Everything ready and prepared for the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, which takes place this Saturday, May 11 in Malmö (Sweden). A total of 26 countries participate in the grand final, most of which have earned their places: before the final, two semi-finals are held in which more countries enter than those that actually reach the final. In each of the two semi-finals, 10 countries made it to the final, so a total of 20 states arrive at Eurovision thanks to his performances in the semifinals. However, these are not all the countries that participate.

The another six had already guaranteed their position at the festival: these are the members of what is known as the Big Five —Spain, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom—, which are the five countries that make the greatest economic contribution to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), organizer of the contest, and also the country hosting the current edition which, in 2024, is Sweden. Eurofans already know all the songs that are going to the festival—even the ones that were left out—but there will be many who still don’t know much about this festival, beyond the fact that the Spanish song is called ‘Zorra’ and it has been controversial and applauded in our country in equal measure.

For those who are more clueless or those who have left everything until the last minute, at laSexta we make a compilation of the 26 songs that participate in Eurovisionwith their respective videos, to be able to listen to them before each of the artists take the stage at the Malmö Arena on Saturday to win over the audience, the jury and, above all, the viewer.

Sweden – Marcus & Martinus | Song: Unforgettable

Ukraine – alyona alyona & Jerry Heil | Song: Teresa & Maria

Germany – ISAAK | Song: Always On The Run

Luxembourg – TALI | Song: Fighter

Netherlands – Joost Klein | Song: Europapa

The representative of the Netherlands for Eurovision 2024, Joost Kleinbegan his public career as youtuber: in many of your Tiktok videos there are dance tutorialsfalse ambushes on the press and trips around Europe in order to convince all Eurofans that the 12 points go to their country.

Israel – Eden Golan | Song: Hurricane

Eden Golan She is probably the one that is being talked about the most at this festival, and not precisely because of her musical career. The Israeli representative for this Eurovision He has a 14 year old Chihuahua with no teeth., who is called Leo and claims that he is the love of his life. She has it on the wallpaper of her mobile phone. It is probably, the artist who needs the most security in this edition due to the continuous boycott actions against their presence at the festival, due to the war that Israel maintains open on Palestinian soil, where it has already killed more than 40,000 people, mainly civilians.

Lithuania – Silvester Belt | Song: Luktelk

SPAIN – NEBULOSSA | SONG: ZORRA

Estonia – 5MIINUST x Puuluup | Song: (nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi

The musical collaboration representing Estonia at Eurovision This year it is curious: 5MIINUST is a hip hop group, key in the country’s music industry for the last six years, while Puuluup is a zombie folk duo that brings some certainly strange melodies to this combination. It is easy to distinguish them: All members of 5MIINUST wear sunglasses at all times – they only took them off in one performance, when they qualified to sing at Eurovision. As a curiosity, although it is not useful to identify them, none of them wear underpants.

The others are Marko and Ramo, who claim to be two of the only three people in the entire world who make a living playing the talharpa or tail hair harp, a special lyre from northern Europe.

Ireland – Bambie Thug | Song: Doomsday Blue

Latvia – Dons | Song: Hollow

Artūrs Šingirejs is the composer and singer who represents Latvia at Eurovision 2024 under his stage name, Gifts. If he could invite any three famous people from any era to dinner, Dons would choose Freddie Mercury, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Queen Elizabeth II. His favorite cheese is Dutch buffalo.

Greece – Marina Satti | Song: ZARI

The Greek representative for Eurovision 2024 is Marina Satti, which has a curious musical history. In addition to having performed with jazz artist Boby McFerryin, winner of 10 Grammy Awards and best known for his hit ‘Do n’t worry, be happy’, he once performed inside a volcano.

United Kingdom – Olly Alexander | Song: Dizzy

Norway – Gåte | Song: Ulveham

Gåte comes from Trøndelag to represent Norway at Eurovision 2024. The group consists of Magnus, Jon Even, Mats, John and Gunnhild, the vocalist and only woman in the band. Gunnhild loves her cheese, and the more she smells it, the better. Her favorite is Gamle Ole, a long-ripened Danish cheese; Although if she has to choose between a Swedish one she opts for Prästost.

Italy – Angelina Mango | Song: La Noia

Serbia – TEYA DORA | Song: RAMONDA

Finland – Windows95man Song: No Rules!

Portugal – ioland | Song: Scream

Armenia – LADANIVA | Song: Jako

LADANIVA is a Armenian musical duo, composed by Jaklin Baghdasaryan and Louis Thomas, who represent their country at Eurovision 2024. They met in 2019, when they were both studying at the jazz conservatory in Lille (France). Since arriving in Malmö (Sweden), they have gone through several jam sessions, and behind the scenes you can find them, separated, him with an instrument, and her, singing.

Cyprus – Silia Kapsis | Song: Liar

Switzerland – Nemo | Song: The Code

The video for ‘The Code’, the song that Nemo performs for Switzerland in this edition of Eurovision, was recorded inside a train. But the reality is that the car where the filming took place was completely stopped during the entire recording: Nemo himself explained that special effects were used with lights and mirrors to make it look like it was moving. Of course, he acknowledged that when the train sound effects played, it seemed as if it were really moving. As a curiosity: Nemo himself had already performed a show on a train before.

Slovenia – Raiven | Song: Veronika

Croatia – Baby Lasagna | Song: Rim Tim Tagi Dim

Georgia – Nutsa Buzaladze | Song: Firefighter

Nutsa Buzaladze, who sings for Georgia in this edition of the Song Festival, has the great honor of having performed with one of the greatest pop icons, Kylie Minogue. It happened when Nutsa was on American Idol, last year, and together they sang ‘Can’t get you out of my head’; The Georgian finished in the top 12 of the contest.

France – Slimane | Song: Mon Amour

Austria – Kaleen | Song: We Will Rave

In this edition of Eurovision, the Austrian representative is Kaleen, although This is not the first time he has visited Eurovision. In other editions, she acted as a substitute for other artists in rehearsals, so she had to learn numerous festival routines. One of her favorite moments was working with Eleni Foureira, who sang ‘Fuego’ for Cyprus in 2018, and also with the Finns from Monsters, with whom she performed ‘Saara Aalto’ the same year.