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Benidorm Fest Semi Final 1 results

It’s been a long night in Benidrom, but the spanish people and jury have voted! Agoney has won tonight’s Semi Final with 161 points! He got the maximal amount of points that you can get from the televote, which is 40. Wil he get the Benidorm trophy this Saturday? Not only Agoney went through, but Alice Wonder, Fusa Nocta & Megara qualified for the final aswell. It’s also notable that fan favorite Aritz Aren barely missed out on the final, with a shortage of 4 points.

Semi Final Allocation Draw

This year the allocation draw for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 has took place in Liverpools’ St. George’s Hall. AJ odudu and well known Rylan hosted this years event. Right before the actual draw happened, the mayor of last year’s host city Turin, Stefano Lo Russo, handed the Eurovision Key over to Joanne Anderson, the mayor of Liverpool. At first the Big Five including: United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, plus last year’s winner Ukraine have been drawn for in which Semi Final the opposing countries will vote in. These are the results: After the big five we’ve had the other 31 participating countries be drawn into two Semi Finals. Semi Final 1 has 15 contenders, while Semi Final 2 has 16. These are the results:

the last Melodi Grand Prix 2023 semi-final has ended

Tonight was the last night for artists to qualify for the Melodi Grand Prix 2023 final in Trondheim. Norway has chosen it’s qualifiers, and here they are: Alte Pettersen is back in the final of Melodi Grand Prix! Last time we saw him was two years ago in 2021. Then he managed to get pre-qualified for the final, but this year he got all the support from the public. Tonight he sung his ballad, that later turns into a pop song called “Masterpiece”. From the start of her music carreer it’s drag queen Skrellex. She’s trough with her pop song “Love Again”. Skrellex burns up the stage as she dances with her four backing dancers. Not only her dance moves, but the disco balls on stage light her up aswell. At last but not least we have Eline Thorp. As she’s an up coming artist in Norway, you can already tell she has a great amount of fans for “Not Meant To Be”! Will it be enough for her to take the trophy next week? Next week we have nine finalists batteling it all out in Trondheim. Who are you rooting for? Let us know, and we’ll see you next week.

Elsie Bay is back! MGP semi final 2 results

the clock strucks 9 P.M. in Norway, and the Melodi Grand Prix results came in. Jone, Elsie Bay, and Swing It are trough to the final in Trondheim! There were some familliar faces in the second semi final, and one of those faces managed to qualify! Elsie Bay isn’t new to the Eurovision family, as she competed in Melodi Grand Prix last year with her song “Death Of Us”. She then reached the second round of the final, but will “Love You In A Dream” take the victory this year? Jone was the second qualifier of the night! His EDM pop song “Ekko Inni Meg” was voted for by a lot of his fans. The staging has a neon kind of vibe, and we expect him to go even bigger in the final. And last but not least we have the fun nostalgic retro band Swing It that we will see again in Trondheim. Their 1920’s inspired party song “Prohibition” made a whole part of Norway swing indeed.

Ulrikke, Unami Tsunami & Alessandra are trough!

Tonight’s first Melodi Grand Prix semi final was won by Ulrikke, Unami Tsunami & Alessandra Mele. seven songs competed, but only three songs went trough to the final. Ulrikke, winner of Melodi Grand Prix 2020, competed again tonight. She’s expected to win this years season again with her song “Honestly”. Unami Tsunami qualified awell. They competed with a Boyband dance pop song. However they’re not the only ones that competed with a dance song tonight. Show opener Alessandra Mele won a “finalepass” aswell with her dance song “Queens of Kings”. Tonight the 2017 winner of MGP competed again with his song “Freaky For The Weekend”. The song was produced by JOWST, and sung by Byron Williams Jr. They didn’t manage to qualify.

Tvorchi wins Vidbir 2023

Tvorchi has won Vidbir 2023! The group will represent Ukraine in Liverpool next year with their song “Heart Of Steel” The Jury gave them 9 points, while they won the public vote with 10 points. Tvorchi are the lucky ones to follow up Eurovision winners ‘Kalush Orchestra’, and therefore Ukraine has already granted itself a spot in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 finals watch the performance of “Heart Of Steel” here: Tvorchi isn’t new to the Eurovision family, as they have participated in Vidbir 2020 with “Bonfire”. They went on to finals, but only ended up fourth. In 2018 producer Andriy Gutsulyak (Andrew Hutsuliak) and Vocalist Jeffery Kenny doubled up to form the musical group. Jeffery was born in Nigeria, but later on moved to Ukraine where he studied at the Ukrainian Medical University. This is where the duo met, and shared the same passion for music. Eventually they’ve loved it so much, that they started making their owns beats together.

Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper are the Dutch representatives

On November first, it was announced that Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper will travel to Liverpool to represent The Netherlands at the 67th Eurovision Song Contest. The 26-year-old Mia and 28-year-old Dion met about two years ago, when Duncan Laurence, Eurovision 2019 winner brought them together. Their voices blended well together, and they wanted to share the same musical message: “music that allows room for showing vulnerability and emotion. Laurence recommended the two artists to the Dutch selection committee and they unanimously selected the yet to be announced song. There’s still much speculation about the song. The general director at AvroTros said “their voices work beautifully together”. At least there’s one small hint: Duncan Laurence, and his partner Jordan Garfield, wrote the song together with the duo. Their song will be released on a later point in time.

Andrew Lambrou for Cyprus

This afternoon it has been announced that Andrew Lambrou will follow up Andromache as the Cypriot entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 which is to be held in Liverpool. Andrew’s past Andrew was born in Australia but is a descent of a Greek-Cypriot family. He began his musical career by learning piano at a young age, which was later followed by covering songs and uploading them on YouTube. After he gained some fame on social media, Andrew later decided to take part in The X-Factor where Eurovision star Guy Sebastian was one of the judges. His Eurovision journey Even though it’s Andrew’s first time competing at Eurovision, this isn’t his first time trying to enter. In 2022 Andrew tried to represent Australia by taking part in Australia Decides with his song “Electrify”. The song for Liverpool however will be presented at a later date.

Noa Kirel for Israel 2023

photo: instagram It’s been exactly one month since KAN announced that Noa Kirel was selected to represent Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023. However the tables turned really quickly, ’cause the day after Noa said she still had to decide if she was willing to do the job. Today the official news came out that Kirel will indeed wave the Israeli flag on the Eurovision stage! Kirel is a 21 year old singer, who often sings in Hebrew. Perhaps something we can look forward to for 2023. Noa has had many hits in Israel, with her biggest song being “מיליון דולר”.

Ben Dolic: “I would like to come back as a songwriter”

Photo made by Zlatimir Arakliev This week the 2020 representative for Germany held a Twitter Space, and our reporter Kal had the chance to interview him. But how is Ben doing as of today? What are his upcoming plans? How does he feel about Eurovision these days? Ben told us everything. “I’m doing good! Right now we’re busy with my next single, and we’ve already got a location for the music video! Just like ‘Kissing Her, Missing you’, we’re shooting it in London again. We also have some plans for merch, but that has got to wait a little longer.” Kal: “New music? That’s always great to hear, but since there’s so much new music coming out, does this also mean there’s an album coming along the way?” Ben answered that “It takes a lot of time to make an album, ‘cause there’s so much that needs to be done. But maybe in about a year or two I might drop one.” Kal then asked how it is to perform at gigs now that everything opened up again. Ben: “It’s great now that the pandemic is kind of over, but I don’t perform that much. I still need some more tunes to sing. Maybe if I and some friends put a set list together for a festival or something, maybe than we can gather a crowd.” Kal: Now everything’s back open again, however this wasn’t the case in 2020. How do you feel about missing out on performing at Eurovision? Ben said that “It of course sucked. The week everything closed down, I was actually about to fly to the Caribbean Islands to film my postcard. It sucked that we didn’t get to see the end result of ‘Violent Thing’, but at least the German broadcaster put together a small Eurovision show, and I got to perform it there.” Kal was stunned to hear that Eurovision would go so far for postcards. After that he asked if Ben would ever return to Eurovision. Ben: “For now I wouldn’t say yes again to be the representative for a country. For a whole year you focus your life around one song, and it’s that song only. However I would like to come back as a song writer, or creative director in some sort of way.” Kal: I have always wondered what the staging for ‘Violent Thing’ was about to look like, so if you can maybe spill some details, then I would love that.” Ben answered that the staging was going to look very futuristic. “So the staging was about look like the German Eurovision show one, but way better. There would be pictures and videos that would kinda float in front of me, and it would look as if I’m in the future. The main colours of the staging would like the cover art, mainly red and blue.