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Lithuania: The results of Semi-Final 2 of “Pabandom iš naujo! 2023”!

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Lithuania has started seeking its representative and participation for Eurovision 2023. “Pabandom iš Naujo! 2023”, as the Lithuanian public television process is now called, consists of two qualifying rounds (Heats), two semi-finals and a final. A few minutes ago, the Second Semi-Final was completed, with ten contestants qualifying for the next phase of the Grand Final.

The presenters of the evening were Giedraus Masalskis and Augustė Nombeko. In the Green Room the presenter was Richard Jonaitis.

The jury is composed of:
  • Duncan Laurence (Winner & Dutch Representative in Eurovision 2019)
  • Vaidotas Valiukevičius (The Roop – Lithuanian Representative in Eurovision 2020 & 2021)
  • Monika Liu (Lithuanian Representative in Eurovision 2022)
  • Ramūnas Zilnys (Music Critic)
  • Ieva Narkutė (Singer)
The 10 songs that claimed the tickets for the final are:

Results:

With the jury already having voted, tonight the Lithuanian audience had the chance to see the live performances for the first time and vote for their favourites. The result was determined 50% by the jury and 50% by the TV audience.

Jury Results

Televoting Results

Final Results

The five artists that qualified to the Grand Final are:

Beatrich with the song  “Like a Movie”  was crowned as the winner of the Second Semi-Final, having gotten the first place by the jury voting and the third place by the TV audience.

The ten artists we will see to the Grand Final are:

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding Lithuania’s participation in Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool!

Source: LRT

Portugal: The running order of the semi-finals of Festival da Canção 2023 was revealed!

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A few minutes ago, RTP, the public broadcaster of Portugal, announced the running order of the two semi-finals of this year’s Festival da Canção, through the festival’s official Instagram account.

This is the running order of the 20  artits competing in the two semi-finals of Festival da Canção:

First Semi-Final (February 25)

  1. MOYAH – “Too Much Sauce”
  2. Bolha – “Sonhos de Liberdade”
  3. April Ivy –“Modo Voo”
  4. Churky – “Encruzilhad”
  5. Cláudia Pascoal – “Nasci Maria”
  6. SAL – “Viver”
  7. Mimicat – “Ai Coração”
  8. You Can’t Win, Charlie Brown – “Contraste Mudo”
  9. NEOH SOHO – “Endless World”
  10. Esse Povo – “Sapatos de Cimento”

Second Semi-Final (March 4)

  1. Edmundo Inácio – “A Festa”
  2. The Happy Mess – “O Impossível”
  3. Teresinha Landeiro – “Enquanto é Tempo”
  4. Bandua – “Bandieras”
  5. Bárbara Tinoco – “Goodnight”
  6. Inês Apenas – “Fim do Mundo”
  7. Ivandro – “Povo”
  8. Dapunksportif – “World Needs Therapy”
  9. Lara Li – “Funâmbula”
  10. Voodoo Marmalade – “Tormento”

Festival da Canção 2023

Out of the 20 songs, ten will compete in each semifinal, while in the Final we will have 10 songs, 5 from each semifinal. The result will consist of an equal percentage (50%) of the jury and television audience, with the committee having the first say in case of a tie in qualifying for the fifth participation of each semifinal.

The semi-finals of Festival da Canção will take place on February 25 and March 4, while the Grand Final, where the representative of Portugal will be chose, is set to take place on March 11.

Until we learn who is going to represent Portugal in Eurovision 2023, lets remember their song for last year’s contest. The previous winner of Festival da Canção and Portugal’s representative in Eurovision 2022 was Maro with the song “saudade, saudade“ that ended up in 9th place of the Grand Final, keeping Portugal’s qualification streak for the second year in a row:

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

Italy: The running order of the final night of Sanremo 2023 was revealed!

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A few minutes ago, RAI, the public broadcaster of Italy, announced the running order of the last night of this year’s Festival di Sanremo, through the festival’s official Twitter account.

The running order of the 28 artits competing in Festival di Sanremo 2023 is:
  1. Elodie – “Due”
  2. Colla Zio– “Non mi va”
  3. Mara Sattei – “Duemilaminuti”
  4. Tananai – “Tango”
  5. Colapesce e Dimartino– “Splash”
  6. Giorgia – “Parole dette male”
  7. Modà – “Lasciami”
  8. Ultimo – “Alba”
  9. Lazza – “Cenere”
  10. Marco Mengoni – “Due Vite”
  11. Rosa Chemical – “Made in Italy”
  12. I Cugini di Campagna – “Lettera 22”
  13. Madame – “Il Bene nel Male”
  14. Ariete– “Mare di guai”
  15. Mr. Rain – “Supereroi”
  16. Paola e Chiara – “Furore”
  17. Levante – “Vivo”
  18. LDA – “Se poi domani”
  19. Come Cose – “L’addio”
  20. Olly – “Polvere”
  21. Articolo 31– “Un bel viaggio”
  22. Will – “Stupido”
  23. Leo Gassman – “Terzo Cuore”
  24. Gianmaria – “Mostro”
  25. Anna Oxa– “Sali (Canto dell’anima)”
  26. Shari – “Egoista”
  27. Gianluca Grignani – “Quando ti manca il fiato”
  28. Sethu – “Cause perse”

The Grand Final of Sanremo 2023 will take place tonight at 21:00 CET and will last five hours. You can watch him through the official website of RAI, by clicking HERE.

So, those of you who are fans of Italian music and have patience in the Italian shows with many guests, endless sometimes dialogues and any other kind of interference that can make the show end even after 2 in the morning, tune in with us to the great celebration of Italian music, from which great international stars started their careers!

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for the full coverage of the 73rd Sanremo Festival.

Eurovision 2023: Many Ukrainian artists will appear in the live shows!

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The Chairman of Suspilne has revealed to the Ukrainian press some important information regarding Eurovision Song Contest 2023 and the developments of the show in Liverpool.

Mykola Chernotytskyi has announced that at least one host from Ukraine will feature in the show. According to him, the Ukrainian host has been chosen, but not publicly presented yet.

There will definitely be a presenter from Ukraine, we know who, but we cannot say. In general, the British are very open to involve Ukraine in the process as much as possible. They say that they are organising the Eurovision Song Contest, but on behalf of Ukraine.

The music for the contest has been requested from one of the judges on the Ukrainian version of X Factor, Dmytro Shurov.

The Creative Director of Ukraine at ESC, German Nenov, has spoken about the involvement of Ukrainian culture during the live shows. There will be multiple Ukrainian artists appearing throughout the whole Eurovision season. Some will be singing on the stage, the others will be acting in any other role. These are his words:

There will be a large number of Ukrainian artists who will be announced in various shows. If everything works out for us and everything will be as we planned, I can confidently say that this will probably be the largest number of involvement of Ukrainian artists in Eurovision compared to 2005 and 2017. These will be different roles. It is not necessary that this person will sing on stage. They can act in any role. But a Ukrainian musician, the face of Ukraine will appear in the show.

Source: eurovoix

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun about all the developments regarding ESC 2023!

Italy: Who is winning Sanremo 2023 according to the bets and streams?!

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We are getting closer to the grand final of the Festival di Sanremo 2023 and it’s time to take a look at the predictions.

According to the betting odds Marco Mengoni is still in the lead  after his impressive performance on the first night. In second place comes Mr. Rain, who started in 19th place before the festival started, but has climbed to the top. Ultimo is now in third place, having lost some ground after the first night to regain it today. On the other hand Giorgia’s chances according to the bettors have decreased significantly.  Although she started in third place before the festival, now she fell to the ninth place.

Now let’s take a look at the Spotify streams.

Yesterday, Marco Mengoni was topping the chart with 1320229 streams while Mr. Rain came in second place with 1284899 streams. However today the stream charts have experience a great commotion! Lazza made a strong debut with 2126061 streams, Mr. Rain is now in second place with even more streams than his debut.

Here is the ranking of the first 10 songs of Sanremo 2023 based on the number of streams on Spotify on their first day of release:

  1. Lazza – Cenere (2162051)
  2. Marco Mengoni – Due vite (1320229)
  3. Mr. Rain – Superheroes (1284899)
  4. Madame – Il bene nel male (1265025)
  5. Ultimo – Alba (946581)
  6. Colapesce Dimartino – Splash (936534)
  7. Elodie – Due (929458)
  8. Tananai – Tango (926234)
  9. Rosa Chemical – Made in Italy (923911)
  10. Coma_Cose – L’addio (901510)

There is certainly no clear favorite as it happened last year when Brividi set a stream record on its first day of release with over 3 million. Yesterday Mr. Rain managed to climb from 17th place in the ranking to third after the jury and public votes took place.  The results show that he was voted very high by the public and the jury. The same goes for Ultimo who moved up from tenth to second place.

Here are the rankings so far:

As we can see, things continue moving on.  Marco Mengoni is relatively safe in first place, but the Sanremo Festival has proven to be unpredictable over the years with its complex voting system. This year it will be even more difficult to predict the winner with five songs entering in the super final!

Tonight the fourth night of Sanremo will take place.  We will enjoy the 28 nominated artists in duets with other artists.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun to follow the Sanremo Festival and Italy’s participation in Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool!

Norway: With Alessandra Mele and the “Queen of Kings” in Liverpool!

