Germany: online voting for “Unser Lied für Liverpool” starts on Friday!

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The voting process for the German final “Unser Lied für Liverpool” starts on Friday, February 24, 2023.  The online voting will extend until March 03, 2023 at 10 pm.

The voting system will work as follows:

  • During the evening of Unser Lied für Liverpool people can vote through SMS or phone.  The online vote will be joined with the live voting.  The televote will weigh 50% of the total result.
  • The jury vote will decide the other 50% of the result.  During the show, the international jury will award 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 points to the acts.

Eight international jurors from different countries will make the international jury from the music and entertaining industry.  The international jurors come from Switzerland, the Netherlands, Finland, Spain, Lithuania, Ukraine, Austria and Great Britain.

The competing acts in Unser Lied für Liverpool are:

Will Church – “Hold On”
Patty Gurdy – “Melodies of Hope”
TRONG – “Dare to Be Different”
Lonely Spring – “Misfit”
Anica Russo – “Once Upon a Dream”
Lord Of The Lost – “Blood and Glitter”
Frida Gold – “Alle Frauen in mir sind müde” (All the women in me are tired)
René Miller – “Concrete Heart”
Ikke Hüftgold – “Lied mit gutem Text” (Song with good lyrics)

Unser Lied für Liverpool will air on March 03, 2023 at 22:20 CET on Das Erste, ARD Mediathek, and eurovision.de.

Interval Acts

The band “The BossHoss” and Ilse DeLange will be the interval acts of the German national final.  Ilse DeLange came second in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 as part of The Common Linnets.  This year, The BossHoss and Ilse DeLange will sing their new single “YOU”.

The BossHoss and The Common Linnets had already performed as an interval act during Unser Lied für Stockholm in 2016 covering the song “Jolene” by Dolly Parton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BYIou-oWXA&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

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Germany: The Wild Card announcement and further details regarding Unser Lied für Liverpool!

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Yesterday during Alles Eurovision show, the Wild Card finalist of the Unser Lied für Liverpool, the show which will determine the next German representative in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, was announced.

The selection process took place through TikTok and Ikke Hüftgold was the winner of the Wild Card selection with the song “Lied mit gutem Text”. The Wild Card selection included the below artists:

  • Ikke Hüftgold – “Lied mit gutem Text” – 52% – Wildcard
  • From Fall To Spring – “Draw The Line” – 28%
  • JONA – “10/10” – 14%
  • Betül – “Heaven” – 3%
  • Mitchy & André Katawazi,  NashUp – “Summertime” – 2%
  • Leslie Clio- “Free Again” – 1%

After the end of the aforementioned process, the line up of Unser Lied für Liverpool consists of the below artists:

  • Will Church – “Hold On”
  • Patty Gurdy – “Melodies of Hope”
  • TRONG – “Dare to Be Different”
  • Lonely Spring – “Misfit”
  • Anica Russo – “Once Upon a Dream”
  • Lord Of The Lost – “Blood and Glitter”
  • Frida Gold – “Alle Frauen in mir sind müde”
  • René Miller – “Concrete Heart”
  • Ikke Hüftgold – “Lied mit gutem Text”

After the Wild Card announcement NDR revealed more details regarding the voting procedure. After 2019, an international jury is going to determine the 50% of the final result. It is going to consist of 8 countries, five people from each country. The names of the 8 countries of the international jury are yet to be announced.

Additionally, the public, who is going to determine the other 50% of the result, is going to have three voting options: 1) online voting, 2) SMS voting, 3) telephone call. The online voting process is going to open ahead of the live broadcast.

Tickets for Unser Lied für Liverpool are going to be available later today at 20:00 CET here.

Unser Lied für Liverpool is going to take place on the 3rd of March at 22:20 CET in the MMC Studios in Cologne. The host of the show is going to be Barbara Schöneberger and it is going to be broadcast live on Das Erste, ARD Mediathek and eurovision.de.

Last year Malik Harris with the song “Rockstars” represented Germany in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin but once again they ended up in the last place, 26th with only 6 points.

Who do you think is going to be the next German representative? Let us know your thought in the comments below.

Stay tuned on Eurovision Fun for all the updates around Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023!

Source: Eurovoix

Eurovision 2023: The Semi-Final Allocation Draw Results!

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Liverpool’s Saint George’s Hall with a very nice event hosted a few minutes ago the draw for the semi-finals of the 67th 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 Liverpool early…

The presenters and the handover ceremony

The Eurovision 2023 semi-final draw was hosted by AJ Odudu and Rylan. Both are on the staff of the BBC, being some of the most loved faces of British public broadcasting.

During the draw, the ceremony of handing over and accepting the emblem of the contest took place. The mayor of Turin, Stefano Lo Russo, formally handed over the “keys to the event” to the mayor of Liverpool, Joanne Anderson.

