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Serbia: Listen to the songs of Pesma za Evroviziju ’23!

A while ago, the Serbian national broadcaster, RTS, released the songs that will compete in Pesma za Evroviziju ’23.

About 200 songs that meet the conditions of the contest reached the Serbian national broadcaster RTS, from which the 32 entries were selected that will compete for the country’s entry at the Eurovision Song Contest.

You can listen to the nominated songs in the list by clicking on the song titles:

The order of appearance of the songs in the Semi-Finals is as follows:

First Semi-Final

  1. Mattia Zanatta i Angela Kassiani – “Novi svet”
  2. Adem Mehmedović – “Osmeh”
  3. Nađa – “Moj prvi ožiljak na duši”
  4. Tijana Dapčević – “Mamim”
  5. Princ – “Cvet sa Istoka”
  6. Filip Baloš – “Novi plan drugi san”
  7. Filip Žmaher – “Čujemo se sutra”
  8. Luke Black – “Samo mi se spava”
  9. Angellina – “Lanac”
  10. Empathy Soul Project – “Indigo”
  11. Stefan Shy – “Od jastuka do jastuka”
  12. Hercenšlus – “Vremenska zona”
  13. Savo Perović – Presidente”
  14. Igor Stanojević – “Iza duge”
  15. Boris Subotić – “Nedostupan”
  16. CHEGI & Braća Bluz Bend – “Svadba ili kavga”

Second Semi-Final

  1. Hurricane – Zumi zimi zami”
  2. Nadia – “Devojka tvog dečka”
  3. Filarri – “Posle mene”
  4. Zejna – “Rumba”
  5. Frajle – “Neka Neka”
  6. Igor Vince i Bane Lalić – “Zato što volim”
  7. Egret – “Ako shvatim kasno”
  8. Dzipsii – “Greh”
  9. Eegor – Starac dana”
  10. Jelena Vlahović – “Kao grom iz vedra neba”
  11. Ivona – “U noćima”
  12. Gift – “Liberta”
  13. Milan Bujaković – Fenomen”
  14. Duo Grand – “Viva la Vida”
  15. Andjela – Loše procene”
  16. Doris Milošević – “Tišina”

We remind you that the Serbian national final will take place on March 1, 2 and 4 in order to find the successor of Konstrakta who finished 5th in the standings in Torino, Italy!

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news!

Finland: Käärijä’s song accused of plagiarism!

A few days ago, Käärijä’s song titled “Cha Cha Cha”, was released in order to compete in Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2023, the Finnish national final for Eurovision 2023.

From the moment it was released, it quickly became one of the fan favourites and rised to the first place of the betting odds for winning the national final, by a great margin.

However, some of the comments in the Finnish press came in to change everything and even disqualify Käärijä  from the contest. The journalists accused Käärijä of plagiarism and that his song is a copy of another song, something that is prohibited by EBU’s rules for the contest.

In detail, the accusations want “Cha Cha Cha” to be a copy of the song “We Got the Moves” by Electric Callboys a German electronicore group:

What do you think about all of the above? Do you think that “Cha Cha Cha” is indeed a copy and that Käärijä should be disqualified from UMK?

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

Malta: MESC 2023 Second Qualifying Round Tonight!

The time to learn Malta’s song for Eurovision 2023 is here! For the second year in a row, the island country is using the format of a national final and is organizing MESC 2023, through which they are going to select their representative for the 67th Eurovision Song Contest.

40 artists are going to take part in Malta’s selection process for Eurovision 2023. Five shows in total, three qualifying rounds, one semi-final and the Grand Final, will select the artist and the song that is going to represent Malta in Liverpool.

The hosts of the three qualifying rounds of MESC 2023 will be Ryan and Josmar.

The first Qualifying round took place last Saturday, but without announcing the names of the artists advancing to the semi-final. The 24 artists to take part in the semi-final, will be announced after the end of the third qualifying round.

