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Sweden: Security planning for Eurovision 2024 in Malmö intensified!

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As you’ve read on one of our articles last week, based on the increased terrorist threat level, the Swedish Police Authority had decided to ban bags at major events in Sweden.

Consequently, Malmö is currently evaluating the current situation caused by the ongoing Middle-East conflict and is discussing the ways of making the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest as safe as possible.

Speaking to Sveriges Radio, Nils Norling, spokesperson for the police of Malmö mentioned:

“If we look at Malmö during the last month, we have seen a certain increase in hate crime. Daily we see manifestations, mostly pro-Palestinian. So we cannot exclude that people will try and carry out various manifestations.”

Up until now, the police of Malmö hasn’t identified any direct threats to the contest, but it goes without saying that the intelligence work will intensify as we are approaching to the contest.

Sveriges Radio also interviewed Karin Karlsson, who is the lead for organising the events of Malmö municipality. Karin reflected on one manifestation against the Israeli participation that was carried out back in 2013 and added:

“I think that we need to act preventively and keep in mind that more could happen than in 2013, and then follow the things the police tells us to do.”

Apart from the Eurovision Song Contest, the city of Malmö will host several events in public or outdoor spaces. But does this pose a threat according to Karlsson?

“We try to look at places where we are used to having good security and controls, so the places we want to use should feel safe.“

More safety specifications regarding the Eurovision Song Contest will be released within the following months.

The 68th Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Malmö, Sweden in 7, 9 and 11th of May 2024, after the second win of Loreen in Liverpool, with her song “Tattoo”:

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Source: Sveriges Radio

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Portugal: The composers of Festival da Canção 2024 have been announced!

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Today, the composers who will compete in Festival da Canção 2024 were unveiled by the Portuguese national television.

Of the following composers, six were chosen via a submission process that drew 809 entries, and 14 were invited directly by RTP.

The composers competing in the Festival da Canção 2024 are:

  • Bispo
  • Buba Espinho
  • Cristina Clara
  • FILIPA (selected through the submission procedure)
  • Huca
  • Iolanda
  • João Borsch
  • João Couto (selected through the submission procedure)
  • LEFT. (selected through the submission procedure)
  • Leo Middea
  • Maria João
  • MELA (selected through the submission procedure)
  • Mila Dores
  • Nena
  • NOBLE
  • No Maka
  • Perpétua
  • Rita Onofre (selected through the submission procedure)
  • Rita Rocha (selected through the submission procedure)
  • Silk Nobre

There will be two semi-finals in Festival da Canção, with five songs qualifying from each. The Grand Final will feature ten entries, with the winner being chosen by a combination of 50% jury and 50% public vote.

Last year’s winner of Festival da Canção and Portugal’s representative at Eurovision 2023 was Mimicat with the song “Ai coração” which took 23rd place in the Grand Final. This marks the third consecutive year that Portugal has qualified for the final.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYfkxX4PFyw

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Source: RTP 

Norway: The MGP 2024 line-up is ready, according to Head of Delegation Stig Karlsen!

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Norway has confirmed that Melodi Grand Prix will remain as the country’s selection process for Eurovision 2024. The submission window closed for those interested in submitting an entry on August 31 and the process that will filter down the entrants, who will participate in the main event, is currently progressing.

As you read in one of our past articles, Stig Karlsen, the Head of the Norwegian delegation, had announced that the Grand Final of Melodi Grand Prix 2024 will take place on February 3 2024. Stig posted on instagram and now confirmed that the line-up of the acts that will take part in Melodi Grand Prix 2024 have already been selected:

“What a thrill to call up artists and their team to let them know that they have been chosen to participate on Norways biggest music show.”

The assessment of the submitted acts is still ongoing and we expect the reveal of MGP’s 2024 line-up in early January, probably on January 5. Moreover, since there was no announcement made, we are still expecting the announcement of the venue that will host MGP 2024 in early 2024.

Melodi Grand Prix 2024 timeline

As far as we are concerned, MGP 2024 will include three semi finals, with six participants each. From each semi final, probably three acts will advance to the Grand Final of February 3. Hence, bearing in mind the aforementioned MGP 2024 structure, we conclude that the dates of Melodi Grand Prix 2024 will be as following:

  • First Semi Final: January 13, 2024
  • Second Semi Final: January 20, 2024
  • Third Semi Final: January 27, 2024
  • Grand Final: February 3, 2024

Source: Stig Karlsen

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Malta: Listen to nine more songs competing in MESC 2024!

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A few hours ago, the second semi-final of MESC 2024, the national final of Malta for Eurovision 2024, was completed!

For the third year in a row, the island country is using the format of a national final and is organizing Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2024 (MESC), through which they are going to select their representative for the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

36 artists are going to take part in Malta’s selection process for Eurovision 2024. A process consisting of semi-finals and the Grand Final, will select the artist and the song that is going to represent Malta in Malmö.

The second semi-final was took place a earlier today, with the presentation of nine more songs through a TV show, named XOW. Both the jury and public vote were completed.

You can listen to the first nine songs in the videos below:

When all semi-finals are completed, the twelve songs with the highest scores will advance to the Grand Final. The next semi-final will take place next Friday!

