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Estonia: Eesti Laul 2023 First Semi-Final tonight!

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The nationa final season of Eurovision 2023, continues tonight with the first semi-final of Eesti Laul 2023, the third national final to take place after that of Ukraine and Albania.

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 first 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 first semi-final of Eesti Laul 2023:

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

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

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 six best songs advancing for the Final.

Each semi-final has two rounds of voting. In the first voting round, five 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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Serbia: Artists and song titles of Pesma za Evroviziju ’23 announced!

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The Serbian Public Broadcaster RTS announced a few minutes ago the artists and the song titles of Pesma za Evroviziju ’23, the show which will determine the representative of Serbia in Eurovision 2023.

The artists and their song titles are:

Between the 32 artists we see names that have previously been involved with the contest:

  1. Nađa – “Moj prvi ožiljak na duši”
  2. Tijana Dapčević – “Kad smo sami”
  3. Petar Pupić – “Ako shvatim”
  4. Stefan Zdravković – “Cvet sa Istoka”
  5. Frajle – “Neka, neka”
  6. Angellina – “Lanac”
  7. Eegor – “Starac dana”
  8. Boris Subotić – “Nedostupan”
  9. Nađa Terzić – “Devojka tvog dečka”
  10. Luke Black – “Samo mi se spava”
  11. Filip Baloš – Novi plan drugi san
  12. Zejna -Rumba
  13. Dzipsii – Greh
  14. Igor Vins & Bane Lalić – Zato što volim
  15. Gift – Liberta
  16. Ivona – U noćima
  17. Filarri – Posle mene
  18. Hurricane – Zumi zimi zami
  19. Mattia Zanatta – Novi svet
  20. Hercenšlus – Vremenska zona
  21. Adem Mehmedović Osmeh
  22. Igor Stanojević – Iza duge
  23. CHEGI & Braća Bluz Bend – Svadba ili kavga
  24. Aleksandar Simić & Nenad Osmanović – Viva la vida
  25. Doris Milošević – Tišina
  26. Milan Bujaković, Zoran Todorović & Sanja – Anastasija Fenomen
  27. Emphaty Soul Project – Indigo
  28. Filip Žmaher – Čujemo se sutra –
  29. Stefan Maljković Shy – Od jastuka do jastuka
  30. Jovana Tomašević – Kao grom iz vedra neba
  31.  Drai – Loše procene
  32.  Savo Perović – Presidente

Pesma za Evroviziju ’23 will take place in the 1st, 2nd and 4th of March. The winner of the show will be the successor of Konstrakta who represented Serbia in Eurovision 2022 and came 5th, securing one of the best results of Serbia in the contest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXrDgWDo24g

Norway: NRK adds Auto-Tune in Melodi Grand Prix 2023!

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For the first time in Melodi Grand Prix’s history, NRK gives to its contestants, the chance to compete without the fear of not being perfect vocally, as they are going to allow the use of Auto-Tune, a virtual tool that corrects the wrong tunes and lets the singer be in-tune.

If for example, Stig van Eijk, Kate Gulbrandsen or Atle Pettersen lose their tune, the tool will make the required adjustment to take the note to the necessary tune.

This is what NRK’s ​​Melodi GRand Prix general, Stig Karlsen said:

“MGP follows the development of the concert industry and music shows on TV, by allowing tuning of the lead vocal for MGP 2023”

Auto-Tune is a common production tool, especially in Hip-Hop and R&B music, from Cher’s “Believe” in 1998 to today’s Billie Eillish.

As of now, Auto-Tune is not allowed in the Eurovision Song Contest, but that does not change NRK’s ​​decision to add it to the national final:

“But therefore it is absolutely essential that the artists we select for MGP deliver at a high level, even without tuning. In those cases where we do not know the artist’s performance level live, they are invited to an audition. We set high standards for the vocalists’ performance level, but will help to perfect the quality of the sound production through the use of tuning. This is done to give the audience a similarly solid sound experience as in the rest of the industry”

The director of Melodi Grand Prix in NRK, Stig Karlsen, adds that this is what corresponds to what has happened in other music productions in TV in recent years:

“MGP is one of the last remaining music productions on TV that will now use sound production tools of this type. Using Auto-Tune does not make anyone a skilled vocalist, Karlsen points out. A good vocalist must deliver on communication skills, power, rhythm and timing, empathy, attitude and timbre. A vocalist is also carried by the individual character of the voice. Auto-Tune is just one of several tools for correcting and optimizing the sound experience.”

