Austria

Iceland wins “Der kleine Song Contest”

In Austria, they had their own song contest this year. Divided over three shows, an expert jury chose three songs to be judged by Austrian televoters. And the winner is…. Iceland! Daði & Gagnamagnið got 48% of the votes with their song “Think about things”, while Austria was the runner up with 33%. Malta became 3rd with 19% of the votes. The full results of the expert jury where: Show 1 Iceland 75 The Netherlands 71 Bulgaria 71 United Kingdom 66 Belgium 63 Poland 61 Romania 61 Israel 60 Spain 55 Cyprus 50 Georgia 49 Armenia 42 San Marino 35 Belarus 17 Show 2 Malta 97 Sweden 86 France 69 Russia 67 Switzerland 64 Lithuania 57 Finland 56 Ireland 55 Azerbaijan 50 Slovenia 50 Croatia 45 Latvia 36 Portugal 30 Moldova 28 Show 3 Austria 76 Denmark 73 Germany 66 Albania 62 Norway 62 Italy 59 Greece 51 Czech Republic 51 Estonia 48 Ukraine 45 North Macedonia 42 Australia 35 Serbia 35

Destiny sings “All my love” for Malta

It’s already a while ago that Destiny was chosen as the Maltese representant in the Eurovision Song Contest. She won X-Factor Malta, which was in fact the national selection for the artist, not for the song.Today, the song has been announced: “All my love”. The song is written and composed by Bernarda Brunovic, Borislav Milanov, Sebastian Arman, Dag Lundberg and Joacim Persson. Former Austrian participant Cesár Sampson co-composed the song. Malta will perform in the first semifinal.

Vincent Bueno presents “Alive”

Austrian representant Vincent Bueno presented his entry “Alive” this morning. The singer was already known a few months ago, but we had to wait for the song. “Alive” is written and composed by Vincent himself together with Vincent Bueno, David Yang, Felix van Göns and Artur Aigner.

Benjamin Dolic will represent Germany

Although the official presentation of the German entry for the Eurovision Song Contest will take place tonight at 21:30 CET, the facts are known already: Benjamin Dolic will represent the country. Slovenian born Benjamin Dolic has lived in Switzerland and participated in The Voice of Germany. The song is written by Boris Milanov, who was also responsible for the songs “Beautiful mess” (Bulgaria 2017) and “Nobody but you” (Austria 2018).

And this ís the allocation draw!

Today, the allocation draw took part. The following order is not known yet, but it is known which country has to perform in which semifinal. 1st semifinal, 1st half North Macedonia Belarus Lithuania Sweden Slovenia Australia Ireland Russia 1st semifinal, 2nd half Norway Cyprus Croatia Azerbaijan Malta Israel Ukraine Romania Belgium 2nd semifinal, 1st half Austria Moldova Poland San Marino Serbia Iceland Czech Republic Greece Estonia 2nd semifinal, 2nd half Denmark Bulgaria Switzerland Finland Armenia Latvia Georgia Portugal Albania final – these countries are automatically qualified France (votes in semi 2) Germany (votes in semi 1) Italy (votes in semi 1) Spain (votes in semi 2) The Netherlands (votes in semi 1) United Kingdom (votes in semi 2)

Today: semi final allocation draw

On Tuesday 28 January at 16:10 CET, the Semi-Final Allocation Draw will take place to decide which country will perform in which of the 2 Semi-Finals. During the ceremony, the Host City Insignia will be handed over from the city of Tel Aviv to the Mayor of Rotterdam. You can watch the entire event here at 16:10 CET. You will be able to see the 2020 Eurovision hosts Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley and Jan Smit at work, as they will host the allocation draw too. The event will take place at Rotterdam’s City Hall. The pots for the allocation draw are as follows: Pot 1: Albania Austria Croatia North Macedonia Serbia Slovenia Switzerland Pot 2: Australia Denmark Estonia Finland Iceland Norway Sweden Pot 3: Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Moldova Russia Ukraine Pot 4: Bulgaria Cyprus Greece Malta Portugal Romania San Marino Pot 5: Belgium Czech Republic Ireland Israel Latvia Lithuania Poland source: eurovision.tv

Vincent Bueno

© EBU/Thomas Hanses About Quick Facts NameVincent Mendoza Bueno Born10 December 1985 Nationality🇦🇹 Austrian National SelectionInternal selection 2021Internal selection 2020 In Eurovision2021 Rotterdam2020 Rotterdam SongAmen (2021)Alive (2020, cancelled) Biography Vincent Bueno is an Austrian singer of Phillipine origine; bot his parents are from the Phillipines. As a musician, he studied music and performing arts at the Vienna Conservatory. Vincent really rose to fame in 2008, when he took part in the ORF-show “Musical! Die Show!” and won it. In 2010, Bueno performed on Phillipine television for the first time. In 2011, he gave a mini concert in San Juan, Phillipines.Vincent joined the Eurovision stage with Nathan Trent, who represented Austria at the 2017 contest. As the male half of the duo The Buenos, Vincent released the video “Stay”.In december 2019, ORF (Austrian Television) announced that Vincent Bueno would be the Austrian representative for the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Alive”. Unfortunately, due to the Corona crisis, that didn’t happen. Bueno is invited to represent Austria in the 2021 contest. To do so, he will sing the song “Amen”. In June, 2021, Vincent Bueno released an EP, “Demos”, with songs that were meant for the Eurovision Song Contest but not chosen. In May 2022 he released a new video, “Rays on a shell”. Entries Amen Country🇦🇹 Austria Year2021 LanguageEnglish LyricsTobias CarsheyAshley HicklinJonas Thander MusicTobias CarsheyAshley HicklinJonas Thander Backings– Results Semi Points: 66Position: 12Running order: 5 Results Finals Points: –Position: –Running order: – https://youtu.be/xV9_pKj8Df8 Alive Country🇦🇹 Austria Year2020 LanguageEnglish LyricsVincent Bueno MusicVincent BuenoDavid “Davey” YangFelix van GönsArtur Aigner Backings– Results Semi Points: –Position: –Running order: – Results Finals Points: –Position: –Running order: – https://youtu.be/cOuiTJlBC50

Vincent Bueno sings for Austria

Vincent Bueno will represent Austria in the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. He will sing the up-tempo song “Alive”, which will be presented to the audience in march 2020. Vincent is not completely unknown to the Eurovision audience. The Austrian-born Filipino singer took part in the Austrian national final in 2016. One year later, he was one of Nathan Trent’s backing vocals in the contest. Vincent about Eurovision: “Wow, even thinking about the fact that I am going to participate in the song contest gives me goosebumps. The Eurovision Song Contest is like the Eurocup for musicians and singers. The huge stage, all those artists doing their absolute best, all the songwriters and producers of Europe gathering in one place to celebrate their work while at the same time stepping into the ring – it is breathtaking and formidable. Let’s go Austria!” source: eurovision.tv

Conchita Wurst

© Albin Olsson About Quick Facts NameThomas Neuwirth Born06 November 19888 Nationality🇦🇹 Austrian National SelectionInternal selection 2014Österreich rockt den Song Contest 2012 In Eurovision2014 Copenhagen SongRise Like A Phoenix (2014) Biography Conchita Wurst is the stage persona of Austrian singer, recording artist and drag queen Tom Neuwirth. Neuwirth was born in Gmunden in Upper Austria and grew up in Bad Mitterndorf. In 2011 he completed an apprenticeship at the Graz Fashion School. He took part in the third season of the TV casting show Starmania on Austrian TV in 2006 He finished second behind Nadine Beiler. In 2007 he founded the boy band Jetzt anders !, which broke up in the same year. Since 2011 Neuwirth has appeared as drag queen Conchita Wurst and since 2015 as Conchita, a diva with a full beard. Her fictional biography begins with the birth in the mountains of Colombia and leads through a childhood in Germany to the beginning of the career as a singer in Austria. Neuwirth explains this creation as a reaction and statement against discrimination that he experienced in his youth due to his homosexuality. His appearance as Conchita should also mean that “it is easier for young people – regardless of the reason why they are different from the others”. Neuwirth was first known in the role of Conchita Wurst in 2011 as a participant in the ORF talent show Die große Chance, in which he finished sixth in the final round. As Conchita Wurst, he also took part in the Austrian preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 (Austria rocks the Song Contest) and in the final with the song “That’s What I Am” came in second place. In 2013 the song “That’s What I Am” could be found on the benefit album “Licht ins Dunkel 2013” and at a concert for the ORF Christmas campaign Licht ins Dunkel. In 2014, Conchita Wurst was internally selected to represent Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Rise like a Phoenix”. Conchita won the contest convincingly. At the end of 2014 Conchita Wurst released the single “Heroes”, followed by “You Are Unstoppable” at the beginning of March 2015. On May 15, 2015, she released her debut album Conchita, which went platinum just a few days after its release in Austria and also entered the charts in other European countries and Australia. At the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Conchita acted as a host in the Green Room. She was also involved in the opening song “Building Bridges”. After the joint opening of the 2017 Vienna Festival, an album by Conchita and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra was released in October 2018 with the title “From Vienna With Love”. In June 2018, a reinterpretation of “The Sound of Music” from the film of the same name was released as a single. In September, the second single followed “Für mich soll’s rote Rosen regnen”, a cover version of Hildegard Knef’s song of the same name. In 2019 Tom Neuwirth announced that he would do a new project under the name WURST. When changing his image, he put his male side in the foreground as WURST. He did without wigs and appeared at events in a fetish outfit instead of clothes. The album T.O.M. – Truth Over Magnitude was published in autumn 2019. In the FameMaker program broadcast in September and October 2020, Neuwirth did not appear as the fictional character “Conchita Wurst” for the first time. In 2021 Conchita WURST released the singles “Malibu” and “Bodymorphia”. She also started an online talkshow, OZAA Talk. In July 2022 Conchita released a song in German, “Erstmal Pause”, followed by another English song, “Call me up”. Entries Rise Like A Phoenix Country🇦🇹 Austria Year2014 LanguageEnglish LyricsCharlie MasonJoey PatulkaAli ZuckowskiJulian Maas MusicCharlie MasonJoey PatulkaAli ZuckowskiJulian Maas Backings– Results Semi Points: 169Position: 1Running order: 6 Results Finals Points: 290Position: 1Running order: 11 https://youtu.be/xhCC_PN9UlA

Trackshittaz

About Quick Facts MembersLukas PlöchlManuel Hoffelner Active2010 – 2015 Nationality🇦🇹 Austrian National SelectionÖsterreich Rockt Den Song Contest 2012Düsseldorf – wir kommen! 2011 In Eurovision2012 Baku SongWoki Mit Dem Popo (2012) Biography Trackshittaz was an Austrian hip-hop duo. They originated from the Mühlviertel in Austria. In early 2010, Lukas Plöchl, also known as G-Neila, and Manuel Hoffelner (stage name Manix), a student from Leopoldschlag, formed the band. The idea for the band’s name emerged as they decided to enter the UHS band contest in Freistadt, despite having no songs written together at that time. They quickly produced six tracks in just eight days, a requirement for contest participation. In 2010, Trackshittaz gained popularity through YouTube with their parody “Alloa bam Fraunz” of Stromae’s “Alors on danse”, garnering over 100,000 views quickly. Lukas Plöchl appeared on the ORF talent show Helden von morgen from October 2010 to January 2011. Following his initial performance, Sony Music signed them with their hit “Oida taunz!”, which topped the Austrian single charts. It was a milestone as the first Austrian download-only release to debut at number one. Their song “Guuugarutz”, released in January 2011, also reached the top spot. In 2010, the band was selected for the Austrian Eurovision Song Contest 2011 preliminaries and secured the second place with “Oida Taunz!”. Their July 2011 album, “Prolettn feian längaah”, achieved number one status like their debut album and received a gold record. The non-album track “Touchdown” was featured as the official song for the Football World Cup, and their song “Schnitzi” was included in the soundtrack of the film adaptation of Thomas Glavinic’s novel ‘Wie man leben soll’. Trackshittaz participated once more in Austria’s Eurovision Song Contest 2012 selection, Österreich rockt den Song Contest, and triumphed with “Woki mit deim Popo”, beating future ESC winner Conchita Wurst. However, they were eliminated in the Baku Eurovision semi-final, ranking last. Hoffelner sustained a knee injury during their performance. The band made a comeback in March 2014 with their fourth album “#TS4”, preceded by singles “Gmiatlich Dreschn” and “Schuachblattlaboogie”. On July 24, 2015, the duo announced the end of Trackshittaz, citing extensive physical and time commitments as the main reasons for the band’s dissolution, the EP “#TS15” being the last product of the duo. Entries Woki Mit Dem Popo Country🇦🇹 Austria Year2012 LanguageMühlviertel Dialect LyricsLukas PlöchlManuel Hoffelner MusicLukas Plöchl DancersConny AitzetmüllerMarie-Therese LeopoldsbergerBianca Borghesi Results Semi Points: 8Position: 18Running order: 16 Results Finals Points: –Position: –Running order: – https://youtu.be/3gPt8R33POY?si=oNmHd5uxwX6MDsUB