Hungary – MTVA, the Hungarian national broadcaster, has revealed the names of the 30 acts that will compete in A Dal 2018, chosen from 350 entries. The contest starts on 20th January 2018, and there will be three heats, 2 semi-finals and a grand final of 15 acts which will conclude on 24th February 2018.
The 30 competing acts are:
- #yeahla feat.Viki Eszes – “Egy szó, mint száz”
- Andy Roll – “Turn The Lights On”
- AWS – “Viszlát nyár”
- Ceasefire X – “Satellites”
- Cintia Horváth – “Journey”
- Fourtissimo – “Kisnyuszi a kalapban”
- Gabi Knoll – “Nobody to die for”
- Gábor Heincz ”BIGA” – “Good vibez”
- Gergely Dánielfy – “Azt mondtad”
- Ham ko Ham – “Bármerre jársz”
- Leander Kills – “Nem szól harang”
- Living Room – “Kirakat élet”
- Maszkura és a Tücsökraj – “Nagybetus szavak”
- Maya ‘n’ Peti – “Nekem te”
- Nemzenekar – “Waiting”
- Nene zenekar – “Mese a királyról”
- Nikoletta Szoke, Attila Kökény, Róbert Szakcsi Lakatos – “Életre kel”
- Noémo – “Levegot”
- Nova Prospect – “Vigyázó”
- Peet Project – “Runaround”
- Odett Polgár – “Aranyhal”
- Reni Tolvai – “Everest”
- Roland Gulyás – “Hypnotized”
- SativuS – “Lusta lány”
- Tamás Horváth – “Meggyfa”
- Tamás Vastag – “Ne hagyj reményt”
- The Matter – “Broken Palms”
- Viktor Király – “Budapest Girl”
- Yesyes – “I let you run away”
- Zsolt Süle – “Zöld a május”
Viktor Király, Reni Tolvai and Leander Kills have tried before to win A Dal.
The selection process
- Heats: 20th January 2018, 27th January 2018, 3rd February 2018 – 10 acts. 5 will go through to the semi-final from each heat, plus a 6th act qualifying from a public vote
- Semi-finals: 10th February 2018, 17th February 2018 – 9 acts in each, 3 will qualify for the final with the 4th voted by the public
- Final: 24th February 2018 – 8 acts. The jury will choose 4 and the winner will be chosen by the public
Two TV programmes will also be broadcast on 6th and 13th January celebrating the last six years of A Dal.
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it’s good to hear, we wish him well here! :-)
A second name of the Czech final revealed.It’s Jakub Ondra.
indeed :-)
check me out here, as via am not a murdererer/criminal etc am not involved any kind of crime whatsoever!!
lol.What do you mean Paul?
I think you know me after many years, if I wanted to kill somebody would let you know first, my name got involved in such nonsense!
German-French collaboration at its best. I hope that Ms. Merkel and Mr Macron get there eventually … LOL
Really like them though i usually support the 2 Russian couples.Fedor Klimov is my ultimate crush.lol
Personal taste aside and objectively speaking this is probably the best Pair free skate ever imo. :)
here we end up knowing re profiles or not, Fedor is your ultimate crush, he sure is sexy!, as a journalist (and via sports) I sure ended up with a lot of stories via when Barcelona hosted the Grand Prix Ice Skating final as a journalist, plenty that I could never reveal
Nice!
indeed you are right via Europe :-)
but I think Chinese couple will be Olympic champions
It will all depend on the execution when it matters most. :)
I expect it to be a tight race (or skate) for gold.
you are right, indeed, and leave a question for you ; well executed Russia v well-interprectacion the rest?
I haven’t watched the Russians yet this season but I have been a huge fan of Russian skating for all my life … except for Mr. Plushchenko, whom I had strongly disliked even before he did his ridiculous routine in ESC 2008.
Chinese version of ‘Amar pelos dois’ :)
Can’t remember the last time a song from Eurovisionot received such a worldwide recognition.
Belgium:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42296971
Luísa Sobral is expecting her second child. Christmas is bringing good news for the Sobral siblings. I wonder if we’re going to see any of them on stage next May.
They showed Salvador here today on greek TV news. They said everything with the heart transplant and operation went fine :)
Johnny Lydon reveals why he wants to do eurovision: https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/1913586/johnny-lydon-says-some-of-the-haters-would-come-out-if-he-represents-ireland-in-eurovision-but-he-wont-be-put-off-by-them/
I actually think it could be rather cool if he did it. The contest would benefit from something edgy and unpolished, and we would surely get that with Johnny Rotten. My biggest concern probably being that many people might see it as a stunt – like f.e. Dustin the Turkey.
It’s Jessica Mauboy for Australia in Lisbon.
Another lame choice imo but let’s wait for the song first. Perhaps it will be a pleasant surprise.
I always like being pleasantly surprised ;)
I hear she is a former talent show contestant, right?
