Rotterdam 2020

Next saturday, Malta will select it’s participant…. not it’s song yet. The participant will be the winner of X-Factor Malta. Tonight, four finalists were chosen: Kyle Cutajar Justine Shorfid Destiny Chukunyere F.A.I.T.H.   Tonight, the audience decided that the duos Yazmin & James and Bloodline had to leave the competition.  Top favourite to win this competition is still Destiny Chukunyere, who won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest before, but she is closely followed by the all girl group F.A.I.T.H. 

It is known! The four finalists in Israel are: Ella-Lee Lahav Orr Amrami-Brokman Eden Alene Gaya Shaki In an exciting semifinal, juries and audience decided that these four will compete for the ticket to the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam. Especially Orr, who broke all the records in the beginning of the contest, impressed the jury and audience tonight. It was a landslide victory for him tonight. Will it be a landslide upcoming tuesday as well? We will see; all depends on tuesday’s performances.

Poland will start their national selection today, where in Malta and Israel the group of possible contestants becomes smaller and smaller. Poland will have it’s first semifinal of the show Szansa na sukces this afternoon at 15.10 CET. It will be transmitted via TVP2, but it is not known whether there will be a live stream on the internet or not. We keep you updated. Seven artists will compete. They will all present an Abba-song. Three of them will head to the final on 23 february. Patryk Skoczyński  Emilia Sanecka Julia & Wiktoria Szlachta Kasia Dereń Amelia Andryszczyk Sargis Davtyan Maja Hyży Maja Hyży also took part in the 2018 national final. Yesterday, Israel choose two finalists for it’s national selection Hakokhav Haba L’Eurovizion. Today, the other two finalists will chosen by duels. The show will start at 20:15 CET and can be watched here. The four contestants are: Gaya Shaki Moran Aharoni Orr Amrani-Brockman Raviv Kaner And the last one tonight is Malta, with a new episode of X-Factor Malta. The show starts at 21.00 CET and can be watched here. Like in Israel, Malta will decide who will participate in the final next Saturday. The participants tonight will be: Destiny Chukunyere Yazmin & James Bloodline Justine Shorfid Kyle Cutajar F.A.I.T.H.  

It was also a busy night in Lithuania. Out of nine songs, four finalists were chosen. The finalists are in bold: KaYra, “Alligator” Viktorija Miškūnaitė, “The ocean” Baltos Varnos, “Namų dvasia” Rūta Loop, “We came from the sun” Gabrielus Vagelis, “Tave čia randu” The Roop, “On fire” Kristina Jure, “My sound of silence” Alen Chicco, “Somewhere out there” Aistė Pilvelytė, “Unbreakable”  

Today, the first semifinal of Hakhohav Haba L’Eurovizion are known. It all started with two duels: Ella-Lee Lahav (91%) vs Ohad Shragai (60%) Lali Kolishkin vs (80%) vs Eden Alene (64%) Eden Alene was saved by the juries. The three girls now had to battle for two final places. The results were as follows: Lali Kolishkin, 72 pt. Ella-Lee Lahav, 84 pt. Eden Alene, 84 pt. That means we will see Ella-Lee Lahav and Eden Alene back in the final!  

In Sweden, Melodifestivalen has started. And we have a result! After a wonderful show, this was what happened: Directly placed for the final: The Mamas, “Move” Robin Bengtsson, “Take a chance” Heading to ‘Andra chancen’, the 5th semifinal, are: Felix Sandman, “Boys with emotions” Malou Prytz, “Ballerina” So we have to wave three entries goodbye: Sonja Aldén, “Sluta aldrig gå” Suzy P, “Moves” OVÖ, “Inga problem”

Again, a finalist is known in Norway. One more to go…. There were two duels. One between Magnus Bokn and Oda Loves you, another one between The Nordic Tenors and Hege Bjerk. The two winners, Magnus Bokn and The Nordic Tenors, battled against eachother and the lucky one is….. Magnus Bokn!

In Moldova, 20 songs are chosen to go to the national final. Out of 36, today the expert jury chose these finalists: Geta Burlacu – “Răspunde” Alexandru Cibotaru – “Cine te-a facut să plângi” Maria Ciolac – “Our home” Petronela Donciu & Andreea Portărescu – “We will be legend” Natalia Gordienko – “Prison” Julia Ilienko ft. Dar Mishel – “Tears” Irina Kit – “Chain reaction” Dima Jelezoglo – “Do it slow” Lanjeron – “Hi five” Sasha Letty – “Summer of love” Live Beat – “Love me now” Denis Midone – “Like a champion” Viorela Moraru – “Remedy” Pasha Parfeni – “My wine” Valeria Paşa – “It’s time” Dianna Rotaru – “Dale dale” Lavinia Rusu – “Touch” Katarina S. – “Die for you” ValentinUzun & Irina Kovalsky – “Moldoviţa” Maxim Zavidia  – “Take control” On 29 february, the final with these songs will take place.  

No less than five countries will show at least something today. Moldova starts today. You can watch the live auditions at 14:00 CET here, where 35 artists will perform, in order to make a selection for the national final. 35, while 36 songs are in the race: Angel Kiss perform to songs.  Norway continues with their semifinals. The show will start at 19:50 CET and can be watched here. The fourth one will contain four songs again, performed in duels: Hege Bjerk, “Pang” Magnus Bokn, “Over the sea” Nordic Tenors, “In this special place” Oda Loves You, “Love who we love” At 20.00 CET also Israel will have another show: a semifinal of  Hakokhav Haba l’Eurovizion! You can watch it here. Four artists will perform and only two of them will head to the final….   The four artists performing tonight are: Eden Alene Ella-Lee Lahav Lali Kolishkin Ohad Shragai Lithuania will also have a semifinal at 20:00 CET, which can be watched here and here.  It’s the first of three semifinals. The contestants tonight are: KaYra, “Alligator” Viktorija Miškūnaitė, “The ocean” Baltos Varnos, “Namų dvasia” Rūta Loop, “We came from the sun” Gabrielus Vagelis, “Tave čia randu” The Roop, “On fire” Kristina Jure, “My sound of silence” Alen Chicco, “Somewhere out there” Aistė Pilvelytė, “Unbreakable” And last, but not least: Melodifestivalen, the Swedish national final.  This contest also starts at 20:00 CET and can be watched here. Seven songs compete. Two will head directly to the final, while two other songs will go to “Andra Chancen”, the second chance festival of Melodifestivalen. The Mama’s, “Move” Suzi P, “Moves” Robin Bengtsson, “Take a chance” Malou Prytz, “Ballerina” OVÖ, “Inga problem” Sonja Aldén, “Sluta aldrig gå” Felix Sandman, “Boys with emotions” The Mama’s and Robin Bengtsson already have been at the Eurovision stage: The Mama’s last year as the backing choir of John Lundvik, Robin Bengtsson represented Sweden in 2017 with the song “I can’t go on”.  Malou Prytz became last in the final in 2019. Sonja Aldén has taken part as a songwriter several times, but as a singer we saw her in 2007 and 2012. Felix Sandman was in the final twice before: in 2017 with the boyband FO&O, in 2018 he was the runner up as a solo singer.

At the last day of 2019, Tornike Kipiani won Georgian Idol. Therewith, he won the ticket to the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam. Today he announced the title of his entry: “Take me as I am”. The song is described as a mix of classic rock, electro and dubstep.Tornike also revealed his backing vocals in Rotterdam: Mariko Lezhava, Mariam Shengelia and Aleko Berdzenishvili.It is not known when the song will be presented.