Junior Eurovision 2024: Listen to the Sanmarinese entry!

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San Marino returns to the children’s contest for the first time after nine years. Back in September and during a charity event, RTV San Marino announced that a girl band named Idols SM will represent the country in Madrid with their song “Come Noi“. Just moments ago, “Come Noi” was released and its music video was uploaded on Junior Eurovision’s official YouTube channel.

You can listen to “Come Noi” below:

How were Idols SM selected?

The artists’ announcement took place during “Sogna ragazzo sogna“, a fundraising event held in San Marino for research into pediatric cancer diseases.

The girls were selected internally by RTV. In fact and for its return, RTV San Marino decided to choose young artists based in San Marino, after last being represented by Kamilla Ismailova, who was born and raised in Russia.

The two candidate songs, “Poesia” and “Come Noi,” were played for the audience during “Sogna Ragazzo Sogna.” “Come Noi” was chosen as th Sanmarinese entry for Junior Eurovision 2024 after a jury vote. In fact, both songs were composed by Miodio, the first Sanmarinese representative in Eurovision, back in 2008.

Idols SM consists of four girls aged between 11 and 12 years old, namely Asia Ceccoli, Giulia Rinaldi, Giorgia De Descisolo and Vera Stefania Olkhovskaya.

Junior Eurovision 2024

Seventeen countries will take part in the 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest:

  • Albania – RTSH
  • Armenia – AMPTV
  • Cyprus – RIK
  • Estonia – ERR
  • France – FT
  • Georgia – GPB
  • Germany – ARD/NDR
  • Ireland – RTÉ
  • Italy – RAI
  • Malta – PBS
  • North Macedonia – MRT
  • Poland – TVP
  • Portugal – RTP
  • San Marino – RTV San Marino
  • Spain – TVE
  • The Netherlands – AVROTROS
  • Ukraine – UA:PBC

The 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held on November 16 in Madrid, Spain, following the country’s second-place finish last year and the refusal of the winning country, France, to host for the second year in a row. The slogan for this year’s contest is “Let’s Bloom!”, while Ruth Lorenzo, Marc Clotet and Melani Garcia will serve as this year’s hosts.

Italy will open the show, while Malta will close the contest. Spain will perform tenth.

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San Marino: The Grand Final of Una Voce per San Marino will take place on February 23 | The first round of castings began!

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Una Voce per San Marino, the Sanmarinese selection for Eurovision 2025, officially commences. The first round of the entries and artists’ evaluation has started, as the registration window has been open since August and more than two hundred participants from twenty countries have already submitted their entries. Meanwhile, RTV San Marino also disclosed the date of the UVPSM 2025 Grand Final.

The first round of the “Academy and Casting” phase

The first casting of the season took place on September 26 and 27, at the San Marino Outlet Experience, among the artists who were willing to represent San Marino in Basel. In the meantime, participants who do not reside in Italy could also audition online (via a live performance sent on video), considering the competition is open to all countries.

Una Voce per San Marino will be held on February

Additionally, RTV San Marino disclosed the forthcoming song festival’s dates. The Grand Final is scheduled for February 23, 2025, with the semi-finals taking place from February 17 to February 21, 2025. There’s a chance that only the Final will be broadcasted live, with the semi-finals possibly being filmed earlier and aired at the previously mentioned dates if last year’s formula is replicated.

UVPSM 2025 – the process

The fourth edition of UVPSM will consist of three phases:

Registrations

The submission window for artists willing to represent San Marino in Eurovision 2025 is open and will remain open until December 31, 2024. There are no other specific rules regarding the submitted acts. There is a freedom of language, music style and territoriality.

Academy & Castings’ stage

The Academy is a gathering for education focused on entertainment-related topics, with the goal of studying and learning about the world of music.

The casting process entails the live, private audition to select the Semi-finalists, followed by the jury’s evaluation. The jury will choose roughly eighty contestants or more to advance to the next round.

Six rounds of castings will be held starting from September until late January 2025, as following:
  1. 26 – 29 September 2024
  2. 17 – 19 October 2024
  3. 14 – 16 November 2024
  4. 12 – 14 December 2024
  5. 9 – 11 January 2025
  6. 23 – 25 January 2025

This stage will take place in San Marino Outlet Experience.

