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Estonia: Alika will bring her piano to Liverpool!

With a similar appearance to the one she performed in the Eesti Laul 2023 final, Alika will appear in Liverpool. This means that she will have her special piano with her!

In Alika’s Bridges performance at Eurovision 2023 she will play the piano that was part of Eesti Laul’s performance. The revelation was made earlier this week as Tallinn Airport shared photos of her piano being shipped to Liverpool as part of preparations for the contest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbEj29AjB-c

This is of course not surprising, since almost all the Estonian representatives in the competition retain the stage appearance they had in Eesti Laul to Eurovision as well, with some improvements of course.

Estonia is competing in the second semi-final, with the betting so far putting them on track to qualify for the grand final.

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Εstonia: Eurovisionfun Reacts to Eurovision 2023 Entry “Bridges” (video)

Last Saturday, the national final of Estonia, Eesti Laul 2023, concluded for another year, in which Alika won both the televote and the jury vote! So the next representative of the country for Eurovision 2023 will be Alika with the song “Brigdes“.

The Eurovisionfun team once again watched and reacted to the live performance for the country’s participation in the upcoming Eurovision contest! Enjoy Matamis Apostolis, Bogiannos Apostolos and Mitika Katerina in a Reaction video, with detailed commentary on Estonia’s participation, for 2023!

Below you can enjoy the live performance of Alika in Eesti Laul 2023:

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Estonia: Alika lead all rounds of Eesti Laul!

Alika won Eesti Laul 2023 and will represent Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest.  However, with the available results we can say that she dominated Eesti Laul since the beginning.  The singer of “Bridges” received the most  votes in all rounds of Eesti Laul. “Bridges” was also ranked first in the ranking of the international jury.

Alika received 13,141 votes for the Grand Final on Saturday.  That was more than enough to be in first place.  Runner-up Ollie received 10,280 votes and Bedwetters received 7,991 votes. The results were similar on the first round of voting for the final: Alika (8,514 votes), Ollie (6,832 votes) and Bedwetters (4,685 votes).

Janek ended in fourth place (3051 votes) and Meelik in fifth (3048 votes).  The places changed after adding  jury’s points.  The top five of the international jury were respectively: Alika, Bedwetters, Ollie, Meelik and Sissi.

Moreover Alika won her semi-final by a landslide.  She received 4364 votes, followed by Elysa (1464 votes) and Inger (918 votes). Alika, Sissi, Inger and Meelik topped the second semi-final according to the results of the public and the jury. In the additional voting round of the second semi-final, M Els advanced with 872 votes, followed by Elysa (731 votes) and Carlos Ukareda (633 votes).

Ollie got the highest result in the first Semi-final from the jury and in the tele-vote (1397 votes).  Bedwetters came in second place (1335 votes) in both the televote and the jury.   Following, Anett x Fredi got the third place, and Andreas reached the final in fourth place. In the first round of voting, Mia received the third highest voting from the public (1326 votes). In the second round of voting, Janek won with 1,535 votes, followed by Ellip (971 votes) and Merlyn (497 votes).

For the first time in Eesti Laul, people could vote for two more songs in the final. Mia (1502 votes) and Elysa (1419 votes) advanced to the final thanks to the additional voting. They were followed by Wiiralt (1064 votes), Merlyn (1058 votes) and Ellip (851 votes).

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Estonia: Eesti Laul 2023 Grand Final Tonight!

The national final season of Eurovision 2023, continues tonight with the grand final of Eesti Laul 2023!

ERR, Estonia’s public broadcaster, decided to remove the qualifying rounds after a year of use, back in the 2022 edition. So this year’s Eesti Laul will begin right from the two semi-finals and then the Grand Final, where the representative of Estonia will be decided.

Τhe hosts for this year’s edition will be Grete Kuld and Tõnis Niinemets who are going to host the show once again, two years later, after successfully hosting Eesti Laul 2021.

