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Ukraine: Voting to determine jury members for Eurovision 2024 is now open!

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Suspilne, the public broadcaster of Ukraine, commenced the voting procedure, in order to select the jury members for Eurovision 2024, which will determine 50% of the Ukrainian voting.

The voting begun through the Diya app, and it will come to an end with the selection of the jury members. Ukrainian citizens, have until the 1st of April to vote for their favourites. Ten candidates, have been shortlisted, from which, the five most voted, will make up the Ukrainona jury for Eurovision Song Contest 2024:

  • FIЇNKA – singer, actress, songwriter, finalist of Vidbir 2023
  • Oleksiy Bondarenko – music columnist, founder and editor-in-chief of “Lirum”
  • Oleksandr Varenytsia– PR specialist, co-founder of Go West, an agency for the promotion of Ukrainian music on the international market
  • Iryna Horova – producer, founder and CEO of the record label POMITNI
  • Olena Kolyadenko – head of the Freedom Ballet dance team, producer of Freedom Jazz and KADNAY
  • Max Nagornyak – blogger, music critic and founder of Bezodnya Music
  • Anna Sviridova – professional musician, radio and TV presenter
  • Kostyantyn Tomilchenko – creative producer of the television shows “Ukrayina maye talant”, “X-Factor” and “Maska”
  • Alyosha – singer, composer and songwriter, represented Ukraine at Eurovision 2010
  • Yevhen Triplov – songwriter and music producer of songs for many Ukrainian artists, including Tina Karol, MONATIK, ZLATA OGNEVICH, Wellboy and Anna Trincher

The candidate with the highest amount of votes, will be the president of the jury. If for any reason a member is not able to vote, they will be replaced by the next candidate in number of votes. The jury members will be revealed on May 11, the day of the Grand Final.

This year, Ukraine is represented by alyona alyona & Jerry Heil, with their song “Teresa & Maria”, and they will take part in the first half of the first semi-final of Eurovision 2024, on May 7:

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Ukrainian participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, in Malmö!

Source: corp.suspilne.media

Ukraine: Vidbir 2024 winner will be announced tomorrow!

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As we have previously informed you, the Diia app, via which the public votes for its selection favorites, crashed. Specifically, the platform was down for a considerable amount of time, so the voting shall be resumed in order to have a valid result.

The crush of Diia app was due to overload. More than fifteen thousand people per second entered the platform in order to vote for their favorites.

The hosts along with the participants and the judges were transferred to a shelter in order to continue the live broadcast. While, the production team was trying its best to bring back the platform, while the judges along with the participants share their stories.

Unfortunately, the problem could not be easily resolved and the winner of Vidbr 2024 could not be announced today – as expected. Instead, the voting will be open till tomorrow afternoon. Approximately, 60.921 people have already voted and as the voting will be concluded in nineteen hours from now, we expect this number to rise.

Hence, tomorrow we will have a new live broadcast from Ukraine. The live broadcast will commence at 14:15 CET, where we will see a repeat of what happened today and after 18:05 CET we will finally have a valid result.

Vidbir 2024

We remind you that the eleven acts advanced to the televised final of Vidbir 2024 and are competing for the Ukrainian representation in Malmö are the following:

  1. YAKTAK  —  “Lalala”
  2. INGRET  —  “Keeper”
  3. NAZVA  —  “Slavic English”
  4. ANKA  —  “Palala”
  5. Drevo  —  “Endless chain”
  6. alyona alyona & Jerry Heil  —  “Teresa & Maria”
  7. MÉLOVIN  —  “DREAMER”
  8. SKYLERR  —  “Time is running out”
  9. Ziferblat  —  “Place I Call Home”
  10. YAGODY  —  “Tsunamia”
  11. NAHABA  —  “GLASS”

The winner of this year’s Vidbir will be decided in equal shares by a national jury along with the TV audience.

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the news!

Source: suspilne

Ukraine: The Diia app crashed | Voting for Vidbir 2024 will be extended!

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Tonight and since 17:00 CET, Vidbir 2024, the Ukrainian national selection takes place. Three and a half hours in, following the conclusion of all the performances, both the participants’ and guests’, the hosts along with the participants and the judges moved their set to a shelter.

While we were all awaiting for the results, the hosts informed us that the Diia app, via which the public votes for its selection favorites, crashed. Specifically, the platform was down for a considerable amount of time, so the voting shall be resumed in order to have a valid result.

The production team is trying its best to bring back the platform, while the judges along with the participants share their stories. We hope that the problem will be resolved quickly and we have a valid result!