The second qualifying round of MESC 2023 will be broadcasted at 21:00 CET. You can watch it through the live broadcast of TVM’s official website, by clicking HERE.

Participants of the Second Qualifying Round of MESC 2023:

Today, we are going to see another 13 artists, out of the 40 competing in MESC 2023, in tonight’s second qualifying round.

The artists that will compete in tonight’s show are:

  1. Brooke – “Checkmate”
  2. Dan – “It’ll Be OK”
  3. Dario – “Pawn in a Game”
  4. Dario Bezzina – “Bridle Road”
  5. Francesca Sciberras – “Masquerade”
  6. Ian – “On My Own”
  7. Kirstie – “Girls Get Down”
  8. Lyndsay – “Haunted”
  9. Mark Anthony Bartolo – “Tears”
  10. Marie Claire – “Thankful”
  11. Matt Blxck – “Up”
  12. Maxine Pace – “Alone”
  13. The Busker – “Dance (Our Own Party)”

It’s worth mentioning that the Maltese public television hasn’t announced the running order of the qualifying round.

The Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (MESC 2023)

MESC 2023 will take place in five competitive rounds: three qualifying rounds, one semi-final and the Grand Final.

13 song will compete in the first two qualifying rounds, while 14 will take part in the third one. Eight songs will advance to the semi-final from each of the three qualifying rounds.

The 24 songs that will qualify to the Semi-Final will be determined through the voting of both the jury and the public. Through the semi-final, the 16 artists that will compete in the Grand Final, will be decided.

The program of MESC 2023

  • Quarter-Final 1 – January 13th
  • Quarter-Final 2 – January 20th
  • Quarter-Final 3 – January 27th
  • Semi-Final – February 9th
  • Grand Final – February 11th

Until we learn who is going to represent Malta in Eurovision 2023, lets remember their song for last year’s contest. Emma Muscat was the winner of MESC 2022 with the song “Out of Sight”. In the end she represented Malta in Eurovision 2022 with the song “I Am what I Am” but she didn’t manage to qualify for the Grand Final ending up in 16th place of the Second Semi-final:

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

Portugal: Listen to the songs of the Festival da Canção 2023!

As it had already become known through the festival’s Instagram account, the Portuguese public television, RTP, proceeded to reveal the nominees and the songs for the Festival da Canção 2023, the Portuguese national final for Eurovision.

Following the unveiling of the twenty composers of FdC 2023, RTP today announced the 20 nominees to compete in this year’s festival.

The participants

The 20 participants of Festival da Canção are as follows (click on the title of the song to listen to it):

1st Semifinal (February 25, 2023)

2nd Semifinal (March 4, 2023)

Information about the 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.

Just like the last two editions, all the NF‘s show will be held on the RTP Studios in LisbonThe presenter in the green room will be Inês Lopes Gonçalves while the main presenters of FdC 2023 will be the following:

SEMI 1: Jorge Gabriel & Sónia Araújo
SEMI 2: José Carlos Malato & Tânia Ribas de Oliveira
FINAL: Filomena Cautela & Vasco Palmeirim

The FdC semifinals will take place on February 25 and March 4, while the grand Final, where we will meet the representative of Portugal in Eurovision 2023, on March 11.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding Portugal’s participation in Eurovision 2023.

Source: RTP

Denmark: Listen to the songs of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2023!

The public broadcaster of Denmark, DR, revealed the finalists of the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2023, the national final  of Denmark for Eurovision 2023.

The eight finalists and their songs for DMGP 2023 are:

Søren Torpgaard Lund – “Lige Her”

Nicklas Sonne – “Freedom”

Eyjaa – “I Was Gonna Marry Him”

Frederick Leopold – “Stuck on You”

Maia Maia – “Beautiful Bullshit”

Mariyah Leberg – “Human”

Micky Skeel – “Glansbillede”

Reiley – “Breaking my Heart”

DR will organize and broadcast the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2023, on Saturday, February 11 live from Næstved, with eight finalists. This will be the first time that the contest will take place in Næstved Arena

The hosts of the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix will be Tina Müller and Heino Hansen. This will be the third time in a row that Tina Müller will host the contest.

But until we learn who is going to represent Denmark in Eurovision 2023, lets remember their song for last year’s contest. The previous winners of Dansk Melodi Gran Prix and Denmark’s representatives in Eurovision 2022 were REDDI with the song “The Show“ but they didn’t manage to qualify for the final for the second year in a row, ending up in 13th place in the first semi-final:

https://youtu.be/cVg6MpVR2Pw

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

Source: dr.dk

Lithuania: These are the artists and the running order of Pabandom iš Naujo 2023 Heat 1!

A few hours ago, the public broadcaster of Lithuania, LRT, announced the artists that are going to take part in Pabandom iš Naujo Heat 1, as well as the running order of the qualifying round!

These are the 15 artists that are going to compete in the first Heat of Lithuania’s national final for Eurovision 2023:

  1. Aistė Pilvelytė – “We’re Not Running”
  2. Joseph June – “Vacuum”
  3. Il Senso – “Sparnai”
  4. W.I – “You Can Not”
  5. Multiks – “London”
  6. Luknė – “Paradise”
  7. Gabrielius Vagelis – “Šauksmas”
  8. Alen Chicco – “Do You”
  9. Rūta Mur – “So Low”
  10. Justin 3 feat. Dj AugustYno – “Not Giving Up”
  11. Baiba – “When the Lights Go Out”
  12. Justa Rubežiūtė – “When I’ll Find”
  13. Noy – Destiny’s Child”
  14. Paulina Paukštaitytė – “Let Me Think About Me”
  15. Justė Kraujelytė – “Need More Fun”

The First Heat of Pabandom iš Naujo will be broadcasted in this Saturday, January 21 at 20:00 CET, live from Vilnius.

According to the running order of the first heat, the remaining 15 artists will take part in the second heat of the second final. These are the names of the contestants of the Second Heat of Pabandom iš Naujo:

  1. Agnė –“New Start”
  2. Antikvariniai Kašpirovskio dantys – “Sėdi ir važiuoji”
  3. Beatrich – “Like a Movie”
  4. Donata – “Dreamer”
  5. Gebrasy – “Saw Your Ghost”
  6. I.T. – “Žinau, tai tu”
  7. Mario Junes – “Do What You Do”
  8. Matt Len – “Midnight Train”
  9. Melona – “Song of Whispers”
  10. Monika Linkytė – “Stay”
  11. MoonBee – “Rumor”
  12. Petunija – “Love of My Life”
  13. The Pixls – “Šaukt”
  14. Viktorija Faith – “If You Ever Miss Me”
  15. Voldemars Petersons – “Things”

We remind you that the competing artists in Papandom iš Naujo can release their songs from the moment of their selection up until the day of the first Heat in January 21. Papandom iš Naujo 2023 will take place with two Heats, two semi-finals and the grand final.

The program of Papandom iš Naujo

  • First Heat – January 21
  • Second Heat – January 28
  • First Semi-Final – February 4
  • Second Semi-Final – February 11
  • Grand Final – February 18

But until we learn who is going to represent Lithuania in Eurovision 2023, lets remember their song for last year’s contest. The last winner of Pabandom iš Naujo and Lithuania’s representative in Eurovision 2022 was Monika Liu with the song “Sentimemtai” and ended up in 14th place with 128 points:

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

Source: lrt.lt

Moldova: Listen to the songs competing in the country’s national final!

The public broadcaster of Moldova, namely TRM, has already confirmed that they are going to choose their representative and song for Eurovision 2023 through a national final.

Just some time ago, TRM announced the 33 participants of the national final and revealed their competing songs:

  1. Formaţia Vele – “Jocul neamului moldovenesc”
  2. Corina Ivanov – “When Love’s Real”
  3. NÖRDIKA – “Skueeze Paradise”
  4. Nihilist & Lisa Nicky –  “Final Destination”
  5. NÖRDIKA –  “Damn and down”
  6. Victor Gulick –  ”Let’s Dance”
  7. Donia –  “Red Zone”
  8. Surorile Osoianu –  “Bade, bădişor, bădiţă”
  9. OL –  “Why You Play It Cool”
  10. Adelina Iordachi –  “Deja Vu”
  11. Nikko T. –  “Destiny”
  12. Y-Limit –  “Live in Harmony”
  13. Crista –  “Pădure verde pădure”
  14. Sunstroke Project –  “Yummy Mommy”
  15. NR 11 –  “Adio”
  16. VERA –  “Vremea ta”
  17. Massimo Sinceri –  “In Questo Domani”
  18. Sasha Bognibov –  “My Favourite Schoolgirl”
  19. Rise – “Don’t trumble”
  20. Lisa Volk –  “Scrisoare către ţară”
  21. ADA DEEA – “Mystic Rose”
  22. COSMINA –  “Indestructible”
  23. Angel Kiss –  “Now I Know”
  24. Gesica Sîrbu –  “I’m in love”
  25. Aliona Moon –  “Du-mă”
  26. Tania Pituşcan –  “Mioriţa”
  27. Pasha Parfeni –  “Soarele şi luna”
  28. Ricky Ardezianu –  “Una rosa rossa”
  29. Harmony Scuffle –  “Favourite One”
  30. Valeria Condrea –  “We’re now different”
  31. LOLA –  “Temperatura”
  32. Diana Elmas –  “Miracle”
  33. Nino –  “It would be nice”

In the the 33 participants we can see well-known names such as previous representatives of Moldova, Pasha Parfeni (Eurovision 2012), Aliona Moon (Eurovision 2013) and Sunstroke Project (Eurovision 2010, 2017) as well as previous contestants of Moldovan national finals such as VERA (O melodie pentru Europa 2019).

Another interesting information, is that Mike Connaris’ song, with which Cynthia Verazie submitted to the Greek broadcaster ERT for Eurovision 2023, will now take part in Moldova’s national final, performed by Corina Ivanov!

Some of the songs have already being released, however you can listen to all of them in the official Moldovan website about Eurovision Song Contest, by clicking HERE.

What’s next for the Moldovan national final

  1. Examination of submissions 
  2. The live auditions of the artists
  3. The final audition
  4. The National Final

The Live Auditions will take place on January 28 ,in the studios of the Moldovan Public Television. The auditions will be broadcasted live on the television channel Moldova 2 and on its website, as well as on www.eurovision.md

The score of the audition will be decided solely by the jury. The composition of the judging team will be made public only on the day of the respective stage. The jury will consist of an odd number of members (minimum 3, maximum 5) and will be different from the one in the National Final.  

Likewise, on January 28, Moldova 1 television station will host a special edition about the live auditions with the participation of experts in the field and members of the jury. In this edition, the list of finalists will be announced. In accordance with the rules, the first 10 contestants, who will accumulate the highest score in the live auditions, will compete in the National Final.

But until we learn who is going to represent Moldova in Eurovision 2023, lets remember their song for last year’s contest.  Last year, Moldova was represented by Zdob şi Zdub and the Advahov Brothers for the first time with the song “Trenuleţul” which finished in 7th place in the Grand Final while also managing to secure the 2nd place in the televote:

https://youtu.be/DUqf_zO2QaI

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

Source: trm.md

BREAKING NEWS: The Israeli song for Eurovision 2023 has been chosen! | Noa Kirel will sing “Unicorn” in Liverpool!

A few moments earlier the Israeli public broadcaster KAN revealed through their official Twitter account that the song which Noa Kirel is going to perform in Liverpool in May for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 has the title “Unicorn”

A few days ago the Israeli representative had revealed the final decision would be made between two songs that she and her team had prepared for the European song contest. (read more here)

The chosen song “Unicorn” was written by Noa Kirel herself and Doron Medley, the producer of song “Toy” that brought to Israel the third and most recent victory in Eurovision, in 2018 in Lisbon. The composition team also includes May Sepadia and the the very famous DJ Yinon Yahel Emonim.

The song talks about the women empowerment and most of the lyrics are written in English with a few words in Hebrew as well.

Noa Kirel herself said that:

“I’m very excited about our song choice.. the choice marks the first significant step towards Eurovision in May. We wrote a song which personally moves me every time I sing it or listen to it, and I can’t wait until you get to listen to the song”

The 2023 Eurovision entry for Israel is expected to be published in March and is about to get through some more adjustements.

Last year Israel was represented in Eurovision 2022 of Turin by Michael Ben David and his song I.M. which failed to qualify from the Second Semi-Final.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgXjPUsjx4Y

Stay tuned on Eurovision Fun for all the news regarding the entry of Israel and the rest of the 36 nation competing in the upcoming 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool United Kingdom.

San Marino: More than 1000 submissions for Una Voce per San Marino! | From which countries do the contestants come from?

The submissions window of Una Voce per San Marino, the national final of San Marino for Eurovision 2023, will be open for artists from around the world for a few more days, until January 20.

As we have previously said, despite their non-qualification in 2022, San Marino gets keeps making preparations for Eurovision 2023, in Liverpool. In detail, the selection process consists of the castings, four semi-finals, one second chance round and the Grand Final that will take place in February 25, 2023.

The countries from which the artists come from, were revealed through their Instagram account. The artists come from the countries below:

  • Albania
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Croatia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Mexico
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • San Marino
  • Serbia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America

As of now, more than 1000 songs have been submitted to the country’s national final.

Those interested have a few more days to submit their proposals through the contest’s official website.

The first winner of Una Voce per San Marino and San Marino’s representative in Eurovision 2022 was Achille Lauro with the song “Stripper“ but he didn’t mange to bring the country to the final for the third time in a row and the fourth time overall, ending up in 14th place of the second semi-final:

https://youtu.be/vCmX64N_sXM

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

Czech Republic: ESCZ 2023 finalists announced!

The public broadcaster for the Czech Republic has recently announced the five finalists for their national final ESCZ 2023.

The national final will take place live on 30 January and voting will open during the show via the Eurovision app and close on Monday 6 February.  We will know the name of the winner shortly afterwards.

The names of the five finalists are:

  • Maella
  • Markéta Irglová
  • Pam Rabbit
  • RODAN
  • Vesna

Another feature of the Czech national final is the voting composition.  It will be 100% up to the public to find out who will represent Czech Republic at Eurovision.  According to the rules in place the public vote will be split 70% from the international public and 30% from the Czech public. This is the first time in 15 years that the Czech Republic will use a live show to determine the artist that will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest.

The international audience will be able to watch ESCZ 2023 via live streaming on the official Eurovision Song Contest channel.  On the other hand the public in Czechia can watch the final via the iVysílání streaming platform of TV station ČT .

The production team consists of big names in the Czech entertainment industry, led by Head Of Production Cyril Hirsch, with Michal Utíkal, Lucie Kapounová and Viktor Průša . The direction will be led by Vít Bělohradský and Matyáš Vorda.

Kryštof Šámal, Head of Delegation for the Czech Republic, said:

’The level of the songs and artists; and also, the essence of ESCZ to share the talent and diversity in our music scene made it not very had but impossible to select 3 finalists therefore we are happy to reveal the 5 finalists that will compete to represent us in Liverpool.’

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for more updates about Czechia  in Eurovision 2023.

Source: Eurovision.tv