Draw Procedure

The 31 countries competing in the semi-finals were divided into five pots, based on the scores they have exchanged in recent years with each other. This is done in order to avoid, as much as possible, the alliances that appear every year in the voting.

Big 5 and Ukraine

With the big winner of last year’s competition, Ukraine, 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:

  • Germany
  • France
  • Italy

Will vote in the 1st Semi-Final:

  • Ukraine
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom

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/second semi-final and sixteen in the first/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 (9 May):

1st Half

  • Serbia
  • Latvia
  • Ireland
  • Norway
  • Portugal
  • Croatia
  • Malta

2nd Half

  • Sweden
  • Moldova
  • Switzerland
  • Israel
  • Netherlands
  • Finland
  • Azerbaijan
  • Czech Republic

2nd Semi-Final (11 May):

1st Half

  • Armenia
  • Cyprus
  • Romania
  • Denmark
  • Belgium
  • Iceland
  • Greece
  • Estonia

2nd Half

  • Albania
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Lithuania
  • San Marino
  • Slovenia
  • Georgia
  • Poland

Liverpool will host the 67th Eurovision Song Contest from 9 to 13 May at the Liverpool Arena. The motto of this year’s event, as chosen by the organizers, is “United by Music“.

You can see the draw again through the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HAY-qpDTnY

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool!

Eurovision 2023: Today the semi-final draw!

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At 20:00 CET and live from Saint George’s Hall in Liverpool, the Eurovision 2023 semi-final draw will take place.

During today’s event, there will also be the delivery-receipt of the emblem of the organization from the city of Turin to that of Liverpool. For this reason, today’s draw will be attended by both the mayor of Turin, Stefano Lo Russo, and the mayor of Liverpool, Joanne Anderson.

Presenters

The draw is expected to be hosted by AJ Odudu and Rylan, both BBC presenters.

Draw Procedure

The first part of the draw will determine the semi-final that each of the six countries that are directly in the final (Italy, France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Ukraine) will broadcast and vote for.

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’s producers at a later date.

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

Pot 1
  • Albania
  • Austria
  • Switzerland
  • Croatia
  • Serbia
  • Slovenia
Pot 2
  • Denmark
  • Australia
  • Finland
  • Iceland
  • Norway
  • Sweden
  • Estonia
Pot 3
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Georgia
  • Israel
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
Pot 4
  • Cyprus
  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Malta
  • Portugal
  • San Marino
Pot 5
  • Belgium
  • Czech Republic
  • Netherlands
  • Moldova
  • Poland
  • Romania

In the evening, therefore, we all tune in for the draw of the semi-finals of our favorite competition. You can watch the draw on the official Eurovision YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HAY-qpDTnY

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Germany: Listen to the songs of Unser Lied für Liverpool 2023!

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Germany‘s national broadcaster NDR has revealed the finalists for Unser Lied für Liverpool, the country’s national final for Eurovision 2023.

The 8 already known candidates are the following and you can listen to their songs below:

  1. Will Church– “Hold On“
  2. Frida Gold– “Alle Frauen In Mir Sind Mude“
  3. Patty Gurdy– “Melodies of Hope“
  4. TRONG– “Dare to be Different“
  5. Lord of the Lost– “Blood & Glitter“
  6. Rene Miller– “Concrete Heart“
  7. Anica Russo– “Once Upon a Dream“
  8. Lonely Spring– “Misfit“

One additional entry will be selected as a TikTok wildcard. The wildcard will be chosen through public voting, which will be open from 27 January to 3 February. The result of the TikTok wildcard vote will be revealed live on the first broadcast of the new web show Alles Eurovision with Alina Stiegler and Stefan Spiegel on 4 February at 18:00 CET live on eurovision.de.

We remind you that Unser Lied für Liverpool, the country’s national final for Eurovision 2023, will take place on 3 March at 22.20 CET.

Live from Cologne’s MMC Studios and hosted by Barbara Schöneberger, Unser Lied für Liverpool will be broadcast by Das Erste and online on ARD Mediathek and eurovision.de.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding the German participation in Eurovision 2023!

Germany: “Unser Lied für Liverpool” artists revealed on January 27th!

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As recently announced by ARD, the German national broadcaster, the artists and songs of Unser Lied für Liverpool, the country’s national final for Eurovision 2023, will be revealed on January 27th.

 

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The exact number of songs that will compete in Unser Lied für Liverpool has not yet been announced, although ESC Kompakt reports that nine songs have been selected by the team of experts assembled by the channel. The only certainty is that one additional entry will be selected as a TikTok wildcard. The wildcard will be selected through a public vote, which will run from 27 January to 3 February. The result of the voting for the TikTok wildcard will be revealed live on the first broadcast of the new Alles Eurovision online show with Alina Stiegler and Stefan Spiegel on 4 February at 18:00 CET live on eurovision.de.

We remind you that  Unser Lied für Liverpool will be broadcast on 3 March at 22.20 CET.

Live from MMC Studios in Cologne and hosted by Barbara Schöneberger, Unser Lied für Liverpool (Our Song for Liverpool) will be broadcast live on Das Erste and online on ARD Mediathek and eurovision.de.

Last year, Malik Harris represented Germany at the contest in Turin, Italy, with the song “Rockstars”. He came last in the Grand Final with only 6 points, all from the televoting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BYIou-oWXA

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Source: ARD

Germany: Unser Lied für Liverpool will take place on March 3!

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As recently announced by ARD, the German national broadcaster, Unser Lied für Liverpool, the country’s national final for Eurovision 2023, will be broadcast on 3 March at 22.20 CET.

Live from MMC Studios in Cologne and hosted by Barbara Schöneberger, Unser Lied für Liverpool (Our Song for Liverpool) will be broadcast live on Das Erste and online on ARD Mediathek and eurovision.de.

The exact number of songs that will compete in Unser Lied für Liverpool has not yet been announced, although ESC Kompakt reports that nine songs have been selected by the team of experts assembled by the channel. The only certainty is that one additional entry will be selected as a TikTok wildcard. The wildcard will be selected through a public vote, which will run from 27 January to 3 February. The result of the voting for the TikTok wildcard will be revealed live on the first broadcast of the new Alles Eurovision online show with Alina Stiegler and Stefan Spiegel on 4 February at 18:00 CET live on eurovision.de.

Last year, Malik Harris represented Germany at the contest in Turin, Italy, with the song “Rockstars”. He came last in the Grand Final with only 6 points, all from the televoting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BYIou-oWXA

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments!

Source: ARD

Eurovision 2023: Semi-final allocation draw scheduled for the end of January!

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In the latest episode of ” The Euro Trip podcast”, Councilor and Deputy Mayor of Liverpool Harry Doyle was a guest and spoke among others things, about the preparations for Eurovision 2023.

The allocation draw for the semi finals is any important date, since it marks the official start of the Eurovision season. During the event, the draw to determine in which semi finals countries will perform and which out of the two semis Big Five must broadcast and vote takes place, as well as the host city insignia exchange.

Mr Doyle revealed that preparations are underway for the ceremony which is gonna take place at the end of January. Furthermore, meetings with representatives of local and Ukrainian communities of Liverpool will also take place, to explore ways of collaboration. We remind you that as part of the agreement of BBC to host Eurovision 2023 on behalf of Ukraine, is to include Ukrainians and Ukraine culture as part of the shows.

Even though Mr Doyle did not reveal the exact date of this years allocation draw, it is expected that it will be at the last Tuesday of January, as it happened the two previous years, meaning January 31st.

Below you can listen the full episode of the podcast:

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the latest updates on Eurovision 2023!

Source: The Euro Trip Podcast

Eurovision 2022: These are the 50 most-watched performances on YouTube!

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For yet another year, just some hours before the New Year, Eurovision TV reveales the 50 songs that got the most views throught the year, on the contest’s official YouTube channel.

On the list, there are 13 winning songs, while 23 more from the 40 songs that took part in Eurovision 2022.

Let’s see the songs that the TOP 50: Most watched in 2022 is consisted of:

50) 🇱🇻 Citi Zēni – “Eat Your Salad” – Latvia 2022 

49) 🇦🇿 Efendi – “Mata Hari” – Azerbaijan 2021

48) 🇫🇮 Blind Channel – “Dark Side” – Finland 2021

47) 🇦🇿 Nadir Rustamli – “Fade To Black” – Azerbaijan 2022

46) 🇬🇷 Helena Paparizou – “My Number One” – Greece 2005

45) 🇹🇷 Mor ve Ötesi – “Deli” – Turkey 2008

44) 🇫🇮 The Rasmus – “Jezebel” – Finland 2022

43) 🇷🇸 Marija Šerifović – “Molitva”– Serbia 2007

42) 🇩🇪 Lena – “Satellite” – Germany 2010

41) 🇸🇪 Måns Zelmerlöw – “Heroes”– Sweden 2015

40. 🇲🇩 Sunstroke Project & Olia Tira – “Run Away” – Moldova 2010

39) 🇮🇹 Mahmood – “Soldi” – Italy 2019

38) 🇬🇷 Amanda Georgiadi Tenfjord – “Die Together” – Greece 2022

37) 🇧🇪 Jérémie Makiese – “Miss You” – Belgium 2022 

36) 🇺🇦 Ruslana – “Wild Dances” – Ukraine  2004

35) 🇷🇺 Sergey Lazarev – “You Are The Only One” – Russia 2016

34) 🇦🇿 Aysel and Arash – “Always” – Azerbaijan 2009

33) 🇺🇦 Jamala – “1944” – Ukraine 2016

32) 🇷🇺 Manizha – “Russian Woman” – Russia 2021

31) 🇵🇹 MARO – “saudade, saudade” – Portugal 2022

30) 🇩🇪 Malik Harris – “Rockstars” – Germany 2022

29) 🇫🇷 Barbara Pravi – “Voilà” – France 2021

28) 🇵🇱 Ochman – “River” – Poland 2022

27) 🇫🇮 Lordi – “Hard Rock Hallelujah” – Finland 2006

26) 🇸🇪 Loreen – “Euphoria” – Sweden 2012

25) 🇨🇾 Eleni Foureira – “Fuego” – Cyprus 2018

24) 🇨🇾 Andromache – “Ela” – Cyprus 2022

23) 🇫🇷 Alvan & Ahez – “Fulenn” – France 2022

22) 🇹🇷 maNga – “We Could Be The Same” – Turkey 2010

21) 🇳🇱 Duncan Laurence – “Arcade” – Netherlands 2019

20) 🇸🇪 Cornelia Jakobs – “Hold Me Closer” – Sweden 2022

19) 🇺🇦 Verka Serduchka – “Dancing Lasha Tumbai” – Ukraine 2007

18) 🇹🇷 Hadise – “Düm Tek Tek” – Turkey 2009

17) 🇦🇹 LUM!X feat. Pia Maria – “Halo” – Austria 2022

16) 🇲🇩 Zdob şi Zdub & Advahov Brothers – “Trenulețul” – Moldova 2022

15) 🇳🇱 S10 – “De Diepte” – Netherlands 2022

14) 🇮🇹 Mahmood & BLANCO – “Brividi” – Italy 2022

13) 🇦🇱 Ronela Hajati –“Sekret” – Albania 2022

12) 🇮🇱 Netta – “TOY” – Israel 2018

11) 🇦🇲 Rosa Linn – “Snap” – Armenia 2022

10)🇷🇸 Konstrakta – ”In Corpore Sano” – Σερβία 2022

9)🇷🇴 WRS – ”Llámame” – Ρουμανία 2022

8)🇺🇦 Go_A – ”Shum” – Ουκρανία 2021

7)🇳🇴 Alexander Rybak – ”Fairytale” – Νορβηγία 2009

6) 🇮🇹 Måneskin – ”Zitti E Buoni’‘ – Ιταλία 2021

5) 🇳🇴 Subwoolfer – ”Give That Wolf A Banana” – Νορβηγία 2022

4)🇬🇧 Sam Ryder – ”SPACE MAN” – Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο 2022

3)🇷🇺 Little Big – ”Uno” – Ρωσία 2020

2)🇪🇸 Chanel – ”SloMo” – Ισπανία 2022

1)🇺🇦 Kalush Orchestra – ”Stefania” – Ουκρανία 2022

 

What do you think of the TOP 50, do you agree with the results? Write us in the comments below!

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Germany: New information on the national final “Unser Lied für Liverpool 2023”!

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New information about the German national final for Eurovision 2023 “Unser Lied für Liverpool” (“Our song for Liverpool”) is given to us by Thomas Mohr and Marcel Stober in their podcast “ESC Update“.

Specifically, the selection process takes place in three stages, in the first of which the candidate songs for participation in the national final have already been evaluated by a jury made up of the ARD-ESC close team as well as other experts. Therefore, in addition to the editorial team for Eurovision with members, among others, the head of the German mission Alexandra Wolfslast and the editor Stefan Leidner, the committee also included representatives of eurovision.de (eg Marcel Stober) and representatives of the radio (eg Thomas Mohr ). The purpose of this committee was to involve people who deal with Eurovision and have the necessary knowledge about it. The jury heard and selected the best from around 600 entries at its meeting on December 9, with the exact number of entries not yet known.

In the second stage of the selection process, the songs selected by the jury will be presented to a second international panel of experts, whose members and selection criteria remain unknown. A similar international committee was used, however, in the process of selecting the country from 2018 until 2021, which did not vote but expressed its opinion regarding the candidate songs.

In the third and final stage of the process, the closest editorial team, the aforementioned ARD-ESC will select which (possibly seven) entries will participate in the national final, along with one entry that will be determined by a vote on TikTok.

Regarding the date and venue of the national final, which channel will broadcast it and who will be the presenters, relevant announcements are expected to be made in early January, according to the NRD press office.

Germany was represented at Eurovision 2022 by Malik Harris, who took last place in the final with the song Rockstars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BYIou-oWXA&feature=emb_title

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the German participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in Liverpool!

source: ESC Kompakt