Faroe Islands: KVF is set to apply for EBU membership!

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The national broadcaster of the Faroe Islands Kringvarp Føroya (KVF), is going to apply for full membership in the European Broadcasting Union before the coming summer.

As far as the application for full EBU membership, the CEO of KVF commented that:

“Our ultimate aim with this application is independent Faroese participation in the Eurovision Song Contest

EBU membership is the first step. If we succeed with that, our next aim is Eurovision. This contest is currently for independent states only, but perhaps we can obtain some sort of associate membership first, and then we can work from there. By next spring, I expect we will have a much clearer idea of our chances.”

The Faroe Islands is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark. The Faroe Islands are self-governed in almost all areas and is per definition eligible to become an EBU member.

The national broadcaster pushes for full EBU membership and the desire for a participation in the Eurovision Song Contest derives from the fact that this year the representative of Denmark, Reiley, comes from the Faroe Islands. Reiley represented Denmark with the song “Breaking My Heart” but did not manage to qualify as he finished 14th in the Second Semi-Final with only 6 points.

Source: Eurovoix

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Eurovision 2023: The viewership of the Grand Final in Spain and Ukraine!

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The official ratings of the Contest as broadcasted in Spain and Ukraine have been published.

According to official figures, Saturday’s Grand Final was watched by over 4.8 million viewers in Spain via RTVE‘s frequency. Overall, this corresponds to 39.7% of the audience, 11.1% less than last year and 1,996,000 fewer viewers.

In Ukraine, on the other hand, over 1.3 million viewers watched Suspilne‘s coverage of the Grand Final on TV, YouTube and Facebook. With 584,000 of them watching the competition on TV noting an average percentage of 20%, which jumped to 40% during the voting. On YouTube, 473,000 viewers watched the final on the Eurovision Ukraine account, a further 147,000 viewers on the Suspilne website and 124,000 viewers on Facebook.

On the night of the Grand Final, Spain came 17th with 100 points, while Ukraine came 6th with 243!

Source: VerTele / Suspilne

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Finland: Käärijä’s first Concert after Eurovision will be streamed worldwide!

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It’s crazy, it’s party!

Käärijä will offer his first concert after Eurovision on Saturday 20th of May live from Helsinki Ice Hall.

Not only that but fans all over the world can watch the concert through Finnish broadcaster Yle.  The Finnish Broadcasing company will broadcast Käärijä’s concert next saturday.  Käärijä will perform among other songs his Eurovision hit Cha Cha Cha together with the dancers that joined him onstage in Liverpool.

Käärijä promised we will have an experience full of energy, surprises and fun

‘In Liverpool everyone got to see an absolutely fantastic and crazy Eurovision show. On Saturday, we will take over the Helsinki Ice Hall and raise the mood up to the ceiling,‘ says Käärijä.

The concert can be watched at Yle Areena worldwide.

Käärijä represented Finland during the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.  He finished in second place in the Grand Final and won the televote giving Finland their best result at the Eurovision Song Contest since Finland’s 2006 victory with Lordi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6rS8Dv5g-8&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

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Sweden: Internal issues might keep Petra Mede away from hosting Eurovision 2024!

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Loreen’s win in the 67th Eurovision Song Contest marks the beginning of the host city bidding phase for Eurovision 2024 as well as finding the presenters of next year’s contest.

Fans’ preference regarding the hosts of next year’s Eurovision seems to be Petra Mede, that has also hosted the 2013 and 2016 editions, the latter together with Måns Zelmerlöw. In fact, this duo has been voted the most popular Eurovision hosts of the 2010s.

Although, internal issues might keep Petra Mede away from hosting Eurovision 2024. The reason is that Mede is no longer employed by SVT, but by SVT’s main competitor, TV4.

A journalist for Aftonbladet mentioned that:

Internal politics within SVT would make it a little bit tough to have somebody working for the main competitor come over for just a one time gig. 

If they can get her and Måns (Zelmerlöw) doing it together again, that might make it a little bit easier for SVT to swallow.

That might sway the internal politics. Understanding that if they do this, this is what the fans really, really wish and hope for.

Mede herself had not ruled out a Eurovision return back in 2021.

On the other hand, there seem to be some health problems with Petra Mede.

The same Aftonbladet journalist, Tobbe Ek, has mentioned:

She has so much trouble with her back. This year she has had to pull out of hosting the Swedish version of Strictly Come Dancing because of her back problems. I think taking on Eurovision again might not be feasible for her.

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Cyprus: A 62% viewing rate for the Eurovision 2023 Grand Final!

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The final of the 67th Eurovision Song Contest in Cyprus scored significant viewing figures. 61,63% on average tuned in to RIK1 to watch Andrew Lambrou‘s effort in Liverpool.

In contrast to ERT, which this year recorded the second lowest ratings in its history since 2001, RIK’s ratings reached the top of the scale. 61.63% on average, while at the time of the results it even climbed to an impressive 82.3%! It is one of the highest ratings for the competition in Cyprus right after of course 2018, the year of Eleni Foureira.

The commentary of Melina Karageorgiou and Alexandros Taramountas, gathered only positive comments from the viewers, while there were many Greeks who preferred to watch the competition through the RIK frequency, giving a vote of confidence to the Cypriot public television duo, who for the second consecutive year undertake the commentary.

RIK has already started planning for next year’s Eurovision and in the next few days we will probably have the official announcements. You can read more about this in our exclusive article.

Cyprus this year was represented by Andrew Lambrou with the song “Break A Broken Heart”, taking the 12th place in the Grand Final with a total of 126 points.

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Sweden: Örnsköldsvik interested in hosting next year’s contest!

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Last Saturday, Sweden won for the 7th time, equalling the victories of Ireland in the contest! Loreen with the song “Tattoo” brought the contest back home and even if only a couple of days have passed, cities around Sweden have started expressing their interest to host next year’s contest!

Following Malmö, Örnsköldsvik, a city in Northern Sweden with a population of about 30.000 poeple, joins the “hunger games” of the host city for 2024. Örnsköldsvik had bid to host the contest back in 2016, when Måns Zemerlöw won, but ahead of the contest Örnsköldsvik was reportedly unable to host the contest due to insufficient capacity!

Örnsköldsvik had hosted this year’s Melodifestivalen Semifinalen at Hägglunds Arena, where the arena looked a bit tiny compared to other shows of the tour and also there have been reports of rip-off prices to rather limited and not decent enough selection of hotel rooms, during the weekend of the contest.

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Sweden: The city of Stockholm in early talks, eager to host Eurovision 2024!

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Today, at Kungsträdgården, a celebration to welcome Loreen back to Sweden was held, with thousands of people enthusiastically cheering while Loreen was performing “Tattoo” on the stage that was setup for the Hemkosten event!

According to Gustav Dahlander, Swedish journalist and SVT in-house expert for Melodifestivalen, during the event, Karin Wanngård, the Financial City Commissioner of Stockholm, stated when interviewed:

“Eurovision needs a big arena. To get a good party, you want a big audience, so of course, in that case it would primarily be Friends Arena.”

Friends Arena has a total capacity of approximately 60.000 people, but whenever it hosts Melodifestivalen Final Show, it gets halved, but can still host the impressive number of 30.000 people all seated. If Martin Österdahl selects Stockholm as the host city and Friends Arena as the hosting venue, then it can be one of the largest venues ever to host the contest!

Today was not the first time Stockholm expressed interest in hosting next year’s contest

According to major Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, the City Hall of Stockholm had been in early talks with the financial center, the chamber of commerce and the Visit Stockholm insitution since the last weeks of March, following the victory of Loreen at the Swedish national selection process, Melodifestivalen!

The City of Stockholm, started planning internally way to early in advance, compared to when Måns Zemerlöw won, when Stockholm held their first meeting on the Monday directly after the victory. It seems like this time they wanted to be even more prepared.

According to the independent business organization, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the last time Sweden took home the Eurovision Song Contest and hosted the show in 2016, the created tourism economic effects were around SEK 263 million (approximately 230 million Euros), in the money value of the time. After a projection of the income at today’s prices, the same number of visitors would yield revenues of more than SEK 310 million (approximately 275 million Euros). Admittedly, it costs a lot to organize the competition, but hosting the contest can still bring significant profits to the city.

Loreen wants Stockholm to host the contest in 2024!

During the Winner’s Press Conference at M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool, UK, after our own Andreas Papayiannakis asked Loreen how she feels about equalling the victories of Ireland in the contest, Loreen unapologetically stated, referring to Swedish Head of Delegation Lotta Furebäck, that she prefers Stockholm to host next year’s contest!

“It better be Stockholm man! We need to talk about this, but it better be Stockholm!”

You can watch the relevant video below:

Despite the fact that major football teams AIK and Hammarby Fotboll, that play during the season at Friends Arena and Tele2 Arena respectively, are refusing to move temporarily to other stadiums for six weeks, Stockholm City is so eager to host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, that it is very likely for all issues to be resolved soon. The football association is perfecly OK with moving games due to European Cup participation, so maybe they could just move one or two AIK home games a month or two. As for Tele2, Hammarby Fotboll and Djurgården can play at home for two days in a row, so Stockholm City hosting Eurovision 2024 seems doable.

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Sources: Aftonbladet, Gustav Dahlander, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce

Cyprus: All the details about the selection method for Eurovision 2024! | EXCLUSIVE

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The talent show that will be used as a selection method for Cyprus in Eurovision 2024 will be Fame Story, which will be broadcast from September by the Cypriot National Broadcaster CyBC/RIK and by the Greek Chanel STAR. EurovisionFun spoke to the people of RIK and they bring you all the exclusive coverage with the first details of what we will see very soon. Until that, you can also read our previous article with the General Director of RIK announcing that there will be a selection process for Eurovision 2024.