Stig Karlsen believes that throug the many years of using Auto-Tune, the public has become more discerning with the listening experience and that they automatically get used to the vocals being corrected to their best form:

“MGP therefore sees itself as having to follow developments in order to deliver the product expected by the public in 2023.”

Will the winner of Melodi Grand Prix 2020, Ulrikke be in need of Auto-Tune, in next Saturday’s First semi-final?

https://youtu.be/o9atJbnqhJU

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

Source: vg.no

Latvia: Saule disqualified from Supernova 2023!

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Latvia’s pubic broadcaster, announced the 15 artists and the songs competing in their national final for Eurovision 2023, just yesterday.

LTV received 125 applications in total, 121 of which were submitted before the deadline. 21 applications didn’t meet the criteria to go on to the next stage of the selection (Missing info, artists were not from Latvia or the percentage of foreign composers was higher than that allowed). From the remaining 100 entries, LTV chose the 15 songs that were revealed yesterday.

However, the Latvian broadcaster looked into the songs and found out that one song breaks the rules of Supernova, as well as those of Eurovision itself, resulting in its disqualification from the selection process.

We are talking about Saule, as it was revealed that his song “Finally Happy”, with which he was chosen to compete in the semi-final, was released as early as December 19, 2021.

The rules of Supernova as well as those of Eurovision, demand the competing songs to not be released or performed publicly before the 1st of September 2022. The song was also removed from YouTube.

Because the channel is already getting ready to host the national final (which takes place in February 4), Saule will not be replaced by a new contestant and so, 14 artists will take part in Supernova’s semi-final.

In the semi-final and the final of the contest, the jury and the public vote are of equal importance. the winner will be decided by the total points awarded by the calls and sms votes, combined with the jury vote.

Supernova 2023 schedule is as follows:

  • Semi-Final– February 4
  • Final– February 11

The hosts for this year’s national final will be Ketija Šenberga και Lauris Reiniks.

The last winners of Supernova and Latvia’s representative in Eurovision 2022 were Citi Zēni with the song “Eat your Salad”  but they didn’t manage to qualify for the Grand Final, ending up in 14th place of the first semi-final:

https://youtu.be/TM0_0WfuxSk

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

Source: lsm.lv

Malta: PBS announces changes in MESC’s format | This is the allocation of the artists in the Quarter-Finals!

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Malta’s national final for this year seems to change all the time, as MESC 2023 format is changing for yet another time. About two months ago, the Maltese public broadcaster, PBS, announced that they wanted to introduce to the public more artists through the national final and so, they added four qualifying rounds to the contest.

In an announcement earlier today, the channel revealed their decision to broadcast only three of the four programmed qualifying rounds with 13 competitors in the first two and 14 in the third.

What is more, the allocation of the 40 artists in the three qualifying rounds was also announced:

First Quarter-Final

  1. Haley – “Tik Tok”
  2. Stefan Xuereb – “What Do You Want?”
  3. Clintess – “Lura qatt”
  4. Fabrizio Faniello – “Try to Be Better”
  5. Eliana Gomez Blanco – “Guess What”
  6. Christian Arding – “Eku ċar”
  7. Jason Scerri “Anything Can Happen”
  8. Maria Debono – “X’allegrija”
  9. Geo Debono – “The Mirror”
  10. Mikhail – “Leħen fiċ-ċpar”
  11. Aidan – “Reġina”
  12. Nathan – “Creeping Walls”
  13. Klinsmann – “Piranha”

Second Quarter-Final

  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)”

Third Quarter-Final

  1. Andre’ – “Broken Hill”
  2. Bradley Debono – “Blackout”
  3. Cheryl Balzan – “La La Land”
  4. Chris Grech – “Indescribable”
  5. Dominic and Anna – “Whatever Wind May Blow”
  6. Giada – “I Depend on You”
  7. Greta Tude – “Sound of My Stilettos”
  8. Jake – “Love You Like That”
  9. James Louis – “Dream”
  10. Jessika – “Unapologetic”
  11. John Galea – “Trailblazer”
  12. Maria Christina – “Our Flame”
  13. Ryan Hili – “In the Silence”
  14. Stefan – “Heartbreaker”

The 24 songs that will qualify for the semi-final will be selected from public and jury voting. In the Semi-Final, the 16 finalists will be selected to compete in the Grand Final.

