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Ukraine: Vidbir 2024 11 songs and performance line-up released!

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A while ago, the Ukrainian broadcaster, UA:PBC, released through its official YouTube channel, the eleven songs that will compete in Vidbir 2024, with the aim of becoming the country’s next representative, for Eurovision 2024!

Vidbir, Ukraine’s national final returns for another year as the method of selecting the country’s representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. With a total of eleven entries, out of 389 songs submitted, Vidbir 2024 will be held from the Maidan Nezalezhnosti station of the Kyiv metro.

The songs and artist lineup for Vidbir 2024

The order of appearance of the eleven artists at Vidbir 2024 is as follows (You can listen to the songs of the candidates by clicking on the corresponding link):

  1. YAKTAK — «Lalala»
  2. INGRET — «Keeper»
  3. NAZVA — «Slavic English»
  4. ANKA — «Палала»
  5. Drevo — «Endless chain»
  6. alyona alyona & Jerry Heil — «Teresa & Maria»
  7. MÉLOVIN — «DREAMER»
  8. SKYLERR — «Time is running out»
  9. Ziferblat — «Place I Call Home»
  10. YAGODY — «Tsunamia»
  11. NAHABA — «GLASSS»

We remind you that the national final of Ukraine for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will be held on February 3 at 18:00 cet, live on the UA public TV channel (UA:First). The result will be decided with 50% by the TV audience and 50% by the jury.

Also the composition of the jury will be decided by the Ukrainian public later through online voting.

The previous winners of Vidbir and then representatives of the country at Eurovision 2023, were TVORCHI with their song “Heart of Steel”, with which they ended up in sixth place in the final ranking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2oqDpefJ1s

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Source:  UA:PBC

Ukraine: ANKA accused of plagiarizing her Vidbir 2024 song!

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A new accusation of plagiarism has arrived, this time  against one contestant in the Ukraine national final for Eurovision. ANKA joined the group of participants for the next Vidbir 2024 with her song “Палала”.  The singer won her ticket after getting 80,944 votes from the online public representing 26.78% of the total votes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0sJEaKJx94&ab_channel=ANKA However, a controversy started when singer Natalia Valevska who is well-known in Ukraine noticed some similarities between the Vidbir song and one of her own works.  Valevska took Instagram to accuse ANKA  of plagiarizing the chorus of her song.  According to Natalia Valevska, the chorus of ANKA’s ‘Palala’ share a striking similarity with her own song which has the same title but was released nearly two decades ago. Natalia Valevska, stressed that the similarities between the two songs go beyond having the same title but also in the lyrics. Namely Natalia Valevska‘s include in her chorus the phrase: “Palala, palala, palala in my sky a star” while ANKA’s chorus say “Palala, fell, palala, until the star fell from the sky”. Therefore Natalia Valevska asked her fans if this was a mere coincidence or an act of plagiarism.  According to the singer it would be the latter, since she alleges “the Ukrainian language offers a variety of words for creating lyrics” this could not be a mere coincidence. https://youtu.be/S0RvrfqLuog?si=pGSHOOwDtKbRlhSx Notwithstanding the similarities in the choice of words for both chorus, the music and the overall lyrics are different. ANKA has not responded to this accusation. The final of Vidbir 2024 will be held in February 3, 2o24. Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for more news about Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024! Source: bnnbreaking.com

Ukraine: These are the 20 artists longlisted for Vidbir 2024!

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Vidbir will remain as the country’s national selection format for Eurovision 2024. Having received 389 submissions in total, Suspilne has reviewed the proposals and now revealed the 20 participants who will advance to the next stage of the competition.

The longlisted participants who have advanced to the “Live Auditions” stage are the following:

  • Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil
  • ANKA
  • Carpetman
  • Drevo
  • INGRET
  • Julia Belei
  • KARYOTYPE
  • KRYLATA
  • MÉLOVIN
  • NAHABA
  • NAZVA
  • PARFENIUK
  • SHÉPA
  • SKYLERR
  • STASYA
  • SWOIIA
  • TESLENKO
  • YAGODY
  • YAKTAK
  • Ziferblat

Dmytro Shurov (Pianoboy), the music producer of the National Selection for Eurovision 2024, noted that all the artists who made it to the longlist are different and unique.

“Ukraine, I am very happy to present to you twenty artists who will compete this year for the opportunity to represent you at Eurovision 2024! All of them are different and original, but they are united by a warm heart, talent and a huge thirst for Victory. I am grateful to each of them for the sincere and creative energy they put into their songs. And I am especially grateful to everyone who did not have enough space in the top twenty – you made this selection possible by creating this powerful charge. Next year will be a new story and a new chance. And today it’s us.” 

What’s next for Vidbir 2024?

The aforementioned are just the longlisted competitors for Vidbir 2024. These twenty selected artists will go through a live audition, and based on the result, they will be reduced to ten.

Moreover, among the remaining ten longlisted competitors, an online voting will be held in order to determine one more participant to the televised final of Vidbir 2024.

The ten finalists, decided based on their live audition result, will be announced no later than November 20. Meanwhile, we expect the online public vote for the extra spot, after the announcement of the other ten finalists.

The televised final of Vidbir 2024 will be held in February 2024. The winner will be determined by public and jury voting. Also, the composition of the jury will be decided by the Ukrainian public at a later time through online voting.

The previous winners of Vidbir and Ukraine’s representatives in Eurovision 2023, were Tvorchi with their song “Heart of Steel”, ending up in sixth place of the Grand Final.

https://youtu.be/I2oqDpefJ1s

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