Vidbir 2024

We remind you that the eleven acts advanced to the televised final of Vidbir 2024 and are competing for the Ukrainian representation in Malmö are the following:

  1. YAKTAK  —  “Lalala”
  2. INGRET  —  “Keeper”
  3. NAZVA  —  “Slavic English”
  4. ANKA  —  “Palala”
  5. Drevo  —  “Endless chain”
  6. alyona alyona & Jerry Heil  —  “Teresa & Maria”
  7. MÉLOVIN  —  “DREAMER”
  8. SKYLERR  —  “Time is running out”
  9. Ziferblat  —  “Place I Call Home”
  10. YAGODY  —  “Tsunamia”
  11. NAHABA  —  “GLASS”

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the news!

Ukraine: The voting for Vidbir 2024 jurors has begun!

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Vidbir will be used as Ukraine’s national Eurovision selection format in 2024. Following the announcement of the eleven finalists, the voting process for the three jury members who will determine fifty percent of the total outcome has just begun.

Specifically, UA:PBC, Ukraine’s national broadcaster, began the voting a few hours ago in order to determine which judges the audience wants on the national final jury. Hence, the decision of who will consist the national selection’s jury is up to the public. Moreover, the choice will be made among the following nine music specialists, while the list includes three former Eurovision contestants:

  1. Oleksandr Varenytsia (PR specialist, co-founder of Go West, an agency for the promotion of Ukrainian music on the international market)
  2. Andriy Danylko – VERKA SERDUCHKA (Representative of Ukraine at Eurovision 2007)
  3. Jamala (Eurovision 2016 Winner)
  4. Olena Koliadenko (choreographer)
  5. Kateryna Pavlenko – Member of GO_A  (Representative of Ukraine at Eurovision 2020 and 2021)
  6. Serhiy Tanchynets (singer, musician, producer and leader of the rock band BEZ LIMITATIONS.)
  7. Yevhen Triplov (writer and music producer)
  8. Yevhen Khmara (Composer, Jury Member of Ukraine at Eurovision 2023)
  9. Pavlo Shilko (TV and radio presenter, known as DJ Pasha)

The voting window is now open and will remain open for one week, until January 22 at 10:00 a.m. The three candidates who will receive the most votes will form the jury for the Ukrainian selection. In case one of the three voted is unable to sign the agreement for legitimate reasons, the candidate with the next highest number of votes will replace him in the jury panel.

Vidbir 2024

We remind you that the national final of Ukraine for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will be held on February 03 at 18:00 CET, live on the UA public TV channel (UA:First). The result will be decided both by the TV audience and the expert jury, on a 50-50 proportion.

The eleven finalists of Vidbir 2024 are:
  1. YAKTAK  —  “Lalala”
  2. INGRET  —  “Keeper”
  3. NAZVA  —  “Slavic English”
  4. ANKA  —  “Palala”
  5. Drevo  —  “Endless chain”
  6. alyona alyona & Jerry Heil  —  “Teresa & Maria”
  7. MÉLOVIN  —  “DREAMER”
  8. SKYLERR  —  “Time is running out”
  9. Ziferblat  —  “Place I Call Home”
  10. YAGODY  —  “Tsunamia”
  11. NAHABA  —  “GLASS”

You can also check out the reaction video of the EurovisionFun team on Vidbir 2024 finalists:

The winners of Vidbir 2023 and hence the representatives of the country in Liverpool were TVORCHI with their song “Heart of Steel”, finishing in the sixth place of the scoreboard.

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the news!
Source: suspilne

Ukraine: Vidbir 2024 11 songs and performance line-up released!

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A while ago, the Ukrainian broadcaster, UA:PBC, released through its official YouTube channel, the eleven songs that will compete in Vidbir 2024, with the aim of becoming the country’s next representative, for Eurovision 2024!

Vidbir, Ukraine’s national final returns for another year as the method of selecting the country’s representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. With a total of eleven entries, out of 389 songs submitted, Vidbir 2024 will be held from the Maidan Nezalezhnosti station of the Kyiv metro.

The songs and artist lineup for Vidbir 2024

The order of appearance of the eleven artists at Vidbir 2024 is as follows (You can listen to the songs of the candidates by clicking on the corresponding link):

  1. YAKTAK — «Lalala»
  2. INGRET — «Keeper»
  3. NAZVA — «Slavic English»
  4. ANKA — «Палала»
  5. Drevo — «Endless chain»
  6. alyona alyona & Jerry Heil — «Teresa & Maria»
  7. MÉLOVIN — «DREAMER»
  8. SKYLERR — «Time is running out»
  9. Ziferblat — «Place I Call Home»
  10. YAGODY — «Tsunamia»
  11. NAHABA — «GLASSS»

We remind you that the national final of Ukraine for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will be held on February 3 at 18:00 cet, live on the UA public TV channel (UA:First). The result will be decided with 50% by the TV audience and 50% by the jury.

Also the composition of the jury will be decided by the Ukrainian public later through online voting.

