Spain and the rest of the members of the group called “Big 5” in Eurovision(Italy, United Kingdom, France and Germany) They will perform live for the first time in the semifinals, as the organizers announced this Monday. The Nebulossa duo will do so specifically in the second semi-final.

Together with them he will also Swedenwhich will host the two qualifying rounds of the festival in the city of Malmö on May 7 and 9 and the grand final on the 11th, which will also incorporate another change: You can vote from the beginning of the proceedings.

To reduce the candidates in the final to a manageable number, since Eurovision expanded the volume of participating countries in the last 20 years, it became necessary to introduce semifinals, from which the “Big Five” countries were exempt, along with the host, directly. classified.

The reason for this exemption is that The “Big Five” countries provide greater funding to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), organizer of the festival and responsible for other notable continental broadcasts, including many of a sports nature.

In recent years, after a concatenation of bad results, it began to be considered that perhaps the fact of not having visibility in the previous phases of the contest was harming them and an excerpt from the recording of their rehearsals began to be broadcast almost at the end of the semifinals. officers. “This change gives the ‘Big Five’ countries and the host country a field of fairest game for the grand finalas they now have the opportunity to really perform on stage in the semi-finals,” explained Ebba Adielsson, executive producer of Eurovision 2024.

They will take place on May 7 and 9

They will also do it without waiting for the end of the official competition, since Their performances will be interspersed with those of the rest of the countries that are fighting for classification, as specified in the statement. Specifically, the candidates from Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom will take the stage in Malmö on the 7th and those from France, Italy and Spain, the country for which the Nebulossa duo is competing, will do so on the 9th. Those will be the days in which In addition, viewers from these countries will also be able to vote.

The other big change that was announced this Friday affects the final and consists of the opening of the voting channels just before the first contender for victory takes the stage, as was done in the 2010 and 2011 editions. Since televoting was incorporated in 1997, The most widespread tradition has been to open these channels once all the actions have been completed..

“We want to provide the opportunity to involve viewers from the beginning. If you see something you like, you should be able to vote immediately and of course you can also wait until the summary at the end, like in previous years,” Adielsson argued. . It has also been reported that those people who follow Eurovision from outside the participating countries will be able to vote during the 24 hours prior to the celebration of each of the three “shows”.