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After the three semi-final rounds, the 2023 edition of the Melodi Grand Prix came to its end with the Grand Final which once again determined the representative of the Scandinavian kingdom at the upcoming 2023 Eurovision Song Contest which is going to take place in Liverpool, the United Kingdom in May.  The final show took place in Trondheim Spektrum.

9 artists competed for the gold ticket that leads to Liverpool. This year’s Final was quite different in comparison to the previous editions. For the very first time the auto-tune technology was introduced while the final result was determined after four years again by the combination of the votes from the televoting and from the international jury.

The hosts of the show were Arian Engebø and Stian Thorbjørnsen

The participants

The 9 finalists of the show were as follows:

  1. JONE — “Ekko inni meg” (Echo in me)
  2. Eline Thorp — “Not Meant to Be”
  3. Skrellex — “Love Again”
  4. Ulrikke Brandstorp – “Honestly“
  5. Umami Tsunami – “Geronimo“
  6. Atle Pettersen — “Masterpiece” 
  7. Swing’it — “Prohibition”
  8. Elsie Bay — “Love you in a dream”
  9. Alessandra Mele – “Queen of Kings“

After the performances of the aforementioned artists, we enjoyed last year’s winners Subwoolfers who also removed the masks and revealed their real faces. The people behind the masks are Gaute Ormåsen and Ben Adams as we have mentioned almost a year ago in our article here.

Results

The votes of the international jury were announced and afterwards the televoting points were added up.

The 10 countries that formed the international jury were the United Kingdom, Finland, Azerbaijan, Spain, Ukraine, Czechia, France, Iceland, the Netherlands and Sweden.

After the votes of the jury the first part of the voting process was as per below

With the aggregation of the votes from the jury and the televoting, the representative of Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is Alessandra Mele.

Alessandra Mele and Norway are going to participate in the first half of the first semi-final which is scheduled on 9th of May. Do you think that Norway is going to achieve a better placement than last year’s 10th place? Let us know in the comments below!

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun.com for all the developments regarding the Norwegian entry at the upcoming 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. 

 

Lithuania: The results of Semi-Final 1 of “Pabandom iš naujo! 2023”!

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Lithuania has started seeking its representative and participation for Eurovision 2023. “Pabandom iš Naujo! 2023”, as the Lithuanian public television process is now called, consists of two qualifying rounds (Heats), two semi-finals and a final. A few minutes ago, the First Semi-Final was completed, with ten contestants qualifying for the next phase of the Grand Final.

The presenters of the evening were Giedraus Masalskis and Augustė Nombeko. In the Green Room the presenter was Richard Jonaitis.

The jury is composed of:
  • Ramūnas Zilnys (Music Critic),
  • Ieva Narkutė (Singer),
  • Vytautas Bikus (Composer)
  • Stanislavas Stavickis-Stano (Singer and Composer)
  • Leonas Somovs (Producer)
The 10 songs that claimed the tickets for the final are:

Results:

With the jury already having voted, tonight the Lithuanian audience had the chance to see the live performances for the first time and vote for their favourites. The result was determined 50% by the jury and 50% by the TV audience.

Jury Results

Televoting Results

Final Results

The five artists that qualified to the Grand Final are:

Rūta Mur with the song “So Low” was crowned as the winner of the First Semi-Final by both the jury and the TV audience.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding Lithuania’s participation in Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool!

Source: LRT

Ireland: Wild Youth won Eurosong 2023!

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Tonight Ireland voted for their Eurovision representative.  Ireland chose Eurosong 2023 as their national selection, a special broadcast for The Late Late Show.

Ryan Tubridy hosted the national selection.

The Candidates

Six acts were competing to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023:

1 Leila Jane – “Wild”

2 Adgy – “Too Good for Your Love”

3 Public Image Limited – “Hawaii”

4 Connolly – “Midnight Summer Night”

5 Wild Youth – “We Are One”

6 K Muni & ND – “Down in the Rain”

The Voting

A combination of Televote an International Jury and professional National Jury decided the winner of Eurosong 2023.  In case of a tie the public vote would define the winner

The results were as follows:

International Jury vote

Midnight Summer Night 12 points

We Are One 10 points

Too Good For Your Love 8 points

Hawaii 6 points

Down In The Rain 4 points

Wild 2 points

National Jury Vote

We Are One 12 points

Midnight Summer Night 10 points

Down In The Rain 8 points

Hawaii 6 points

Too Good For Your Love 4 points

Wild 2 points

Public Vote

We Are One 12 points

Midnight Summer Night 10 points

Down In The Rain 8 points

Hawaii 6 points

Too Good For Your Love 4 points

Wild 2 points

Overall Ranking

1 Wild Youth – “We Are One” 34 points

2 Connolly – “Midnight Summer Night” 32 points

3 K Muni & ND – “Down in the Rain” 20 points

4 Public Image Limited – “Hawaii” 18 points

5  Adgy – “Too Good for Your Love” 16 points

6 Leila Jane – “Wild” 6 points

 

Tone Sekelius: “After competing with ‘My Way’ people see me more as an artist rather than an influencer” | Exclusive interview!

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Tone Sekelius debuted last year at Melodifestivalen 2022 by placing fifth , also earned a spot in the hearts of die-hard Melodifestivalen fans.

For a second year in a row she hopes to be selected to represent Sweden , with the song ” Rhythm of my Show ” which is one of the favorites to qualify to the final, out of all seven competing numbers of the Swedish national selection procedure.

Eurovisionfun is in Gothenburg and Tone spoke exclusively to Andreas Papagiannakis, just a few hours before competing in the first heat. She commented on her appearance this year, the impact that her participation last year has had on her life and about the Swedish representative of 2022, Cornelia Jakobs!

She started by commenting on her first rehearsal experience this year and jokes about the rehearsal being so early in the morning that she just woke up and had to immediately start singing:

“This year’s number has a lot of singing and dancing and I have to stay focused, because the moment I start overanalyzing what’s going on, that’s when I forget what I need to do next. I have to keep in mind that I know what to do, I know the choreography, I know my song and I just have to have fun on stage!”

When asked how much of an impact her participation at Melodifestivalen 2022 has had on her life, she commented:

“It was an unforgettable experience. Since then I have done much music and the people have already started to see me more as an artist rather than an influencer who just makes music! Last year I was afraid that people wouldn’t see me as an artist, but that didn’t happen and that makes me very happy!”

She also commented on her getting awarded as the LGBT person of the year at the QX Gaygala 2022 , stating:

“I am excited, I felt very honored! I have left my mark on the community and the things I do move the community forward. This was my goal from the very first moment I was on the internet, not just to exist, but to have an impact on others!”

About her song she co-wrote among others with Anderz Wrethov she said:

“This year I wanted to make an uptempo song with party vibes, with attitude but at the same time be still approachabe make people want to party with me. Textwise, it’s about confidence, loving yourself and dancing to the ‘rhythm of your show’!”

Regarding her staging, she told us that regarding the rehearsals there will be some minor changes and improvements until her televised appearance, this Saturday:

“Today at my first rehearsal, it was the first time I actually saw how my number would look like on TV. We figured out it’s maybe a bit too dark. So we’ll make some changes and improvements by adding more light to it. From the beginning we aimed to give viewers the feeling of clubbing, we are very close to what we initially had in mind with the creative team!”

She is very happy that Melodifestivalen is back on tour and that she will perform in Gothenburg :

“Last year I was supposed to be competing in Gothenburg, but as you said, all the shows had to take place in Stockholm. This year is a different experience, last year I was in my hometown, this year we are all together hanging out in a Mellobubble . I am very happy to sing for the people in Gothenburg, I have been told many good comments about them!”

Last year’s representative of Sweden Cornelia Jakobs is gonna appear as a guest in the first heat, Tone jokingly told us:

“There is no rivalry! (laughs) I love her as an artist, she’s an icon, I love her song and I’m glad she’s back. Her year was great, it was great that I got to see all of her performance backstage and then I saw it all happen on the Eurovision stage!”

Regarding this year’s contestants of the first heat, she commented:

“I haven’t listened to all of the songs. I got to see the performances of Loulou Lamotte and Rejhan which I liked a lot. But I still haven’t listened to them all and at Melodifestivalen, you know, you can’t predict who’s going to win, who’s going to qualify just by ones name!”

Watch our full exlcusive interview with Tone Sekelius below:

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Georgia: With Iru Khechanovi in Eurovision 2023!

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The final of The Voice of Georgia was completed, with the public deciding that the winner of the talent show and representative of the country in Eurovision 2023 will be Iru Khechanovi.

Iru Khechanovi emerged as the winner of today’s final among eight candidates.

The eight contestants who made it to today’s The Voice of Georgia finale were:

  1. Tako Kakalashvili – “Stand up”
  2. Lika Siradze – “Heroes”
  3. Giorgi Datiashvili – “Gethsemane”
  4. Likuna Tutisani – “A song for you”
  5. Tina Datikashvili – “I didn’t know my own strength”
  6. Kakha Aslamazishvili – “Love you to death”
  7. Anka Tatarashvili – Pov | 7 rings | thank you, next
  8. Iru Khechanovi – “Euphoria”

The song that Iru Khechanovi will perform in May in Liverpool will be announced later on. 

About Iru Khechanovi:

Iru Khechanovi was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and she is 23 years old. Known for her participation in Junior Eurovision 2011 with the band Candy and the song “Candy Music” where they won with 108 points.

Watch one of her most impressive performances during The Voice of Georgia:

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the news about Georgia’s participation in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in May in the UK.