Serbia: Running order of PzE 2023 | The songs will be available from 02/02!

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Serbian public broadcaster RTS revealed both the division of the songs in the two semi-finals, as well as the running order of the songs competing in “Pesma za Evroviziju 2023” (Song for Eurovision 2023). At the same time, it was announced that on February 2nd, the songs of this year’s national final will be released to the public, through the official YouTube channel of the state television.

We remind you that Pesma za Evroviziju 23 will again consist of two Semi-Finals and a Grand Final. The dates of the semi-finals and final are:

    • First Semi-Final – March 1st
    • Second Semi-Final – March 2nd
    • Grand Final – March 4th

First Semi-Final

1.Mattia Zanatta and Angela Kassiani – New World
Music: Michele Bonivento
Lyrics: Mattia Zanatta, Predrag Cvetković
Arrangement: Vantiz

2. Adem Mehmedović – Smile
Music: Adem Mehmedović
Lyrics: Adem Mehmedović, Sanjin Kočan
Arrangement: Adem Mehmedović, Tedi Lazarević

3. Nađa – The First Scar On My Soul
Music: Kristina Kovač, Tim Gosden
Lyrics: Kristina Kovač
Arrangement: Tim Gosden

4. Tijana Dapčević – Allure
Music: Ana Radonjić
Lyrics: Ana Radonjić
Arrangement: Andrija Gavrilović

5. Prince – Flower From The East
Music: Dušan Bačić
Lyrics: Dušan Bačić
Arrangement: Dejan Nikolić

6. Filip Baloš – New Plan, Another Dream
Music: Filip Baloš
Lyrics: Filip Baloš
Arrangement: Filip Baloš

7. Filip Žmaher – See You Tomorrow
Music: Boban Janković, Filip Tančić, Aleksandar Mastelica
Lyrics: Boban Janković
Arrangement: Boban Janković, Filip Tančić, Aleksandar Mastelica

8. Luke Black – I’m Only Sleepy
Music: Luke Black
Lyrics: Luke Black
Arrangement: Majed Kfoury, COMANAVAGO, Luke Black, Milovan Bošković

9. Angellina – Chain
Music: Ivan Franović
Lyrics: Angellina
Arrangement: Ivan Franović

10. Empathy Soul Project – Indigo
Music: Nenad Radaković
Lyrics: Nenad Radaković
Arrangement: Nenad Radaković, Rade Radojčić

11. Stefan Shy – From Pillow To Pillow
Music: Slavko Milovanović
Lyrics: Ana Sekulić
Arrangement: Darko Dimitrov, Vladimir Jovančić

12. Herzenschluss – Time Zone
Music: Boban Dževerdanović
Lyrics: Boban Dževerdanović
Arrangement: Boban Dževerdanović

13. Savo Perović – Presidente
Music: Mahdi
Lyrics: Sajsi MC, Savo Perović
Arrangement: Denik

14. Igor Stanojević – Over The Rainbow
Music: Vladimir Graić
Lyrics: Vladimir Graić
Arrangement: Dragoljub Ilke Ilić

15. Boris Subotic – Unavailable
Music: Nemanja Antonić, Filip Nestorović
Lyrics: Milenko Škarić, Nemanja Antonić, Filip Nestorović
Arrangement: Nemanja Antonić, Vladimir Gavrić

16. CHEGI & Brothers Blues Band – Wedding or Fight
Music: Željko Čeganjac, Dušan Čeganjac, Stefan Čeganjac
Lyrics: Boris Kapetanović
Arrangement: Željko Čeganjac, Dušan Čeganjac, Stefan Čeganjac, Mario Pajić

Second Semi-Final

1. Hurricane – Zumi Zimi Zami
Music: Nemanja Antonić
Lyrics: Ivan Vukajlović, Lena Kuzmanović
Arrangement: Nemanja Antonić

2. Nadia – Your Boyfriend’s Girlfriend
Music: Konstantin Arsić, Aleksa Vučković, Nađa Terzić
Lyrics: Nađa Terzić
Arrangement: Konstantin Arsić, Uroš Milkić, Nađa Terzić

