With the month of May comes Eurovision. On May 11, the Eurovision Song Contest, a competition in which different European countries (and let’s say also, from outside Europe) show their musical skills and compete to become the best. Since 1956, the festival has been held without interruption except a few years ago, when the contest had to be canceled due to the global Covid pandemic. But until Saturday, there is still the odd helping of a music festival.
He Eurovision candidate selection system It has been changing, and since 2008 two semi-finals have been held before the grand final, always on Tuesday and Thursday of the same week as the final. Only the host country – in 2024, Sweden – and the countries known as the Big Five – the five countries that contribute the most money to the European Broadcasting Union, which are Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom— go directly to the final, without needing to compete in the previous semifinals.
The semi-finals work in the following way: a certain number of countries participate in each of them, but only 10 from each semi-final advance to the grand final, in which between 25 and 26 countries participate. The second semi-final was introduced to avoid voting between blocs: in this way, Greece, for example, is prevented from voting for Cyprus; or that the United Kingdom supports Ireland.
Eurovision 2024 Semifinal 1 schedule
The 2024 Eurovision Song Contest and its semi-finals take place in Malmoafter in 2023 Sweden was the winning country of the edition.
- The first Eurovision semi-final takes place on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 9:00 p.m.. It is expected to last around two hours.
The direct finalist countries, Spain included, are obliged to broadcast on television the semi-final in which they are going to vote. In the case of Eurovision 2024, The two semifinals can be seen on public televisionspecifically in La2 and also in streamingthrough RTVE Play.
Semifinal 1: songs, countries and order of performance
In total in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 15 countries participate. He order in which the actions take place is duly established, so it is known in advance which country is acting at any given time:
- Cyprus | Representative: Silia Kapsis | Song: Roll
- Serbia | Representative: Teya Dora | Song: Ramonda
- Lithuania | Representative: Silverster Belt | Song: Luktelk
- Ireland | Representative: Bambie Thug | Song: Doomsday Blue
- Ukraine | Representative: alyona alyona and Jerry Heil | Song: Teresa & Maria
- Poland | Representative: Moon | Song: The Tower
- Croatia| Representative: Baby Lasagna | Song: Rim Tim Tagi Dim
- Iceland | Representative: Hera Björk | Song: Scared of Heights
- Slovenia | Representative: Raiven | Song: Veronika
- Finland | Representative: Windows95Man | Song: No Rules!
- Moldova | Representative: Natalia Barbu | Song: In The Middle
- Azerbaijan | Representative: Fahree with Ilkin Dövlətov | Song: Özünlə apar
- Australia | Representative: Electric Fields | Song: One Milkali (One blood)
- Portugal | Representative: iolanda | Song: Shout
- Luxembourg | Representative: Tali | Song: Fighter
Source: Lasexta
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