyprus: On February 29 the release of Liar | It’s official!

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First, through Eurovisionfun, you read that Liar’s video clip will be released on February 29. A little while ago, CYBC confirmed this information with its official announcement, announcing that the song will be released on the last day of February!

The filming of the video clip of this year’s Cypriot entry took place after years in Cyprus. Specifically in Limassol, on the first weekend of February, Silia Kapsis with her team and under the directorial supervision of Kostas Karydas, filmed the video clip. So the time when we will hear it complete and in its final form is approaching, since on 29/2 the unveiling will take place through the CYBC frequency.

We remind you that the song is composed by Dimitris Kontopoulos and lyrics by Elke Tiel. Silia Kapsis is in Athens and very soon she will begin the final phase of her rehearsals for the demanding choreography she will present to us in Malmö. The well-known Cypriot choreographer Charis Savva has undertaken all her preparation, in a choreography that bears the signature of Guy Groove and Kelly Sweeney. Silia also continues her vocal lessons with Victoria Chalkitis, who will accompany her on the stage of the contest.

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Cyprus: Silia Kapsis performs Whitney Houston Live! (video)

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Silia Kapsis appeared on the most popular show on Cypriot television and sang live, Whitney Houston‘s “I Have Nothing”.

Some days ago, Silia Kapsis was a guest on Louis Patsalidis‘ show, “Louis Night Show”, where she talked about her preparation for Eurovision 2024, the filming she did in Limassol for the “Liar” video clip, her professional plans, etc. a.

Of course she gave a live performance, that left everyone speechless. This evening, despite the fact that Silia was suffering from a cold, she delivered a live performance, proving that her strong point is not only her dancing, but also her voice.

Enjoy Silia on her performance of “I Have Nothing”:

Did you like Silia’s rendition of the Whitney’s classic song?

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Betting Odds: Ukraine Leads by Margin | Greece and Cyprus out of Top 20!

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Following the first Super Saturday of the year, we saw significant reshuffling in the betting odds chart. Three new songs were selected last night, and the odds saw many changes, with Ukraine maintaining its top position, and moreover, with a clear lead. Bad news for Greece, which has significantly dropped compared to our previous article, and for Cyprus, which, despite gaining ground, still finds itself low in the rankings.

Top 5

Ukraine remains in the first position, with a considerable lead over its pursuers. A victory for Teresa Maria is playing out in odds of approximately 3.5, with no significant changes compared to our previous article. The United Kingdom, after the release of a teaser for Olly Alexander’s song “Dizzy,” temporarily dropped to third place, but is now back in second. A victory for the United Kingdom is playing out in odds ranging from 7 to 9. Italy is third, and after Angelina Mango’s victory, its odds have dropped, with a victory playing out in odds from 7.5 to 11. Sweden is fourth, and so far, has not convinced that it has a winning song. Rounding out the top 5 is Israel, which, after Eden Golan’s victory, regained some ground it had lost in the previous period.

The other countries making up the top 10 are Iceland, Croatia, Georgia, Finland, and Ireland.

Greece and Cyprus

Greece continues to lose ground and is now found in 21st place. A victory for Marina Satti is playing out in odds of up to 66, when just a few months ago, it was playing out in odds up to 35. Cyprus, on the other hand, had an upward trajectory in recent days, likely due to the publicity received from the filming of the video clip in Limassol. Cyprus is now in 27th place, with a potential victory for Silia Kapsis playing out in odds of up to 90.

The many fluctuations we have seen this year at the top of the betting odds herald an exciting year where we won’t know the winner early on, as happened in the previous two seasons. Of course, under the proviso that no song emerges as a clear favorite, and betting companies crown it the unbeatable favorite, as was the case with Stefania and “Tattoo.” We are likely heading towards a repeat of 2021, where things didn’t clear up even during rehearsals, as we had 3-4 songs that were betting favorites vying for victory on almost equal terms.

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Cyprus: Footage from the filming of the video clip!

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As we informed you in our previous article, in the last few days we had the pleasure of being guests of RIK, the artistic group and City of Dreams Meditteranean, the largest hotel in Cyprus, which is also the sponsor of this year’s Cypriot participation, in order to see up close the filming of Liar’s video clip.

On the occasion of the filming of the Liar video clip, which took place in the last few days in Limassol, our beloved Silia Kapsis and the successful Greek creator Dimitris Kontopoulos, made exclusive statements to the RIK camera.

See footage from the filming of the video clip in the videos below:

As you have already read on Eurovisionfun, the song and the video clip will be released on February 29th.

We are eagerly awaiting the release of the video clip, which we are sure will blow your mind!

