For a while now, fans of the contest have been anxiously staring at social media, as an Instagram post from the official account of Finland’s national final, came out of nowhere, and created many rumors about a possible withdrawal of the country from Eurovision 2024!
UMK 2024 will be hosted by Pilvi Hämäläinen, Benjamin, and Viivi Pumpanen, as announced by the Finnish broadcaster Yle.
Following the announcement, Pilvi Hämäläinen, a well-known figure in Finland thanks to the comedy program Putous (Comedy Combat), stated:
Over the past few years, UMK has become something truly special, and last spring’s competition got me thinking again about how cool it would be to be part of that. I decided to stop just sitting around at home and offered to be a host. Even though I have a lot of experience with live broadcasts, being a host is completely new and different to me.
Benjamin participated in the UMK last year and placed last. He returns to UMK this year, this time in the role of host.
Last year’s UMK was an unbelievable experience, and I wanted to be a part of the magic this year too. As a major Eurovision fan, being able to host the UMK is a dream come true.
Out of the three hosts, Viivi Pumpanen has the most experience. She is eager to take on this challenge since she views UMK as a world-class show.
It’s unbelievable that I can help in putting together such an amazing feel-good show for the whole family. The contest is super important for the competitors and viewers, so I can only imagine how it’s going to feel as a host that night. Of course, I’m also looking forward to working with Pilvi and Benjamin – the three of us have such an unbelievably positive vibe.
UMK 2024 will take place on February 10. On January 10 from 20:00 to 21:30 CET, a live TV show will be held to reveal the UMK 2024 participants. The program, which will be available on Yle TV1, Yle Areena, and UMK’s YouTube channel, will have commentary in English, Finnish, and Swedish.
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Source: Yle
Just a while ago, Yle, the public broadcaster of Finland, revealed the hosts of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2024 (UMK), the country’s national final for Eurovision Song Contest 2024!
This year UMK will have three different hosts and as it seems it will be bigger than ever, after Käärijä’s thriumph this year in Liverpool.
The three hosts were partially revealed through an Instagram post from UMK. Their names will be revealed in Monday, howver UMK asks us to try to guessn who are they.
The post in question, is about a photo of the three hosts but with a twist. Their faces have been distorted with the help of AI, in a way that it’s difficult to guess their real identity.
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Who do you think are going to be the hosts of UMK 2024?
The previous winner of UMK and Finland’s representative in Eurovision 2023 was Käärijä with his song “Cha Cha Cha” who ended up in second place of the Grand Final, after winning the televote:
https://youtu.be/l6rS8Dv5g-8
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The Eurovision season has officially started! Just moments ago, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced the participants’ list of Eurovision 2024 in Malmö. In total, 37 countries will participate in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.
In detail, the following countries will take part in Malmö:
Albania – RTSH
Australia – SBS
Armenia – AMPTV
Austria – ORF
Azerbaijan – İctimai
Belgium – RTBF
Croatia – HRT
Cyprus – CyBC
Czech Republic – ČT
Denmark – DR
Estonia – ERR
Finland – YLE
France – FT
Georgia – GPB
Germany – ARD/NDR
Greece – ERT
Iceland – RÚV
Ireland – RTÉ
Israel – IPBC/Kan
Italy – RAI
Latvia – LTV
Lithuania – LRT
Luxembourg – RTL
Malta – PBS
Moldova – TRM
Netherlands – AVROTROS
Norway – NRK
Poland – TVP
Portugal – RTP
San Marino – SMRTV
Serbia – RTS
Slovenia – RTVSLO
Spain – TVE
Sweden – SVT
Switzerland – SRG / SSR
Ukraine – UA:PBC
United Kingdom – BBC
Whilst Romania is currently not confirmed to compete next year, talks are continuing with TVR on their potential participation as well. That means we might have 38 nations competing in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest.
Luxembourg, one of the founding members of Eurovision as well as successful, having won the contest five times, will return after three decades long absence. In fact, Luxembourg’s return was known to public since May and it was even announced during the Grand Final of Eurovision 2023.
