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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!

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Source: PBS

Malta: The Running Order of the MESC 2024 final!

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Earlier today PBS, the public broadcaster of Malta, revealed the Running Order of the final of MESC 2024, through which the country’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest will be selected.

The Running Order:

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

MESC 2024

Tomorrow February 3rd, the final night of MESC 2024 will be broadcasted, where we will see all the finalists performing their songs in a PBS studio. The contestants’ performances were filmed in December. Following their performances, a special committee along with the public vote will decide the representative of the Maltese archipelago.

Moreover, this year apart from prizes for the second and third placings, there will also be prizes for participants with the best music video as well as for the best new talent.

The winners of MESC 2023 and hence the Maltese representatives at Liverpool were The Busker with their song “Dance(Our Own Party)“, who did not manage to win a ticket for the Grand Final.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for the latest updates on Malta’s journey to Eurovision 2024! 

Source: TVM

Malta: Watch the official videos from MESC 2024 finalists!

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Malta Eurovision Song Contest will serve as the country’s national selection for Eurovision 2024. Starting in October with four semi-finals, the week of MESC 2024 has finally come.

PBS published today the music videos of the twelve acts competing for the Maltese representation in Malmö. The production of the twelve official videos was backed by PBS, which gave a budget of five thousand euros to each contestant. During those months, the finalists had the opportunity to prepare their music videos, while many of them even revamped their entries.

You can watch the videoclips of the twelve finalists, clicking the hyperlinks below:

  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 – “Wildcard”
  12. Lisa Gauci – “Breathe

MESC 2024

On February 3rd, the final night of MESC 2024 will be broadcasted, where we will see all the finalists performing their songs in a PBS studio. The contestants’ performances were filmed in December. Following their performances, a special committee along with the public vote will decide the representative of the Maltese archipelago.

Moreover, this year apart from prizes for the second and third placings, there will also be prizes for participants with the best music video as well as for the best new talent.

The winners of MESC 2023 and hence the Maltese representatives at Liverpool were The Busker with their song “Dance(Our Own Party)“, who did not manage to win a ticket for the Grand Final.

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Malta: The participants’ list of MESC 2024!

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The Maltese archipelago has confirmed its 2024 Eurovision participation. Along with confirming its participation, it was announced in August that Malta Eurovision Song Contest (MESC) will return as the country’s selection process for the third year in a row. The submission window opened in late August and remained open until September 30.

After reviewing the submitted proposals, the 36 participants, who will participate in the Semi-Final of MESC were announced.

According to the official statement of TVM on Facebook, Malta Eurovision Song Contest’s 2024 participants are the following:

  • Kyle George – Arrows
  • Matt Blxck – Banana
  • Dan – Baraxx
  • Christian Arding – Bellus
  • Miguel Bonello – Better Off Alone
  • Dominic Cini – Bewsa
  • Thea Aquilina – Blood Stream
  • Karin Duff – Breaking Bad
  • Lisa Gauci – Breathe
  • Oxygyn – Cloudmaker
  • Mark Anthony Bartolo – Condition Or Friction
  • Sopranique – Empire
  • Marie Claire – Fading
  • Moira Starface – Feather Flight
  • Lyndsay Pace – Fire Proof
  • Cosette Baldacchino – Free Fall
  • Nathan – Ghost
  • Mark Portelli – Just Be
  • Ryan Hili – Karma
  • Michela Galea – Let’s Talk About Love 
  • Sarah Bonnici – Loop
  • Janvil – Man
  • Denise Mercieca – Mara
  • Martina Cutajar – Miles Away
  • Kurt Calleja – Misunderstood
  • Maria Christina – Moving On
  • Stefan Galea – Numb
  • Franklin Calleja – Puppet
  • Erba’ – Sirena
  • Jessica Micallef – Taghna Tnejn
  • Haley Azzopardi – Tell Me That It’s Over
  • Eliana Gomez Blanco – There’s Only Flowers
  • Greta Tude – Topic (Bla Bla)
  • Miriana Conte – Venom
  • Desirei Grech – Watch Me
  • Gail Attard – Wild Card

On the participants’ list, we can spot some artists that have participated in MESC before, as well as a former Junior Eurovision participant, Eliana Gomez Blanco(Malta 2019).

What’s next?

As revealed in August, MESC 2024 will see significant changes. In depth and from now on, the competitive procedure of MESC 2024 will include the following phases:

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.
  • The procedure is expected to start somewhere between October and November.
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.

After two consecutive years of non-qualification, Malta is trying its best in order to achieve again a spot in the Grand Final.

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all news regarding the Maltese entry in Eurovision 2024!

Malta 2024: Submissions for MESC have opened!

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Malta has opened their call to find their representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

Artists can send their compositions until September 30, 2023.  The rules to compete at the Malta national selection as well as the submitting form can be found here.  During  the first stage of the process broadcaster PBS will review the candidates and select which will be the candidates to the national final.

Road to MESC 2024

The selected artists will perform their songs in a televised show that will take place for a number of weeks.  However, only 12 acts will make it to the Maltese Grand Final.

In contrast, for the Grand Final, MESC 2024, the 12 finalists performances are pre-recorded.  The artists are expected to record their live on tape performance on December 2023.  The 12 finalists will receive a €5,000 grant to record a music video of their songs.

A combined jury and public vote will decide which act will represent Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

Source: PBS

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Malta starts preparations for Eurovision 2024

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The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 has not yet started and some countries are already preparing themselves for next year’s edition of Eurovision.

That is the case with Malta.  Maltese broadcaster PBS announced the start of their plans to select their 2024 representative via a songwriting camp.

MESC Music Exchange Camp will take place from June 12 to June 15 next year.  The aim of this camp is to compose the song that will end up representing Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.  During the songwriting camp Maltese artists could work together with international songwriters to create potential songs for Eurovision 2024.

The end result of the songwriting camp will be 18 songs created through to the demo.  Following this stage, artists will have the creative freedom to develop the songs for MESC 2024.

MESC Music Exchange Camp will invite 18 artists to participate.  The public will also get access to lectures.

The Busker are representing Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.  They will perform the song Dance (Our Own Party) during the first half of the First Semi-Final.

You can also watch our reaction to the Maltese song by the Eurovisionfun team in the video embedded below:

 

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for more news about Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023!

Source: PBS