Semi-Finals and Final stage

The eighty selected participants will advance to the final stage:

  • Four semi-finals will take place in order for the committee to select the artists who will directly advance to the Grand Final as well as those who will advance to the second-chance semi-final(fifth semi-final). The artists participating in the second-chance semi-final will also fight for a spot at the selection’s Grand Final. From each semi-final, two artists will advance directly to the Final of UVPSM 2025, while two more acts will be determined via the repechage semi-final.
  • Moreover, a sixth semi-final will be held between Sanmarinese contestants. Out of this semi-final, only one contestant will be directly advanced to the Grand Final.

In total, eleven acts will participate in the Grand Final of UVPSM 2025 and will claim the Sanmarinese representation in Switzerland.

The winner of UVPSM 2025 will be decided by a five-member jury. The winner of the selection will therefore have the right to represent the nation at the Eurovision Song Contest in terms of meeting the criteria of eligibility of RTV.

A notable difference compared to last year’s edition of UVPSM is that there will be no “established artists” category; thus, no invitations will be sent by RTV San Marino.

Despite this marathon session of a national selection, Megara, UVPSM 2024 winners, did not manage to qualify to the Grand Final, finishing fourteenth in the second semi-final.

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San Marino: Over 200 Participants from 20 Countries for ‘Una Voce per San Marino’

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Registrations are now open for the 4th edition of the “Una Voce per San Marino” festival. The festival-contest, which in the last two years has been won by emerging bands, will give the winner the chance to represent the Republic of San Marino at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Switzerland. The festival will feature both Emerging and Big artists in a single category, with no restrictions on citizenship or language choice for the song performed in the competition. Anyone who turns 16 by 15/02/2025 can register. Registrations will close on 31/12/2024.

Contestants will go through the Academy and Casting phases held at the Prestige Lounge of the San Marino Outlet Experience: the first date is set for September 26 and 27, 2024, followed by October 17 and 18; November 14, 15, and 16; December 12, 13, and 14, 2024; January 9, 10, and 11, 2025, and January 23, 24, and 25, 2025.

So far, over 200 applications have been received from artists from Andorra, Belgium, Belarus, Denmark, Ecuador, eSwatini, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Nigeria, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Russia, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, the United States, Sweden, and Switzerland.

In February 2025, four semifinals are scheduled, one dedicated to Sammarinese artists and a repechage round. The grand final of “Una Voce per San Marino” will take place at the Teatro Nuovo in Dogana, San Marino, where artists will compete against each other.

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Junior Eurovision 2024: Idols SM will represent San Marino in Madrid with their song “Come Noi”!

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The micro state of San Marino returns to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest for the first time after nine years. Just moments ago, it was announced that Idols SM will fly the Sanmarinese flag in Madrid.

How were Idols SM selected?

The artists’ announcement took place during “Sogna ragazzo sogna“, a fundraising event held in San Marino for research into pediatric cancer diseases. Idols SM consists of four girls, namely Asia Ceccoli, Giulia Rinaldi, Giorgia Descisolo and Vera Stefania Olkhovskaya.

The artists were selected internally by RTV. In fact and for its return, RTV San Marino decided to choose young artists based in San Marino, after last being represented by Kamilla Ismailova, who was born and raised in Russia.

The two candidate songs, “Poesia” and “Come Noi,” were played for the audience during “Sogna Ragazzo Sogna.” “Come Noi” was chosen as the Sanmarinese entry for Junior Eurovision 2024 after a jury vote.

“Come Noi” is expected to be released at a later stage.

Junior Eurovision 2024

Seventeen countries will take part in the 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest:

  • Albania – RTSH
  • Armenia – AMPTV
  • Cyprus – RIK
  • Estonia – ERR
  • France – FT
  • Georgia – GPB
  • Germany – ARD/NDR
  • Ireland – RTÉ
  • Italy – RAI
  • Malta – PBS
  • North Macedonia – MRT
  • Poland – TVP
  • Portugal – RTP
  • San Marino – RTV San Marino
  • Spain – TVE
  • The Netherlands – AVROTROS
  • Ukraine – UA:PBC

The 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held on November 16 in Madrid, Spain, following the country’s second-place finish last year and the refusal of the winning country, France, to host for the second year in a row.