Until we learn who is going to represent Malta in Eurovision 2024, let’s remember their song for last year’s contest. The Busker were the winners of MESC 2023 with the song “Dance (Our Own Party)” but they didn’t manage to qualify for the Grand Final ending up in 15th place of the First Semi-final with 3 points:

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Sweden: Bag ban in all major events, effective last Wednesday! | How are Mello and Eurovision affected?

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Based on the increased terrorist threat level, the Swedish Police Authority has decided to ban bags at major events in Sweden.

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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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Malta: MESC 2024 second semi-final takes place tonight!

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The time we’re all waiting for, is slowly coming again. We are talking about the national final period of Eurovision Song Contest 2024! This year, the first country that’s airing its national final, is Malta!

For the third year in a row, the island country is using the format of a national final and is organizing Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2024 (MESC), through which they are going to select their representative for the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

36 artists are going to take part in Malta’s selection process for Eurovision 2024. A process consisting of semi-finals and the Grand Final, will select the artist and the song that is going to represent Malta in Malmö.

Tonight the second semi-final of MESC 2024 will take place and will be broadcasted at 21:00 CET. You can watch it through the live broadcast of TVM’s official website, by clicking HERE.

Participants

Today, we are going to see nine more artists, out of the 36 competing in MESC 2024, in tonight’s first semi-final.

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

  • Marie Claire – “Fading”
  • Puppet – “Franklin”
  • Desirei Grech – “Watch Me”
  • Sopranique – “Empire”
  • Janvil – “MAN”
  • Haley Azzopardi – “Tell Me That It’s Over”
  • Denise – “Mara”
  • Mark Portelli – “Just Be”
  • Maria Christina – “Moving On”

The Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (MESC 2023)

Phase I – Song Submission and Selection

Those interested could subit their songs in the country’s public broadcaster. After the deadline, the 36 competing artists were selected.

Phase II – Semi Final
  • Artists will perform their songs live via a TV show that will be broadcasted for several weeks.
  • The top 12 artists via a combination of jury and public vote will qualify to the Grand Final.
Phase III – Grand Final
  • The Grand Final will be held in January 2024.
  • Every participant will have a budget of 5.000 euros for producing and filming a video-clip of its entry.
  • Every participant will film a live-on-tape performance in December 2023(the artists will have 60 minutes to film 3 performances and between these, the best will be chosen)
  • The winner will be decided from a jury and public vote.

Until we learn who is going to represent Malta in Eurovision 2024, let’s remember their song for last year’s contest. The Busker were the winners of MESC 2023 with the song “Dance (Our Own Party)” but they didn’t manage to qualify for the Grand Final ending up in 15th place of the First Semi-final with 3 points:

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Albania: The public will choose the 2024 Eurovision representative, while the jury the winner of Festivali i Këngës 62!

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A while ago the RTSH press conference for the Festivali i Këngës 62 that is going to take place in December was concluded and we learned some very interesting things!

The first and most important change is the method of selecting the winner. Some time ago we learned that the audience and the committee will choose together the winner of the festival, and at the same time the representative of Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. However, at the press conference, it was mentioned that the system will remain the same as last year. This means that the jury of the festival will choose the winner of Festivali i Këngës 62 and the TV audience the representative of the country. The two winners may not be the same, as happened last year when the winner of Festivali i Këngës was Elsa Lila, while the representatives of the country were Albina & Familja Kelmendi.

Then it was mentioned that on the third day, the “big” artists will perform with singers who no longer participate, while the “new” artists will sing in a duet, a song from Eurovision. The finalists will be announced after the end of the third night. Last but not least, one of the presenters of this year’s Festivali i Këngës will be Andriana Matoshi.

Withrdawals after the press conference

After the end of the press conference and the announcement of the regulations, two singers decided to withdraw from Festivali i Këngës 62. These two artist were Samanta and Kejsi Tola, who will be replaced by Irma Lepuri and the PeterPan Quartet respectively .

Festivali i Këngës 62 is expected to take place around the end of December and will include 27 artists, 14 in the “big” category and 13 newcomers.

https://youtu.be/TI9rSDhXwyc

Source: RTSH

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Eurovision 2024: The rules of Eurovision 2024 are released! | The ratio between juries and televoting is still not specified!

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EBU has released through the official Eurovision website the rules of the 2024 contest to be held in Malmö, Sweden.

What needs to be pointed out is that the National Juries and the National Audiences will be combined according to a ration which will be decided later. More specifically the rules specify:

“In the Final; the points of the National Audiences and of the National Juries shall be combined according to a ratio which is determined by the EBU, subject to the Reference Group approval, to calculate the official result of the Final.

For example, if the ratio is 50-50, the points of the National Jury carry the same weight as the points of the National Audiences”

As it seems there are also still no plans to introduce the use of Auto-Tune in the contest and use of such or lipsyncing are explicitly prohibited. The pre-recorded backing vocals are still allowed in this year’s contest too.

Do you think that there will be a later announcement for a change in the ratio of combined voting, by EBU? Let us know in the comments section below!

Source: EBU

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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