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Portugal: Festival da Canção, the last national final

Festival da Canção will reach it’s final tonight. That makes the Portuguese national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest the last one for this year. Only a few internal selected songs are not published yet. Festival da Canção has 13 songs this year. There were supposed to be twelve, but due to technichal issues an extra song had been added from the first semifinal. The finalists are: 1 Cláudia Pascoal Nasci Maria 2 Churky Encruzilhada 3 Esse Povo Sapatos de cimento 4 Bárbara Tinoco Goodnight 5 You Can’t Win Charlie Brown Contraste Mudou 6 Voodoo Marmalade Tormento 7 Inês Apenas Fim do mundo 8 Mimicat Ai coração 9 Dapunksportif World needs therapy 10 Neon Soho Endless world 11 Ivandro Povo 12 Edmundo Inácio A festa 13 Sal Viver Cláudia Pascoal won Festival Da Canção in 2018 and represented Portugal at the festival in Lisbon with the song “O jardim”.Bárbara Tinoco was 2nd in the 2020 national final.

Sweden: Loreen favourite in Melodifestivalen

Loreen is the huge favourite to win Melodifestivalen 2023 with her song “Tattoo”. Bookmakers give the singer a chance of 86% to win the contest. As soon as her song was presented two weeks ago, Sweden is the top favourite even to win the entire contest. But…. nothing has been decided yet. The show starts at 20:00 CET and you can watch it here. These are the twelve contestants: 1 Jon Hendrik Fjällgren, Arc North feat. Adam Woods Where you are (Sávežan) 2 Tone Sekelius Rythm of my show 3 Mariette One day 4 Marcus & Martinus Air 5 Panetoz On my way 6 Maria Sur Never give up 7 Smash Into Pieces Six feet under 8 Kiana Where did you go? 9 Nordman Släpp alla sorger 10 Loreen Tattoo 11 Theoz Mer av dig 12 Paul Rey Royals Jon Henrik Fjällgren became 2nd in 2015, 3rd in 2017 and 4th in 2019. Tone Sekelius became 5th last year.Mariette became 3rd in 2015, 4th in 2017, 5th in 2018 and 10th in 2020.Panetoz became 9th in 2014 and 8th in 2016.Nordman became 5th in 2005 and 6th in 2008.Loreen reached Andra Chancen in 2011, won Melodifestivalen 2012 and reached Andra Chancen in 2017. Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the legendary song “Euphoria”!Theoz became 7th last year.Paul Rey became 6th in the 2020 final. A year later he became 12th.

Azerbaijan: TuralTuranX goes to Liverpool

photo: Eurovision.tv There was news about Azerbaijan today. We know now that the duo TuralTuranX will represent this country. That is what Ictimai, the Azerbaijani broadcaster, announced today. TuralTuranX was one of five shortlisted artists/groups for the job. The duo consists of the 22 year old twins Tural and Turan. They are street performers from Zaqatala in the north of Azerbaijan. The brothers will perform in the 2nd half of the 1st semifinal. The song is not yet published. Here is an introduction video about the twins:

It’s Mae Muller for the United Kingdom

Mae Muller will represent hostcountry United Kingdom in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. That was reveiled this morning in Zoe Ball’s BBC 2 Breakfast Show.As the United Kingdom is one of the Big Five ánd the host country, the song “I wrote a song” will be placed directly in the final. The song is written by Mae herself in cooperation with Lewis Thompson and Karen Poole. You can listen to it here:

Israel: this is how “Unicorn” sounds

Tonight, Israel’s Noa Kirel presented her Eurovision Song “Unicorn”. Already in August last year, we knew that Noa is going to represent her country in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. The title of the song, “Unicorn”, has been announced already in January. Finally, we can also listen to the song. The song is written and composed by by Doron Medalie, Yinon Yahel and May Sfadia. Israel will perform in the 2nd half of the 1st semifinal. What do you think? Do you like the song? You can listen to it here:

Austria: “Who the hell is Edgar” is the song!

photo: ORF Teya and Salena, the duo that represents Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, just presented their song. It premiered this morning. The song is called “Who the hell is Edgar” and is written and composed by Teya (Teodora Spirić) and Salena (Selina-Maria Edbauer) themselves along with Ronald Janeček and Pele Loriano. Yesterday, a teaser appeared on the site of ORF, the Austrian broadcaster. From today, we can listen to the Austrian entry. It will be presented in the 2nd half of the 2nd semifinal.

Switzerland: Remo Forrer to sing “Watergun”

(Photo by Lukas Mäder/SRF) It was already revealed that Remo Forrer was going to represent Switzerland. Today, at 12:00 CET, the song was revealed. Remo is especially known as the winner of The Voice Of Switzerland 2020. On 20 February of this year, it was announced that he will represent Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest. Now we know that the song is titled “Watergun”. Switzerland will perform in the 2nd half of the 1st semifinal. Do you like the song? You can watch the video here.

Portugal: results Festival da Canção are in

The results of the 2nd Festival da Canção semifinal are in. Another six songs head to the final, five chosen by the public and one by a jury. You will find the winning songs below in bold: Edmundo Inácio, “A festa” The Happy Mess, “O impossível” Teresinha Landeiro, “Equanto é tempo” Bandua, “Bandeiras” Bárbara Tinoco, “Goodnight” Inês Apenas, “Fim do mundo” Ivandro, “Povo” Dapunksportif, “World needs therapy” Lara Li, “Funâmbula” Voodoo Marmalade, “Tormento”

Luke Black represents Serbia

Luke Black is going to represent Serbia in Liverpool. The song is called “Samo mi se spava” and it is written and composed by the singer himself. Expectations where and are high after the success of Konstrakta (5th place) last year. Serbia will perform in the first half of the first semifinal. Below you’ll find the full result of the national selection: Luke Black, “Samo mi se spava”, 20 pts. Princ, “Cvet sa istoka”, 18 pts. Nađa, “Moj prvi ožiljak na duši”, 18 pts. Filip Baloš, “Novi plan, drugi san”, 15 pts. Dzipsii, “Greh”, 13 pts. Stefan Shy, “Od jastuka do jastuka”, 11 pts. Zejna, “Rumba”, 6 pts. Nadia, “Devojka tvog dečka”, 4 pts. Gift, “Liberta”, 4 pts. Chegi & Braća Bluz Band, “Svadba ili kagba”, 3 pts. Empathy Soul Project, “Indigo”, 3 pts. Hurricane, “Zumi, zimi, zami”, 1 pt. Boris Subotić, “Nedostupan”, 0 pts. Duo Grand, “Viva la vida”, 0 pts. Frajile, “Neka, neka”, 0 pts. Filarri, “Posle mene”, 0 pts. And this is the song:

It’s Diljá for Iceland

Diljá will represent Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool. The singer will sing the song “Power”, written and composed by Dilja Pétursdóttir herself together with Pálmi Ragnar Ásgeirsson. Iceland will perform in the 1st half of the 1st semifinal. Out of the 5 participating songs, two were chosen for the superfinal. They were: Langi Seli & Skuggarnir, “OK” Diljá, “Power” The other participating songs were: Sigga Ozk, “Dancing lonely” Bragi, “Sometimes the world is against you” Celebs, “Doomsday dance” You can watch the song below: