Tonight, Finland, Italy and Latvia will choose their entries for the 60th Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden.
Today’s important times are:
- 🇩🇰 Denmark: Dansk Melody Grand Prix 2024 – App voting begins
- 🇫🇮 Finland – Uden Mushikin Kirpile 2024 – Final – 20:00 CET
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania – Eurovizija.lt – Heat 5 – 20:00 CET
- 🇸🇪 Sweden – Melody Festival 2024 – Heat 2 – 20:00 CET
- 🇱🇻 Latvia – Supernova 2024 – Final – 20:45 CET
- 🇮🇹 Italy – Sanremo Festival 2024 – Final Night – 20:40 CET
🇩🇰 Denmark: Dansk Melody Grand Prix 2024 – App voting begins
Voting for Dansk Melody Grand Prix 2024 begins today, with one week left until the live finals. The running order for the first round of the finals is as follows:
- Saba – “sand”
- Stella – “Please sign here.”
- Chu chu – “The Chase (ZoomZoom)”
- Basim – “Johnny”
- RoseeLu – “Real Love”
- U Blue – “Planetary Hearts”
- Janus Wiberg – “I Need Your Love”
- Aura Dione “Mirror Ball of Hope”
Dansk Melody Grand Prix 2024 will take place on February 17th at the DR Concerttuset in Copenhagen. The show is hosted by Stephanie Srug and Sarah Bro. A combination of jury and public votes will determine the entry to Malmö, Denmark. Unlike in recent years, the number of judges will increase and will include judges from outside Denmark.
🇫🇮 Finland – Uden Mushikin Kirpile 2024 – Final – 20:00 CET
The 2024 edition of UMK will take place tonight live from the Nokia Arena in Tampere. The 13,455-capacity Nokia Arena is Finland’s largest indoor arena and the largest venue to date to have hosted UMK. In addition to competing performances, there will also be guest performances by Erika Vikman, Kaliyya, KUUMAA, and Benjamin.
The lineup is as follows.
- Sini Sabotage – “Quoli Mua” (Peel Me)
- Cyan Kicks – “Dancing with Demons”
- Jesse Merkin “Glow”
- Michael Gabriel x nublu – “Vox Populi”
- Sarah Siipola – “Pascana” (shit)
- Sex Mane – “Mania”
- Windows95man – “There are no rules”
The winner of the selection will be determined by 75% public vote and 25% jury vote. Jury voting will be carried out by seven international juries, including the UK, and their scores will be announced by representative Olly Alexander.
A total of 11 commentators will provide commentary on UMK 2024 in 9 languages. The commentators and languages are as follows (streams are hyperlinked by language):
UMK 2024 will be broadcast on Yle TV 1 and Yle Arena, as well as on some TV stations outside Finland. The following stations will also broadcast UMK 2024.
- TV3 (Estonia)
- Ten TV (Spain)
- OutTV (Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Israel)
🇱🇹 Lithuania – Eurovizija.lt – Heat 5 – 20:00 CET
Lithuania’s selection for Eurovision 2024 continues with a final eight new artists competing for a spot in the final.
Gabrielė Martirosian and Nombeko Augustė are the hosts of tonight’s Eurovizija.LT 2024. Tonight’s qualifying rounds will be determined by 50% public vote and 50% jury vote. Her two acts with the most points will qualify for the grand finals on February 17th.
The jury is:
- Ieva Narkte
- Vytautas Bix
- Ramnas Girnis
- Zievaras Jasinskis
- Tautvidas Gaudicius
The screening order of the programs is as follows.
- Freya Alley “Serenade”
- Karo – “zero gravity”
- Petras “Run”
- Queen of Roses – “Walk Through Fire”
- April Frey “New Years”
- Emilia V – “Trophy Wife”
- The Loop – “Simple Joy”
- Lina Starite – “Perfect”
Watch the show live here.
Sweden: Melody Festival 2024 – Heat 2 – 20:00 CET
Sweden’s quest for the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö continues with the second heat of Melodyfestival 2024 this evening.
Unlike past years, this season’s competition will feature 30 artists across five heats, with each heat consisting of six songs. Unlike the previous format, which featured four heats and a “second chance” round of semi-finals, this year the two winners of each heat will advance directly to the grand final at Stockholm’s Friends Arena.
In addition, two more songs will be selected in a new program immediately after the fifth heat, injecting an extra element of suspense into the Eurovision 2024 selection process.
Here’s how tonight’s Heat 2 will play out:
- Maria Sur “When I’m Gone”
- Engmans Capel – “Noland”
- Dear Sarah – “The Silence After You”
- C Joe – “Afunma”
- Liamoo – “Dragon”
- Fröken Snusk – “Unga & fria” (young and free)
TV personality Karina Berg will host the Swedish national selection.
You can watch the program via SVTPlay.
🇱🇻 Latvia – Supernova 2024 – Final – 20:45 CET
The Latvian squad for Eurovision 2024 will be selected tonight live from Riga.
There are 10 artists competing in the final of Supernova 2024, all of whom hope to represent Latvia at the Eurovision Song Contest. The finalists who will compete this evening were selected from the semi-finals held last weekend. The show will be hosted by Ketiya Schenberga and Lauris Reinix.
The screening order of the programs is as follows.
- “Vēstulēs” – “Cool?” (Where?)
- Abhay – “Mine”
- Papila Ridmashnath” – “Mind Breaker”
- Katrina Gupalo – “Cat Song”
- Ecto – “The Outsider”
- Dons – “Hollow”
- St. Levica – “Tick-tock”
- Edvard Strazdis – “Rock’n’Roll Supernova”
- Funkinbiz – “Na Chystu Vodu” (On Clear Water)
- Alex Silvers – “For the Show”
A combination of public and jury votes will determine who wins the right to represent Latvia in Malmö. Voting begins at the start of the show, and voters can cast an unlimited number of votes from her one phone number. A phone call he is worth 1 vote and a text his message is worth his 10 votes. The members of the jury will only be revealed after Eurovision 2024.
Performances are also planned from Arika, who represented Estonia at Eurovision 2023, and Gabrielius Vagelis, who has participated in the Lithuanian selection many times.
The semi-finals can be viewed via LTV1.
🇮🇹 Italy – Sanremo Festival 2024 – Final Night – 20:40 CET
The final of the 74th Sanremo Festival will take place this evening, with 30 artists taking to the stage at Teato Artistn. After four nights of performances, the finale will take place, with 30 artists taking to the stage.
Fiorello will co-host tonight with Amadeus. Some of the artists appearing as guests include Gigliola Cinquetti (1964 Eurovision winner), Tedua and Tananay.
The 30 participating artists are as follows.
- Gari – “Casa mia” (my house)
- Alessandra Amoroso – “Fino a qui” (so far)
- Gazelle – “Tutto qui” (that’s all)
- Ricci e Poveri – “Ma non tutta la vita” (but not for a lifetime)
- Dargen d’Amico – “Onda Alta” (High Waves)
- Angelina Mango – “La noia” (boredom)
- Fred de Palma – “Il cielo non ci vuole” (The sky doesn’t want us)
- Fiorella Mannoia – “Mariposa” (butterfly) [in Spanish])
- Loredana Berthe – “Pazza” (Crazy)
- Mr. Lane – “Due altalene” (Two Swings)
- Geolier – “I p’me, tu p’ te” (I for me, you for you) [in Neapolitan dialect])
- Negramaro – “Ricominchamo tutto” (Let’s start from the beginning again)
- Rose Villain – “Click Boom!”
- Mahmoud – “Tuta gold” (golden suit)
- Diodato – “Ti muovi” (You move)
- Annalisa – “Sincere Mente” (Sincerely)
- Il Volo – “Capola Volo” (Masterpiece)
- Emma – “Apnea”
- Francesco Renga & Neck – “Pazzo di te” (Crazy about you)
- La Sadd – “Autodistruttivo” (self-destructive)
- Irama – “Tu no” (not you)
- BigMama – “La rabbia non ti basta” (Anger is not enough for you)
- Colors – “Un ragazzo una ragazza” (Boys and Girls)
- San Giovanni – “finissimi” (finish me)
- Il Tre – “Fragili” (fragile)
- Alpha: “Vai!” (Go!)
- Maninni – “Spettacorale” (Spectacular)
- Santi Francis – “L’amore in bocca” (Love in the mouth)
- Clara – “Diamanti grezzi” (diamond in the rough)
- BNKR44 – “Governo punk”
These will be voted on by the public only from their homes. The new ranking and the average of the previous ranking will determine the final final ranking.
The top five songs were given the chance to perform again, this time by members of the public from home (34% of results), a professional jury of journalists (33% of results), and a professional jury of radio broadcasters (34% of results). 33% of results). The song that receives the most votes will be announced as the winner of Sanremo 2024.
You can watch Rai Play’s program here. For the first time, live festival broadcasts and videos will not be geo-blocked. Viewers in the following countries can also follow the show:
- Albania – RTSH 1
- Moldova – Moldova 1
- Montenegro – RTCG 2
- Romania – TVR 1
- Spain – RTVE Play
- Ukraine – Saspine
- United Kingdom – GlitterBeam Radio
Image source: EBU / Corinne Cumming
