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Belgium: Listen to snippets from the 14 songs of Eurosong 2023!

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Belgium’s Flemish broadcaster VRT has released snippets of the 14 candidated songs that will take part in Eurosong 2023, the country’s national final.

Seven artists and 14 songs will participate in this national final:

Ameerah – The Carnival & Armageddon
Cherine – Ca m’ennuie pas & Mon ‘Etoile
Gala Aliaj Dragot – Emotion Ollie & T’lnquiete
Gustaph – Because Of You & The Nail
Hunter Falls – Home & Ooh La La
Loredana De Amicis – You Lift Me Up & Dream in Colors
The Starlings – Oceanside & Rollercoaster

Watch the video below and listen to excerpts from the 14 songs of Belgium’s national final:

We remind you that the Eurosong 2023 final will take place on January 14.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the updates regarding Belgium’s entry in Eurovision 2023, in Liverpool!

Source: Een / Photo source: Eurovision World

Belgium: These are the contestants of Eurosong 2023!

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Despite qualifying for the final twice in a row, the mid-table results made the public broadcaster of Belgium, organise a national final in order to select their representative for Eurovision 2023. In January 14, Eurosong 2023 will take place, in which seven artists will compete for the ticket to Liverpool.

Earlier today, Belgium’s public broadcaster revealed the names of the contestants that will take part in Eurosong 2023:

  • Ameerah is a Belgian singer, who writes and compoese her own songs, initally known by the name “Astrid”. Her greatest success was the song “The Sound of Missing You” sung alongside the Wildboyz which managed to reach the top 3 of USA Billboard Hot Dance Airplay.
  • Cherine became widely known to the Belgian public through her participation to “The Voice 2022”, in which she managed to reach the Live Shows with her unique voice. Her styles reminds of the country’s song for Eurovision 201 and 2018.
  • Gala Aliaj Dragot is the winner of “The Voice Kids 2020” and claims the country’s representation yet again with an indie pop style of songs. Gala managed to stand out through her mature voice desoite her young age and in the final she won by performing the song “Make you feel my love”! Right after the contest, she released a single named “Contagious“.
  • Gustaph is a singer from Flanders has taken part in numerous festivals and he has worked alongside many internationally known artists. He has produced  many songs for a number of record labels in his country having experience in the field.
  • Hunter Falls is a Belgian composer who specialises in aerial productions and all of his songs belong in the indie pop field and are very well produced.
  • The Starlings are a duet with a very special sound and romantic lyrics. Their last song is called “Get to You” and is a great example of their music. One of the members of th eduet is Tom Dice, who represented Belgium in Eurovision 2010 with the song “Me and My Guitar” and ended up in 6th place.
  • Loredana De Amicis was one of the contestants of the Belgian version of “The Masked Singer” dressed up as the Ridder and made an impression with her impressive vocals.

Belgium was represented in Eurovision 2023 by Jérémie Makiese with the song “Miss You” ending up in 19th place in the Grand Final for the second year in a row:

https://youtu.be/sB09advfF6E

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Belgian participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in Liverpool!
Source: vrt.be

Belgium: Eurosong 2023 details revealed. Tom Dice among rumoured artists!

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Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws made public more details about the Belgium national final for Eurovision 2023.  Seven candidates will compete in the Paleis 12 arena in Brussels to represent the country in Liverpool next year.

Eurosong 2023

Eurosong 2023 will be the chosen format to select the Belgian artist and song.  Newspaper HLN published the first details of this selection via their podcast De Mediawatchers.

According to the newspaper, the national selection will take place between January 7 till January 14.  The selection of the names of the artists and the songs that made it to the national final took place separately.  For this selection broadcaster VRT listened “hundreds of demos”.

During this week the seven candidates will perform three different songs.  However, they will only sing a song for the final.

Although the list of candidates is still a secret, HLN hinted some of the names that are likely to participate.  The main revelation is that Tom Dice could make a return as part of “The Starlings“, a duo act with his partner Kato.   Tom Dice already represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010.

 

Former contestant of Eurosong 2014, Loredana could also make a return.  In total there would be five novel acts competing together with “a known candidate”.