The previous winners of Vidbir and then representatives of the country at Eurovision 2023, were TVORCHI with their song “Heart of Steel”, with which they ended up in sixth place in the final ranking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2oqDpefJ1s

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun for all the updates!

Source:  UA:PBC

Eurovision 2023: Many Ukrainian artists will appear in the live shows!

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The Chairman of Suspilne has revealed to the Ukrainian press some important information regarding Eurovision Song Contest 2023 and the developments of the show in Liverpool.

Mykola Chernotytskyi has announced that at least one host from Ukraine will feature in the show. According to him, the Ukrainian host has been chosen, but not publicly presented yet.

There will definitely be a presenter from Ukraine, we know who, but we cannot say. In general, the British are very open to involve Ukraine in the process as much as possible. They say that they are organising the Eurovision Song Contest, but on behalf of Ukraine.

The music for the contest has been requested from one of the judges on the Ukrainian version of X Factor, Dmytro Shurov.

The Creative Director of Ukraine at ESC, German Nenov, has spoken about the involvement of Ukrainian culture during the live shows. There will be multiple Ukrainian artists appearing throughout the whole Eurovision season. Some will be singing on the stage, the others will be acting in any other role. These are his words:

There will be a large number of Ukrainian artists who will be announced in various shows. If everything works out for us and everything will be as we planned, I can confidently say that this will probably be the largest number of involvement of Ukrainian artists in Eurovision compared to 2005 and 2017. These will be different roles. It is not necessary that this person will sing on stage. They can act in any role. But a Ukrainian musician, the face of Ukraine will appear in the show.

Source: eurovoix

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun about all the developments regarding ESC 2023!

Ukraine: The judges for Vidbir 2023 have been selected!

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This morning, the voting process which aimed to select the three members of the jury for Vidbir 2023, the country’s national final for Eurovision 2023, has ended.

The voting was conducted via the Diya app and the Ukrainian audience had the option to choose from 9 potential judges who were: Jamala, Mykhailo Khoma, Zlata Ognevich, Kateryna Pavlenko, Yulia Sanina, Kostyantyn Tomilchenko, Tara Topolya and Valery Kharchyshyn. In total, more than 500 thousand users took part in the voting procedure.

The following artists received the most votes and therefore secured a jury spot:

  • Taras Topola – Rock and pop singer, frontman of the band “Antytila”. Volunteer of the 130th battalion of the Territorial Defence Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Co-founder of the ‘ANTYTILA’ charity fund.
  • Jamala – Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 as well as the “Outstanding Artist Leadership Award” from the Atlantic Council of the United States in 2022.
  • Yulia Sanina – The main singer of the rock band “The Hardkiss”. She came in second place at Vidbir 2016. She was a judge and mentor of the talent show “X-Factor” and participated in the TV show “Dancing with the Stars”.

The overall results of the poll are as follows:

  1. Taras Topola – 17,41%
  2. Jamala – 15,71%
  3. Yulia Sanina – 15,70%
  4. Tina Karol – 15,67%
  5. Mykhailo Khoma – 12,60%
  6. Kateryna Pavlenko – 9,20%
  7. Zlata Ognevich – 6,09%
  8. Valery Kharchyshyn – 5,77%
  9. Kostyantyn Tomilchenko – 1,85%

Vidbir 2023

The final of Vidbir 2023 will take place on 17 December 2022 in Kiev at Maidan Nezalezhnosti metro station. The winner of the national final will represent Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool. The selection will be made by a combination of public and jury vote.

The 36 artists, of which the 10-12 finalists of Vidbir 2023 will be selected later, are:

  • 2TONE
  • Angelina
  • DAYTON
  • DEMCHUK
  • Drevo
  • Elysees
  • FIINKA
  • Havkа
  • Jerry Heil
  • Iana Kovaleva
  • Kozak Siromaha
  • KRUTЬ 
  • Lue Bason
  • Moisei
  • Olivan
  • OOHLA
  • Oy Sound System
  • SASHA
  • Seréen
  • sexnesc
  • Shy
  • SKYLERR
  • SOWA
  • Tember Blanche
  • Tery
  • TVORCHI
  • Victoria Niro
  • Vynohradova
  • Zetetics
  • Лилу45 (Lilu45)
  • Макс Пташник (Max Ptashnik)
  • Мія Рамарі (Mia Ramari)
  • Роялькіт (Royalkit)
  • Саша Фадєєва (Sasha Fadeeva)
  • ТÓНКА (Tonka)
  • Циферблат (Chiferblat)

They may not have managed to beat Alina Pash at Vidbir 2022 but Kalush Orchestra with “Stefania” represented Ukraine and were the winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1fl60ypdLs&feature=emb_title

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding Ukraine’s participation in Eurovision 2023!