The grand final of Eesti Laul 2023 will be broadcasted this evening at 18:30 CET and will last about three hours. You can the show through the official website of ERR, by clicking HERE.

Participants

In the list below, you can see the twelve artists and the songs, competing in the Grand Final of Eesti Laul 2023 (You can listen to each song by clicking on their title):

  1. Meelik- “Tuju”
  2. Inger – “Awaiting You”
  3. JANEK – “House of Glass”
  4. Elysa – “Bad Philosophy”
  5. m els – “So Good At What You Do”
  6. Bedwetters – “Monsters”
  7. Andreas – “Why Do You Love Me”
  8. Alika – “Bridges”
  9. Anett x Fredi – “You Need to Move On”
  10. OLLIE – “Venom”
  11. MIA – “Üks samm korraga”
  12. Sissi – “Lighthouse”

Eesti Laul 2023

In total, 20 songs are going to take part in Eesti Laul 2023, after being selected by ERR’s competent jury. Ten song will compete in each of the two semi-finals, with the five best songs advancing for the Final.

Each semi-final has two rounds of voting. In the first voting round, four songs will be selected by the jury vote combined with the public vote, while in the second round, one song will qualify for the final solely based on the televote.

In the Grand Final the show will have two rounds of voting. The first round will determine the entries that will advance to the Super Final, 50% by the jury and 50% by the TV audience. There the Estonian representative is selected by 100% televoting .

The program of Eesti Laul 2023

  • First Semi-Final – Thursday January 12
  • Second Semi-final – Saturday  January 14
  • Grand Final – Saturday February 11

Until we learn who is going to represent Estonia in Eurovision 2023, lets remember their song for last year’s contest. The previous winner of Eesti Laul and Estonia’s representative in Eurovision 2022 was Stefan with the song “Hope“,  who ended up in 13th place in the Grand Final, while on the same time he brough his country back to the final after a non-qualification in 2021:

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Εstonia: Eurovisionfun Reviews Eesti Laul 2023 Songs! (video)

This Saturday the Grand Final of Eesti Laul 2023 will take place and Estonia will have the next act that will fly to Liverpool this May! 12 acts will perform live in order to win the show and go to Eurovision 2023!

The Eurovisionfun team couldn’t help but see and comment on the 12 participants  from Estonia for the upcoming Eurovision contest! Enjoy Matamis Apostolis, Roupakias Christos and Bogiannos Apostolos in a reaction/review video with detailed commentary for this year’s Eesti Laul 2023 entries!

Also, on our Youtube channel you can enjoy exclusive interviews with some of the finalists from Eesti Laul 2023:

The running order of the final is as follows:

  1. Meelik- “Tuju”
  2. Inger – “Awaiting You”
  3. JANEK – “House of Glass”
  4. Elysa – “Bad Philosophy”
  5. m els – “So Good At What You Do”
  6. Bedwetters – “Monsters”
  7. Andreas – “Why Do You Love Me”
  8. Alika – “Bridges”
  9. Anett x Fredi – “You Need to Move On”
  10. OLLIE – “Venom”
  11. MIA – “Üks samm korraga”
  12. Sissi – “Lighthouse”

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Estonia: The running order of Eesti Laul’s 2023 final!

A few moments ago, Estonia’s broadcaster, ERR, announced the running order for the final of Eesti Laul 2023!

Meelik with “Tuju” will open the grand final while Sissi will close the night with “Lighthouse“.

The running order of the final is as follows:

  1. Meelik- “Tuju”
  2. Inger – “Awaiting You”
  3. JANEK – “House of Glass”
  4. Elysa – “Bad Philosophy”
  5. m els – “So Good At What You Do”
  6. Bedwetters – “Monsters”
  7. Andreas – “Why Do You Love Me”
  8. Alika – “Bridges”
  9. Anett x Fredi – “You Need to Move On”
  10. OLLIE – “Venom”
  11. MIA – “Üks samm korraga”
  12. Sissi – “Lighthouse”

During the final of Eesti Laul 2023, several guest artists will perform alongside the finalists. The organisers have already announced that Karl-Erik Taukar, 2 Quick Start and last year’s winner, Stefan, will perform on stage.

The Grand Final of Eesti Laul 2023 will take place on 11 February at the Tondiraba Ice Hall in Tallinn with Tõnis Niinemets and Grete Kuld as hosts. There will be two rounds of voting. The first round will determine the entries that will qualify for the Super Final, which will be determined by 50% of the jury and 50% of the TV vote. There, the Estonian representative will be selected exclusively through the televote.

Last year’s winner of Eesti Laul was Stefan Airapetjan with the song “Hope” who came 13th in the final with 141 points.

https://youtu.be/GdTpQmMem8U

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Estonia: These are the Wildcard Finalists of Eesti Laul!

After the Second Semi-Final of Eesti Laul 2023, the Estonian public broadcaster ERR announced that two additional artists will advance to the Grand Final of Eesti Laul 2023 as Wildcards.

From Saturday evening until this afternoon, the Estonian audience was able to vote among the ten songs that did not make it to the Final, giving two artists one last chance.

The ten nominees were:

  1. Ellip – Pretty Girl
  2. Kaw – Valik
  3. Merlyn – Unicorn Vibes
  4. Mia – Üks samm korraga
  5. Neon Letters and Maiko – Tokimeki
  6. Linalakk and Bonzo – Aeg
  7. Elysa – Bad Philosophy
  8. Robin Juhkental – Kurbuse matused
  9. Wiiralt  Salalik
  10. Carlos Ukareda – Whiskey Won’t Forget

Through ERR’s Ringvaade broadcast, it was announced that the two artists who won this voting rounds and will also advance to the Final of Eesti Laul 2023 are:

  1. Mia – Üks samm korraga
  2. Elysa – Bad Philosophy

Therefore the Final lineup of Eesti Laul 2023 is as follows:

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Source: ERR

Estonia: The results of the second semi-final of Eesti Laul 2023!

The second and last semi-final of Eesti Laul 2023, the selection process for the next Estonian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, has just finished. In today’s second semi-final, ten songs competed for the remaining five tickets leading to the grand final.

The presenters of the evening were, yet again, Grete Kuld and Tõnis Niinemets while the show took place at Viimsi Artium in Viimsi.

The Participants:

The artists that participated in the second semi-final of Eesti Laul 2023 were as follows:

  1. Inger – Awaiting You
  2. Linalakk & Bonzo – Aeg
  3. Meelik- Tuju
  4. Elysa – Bad Philosophy
  5. Robin Juhkental – Kurbuse matused” 
  6. m els – So Good At What You Do
  7. Wiiralt – Salalik
  8. Sissi – Lighthouse”’
  9. Carlos Ukareda – “Whiskey Won’t Forget
  10. Alika – Bridges

The Show:

1. Inger – Awaiting You

Inger is opening the second semi-final. His performance starts with him being on a round platform, sitting on a chair. Although he is very present and playful during his performance, he has trouble with his vocals.

2.Linalakk & Bonzo – Aeg

The first Estonian ballad of the night. An atmospheric setting yet an uneventful performance.

3. Meelik  Tuju

Meelik are using a black and white effect for their performance until the third chorus. They were very professional and had a well thought-out performance.

4. Elysa – Bad Philosophy

The second runner-up of Eesti Laul 2022 performs an 80s influenced pop song. She is accompanied by three dancers that were stylized as David Bowie. A pretty wooden performance from her behalf.

5. Robin Juhkental – Kurbuse matused

Robin is accompanied by a pianist, a drummer and a dancer. It’s a nice performance but it fails to generate any emotion.

6. m els – So Good At What You Do

The red colour prevails in m els’ performance. She performs while standing on a high platform. She’s a present performer and a good vocalist.

7. Wiiralt – Salalik

Another black and white performance on tonight’s semi-final. It’s a good performance but very reminiscent of Meelik’s performance.

8.Sissi – Lighthouse”’

Sissi is dressed in white for her Eesti Laul performance. Manages to stand out and make a statement while being on her own.

9.Carlos Ukareda – “Whiskey Won’t Forget

Carlos is alone with a guitar on the stage. He’s dressed in black. A flawless performance.

10.Alika – Bridges

Alika is accompanied by a piano that has the illusion of playing on it’s own. She’s dressed in white. A charismatic performer.

The results

The five artists who qualified for the final of Eesti Laul 2023 were determined after two rounds of voting. In the first round of voting, four qualifiers were determined by a 50% jury and 50% televoting system. In the second round of voting, a new vote was held and one more qualifier was chosen solely by the televoting.

Before announcing the results, the presenters announced the jury’s top four favourites in random order with them being Alika, Meelik, Sissi and Wiiralt!

In the first round, the following four songs qualified:

Among the six remaining songs, this is the last song to qualify to the final:

After the announcement of the televote qualifier of the second semi-final, the presenters announced that two more artists who did not make it directly from the semi-finals to the finals will also qualify for the final of Eesti Laul through phone votes only. Voting closes on 16 January at 18:30 CET. Voting will be based on the same numbers as the semi-finalists.

These are the artists who didn’t qualify from the Eesti Laul semi-finals:

  1. Ellip – “Pretty Girl
  2. Kaw – “Valik
  3. Merlyn – “Unicorn Vibes
  4. Mia – “Üks samm korraga
  5. Neon Letters and Maiko – “Tokimeki
  6. Linalakk and Bonzo – “Aeg
  7. Elysa – “Bad Philosophy
  8. Robin Juhkental – “Kurbuse matused
  9. Wiiralt – “Salalik
  10. Carlos Ukareda – “Whiskey Won’t Forget

These are the finalists of Eesti Laul 2023 so far:

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Estonia: Eesti Laul 2023 Second Semi-Final Tonight!

The nationa final season of Eurovision 2023, continues tonight with the second semi-final of Eesti Laul 2023!

ERR, Estonia’s public broadcaster, decided to remove the qualifying rounds after a year of use, back in the 2022 edition. So this year’s Eesti Laul will begin right from the two semi-finals and then the Grand Final, where the representative of Estonia will be decided.

Τhe hosts for this year’s edition will be Grete Kuld and Tõnis Niinemets who are going to host the show once again, two years later, after successfully hosting Eesti Laul 2021.

The second semi-final of Eesti Laul 2023 will be broadcasted this evening at 18:30 CET and will last about three hours. You can the show through the official website of ERR, by clicking HERE.

The Participants of the second Semi-Final of Eesti Laul 2023:

In the list below, you can see the ten artists and the songs, competing in the second semi-final Eesti Laul 2023 (You can listen to each song by clicking on their title):

  1. Inger – “Awaiting You”
  2. Linalakk & Bonzo – “Aeg” (Time)
  3. Meelik- “Tuju”
  4. Elysa – “Bad Philosophy”
  5. Robin Juhkental – “Kurbuse matused” (Funeral of sorrow)
  6. m els – “So Good At What You Do”
  7. Wiiralt – “Salalik“
  8. Sissi – “Lighthouse”’
  9. Carlos Ukareda – Whiskey Won’t Forget”
  10. Alika – “Bridges”

Eesti Laul 2023

In total, 20 songs are going to take part in Eesti Laul 2023, after being selected by ERR’s competent jury. Ten song will compete in each of the two semi-finals, with the five best songs advancing for the Final.

Each semi-final has two rounds of voting. In the first voting round, four songs will be selected by the jury vote combined with the public vote, while in the second round, one song will qualify for the final solely based on the televote.

