That’s it ! The 37 candidates taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 are known and the 37 videos of their songs have been revealed.
Eurovision 2024 is already in the starting blocks! While Israel’s chosen title was finally adopted a few days ago after a series of controversies, the 37 candidates for the major European song competition have now been determined and were all unveiled this weekend, setting the countdown to the final phase of the Eurovision Song Contest for the beginning of May.
Eurovision fans can already listen and dissect the 37 Songs from the 2024 program, from the most sober to the most baroque, thanks to a video playlist now available for free on the competition’s official YouTube account. And to see the videos of all the candidates of this Eurovision Song Contest, this 68th edition once again promises shows that are as varied as they are surprising…
Eurovision 2024 will take place in Malmö, Sweden, following Swedish singer Loreen’s stunning victory last year. This is no surprise as this is the third time the city has hosted the event. Comedian Petra Mede and actress Malin Åkerman will moderate the ceremony live on the microphone and on mondovision. At France Télévisions, Stéphane Bern and Laurence Boccolini were once again expected to moderate the event.
Among the competitors of this Eurovision, France obviously hopes to shine with Slimane and his title “Mon amour”, or in any case to do better than the Quebecoise The Zarra16th last year, Alvan & Ahez, penultimate in 2022, and why not even Barbara Pravi, second in 2021. Among the novelties of this 2024 edition is the return of Luxembourg after an absence of more than three decades and the remarkable withdrawal of Romania.
- Albania: Besa – Titan
- Germany: Isaac – Always on the run
- Armenia: Ladaniva – Jako
- Australia: Electric Fields – One Milkali (One Blood)
- Austria: Kaleen – We Will Rave
- Azerbaijan: Fahree feat. Ilkin Dovlatov – Take it with you
- Belgium: Mustii – Before the party is over
- Chypre: Silia Kapsis – Liar
- Croatia: Baby Lasagna – Rim Tim Tagi Dim
- Denmark: Saba – Sand
- Spain: Fog – Zorra
- Estonia: 5minust & Puuluup – We don’t know anything about (these) drugs (yet).
- Finland: Windows95man – No rules!
- France: Slimane – My Love
- Georgie: Nutsa Buzaladze – firefighter
- Greece: Marina Satti – Zari
- Island: Hera Björk – fear of heights
- Ireland: Bambie Thug – Doomsday Blue
- Israel: Eden Golan – Hurricane
- Italy: Angelina Mango – Boredom
- Lettonie: Dons – Hollow
- Lithuania: Silvester Belt – Luktelk
- Luxembourg: Tali – Fighter
- Malta: Sarah Bonnici – bow
- Moldova: Natalia Barbu – In the middle
- Pays-Bas: Joost Klein – Europapa
- Norway: Riddle – Wolf Ham
- Poland: Luna – The Tower
- Portugal: Iolanda – Scream
- Czech Republic: Aiko – base
- Royaume University: Olly Alexander – Dizzy
- Saint-Marin: Megara – 11:11
- Serbia: Teya Dora – Ramonda
- Slovenia: Raiven – Veronika
- Sweden: Marcus & Martinus – Unforgettable
- Suisse: Nemo – The Code
- Ukraine: Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil – Teresa & Maria
Croatia with Marko Purišić alias “Baby Lasagna” and his rock song “Rim Tim Tagi Dim” has already established itself as the bookmakers’ favorite with a 17% chance of winning on March 18th, less than two months before the final. The Ukrainian duo Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil and the Italian Angelina Mango are not far behind (13 and 10% respectively).
France, who qualified directly for the Eurovision final, will be hoping to improve on their performance compared to last year thanks to Slimane, who is currently among the top 10 favorites (albeit with just a 3% chance of winning). Here you will find all forecasts compiled in real time based on the odds of around fifteen bookmakers:
For Eurovision 2024, the French delegation therefore decided to focus on an artist who has already sold two million albums and won five NRJ Music Awards. In fact, Slimane was chosen to represent the tricolor in Malmö on May 11th. “It is an obvious choice, but it is also the choice of a generous and authentic artist who perfectly meets the expectations of Eurovision,” justified the head of the French delegation, Alexandra Redde-Amiel. He will perform the song “Mon amour,” which was written specifically for the competition.
Since its creation in 1956, France has won the Eurovision Song Contest five times: in 1958, 1960, 1962, 1969 and 1977. Our country is just behind Ireland, which holds the record with seven wins. In 1958 it was the singer André Claveau who won France’s first victory with the title “Dors, mon amour”. Two years later, in 1960, the artist Jacqueline Boyer was unanimously celebrated with the song “Tom Pillibi”.
In 1962, Isabelle Aubret won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Un Premier Amour”. Then, in 1969, Frida Boccara won the Eurovision competition with the title “Un jour, un enfant”. In 1977, the singer Marie Myriam finally won with her performance of “The Bird and the Child”, a title that over time has become cult among audiences.
The semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 are scheduled for May 7th and 9th. They offer 31 participating countries the opportunity to compete for the ten available places in the grand finale. The members of the “Big Five”, i.e. the five countries with the largest financial contributions to the Eurovision Song Contest, are automatically qualified. These 5 countries are Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. They will be joined by Sweden, host of the event and therefore automatically qualified.
For its part, the date for the Eurovision grand final is set for Saturday, May 11, 2024. In this crucial phase, the big winner is announced at the end of a (very) long evening. As with several editions every year, the winning country of the Eurovision Song Contest will be determined by the votes of the expert juries in combination with the votes of the viewers.
As is tradition at Eurovision, after the big show, the announcers of the participating channels will actually announce the professional votes for each nation, following the logic of the “twelve points” (from 1 to 12 points awarded depending on their preferences) . . The moderators then announce the added viewer votes, again in ascending order.
Last year’s Eurovision winner Loreen convinced the national jurors, but also the audience, with her title “Tattoo”, a strange musical UFO between great pop artillery and electro ballad, whose melody was reminiscent of Abba’s finest hours.
She scored a total of 583 points, giving Sweden their seventh victory. More unusual: Loreen’s victory was also her second victory at the Eurovision Song Contest, as she had already been crowned in 2012. She was followed on the podium by Finland (526 points) and Israel (362 points).