3. Filarri – After Me
Music: Teodora Pavlovska
Lyrics: Miloš Janošević
Arrangement: Marko Gluhaković

4. Zejna – Rumba
Music: Nikola Burovac
Lyrics: Miloš Roganović
Arrangement: Darko Dimitrov

5. Fraile – You Do That
Music: Nataša Mihajlović
Lyrics: Nataša Mihajlović, Nevena Buča
Arrangement: Ivan Kovačević

6. Igor Vins and Bane Lalić – Because I Love
Music: Igor Vins, Bane Lalić
Lyrics: Igor Vins, Bane Lalić
Arrangement: Igor Vins

7. Egret – If I Understand Too Late
Music: Petar Pupić
Lyrics: Petar Pupić
Arrangement: Petar Pupić

8. Dzipsii – Sin
Music: Rap Gorilla, Dzipsii
Lyrics: Dzipsii, Rap Gorilla
Arrangement: Rap Gorilla

9. Eegor – Old Man Of The Day
Music: Igor Mišković
Lyrics: Igor Mišković
Arrangement: Marko Kon, Milan Novaković

10. Jelena Vlahović – Like Being Struck By Lightning
Music: Aleksandar Filipović
Lyrics: Branislav Klanšček
Arrangement: Aleksandar Filipović

11. Ivona – In The Nights
Music: Ivona Pantelić
Lyrics: Ivona Pantelić
Arrangement: Bone N Skin

12. Gift – Liberta
Music: Gift
Lyrics: Jovan Matić
Arrangement: Gift

13. Milan Bujaković – Phenomenon

Music: Aleksandar Aleksov, Miro Buljan, Nenad Ćeranić, Dragiša Baša
Lyrics: Dragiša Baša
Arrangement: Aleksandar Aleksov

14. Duo Grand – Viva La Vida
Music: Ninoslav Ademović, Goran Ratković Rale
Lyrics: Goran Ratković Rale, Branislav Glušac
Arrangement: Goran Ratković Rale, Branislav Glušac

15. Andjela – Bad Judgements
Music: Ivan Milanov, Nemanja Antonić
Lyrics: Asal Sinanović, Filip Nestorović, Ana Sekulić
Arrangement: Vantiz

16. Doris Milošević – Silence
Music: Ognjan Milošević
Lyrics: Ognjan Milošević
Arrangement: Ognjan Milošević

Pesma za Evroviziju ’23 will take place in the 1st, 2nd and 4th of March. The winner of the show will be the successor of Konstrakta who represented Serbia in Eurovision 2022 and came 5th, securing one of the best results of Serbia in the contest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXrDgWDo24g&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Feurovisionfun.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for everything related to Serbia’s participation in Eurovision 2023!

Source: eurovisiontv

Finland: Eurovisionfun Reacts to UMK 2023 Songs! (video)

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We’re just under a month away from Finland‘s national final for Eurovision 2023, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, and all seven entries have been announced, completing the puzzle of this year’s national final for the country.

The Eurovisionfun team couldn’t help but see and comment on Finland’s 7 participants  for the upcoming Eurovision contest! Enjoy Matamis Apostolis, Barboutis Paschalis and Gialetzi Stella in a reaction video with detailed commentary for this year’s UMK 2023 entries!

The seven songs of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2023

Just a few days ago, the release of the seven songs that will compete to win Finland’s representation at Eurovision 2023 was completed. The seven entries are as follows (click on the song title to listen):

  1. Keira – “No Business on the Dance Floor”
  2. Benjamin – “Hoida Mut”
  3. Robin Packalen – “Girls Like You”
  4. Lxandra – “Something to Lose”
  5. Käärijä – “Cha Cha Cha”
  6. KUUMAA – “Ylivoimainen”
  7. Portion Boys – “Samaa Taivasta Katsotaan”

We remind you that after the release of the seven songs, all that remains is the holding of the national final, which is scheduled for February 25. UMK 2023 will be held in Turku hosted by Samu Haber.

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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!

Malta: MESC 2023 Third Quarter Final tonight!

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The process of selecting Malta‘s representative for Eurovision 2023 continues tonight, as the third qualifying round of the Maltese national selection will take place.