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San Marino: The dates for the “Academy & Casting” stage!

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Una Voce per San Marino will return as the country’s selection format for the fourth consecutive year. Despite rumors claiming that San Marino’s participation in Eurovision 2025 is uncertain, the preparations have already started for RTV San Marino.

Meanwhile, casting dates for UVPSM 2025 have also been revealed. The Academy and Casting stage of the competition will be held starting from September until late January 2025:

  1. 26 – 29 September
  2. 17 – 19 October
  3. 14 – 16 November
  4. 12 – 14 December
  5. 9 – 11 January
  6. 23 – 25 January

UVPSM 2025 – the process

This edition of UVPSM will consist of three phases:

Registrations

The submission window for artists willing to represent San Marino in Eurovision 2025 is open and will remain open until December 31, 2024. There are no other specific rules regarding the submitted acts. There is a freedom of language, music style and territoriality.

Academy & Castings’ stage

The Academy is a gathering for education focused on entertainment-related topics, with the goal of studying and learning about the world of music.

The casting process entails the live, private audition to select the Semi-finalists, followed by the jury’s evaluation. The jury will choose roughly eighty contestants or more to advance to the next round.

This stage will take place in San Marino Outlet Experience.

Semi-Finals and Final stage

The eighty selected participants will advance to the final stage:

  • Four semi-finals will take place in order for the committee to select the artists who will directly advance to the Grand Final as well as those who will advance to the second-chance semi-final(fifth semi-final). The artists participating in the second-chance semi-final will also fight for a spot at the selection’s Grand Final. From each semi-final, two artists will advance directly to the Final of UVPSM 2025, while two more acts will be determined via the repechage semi-final.
  • Moreover, a sixth semi-final will be held between Sanmarinese contestants. Out of this semi-final, only one contestant will be directly advanced to the Grand Final.

In total, eleven acts will participate in the Grand Final of UVPSM 2025 and will claim the Sanmarinese representation in Switzerland.

The winner of UVPSM 2025 will be decided by a five-member jury. The winner of the selection will therefore have the right to represent the nation at the Eurovision Song Contest in terms of meeting the criteria of eligibility of RTV.

A notable difference compared to last year’s edition of UVPSM is that there will be no “established artists” category; thus, no invitations will be sent by RTV San Marino.

Despite this marathon session of a national selection, Megara, UVPSM 2024 winners, did not manage to qualify to the Grand Final, finishing fourteenth in the second semi-final.

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Source: sanmarinoRTV

San Marino: Submission window for Una Voce per San Marino 2025 now open!

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Despite the many different conversations about a possible withdrawal, the small country of San Marino, is going to take part in Eurovision 2025, which is set to take place in Switzerland! Read more

San Marino: Eurovision 2025 participation confirmed!

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San Marino is going to take part at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest which is about to be held in Switzerland next year.

Through a story on the official Instagram account of the Una Voce per San Marino, the process through which the representative is emerged, the presence of the enclave-microstate of the Italian peninsula was confirmed, against the will of one of the members of the government of the Most Serene Republic who wanted the absence of the country due to the third consecutive elimination for the grand final.

San Marino: Minister of the Government talks about a potential withdrawal from Eurovision!

The countries that have confirmed their participation as of now, are:

  1. Switzerland
  2. Spain
  3. Malta
  4. Denmark
  5. Belgium
  6. Luxembourg
  7. Austria
  8. Portugal
  9. Croatia
  10. Serbia
  11. Germany
  12. Israel
  13. Finland
  14. Albania
  15. Lithuania
  16. Sweden
  17. Norway
  18. Italy
  19. Cyprus
  20. Latvia
  21. United Kingdom
  22. San Marino

This year San Marino was represented in Malmö by the Spanish group Megara and the song “11:11” but failed to qualify to the grand final as they ended up in 14th place with 16 points.

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The official announcement of the EBU regarding the publication of the Italian televotes!

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In an official annoucement a while ago, EBU reported that the publication of the results from the Italian televoting during the broadcast of the second semi-final was in violation of the rules and that those results were incompelte.

