The country revealed late in 2020 the 24 songs taking part in this year’s Eesti Laul. The semifinals were held on February 18th and 20th with 6 acts making it out in each of them. Tonight’s show will be hosted by Karl-Erik Taukar and Tõnis Niinemets. This is tonight’s line-up:
- Egert Milder – Free Again
- Suured tüdrukud – Heaven’s Not That Far Tonight
- Hans Nayna – One By One
- Ivo Linna, Robert Linna, Supernova – Ma olen siin
- Karl Killing – Kiss Me
- Uku Suviste – The Lucky One
- Sissi – Time
- Jüri Pootsmann – Magus melanhoolia
- Redel – Tartu
- Koit Toome – We Could Have Been Beautiful
- Andrei Zevakin & Pluuto – Wingman
- Kadri Voorand – Energy
In a first round of voting, the Top 3 with 50% televote and 50% juries will qualify to the final. Then the Superfinal is 100% televote!
The show starts at 18:30 CET and can be watched here.
Eight Acts will take to the stage at Stockholm’s Annexet hall and will compete for the chance to make the grand final on March 13th. The winner of each duel will reach the grand final. Each show will be hosted by Christer Björkman, for his last MF as a producer (after he took over in 2002 and lead Sweden to two victories) and guest co-hosts. Tonight, Shirley Clamp.
The duels for tonight are:
- Alvaro Estrella – Baila Baila VS Lillasyster – Pretender
- Frida Green – The Silence VS Paul Rey – The Missing Piece
- Eva Rydberg & Ewa Roos – Rena rama ding dong VS Clara Klingenström – Behöver inte dig idag
- Klara Hammarström – Beat of Broken Hearts VS Efraim Leo – Best of Me
The show starts at 20:00 CET and can be watched here.
Denmark – DR, the national broadcaster, will host the Grand Final of Melodi Grand Prix 2021, the national final! 8 acts compete for the chance to represent Denmark in Rotterdam!
Tonight’s show will be hosted at the DR Headquarters in Copenhagen by Tina Müller and Martin Brygmann.
This is tonight’s line-up:
- Nanna Olivia – “Hvileløse hjerter”
- Fyr & Flamme – “Øve os på hinanden”
- Chief 1 & Thomas Buttenschøn – “Højt over skyerne”
- Mike Tramp – “Everything Is Alright”
- Claudia Campagnol – “Abracadabra”
- The Cosmic Twins – “Silver Bullet”
- Emma Nicoline – “Står lige her”
- Jean Michel – “Beautiful”
In a first round of voting, the Top 3 with 50% televote and 50% juries will qualify to the final. Then the Superfinal is 100% televote!
The show starts at 20:00 CET and can be watched here.
Italy – RAI, the national broadcaster, will conclude San Remo 2021 tonight, a contest which will serve once more as a means to select the Italian act for Eurovision.
26 acts will take part, among them 2 recent Italian Eurovision acts, Francesca Michielin (16th in 2016 after she got second in SR) and Ermal Meta (5th in 2018 with Fabrizio Moro) and a few returnees, like Ghemon, Irama orLo Stato Sociale. The shows started February 2nd and we got a “Serata” each night this week.
Tonight’s show will be hosted by Karl-Erik Taukar and Tõnis Niinemets
Here’s the full line-up as tonight’s draw isn’t know yet:
- Aiello – “Ora”
- Annalisa – “Dieci”
- Arisa – “Potevi fare di più”
- Bugo – “E invece sì”
- Colapesce & Dimartino – “Musica leggerissima”
- Coma_Cose – “Fiamme negli occhi”
- Ermal Meta – “Un milione di cose da dirti”
- Extraliscio feat. Davide Toffolo – “Bianca luce nera”
- Fasma – “Parlami”
- Francesca Michielin & Fedez – “Chiamami per nome”
- Francesco Renga – “Quando trovo te”
- Fulminacci – “Santa Marinella”
- Gaia – “Cuore amaro”
- Ghemon – “Momento perfetto”
- Gio Evan – “Arnica”
- Irama – “La genesi del tuo colore”
- La Rappresentante di Lista – “Amare”
- Lo Stato Sociale – “Combat Pop”
- Madame – “Voce”
- Malika Ayane – “Ti piaci così”
- Måneskin – “Zitti e buoni”
- Max Gazzè & La Trifluoperazina Monstery Band – “Il farmacista”
- Noemi – “Glicine”
- Orietta Berti – “Quando ti sei innamorato”
- Random – “Torno a te”
- Willie Peyote – “Mai dire mai (La locura)”
Voting during the five evenings (first round):
- First evening: demoscopic jury
- Second evening: demoscopic jury
- Third evening: music and singers of the Sanremo orchestra
- Fourth evening: jury of the press room (TV, Radio and Web)
- Fifth evening: Televote
Tonight, 3 superfinalists will be revealed based on all votes. The final results between the three will be determined by 34% televote, 33% jury of the press, 33% demoscopic jury. The official Eurovision site says, “expect the final result in the early hours of Sunday morning”…
The show starts at 21h00 CET and you can watch it here.
Portugal – RTP, the national broadcaster in charge of the national final, will host the Grand Final of Festival da Canção 2021! 10 artists will battle the chance to represent Portugal in Rotterdam!
A total of six hosts will present the shows: 2 for each shows: Jorge Gabriel and Sonia Araujo (first semi-final); José Carlos Malato and Tânia Ribas de Oliveira (second semi-final); Filomena Cautela and Vasco Palmeirim (grand final). In the end, it’s Inês Lopes Gonçalves whom the people will see the most, as she’ll be the green host through all shows.
The Final will be hosted at the RTP studios in Lisbon. This is tonight’s line-up:
- Karetus & Romeu Bairos – Saudade
- Joana Alegre – Joana do Mar
- Fábia Maia – Dia lindo
- Valéria – Na mais profunda saudade
- Carolina Deslandes – Por um triz
- NEEV – Dancing in The Stars
- Pedro Gonçalves – Não vou ficar
- Sara Afonso – Contramão
- EU.CLIDES – Volte-face
- The Black Mamba – Love Is On My Side
The show starts at 22:00 CET and you can watch it here.
Måneskin!!! I said it on day 1 and no one believed me!
YEEESSS!!!
I hope they’ll go to ESC as well…
I read around 58% of televote lol
I’ll watch the press conference to keep you updated (if I can find it).
Bit of a surprise (at least for me)! Congrats, very good choice!
A lot of talk about Madame and “Voce” : A very interesting artist and an eccentric song but I am not sure I enjoy the vocals tbh.
La Rappresentante di Lista – “Amare” is really nice too.
Oh the rock one won? Meh. I prefer Blind Side.
Eeeeh , I liked it a lot, I give it 8/10..but Ermal would be my 10/10 and F&F also..
But OK…I like diversity.. :)
Will they go to Rotterdam? Hmmmm..
As for the winning song: clear, clean rock but this is not for me.
Finally something new for Italy in esc if they go! But I do prefer BC from Finland in teh genre. If they go full punk in esc (Italian entries tend to look worse in esc than in SR because of the orchestra, but obviously this isn’t true for such a song), they can get televote with them (but lower than Hatari who were way more memorable) but juries can kill them as they did Hatari! Once more, can this take “some” votes from Iceland and Lithuania in the “it’s different” category (regardless of genre and aesthetics)?
I just realized I wrote the wrong hosts for SR in today’s article LOL
Listened to the final reprise and my opinion kind of improved. It is a very impactful and passionate live even for rock norms and that will make it memorable. The bridge is the strongest part but the chorus gets repetitive and tiring.
I am not sure IF they (he?) to go to esc how they will fare.
Televoting results:
Måneskin: 53,50%
Franny M. & Fedez: 28,30%
Madama a.k.a. Ermal Meta out of drag: 18,20%
Wow what a landslide!
It really is no surprise. They’re the hottest act in Italy atm. Ermal Meta had a good track record throughout the week, but that song was no “Non mi avete fatto niente”, wasn’t it?
I wasn’t told how big they were in Italy: I was told Ermal was unbeatable :o
Their debut album went 3x platinum followed by multiple singles between 2017 and 2020 that got either platinum or gold certificate.
from tonight’s with all 26 acts right?, but not with just these three, where Maneskin got 58% I think
No, we’re talking superfinal results!
Ok cool!
Seems like the press conference is not going to take place now but it very likely they are going to ESC.
A surprising SR winner. Have demographics moved to younger ages there? It’s another case of performance outshining a ptretty basic song. Out of the 3 superfinalists, this would have the biggest potential in esc but I doubt ITA will trouble top 10 this year (when there’s already FIN)
Ideal scenario is they decline and we get Irama or the Italo Empire of the Sun :P
Diodato feels more at odd surrounded by Mahmood and Måneskin as SR winners, though he fits more the SR criteria!
On MF – Clara and Paul are in the final. :) They and The Mamas have my top 3 songs there. These ones sound alive and kicking. Will the 3 ladies manage to upstet Mr. B’s plans again? He clearly wants them out of the picture. Everything is ready for Tusse’s and Dotter’s flimsy songs and vocals. Saade’s song would work better with an actual singer and a less pretentious stage presentation. The plot thickens. :)