As usual Switzerland chose internally among the 420+ entries sent The Code by Nemo, as announced on February 29, 2024. And yes, it's something else for sure from opera to rap to hip pop and pop and even Bond-esque sounds.! Nemo Mettler (24) is a Swiss non-binary rapper, singer and musician who plays violin, piano and drums. He has released four EPs since 2015 and over 20 singles as ..read more

As every year many Eurovision artists tried a comeback, but for them this 2024 season has been very poor. Out of 24 only two succeeded in the task - and curiously both of them now in the very bottom of the betting odds - namely Iceland's true veteran Hera Björk who besides being the artist in 2010 with Je ne sais quoi placing 19th, has been backing singer many times already. Moldova's Natalia ..read more

As there isn't much to blog when rehearsals are done with closed doors (and yes, I'm all for it!) I will just do a feature with a couple of  photos from the rehearsals as published by Ebu. Apparently all went by smoothly and most everyone gave a polished performance of their national final show if there was one. And many dancers from Cyprus to Lithuania, Ireland, Poland and Croatia ..read more

Joost Klein was internally selected by AVROTROS to represent the Netherlands in the Eurovision song contest 2024. He expressed his will to do it in 2023 when hanging out with Käärijä, and people soon picked up on it making a petition to send him to Malmö. And indeed on December 11, 2023 it was announced he is the one. His entry Europapa was revealed on February 29, 2024 and became the fasted ..read more

 Austria's ORF chose internally Kaleen with 90's dance banger We will rave. The video is also pure 90's with bare chested muscle hunks drooling over her like she was Madonna, Janet or Paula Abdul. Kinda nostalgic.Kaleen or Marie-Sophie Kreissl (29) is no stranger to Eurovision even if her name maybe doesn't ring a bell. She's been involved many years already as stand-in singer (most ..read more

CyBC announced 17-year-old Silia Kapsis as their entrant on September 25, 2023 and the song Liar was made public on February 29, 2024. And isn't this a curious case! This is 12th Eurovision song by composer Dimitris Kontopoulos. And it is basically more or less the same song that took part in the internal Greek selection in 2023 then sung by Melissa Mantzoukis, who wasn't pleased with the outcome ..read more

ERT chose internally Marina Satti for Eurovision song contest 2024 and launched an open call for songs. Initially planned final where she would have performed various songs to be chosen from was soon cancelled and finally on March 7. 2024 her entry Zari was revealed.Marina Satti (Μαρίνα Σάττι) is a 37-year-old singer-songwriter. She's of Sudanese Arab origin by her father and Greek mother. She ..read more

 Finally Raiven did it. After placing 2nd in 2016 with Črno bel, 3rd in 2017 with Zažarim and again 2nd in 2019 with Kaos. This time RTVSLO picked her internally with Veronika. There was indeed an open call for songs and approx 100 were received and a national final planned as well. That was canceled and December 12, 2023 it was announced Raiven was internally selected instead. The ..read more

Sweden took their 7th win and now share the first place with Ireland. And Ireland, the Eurovision superpower of the 1990's has been struggling big time the past 20 years or so while the frustration has grown. A bit like Finland and then in 2006 we decided to just go all in, sent Lordi and won. Same kind of feeling I got from Ireland this year when they  decided not to go safe but went "ok ..read more

NRK arranged once again Melodi grand prix, even if with a revamped system with three semi-finals. After 60-40 televote-jury Gåte beat KEiiNO after winning the televote with a margin. That came after a new lyrics between semifinal and the final as originally the lyrics were nothing but a medieval ballad already existing. KEiiNO's original Damdiggida lyrics needed no change though.Gåte is a ..read more