Source: suspilne

Eurovision 2023: Memorandum of Cooperation signed by BBC and Suspilne

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Liverpool will host Eurovision 2023 on behalf of Ukraine who won last year with the song Stefania by Kalush Orchestra.

There have been several rumors as to how they contest will look like, given that the contest will not be hosted by the winning country, the first time since 1980 when The Netherlands hosted instead of Israel.

It is announced that the UK Public Broadcaster BBC and the Ukrainian Public Broadcaster Suspilne have signed a memorandum of Cooperation for Eurovision 2023, agreeing on how Ukraine will be showcased in the next years contest.

BBC should work with Ukrainian creatives in terms of design and themes of the contest, ensuring the use of Ukrainian culture in the show, as well as the selection of presenters.

Mykola Chernotytskyi, Head of the Board of Suspilne Ukraine commented:

“I am grateful to our partners at the BBC for productive cooperation. We have already agreed on the key principles and areas of work to jointly ensure a unique Eurovision. This musical festival will combine modern Ukrainian culture and all the diversity of British music and creativity”

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the upcoming updated on Eurovision 2023!

Source: Eurovoix

Ukraine: Minister of Culture asks EBU to reverse its Eurovision 2023 host country decision!

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Ukraine, through its Minister of Culture and Director General of Public Television Suspilne, is requesting an official statement from the EBU, which Ruslana, along with Kalush Orchestra singer Oleh Psiuk, is reversing its decision on the country. which will host Eurovision 2023.

Ukraine, through its Minister of Culture, is requesting the official statement from the EBU about the decision on the country, which will host Eurovision 2023. In this statement signed by Eurovision winners Ruslana and Oleh Psiuk (frontman of Kalush Orchestra) and Mykola Chernotytskyi, the director of state TV channel Suspilne, the minister called for further talks about hosting Eurovision 2023 in Ukraine.

The minister’s statement:

“In response to the published statement of the European Broadcasting Union on the impossibility of hosting Eurovision – 2023 in Ukraine, we want to emphasize the following.”

“Ukraine does not agree with the nature of such a decision – when we were confronted with the fact without discussion on other options. But we strongly believe that we have every reason to hold further negotiations in order to find a joint solution that will satisfy all parties.”

“We honestly won Eurovision and have fulfilled all the condition within the deadlines for the process of approving its holding in Ukraine — we have provided answers and guarantees on safety standards and possible venues for the competition.”

“Hosting Eurovision 2023 in Ukraine is a strong signal to the whole world that it supports Ukraine now. We will demand to change this decision, because we believe that we will be able to fulfil all the commitments, as we have repeatedly [emphasised to] the European Broadcasting Union.”

“That is why we demand additional negotiations on hosting Eurovision 2023 in Ukraine.”

Apart from signing the minister’s statement, CEO of Suspilne Mykola Chernotytskyi released another one himself.

“We are disappointed with this decision of the EBU. During this month, a large number of people in Ukraine have thrown all their efforts to fulfil the conditions for holding Eurovision in our country. Security is, of course, our first priority. The team of UA: PBC, state and local authorities did a thorough job and offered different options. It is a pity to see such an unappealable statement, ​​therefore, we ask our partners to hold further negotiations.”

According to Chernotytskyi, Ukraine had proposed three different possibilities: hosting in Kyiv, Lviv or Zakarpattia. These last two are close to the borders with Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, and have not been under continuous attacks during the war.

Eurovision’s organising body the European Broadcasting Union has confirmed that Ukraine will not host the 2023 contest. In a statement released on Friday 17 June, the EBU said that discussions will now begin with the United Kingdom.

Stay tuned in Eurovisionfun for all the updates!

Office of the President of Ukraine: “Ukraine is already preparing for Eurovision 2023”!

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Cyril Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine, in a post on Telegram that was also reposted on the official Facebook page of Suspilne for Eurovision, states that the preparations for Eurovision 2023 have already begun!

The main question for us and the EBU is security. To ensure the necessary logistics, and especially security, we look at different locations. Exactly which we can not announce yet.

The Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine from the very beginning are involved in the preparations for Eurovision-2023. Ukraine is already preparing for the Eurovision 2023 final.

Cyril Tymoshenko 

At the same time in Geneva the reference group of the contest is meeting with an unknown agenda, although as you understand the issue of the country that will host Eurovision 2023 is both burning and important.

Ukrainian officials in all their statements appear confident that their country will host Eurovision 2023, despite the armed conflict that continues to rage mainly in the east of the country. In fact, a few days ago they set up an organizing committee for this purpose.

Ukraine won the right to host the Eurovision Song Contest for the third time in its territory, after the victory of the Kalush Orchestra in Turin, with the song Stefania. We are waiting with interest for the decision of the EBU, whether the competition will finally be hosted next year in Ukraine or for security reasons, another country will be preferred.

Stay tuned for all the updates!