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Malta: Was Saba’s “Sand” one of Emma Muscat’s candidate songs for Eurovision 2022!

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According to the latest news, “Sand”, the song with which Saba represented Denmark this year, at Eurovision 2024, travelled a long way until it ended up on the stage of the Contest.

According to the Danish website Eurosong-DK, it seems that “Sand” was one of Emma Muscat’s candidate songs for Eurovision 2022.

https://youtu.be/4f_phiGot7w

We remind you that Emma Muscat won MESC 2022, the national final of Malta, with the song “Out of Sight”, however immediately after her victory, the search for a replacement song began, as read first from Eurovisionfun.

The final choice seems to have been made between “Sand” and the song that in the end represented Malta that year, “I Am What I Am”. Malta got 16th place in the second semi-final of 2022, while this year Denmark placed 12th.

https://youtu.be/DFCFM5qtvms

What would Malta’s fortune be if it was represented by Sand? Would the island country manage to qualify?

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Source: eurosong.dk

Malta: Present at Eurovision 2025 and Junior Eurovision 2024!

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While the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 has reached its final way, some countries have already been preparing for the next Eurovision Song Contests. Yesterday, 06/05/2024, Malta’ national TV broadcaster, PBS, confirmed that Malta is going to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2024!

In addition, PBS has also announced the second season of their new project, The Malta Eurovision Song Contest Music Exchange Camp 2024, which purpose is to create songs that will be competed in Malta’s the national selections for Eurovision 2025 and Junior Eurovision 2024. The same project also took part last year, with many songs getting that chance to compete in Malta’ national selection for Eurovision 2024.

This year, 2 categories of artists will take place. The first one will include 50 artists, starting from the age of 16 years old, and the other one will include 10 singers from the age of 9 to 14. According to PBS, the Malta Eurovision Song Contest Music Exchange Camp 2024 will take plece in June of 2024. The songs that will be written in the Camp will also have a achance to participate in the national selection of Malta.

This year, Malta is represented by Sarah Bonnici with the song “Loop” which is going to compete in the first position of the second semifinal in Thursday!

https://youtu.be/l6eS60n4wg8

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Source: PBS

Eurovision 2024: Malta’s Second Rehearsal!

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Day six of rehearsals today and it’s the turn of the 16 countries from the second semi-final to take to the Malmö stage again for their second rehearsal. In addition, the Big 5 countries (France, Germany, United Kingdom, Spain and Italy) as well as the host country Sweden are going to take the stage today for their first technical rehearsal. So the day starts with Malta.

Who is Sarah Bonnici?

Sarah has had vocal lessons from Miriam Christine, who was Malta’s Eurovision entry in 1996, performing In A Woman’s Heart at the Contest in Oslo. Miriam encouraged Sarah to take part in competitions herself, and from there she went on to take 3rd place in Malta Junior Eurosong in 2009.

Sarah has a star-studded songwriting team for Loop, and has also been part of the artistry. Linnea Deb and Joy Deb are well-known in the world of Eurovision, having written Måns Zelmerlöw’s Heroes which won the Contest for Sweden in 2015. Michael Joe Cini, known as Micimago, co-wrote Malta’s 2023 entry for The Busker, Dance (Our Own Party). And for Kevin Lee, this will be his 5th time working behind the scenes at the Eurovision Song Contest in some form or another. They’re joined by Leire Gotxi Angel and Sebastian Pritchard-James, who started as street performers and have now racked up over 9 million streams on their tracks.

The Rehearsal

The main dancing routine is largely the same as in the music video, other than having been polished up a bit in places. BUT the dance break has had a rework – it still has the flip, but with added shirt removal by the four male backing dancers, and also…blindfolds. There’s a very impressive salsa-style shoulder lift.

Sarah wears the same outfit as in the first rehearsal. Fireworks during the big note in the bridge before the final chorus, and a big firework finish.

                                               Malta second rehearsal Eurovision 2024. Credit: Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU

                                              Malta second rehearsal Eurovision 2024. Credit: Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU

After today’s second rehearsals a recap video will be published on the official Youtube channel! Stay tuned!

The Dress Rehearsal for Malta and the rest of Semi Final 2 is scheduled for Wednesday the 8th of May!

Source: eurovision.tv

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Watch the performances of Malta, Azerbaijan and Switzerland in “A Little Bit More”!

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Just like last year, some time before the first rehearsals of the countries, the show called “A Little Bit More” aired on the official Eurovision YouTube channel.Advertisement

So, for all this time before the rehearsals, Eurovision TV will upload different performances of the artists, like different versions of their songs, or covers of songs from other artists.

In today’s videos, you can listen to a live version of Malta’s entry, “Loop” by Sarah Bonnici, as well as the acoustic version of Switzerland’s entry “The Code” by Nemo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ4eI9-4dvk

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

You can also listen to a Fahree and Ilkin Dovlatov covering an Azeri Folk song, called “Bəri Bax”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuAPtGvWGw0

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Watch the performances of Sweden, Malta and Finland’s representatives in “A Little Bit More”!

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Just like last year, some time before the first rehearsals of the countries, the show called “A Little Bit More” airs on the official Eurovision YouTube channel.

So, for all this time before the rehearsals, Eurovision TV will upload various performances of the artists, like different versions of their songs, or covers of songs from other artists.

Below you can listen to the “Spa Mix” of Finland’s entry for this year’s contest, “No Rules” by Windows95man:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5vUpSzxeFw

You can also listen to the an acoustic version of Marcus & Martinus’ Melodifestivalen 2023 entry, “Air” as well as Sarah Bonnici, covering “Hold Me Closer” by Cornelia Jakobs (Sweden 2022):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTRQohm74A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QK-6zKvrmY

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Malta: Listen to the revamped version of “Loop”!

