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.

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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

Germany: Everything that happened in the first three episodes of “Ich will zum ESC”!

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As we’ve previously informed you, these days, the first three episodes of “Ich will zum ESC” aired. The series is a competitive TV show consisting of six episodes, whose winner will get a wildcard to compete in the German national final, “Das Deutsche Finale”, in which the representative for Eurovision 2024 will be selected.

The contestants will be backed by two coaches in this process, Rea Garvey, and Eurovision 2014 winner, Conchita Wurst. In the first five episodes will perform covers, or songs of their own, while in the last episode, they will sing the song with which they will compete in “Das Deutsche Finale” if they win.

Episode One

The artists that took part in this episode are named below, along the song they chose to perform:

  1. Christos – Be Yourself
  2. Bibiane – Toxic
  3. Apollson – Love On The Brain
  4. Anne – Don’t Stop Me Now
  5. Paul von POULISH KID – Out Of Time
  6. Jamina – Creep
  7. Esther – Slave To The Rhythm

The artists that managed to qualify are:

  • Team Conchita: Anne, Christos
  • Team Rea: Bibiane, Paul

Episode Two

The artists that took part in this episode are named below, along the song they chose to perform:

  1. Esther – What A Wonderful World
  2. Sophie – Schön genug
  3. Luca – When I Was Your Man
  4. Celina – Physical
  5. Sven – Beggin‘
  6. Marie – Irgendwas bleibt
  7. Béranger – Wild Drift
  8. Lyn – Calm After The Storm

The artists that managed to qualify are:

  • Team Conchita: Luca, Sophie, Sven
  • Team Rea: Esther, Béranger

Episode Three

The artists that took part in this episode are named below, along the song they chose to perform:

  1. Lyn – Calm After the Storm
  2. Flo – What Was I Made For

The artist that managed to qualify is Flo.

In this way, the teams of the two coaches are as follows:

  • Team Conchita: Anne, Christos, Luca, Sophie, Sven
  • Team Rea: Béranger, Bibiane, Esther, Paul und Florian

The ten artists were then divided in four groups:

  • Christos & Sven: Take Me To Church
  • Anne, Luca & Sophie: Time After Time
  • Flo & Bibiane: Dancing On My Own (Version von Calum Scott)
  • Esther, Béranger & Paul: You Get What You Give

As we know, the vocal coaches are Yvonne Ambrée and Katrin Mickiewicz . The two teams are divided into one group of two and two groups of three. They are assigned a song to try out in just one hour. Not everyone can do it, especially the lyrics, so when the songs are presented, some lyrics are in their hands or the lyrics are written on a large cardboard.

After the performances of all ten artists in the next episode, we will find out which artists will have to leave from “Ich will zum ESC”.

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Source: ESC kompakt

Germany: MDR is to host the ESC preliminaries in 2025!

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Year after year, Germany fails at the Eurovision Song Contest – not least the fault of NDR, which is responsible for the German preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest. Now, apparently, consequences are being drawn: As reported by Rolling Stone, the MDR will host it from 2025.

Those responsible at NDR have to admit to themselves that even with new concepts, everything remained the same every year, the Eurovision Eurovision participants could hardly convince anyone of themselves on the Eurovision stages, because the Eurovision noticeably lacked courage and creativity. The ARD executives are now said to have made the decision to entrust the more music-oriented broadcaster MDR with the organization of the Eurovision preliminary decision. MDR‘s head of entertainment, Peter Dreckmann, also acts as ARD‘s music coordinator. The change was allegedly even received with relief at NDR.

The fact that NDR will continue to be responsible for hosting the Eurovision preliminary round in 2024 is said to be due to the fact that funding from the MDR was not initially secured. Although there are possibilities of special financing for certain broadcast formats, this would first have to be approved by the program directors of the MDR, which probably did not happen in time. Costs of two million euros are expected for the preliminary round and the MDR already has to pay attention to its expenses anyway. Florian Silbereisen has already felt this, the red pencil was also applied to his schlager shows.

Neither spokespersons for NDR nor MDR wanted to deny this at this time. Those responsible said:

“Statements about the future belong in the realm of speculation, this is currently not an issue for the MDR.”

This leaves it open on how and where the preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest will take place in the future, but it does not dispel the rumours either.

It is also unclear whether Barbara Schöneberger will continue to be booked as a presenter for the preliminary show in 2025. At MDR, Florian Silbereisen is considered the best, at least when it comes to the station’s music shows.

Unfortunately, Lord Of The Lost did not succeed in overturning the tables for Germany, a country that struggles a lot in its Eurovision course for the past ten editions. Indicatively, in the last ten editions, Germany has finished last four times and second-last three times.

Source: Rolling Stone

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Germany: Ben Dolic signs an open letter to the EBU against Israel!

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It seems like the statement of EBU that confirms that KAN and Israel can normally participate to the contest has sparked reactions among the fans but not only.

A few hours later, the (almost) Eurovision Song Contest 2020 representative of Germany, Ben Dolic, signed an open letter to the EBU and made a post on X (Twitter) about it, which you can see below:

“The continued acts of violence by the state of Israel cannot be supported under any circumstances. As an artist, a past Eurovision participant and as a human being, I will not support the EBU’s decision to allow a state that has committed so many atrocities to tens of thousands of civilians participate in the Eurovision Song Contest.

There is no logical explanation for a music competition with the main message of spreading love to have a connection with a place that has acted against their main message in such horrific ways.”

There have been calls to ban Israel from Eurovision 2024. In Finland, 1300 artists signed a petition asking for Israel to be removed. The British representative Olly Alexander has also shared in public his opinion against Israel. Also just recently Montaigne signed an open letter to the EBU asking the ban of Israel from the contest, just as Ben did.

Germany originally planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song “Violent Thing” written by Borislav Milanov, Peter St. James, Dag Lundberg, Jimmy Thorén and Connor Martin and performed by Ben Dolic, but then the contest was cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak. You can listen to “Violent Thing” on the video down below:

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Germany: Listen to the candidate songs of Eurovision Song Contest – Das deutsche Finale 2024!

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The German national broadcaster, NDR, revealed the finalists of the Eurovision Song Contest – Das deutsche Finale 2024, the national selection process of Germany for Eurovision 2024.

The candidate songs of Eurovision Song Contest – Das deutsche Finale 2024 are as per below:

Among the candidates we meet the country‘s representative in Eurovision 2004, Max Mutzke, who with the song “Can‘t Wait Until Tonight“ had won the eighth place, with 93 points.

In Ich will zum ESC, there will be 15 young artists including the coaching through the guidance of Conchita Wurst, the Eurovision 2014 winner for Austria, and Rea Garvey, singer-composer and producer.

In six episodes, Conchita and Rea will be guiding the 15 artists who will be working on their possible Eurovision entries. One entry will be chosen as a wildcard. The wildcard will emerge through the voting of the audience. The results of the voting are going to be revealed on 6th of February in Ich will zum ESC.

The Eurovision Song Contest – Das deutsche Finale 2024 is going to take place on 16th of February 2024.

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Germany: Das Deutsche Finale 2024: The last song preview!

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The artists who will compete in Das deutsche Finale 2024, the national final through which Germany‘s entry for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest will be selected, will be announced on January 19, as we previously reported.

Just before the announcement of the finalists, the German public broadcaster NDR provided the following details about the songs that will be performed in the national final through a preview of the songs, done by German residents.

 

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After hearing the songs, the German audience remarked:

  • young woman – teenage appearance, “schoolgirl of next door”
  • looks likeable, like Nicole used to, or like Lena
  • looks like a cat – exudes calm
  • One would expect the singer to make romantic music
  • Piano is used
  • Guitar
  • A quiet, thoughtful, dreamy song that doesn’t get upbeat
  • German hit with english lyrics
  • Good background music
  • She obviously sings well, the voice almost doesn’t sound real
  • Fragile voice
  • It makes you want to protect the singer and hug her
  • The song touches you and makes you emotional, others could take it as overly sad or even depressing

 

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  • I was there 3 or 5 years ago
  • looks sensual, looks like Cicero
  • Like Draffi, he’s German
  • He is handsome but not a good singer
  • It’s beautiful (the song)
  • He sounds different in the song than you would expect
  • More like a psalmody
  • It’s a melancholic pop ballad
  • Quiet, not so stressful
  • Piano is used
  • Suitable for contemplative hours
  • Performed in English
  • Song about sleep and includes the line “Remained forever young”
  • Very nice perfromance
  • During the performance there will be carpets on the floor and lamps, hanging in the background

In the upcoming period of time, information about the next evaluation rounds and the final selection of songs that will participate in Das Deutsche Finale 2024 will be released.

The artists that will compete in Das deutsche Finale 2024 have been chosen since the Christmas season after 693 songs were submitted and thoroughly evaluated. There are 127 bands, 71 duets, and 475 solo entries among them.

The German television network TV3 will carry live coverage of Das Deutsche Finale 2024 live on February 16, 2024, at 22:00 (local time). Live broadcasts from Berlin will take place on ARD Mediathek, eurovision.de, and Das Erste. The winner will get to travel to Malmö in May of next year to represent Germany in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

Germany was represented last year by Lord of the Lost and the song “Blood and Glitter”. The band, which is well-known in Germany, came in last place overall, with a total of 18 points. Will Germany be able to recover from its string of poor results and move to the left side of the leaderboard?

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Germany: Grossstadtgeflüster never applied for Das deutsche Finale 2024!

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The speculated fan favorite Grossstadtgeflüster will not take part in the German preliminary round Das deutsche Finale 2024 for the selection of the German representative at Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö. The reason for this is quite simple: the band hadn’t even applied to NDR for it. The group made this clear today in a statement on social media.

It all fit! The title of the song “Ich kündige” is concise, unique and catchy. It was released after 1 September 2023 and could have simply been limited to the usual three minutes which is a requirement for a Eurovision Song Contest entry. And the song had already triggered a hype in the Eurovision bubble and on TikTok in advance. Nevertheless, Grossstadtgeflüster will not take part in the German Eurovision preliminaries in 2024 and thus will not get a chance to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Malmö, Sweden.

You can listen to their song “Ich kündige” at the video down below:

Specifically, the band responded to the rumours with a statement on an Instagram post, which can be seen below:

“Because of the many people asking us if we would participate in the ESC:

Certainly, it would have been an honor for us to secure the last place for Germany.

However, we didn’t apply because we’re pretty terrible at meeting deadlines, and on top of that, we tend to develop a mysterious skin irritation whenever we walk too close to a German flag.”

As early as October 12, there have been reports about a possible application of Grossstadtgeflüster with “Ich kündige” on ESCKompakt, noting that the band had not confirmed that they were involved in the application process.

Lots of hype had been developed around the song “Ich kündige” and its video. A Tiktok with the song had reached almost 3 million views within two days. A hint from the X fan account Songfestival Azerbaijan did the rest to spark the hopes in the Eurovision bubble.

So now, two days before the official announcement of the actual participants in the Eurovision preliminary decision Das deutsche Finale 2024, comes the clarifying cancellation. With this, the band is probably doing NDR a favor, because the possible disappointment of the fans about the non-participation of Grossstadtgeflüster should have evaporated by then.

Source: esc-kompakt.de

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Germany: The third preview of the songs of the Eurovision Song Contest – Das Deutsche Finale 2024!

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As we previously informed you in one of our articles, the revelation of the artists participating in the Eurovision Song Contest – Das Deutsche Finale 2024 will take place on January 19. Just before the announcement of the hopefuls heading to Malmö, Germany’s public broadcaster, NDR, has provided initial information about the songs that will be part of the national final, thanks to a third preview by German citizens.

 

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Listening to the songs, the German audience commented:

– young woman
– “Like my grandchildren.”
– “a bit hippie-like”
– starts quiet and becomes up-tempo then
– reminds the pensioneers of Eastern-Europe/oriental music
– could be played in a bar
– One of them said she imagines young people on a camping trip to this song.
– “The artist looks Like she did a semester abroad in Australia and never came back.”
– artist is barefoot, wears a dress and has a shaggy hairstyle
– artist looks like Ella Endlich
– great vocals but she “screams a lot”
– hits every note
– One of the grannies assumes it’s in english but it’s not sure because she doesn’t know English

Details about the next stages of evaluation and the final selection of songs for the Eurovision Song Contest – Das Deutsche Finale 2024 will be announced in the coming days.

Out of the 693 submitted songs, artists participating in the German national final were selected during the Christmas period. Among them are 475 solo acts, 71 duets, and 127 bands.

The Eurovision Song Contest – Das deutsche Finale 2024 is scheduled for February 16, 2024, at 21:00 CET. It will be broadcast live from Berlin on Das Erste, eurovision.de, and the ARD Mediathek. The winner will earn the opportunity to fly to Malmö and represent Germany in the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in May.

Germany finished in the last position in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with Lord of the Lost and the song “Blood and Glitter.”

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Germany: Das Deutsche Finale 2024: The second song preview!

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The artists who will compete in Das deutsche Finale 2024, the national final through which Germany‘s entry for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest will be selected, will be announced on January 19, as we previously reported.

Just before the announcement of the finalists, the German public broadcaster NDR provided the following details about the songs that will be performed in the national final through a second preview of the songs, done by German residents.

 

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After hearing the songs, the German audience remarked:

– Female/male duet

– Reminiscent of New German Wave

– German language

– Sounds similar to Nina Hagen or Laing

– Her outfit is very special and she has a great hairstyle.

– She looks a bit like a hippie and looks a bit melancholic.

– The lyrics are very confident and spontaneous

– Easy to sing

– One of them reminds me of “Wo sind die Katzen” from Eesti Laul a few years ago

– Good rhythm

– Uplifting

– One of the grandmothers thinks the young people will like it.

In the upcoming period of time, information about the next evaluation rounds and the final selection of songs that will participate in Das Deutsche Finale 2024 will be released.

The artists that will compete in Das deutsche Finale 2024 have been chosen since the Christmas season after 693 songs were submitted and thoroughly evaluated. There are 127 bands, 71 duets, and 475 solo entries among them.

The German television network TV3 will carry live coverage of Das Deutsche Finale 2024 live on February 16, 2024, at 22:00 (local time). Live broadcasts from Berlin will take place on ARD Mediathek, eurovision.de, and Das Erste. The winner will get to travel to Malmö in May of next year to represent Germany in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

Germany was represented last year by Lord of the Lost and the song “Blood and Glitter”. The band, which is well-known in Germany, came in last place overall, with a total of 18 points. Will Germany be able to recover from its string of poor results and move to the left side of the leaderboard?

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Germany: The first preview of the songs of the Eurovision Song Contest – Das Deutsche Finale 2024!

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As we previously informed you in one of our articles, the revelation of the artists participating in the Eurovision Song Contest – Das Deutsche Finale 2024 will take place on January 19. Just before the announcement of the hopefuls heading to Malmö, Germany’s public broadcaster, NDR, has provided initial information about the songs that will be part of the national final, thanks to a first preview by German citizens.

 

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Listening to the songs, the German audience commented:

  • “Sounds like Elvis”

  • “A face like Helge Mark”

  • “Leather jacket”

  • “Bon Jovi vibes”

  • “James Dean”

  • “A mix of very gay and very heterosexual”

  • “Pop Rock”

  • “Guitar, drums, bass”

  • “Lively, captivating, fast”

  • “Lovely, but indistinct English song singing about an ’empty bank account'”

Details about the next stages of evaluation and the final selection of songs for the Eurovision Song Contest – Das Deutsche Finale 2024 will be announced in the coming days.

Out of the 693 submitted songs, artists participating in the German national final were selected during the Christmas period. Among them are 475 solo acts, 71 duets, and 127 bands.

The Eurovision Song Contest – Das deutsche Finale 2024 is scheduled for February 16, 2024, at 21:00 CET. It will be broadcast live from Berlin on Das Erste, eurovision.de, and the ARD Mediathek. The winner will earn the opportunity to fly to Malmö and represent Germany in the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in May.

Germany finished in the last position in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with Lord of the Lost and the song “Blood and Glitter.”

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