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Spain: 825 entries were submitted to RTVE for Benidorm Fest 2024!

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The submission window for Benidorm Fest 2024, the Spanish national selection for Eurovision 2024, closed yesterday after remaining open for nearly 5 months.

It is officially revealed that RTVE has received 825 entries. A slight decrease is noted in comparison with the 876 entries received in 2023 and the 886 received in 2022.

Statistics

  • All of the 825 entries were submitted via a web form, in comparison with the 455 entries submitted the same way last year.
  • Almost 200 songs were submitted in the last 24 hours!
  • All of this edition’s submissions include both a singer and a song. Meanwhile last year, more than 300 songs were not submitted with a performer.
  • 23 out of the 825 songs submitted are the outcome of a song camp that was held this year by RTVE. This song camp took place during the third week of September with the goal of enriching the festival’s selection.

More diversity than ever

In order to select the greatest entry possible, Benidorm Fest is now more open to any music style. This openness is depicted on the submissions. Reggaeton, trap, urban and electronic music will be present, making Benidorm’s Fest 2024 call the most diverse in festival’s history. Furthermore, many entries were submitted in co-official languages of Spain.

Along with the music genre, the artists’ profiles and backgrounds are also diverse. Benidorm Fest 2024 will include in its line-up both established and emerging artists.

What’s next?

Since the submission window is closed, RTVE’s committee will review all of the submitted entries. The 825 submissions will be filtered down to the best 16 acts, which will therefore compete in the semifinals of Benidorm Fest. The 16 participants of Benidorm Fest 2024 will be revealed on November 11 during a press conference in Seville.

Then, the selected artists will commence their preparations for the main event of Benidorm Fest, its two semifinals as well as the Grand Final. The two semifinals, will include 8 artists each and will take place on January 30 and February 1 accordingly. Benidorm’s Fest Grand Final is scheduled for the 3rd of February, when the 8 qualified artists will compete for a ticket to Malmö.

The winner of Benidorm Fest 2023 and therefore the Spanish representative in Eurovision 2023 was Blanca Paloma with her song “Eaea”, which although being a favorite, finished in 17th place.

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Source: RTVE

Spain: The dates of Benidorm Fest 2024 – Artists to be announced on 11 November!

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We may be less than ten months away from the next Eurovision Song Contest, but preparations are already underway for Spain. This afternoon, the press conference for Benidorm Fest 2024, Spain‘s national selection for Eurovision, took place.

Dates of the festival

During the press conference the dates of Benidorm Fest 2024 were also revealed. As in the previous two years, it will include two semi-finals on the following dates:

  • First Semi-Final: 30 January 2024
  • Second Semi-Final: 1 February 2024

The participants who qualify from the two semi-finals will compete in the Grand Final on 3 February to represent Spain in Malmö.

Participants’ announcement and changes

The announcement of the 16 Benidorm Fest participants will be made on 11 November as part of the Latin Grammy Awards, which this year will be hosted in Seville under the auspices of RTVE and TelevisaUnivision.

Benidorm Fest is evolving and growing year after year. The number of entries submitted to date has far exceeded the number of entries of the previous two years.

The evolution of Benidorm Fest is also reflected in the recruitment of a music camp in September. This will give artists the opportunity to meet and compose songs which may or may not end up competing at Benidorm Fest.

Spanish interest in Eurovision is growing, and it seems that they now want to win more than ever before.

 

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Spain: Ruth Lorenzo expresses her frustration on a participation on Benidorm Fest 2024!

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Despite her strong interest, Ruth Lorenzo has decided not to take part in Benidorm Fest 2024. The singer who represented Spain at Eurovision 2014 has revealed that she was considering taking part in the next RTVE national final, but this year’s rules will prevent her from doing so.

Through her social media accounts, the singer explained that she wanted to participate with her song “Woman”, one of the tracks of her latest EP. In order to be able to compete, she decided to remove it from her album, before its release on April 14.

However there was a change in plans. Ruth Lorenzo said:

“I was informed, unofficially, that this year at Benidorm Fest they were going to accept 100% songs in English.

Being the most important song of this EP, with the most important message and with a sound that marks a before and after in my career, I wanted to give you the gift of presenting it at Benidorm Fest trying to return to Eurovision after ten years. Unfortunately, “Woman” was not chosen to compete at the Festival.”

The track is set to be released on September 1st, and she considers it very important to her now that she is in a new phase of her life where she is 100% free after overcoming her problems with her previous record company.

“I am now establishing myself, as an independent label for future work”

Benidorm Fest rules allow song lyrics to be mainly in Spanish and/or another official language, however, lyrics in other languages are acceptable as long as they do not exceed 40% of the total lyrics.

