Malta: Will Sarah Bonnici’s “Loop” undergo a revamp?

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It looks like Sarah Bonnici will be representing Malta in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in May in Malmö, Sweden, with a revamped version of “Loop”.

The singer revealed to her followers, through an Instagram story, that she is currently in Stockholm, working in the studio alongside Linnea Deb and Joy Deb. Both have previously taken part in the competition. Specifically, they signed “Heroes”, with which Måns Zelmerlöw won the 2015 Eurovision song contest, along with other entries like Senhit’s “Adrenalina” and Saara Aalto’s “Monsters”.

The above made many fans believe that Sarah Bonnici will revamp her Eurovision 2024 entry. The national broadcaster has not yet confirmed this information, though.

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Source: @sarah.bonnici / Instagram 

Malta: 132.000 viewers watched the final of MESC 2024!

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After many months of preparations, the national final of Malta was completed last Saturday, and the island country, now has its own representative for Eurovision 2024!

Earlier today, TVM, the public broadcaster of Malta, announced that 132.000 viewers watched the final of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2024, live.

The viewing figures have slightly fallen from last year, when TVM reported that 265.000 viewers watched the final. However, these are not small numbers, if we take into account that in 2021, Malta had 519.562 permanent residents.

The winner of MESC 2024, was Sarah Bonnici with the song “Loop”. You can read more about the Maltese national final in our article.

Malta is taking part in the first half of the second Semi-Final of Eurovision 2024, in May 9:

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Maltese participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, in Malmö!

Source: tvmnews.mt

Malta: Eurovisionfun Reacts to Eurovision 2024 Entry “Loop”!

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Two and a half months after the semi-finals, the big moment for Malta arrived, as tonight the island nation chose its representative for Eurovision 2024. The big winner of MESC 2024 is Sarah Bonnici with the song “Loop” and  will represent the country in Malmo this May.

The Eurovisionfun team once again watched and reacted to the live performance of the country’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision contest! Enjoy Konstantinos, Apostolis and Apostolos in a Reaction video with detailed commentary on Malta’s participation in Eurovision 2024!

Below you can watch the live performance of “Loop”:

Do you like Malta’s entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest? Tell us in the comments below!

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Malta: Sarah Bonnici is the winner of MESC 2024 and will represent the country to Malmö!

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Two and a half months after the semi-finals, the big moment for Malta arrived, as tonight the island nation chose its representative for Eurovision 2024. The big winner of MESC 2024 is Sarah Bonnici with the song “Loop” and  will represent the country in Malmo this May.

The finalists

  1. Janvil – “MAN”
  2. Haley Azzopardi – “Tell Me That It’s Over”
  3. Erba – “Sirena”
  4. Nathan – “Ghost”
  5. Lisa Gauci – “Breathe“
  6. Sarah Bonnici – “Loop”
  7. Greta Tude – “Topic (Bla Bla)”
  8. Miriana Conte – “Venom”
  9. Ryan Hili – “Karma”
  10. Gail – “Wildcard”
  11. Denise – “Mara”
  12. Matt Blxck – “Banana”

The results

JURY VOTES 

” Loop” by Sarah Bonnici won the Jury Votes with 79 points, with Ryan Hill coming to second place with 54 points.

TELEVOTE RESULTS 

While “Banana” was the winner of the televote and Sarah Bonnici was in the second place, after the votes of the jury and the televote combined, the next representative of Malta in Eurovision 2024 is Sarah Bonnici!

Βelow you can enjoy this year’s entry of Malta in Eurovision 2024:

 

Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest

Malta has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 34 times since its debut in 1971. The small mediterranean country has yet to win the contest, but is the only non-winning country to have achieved four top three results. Malta finished last on its first two attempts in 1971 and 1972, and had a 16-year absence from the contest between 1975 and 1991, when it returned. Malta has participated every year since. Malta’s return proved more successful, reaching the top 10 in 12 out of 15 contests from 1991 to 2005, including third-place results for Mary Spiteri (1992) and Chiara (1998) and second-place results for Ira Losco (2002) and Chiara (2005). Since finishing last for the third time in 2006, Malta has struggled to make an impact, having achieved only two top 10 results in recent years: first being Gianluca Bezzina’s eighth-place in 2013, and Destiny Chukunyere’s seventh-place finish in 2021.

Do you think Sarah Bonnici can bring back Malta at the Grand Final?

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Malta: Tonight the final of MESC 2024!

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Two and a half months after the semi-finals, the big moment for Malta has arrived, as tonight the island nation chooses its representative for Eurovision 2024.

