16 lucky singers have made it to the final of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2018. Only one of them can make it to Eurovision though and hope to return the country to the grand final.
And if you’re wondering who to pay attention to this year, the Wiwi Jury – our in-house panel of music unprofessionals – will preview and review each of this year’s acts.
Our jury this time consists of 17 jurors. They hail from Australia, Austria, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, the UK and the United States.
Each juror assesses each song independently, and awards each song a score from 0 to 10. Before calculating the Wiwi Jury verdict, we drop the highest and lowest scores to reduce potential bias and outliers.
We’ll be unrolling these one by one over the coming weeks. You can read the completed reviews by clicking on the song title.
Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2018: Reviews and Rankings
- Brooke – “Heart of Gold” (7.60)
- Christabelle – “Taboo” (7.3)
- Richard & Joe Micallef – “Song for Dad” (7.1)
- Eleanor Cassar – “Back to Life” (7.0)
- Jasmine – “Supernovas” (6.6)
- Aidan – “Dai Laga” (5.97)
- Miriana Conte – “Rocket” (5.90)
- Deborah C – “Turn It Up” (5.77)
- Matthew Anthony – “Call 2Morrow” (5.67)
- Avenue Sky – “We Can Run” (5.53)
- Rhiannon – “Beyond Blue Horizons” (5.1)
- Dwett – “Breaking Point” (5.03)
- Danica Muscat – “One Step at a Time” (5.0)
- Petra – “Evolution” (4.97)
- Tiziana – “First Time” (4.47)
- Lawrence Gray – “Love Renegade” (4.23)
A problem with the esc-bubble might be that ever returning artists enjoy some kind of familarity-bonus. Seeing that MESC is full of artists that seem to have nowhere else to go (except for 1in360;) those relatively high marks are no suprise to me.
Richard & Joe with ” Song For Dad” is my favourite.
This is my Top 16:
1) Danica – One Step at a Time
2) Rhiannon – Beyond Blue Horizons
3)Brooke – Heart of Gold
4) Avenue Sky – We Can Run
5) Christabelle – Taboo
6) Jasmine – Supernovas
7) Aidan – Dai Laga
8) Richard & Joe – Song for Dad
9) Eleanor – Back to Life
10) Miranda Conte – Rocket
11) Deborah C – Turn it Up
12) Petra – Evolution
13) Tiziana – First Time
14) Dwett – Breaking Point
15) Matthew Anthony – Call 2morrow
16) Lawrence Gray – Love Renegade