“Fame Story” will be broadcast via RIK and STAR

Finally, the plans for the national selection are on going, with RIK, PANIK Records and Barking Well Media to cooperate for the “Fame Story” show. The show will return after many years in the Greek/Cypriot spotlight but quite different from the last one. This news was reported earlier this mornning from Super Katerina Morning Show

Some of the first details are that, during this summer, castings for the talent show will take place in various cities of Greece, Cyprus and foreign countries. The plan is that the show will to stast broadcasting from September with the final taking place during the Christmas holidays, so there will be plenty of time to find the right song and for the artist to get prepaired in order to represnt Cyprus to the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

An episode will be broadcast daily in the afternoon, with scenes from the academy. The program will be marked as suitable for all. So don’t expect to see much of their daily life, like a regular reality show. Everythimg we will see will focus on the development and progress of the academy students, so we will see their lessons, rehearsals and in general their preperation for the weekly live.

Sixteen artists will be chosen for the music academy, with one of the artists leaving each week in the live show. Discussions have already began with famous artists to be a member of the jury. One of them is Anna Vissi, the Greek Representative when Greece hosted the contest back in 2006.

At the end of this month, people of the national broadcaster will be in Athens to formalize the concept. Afterwards, there will be a relevant trailer calling for artists who would like to participate on the talent show and represent Cyprus in the song contest.

This year, Cyprus managed to achieve their second best result after Eleni Foureira in 2018. Andrew Lambrou finished 12th in the Grand Final with the song Break A Broken Heart.

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Israel: This is what Unicorn’s first choreography for the contest would have looked like!

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This year’s representative of Israel, Noa Kirel, was the act that impressed more than any other, with her dancebreak, in the Second Rehearsals, the Semi-Final and the Grand Final.

While preparing for the competition, the Israeli superstar tried out several choreographies with her team to come up with the one they presented us in Liverpool. One of them was featuring the artist leaning on her dancers’ arms and legs during the song, making slow static movements so that she wouldn’t lose her balance.

You can watch the video below:

@noakirelamerica So much changed🦄 #foryou #eurovision2023 #noakirel ♬ צליל מקורי – noakirel_america

The choreography may have changed during the rehearsals, but Noa won the third place in the contest with 362 points, and despite the mistake that occurred in the Jury Rehearsals, she came second in the jury vote and fifth in the televote.

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Weird broken records of EUROVISION 2023!

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Every year, including this one, we witnessed numerous peculiar results, variations between finals and semifinals, top rankings in records, and so forth. So, let’s examine each of them individually, shall we?

1. Albania

 

Albania, despite finishing 9th in the televote of the semi-final, achieved the second-best result among the countries from the second semi-final in the final itself, following Poland. This success led Albania to secure the 10th place overall in the final audience. Well done Albania!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI9rSDhXwyc&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

2. Austria

 

In contrast, even though Austria achieved the second position in the semi-final audience, in the final unexpectedly ended up in the very last position among the countries from the second semi-final. Unfortunately, Austria could only manage to secure the 22nd place in the final. Ouch.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uk64V9h0Ko&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

3. Serbia

 

Serbia managed to get the beloved ticket to the final, earning just 37 points and maintaining a significant gap of 37 points(!) from the next contestant in 9th place. Interestingly, 9th place had twice as many points as the 10th place. Wow, that’s symmetry brah. However, Serbia achieved a new record for the lowest number of points obtained by a contestant in the 10th place during the semi-final, surpassing Iceland’s previous record of 39 points in 2022.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRfg9wzbpw&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

4. Australia

 

Australia pulled through and won their semi-final, convincing the crowd that they had the best track among the 16. The crowd must have been forgotten somewhere in the final, as Australia only climbed to 20th place, earning the record for worst-placed semi-final winner in the final, when it comes to the televote. Followed by Greece in 2010 and Romania in 2013, with 7th place in the final, as semi-final winners. I think they completely forgot about Australia, they might have been snacking during the “promise” performance and not paying attention. Shame, shame, shame, first the music then the eating people!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSoy_mJMlMY&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

5. Sweden

 

Sweden overtook Ireland in wins, Loreen became the first woman to win the trophy twice and also this year’s Nordic country’s entry managed to set a new record by winning Eurovision with no 12 points from the audience. Like it or not, these are the trade-offs. Finally, this year’s Swedish entry managed to win, having a distance of 133 points from the winner of the televote, breaking the previous record, which was again its own, in 2015 with a distance of 87 points. In conclusion, 4 records for this year’s winner. Well played!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE2Fj0W4jP4&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

6. Estonia

 

Alika, just 20 years old, against all odds, made it to the final by finishing 10th in her semi-final. Hopefully, the judges had other plans, and while in the audience of the final she finished in 19th place (one place above the winner of her semi-final, Australia!), they shared her 146 points, giving her a decent place in this year’s top ten! Not being among the 10 favourite to pass in the big final, and finally reaching the final top ten, is undoubtedly something that even she did not expect. (credits to Katerina Mitika)

 

 

Did we miss any record or something peculiar this year? Let us know in the comments below!

 

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