They always send a talent-show contestant that represents a minority. They have never strayed from that. I wonder if they will be taking part in Eurovision Asia as well as Eurovision Europe from now on.
She performed as interval act in ESC before Australia was allowed to join the competition.
After this the only way is up. I guess.
Proceed at your own risk.
I don’t even remember having watched this; maybe because ERT has the bad habbit showing commercials during all interval acts :o
Well, sometimes it’s bad, sometimes is good 😃
After Sea of Flags I’m not not really expecting too much. Shaky vocals, all the diva outdated diva antics wrapped in Christmas candy paper will make Wiwi boys faint for sure. Her “dancing” has great entertainment value, I must admit 😃
I most certainly hops that she is already trying to find a competent vocal coach. Her interval act was cringeworthy. It wasn’t even LOL. It was far worse …
I hope we don’t come to point where I say: I miss Anja!
What is this Aussie obsession with these half baked wannabe divas? They can’t even get their hand singing in tune 😃
Since SBS seems so keen on nurturing minority talent, I expect to see one of the hundreds of thousands of greek-australians or italian-australians getting the nod next. Or maybe they are not the right sort of minority.
Or maybe they aren’t doing talent shows and can actually sing!
Is people with deluded diva aspirations actually a minority of is it just something one particular minority love to nurture?
I am sure they can find some deluded aspiring diva wrapping the gyro somewhere in Melbourne’s Greek District as we speak :-P
We’ll see her next year then! 😃
Things come full circle for Australia with Jessica Mauboy :-)
Interval act in 2014, entrant in 2018 ! She is a great performer and has the potential to bring the victory for the aussies imo with the right song.
Details from the french selection process “Destination Eurovision” were unveiled today by France 2. 18 songs will compete in two semis and four from each semi will proceed to the final on the vote of a six-member jury composed of Amir (FRA2016), french-canadian artist Isabelle Boulay, singer-songwriter Christophe Willem and the HoDs of Sweden (Björkman), Italy (Caligiore) and Belarus (Salamakha).
Once in the final, the winner will be determined by 50% televote and 50% from an international jury composed exclusively by the HoDs of 10 countries: Sweden, Italy, Belarus, Armenia, Bulgaria, Finland, Iceland, Israel, Russia and Switzerland.
Among the songwriters rumoured to have sent songs in order to compete are huge names like Zazie, Maitre Gîms, Vitaa and Grand Corps Malade.
They seem to take it VERY seriously this year.
Maitre Gîms, Vitaa and Grand Corps Malade sound very promising.
They are obviously pulling all the stops this year. I expect this to be required viewing. When a big country is obviously thinking it through like this, it’s exciting!
Actually scrap Vitaa.I added the name by mistake. :P
This is great news. France has so much to offer to ESC and so glad they are taking things seriously. Nations on the south and north of their border and across the Channel might like to take notes. Last two years have proved there is still some life in the corp, it’s breathing, now we hopefully can get ready for proper Lazarus moment.
French pop, electro and disco hold a very special place in my heart. I’m thrilled and all ear.
North of their border is Belgium … I guess that you meant east. LOL
LOL I did, I surely can’t have anything to say against Belgium’s approach even though I didn’t like Blanche’s live.
The Lithuanian Eurovision saga kicks off on January 6 with new hosts: http://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/eurovizija/31/196337/nacionaline_eurovizijos_atranka_ves_lrt_ziurovams_nematyta_pora
One of my canidates for VFoS/ETSC submited an entery for Depi Evratesil :)
It seems that an Armenian has written one entry in Estonian National final – Desiree – “On my mind”, written by Amiran Gorgazjan..or I’m wrong?
God what a fail 😀 I commented in ETSC in place of VFOS page.
Yes he is Armenian but never heard of him Tbh. Are you OK?
Yes, I’m all right thanks for asking! How is in Armenia? :)
I’m fine. If you mean in general in Armenia : could be better 😀 Waiting for our national selection :) It seems it’s gonna be interesting one :)
Hello guys, and happy holidays season!
I haven’t been posting comments since June, but I have been following your discusions on regular basis. :-)
For me, there is no better occasion to put my first comment than on the article about my favourite national final – A Dal.
Also, with average of 7,41 on my all time list, Hungary holds 2nd place of my favourite ESC countries (behind Italy and before United Kingdom).
I have loved most of their songs, my favourite being 2011 (“What about my dreams”) with 10/10, followed by 1994 (“Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet”) and 1996 (“Fortuna”), both 9/10.
On 6 other occasions, I have given 8/10 – 1997 (“Miért kell, hogy elmenj”), 1998 (“A holnap már nem lesz szomorú”), 2007 (“Unsubstantial blues”), 2008 “Candlelight”, 2012 (“Sound of our hearts”) and 2014 (“Pioneer”).
I still haven’t had time to carefully listen to 2018 line-up (those songs that are out), but listening to snippets, I believe that my favourite will be two songs from the top of the list – “1 szó, mint 100” and “Turn the lights on”.