The Mediterranean country is choosing for the second year in a row the format of a national final in order to decide on the artist who will represent it at the Eurovision Song Contest. Forty artists are vying to represent Malta through five shows: three quarter-finals, one semi-final and the grand final.

Tonight concludes the quarter-final stage, where the 24 semi-finalists will be announced at the end of the evening. We remind you that in the first two quarter-finals of the two previous weeks, the names of the artists who got the “ticket” for next Friday’s semi-final were not announced.

Tonight’s Participants

Fourteen artists compete in tonight’s third MESC 2023 quarter-final, vying for one of eight “tickets” to appear in the semi-final stage of the Maltese national selection. These artists are:

  1. Andre’ – “Broken Hill”
  2. Bradley Debono – “Blackout”
  3. Cheryl Balzan – “La La Land”
  4. Chris Grech – “Indescribable”
  5. Dominic and Anna – “Whatever Wind May Blow”
  6. Giada – “I Depend on You”
  7. Greta Tude – “Sound of My Stilettos”
  8. Jake – “Love You Like That”
  9. James Louis – “Dream”
  10. Jessika – “Unapologetic”
  11. John Galea – “Trailblazer”
  12. Maria Christina – “Our Flame”
  13. Ryan Hili – “In the Silence”
  14. Stefan – “Heartbreaker”

The decision on the eight contestants to continue their journey to MESC 2023 will be made jointly by the Maltese public and a panel of judges.

The three qualifying rounds of MESC 2023 are presented by Ryan and Josmar.

MESC 2023 Third Qualifier starts at 21:00 CET. You can watch him through the TVM channel by clicking HERE.

Until we know who will represent Malta at Eurovision 2023, let’s remember the country’s participation in last year’s competition. Last year’s MESC winner was Emma Muscat with “Out of Sight”. She finally represented Malta at Eurovision 2022 with the song “I Am what I Am” without being able to qualify for the Grand Final finishing in 16th place in the second semi-final with 47 points:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFCFM5qtvms

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding Malta’s participation in Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool!

Georgia: The Voice of Georgia Semi Final tonight!

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Georgia is one step closer to choosing its representative for Eurovision 2023, as the Voice of Georgia semi-final will take place tonight. The Caucasian country will choose the artist to represent it in Liverpool through the popular talent show, which is close to ending.

Sixteen artists are left in The Voice of Georgia, with the grand winner being the one who will be anointed to represent Georgia at the 67th Eurovision Song Contest. Tonight they claim their presence in the grand final of the Georgian talent show.

Participants

Each of the four judges is left with four artists in the talent show:

  • Dato Porchkhidze
    1. Erekle Turkadze
    2. Iru Khechanovi (Junior Eurovision 2011 winner as member of the group Candy)
    3. Tako Kakalashvili
    4. Tsotne Barbakadze
  • Sopho Toroshelidze (Eurovision 2011)
    1. Lika Siradze
    2. Mariam Toronjadze
    3. Salome Tsintsadze
    4. Tina Datikashvili
  • Dato Evgenidze
    1. Allegro
    2. Giorgi Datiashvili
    3. Giorgi Putkaradze
    4. Kakha Aslamazashvili
  • Stephane Mgebrishvili (Eurovision 2009)
    1. Anka Tatarashvili
    2. Dato Rusadze
    3. Likuna Tutisani
    4. Saba Chachua

The grand final of The Voice of Georgia will take place next Thursday, February 2, with the winner representing Georgia in Liverpool. Nevertheless, the song that Georgia will compete with in our favorite contest will be known later.

The semi-final of The Voice of Georgia will take place tonight at 19:00 CET. You can watch him through the official website of the first channel of the Georgian public television, by clicking HERE.

Until we find out who will represent Georgia at Eurovision 2023, let’s remember the country’s participation in last year’s contest. Georgia’s previous representatives at Eurovision 2022 were Circus Mircus with the song “Lock Me In” and they finished in last place in the Second Semi-Final, continuing the country’s elimination streak for the fifth year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXiZAbqETvk

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all developments regarding Georgia’s participation in Eurovision 2023, in Liverpool!

 

Sweden: This is what the Melodifestivalen 2023 Stage looks like!

