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Portugal: On January 18th the songs for Festival da Canção 2024 will be revealed!

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Portugal’s national broadcaster RTP announced with an Instagram post that the songs which will compete at Festival da Canção 2024 will be unveiled on the 18th of January. One of them will get eventually the opportunity to wave the portuguese flag at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden.

 

Two months ago, RTP had made the 20 composers who will participate at this year’s Festival da Canção public and later on, their assortment on their respective Semi-Final was also revealed.

The composers have divided on each Semi-Final as of below:

First Semi-Final

  1. Bispo
  2. Iolanda
  3. LEFT. (via application procedure)
  4. João Borsch
  5. MELA (via application procedure)
  6. Mila Dores
  7. Nena
  8. NOBLE
  9. Perpétua
  10. Rita Rocha (via application procedure)

Second Semi-Final

  1. Buba Espinho
  2. Cristina Clara
  3. FILIPA (via application procedure)
  4. Huca
  5. João Couto (via application procedure)
  6. Leo Middea
  7. Maria João
  8. No Maka
  9. Rita Onofre (via application procedure)
  10. Silk Nobre

 

Similarly as last year, Festival da Canção 2024 will consist of two semi-finals and five songs will qualify to the final from each semi-final. A total of ten entries will take part in the Final and the winner will be determined by 50% of public voting and 50% of jury voring.

Last year’s Festival da Canção winner and ultimately, the portuguese representative for Eurovision 2023 was Mimicat with “Ai coração”, that ended up 23rd on the Grand Final, continuing Portugal’s three-year qualification streak.

https://youtu.be/HYfkxX4PFyw?si=22gV-h6B_NDHGvip

 

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Source: Festival da Canção/ official Instagram account

Portugal: A record number of entries were submitted for Festival Da Canção 2024!

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Back in August, Portugal confirmed its 2024 participation via the “Festival Da Canção” page on Instagram. Along with Portugal’s participation, it was confirmed that Festival Da Canção, a music festival of great significance in Portugal, will remain as the country’s selection format for Eurovision 2024.

The deadline of the submission process was yesterday, October 15. All Portuguese citizens or residents, including Portuguese living outside Portugal, as well as citizens of other nationalities residing in Portugal, could apply.

In total, RTP announced that a record number of 809 entries were submitted through this open submission. The high interest seems totally reasonable, considering the significance of FDC in the national music scene and the relatively successful course of the country in Eurovision the past years.

What’s next?

As far as the Festival da Canção 2024 is concerned, 20 songs will compete.

  • 14 of those will be selected following an invitation by the country’s national broadcaster RTP to creators of various music genres.
  • The remaining six will be selected through this afore-mentioned submission process, which turns out to be really successful as well as highly competitive for the contenders.

The winner of Festival Da Canção 2023 and hence, Portugal’s representative in Eurovision 2023, was Mimicat with her song “Ai Coração”, which finished 23rd in the Grand Final.

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

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