The previous winner of Benidorm Fest and Spain’s representative at Eurovision 2023, was Blanca Paloma with the song “EaEa” and placed 17th in the Grand Final:

https://youtu.be/Vw6qPWhjevk

Source: eldiario.es

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Spain: Change of head of delegation after failure in Eurovision 2023!

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Spain’s public broadcaster, RTVE, has announced that Eva Mora will no longer be the head of delegation in the Eurovision Song Contest. The change comes after Spain finished 17th in Eurovision 2023, last in the TV audience vote.

The new head of delegation is Ana María Bordas, who was assistant head of delegation in Liverpool, but has served in various positions in connection with the Eurovision contest since 2017.

RTVE has also announced the team that will undertake to carry out Benidorm 2024. Thus, in addition to Ana María Bordas, César Vallejo and María Eizaguirre, executives of the Spanish public television, will be responsible for the conduct of its national final of Spain for 2024.

Three musicians were placed with them, as advisors. These are the following:

Pablo Cebrián – musician, composer and music producer
Rayden – singer, participated in Benidorm Fest 2022
Tony Sánchez-Ohlsson – Producer and composer

A committee will evaluate the songs submitted and select the 16 best songs to compete in Benidorm 2024. This committee will include the six persons mentioned above, but also José Pablo López, Director of General Content at RTVE, Virginia Díaz, Tony Aguilar and Miryam Benedict.

Source: RTVE

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Eurovision 2023: The viewership of the Grand Final in Spain and Ukraine!

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The official ratings of the Contest as broadcasted in Spain and Ukraine have been published.

According to official figures, Saturday’s Grand Final was watched by over 4.8 million viewers in Spain via RTVE‘s frequency. Overall, this corresponds to 39.7% of the audience, 11.1% less than last year and 1,996,000 fewer viewers.

In Ukraine, on the other hand, over 1.3 million viewers watched Suspilne‘s coverage of the Grand Final on TV, YouTube and Facebook. With 584,000 of them watching the competition on TV noting an average percentage of 20%, which jumped to 40% during the voting. On YouTube, 473,000 viewers watched the final on the Eurovision Ukraine account, a further 147,000 viewers on the Suspilne website and 124,000 viewers on Facebook.

On the night of the Grand Final, Spain came 17th with 100 points, while Ukraine came 6th with 243!

Source: VerTele / Suspilne

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Spain: Applications for Benidorm Fest 2024 are now open!

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RTVE has today, 16 May, opened the entry submission platform for those interested in competing in Benidorm Fest 2024, the Spanish National Final for Eurovision 2024. The deadline for submitting entries started this morning and closes on 10 October 2023 at 23:59.

The form, which candidates are invited to fill in, is available on RTVE‘s official Eurovision page and can be accessed by clicking here!

As the Spanish broadcaster states in its announcement:

“The application form opens early this year, just after the end of Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool. This gives more time to submit entries for Benidorm Fest, which in just two years has become so successful”

As for the rules, as in the two previous years, not only applications that include the singer and the song will be accepted, but also songs for which artists have not yet been assigned to perform them

Along with the applications, RTVE will directly invite performers and creators of prestigious status in the current music scene to submit their entries to the selection process!

After the submission deadline, RTVE will select a total of 16 participants and 6 replacements.

Winner of last year’s Benidorm Fest and this year’s representative of Spain in Liverpool was Blanca Paloma with her song “EaEa”, placing 17th with 100 points.

Source: RTVE

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Spain: Watch an exclusive RTVE snippet from Blanca Paloma’s first rehearsal!

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Spanish representative Blanca Paloma completed yesterday her first technical rehearsal on the stage of this year’s Eurovision, performing her song “EAEA”.

In addition to the official material published by the EBU on the contest’s site eurovision.tv, as well as the snippet published on tiktok, the Spanish broadcaster responsible for Eurovision RTVE brought to light another snippet from Blanca’s rehearsal.

You can watch the video below:

For all the details about Blanca Paloma’s rehearsal of yesterday, you can look back at our article by clicking here.

The second rehearsal for Spain will be held on the 6th of May.

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Spain: 733,000 Euros Budget for Eurovision 2023!

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According to the Spanish website Publico, RTVE is budgeting expenses of  733,000 euros to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

The Spanish public broadcaster is spending a total of €732,940 for the country’s participation in the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. This is the second highest budget allocated to the competition in the past decade, with the exception of only the €782,044 spent in 2019.

The budget for Spain’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest has increased by 11.45% compared to 2022. The increase in the budget is due to the increase in the entry fee RTVE must pay to compete to €347,697, an increase of €45,000 euros compared to 2022. the highest participation amount that RTVE has paid since 2012, when the broadcaster paid over 316,000 euros to participate.

The other increase is in the budget allocated for the official music video of “Eaea” which is 52,156 euros, as last year the corresponding amount was covered by Chanel’s record company, BMG.

