Eurovision 2023:¡Apuestas para los paises que quizas se queden fuera de la gran final!

El panorama de las apuestas de Eurovisión 2023 está cambiando radicalmente, ya que las casas de apuestas,como Cool Bet,ahora ofrecen a los fans la posibilidad de apostar en los países que tienen más probabilidades de ser eliminados en la semifinal del certamen.Por la primera vez desde la introducción de las semifinales en 2004, los fanáticos de Eurovisión de todo el mundo tienen la oportunidad de apostar sobre los países que podrian ser eliminados en los semi-finales. Examinemos qué países se encuentran entre los que tienen más probabilidades de ser eliminados.

Primera semifinal

En la primera semifinal, donde solo compiten 15 países y se considera como la más dificil, cuatro de los grandes favoritos podrían quedarse eliminados. Irlanda con 74 %, Azerbaiyán con  62 %, Letonia con  70 % y Malta con  68 % probablemente se queden fueran de la gran final, salvo circunstancias imprevistas. Sin embargo, para el último país excluido, las cosas siguen fluidas. ya que hay países cuyas posibilidades de calificación parecen bastante satisfactorias: Portugal con un 42%, los Paises Bajos con un 34% y Croacia junto a Suiza con un 32% todos luchando por la eliminación.

Segunda semi-final

En la segunda semifinal, que se considera la más fácil, dos países lideran la no clasificación, seguidos de otros seis cuyas tasas de no clasificación superan el 35%. San Marino y Rumanía son vistos como los únicos países con más probabilidades de ser eliminados y cuyo porcentaje de posible eliminación supera el 75%. Las cosas se complican a medida que avanzamos, ya que Islandia, Polonia y Albania tienen un 50% de posibilidad de eliminación. con Bélgica y Dinamarca siguiendo con un 54 % y Grecia con un 36 %. Entonces, los clasificados de la segunda semifinal siguen abiertos a consideración, ya que solo 5 países tienen una tasa de posibilidad de no clasificarse de 25 %.

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The Barcelona Eurovision Party is taking place tonight!

The Eurovision Party Season has officially kicked off as the Barcelona Eurovision Party is taking place tonight at Sant Jordi Club,starting at 20.00 CET.

The party will feature various Eurovision 2023 entrants as well as former Eurovision alumni including Ruslana (Ukraine 2004), Rosa López (Spain 2002), Destiny (Malta 2020 & 2021), Poli Genova (Bulgaria 2011 & 2016), Suzy (Portugal 2014), Beth (Spain 2003), Susanne Georgia (Andorra 2009) and Eva Santamaria (Spain 1993).

The 2023 entrants include:

  • Gustaph (Belgium)
  • Iru Kechanovi (Georgia)
  • Dilja (Iceland)
  • Wild Youth (Ireland)
  • Sudden Lights (Latvia)
  • Monika Linkyte (Lithuania)
  • Pasha Parfeni (Moldova)
  • Mimicat (Portugal)
  • Piqued Jacks (San Marino)
  • Blanca Paloma (Spain)
  • TVORCHI (Ukraine)
  • Mae Muller (United Kingdom)

Austria’s representatives Teya and Salena were originally scheduled to perform as well but eventually withdrew due to illness.

You may watch the Pre-party live on betevé,on their website, and on Youtube starting at 20.00 CET.

Here is a recap of all the 37 Eurovision 2023 songs:

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for more things about Eurovision!

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Croatia: Let 3 filmed their postcard for Eurovision 2023

Let 3 have finished filming their Postcard for Eurovision 2023.  The Croatian representatives chose the city of Rijeka, Croatia to create their Postcard.

For this year Eurovision, each representative will film their postcards in their home countries.

In the case of Croatia, the group Let 3 chose Rijeka, the city where the band was formed to film their postcard.  In the Postcard we can appreciate the representatives on a bridge in Rijeka fishing in the Mrtva canal.

Let 3 will perform “Mama ŠČ!” in the first half of the first semi-final in May in Liverpool.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for more news about Croatia in Eurovision 2023!

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Greece: “What They Say” by Victor Vernicos has over 500.000 views!

What They Say, the song with which the 16-year-old talented artist Victor Vernicos will represent Greece at this years Eurovision Song Contest, is now available in digital music stores, a few days after the premiere of the music video that was received with great enthusiasm!

What They Say, with music and lyrics by Victor himself, released by Panik Records, received flattering comments from the audience, while the music video became a top trend on YouTube in almost 24 hours and it counts over 500,000 views in total in a few days.

The video, directed by PickCodes, visually accompanies the voice of the new generation, who creates, dreams and dares. At the same time, like the song, it sends a strong message of optimism, thattogetherandsharingmake us strong!

Watch the video-clip of the Greek entry:

Source: www.protothema.gr

Sweden: Issues with Loreen’s staging?

Tonight the final of Melodifestivalen 2023 takes place, after 4 heats and a second chance semi-final. Tonight’s absolute favourite is none other than the winner of Eurovision 2012, Loreen, who will perform “Tattoo” tonight, claiming to represent Sweden in the contest for the second time.

