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Netherlands: The representative will be revealed on December 11!

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The wait for the announcement of the Dutch representative at Eurovision 2024 is almost over. Following an extensive internal selection, it is now confirmed that AVROTROS will announce its Eurovision 2024 participant on December 11.

The process of the Dutch internal selection

Following the closing of the submission window on early October, the Dutch selection committee had to evaluate more than 600 submissions. Those 600 submissions were shortlisted to nine and then to five. The five favorites for the Dutch representation were asked to sing their songs live in front of the selection committee in order to have their vocal abilitites evaluated and not repeat this year’s scenario, which led to the first Dutch non-qualification in eight years of a successful course.

Hence, one of the criteria under which the Dutch representative will be chosen will have to be the live vocals and performance skills.

The three potential candidates

Moreover and according to the radio station “Radio 538“, there are three candidates most likely to represent the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, all of them females. Specifically, those three artists are

  • Karsu
  • Numidia and
  • Ilse DeLange

Numidia and Karsu became famous after taking part at “Best Singers”, a musical competition in the Netherlands. Numidia’s song for Eurovision 2024 is written by a former Eurostar, Douwe Bob who represented the Netherlands  in Eurovision 2016 and according to him, had also submitted a song for himself.

Ilse DeLange is the one of “The Common Linnets” duo, that represented The Netherlands at Eurovision 2014, finishing second. Although and according to her manager, Ilse DeLangewill not be taking part at Eurovision 2024.

The Netherlands were represented at Eurovision 2023 by Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper with their song “Burning Daylight“. Their performance did not convince the European audience, failing to qualify to the Grand Final of the competition.

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Source: AVROTROS

Sweden: The 2024 line-up will be announced on the 1st of December, according to a press release by SVT!

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Earlier today, SVT sent a press release by email stating that on the 1st of December there will be the announcement of all 30 artists and songs that will compete at Melodifestivalen 2024, at a press conference, in Stockholm! The competition producer Karin Gunnarsson joined by Melodifestivalen‘s project manager Anders Wistbacka will present the 30 songs competing in Melodifestivalen 2024 and the artists who perform them. The entries’ starting order, presenter, stage and other news about Melodifestivalen 2024 will be presented later this winter.

This is the schedule of the six shows of the Melodifestivalen 2024 tour:

  • Heat 1: Saturday 3 February 2024, Malmö Arena, Malmö
  • Heat 2: Saturday 10 February 2024, Scandinavium, Göteborg
  • Heat 3: Saturday 17 February 2024, Vida Arena, Växjö
  • Heat 4: Saturday 24 February 2024, Stiga Sports Arena, Eskiltuna
  • Heat 5: Saturday 2 March 2024, Löfbergs Arena, Karlstad
  • Final: Saturday 9 March 2024, Friends Arena, Stockholm – Solna

The 68th Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Malmö, Sweden in 7, 9 and 11th of May 2024, after the second win of Loreen in Liverpool, with her song “Tattoo”:

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Source: SVT

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Cyprus: Silia Kapsis will represent the country at Eurovision 2024 with a song by Dimitris Kontopoulos!

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What has been the common secret for days has now become official. RIK some minutes ago during the presentation of its new programme, announced that Silia Kapsis will represent Cyprus in Eurovision 2024 with a song by Dimitris Kontopoulos! This will be the eighth different country that the distinguished Greek artist will represent in the contest and the first time we will see him in Cypriot colours!

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Greece: ERT announces its representative for Liverpool in the coming days!

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ERT is now in the final stretch for the selection of the artist and the song that will represent Greece at the 67th Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place next May in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

After the vote of the Public Jury, the Christmas break, the time has come for the big decision.

Based on what ERT followed last year, the meetings of the artists and their teams, with the artistic committee and the management of the Greek public television, are now expected, so that the final selection can then be made. In these meetings, the artists gets to know the people of ERT for the first time, while their teams present any plans they have for the stage appearance, promotion abroad, etc.

We remind you that the Greek representative this year will be chose through a 70-member Audience Committee that will determine 50.6% of the verdict, with the remaining 49.4% belonging to the Artistic Committee.

As revealed by Eurovisionfun and subsequently reproduced by all the country’s media, the ranking of the Audience Committee was as follows:

1. Melissa Mantzoukis – Liar

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2.Victor Vernicos – What They Say

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3. Klavdia – Holy Water
4. Leon of Athens – Somewhere to Go

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5/6. Monika – I’m Proud/ Antonia Kaouri & Maria Maragou – Shout Out
7. Konstantina Iosifidou – We are Young

Similar results to those of the Audience Committee were also given by our readers, where with more than 2,000 different votes, they have approximately the same ranking in their preferences. You can see the results of our Poll HERE.

The fluid political scene and the upcoming national elections with all that this entails for the extra workload of ERT, was also the reason for the slight delay in the announcement of the Greek representative, since according to the original plan this was expected in mid-January and not at the end of it, as it will eventually be.

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