Twelve artists have qualified from the four semi-finals and will compete tonight in tonight’s MESC 2024 Grand Final. As part of tonight’s show, the finalists will perform their songs in the specially designed studio of the Maltese public broadcaster. However, it is worth noting that these performances have been filmed since December.

Following the screening of the taped performances, the jury together with the Maltese public will decide on Malta‘s representative in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

In addition to the first, second and third place prizes, this year there will also be prizes for the participant with the best music video and the best young talent.

Final

The twelve finalists of MESC 2024 are as follows:

  1. Miriana Conte – “Venom”
  2. Sarah Bonnici – “Loop”
  3. Greta Tude – “Topic (Bla Bla)”
  4. Janvil – “MAN”
  5. Haley Azzopardi – “Tell Me That It’s Over”
  6. Ryan Hili – “Karma”
  7. Erba – “Sirena”
  8. Nathan – “Ghost”
  9. Denise – “Mara”
  10. Matt Blxck – “Banana”
  11. Gail – “Wildcard”
  12. Lisa Gauci – “Breathe“

The MESC 2024 Grand Final starts at 21:00 CET and can be watched either through the official Eurovision Song Contest channel by clicking HERE, or through the Malta Public Broadcasting website by clicking HERE.

Until we find out Malta‘s representative at Eurovision 2024, let’s remember last year’s MESC 2023 winners who were The Busker with “Dance (Our Own Party)“, but failed to qualify for the Grand Final finishing 15th in the first semi-final with 3 points.

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Malta: The Running Order of the MESC 2024 final!

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Earlier today PBS, the public broadcaster of Malta, revealed the Running Order of the final of MESC 2024, through which the country’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest will be selected.

The Running Order:

  1. Janvil – “MAN”
  2. Haley Azzopardi – “Tell Me That It’s Over”
  3. Erba – “Sirena”
  4. Nathan – “Ghost”
  5. Lisa Gauci – “Breathe“
  6. Sarah Bonnici – “Loop”
  7. Greta Tude – “Topic (Bla Bla)”
  8. Miriana Conte – “Venom”
  9. Ryan Hili – “Karma”
  10. Gail – “Wildcard”
  11. Denise – “Mara”
  12. Matt Blxck – “Banana”

MESC 2024

Tomorrow February 3rd, the final night of MESC 2024 will be broadcasted, where we will see all the finalists performing their songs in a PBS studio. The contestants’ performances were filmed in December. Following their performances, a special committee along with the public vote will decide the representative of the Maltese archipelago.

Moreover, this year apart from prizes for the second and third placings, there will also be prizes for participants with the best music video as well as for the best new talent.

The winners of MESC 2023 and hence the Maltese representatives at Liverpool were The Busker with their song “Dance(Our Own Party)“, who did not manage to win a ticket for the Grand Final.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for the latest updates on Malta’s journey to Eurovision 2024! 

Source: TVM

Malta: Watch the official videos from MESC 2024 finalists!

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Malta Eurovision Song Contest will serve as the country’s national selection for Eurovision 2024. Starting in October with four semi-finals, the week of MESC 2024 has finally come.

PBS published today the music videos of the twelve acts competing for the Maltese representation in Malmö. The production of the twelve official videos was backed by PBS, which gave a budget of five thousand euros to each contestant. During those months, the finalists had the opportunity to prepare their music videos, while many of them even revamped their entries.

You can watch the videoclips of the twelve finalists, clicking the hyperlinks below:

  1. Miriana Conte – “Venom”
  2. Sarah Bonnici – “Loop”
  3. Greta Tude – “Topic (Bla Bla)”
  4. Janvil – “MAN”
  5. Haley Azzopardi – “Tell Me That It’s Over”
  6. Ryan Hili – “Karma”
  7. Erba – “Sirena”
  8. Nathan – “Ghost”
  9. Denise – “Mara”
  10. Matt Blxck – “Banana”
  11. Gail – “Wildcard”
  12. Lisa Gauci – “Breathe

MESC 2024

On February 3rd, the final night of MESC 2024 will be broadcasted, where we will see all the finalists performing their songs in a PBS studio. The contestants’ performances were filmed in December. Following their performances, a special committee along with the public vote will decide the representative of the Maltese archipelago.

Moreover, this year apart from prizes for the second and third placings, there will also be prizes for participants with the best music video as well as for the best new talent.

The winners of MESC 2023 and hence the Maltese representatives at Liverpool were The Busker with their song “Dance(Our Own Party)“, who did not manage to win a ticket for the Grand Final.

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all news!

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

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding Eurovision 2024!

 

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.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding Eurovision 2024!

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