Are you looking forward to the release of the Cypriot entry? Tell us in the comments below!

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Greece: ERT’s proposal to Fokas Evangelinos to take on the artistic direction of Marina Satti’s entry!

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On “Super Katerina“, a greek morning TV show, it was revealed that Fokas Evangelinos has received an offer to take on the artistic direction of Marina Satti’s participation in Eurovision 2024.

According to Yiannis Poulopoulos’ information, the renowned choreographer has not yet responded to ERT’s proposal, as he is awaiting to listen to Marina Satti’s song first. Furthermore, he stated that Marina Satti’s song is not yet complete, and it has yet to be determined whether the singer will be accompanied by her own team of dancers.

Fokas Evangelinos, a Eurovision expert, has not yet taken on any entry this year. Evangelinos is a part of the Greek “Dream Team“, consisted of him, Dimitris Kontopoulos and Ilias Kokotos. The afore-mentioned tend to take over Eurovision projects together, as a team. This year, Dimitris Kontopoulos and Ilias Kokotos are behind Cyprus’ entry, “Liar”. However, Fokas Evangelinos is not a part of this certain project, as the artistic direction was taken over by Los Angeles based choreographers. Nevertheless and as mentioned exclusively to EurovisionFun, Dimitris Kontopoulos stated that he would be very happy if Evangelinos takes over for Greece and Marina Satti’s entry.

Fokas Evangelinos in Eurovision

Fokas Evangelinos has served as the choreographer and artistic director for many and successful Eurovision entries throughout the years. His expertise is really appreciated among participating delegations, which ask for his guidance. In detail, the following Eurovision entries were edited by Fokas Evangelinos:

2022: 8th place for Greece and Amanda Georgiadis Tenfjord with the song “Die Together”.

2021: 13th place for Moldova and Natalia Gordienko with the song “Sugar”.

2021: 10th place for Greece and Stefania with the song “Last dance”.

2019: 22nd place for Spain and Mickey Nunez with the song “La venda”.

2019: 3rd place for Russia and Sergey Lazarev with the song “Scream”.

2018: 10th place for Moldova and DoReDos with the song “My Lucky Day”.

2018: 11th place in the first semi-final for Azerbaijan and Aysel Mammadova with the song “X my heart”.

2017: 19th place for Greece and Demy with the song “This is love”.

2016: 3rd place for Russia and Sergey Lazarev with the song “You’re the only one”.

2014: 7th place for Russia and the Tolmachevy sisters with the song “Shine”.

2013: 2nd place for Azerbaijan and Farid Mammadov with the song “Hold me”.

2009: 7th place for Greece and Sakis Rouvas with the song “This is our night”.

2008: 1st place for Russia and Dima Bilan with the song “Believe”.

2008: 2nd place for Ukraine and Ani Lorak with the song “Shady Lady”.

2007: 6th place for Belarus and Dmitry Klodun with the song “Work your magic”.

2006: 2nd place for Russia and Dima Bilan with the song “Never let you go”.

2006: creative director of the Eurovision Song Contest held in Greece.

2005: 1st place for Greece and Helena Paparizou with the song “My Number One”.

2004: 3rd place for Greece and Sakis Rouvas with the song “Shake it”.

He has directed 17 entries in total of which 13 finished in top ten, a record that no other artistic director in the competition has ever achieved.

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Eurovision 2024: The Semi-Final Allocation Draw Results!

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Malmö with a very nice event hosted a few minutes ago the draw for the semi-finals of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

The analyzes of the fans and not only, have been on fire for a few minutes now. Since the theories based on the pre-history of the countries in the competition, it is a first insight into how passable the qualification to the final is or not. In other words, it’s time to make our predictions, about who will go through to the final and who are the favorites to say goodbye to Malmö early…

The presenters and the handover ceremony

Presenters of the Eurovision 2024 semi-final draw were Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi. It is worth mentioning that Pernilla Månsson Colt was also the presenter of the corresponding draw in 2013, eleven years ago when Malmö hosted the Eurovision Song Contest for the last time. Both of them are part of the SVT staff, being some of the most beloved faces of the Swedish state broadcaster.

During the draw, the ceremony of handing over and accepting the emblem of the contest took place. The mayor of Liverpool, Steven Rotheram, formally handed over the “keys to the event” to the mayor of Malmö, Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh.

Draw Procedure

Big 5 and Sweden

With the big winner of last year’s competition, Sweden, directly in the final, along with the Big 5 (UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain), the first part of the draw determined the semi-final that the direct finalists would vote for.

