Finland: UMK 2024 hosts listened to the nominated songs for the first time | The schedule of the UMK 2024 entries’ reveal!
Yle, Finland’s national broadcaster, has released the first information about the candidate songs for UMK 2024, the country’s national final for Eurovision 2024, via social media.
In particular, the hosts of UMK 2024, namely Pilvi Hämäläinen, Benjamin and Viivi Pumpanen heard for the first time the seven candidate songs for Eurovision 2024.
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The detailed schedule of the UMK 2024 entries’ reveal
The candidates of UMK 2024 will be revealed on Wednesday, January 10 at 19:00 CET during a broadcast on Yle TV1, Yle Areena and UMK’s YouTube channel. Also, the broadcast will include commentary in Finnish, Swedish as well as in English, for the international audience.
Following the reveal of the candidates, the seven nominee’s songs will be released gradually, starting on January 11 and ending on January 19. The release will be conducted in the following order:
- Thursday 11/1 – First nominated song
- Friday 12/1 – Second nominated song
- Monday 15/1 – Third nominated song
- Tuesday 16/1 – Fourth nominated song
- Wednesday 17/1 – Fifth nominated song
- Thursday 18/1 – Sixth nominated song
- Friday 19/1 – Seventh nominated song
UMK 2024 will consist of a final which will be held on Saturday, February 10 at 20:00 CET.
Last year’s UMK winner and hence the country’s representative in Liverpool was Käärijä with his song “Cha Cha Cha“. Käärijä ended up in the second place, giving his country its best result since Lordi’s win in 2006.
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