San Marino: Listen to the revamp of “Like An Animal”!

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As it had became known, in late February, the band Piqued Jacks won the San Marinese National Final “Una Voce Per San Marino 2023”, claiming their ticket for Liverpool and Eurovision 2023.

With the song Like An Animal, Piqued Jacks will represent their country in Eurovision, as the new version of the song was published today on Spotify which is specially composed for the European Song Contest!

Down bellow you will find the final form of the song:

 

Down below you can see the live performance of the song in the National Final along with the reaction of EurovisionFun:

We want to remind you that San Marino will perform 12th at the second semi final, at 11th of May 2023 in Liverpool.

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Eurovision 2023: Watch tonight our poll results for the two semi-finals!

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Today is the first station of our Poll, since after the your voting, the results follow, which will be announced tonight through a live premiere on the Douze Points YouTube channel.

More than 8,200 individual votes were submitted in the two semi-finals and now it’s time to announce the 20 countries that will advance to the grand final. For about 10 days you voted for your top ten countries in each semi-final. As in Eurovision, also in our simulation 100% of the result was determined based on your own vote, since now only the public votes count in the semi-finals.

Tonight at 20:00 CET, you will be able to watch through the video below the ten countries that will qualify from the first semi-final.

Immediately afterwards, at 20:05 CET, you will be able to see the results of the second semi-final in the video below.

The recap and the start of the voting for the Grand Final follows, where 50% of the result will be determined based on your own voting and the rest 50% by the authors of Eurovisionfun.
Until then you can recall the entries vying for qualification below:

Which countries do you think will qualify?

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San Marino: Public Broadcaster RTV takes issue against the negativity surrounding Piqued Jacks’ BCN performance

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A rather unfortunate event that occurred during the Barcelona Eurovision Party in Spain has caused enormous frustration to the Sammarinese delegation.Throughout the course of this year’s Sammarinese entrants performance,that took place in the Saint Jordi Club on March 25,various Eurovision fans would be heard shouting Ronela Hajati’s (Albania 2022) name,who competed against Piqued Jacks’ in San Marino’s selection process Una Voce per San Marino,but eventually lost to them and did not earn the right to represent the country in this year’s song contest.

Nevertheless,all those derogatory comments were not left unnoticed by the Sammarinese Public Broadcaster RTV,who were quick to respond with the following statement,with Piqued Jacks reacting on their behalf as well:

Shortly afterwards,RTV released the following statement,clarifying that they feel no resentment towards the Spanish audience,but instead,they are more than willing to continue setting up performances in the country:

https://twitter.com/eurovisionsmrtv/status/1640392783809724420?cxt=HHwWiIC-sfai7MMtAAAA

You can have a look at the Piqued Jacks’ performance in Barcelona here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbN3ilUIBWI&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Feurovisionfun.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title

San Marino is competing in the second semi-final of this year’s contest,on May 11.

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Barcelona Eurovision Party 2023: Watch all the live performances!

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Tonight, the first Eurovision pre-party of this season, Barcelona Eurovision Party 2023, takes place in Barcelona, Spain. Tonight’s event is hosted by Sharonne, winner of Drag Race España and Benidorm Fest 2023 contestant and Giuseppe Di Bella, who accompanied Edurne in Eurovision 2015.

13 contestants of this year’s Eurovision will perform their songs live along with many other former Eurovision contestants.

This is the lineup of today’s event and their live performances(refreshing…):

  • Lithuania – Monika Linkytė

  • Ukraine – Tvorchi

  • Slovenia – Joker Out

  • Georgia – Iru Kechanovi

  • Ireland – Wild Youth

  • Latvia – Sudden Lights

  • Moldova – Pasha Parfeni

  • Belgium – Gustaph

  • Portugal – Mimicat

  • Iceland – Dilja

  • Spain – Blanca Paloma

  • United Kingdom – Mae Muller

  • San Marino – Piqued Jacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbN3ilUIBWI

Austria’s representatives, Teya and Salena, were supposed to perform tonight, but they had to cancel their performance for health reasons concerning one of them.

 

What was your favorite performance of tonight’s event? Write in the comments below!

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Eurovision 2023: The running order of the semifinals has been revealed!

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With a month and a half left for the first semifinal of Eurovision 2023 on May 9, the EBU today announced the order of appearance of the songs in the semifinals.

The running order was determined by the EBU in collaboration with the British organizers, taking into account where each country was drawn to appear (first or second half), but also in such a way that the show is more interesting.

So, through the official Eurovision channel on YouTube, the official running order of the songs in the semifinals of this year’s contest was announced a few minutes ago.

Running Order

First Semifinal – May 9

  1. Norway
  2. Malta
  3. Serbia
  4. Latvia
  5. Portugal
  6. Ireland
  7. Croatia
  8. Switzerland
  9. Israel
  10. Moldova
  11. Sweden
  12. Azerbaijan
  13. Czechia
  14. Netherlands
  15. Finland

Second Semifinal – May 11

  1. Denmark
  2. Armenia
  3. Romania
  4. Estonia
  5. Belgium
  6. Cyprus
  7. Iceland
  8. Greece
  9. Poland
  10. Slovenia
  11. Georgia
  12. San Marino
  13. Austria
  14. Albania
  15. Lithuania
  16. Australia

The analyzes of the fans and not only for a few minutes have been on fire, since the theories based on the prehistory of the countries in the contest, are a first picture of how passable is the qualification to the final or not. In other words, it’s time to make our predictions about who will advance to the final and who are the favorites to say goodbye to Liverpool early…

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

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San Marino: Eurovisionfun Reacts to Eurovision 2023 Entry “Like an Animal”!

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San Marino has completed the search for its representative and entry for Eurovision 2023 with “Una Voce per San Marino 2023” taking place for another year with big winners Piqued Jacks and “Like an Animal”.

The Eurovisionfun team once again watched and reacted to the live performance of the country’s participation in the upcoming Eurovision contest! Enjoy Elefterium, Aps and Apostolis in a Reaction video with detailed commentary on the participation of San Marino, for 2023!

(edit of the video by Elefterium)

Enjoy the Performance of “Like an Animal” from the national final:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjfq-T-8WHw

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What do you think about the entry of San Marino for Eurovision 2023? Tell us in the comments!

San Marino: Tonight the Final of “Una Voce Per San Marino”!

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Today, among so many countries, the time of San Marino to choose their artist for Eurovision 2023 has come. Tonight the final of “Una Voce Per San Marino” will be completed and we will officially know the winner of the San Marinize National Final.

The show will start at 21:00 CET live from Teatro Nuovo in the center of the country and it will last approximately 3 hours. you can watch it from RTV by pressing the button here.

The Host of UVPSM:

The host of the show will be (again) Senhit, the singer represented San Marino three time in Eurovision (in 2011, 2020 and 2021) and she hosted the previous Final of “Una Voce Per San Marino”.

The jurors of the show:

Also, this morning, SMRTV revealed the jury for tonight’s National Final. The jury consists of six members which are:

  • Al Bano (singer and president of the jury)
  • Steve Lyon (producer and sound engineer)
  • Dino Stewart (managing director – BMG Music Italy)
  • Charlotte Davis (artist)
  • Antonio Rospini (artist)
  • Clarissa Martinelli (radio producer)

https://twitter.com/ESCdiscord/status/1629416691124912129?s=20

The results of the show will be decided only by the vote of the jury.

The finalists of Una Voce Per San Marino 2023:

Down bellow you will find the twenty two artists with their songs where one of them will claim the ticket of Liverpool in an alphabetical order:

  1. Alfie Arcuri – “Collide”
  2. Deborah Iurato – “Out of Space”
  3. Deshedus – “Non basterà”
  4. E.E.F. – “Something for You”
  5. Eiffel 65 – “Movie Star”
  6. Ellynora – “Mama Told Me”
  7. Iole – “Sul tetto del mondo”
  8. Le Deva – “Fiori su Marte”
  9. Lorenzo Licitra – “Never Give Up”
  10. Mayu – “C’è qualcosa in me che non funziona”
  11. Nevruz – “L’alieno”
  12. Piqued Jacks – “Like an Animal”
  13. Thomas – “23:23”
  14. Tothem – “Sacro e profano”
  15. Vina Rose – “Oblivious”
  16. XGiove – “Fuoco e benzina”
  17. Kida – “Stessa Pelle”
  18. Simone – “Catching  Memories”
  19. Edoardo Brogi – “Due punti sull’equatore”
  20. Mate – “Prisma”
  21. Ronela – “Salvaje”
  22. Roy Paci – “Tromba”

 

Last year’s winner of “Una Voce Per San Marino” and representative of San Marino in Eurovision 2022 was the Italian singer Achille Lauro with the song “Stripper”. Nevertheless, he failed to claim a qualification for last May’s Grand Final by finishing 14th in the second semi final.

https://youtu.be/vCmX64N_sXM

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San Marino: Ronela Hajati will participate in UVPSM with “SALVAJE”!

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Earlier today, Ronela Hajati released the audio version of her new song called “SALVAJE” on her YouTube channel. Alongside with the song release, the previous representative of Albania in Eurovision 2022 will try to claim again to represent San Marino in Eurovision 2023 through the national final “Una Voce Per San Marino”. 

Down bellow you will find her new song on YouTube:

The Albanian singer will compete at the fourth semi final of “Una Voce Per San Marino” at Thursday 23 of February claiming one of the four tickets that will take her to the final.

Unlikely in 2022, the former Festivali i Kenges winner didn’t managed to qualify in the Grand Final of Eurovision conquering the 12th place in the first semi final with her song “SEKRET”.

Here is her live performance from Turin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jWXmo0-ZjI

 

What do you think about Ronela’s second attempt in the contest? Would you like to see her in Liverpool this year? Tell us in the comments down bellow!

 

San Marino: Semi finalists to be announced on February 20!

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San Marino RTV will announce the names of the Semi-finalists on February 20.  The announcement will take place in a press conference.  Sixty artists will participate at the Semi finals of Una Voce per San Marino national selection.

This is the second time that San Marino held a national final.  Over 1000 singers from 31 countries registered to participate in the San Marinese national selection.  According to RTV this is an increase of over 300 singers since their last update in 2022.

Una Voce per San Marino

Una Voce per San Marino will consist on five Semi-finals taking place between 18-20 February 2023.  The Semi-Finals will be broadcast on delay by SMRTV.  The Grand Final of Una Voce per San Marino will take place on February 25, 2023 at the Teatro Nuovo in Dogana.  A five member jury representing San Marino RTV (2), Segreteria di Stato (1) and  the production company (2) will chose the San Marinese representative.

Achille Lauro won the first edition of Una Voce per San Marino.  He represented San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCmX64N_sXM&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

Source: RTV

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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!