Will vote in the 1st Semi-Final:

  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany

Will vote in the 2nd Semi-Final:

  • Spain
  • Italy
  • France

In the semi-final that the six aforementioned countries were drawn to broadcast and vote for, the video from their dress rehearsal will also be shown. This was done at Eurovision 2016 for the first time, for reasons of equal exposure of the countries directly in the final and the countries that qualify from the semi-finals. Essentially, viewers see each entry twice during the shows.

Semi-Final Allocation Draw

The allocation draw for the two semi-finals had two parts. In the first part the 31 countries participating in the semi-finals were drawn in which of the two they will compete in. Fifteen countries will compete in the first semi-final and sixteen in the second semi-final.

In the second part, each country learned whether it will appear in the first or second half of the semi-final in which it will compete. The exact order of appearance will be determined by the EBU and the show’s producers at a later date.

1st Semi-final (May 7):

1st Half

  • Ukraine
  • Cyprus
  • Poland
  • Serbia
  • Lithuania
  • Croatia
  • Ireland

2nd Half

  • Slovenia
  • Iceland
  • Finland
  • Portugal
  • Luxembourg
  • Australia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Moldova

2nd Semi-Final (May 9):

1st Half

  • Austria
  • Malta
  • Switzerland
  • Greece
  • Czechia
  • Albania
  • Denmark
  • Armenia

2nd Half

  • Israel
  • Estonia
  • Georgia
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Latvia
  • San Marino
  • Belgium

Malmö will host the 68th Eurovision Song Contest from 7 to 11 May at the Malmö Arena. The motto of this year’s event, as chosen by the organisers, is “United by Music“, retaining the motto first chosen for last year’s contest in Liverpool.

You can see the draw again through the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_-2hMEq5sk

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Eurovision 2024: Tonight the Allocation Draw!

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At 19:00 CET and live from Malmö, Sweden, the draw for the Eurovision 2024 semi-finals will take place tonight.

During today’s event, there will also be a handover of the event’s banner from the city of Liverpool to the city of Malmö. For this reason, both the Mayor of Liverpool, Steven Rotheram, and the Mayor of the Swedish city, Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, will be present at today’s draw.

The hosts

The hosts of tonight’s draw for the semi-finals of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest will be Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi. It is worth mentioning that Pernilla Månsson Colt was the presenter of the equivalent draw in 2013, eleven years ago when Malmö hosted the Eurovision Song Contest for the last time.

The draw procedure

The first part of the draw will determine which semi-final will be broadcast and voted for by each of the six countries that are directly in the final on 11 May (Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom).

The second part of the draw will determine which semi-final and which half the other 31 participating countries will compete in. As in recent years, the exact order of appearance will be determined by the event producers at a later date.

The 31 countries have been divided into five pots, based on historical voting patterns as calculated by Eurovision’s official voting partner, Digame.

Drawing countries from different pots aims to reduce the likelihood of so-called neighbour voting and increases the suspense in the semi-finals.

Pots

Pot 1
  • 🇦🇱 Albania
  • 🇦🇹 Austria
  • 🇨🇭 Switzerland
  • 🇭🇷 Croatia
  • 🇷🇸 Serbia
  • 🇸🇮 Slovenia
Pot 2
  • 🇦🇺 Australia
  • 🇩🇰 Denmark
  • 🇪🇪 Estonia
  • 🇫🇮 Finland
  • 🇮🇸 Iceland
  • 🇳🇴 Norway
Pot 3
  • 🇦🇲 Armenia
  • 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
  • 🇬🇪 Georgia
  • 🇮🇱 Israel
  • 🇱🇻 Latvia
  • 🇱🇹 Lithuania
  • 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Pot 4
  • 🇨🇾 Cyprus
  • 🇬🇷 Greece
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland
  • 🇲🇹 Malta
  • 🇵🇹 Portugal
  • 🇸🇲 San Marino
Pot 5
  • 🇧🇪 Belgium
  • 🇨🇿 Czechia
  • 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
  • 🇳🇱 Netherlands
  • 🇲🇩 Moldova
  • 🇵🇱 Poland

https://twitter.com/Eurovision/status/1751972070479565001

So in the evening, we all tune in for the draw of the semi-finals of our favourite contest. You can watch the draw on the official Eurovision channel on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_-2hMEq5sk

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Eurovision 2024: The Semi-final allocation pots!

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The Semi-Final Allocation Draw 2024 will take place tomorrow Tuesday 30 January at 19:00 CET live from Malmo, alongside a ceremony which sees the Host City insignia pass from previous hosts Liverpool to Malmo.

https://youtu.be/Q_-2hMEq5sk

The draw will be hosted by Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi and fans will be able to watch on the official Eurovision YouTube channel.