Of course, it is still very early days, and my favourites can change.
All the best to everyone! Looking forward to new ESC season :-)
Hi Goran, nice to have you back. :)
A very underwhelming choice for Australia. Her 2014 interval performance was almost embarassing to listen to.
It was the proper WTF moment of the season.
What’s this issue with Australian Cacofonix divas ? It’s a new plague 😛
SBS has been just playing ESC Limbo – how low can you go and get away it. They must be laughing their Aussie arses off during jury voting. Again 😃
LAAAAY DOWN MY AAAARMOR 😂
Yes, we are beaten and ready to submit. Please, no more! 😃
Well, you can’t call Dami Cacophonix exactly :) She was obviously over-doing it but I am sure that was not her fault. She seems like a down-to-earth person.
Isaiah on the other hand did have his Cacophonix moments but he is no diva ;)
I think Australia is partly to blame for Anja as well 😃
True! I had forgotten about her australian connection!
They love and take their divas cacophonix 😃
Australian participation in ESC sure goes way back, connected to Stock Aitken Waterman songs of that era, as in they wrote the UK 2010 (lame and horribly performed) entry, but nobody remembers they produced the Cyprus entry in 1984 too (don’t remember it too well), they wanted to get Kylie (Australian soap opera star at that time) to partiicipate too: we should be so lucky?! I remember I was a university student in the 80s and that song sure filled my head/pissed me off!
I’m a big fan of 80’s sticky bubble gum SAW, unfortunately UK 2010 was just bad imitation of their haydays. Maybe it’s because Mr Aitken wasn’t part of the team!
I didn’t know they did Cyprus ‘84. Just like they probably have forgotten it too 😃
Agreed
Ionnalee’s latest single is out <3
Another A Dal hopeful decided to quit.It’s the band Nemzenekar with this song:
Viki Singh will replace them.
Congratulations to the people of Alabama for making the correct decision <333
I never expected to applaud an alection result in Alabama in my lifetime …
It’s a miraaaaacle ♫♪♫
I never expected to quote Ovi & Paula either …
* election
Honestly I agree with you on both of those statements lmao
I barely slept waiting for the results and after that due to the excitement. Stunning decision, truly miraculous – who would have thought ?
For all twink lovers out there, this is Raoul and Agoney from Spain’s Operación Triunfo talent show which will pick Spain’s representative for ESC2018. Their tender duet and even tenderer kiss has got the spanish internet buzzing:
And for those interested, Agoney (the dark-haired one) is openly gay and according to the gossip mill he was very “close” with another contestant called Ricky :)
Ah so cute! Still I hope this won’t be benchmark for non led stagings in Lisbon 😃
Bar stools will be all the rage it seems!
Boys forgot the golden rule. Where there are stools there should be stool choreography. Wait a sec! Was this actually very advanced stool choreography?
Stools are very versatile and can adapt themselves to any kind of staging ideas! Like these boys in fact :-P
This time they serve as strong metaphore of emptiness and randomness of app era dating scene. You can easily hear echoes of Toy Boy and So Many Men, So Little Time in abandoned gay bar in the set. It also gives hope. The kiss from the prince is still on the way. Blond boy’s I’m going to get kissed face unfortunately gave the dramatic high point away a bit too early, like from the very begining.
Ηa ha ha :-D Comment of the decade!!
😃
I was thinking about posting it here as well when I saw it but I thought it may be a bit off topic :P
They are adorable ^_^ I think they are into each other. Big time.
Raoul is straight I think :)
Meh :P I think he is at least curious after that ;)
Did someone say “twink lover”? :p
Could this be a sign of things coming I wonder ?
https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnormajohnofficial%2Fposts%2F403476953402803%3A0&width=500
Jon Ola Sand talking about Lisbon 2018:
I strongly dislike the introductory imagery. The focus is exclusively on the silly, exotic and over the top. Gosh! This is a SONG contest, not a silly costumes contest.
Tayanna will try to scream her way into the Ukrainian final again.She really wants to go to Lisbon.She has selected 4 songs from her latest album that wll be airing in Ukrainian radio and based on the feedback by listeners she will pick the song for the national selection.
Hope she has managed to save some money for the dress this time around 😃
Well,obviously no.This time around she’s bringing her curtain on stage.
Somebody tell her about crowdfunding!
I like her a lot (or maybe it’s just the amazing team behind her) but the album is weak compared to the previous EP. She doesn’t need Eurovision to give a boost to her career, she has more than enough coverage in Ukraine and if she gets the chance it won’t be enough with that album.
It sounds harsh, sorry :P The best song of the album was the one written by Rozhden and it was the first single…
Great news ! I listen to her 2017 song a lot these days. What a great entry it would have made..
The Norsk Melodi Gra nd Prix hosts: https://www.nrk.no/presse/silya-tilbake-som-programleder-i-melodi-grand-prix-1.13822347
One more A Dal entry released:
Dumbest person on TV ever. The end is hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqEA03v3OtQ