“The European Broadcasting Union has investigated this matter with both RAI and its televoting partner and can confirm that the information was published in error. We can also confirm that the information was incomplete.

A valid vote was received from Italy as part of the results of the Semi-Final.

RAI have been informed that this was in breach of the rules of the Contest which state that the voting results may only be communicated after the event. The matter will be discussed further by the Contest’s Reference Group following the Contest.

We havr requested RAI to review their procedures to ensure that all rules and protocols are followed in order to protect the integrity of the voting.”

According to what was broadcast by RAI on the night of the semi-final the results shown were as per below:

12 points – Israel

10 points – The Netherlands

8 points – Albania

7 points – Georgia

6 points – Switzerland

5 points – Armenia

4 points – Greece

3 points – San Marino

2 βαθμοί – Denmark

1 βαθμός – Latvia

Israel was in the first place and by a wide margin, gathering around 40% of the total votes.

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San Marino: Minister of the Government talks about a potential withdrawal from Eurovision!

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The Minister of Tourism of San Marino, Federico Pedini Amati, spoke about the country’s possible withdrawal from the Eurovision Song Contest.

“We could make the choice not to participate in Eurovision anymore ” is the statement from the San Marinese Government Minister. The last time the micronation advanced to the final was in 2021. Last night San Marino failed agained to reacht the final!

Amati added:

“Above all – he underlines – there is something that doesn’t add up to me: for three years in a row we are out of the final. First Achille Lauro, then Piqued Jacks and now Megara. It almost seems that the small states are too penalised . The game cannot be only for large countries”.

The national selction process of San Marino Una Voce per San Marino that commenced in 20220 has been financially supported by the government of San Marino. However the decision to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest belong to the national broadcaster of San Marino, RTV!

Source: San Marino RTV

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Eurovision 2024: These are the ten finalists of the Second Semi-Final!

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The 68th Eurovision Song Contest has officially started and the Second Semi-Final was just concluded.

Tonight’s show was hosted by Malin Åkerman and Petra Mede. Sixteen countries performed tonight competing for ten tickets to Saturday’s Grand Final.

These were tonight’s contestants:

  1. Malta: Sarah Bonnici – “Loop“
  2. Albania: Besa – “Titan“
  3. Greece: Marina Satti – “Zari“
  4. Switzerland: Nemo – “The Code“
  5. Czechia: Aiko – “Pedestal“
  6. Austria: Kaleen – “We Will Rave“
  7. Denmark: SABA – “Sand“
  8. Armenia: Ladaniva – “Jako“
  9. Latvia: Dons – “Hollow”
  10. San Marino: Megara – “11:11”
  11. Georgia: Nutsa Buzaladze – “Firefighter”
  12. Belgium: Mustii – “Before The Party’s Over”
  13. Estonia: 5miinust and Puuluup – “(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi”
  14. Israel: Eden Golan – “Hurricane”
  15. Norway: Gåte – “Ulveham”
  16. The Netherlands: Joost – “Europapa”

The results were determined exclusively by public voting and tonight’s ten qualifiers are the following:

  • Latvia
  • Austria
  • The Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Israel
  • Greece
  • Estonia
  • Switzerland
  • Georgia
  • Armenia

A few words about tonight’s show

Tonight’s show started with the two hostesses singing their own version of Sweden’s winning entry “Tattoo“.

 

For the first time, the BIG 5 and the host country performed live in the semi-finals. Hence, tonight the following countries performed:

  1. France: Slimane – “Mon Amour“
  2. Spain: Nebulossa – “Zorra“
  3. Italy: Angelina Mango – “La Noia“

Following the conclusion of the participants’ performances, three Eurovision divas took the stage for a Eurovision Sing-A-Long. Helena Paparizou, Charlotte Perrelli and Sertab Erener sang their Eurovision winning entries, making the crowd go crazy.

 

However, the intervals did not stop there. Charlotte Perreli took the stage along with Petra Mede, while the Eurovision 2023 runner-up, Käärijä, performed his song “Cha Cha Cha” for one more time.

 

The show was finished with a performance of Herreys, Sweden’s winners in 1984, who sang their all time classic “Diggy Loo Diggy Lei”.

The allocation regarding in which half will the qualifiers perform in the Grand Final, comes next, so stay tuned…

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