We remind you that the schedule of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is as follows:

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

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:

https://youtu.be/DFCFM5qtvms

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

Source: escbeat.com

France: The first rumors for Eurovision 2023!

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The French national broadcaster, France Télévisions, so far hasn’t made an informative statement about the country’s participation in Eurovision 2023. What format will France use to select the entry it will send to Liverpool? Through a national final or by internal selection? This has not yet been revealed, however we can say a few names of artists that are heavily rumoured in the rumours circulating. Let’s go and see who they are.

La Zarra

The Canadian singer’s name was heavily mentioned last year as well. Through her return to social media, she has once again come back into the limelight as a possible representative of France at Eurovision 2023. Through a story, it was revealed that La Zarra was included in the casting of Eurovision France 2021 because the Apollo Theater stage in the national selection’s colours could be seen from behind. In her music she mixes French song and urban sounds. Maybe it’s time for her to visit Liverpool for Eurovision 2023?

 

Nour

She rose to fame in 2019 via The Voice Kids when she was just 17 years old, and three years later she won The Voice. About two months ago, she released her first single, “Premier Amour,” which has already reached two million views on YouTube. In the lyric video’s comments, Nour announced that there will be “little surprises in the coming weeks”. Do these include a possible participation in the French national selection? Especially since the previous selections have shown an extra preference for people who participated in TF1 shows. It is worth noting that TF1’s kids version is the main source of selecting the country’s representatives for Junior Eurovision.

 

Yelle

A cryptic message posted on Twitter started the rumor. The frontwoman of the band that takes her name and the featured singer of the great hits “Je veux te voir” and “À cause des garçons” which is a cover of the band of the same name, Yelle, said that there will be new music projects in late January, at the same time saying “I don’t know if I should say it here”. Since then, Yelle have denied the rumour started by eurofans and insisted that they do not want to participate in a music competition. However, is this really true or are they just following strategies like those of Ulrikke and Elsie Bay’s managers in an attempt to muddy the waters? In any case, the electro-dance-pop group has just announced the release of their new song for January 24th, before embarking on a mini-tour of the United States in late February/early March.

 

Anne Sila

Anne Sila is one of the most coveted names on the Eurofans’ list. She has two appearances on The Voice and a win on the All Stars version. After shocking viewers and her coach Florent Pagny, wouldn’t Anne Sila be able to conquer Liverpool and subsequently the hearts of viewers? Will she remain as an unfulfilled dream of the competition’s fans or is it time for her to be the French delegation’s strongest asset?

 

Tom Leeb

He is the last representative of France to be selected by internal selection for the much-maligned Eurovision 2020, which was ultimately cancelled. His song, “The Best in Me” which became “Mon Alliée”, however was not particularly well received. In 2021 he did not renew his Eurovision participation with the official explanation of “a busy schedule” and “a mutual agreement”. Tom Leeb announced that 2023 will be a musical year. We wonder, will he try to convince otherwise those who claim that “his chance is over” because of the bad reviews his entry received three years ago?

 

Silmane

A Silmane entry is a dream of many, as he is one of the stars in the country right now. Aside from this, Silmane has a win on The Voice and a successful duet with Vitaa under his belt. In an interview with Pure Charts, he has stated that he is interested in taking part in Eurovision since it is a competition he likes. However, he has said that he disagrees with the voting system believing that the selection of the winner is sometimes not meritocratic. Is this perception enough to put him off a possible representation of France at Eurovision 2023?

 

Star Academy

After ten years, the legendary TF1 show is back, causing a frenzy among viewers of all ages. In just six weeks of airing, it revealed 12 talents to millions of viewers. Among them, Anisha, the winner. She won a record label contract and sparked the interest of many artists… But she’s not the only one! Rumour has it that France Télévisions is considering selecting one or more of the Star Academy participants for Eurovision 2023. Will it act as RTVE once did with Operacion Triunfo? Creating such a bridge between TF1 and the public broadcaster, especially in such a recent programme, is not obvious on paper.