There will be a professional jury for Eurosong 2023.  However, a 100% televote result will define who is going to Liverpool with the jury just offering their comments during the final.  It is not clear yet if there will be international jurors as was the case in Eurosong 2014 and 2016.

Source: Songfestival

Belgium: “Eurosong 2023” in February with 7 participants and 14 songs!

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According to the Dutch-speaking Belgian news website Het Laatste Nieuws, the public broadcaster, VRT, is aiming for a new format for Eurosong 2023. Specifically, seven artists are to participate with each competing with two songs.

Mid-February final?

It is not yet known how many shows will make up the Belgian national selection process. Although Het Laatse Nieuws stated that the final is expected to take place mid-February, Belgian website Songfestival.be replied that the process will start in spring 2023 with the final taking place at Palais 12 in Brussels.

This year Belgium competed in Turin, Italy with Jérémie Makiese and the song Miss You which came 8th from the second semi-final and in the grand final they finished in the 19th place with 64 points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB09advfF6E&feature=emb_title

Source: Songfestival.be

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Belgium: VRT is going to select the national final participants, no open registration!

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Through the summer, Belgian national broadcaster VRT has shown its intention for selecting the country’s representative for Eurovision 2023 through a TV national final. However, today it was confirmed that there will be no open registration for the interested artists but VRT is going to choose the participants of its national final!

Gerrit Kerremans, music coordinator at VRT, has revealed at songfestival.be that due to the late decision for a national final – Eurosong 2023, there won’t be an open registration for those interested. Instead, the competing participants for Belgium’s representation at the 67th Eurovision Song Contest will be directly selected by the Flemish-speaking Belgian national broadcaster VRT, which has already came into contact with record labels and artists that it wants to attend Eurosong 2023.

The dates are still unknown, along with the remaining information for the national final, because all those are going to be clarified through official announcements. The widely known newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws has mentioned that Eurosong 2023 is going to take about five to seven weeks, but this hasn’t been confirmed yet.

This is the first time since 2016 that Belgium will hold a national final for selecting its representative at the contest. “The Voice Belgique” winner Jérémie Makiese represented Belgium in Eurovision 2022 with the song “Miss You” that finished 19th at the Grand Final with 64 points in total.

https://youtu.be/GZ3mLO4uFjY

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Source: songfestival.be

Belgium: The national final will last five to seven weeks | The first potential candidates!

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VRT wants to attract big names to participate in Eurosong 2023, the planned Belgian pre-qualifier for the Song Contest 2023. Also the duration of the national final is expected to last five to seven weeks.

Surely but steadily the first details are coming out for Belgium’s national final, the first since 2016. After Peter Van de Veire broke the news last Saturday during Zomerhit , it was then confirmed that Eurosong 2023 will not be presented by Niels Destadsbader but Van de Veire himself.

Five or seven weeks

In the meantime, the exact format for the national final has yet to be determined, although today Het Laatste Nieuws is already providing more details. The newspaper clearly talks about “a brilliant musical show that lasts for weeks”. The article states that the new version of Eurosong will last five or seven weeks (and thus possibly as many broadcasts). In 2016 the Eurosong lasted three weeks, while two years earlier it lasted seven.

Former participants

VRT seems to want a strong cast of participants, because according to the same article in Het Laatste Nieuws, the public broadcaster is targeting “a range of top artists”. Just wishlist (for now) are: The Starlings, Camille, Natalia, Regi, Laura Tesoro and Niels Destadsbader. Starlings’ Tom Dice took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010 with Me and My Guitar, while Laura Tesoro was the winner of Belgium’s last national final in 2016, both finishing in the top 10 of the final standings. Natalia finished second in the 2004 qualifier behind Xandee.

It is not yet known when VRT will announce more details about Eurosong 2023, nor the dates and locations of the live shows.

The winner of ‘The Voice Belgique’ Jérémie Makiese represented Belgium at Eurovision 2022 with the song ‘Miss you’, placing 19th in the grand final with a total of 64 points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB09advfF6E&feature=emb_title

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Source: Songfestival