Albania – Tonight the grand final of the traditional Festivali i Këngës will be held in Tirana. The festival, which is also the countries’ selection method for the Eurovision Song Contest, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Tonight a total of 20 artists will compete for the honor of representing the Balkan country at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Baku. A jury will determine the winner.
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The Participants:
- Gerta Mahmutaj – Pyete zemrën
- Bashkim Alibali – Këngën time merr vehtë
- Samanta Karavello – Zgjomë një tjetër ëndërr
- Endri & Stefi Prifti – Iluzion
- Rudina Delia – Më kërko
- Rona Nishliu – Suus
- Marjeta Billo – Vlen sa një jetë
- Herciana Matmuja – Aty ku më le
- Altin Goci – Kthehem prap
- Elton Deda – Kristal
- Toni Mehmetaj – Ëndrra e parë
- Dr. Flori – Personale
- Kamela Islamaj – Mbi yje
- Frederik Ndoçi – Oh.. jeta ime
- Bojken Lako – Të zakonshëm
- Mariza Ikonomi – Më ler të të dua
- Iris Hoxha – Pa ty
- Saimir Braho – Ajër
- Xhensila Myrtzaj – Lulet mbledh për hënën
- Elhaida Dani – Mijra vjet
The Songs: You can watch the performances of the first semi-final and the second semi-final on YouTube.
The Favourites: According to Albanian media Samanta Karavello and Elton Deda are the big favourites to win. According to our National Final poll the runaway winner is Rona Nishliu with her entry Suus.
The Mode: A jury of “experts” will choose the winner, the audience has no say in the outcome. The jury members are: Aldo Shllaku, Edi Xhani, Ndriçim Xhepa, Redon Makashi, Zana Shuteriqi and Zhani Ciko.
The Poll: Have your say in our National Final Poll
The Time: 20:30 CET to 23:00 CET
The Webcast: A webcast will be available on RTHS’ official website of the Festival or here! The show starts at 20:30 CET. You can also watch the show right here:
The Eurovision Times 
oh no ok it’s just awards for vocals, live etc. And now the actual points per jury! Exciting!
she got the first 12! YAY!
Rona got 12 points!
Another 12 are in the bag.
and a third one!
10 more.
Rooonaaa… Baku is looking closer!
well she sure is leading, Elton and Saimir are the two challengers but they fail to gain from her!
by the way did you notice the song is 4mns long so far?
No, I have not. I just forget about such details when I am listening to her. She won! ‘Suus’ is my new 2012 nº1 and it’ll be hard for another song to beat it on my list.
I believe that “Suus” is going to Eurovision!
It’s time for us to celebrate!
Rona has won
the balkans WILL be extremely strong in this year’s esc oh my god, extraordinary song for Albania, their best ever in esc and quite very likely a top 5 from me
I could not agree more.
What a prediction!
why?
^^^^ “very likely a top 5 from me”
Indeed, Rona finished 5th :)
indeed but I gave her first! I’m mostly glad she finished in the top 10 of televote, proving that whatever the (stupid) conspiracy talks, she just really was ONE of the songs of the year overall, even if, she truly is, and history will tell, THE one song of the year
Can you just stop about me?
I left your site forever, so it’s really disgusting to continue calling me “STUPID”, and that I “write CRAPS” when I’m not here!
is that really hard for you to stop calling me like that even when I left? ://///////////
I don’t see where it is said that “you write craps” but I definitely can see that “stupid” is an adjective and it’s an epithet that goes with “conspiracy talks”: in other words, the conspiracy talks are the ones that are stupid. I was thinking of some people who said that esc juries were all corrupted, and you’re not the only one, even on this site, to say so. So NO this was NOT all about YOU…
I will send you on mail now where you wrote directly to me yesterday that I write crap. please open it, I write here because I’m not sure if you will open that mail.
you can reread there was nothing about you on here, just replying to Albania calling
please read mail…
I think it’s one of the songs that will never get old. I’m happy that my country (I hope) will be mentioned in the list of the songs that made history in ESC.
And to be honest I didn’t like any of the previous Albanian entries, even though I’m Albanian.