 

Yseult

The rumors about Yseult are not the loudest, but they continue to circulate on social media. She was part of the Eurovision France 2022 jury and her clash with Nicoletta sparked controversy. She was rumoured to have participated in the casting of the 2021 national selection without ultimately being selected, a report that has not been confirmed. Will Yseult agree to wear the colours of France for Eurovision 2023? She was recently named godmother of the next Francophonie summit in 2024, but the artist was forced to stop her tour due to health issues.

Who do you think will travel to Liverpool and Eurovision 2023 on behalf of France? Tell us what you think in the comments!

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Source: L’Eurovision Au Quotiden

Finland: These are the clues for the third competing artist of UMK 2023!

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Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu‘s official Instagram account  has released the first details about the third artist to participate in the Finnish national final!

  1. The most experienced artist on the label (note: they use the same word “konkari” which could also be translated as “veteran” as they used to describe The Rasmus , but not necessarily 60+ years old)
  2. Returns to the UMK stage
  3. Iconic, but not Danny

The first talks are about three female singers since they seem to meet the conditions. Perhaps the third clue immediately goes to Erika Vikman where she participated in UMK 2020 and ended up in the second place. Danny and Erika were in a relationship for four years and broke up after the competition.

Also names that come to the surface are Saara Aalto and Krista Siegfrids where they both represented Finland at Eurovision. 

UMK‘s songs will be released from January 12th to January 20th,  one each day, while the artists will be announced on January 11th !

Previous UMK winners and  Finland‘s representatives at Eurovision 2022  were  The Rasmus  with the song “Jezebel” and they finished in 21st  place in the Grand Final:

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Finland: These are the clues for the second competing artist of UMK 2023!

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Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu’s official Instagram account, gave away the clues for the second artist that is taking part in this year’s Finnish national final!

The second artist’s clues are:

  • He/She started his/her career in a young age
  • He/She is capable of creating emotions
  • He/She has something in common with the host of UMK (Samu Haber)

 

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The first speculations, want that artist to be Robin Packalen, who seems to meet these conditions. Robin is 24 years old and he is a Finnish singer who started his career in Finnish pop as a teenager. During the course of his career, Robin has won many awards for his albums and singles, which have sold more than 370.000 copies. This automatically puts him in the list of the 70 Finnish artists with the most sales of all time!

Robin Packalen has perfromed many times with Samu Haber, having also done a tour together.

We remind you that the songs of UMK are going to be released fro January 12 to 20, one each day, while the competing artists will be announced in January 11, while the final of UMK will be broadcasted live from Turku, in February 25.

The last winner of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu and Finland’s representative in Eurovision 2022 were The Rasmus with the song “Jezebel” and ended up in 21th place with 38 points:

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Serbia: On January 9 the announcement of the candidates for the national final!

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Preparations have already begun for the selection of songs regarding the selection of Serbia’s representative for Eurovision Song Contest 2023. RTS announced that the official list of artists and song titles will be released on January 9.

A total of 200 songs were submitted to represent Serbia in Liverpool.

There has been some speculation as to who will take part, including Tijana Bogicević (Serbia Eurovision 2017), Tijana Dapcević (North Macedonia Eurovision 2014), Lena Stamenković (Serbia Junior Eurovision 2015) and the new members of Hurricane.

We remind you that Pesma za Evroviziju 23 will again consist of two Semi-Finals and a Grand Final. The dates of the semi-finals and final are:

  • First Semi-Final – March 1st
  • Second Semi-Final – March 2nd
  • Grand Final – March 4th

At Eurovision 2022, Serbia with Konstrakta ended up in 5th place in Torino, Italy!

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Source: Eurovoix

Finland: These are the clues for the first competing artist of UMK 2023!

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Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu’s official Instagram account, gave away the clues for the first artist that is taking part in this year’s Finnish national final!

The first artist’s clues are:

  1. He/She is the youngest artist taking part in UMK (in 2023 or in general?)
  2. Has taken part in a reality show
  3. He/She has a dance song

 

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The first speculations talk about the singer Joalin Loukamaa who, for sure, meets these conditions. Joalin is 22 years old, model, singer and dancer. She took part in Survivors Finland in 2020 and was part of the group Now United.

We remind you that the songs of UMK are going to be released fro January 12 to 20, one each day, while the competing artists will be announced in January 11, while the final of UMK will be broadcasted live from Turku, in February 25.

The last winner of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu and Finland’s representative in Eurovision 2022 were The Rasmus with the song “Jezebel” and ended up in 21th place with 38 points:

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