Loreen has already got all eyes on her, with her song having already amassed 8 million streams on Spotify and having climbed to #1 on the Swedish TOP 50 on the same platform. The interest is also piqued by her very unique and technologically advanced stage performance, which includes two platforms with led screens, one filled with sand and the other hanging above it.

Technical issue with the weight of the platform

In the great possibility that Loreen will win the representation of Sweden at Eurovision 2023 tonight, her team will have to deal with an important technical issue. The second platform hanging above Loreen is required to be supported by the ceiling. The weight of this platform, however, is 1.8 tons! The lighting rig, from which this platform hangs, will probably not be able to support it in Liverpool.

Photograph from the lightning rig from the Melodifestivalen 2023 stage!

In fact, in the photo above we can see that Loreen’s platform is hanging on the lighting rig throughout the show and it may be practically impossible for the same to happen on the Liverpool stage.

Furthermore, the lighting rig at Eurovision is significantly larger than the one used at Melodifestivalen, as it needs to support a much larger number of acts, and it needs to ensure that this year’s 37 participants have the same capability to present what they want on the Eurovision stage.

John Lundvik’s corresponding request had been rejected

The reluctance of the Eurovision organisers to allow objects of advanced technology to hang from the ceiling can be seen in the similar problem that the Swedish delegation faced in 2019.

In John Lundvik‘s Melodifestivalen 2019 performance, a large led construction stood out, hanging from the ceiling. However, its transfer to the Eurovision stage was not possible due to the rejection of the Swedish delegation’s request by the organisers and a similar structure which was supported on the ground was used.

The attitude of SVT and the organisers towards the emerging technical issue

Anders Wistbacka, project manager of Melodifestivalen, clarifies that any discussion with EBU and BBC will take place after the end of Melodifestivalen, when we will know for sure who the Swedish representative is, and says that:

“We haven’t reached that point yet, but I think you can now hang things that you couldn’t before. However, I don’t know if that means this 1.8 ton structure can be hung or not.”

The organisers of this year’s contest, on this issue, state that:

“It (SVT) knows all the details of what can and cannot be used on the Liverpool stage.”

Anders Wistbacka also states:

“We’ll see what happens. It might not work. If it doesn’t work, then we’ll find another solution if Loreen does win. We may, however, have another winner and have to adjust to other circumstances.

We will know what we will have to adapt to depending on the winner. This adaptation may be either easy or challenging.”

Loreen, says that she doesn’t have an alternative plan for her staging so far, however if she is called upon to come up with an alternative plan, she will! She competes tonight in the Melodifestivalen final with “Tattoo“, in the running order of 10!

Source: aftonbladet.se

If the speculations that Loreen will win the Sweden representation tonight are indeed confirmed, do you think she will be able to carry her stage performance to Liverpool? Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news for Sweden’s participation in Eurovision 2023!

Joker Out: We will have a lot of interaction with the crowd!

Joker Out gave an interview to EurovisionFun’s Paschalis about their participation in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Carpe Diem“. Kris, Jan, Jure and Nace were with us.

Some things about the song:

We recorded the song in Hamburg in December. The lyrics are telling what happened there. We stayed all night in the studio and just created the song. We did that to avoid all of the negative energy. We tell the people to play the game of hate for themselves, we are just dancing and singing.

The song was written for Eurovision, but we didn’t have in mind to do something special. We had the idea and recorded the song, it’s a song that represents us as Joker Out.

Some things about the performance:

It will be a 3-minute Joker Out concert. We’re going to keep the same energy, be as close to each other as possible and try to have as much interaction with the crowd as possible.

Slovenia is a relatively small country with not much financial power. We believe some of the Slovenian entries have been really good and deserved better. We are here to set this trend upside down!

There will be an English version of the song as well, but we are going to keep the Slovenian version.

Their favorite Eurovision entries:

We are fans of Eurovision and our first memory is Ruslana!

Our favorite Slovenian Eurovision entry is Samo Ljubezen from 2002.

Their message to the readers of EurovisionFun:

Hello EurovisionFun! Thank you so much for all of your support and we can’t wait to meet you in Liverpool!

We would like to thank Joker Out for their interview and wish them best of luck!

Moldova: Pasha Parfeni will represent the country with the song “Soarele şi luna”!

The Moldovan National Selection “Etapa Națională 2023” took place today at 18:00 CET and lasted for three hours. During today’s show we’ve seen ten acts perform their consecutive songs they’d written specifically for Eurovision Song Contest. Among the contestants, we have happened to see three returnees who brought really great results to Moldova previously.

This was the running order for the National Selection.

  1. Donia – “Red Zone”
  2. OL – “Why You Play It Cool”
  3. Victor Gulick – “Let’s Dance”
  4. Surorile Osoianu – “Bade, bădişor, bădiţă”
  5. Cosmina – “Indestructible”
  6. Nördika – “Damn and Down”
  7. Aliona Moon – “Du-mă”
  8. SunStroke Project – “Yummy Mommy”
  9. Pasha Parfeni – “Soarele şi luna”
  10. Corina Ivanov – “When Love’s Real”

Pasha Parefi represented the country in 2012 with the song “Lautar’, Aliona Moon in 2013 with the song “O Mie” and SunStroke Project managed to represent Moldova twice in 2010 and in 2017, while getting the best result for the country in the latter year.

Moreover, among the songwriters we can spot a Eurovision 2023 contestant Mia Nicolai, who will be representing the Netherlands along with Dion Cooper with the song “Burning Daylight”. Mia wrote Corina Ivanov’s song “When Love’s Real”.

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Two of this year’s Eurovision contestants, Sudden Lights from Latvia and Theodor Andrei from the neighbouring country, Romania, also have performed during the show. Blanka from Poland was also invited to perform during the show, however she couldn’t make it.

These were the results of the jury/tele voting. Pasha Parfeni was favoured by both tele and jury which made him the obvious winner of the NF and the Moldovan representative at Eurovision Song Contest 2023!

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Poland: All the songs of “Tu bije serce Europy! Wybieramy hit na Eurowizję!” are available for streaming!

On Sunday, 26th of February the Polish national final “Tu bije serce Europy! Wybieramy hit na Eurowizję!” is going to take plac, in order to decide which song will represent Poland at Eurovision 2023.

The ten songs that will try to claim the ticket for Liverpool are available on all streaming platforms, these are the candidates for the national final with their songs:

 

  1. Natasza – Lift u up
  2. Kuba –  You Do Me
  3. Ahlena – “Booty
  4. Dominik Dudek – Be Good
  5. Alicja Szemplińska – New Home
  6. Felivers – Never Back Down
  7. Maja Hyży – “Never Hide
  8. Jann – “Gladiator
  9. Blanka – “Solo
  10. Yan Majewski – Champion

The voting process of  Tu bije serce Europy! Wybieramy hit na Eurowizję! won’t be held with a superfinal round from the offseting of public vote and the jury vote like it happened last year but the winner will be announced based on the first part of the voting. In case of a tie the public vote will decide the winner.

 

Which song do you like the most to represent Poland on Eurovision 2023?

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the news regarding Poland’s participation in Eurovision!

Latvia: “Sudden Lights” won Supernova jury and televote!

The Grand Final for Latvia “Supernova took place last February 11.  “Sudden Lights” with the song “Aijā” were the clear winners – they ended in first place by both the audience and the jury. Sudden Lights received 66,307 votes from the televote.

According to the rules for Supernova, the final result was made up from the audience’s calls and text messages and the jury’s vote.

Here are the detailed results from Supernova:

1. “Sudden Lights” – 1st place in the audience vote (66,307 votes), 1st place in the jury’s evaluation.
2. Patrisha – 2nd place in the audience vote (50,958 votes), 2nd place in the jury’s evaluation.
3. “24. Avēnija” – 4th place in the audience vote (8735 votes), 3rd place in the jury’s evaluation.
4. Markus Riva – 3rd place in the audience vote (27,302 votes), 5th place in the jury’s evaluation.
5. AVÉI – 5th place in the audience vote (8294 votes), 6th place in the jury’s evaluation.
6. RAUM – 6th place in the audience vote (6986 votes), 7th place in the jury’s evaluation.
7. Toms Kalderauskis – 9th place in the audience vote (2608 votes), 4th place in the jury’s evaluation.
8. Alise Haijima – 8th place in the audience vote (5607 votes), 8th place in the jury’s evaluation.
9. Artūrs Hatti – 7th place in the audience’s vote (6251 votes), 10th place in the jury’s evaluation.
10. Luīze – 10th place in the audience vote (2384 votes), 9th place in the jury’s evaluation.

Latvia is set to perform in the First Semi-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 on May 09.

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Emily in Paris goes to Eurovision in Season 4!

An unexpected crossover turned up in the popular Netflix series Emily in Paris in the season 3 finale, the episodes of which were released on Wednesday.

The news concerns the character of Mindy (Ashley Park), best friend of the protagonist Emily (Lily Collins). Specifically, Mindy’s partner Benoit (Kevin Dias) wrote and dedicated the song Mon Soleil to Mindy during season 2. In the season 3 finale, Benoit revealed to Mindy that he had submitted the song to France’s Eurovision selection process and was eventually selected.

Series creator Darren Star revealed to Deadline that he would like to shoot part of the next season on the Eurovision set, but he’s not yet aware of the details:

“I don’t know what the details of filming are but I think that our plan is to go to Eurovision next season, we’re all set up for it. And I think we’ve got a deserving song. I love that song, Mon Soleil, I think it would be definitely a worthy entry.”

It is therefore not yet known whether this filming is planned to take place at the actual real-life competition in Liverpool this May.

Additionally, when asked about the Will Ferrell film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020), he replied:

“I actually watched it, I really enjoyed that movie, it had more of a comedic take on Eurovision than we would. I think we’d like to look at it maybe in a more straightforward way.

But this song has been a part of the show all last season, I think it just has its own life on the series.”

You can listen to Mon Soleil below: