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Estonia: “Eurovisiooni Laulud” begins on March 31!

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The Estonian pre-show for Eurovision, called “Eurovisiooni laulud” returns once again, this Sunday, on March 31, through the public broadcaster ERR.

A jury panel, as well as Estonian musicians, will listen and assess the song that will take part in Eurovision Song Contest 2024!

Grete Kuld and Tõnis Niinemets, both hosts of Eesti Laul, will be the hosts of the pre-show, who will also be accompanied by guests who will listen to the Eurovision 2024 songs, in each episode. In the first episode, Põhja-Korea, Päevakoer and Ramo Teder, the Estonian representatives for this year, will be present as guests. This year, the guests are not giving out points, but they will just choose their favourite song from each episode instead.

This year, Estonia is represented by 5Miinust x Puuluup, with their song “(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi”, which will take part in the second semi-final of Eurovision 2024, on May 9, and they will be performing 13th in the running order:

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Source: ERR

 

Estonia: “Cha Cha Cha” voted as the Best International Hit for 2023!

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Raadio 2, of ERR, the Estonian public broadcaster, announced the most successful songs of the, now, previous year, according to public voting.

Among the most successful songs in the Baltic country, there is “Cha Cha Cha” by Käärijä, which was voted as the best International Hit of 2023!

Of course, in the list,there are more songs that took part bith in Eurovision Song Contest 2023 and Eesti Laul 2023.

The most successful Eesti Laul 2023 songs:

  • 7. Ollie – “Venom”
  • 13. Alika – “Bridges”
  • 17. Bedwetters – “Monsters”
  • 19. Meelik – “Tuju”
  • 25. M Els – “So Good (At What You Do)”

It’s also worth mentioning that Ollie and “Venom” (runner-up of Eesti Laul 2023), ended up in a higher place, compared to the winner and Estonia’s representative in Eurovision 2023, Alika and “Bridges”.

As for the most successful Eurovision 2023 songs, there were three entries, that standed out:

  •  1. Käärijä – “Cha Cha Cha”
  • 10. Loreen –“Tattoo”
  • 35. Joker Out – “Carpe Diem”

The winner of Eesti Laul and Estonia’s representative in Eurovision 2023, was Alika with the song “Bridges”, that ended up in eighth place of the Grand Final, getting the country’s best placement since 2018:

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Estonia: Listen to the songs competing in Eesti Laul 2024!

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Estonia’s public broadcaster, ERR, released the 20 songs that are going to participate in Eesti Laul 2024, in order to claim the country’s representation in Eurovision 2024.

The competitors of Eesti Laul 2024:

In the list below you can see the 15 artists and their songs competing in the semi-final of Eesti Laul 2024 (you can click on the title of each song to listen to it):

  1. 5miinust ja Puuluup – “(nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi”
  2. Anet Vaikmaa – “Serotoniin” 
  3. Antsud – “Vetevaim”
  4. Cecilia –“FOMO”
  5. Ewert and The Two Dragons – “Hold Me Now”
  6. Inga – “No Dog On a Leash”
  7. Ingmar –“Dreaming”
  8. Laura – “Here’s Where I Draw the Line”
  9. Multikas, Ewert Sundja – “Oblivion” 
  10. Ollie – “My Friend”
  11. Peter Põder “Korra veel”
  12. Silver Jusilo – “Lately”
  13. Sofia Rubina – “Be Good”
  14. Traffic – “Wunderbar” 
  15. Yonna  – “I Don’t Know About You”

In the list below you can listen to the five songs competing directly in the Final of Eesti Laul 2024:

  1. Βrother Apollo – “Bad Boy” 
  2. Daniel Levi – “Over The Moon”
  3. Nele-Liss Vaiksoo – “Kate Umber Jaa”
  4.  Carlos Ukareda – “Never Growing Up”
  5. Uudo Sepp, Sarah Murray – “Still love” 

We remind you that these are the dates announced for Eesti Laul 2024:

  • Semi-Final – January 20th
  • Grand Final – February 17th

The previous winner of Eesti Laul and Estonia’s representative in Eurovision 2023 was Alika with the song “Bridges“, who ended up in 8th place in the Grand Final, which is the country’s best result since 2018:

https://youtu.be/HsbC-OYMA3s

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Estonia: The songs submitted for Eesti Laul 2024 were evaluated by a 41-member jury!

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The next songs competing for Eurovision 2024 that we are going to listen, are coming from Estonia! The songs are going to be revealed in November 6 and 7 through the show “Ringvaates“, as they were just evaluated by a 41-member jury.

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Estonia: Tõnis Niinemets and Grete Kuld will host Eesti Laul 2024!

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Through Eesti Laul, we met the duo of Tõnis Niinemetsa and Grete Kulla for the first time in 2021. After that they presented the national final again in 2023, just as big fans, they accepted this role once again in 2024.

Tõnis Niinemetsa was excited about it:

“For me, Eesti Laul is like Christmas or my birthday. This time of the year I look forward to even more excitedly than summer. And it’s especially nice that I can go to Tartu again this year!”

Grete Kuld was also excited about going back to Tartu:

“The semi-final in Tartu will be awesome! We will bring a big stage, lots of cameras, 15 semi-finalists and definitely a long ladder so that Tõnis can get the high notes, because we also plan to take the stage with a little surprise.”

The semi-final of Eesti Laul will take place in Tartu on January 20 and the final on February 17 in Tallinn. Grete Kulda and Tõnis Niinemets will also appear on the show “Ringvaate” on November 6 and 7 where they will introduce the contestants.

The winner of Eesti Laul 2023 and Estonia’s representative at Eurovision 2023 was Alika with the song “Bridges”. Alika achieved her country’s best finish in the contest in years by placing eighth in the final.

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Estonia: Submission for Eesti Laul 2024 will open in mid-September!

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Earlier today, the presentation of the winter program of the Estonian public broadcaster, ERR, took place in Tallinn. Among others, the directors talked about Eesti Laul, the national final through which, as we already know, they will choose both their representative and song, for yet another year.

Karmel Killandi, editor-in-chief of ERR’s entertainment programs, revealed that applications for Eesti Laul 2024 will be accepted from September 15 until mid-October, but did not specify the closing date.

As we already know Tomi Rahula will not continue to be the producer of Eesti Laul, nevertheless, Karmel Killandi, when asked who will be the next producer, refrained from answering and let the host of the event say what it will be a surprise.

We already know that this year’s Eesti Laul, will take place with many changes. So we are all waiting to see the renewed national final!

The winner of last year’s Eesti Laul and Estonia’s representative in Eurovision 2023, was Alika with her song “Bridges”, ending up in eighth place of the Grand Final:

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Alika: “I was and am in favour of Finland”!

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After “Bridges” and Alika won the eighth place for her country, she spoke about Loreen’s win and expressed her preference for Kaarija and “Cha cha cha”.

More precisely, the Estonian representative said:

“I’ll be honest, I was and am in favour of Finland. Loreen is still such a legendary winner, twice already. She is a person who is very well suited to Eurovision, but I, personally, liked Finland better!”

She also commented on her result, of course, as she brought her country into the Top Ten after five years.

“I’m incredibly happy that people listened, people heard me, people voted! This is important to me!”

Alika was a dark horse in the race for the Τop Τen, and yet she managed to bring home eighth place in this year’s contest. You can once again enjoy “Bridges” below:

Source: Err.ee

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Estonia: ERR coverage of Eurovision 2023!

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The Estonian public broadcaster ERR has revealed the coverage for Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

Marko Reikop will be the commentator of the 67th song contest in Liverpool, covering the show in the Estonian language. This is going to be the 28th time that Marko Reikop takes up the role of the commentator since 1994, when Estonia debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest. Just before the grand final of Saturday 13rd of May, Kuidas valmistutakse Eurovisiooniks Liverpoolis show will be broadcast getting the public in the Eurovision mood.

Alongside with the coverage in the Estonian language, there is also going to be coverage in the Russian language through ETV+. The Russian coverage will be carried out by Aleksandr Hobotov and Julia Kalenda.

Estonia is being represented by Alika and her song “Bridges” and is going to compete in the second semi-final on Thursday 11th of May from the fourth spot.

The first rehearsal of Estonia is scheduled to take place tomorrow, Tuesday 2nd of May.

Below you can watch the reaction video of the Eurovision Fun team to the Estonian entry.

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Estonia: Sweden was the winner of the second episode of Eurovisiooni laulud 2023!

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A special show dedicated exclusively to this year’s Eurovision entries is shown by ERR, the state-owned Estonian television channel. Every Thursday and for six consecutive weeks in the show Eurovisiooni laulud 2023 some of the entries of the 67th Eurovision Contest are shown while they are rated by a specially formed jury which changes every week. The winner of the first episode was Käärijä with “Cha Cha Cha” representing Finland.

The second episode was broadcast last night with a four-person panel consisting of the two presenters (Grete Kuld and Tõnis Niinemets), but also Mia and Janek who both participated in this year’s edition of Eesti Laul, of the Estonian national final.

In the second episode the entries heard and evaluated by the panel were:

  • “Tattoo” – Loreen – Sweden
  • “Burning Daylight” – Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper – Netherlands
  • “We Are One” – Wild Youth – Ireland
  • “Queen of Kings” – Alessandra – Norway
  • “Breaking My Heart” – Reiley – Denmark
  • “Unicorn” – Noa Kirel – Israel

The winner of the night was Loreen with “Tattoo” and was named the best entry among the six entries evaluated.

The next episode of Eurovisiooni laulud 2023 will be broadcast next Thursday 06/04 through ERR.

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Estonia: Finland wins the first show of Eurovisiooni laulud 2023!

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The Estonian Public Broadcaster ERR, has started yesterday the TV preview show for this year’s Eurovision. Which is called Eurovisiooni laulud 2023.

Every Thursday for the next six weeks, Estonian TV viewers can watch some of the songs that won the ticket for Liverpool.

The first episode was aired last night with a four-person panel consisted of the two presenters of the show (Grete Kuld and Tõnis Niinemets), but also Elina Born (Estonia 2015) and Robin Jukental (Estonia 2010), who are guest judges.

The panel heard and rated the first six songs which are:

  • “Heart of Steel” – Tvorchi – Ukraine
  • “Promise” – Voyager – Australia
  • “Évidemment” – La Zarra – France
  • “Dance (Our Own Party)” – The Busker – Malta
  • “My Sister’s Crown” – Vesna – Czechia
  • “Cha Cha Cha” – Käärijä – Finland

The winner of the night was Käärijä with “Cha Cha Cha” and it was named as the best entry among the six entries evaluated.

The next episode of Eurovisiooni laulud 2023 wil be broadcast next Thursday 30/03 on ERR’s Estonian channel ETV.

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