RTVE will announce the final entry fee for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in the weeks following the competition in Liverpool, UK.

Watch the reaction video of “Eaea” for Eurovision 2023:

Source: Publico

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Spain: the results of Benidorm Fest 2023 second semi-final!

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The Benidorm Fest‘s second semi-final has just come to end.

A total of nine candidates competed in this semi-final, trying to get one of the four tickets for the Saturday’s Grand Final.

The show was hosted by Inés Hernández, Mónica Naranjo and Rodrigo Vázquez.

The candidates

Tonight’s nine candidates performed as following:

  1. Famous – “La Lola”
  2. José Otero – “Inviernos en Marte”
  3. Karmento – “Quiero y duelo”
  4. Rakky Ripper – “Tracción”
  5. Blanca Paloma – “EaEa”
  6. E’femme – “Uff!”
  7. Siderland – “Que esclati tot”
  8. Alfred García – “Desde que tú estás”
  9. Vicco – “Nochentera”

The voting

50% of the result in all three shows (two semi-finals and a final) comes from the jury, while the other 50% comes from the audience. The jury is divided into Spanish and international, while 50% of the audience is divided between the televoting and a sample of the Spanish population selected on the basis of statistical and demographic data (the demographic jury). This is a criterion used in both the Sanremo Festival (Italy) and the Melodifestivalen (Sweden).

The Benidorm Fest jury, which determines 50% of the voting, consists of:

  • Nina (Spanish singer, representative of Spain in 1989)
  • Christer Bjorkman (Swedish singer and producer, former manager of Melodifestivalen)
  • Tali Eshkoli (Israeli television producer and Israel’s Head od Delegation)
  • Nicola Caligiore (Italian, former Italy’s Head od Delegation)
  • Katrina Leskanich (American singer, representative of the United Kingdom in 1997)
  • William Lee Adams (Founder of the wiwibloggs website)
  • Irene Valiente (Spanish presenter and producer)
  • Juan Jose Santana (Spanish, president of OGAE Spain and composer of previous Spanish entries)

The results

Thus, the results of the first semi-final of Benidorm 2022 were as follows:

Juries (50%)

  1. Blanca Paloma (92 votes)
  2. Vicco (67 votes)
  3. José Otero (63 votes)
  4. Alfred García (52 votes)
  5. Siderland (48 votes)
  6. Karmento (47 votes)
  7. Famous (46 votes)
  8. Rakky Ripper (24 votes)
  9. E’femme (17 votes)

Demographic jury (25%)

  1. Vicco (40 votes)
  2. Blanca Paloma (35 votes)
  3. Karmento (30 votes)
  4. Famous (28 votes)
  5. E’femme (25 votes)
  6. José Otero (22 votes)
  7. Alfred García (20 votes)
  8. Siderland (15 votes)
  9. Rakky Ripper (13 votes)

Televoting (25%)

  1. Blanca Paloma (40 votes)
  2. Karmento (35 votes)
  3. Alfred García (30 votes)
  4. Vicco (28 votes)
  5. Siderland (25 votes)
  6. E’femme (22 votes)
  7. José Otero (20 votes)
  8. Rakky Ripper (15 votes)
  9. Famous (13 votes)

Overall ranking

  1. Blanca Paloma (167 votes)
  2. Vicco (135 votes)
  3. Karmento (112 votes)
  4. José Otero (105 votes)
  5. Alfred García (102 votes)
  6. Siderland (88 votes)
  7. Famous (87 votes)
  8. E’femme (64 votes)
  9. Rakky Ripper (52 votes)

The finalists of the second semi-final in Benidorm are therefore:

  1. Blanca Paloma 
  2. Vicco
  3. Karmento 
  4. José Otero 

You can watch the performance of the winner of the second semi-final, Blanca Paloma, below:

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Spain: RTVE jury results are out!

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According to maldita.es the main favourites of the RTVE jury were Aritz Arén, Alice Wonder and José Otero. The proposals that obtained the lowest scores were those of Siderland and Karmento: ‘Que esclati tot’ and ‘Quiero y duelo’ could have been left out of the contest if RTVE had not modified the bases to expand from 16 to 18 participants.

The favourite of the bookies and eurofans, Fusa Nocta, with her song ‘Mi Familia’ was able to receive 79 points, which made it tie with Sofia Martin’s ‘TUKI’ placing 12/11 consecutively.

 

The latest version of this year’s rules indicates that the jury could select up to six substitutes. For the 2022 Benidorm Fest, the jury chose 14 participants and six substitutes. If this year the same system had been repeated, ‘Aire’ by Sharonne and ‘Quiero arder’ by Agoney could also have been left out, which were the fifteenth and sixteenth most valued proposals, respectively.

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