Estonia: 215 entries were submitted for Eesti Laul 2024!

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ERR, the Estonian national broadcaster, has announced that the Eesti Laul format will remain as the country’s selection process for Eurovision 2024. The submission window for Eesti Laul 2024 closed today and although until a week ago only 12 entries were submitted, it turns out that actually the vast majority of the submissions were made in the last moment.

A total of 215 songs were submitted claiming the Estonian representation in Malmö. Specifically, out of the 215 songs

  • 88 of them are written in Estonian language
  • 126 are written in English, and
  • one is written in Italian!

Moreover, among the candidates there are both famous and established artists as well as newcomers, who also intend on getting in front of a large audience via Eesti Laul.

What’s next?

This year, a special jury of 35 people is anticipated to evaluate the submissions in the upcoming period and will therefore choose the 20 songs that will advance to the next stage of the competition. Out of the 20 songs:

  • five will be chosen by the jury in order to advance directly to the Grand Final,
  • while the other fifteen will participate in the Semi-Final.

During the Grand Final and following the vote of the television audience and the jury, three entries will advance to the Super Final. At this point in the competition, Estonia’s representative in Malmö will be chosen solely by the television viewers.

The timeline of Eesti Laul 2024

Before November 8th, 2023, the 20 artists competing to represent Estonia will be announced, and before December 8th, the competing songs will be revealed.

The Semi-Final will take place on January 20, while the Grand Final will be held on February 17.

The winner of Eesti Laul 2023 and hence Estonia’s representative in Eurovision 2023 was Alika with her song “Bridges“. Alika finished 8th overall, marking the country’s best result in years.

https://youtu.be/HsbC-OYMA3s

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Source: ERR

Estonia: The Eesti Laul 2024 submission deadline has expired!

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Today marked the end of the submission period for Eesti Laul 2024, the national final through which Estonia’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest, to be held in Malmö, Sweden in May 2024, will be selected.

A special jury is anticipated to evaluate the submissions in the upcoming period and choose the 20 songs that will advance to the next stage of the competition. Before November 8th, 2023, the 20 artists competing to represent Estonia will be announced, and before December 8th, the songs will be revealed.

This year, there will be certain differences in the way that Eesti Laul is conducted from prior years. Five of the 20 songs chosen will advance directly to the grand final on February 17 while the other fifteen will participate in the semi-final on January 20.

Following vote by the television audience and the judging panels during the final, three entries will advance to the Super Final. At this point in the competition, Estonia’s representative in Malmö will be chosen solely by the television viewers.

This year Estonia was represented by Alika, with the song “Bridges”. Alika managed to defy predictions and deliver her country the best result in recent years by placing 8th with 168 points despite the bookies’ doubts about her qualification.

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Source: ERR

Junior Eurovision 2023: Listen to Estonia’s entry!

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Back in August, it was revealed that Estonia will make its debut in Junior Eurovision 2023. No one expected the debut of the Baltic country, since the rest of the Baltic countries have been absent from the contest for many years.

The same time that Estonia’s debut was announced, it was also revealed by ERR that the country’s first representative will be ARHANNA.

Today, ARHANNA’s entry “Hoiame Kokku” was released. “Hoiame Kokku“was written by Arhanna Sandra Arbma herself along with Karl-Ander Reismann, Rael Laikre and Leelo Tungal.

You can listen to “Hoiame Kokku”, below:

https://youtu.be/nlwSSk9Jy6k

Who is ARHANNA?

Arhanna Sandra Arbma was born and raised in the city of Räpina and has been taking singing and music lessons since she was 5 years old.

She has also participated in numerous competitions, one of which was the ETV produced “Tähtede lava” in 2022, where she was crowned as the winner.

The 21st Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Nice, France, on the 26th of November, following Lissandro’s win last year in Yerevan.

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Estonia: 12 participations have been submitted for Eesti Laul 2024 until now!

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12 songs have been sumbitted until now for the national selection of Estonia for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest!

The Head of Eesti Laul 2024, Karmel Killand,  revealed that only 12 entries are available until now for Eesti Laul 2024! From those twelve songs half of them are in the Estonian languange and the other half in the English language. Karmel Killand is encouraging those interested in taking part to do so as soon as possible as the participation fee is about to double at 12:00 on 21st of October.

The submission deadline expires at 11:00 on 23rd of October. Until 21st of October the participation fee amounts to 50€ for the entries in the Estonian language and 100€ for the entries in one or more foreign langages. From 21st October the participation fee is going to rise to 100€ and 200€ respectively.