North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Montenegro still remain out, claiming financial reasons.
The 68th Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Malmö, Sweden during 7-11 of May 2024, following Loreen’s second win in Liverpool.
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The 2023 edition of the MTV Europe Music Awards may have been cancelled due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war for security reasons, however this did not prevent the hosts of announcing the winners of each award category. Winning artists were revealed yesterday and hence will receive their awards at a later stage.
The regional European MTV awards have a strong connection with Eurovision, as many artists emerge each year from the contest and introduce themselves into a wider audience. As a result, there could not be an MTV winning artists’ list without the presence of Eurovision stars.
Specifically,
This year, we could all agree that the “Best Nordic Act” category was a bloodbath. All the three artists nominated for the prize were Eurovision 2023 artists. Loreen, Alessandra and Käärijä were nominated, indicating the big commercial success they had after achieving a top five placement in Liverpool.
The choice was hard, but in the end Käärijä from Finland won the award of the “Best Nordic Act”.
Along with the aforementioned, there were more Eurovision stars nominated for an award in the MTV EMA 2023, such as
Reading the winning artists’ list, we can easily notice the absence of the “Best Israeli Act” category. There is no information given by the awards committee about the exclusion of the category referring to the Israeli music scene and to what extent it is connected with the ongoing war.
Nevertheless, on the nominated artists’ list, Noa Kirel, the Israeli representative in Liverpool, was also found. Noa Kirel, even before her introduction to the European audience the past May, has been a multi-nominated and multi-awarded artist in the MTV EMAs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3mIcCllJXY
You can check the full list of the winning artists here.
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After having won the contest a total of 14 times ( Sweden 7 times, Denmark 3 times, Norway 3 times and Finland 1 time) and giving the Eurofans hits after hits each year, the Nordic countries are ready to invite Europe to the first Nordic Eurovision Party.
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The aim of the Nordic Eurovision Party is to gather participants of the current Eurovision edition together with fans and press members like the other pre-events in Madrid, Barcelona, London, Tel Aviv or Amsterdam. As a difference to the other pre-events, the idea of the Nordic Eurovision Party is to change its location and country every year, to make the event more accessible to all fans from the nordic countries. Participants of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest will be performing together with former participants of the ESC and contests of national pre selections.
The first edition will be celebrated on Sunday, the 14th of April 2024 in the well known and historical ballroom hall of the 4-star boutique hotel BERNS in Stockholm, Sweden. The event will open its doors at 7pm and start at 8pm.
Two different ticket types are offered to the fans:
OGAE members can secure a limited amount of General Entrance tickets at a reduced price. After the show there will be an after party for press, fans and the artists, with an exclusive area for the Eurovision participants.
Tickets are already on sale on the official website nordiceurovision.com.
More information about the participating delegations, the legends line up and more will be published on the official accounts of the event in Instagram (@nordiceurovision) and X (@nordiceurovisio).
Source: nordiceurovision.com
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Tampere will be the host city for Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2024. Finnish national final for Eurovision will go bigger. Next year the city of Tampere will host the show on Saturday 10 February, 2024 at Nokia Arena where we will get to know who will be Käärijä’s successor. So far Yle has received a total of 419 song submissions for the final but only seven entries will make the cut.
The Contest for New Music UMK has become a real music institution, which absolutely deserves a much bigger venue. Turku has been such an amazing UMK city for so many years – we’re very grateful for that. This year, the UMK train is heading north, and I think that Tampere and Nokia Arena are the perfect venue for a major Eurovision event. Now’s the time for a really big show and a Eurovision atmosphere that will blow the roof off! Villé Villen, Yle creative director
UMK 2024 Grand final will take place in Tampere with the tickets going on sale on Thursday 5 October, 2023 at 8 am CET. The announcement of the seven finalists will start on Wednesday January 10, 2024 and their songs will be released one at a time starting the next day.
According to Yle’s team for UMK this year selection was much harder since “the standards are historically high” making it more difficult to decide which acts will participate:
“It’s amazing to see how Finnish artists and songwriters, from newcomers to national favourites, are all jumping into the UMK fray. This year, we’re seeing what has to be the all-time best group of entries, which will end up being a truly sensational final seven. Among the finalists we have a talented artist’s first 90s-style dance song, a power song by a true vocal talent, perhaps the best song of an indie favourite’s career, two big name performers doing a surprising duo with a serious refrain, a thunderous rock anthem by a world-touring band, a seriously intense song from one of the most listened-to artists in Finland, and a hard-hitting club banger by a well-known artists making a comeback. This year, viewers will be getting an extremely high-energy UMK in an even bigger arena!” Tapio Hakanen, Chair of UMK jury
6:00pm UMK kickoff party
Nokia Arena doors and services open
Eurovision Disco (1st and 3rd floor)
YleX Street (5th floor)
8:30pm Audience must be seated in the arena
8:30pm-9:00pm UMK24 Preshow
9:00pm-11:00pm UMK24 Show
11:00pm-3:00am UMK after party
Eurovision Disco (1st and 3rd floor)
YleX Street (5th floor)
Käärijä finished in second place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 winning the televote. This makes him the most successful Finnish representative since Lordi’s victory.
Source: Yle
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Today Käärijä has released the music video for his latest single “It’s Crazy, It’s Party”, a song inspired by his iconic catchphrase that he used to describe his Eurovision Song Cha Cha Cha.
Käärijä is collaborating with Estonian rapper Tommy Cash. Not only that, the Eurovision 2023 runner-up is currently working a new music album planned to be released next year.
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The Eurovision Cruise returns one more time after 2020. The biggest post-eurovision party organized by OGAE Finland will last from Thursday August 24th until August 26th, 2023.
For many years fans all over Europe have enjoyed their favorite Eurovision artists while onboard of a cruise. Unfortunately, the Eurovision cruise was cancelled in the past two years: in 2021 because of the Covid pandemic restrictions and in 2022 because the original cruise was destined to provide temporary accommodation in the Netherlands from 20 August 2022 for a period of seven months.
The 2023 will welcome fans in their journey from Helsinki to Stockholm and back. During the journey fans will party with some of their favorite Eurovision acts.
Thursday August 24th, 2023
Hanna Pakkarinen represented Finland at the Eurovision 2007 held in Helsinki after Lordi’s victory with her song Leave Me Alone
Lindsay Dracass represented the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 with her song No Dream Impossible.
Käärijä, probably the artist most of the fans are waiting for to perform during the Cruise does not require further introduction. He represented Finland in Liverpool this year giving the Nordic country their second best result at the contest.
Friday August 25th, 2023
Swedish representative Robin Bengtsson took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with his song I Can’t Go On
Slavko represented Montenegro at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with his song Space. Although he did not make it to the final that year his song has become an all time favorite for Eurovision fans.
This year’s Belgium representative is bringing the vogue moves and the disco with his song Because Of You to the cruise.
Saturday August 26th, 2023
Uku Suviste represented Estonia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with his song The Lucky One.
Moreover, the Eurovision Cruise will have other side events including a Karaoke, a Drag Show and live music hosted by DJ WERNERI, DJ FirstRANK and DJ QX-RONNY!
Here is the whole programme for the Cruise:
Source: OGAE Finland
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Finnish Eurovision 2023 representative Käärijä has selected the artwork for a mural celebrating his music achievement in Liverpool. The mural will get finished by the end of September in the city of Vantaa, Käärijä’s hometown.
The city of Vantaa commissioned a mural to honor Käärijä (real name Jere Pöyhönen) to honour the singer’s performance in Eurovision. Käärijä won the televote and finished in second place at the Eurovision 2023, Finland’s second best result in the pan-European music festival.
Vantaa received several proposals for a mural which were later filtered to four candidates. A public poll took place receiving more than 23,500. Following this vote the best two proposals made it to the last stage of the process. Käärijä decided the winner from these two last proposals. Artists Viivi Vierinen, Juha Lahtinen and Joonas Koponen designed the winning mural.
The painting of the mural will starton August 18, 2023. The whole project costed around 20000 euros.
Source: Yle
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