In the Grand Final the show will have two rounds of voting. The first round will determine the entries that will advance to the Super Final, 50% by the jury and 50% by the TV audience. There the Estonian representative is selected by 100% televoting .

The program of Eesti Laul 2023

  • First Semi-Final – Thursday January 12
  • Second Semi-final – Saturday  January 14
  • Grand Final – Saturday February 11

Until we learn who is going to represent Estonia in Eurovision 2023, lets remember their song for last year’s contest. The previous winner of Eesti Laul and Estonia’s representative in Eurovision 2022 was Stefan with the song “Hope“,  who ended up in 13th place in the Grand Final, while on the same time he brough his country back to the final after a non-qualification in 2021:

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Estonian participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in Liverpool!

Estonia: The results of the first semi-final of Eesti Laul 2023!

The first semi-final of Eesti Laul 2023, the selection process for the next Estonian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, has just finished. In today’s first semi-final, ten songs competed for the first five tickets leading to the grand final!

The show was hosted at Viimsi Artium in Viimsi by Grete Kuld and Tõnis Niinemets.

The Participants: 

In today’s first Semi-Final, ten songs competed for the first five tickets to the grand final of Eesti Laul 2023. These artists are the following:

  1. JANEK – “House of Glass”
  2. Ellip – “Pretty Girl”
  3. Kaw – “Valik”
  4. MERLYN – “Unicorn Vibes”
  5. MIA – “Üks samm korraga”
  6. Neon Letters & Maiko – “Tokimeki”
  7. OLLIE – “Venom”
  8. Andreas – “Why Do You Love Me”
  9. Bedwetters – “Monsters”
  10. Anett x Fredi – “You Need to Move On”

The Performances:

1. Janek – “House of Glass

Janek opened Eesti Laul 2023 with a powerful ballad. The show starts with the artist in a television box. He then stands on a platform. At the end, there are three-dimensional broken glass effects.

2. Ellip – “Pretty Girl

Following Janek is Ellip. She is accompanied by four dancers. She is dressed in black. Ellip filled the stage with her personality.

3. Kaw – “Valik

Kaw are the first group of the evening. They sing in Estonian. Lots of shot changes and lighting. They’re having vocal issues until up to the third chorus.

4. MERLYN – “Unicorn Vibes

Next up is Merlyn which is accompanied by two dancers. Although her vocals are on point, stage-wise she is “wooden”.

5. MIA – Üks samm korraga

Mia competes with the biggest female power ballad of the Semi-Final. She sings in Estonian while wearing a silver jumpsuit. She is accompanied by a pianist and a dancing couple.

6. Neon Letters & Maiko – “Tokimeki

Neon Letters & Maiko perform in a lighted box. Japanese subtitles accompany a big part of the performance. They are dressed in black and white.

7. OLLIE – “Venom

The first rock song of the night. The performance is very professional. Pink lighting predominates, and Ollie’s vocals are very good.

8. Andreas – “Why Do You Love Me

After Ollie’s bombastic performance, Andreas sings an ethereal ballad accompanied by a female dancer. Low lighting prevails.

9. Bedwetters – “Monsters

The second rock song of the semi-final. The Bedwetters have an eccentric performance reminiscent of Winny Puhh. A freak-show.

10. Anett x Fredi – “You Need to Move On

Anett x Fredi will close the semi-final, an atmospheric and well-staged performance that will get appreciated.

The results

The five artists who qualified for the final of Eesti Laul 2023 were determined after two rounds of voting. In the first round of voting, four qualifiers were determined by a 50% jury and 50% televoting system. In the second round of voting, a new vote was held and one more qualifier was chosen solely by the televoting.

Before announcing the results, the presenters announced the jury’s top four favourites in random order with them being Anett x Fredi, Andreas, ELLIP and OLLIE!

In the first round, the following four songs qualified:

Among the six remaining songs, this is the last song to qualify to the final:

  1. JANEK – “House of Glass”

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