Citizens of Estonia as well as foreign residents are eligble to participate in Eesti Laul either as performers or as composers. Participations can be sumbitted by foreignes from abroad under the condition that the majority of the composers behind each entry are Estonians. Last but not least each composer or performer can submitt up to five entries.

The 20 songs that will compete in Eesti Laul will be announced no later than on 8th of November and will be revealed no later that on 8th of December.

This year Estonia was represented by Alika and the song “Bridges” which ended up in 8th place of the Grand Place having had the support of the juries who ranked Estonia 5th, while the televoters were not that impressed and ranked Estonia only 19th.

https://youtu.be/HsbC-OYMA3s

Source: ERR

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Estonia’s Alika wants to participate in Eurovision again in the future!

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In an interview with ETV, Alika, who represented Estonia at this year’s Eurovision, expressed interest in returning to the competition in the future.

She initially referred to the most vivid memories she has of her participation this year:

The most beautiful memory was when the final jury voting started and at one point I was second. Overall, the juries ranked me fifth.

When I got back to Estonia, I ran across a few people who told me that my participation made them proud to be Estonians.

She concluded by saying that she would like to participate in the competition again in the future:

I’d like to do it again, but in four or five years. Then I think it would be a good time.

Alika represented Estonia at Eurovision 2023 with the song “Bridges”, finishing 8th overall, which is one of the best results of the country in recent years. More specifically, she was ranked 5th by the juries and 19th by the television viewers.

Alika will release her debut album on November 24th!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsbC-OYMA3s

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Sources: eurovoix, ERR

Estonia: The submission platform for Eesti Laul 2024 is open and big changes are coming!

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The platform for submissions for Eesti Laul 2024, through which the country’s representative in Malmö will be chosen, was opened today by the Estonian broadcaster ERR.

In order to create a revitalized and potent Eesti Laul for 2024, many adjustments to the show’s formula were also announced at the same time.

Eesti Laul 2024

Interested artists have until October 23 to submit proposals.

Participation costs till October 21 are 50 euros for songs in Estonian and 100 euros for songs in other languages. The entry cost is doubled during the final two days of submission, rising to €100 for songs in Estonian and €200 for songs in other languages.

Twenty songs will be chosen and five of those songs will advance automatically to the grand final.

15 songs will compete in the semi-final of Eesti Laul 2024, and five of them will advance to the Final where they will join the five already qualified artists.

During the Final, three of the 10 finalists will be chosen by an international jury and TV audience to move on to the Super Final. There, only the audience vote will determine the winner and Estonia’s participation for Eurovision 2024.

Dates for Eesti Laul 2024 are as follows:

The artists that will compete in the Eesti Laul 2024 semi-finals are anticipated to be disclosed by November 8 and all the songs in the competition will be revealed by December 8.

The artist and song representing Estonia in Malmö will be chosen from:

  • The semi-final of Eesti Laul, on Saturday 20 January 2024
  • The grand final of Eesti Laul, on Saturday 17 February 2024

More information about Eesti Laul 2024 can be found here.

Alika’s song “Bridges” was the Eesti Laul winner from the previous year and Estonia’s entry in Eurovision 2023. Alika brought her country up to position eight in the standings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsbC-OYMA3s&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Feurovisionfun.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title

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Estonia: Submission for Eesti Laul 2024 will open in mid-September!

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Earlier today, the presentation of the winter program of the Estonian public broadcaster, ERR, took place in Tallinn. Among others, the directors talked about Eesti Laul, the national final through which, as we already know, they will choose both their representative and song, for yet another year.

Karmel Killandi, editor-in-chief of ERR’s entertainment programs, revealed that applications for Eesti Laul 2024 will be accepted from September 15 until mid-October, but did not specify the closing date.

As we already know Tomi Rahula will not continue to be the producer of Eesti Laul, nevertheless, Karmel Killandi, when asked who will be the next producer, refrained from answering and let the host of the event say what it will be a surprise.

We already know that this year’s Eesti Laul, will take place with many changes. So we are all waiting to see the renewed national final!

The winner of last year’s Eesti Laul and Estonia’s representative in Eurovision 2023, was Alika with her song “Bridges”, ending up in eighth place of the Grand Final:

https://youtu.be/HsbC-OYMA3s

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Estonia: With Arhanna Sandra Arbma to Nice!

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It’s official! Estonia will make its debut in Junior Eurovision 2023 in Nice. Estonia is the last Baltic nation to make a debut in Junior Eurovision, but the only Baltic country taking part in this year’s edition.

ERR, the Estonian national broadcaster, also announced the name of the artist that will fly the Estonian flag in the stage of Nice. Arhanna Sandra Arbma will be honored to be the first Estonian representative in Junior Eurovision.

Arhanna Sandra Arbma was born and raised in the city of Räpina and has been taking singing and music lessons since she was 5 years old. She has also participated in numerous competitions, one of which was the ETV produced “Tähtede lava” in 2022 and where she was crowned as a winner.

The song will be released in the coming months and according to the language rules we can expect that it will be at least 60% in Estonian.

You can also enjoy Arhanna’s cover on “Bridges“, the song that represented Estonia this year in the adult Eurovision.

Junior Eurovision 2023 will take place in Nice, on the 26th of November, following Lissandro’s win last year in Yerevan. 16 countries will take and the slogan of the competition will be “Heroes“!

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Source: ERR-ETV

Junior Eurovision 2023: 16 countries will participate with Estonia making their debut!

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The European Broadcaster Union has confirmed the number of participants for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023.  The junior version of the Eurovision Contest will welcome 16 countries all over Europe to Nice, France.  Estonia will make their debut in the contest.

Partipating Countries

This is the list of the countries taking part in the Junior Eurovision 2023:

  • 🇦🇱 Albania (RTSH)
  • 🇦🇲 Armenia (AMPTV)
  • 🇪🇪 Estonia (ERR)
  • 🇫🇷 France (France Télévisions – Host Broadcaster)
  • 🇬🇪 Georgia (GPB)
  • 🇩🇪 Germany (NDR)
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland (TG4)
  • 🇮🇹 Italy (Rai)
  • 🇲🇹 Malta (PBS)
  • 🇳🇱 Netherlands (AVROTROS)
  • 🇲🇰 North Macedonia (MKRTV)
  • 🇵🇱 Poland (TVP)
  • 🇵🇹 Portugal (RTP)
  • 🇪🇸 Spain (RTVE)
  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (BBC)
  • 🇺🇦 Ukraine (UA:PBC)

Heroes

Heroes is the motto of this year’s competition.  The slogan “heroes” wants to convey a sense of strength and inspiration for the children competing with a “street art” look in the logo aiming to bring modernity and speak to all generations.  The art work also includes splashes using the colors of all the competing countries’ flags.

Talking about France preparations as a host country, Executive Producer for the Junior Eurovision, Martin Österdahl says:

It’s exciting to be returning to France so soon, to a new host city as well as welcoming a new country (Estonia) to the competition. Our colleagues at France TV have once again put together a great creative team to give us all a spectacular show and make the young artists feel like the Heroes they are.’

Lissandro won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song Oh Maman! giving France their second victory in the contest only two years after their first victory.

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place at the Palais Nikaïa in Nice on Sunday 26 November at 16:00 CET.

Source: EBU

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Estonia: ERR to update Eesti Laul for 2024!

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ERR is starting their Eurovision preparations for 2024.  As it is a tradition in the baltic country, Eesti Laul will again be their national final to pick their representative.

However, we can already expect to see some changes in the show.  According to chief of ERR entertainment programs Ms. Karmel Killandi Eesti Laul will get an update that will include the format of the national final and the Estonian team behind the show.

Every big project needs to be re-evaluated and updated after a while. Eesti Laul is even more so, because on the one hand it is the biggest and most important music show in Estonia and on the other hand it is the national selection for Eurovision.

For instance, it is now confirmed that chief producer for Eesti Laul, Tomi Rahula is leaving his position.  Mr. Rauhula was the producer of Eesti Laul for five years.  During the last five years the semi-finals for Eesti Laul have been held in Tartu and Viimsi.

According to ERR, one of the biggest accomplishments of former chief producer Tomi Rauhula was to bring the Eurovision national final to the city of Tartu and to include a neutral jury for the selection and to establish links between Estonian and foreign musicians.

We will have to wait for more details about the changes in the format of Eesti Laul 2024 which are currently going underway:

“Our biggest wish is to offer the best platform for Estonian musicians and experiences for viewers. We will open detailed plans in a few months, but I hope that artists and songwriters have already started writing new songs for the competition.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsbC-OYMA3s&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

Source: ERR

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