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Finland: 1.25 million viewers watched the UMK 2024 final!

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Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2024 has come to an end and Finland has chosen the artist who will represent Finland in the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. The winner was Windows95Man with “No Rules” who scored a total of 313 points.

According to Finnpanel, the big night of the final was watched by an average of 1,244,000 viewers on Yle TV1. In addition, around 1.9 million viewers watched at least one minute of the show, while the Yle areena streams had gained 800,000 views.

This high ratings is also reflected in the large volume of votes collected according to Yle. In particular, a total of 224,577 votes were cast.

In detail, the number of votes cast for each number was as follows:

  • Windows95man – “No Rules” – 72.651 votes
  • Sara Siipola – “Paskana” – 51,743 votes
  • Mikael Gabriel x nublu – “Vox populi” – 34,675 votes
  • Cyan Kicks – “Dancing With Demons” – 20,392 votes
  • Jesse Markin – “Glow” – 19,381 votes
  • Sexmane – “Mania” -108 points – 18,864 votes
  • Sini Sabotage – “Kuori mua” – 6,872 votes

Finland, has been drawn to compete in the second half, of the first semi-final of Eurovision 2024, on 7 May.

Do you think Finland will be able to claim a place in the Eurovision Grand Final?

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding Finland’s participation in Eurovision 2024, in Malmö!

Finland: Harsh criticism from Mr. Lordi for the entries of UMK 2024!

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Tomi Putaansuu, also known as Mr. Lordi gave a revealing interview to local Finnish media, harshly criticizing the UMK 2024 entries.

Finland’s only winner of the Eurovision song contest, revealed his favorite entry in this year’s UMK, while describing the other entries with indecent characterizations.

Tomi characterized as Satan, rap music, as well as the corresponding entries in this year’s UMK, while he considers that there is no worthy entry among the candidate songs.

“It’s Satan. Otherwise, probably great music, but it sounds like shit. I can not stand it. They miss the tune. There are no favorites for me among rappers. Probably nice boys, possibly girls too. There’s Cyan Kicks, but there’s also quite a bit of rap. It’s anti-music to me. You can not do anything”.

Mr. Lordi however has a favorite among the current UMK contestants, and that is Cyan Kicks.

Lordi were the big winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 which took place in Athens and gave Finland their first and only victory so far.

https://youtu.be/gAh9NRGNhUU

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source: is.fi

 

Finland: The guests of UMK 2024!

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Finland’s broadcaster, Yle,   has announced the guests who will appear in the UMK 2024 final.The final will be opened by two last year’s UMK candidates, KUUMAA and Benjamin.

In between the show, last year’s winner Käärijä and the legendary Erika Vikman will appear together on stage.

We remind you that the finalists of UMK 2024 are:

  1. Sini Sabotage – “Kuori Mua”
  2. Cyan Kicks – “Dancing withe demons”
  3. Jesse Markin – “Glow”
  4. Mikael Gabriel x nublu – “Vox Populi”
  5. Sara Siipola – “Paskana”
  6. SexMane – “Mania”
  7. Windows95man – “No Rules!”

The Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2024 will take place this Saturday 10 February at the Nokia Arena in Tampere. UMK 2024 will be hosted by Pilvi Hämäläinen, Benjamin and Viivi Pumpanen.

Finland took second place in last year’s competition with Käärijä and Cha Cha Cha, as he was voted the audience winner. This makes it the country’s best result since Lordi’s victory in Athens in 2006:

https://youtu.be/l6rS8Dv5g-8

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Source: Yle

 

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Sara Siipola:” Singing will be the main point of my staging show” | Interview

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Sara Siipola spoke exclusively to Eurovisionfun and Apostolis about her participation in UMK 2024 with the song “Paskana” and her dream to be on the Eurovision stage in Malmö, Sweden.

How did you make the decision to participate in UMK 2024?

“I thought it was the right time. In my career I already have experiences so far and I would love to one day be the biggest artist in Finland!”

 

After talking to us about the meaning of her song which is entirely in Finnish, she then revealed that the song was not written exclusively for Eurovision.

“‘When the deadline for submitting entries for UMK 2024 was closing, my team and I asked ourselves which song I could enter with and we remembered “Paskana” and immediately said: This is it!”

Which participation has stood out from this year’s UMK?

“I’ve seen all the video clips and all the entries are great! Whoever wins I will be very happy. I think my favorite entry is “Sexmane” from MANIA!”

Afterwards, she revealed to us that she feels pressure after the country’s great success in the competition last year, but her own song is something completely different and new.

What is he preparing for the stage appearance in the national final?

“I can’t say much but it will be something big but also simple! I want to give space to the message of the song and my performance!”

Watch Sara Siipola’s full interview below:

We want to thank Sara for this exclusive interview and wish her best of luck on the final of UMK 2024!

Finland: These are the seven UMK 2024 candidates!

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Finland’s broadcaster, YLE, has announced the seven artists and their song titles that will participate in the country’s national final, UMK 2024.

The 7 artists who will participate in UMK 2024 are:

  • Cyan Kicks – “Dancing With Demons” (Thursday 11 January)
  • Sexmane – “Mania” (Friday 12 January)
  • Sara Siipola – “Paskana” (Monday 15 January)
  • Jesse Markin – “Glow” (Tuesday 16 January)
  • Windows95Man – “No Rules!” (Wednesday, January 17)
  • Sini Sabotage – “Kuori Mua” (Thursday 18 January)
  • Mikael Gabriel x NUBLU – “Vox Populi” (Friday 19 January)

Like last year, the songs will start to be released on different days, from January 11 to January 19.

Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2024 will take place on February 10 at the Nokia Arena in Tampere. Presenters of UMK 2024 will be Pilvi Hämäläinen, Benjamin and Viivi Pumpanen.

Finland won second place in last year’s competition with Käärijä and Cha Cha Cha, as they were the audience winner. This makes it the country’s best result since Lordi won in Athens in 2006:

 

https://youtu.be/l6rS8Dv5g-8

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Source: Yle

 

Finland: UMK 2024 Stage Revealed!

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This morning the Finnish broadcaster Yle has revealed the stage for Finland’s Eurovision selection show.

The stage for the 2024 edition of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK) will have a total of 719 spotlights, LED panels, and a catwalk.

 

Δείτε αυτή τη δημοσίευση στο Instagram.

 

Η δημοσίευση κοινοποιήθηκε από το χρήστη UMK (@uudenmusiikinkilpailu)

The chairman of the UMK jury, Tapio Hakanen announced that 363 songs were submitted for UMK 2024.

The seven acts that will compete in UMK 2024 will be revealed this evening at 19:00 CET. The live TV announcement can be followed through Youtube, YLE Areena, with English commentary as well.

The 2024 edition of UMK will be held on February 10 in the Nokia Arena in Tampere. With a capacity of 13,455, the Nokia Arena is the largest venue to ever host UMK.

 

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the latest news regarding Finland’s participation in Eurovision 2024!

Finland: The clues for UMK’s fifth artist!

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Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, Finland’s national selection, gave away a few clues regarding the fifth competing artist on its 2024 edition via an Instagram post on its official account.

  1. Sandstorm
  2. WOOF!
  3. The scale is mind-blowing

 

 

 

Δείτε αυτή τη δημοσίευση στο Instagram.

 

Η δημοσίευση κοινοποιήθηκε από το χρήστη UMK (@uudenmusiikinkilpailu)

The first estimates circulate around windows95man, Henri Piispanen and Darude, who seemingly fit with the clues abovementioned.

Windows95Man, also known as Teemu Keisteri, is a DJ, originating from Espoo.

 

Henri Piispanen is a 30-year-old Finnish singer, actor, presenter and vocal coach, who gained fame from the group Pasa.

 

Lastly, Darude is familiar to Eurovision fans, since he has represented Finland in the past. More specifically, he waved the Finnish flag in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, along with Sebastian Rejman, with their entry “Look Away”, placing last on the First Semi-Final gaining overall 23 points.

 

Stay tuned at EurovisionFun for all the news!

 

Source: uudenmusiikinkilpailu

Finland: UMK 2024 kicks in!

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The search for Käärijä’s successor has begun!

Today the Finnish national final for Eurovision 2024, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK) started.  Finnish  broadcaster Yle, has opened their call for artists to submit their entries for the 2024 national final.  Interested artists can apply for a spot at the UMK Final from August 21 at 8:00 EET to 24 August 2024 at 23:59 EET

The application form is available in the following link in English, Swedish and Finnish together with the rules of the contest.

UMK 2024

A panel of music professionals headed by Tapio Hakanen, Head of Music at YleX will review the submitted entries and filter them down to make the final list of competing candidates.

“UMK’s status proves that a large percentage of the biggest Finnish music phenomena and hits have come from none other than this open call for song entries. UMK is not just the preserve of big-name artists or recording companies – every year, we also see many incredible indie artists and artists from small recording companies. We’ll soon see who will be Finland’s next Erika Vikman, Blind Channel, BESS, KUUMAA or Käärijä. It’s all about the song – so now’s the time to apply!”

The Finnish national final UMK 2024 will take place in February 2024.  The dates, host city as well as the competing candidates will be revealed in the next couple of months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6rS8Dv5g-8&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

Source: Yle

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