The Allocation Draw will determine whether countries participate in the First Semi-Final (Tuesday 7 May at 21:00 CEST) or the Second Semi-Final (Thursday 9 May at 21:00 CEST). Also randomly allocated is whether a country will perform in the first or second half of the Semi-Final they’ve drawn.

Semi-Final Allocation Draw: How does it work?

Sweden as the Host Country and reigning champion respectively, along with the other 6 members of the so-called ‘Big 6’ participating countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom) do not compete in the Semi-Finals, but their domestic audiences do get to vote in one of them… so before the competing countries are allocated a place in a Semi-Final, it will be randomly determined which of the Semi-Finals the Big 6 will each be allowed to vote on.

The next part of the draw will determine in which Semi-Final and in which half of the respective Semi-Final the other 31 participating countries will perform in.

Semi-Final Allocation Pots 2024

Pot 1

Pot 2

Pot 3
  • Albania
  • Austria
  • Switzerland
  • Croatia
  • Serbia
  • Slovenia
  • Denmark
  • Australia
  • Finland
  • Iceland
  • Norway
  • Estonia
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Georgia
  • Israel
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Ukraine

Pot 4

Pot 5

Pot 6
  • Cyprus
  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Malta
  • Portugal
  • San Marino
  • Belgium
  • Czech Republic
  • Netherlands
  • Moldova
  • Poland
  • Luxembourg
  • France
  • Italy
  • Germany
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom
  • Sweden

 

Drawing countries from different pots helps to reduce the chance of so-called neighbourly voting and increases suspense in the Semi-Finals. You can get a good idea of how it will all work by watching the 2022 Allocation Draw on the official Eurovision YouTube channel.

The Eurovision Song Contest is due to take place on 7, 9 and 11 May 2024 in Malmo, Sweden, who won the Contest thanks to Loreen winning in 2023.

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Source: Eurovision.tv

Cyprus: On February 29 the most likely release date of “Liar” | EXCLUSIVE

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Αccording to our exclusive information, the most likely release date for “Liar”, this year’s Cypriot entry in the Eurovision contest, is February 29.

The plan of RIK and the artistic team is to release the video clip of Liar, the song with which Silia Kapsis will represent Cyprus at Eurovision 2024, on February 29. Unless, of course, something unexpected happens that will overturn all this design.

As we have already informed you with our previous articles, this week Silia returns from Los Angeles to Athens. After making the final recording of the song, she will go with the artistic team to Cyprus, so that next weekend she can start filming the video clip.

The director of the video clip is going to be Kostas Karydas, one of the most renowned directors in Greece, but also with a lot of experience from the Eurovision contest, having directed Stefania’s and Amanda’s entries in 2021 and 2022 respectively, which  both ended up  in the top 10.

The video clip of this year’s Cypriot participation after several years will be shot entirely in Cyprus, specifically in Limassol and will contain a lot of exterior filming.

During her stay in Cyprus, Silia will speak to the Cypriot media and will also make television appearances. After the filming, Silia will return to Greece for the second part of her rehearsals, this time with the dancers who will accompany her on the Eurovision stage.

On the weekend during the filming, RIK and the artistic team, with the kind sponsorship of City of Dreams, the largest hotel complex in the country, is holding a media event for selected Eurovision sites, but also TV editors covering the Eurovision Song Contest. Of course Eurovisionfun will be there and bring you everything that happens. In addition, you can send your questions for Silia through our Instagram, since your ten best questions will be selected, so that we can address them to her in the interview we will conduct.

The Eurovision interest moves to Limassol, Cyprus next week and through Eurovisionfun, our social media and our YouTube channel you will be able to follow everything that will happen there!

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Cyprus: Listen to the alternate acoustic version of “Break a Broken Heart” by Andrew Lambrou!

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Last season, the official Eurovision YouTube channel, hosted a series named “Eurovision A Little Bit More”, where this year’s contestants had the chance to sing their songs, different versions of their songs, or even perfrom covers of other songs.

Andrew Lambrou, the representative of Cyprus in 2023, performed an acoustic version of his song “Break a Broken Heart” from the National Theatre of Cyprus, as well as a coover of his favourite Eurovision song, “Molitva” by Marija Šerifović:

https://youtu.be/c4dufv0sCSM

As it seems, Andrew recorded one more, alternate acoustic version of “Break a Broken Heart”, which was until now hidden in the archives of the contest, and was never released.

So today, we will have the chance to listen to Andrew Lambrou perfrorm the song that gave Cyprus its best result since Eleni Foureira, once again, through the official Eurovision YouTube channel (the video premieres in 20:00 CET):

https://youtu.be/jXJxRywqM-E

What do you think of this version of “Break a Broken Heart”? Write us in the comments below!

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