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After more than a month of wait, the revamped version of “Loop” is finally out. “Loop” by Sarah Bonnici was MESC’s 2024 winning entry in early February. Rumors regarding a possible revamp of Sarah Bonnici’s bid for Eurovision 2024 were present for long, the official confirmation of those, however, was done a few days ago.

Listen to the revamped version of “Loop” below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6eS60n4wg8

“Loop” is signed by Sarah Bonnici herself, Atticus Blue, Linnea Deb et al. and its revamped version was recorded in London, UK. Sarah Bonnici even recorded a new music video for her entry in addition to the one filmed in purpose of the Maltese pre-selection.

Even in its MESC 2024 winning version, “Loop” was never made available on streaming services. As a result, her fans were thrilled to hear the news, as evidenced by a brief video Sarah posted on Instagram, in which many fans beg for “Loop” to be released on streaming services.

Sarah Bonnici won MESC 2024 in early February with her entry “Loop” and will therefore represent Malta in Malmö. Malta will perform in the first half of the second semi-final on May 9.

You can also watch EurovisionFun’s reaction video on “Loop’s“ MESC performance, below:

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Malta: 132.000 viewers watched the final of MESC 2024!

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After many months of preparations, the national final of Malta was completed last Saturday, and the island country, now has its own representative for Eurovision 2024!

Earlier today, TVM, the public broadcaster of Malta, announced that 132.000 viewers watched the final of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2024, live.

The viewing figures have slightly fallen from last year, when TVM reported that 265.000 viewers watched the final. However, these are not small numbers, if we take into account that in 2021, Malta had 519.562 permanent residents.

The winner of MESC 2024, was Sarah Bonnici with the song “Loop”. You can read more about the Maltese national final in our article.

Malta is taking part in the first half of the second Semi-Final of Eurovision 2024, in May 9:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IIxDNyIBdE

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Source: tvmnews.mt

Malta: Watch clips of the music videos of the contestants of MESC 2024!

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Malta was the first country to commence its national final, already by October, while the Grand Final is set to take place on February 3.

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Malta: MESC 2024 starts on January 29!

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Malta was the first country to commence its national final, presenting their songs, already from October. Now it’s time for the island country to select its representative for Eurovision Song Contest 2024! Read more

Malta: These are the 12 finalists of MESC 2024!

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After the completion of the last semi-final of MESC 2024, the public broadcaster of Malta announced on a special tv show the 12 acts that qualified to the final of the selection show of the island of the Knights for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. The 12 acts were voted by the audience and the jury panel.

The 36 artist that took part in the 4 semi-finals of MESC 2024 were as follows:

  1. Kurt Calleja – “Misunderstood”
  2. Sarah Bonnici – “Loop”
  3. Gail – “Wild Card”
  4. Mark Anthony Bartolo – “Condition or Fiction”
  5. Eliana Gomez Blanco – “There’s Only Flowers”
  6. OXYGYN – “Cloudmaker”
  7. Nathan – “Ghost”
  8. Lyndsay – “Fire Proof”
  9. Dominic Cini – “Bewsa”
  10. Marie Claire – “Fading”
  11. Franklin Calleja – “Puppet”
  12. Desirei Grech – “Watch Me”
  13. Sopranique – “Empire”
  14. Janvil – “MAN”
  15. Haley Azzopardi – “Tell Me That It’s Over”
  16. Denise – “Mara”
  17. Mark Portelli – “Just Be”
  18. Maria Christina – “Moving On”
  19. Jessica Micallef – “Tagħna Tnejn”
  20. Cosette Baldacchino – “Free Fall”
  21. Michela Galea – “Let’s Talk About Love”
  22. Thea Aquilina – “Blood Stream”
  23. Miguel Bonello – “Better Off Alone”
  24. Moira Stafrace – “Feather Flight”
  25. Dan – “Baraxx”
  26. Stefan Galea – “Numb”
  27. Karin Duff – “Breaking Bad”
  28. Christian Arding – “Bellus”
  29. Erba – “Sirena”
  30. Greta Tude – “Topic (Bla Bla)”
  31. Kyle George – “Arrows”
  32. Lisa Gauci – “Breathe”
  33. Martina Cutajar – “Miles Away”
  34. Matt Blxck – “Banana”
  35. Miriana Conte – “Venom”
  36. Ryan Hili – “Karma”

The artists that advanced to the grand final of MESC 2024 are as per below list:

  1. Miriana Conte – “Venom”
  2. Sarah Bonnici – “Loop”
  3. Greta Tude – “Topic (Bla Bla)”
  4. Janvil – “MAN”
  5. Haley Azzopardi – “Tell Me That It’s Over”
  6. Ryan Hili – “Karma”
  7. Erba – “Sirena”
  8. Nathan – “Ghost”
  9. Denise – “Mara”
  10. Matt Blxck – “Banana”
  11. Gail – “Wild Card”
  12. Lisa Gauci – “Breathe”

The final of MESC 2024

The final will take place in January 2024. Each artist will have 5,000€ at their disposal for their own video-clip production. In addition each artist will film their own live-on-tape clips in December of 60 minutes duration, which will include 3 performances and the best one will be chosed to be presented on the night of the final. The next Maltese representative will emerge with the combination of the votes of the televoters and the jury.

This year Malta was represneted in Liverpool by the The Busker and the song “Dance (Our Own Party)” who didn’t manage to qualify as the ended up 15th and last in the first semi-final with only 3 points.

https://youtu.be/zVmVt9qmg9g

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