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The design of this year’s Melodifestivalen stage has been completed and SVT unveiled a sketch/working image of how the final stage looks like, before it gets constructed at Scandinavium Arena in Gothenburg. It can now be seen in a post at the official Melodifestivalen Twitter account of SVT.

Instead of two stages like last year, there will instead be one well-sized stage. The record-breaking staircase to the front of the stage is recognisable, but is split in two and offers a pointed stage where the performers can be close to the audience. The record-breaking staircase to the front of the stage is recognisable, but is split in two and offers a pointed stage where the performers can be close to the audience.

As for this year’s Greenroom, it will be similar in appearance and placement, as the big party place on the parquet in the middle of the crowd, and almost as generously scaled during the tour as well as in the final.  

The construction of the stage will be livestreaming next week starting Monday 30 January 12:00 CET, at SVT Play with the show “Den stora scenriggningen“.

Changes in voting system

As we have already informed you, the voting system of Melodifestivalen has changed following the announced changes by EBU regarding the voting format in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool!

The broadcaster now scraps the group division at the fifth semi-final and all eight contestants will now have to face each other. Points will be awarded from the viewing groups and the four entries with the highest points will advance to the final!

The dates of Melodifestivalen 2023

  • Heat 1: Göteborg – Saturday 4 February 2023 (Scandinavium)
  • Heat 2: Linköping – Saturday 11 February 2023 (Saab Arena)
  • Heat 3: Lidköping – Saturday 18 February 2023 (Sparbanken Arena)
  • Heat 4: Malmö – Saturday 25 February 2023 (Malmö Arena)
  • Semi-Final: Örnsköldsvik – Saturday 4 March 2023 (Hägglunds Arena)
  • Final: Stockholm – Satuday 11 March 2023 (Friends Arena)

We remind you that Melodifestivalen 2023 is scheduled to take place between February 4th to March 11th and will be hosted by Jesper Rönndahl and Farah Abadi.

Melodifestivalen 2022 was won by Cornelia Jacobs with the song “Hold Me Closer”, representing Sweden in Eurovision 2022 and coming 4th with 438 points.

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun, for all the latest developments regarding Sweden’s entry for Eurovision 2023!

Source: SVT
Scene Graphics: Viktor Brattström

Tiril: It’s all about the song | Interview

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Some days before the third semi final of MGP 2023, we had the joy to chat with Tiril from Norway. The singer is competing with the song “Break It” and talked with EurovisionFun’s Paschalis.

She talked about her song and why she decided to participate in MGP.

“Break It” is my entry. It’s written by my two favorite songwriters in Norway, Emma Steinbakken and Emelie Hollow and produced by Benjamin Pinkus and Lars Rosness. I’m also a songwriter, but I haven’t written anything in the song, I just asked to sing it. They liked what they heard and now I’m here and I couldn’t be more happy!
The song is really good and suits me very well.

It’s an amazing oppotunity. I always wanted to be an artist. This is a great way to start my career. I can show myself to the world and meet people who like this kind of music.

She also revealed a few things about her stage performance.

I love the stage show that we’ve put together. It will look very dramatic. It’s all about the song. I wanted it to be about my voice. There’s not going to be a lot of things happening. I’m also going to wear red, my favorite color! I’m super excited about the dress that I’m going to wear.

We asked her opinion about the other MGP contestants.

That’s hard to say. There’s a lot of people I knew and new faces. It’s hard to choose a favorite. I think Ulrikke might be the strongest competitor. She has a lot of fans from before and already won MGP. Her song is amazing this year so I’m scared of her, but also very happy to be in the same competition.

She talked about Eurovision and older entries she likes.

Eurovision is a tradition for me. I love watching it every year. It feels like New Year’s Eve because you get to stay up late and watch so many countries.

I just remember very well Margaret Berger with “Feed you my love”. I loved the song and the stage show. That’s my favorite one. When I was in school I emailed Margaret Berger and told her that I want to be an artist and asked to work with her for a day and I loved it.

My childhood favorite was Lena with “Satellite”. There’s also “Euphoria” which is one of my favorites.

Finally as you can see in the video, she sang a little part of her entry, Break It.

Thank you for your support and love. I appreciate every kind word that I’ve gotten so far. It’s amazing!

Listen to “Break It” by Tiril:

We thank Tiril for her interview and wish her best luck!

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for more interviews and news!

Spain: The jury for the national selection has been revealed!

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Spain’s broadcaster, RTVE, announced a while ago the jury for Benidorm Fest, the country’s national final for Eurovision 2023.

The committee consists of:

  1. Nina (Spanish singer, representative of Spain in 1989)
  2. Christer Bjorkman (Swedish singer and producer, former head of Melodifestivalen)
  3. Tali Eshkoli (Israeli television producer and Israel’s HoD)
  4. Nicola Caligiore (Italian, former HoD of Italy)
  5. Katrina Leskanich (American singer, UK representative in 1997)
  6. William Lee Adams (founder of wiwibloggs)
  7. Irene Valiente (Spanish presenter and producer)
  8. Juan Jose Santana (Spanish, president of OGAE Spain and composer of past Spanish entries)

Benidorm Fest 2023:
18 artists will participate in two Semi-Finals, which will take place on January 31st and February 2nd. Four songs from each semi-final will advance to the final. The Grand Final on February 4 will feature the eight finalists. The winner of Benidorm Fest will be Spain’s representative at the 67th European competition, which will be held in Liverpool next May.

The result will be decided through a mixed voting system between the jury and the public vote which will include televoting and poll jury.

50% of the score will correspond to the jury
The remaining 50% will be made up of the public vote (where 25% by televoting and the remaining 25% by a polling jury).

Additional information
The communications director of RTVE announced that throughout the week of the festival there will be daily related events throughout the city, as well as concerts with artists from the previous event as well as several who did not manage to be in the final selection this year.

Also, on Friday, February 3, from 9 to 12 at night, the Euroclub will be opened where, among others, last year’s representatives of Albania and Romania, Ronela Hajati and WRS, will be present.

As if all this were not enough, during this week the “tapafest” will also take place, the purpose of which according to the organizers is to promote Spanish gastronomy, as 28 locals will compete in cooking and visitors to the city will be able to “not only to try this very Spanish dish, but also to choose the best one”.

Source: RTVE

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding Spain’s participation in Eurovision 2023, in Liverpool!

Armenia: Brunette to represent Armenia at ESC 2023?

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According to hraparak.am Armenia will be represented by Brunette at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool.

The artist hails from the capital of the country, Yerevan. Although her stage name is ‘Brunette’ – the actual name of hers is Elen Eremyan.  She’s currently one of the most loved Armenian singers. Last year she released three singles which brought her incredible success among Armenians from all over the world. The singer’s latest release “Bac Kapuyt Achqerd” was uploaded 4 months ago, yet it managed to obtain almost 5 million views on Youtube.

 

Supposedly her song for ESC is in RnB genre and is written mainly by herself. The source also mentions that the Armenian delegation this year unlike any other year will release the competing entry at the end of February.

Previously, the same source revealed that Rosa Linn would represent Armenia last year in February, while she was announced only in the middle of March. 

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun in order not to miss valuable information regarding ESC 2023!

UK: Rina Sawayama will NOT represent the UK at Eurovision 2023

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British Japanese singer Rina Sawayama will not represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest.

The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 will take place in Liverpool after Sam Ryder finished in second place.  Last year’s winner, Ukraine was unable to meet the EBU demands to host the Festival.

It is still not clear who will wave the British flag representing the host country though.  However, there was an unfounded rumour that BRIT nominee Rina Sawayama would be the chosen one.

The rumour originates from TikTok and is based on the singer’s European tour.  Rina Sawayama does not  have any scheduled event between 27th February and the 16th of June.  This would be enough time to prepare to rehearse and participate in Eurovision related activities before the Grand Final which will take place in May 13, 2023.

Unfortunately for the fans of the Hold the Girl singer, this gap is not related to the Eurovision Song Contest.  According to a source from Radio Times, this overlap is purely coincidental.

The BBC is yet to confirm who will represent the host country in Liverpool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ0hqX_92zI&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

Source: RadioTimes

Are you excided to know who will succeed Sam Ryder?  Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for more news on the UK participation in Eurovision!