Public broadcaster Suspilne is back for another edition of Vidbir — Ukraine’s legendary Eurovision national final. Tonight, a record number of 11 contestants will face a public and jury vote to win the right to represent the country in Malmö.
Vidbir 2024 postponed: what happened?
The Diia app was supposed to open for voting around 19:30 CET, but many users found themselves with error messages. At 19:47 CET, Suspilne communicated through Telegram that there were indeed problems with the voting, but that voting would soon resume. At 21:00, Suspilne announced that they were still waiting for the Diia app to stabilise to complete the voting.
Around 21:30, the show was officially postponed until Sunday. The voting will go on Sunday the whole day with results to revealed in the evening.
On Sunday 4 February at 14:15, Suspilne Kultura will show a repeat of the recording. The voting will close a little before 18:00. At 19:05 CET, a second attempt at a results show will be made on Ukraine’s television channel Suspilne Kultura.
Vidbir 2024: the show
Yaktak, Ingret, NAZVA, ANKA, Drevo, alyona alyona & Jerry Heil, MÉLOVIN, Skylerr, Ziferblat, Yagody and NAHABA have sung it all out.
You could watch the show live on YouTube from 17:00 CET onwards. For the second time in Vidbir history, a stream with English commentary is provided by the broadcaster. The performances and jury comments were prerecorded on 2 February.
The show was supposed to run until 20:45 CET before its postponement with the winner being revealed shortly before. Typically, the winner of Vidbir does not reprise their song.
You can rewatch the show, including the missed attempt at a results show down below.
Vidbir 2024 format
Similarly to Vidbir shows in previous years, Ukraine selects its Eurovision 2024 entry using a panel of three judges alongside a public vote.
The voting of the three judges counts for 50% of the total points. It was the Ukrainian public who chose the members of the jury, selecting Andriy Danylko — the man behind Verka Serduchka —, Eurovision 2016 winner Jamala, and Bez Obmezen lead singer Serhii Tanchynets. After each performance, the jury will give commentary and feedback to each act.
The other 50% of the results will be determined by public vote. Like last year, Ukrainians in the country and abroad can vote for their favourite through the e-government app Diia. This means that each Ukrainian has one vote.
Vidbir is always full of surprises. This year, viewers will notice some differences as production company 1+1 Media Group will produce it for the first time in Vidbir history. This year’s Vidbir included several Eurovison legends from Ukraine, including Ruslana and Kalush Orchestra as well as an interval act dedicated to the music of Volodymyr Ivasyuk.
Vidbir 2024 results
Running order
- YAKTAK — Lalala
- INGRET — Keeper
- NAZVA — Slavic English
- ANKA — Палала
- Drevo — Endless chain
- alyona alyona & Jerry Heil — Teresa & Maria
- MÉLOVIN — DREAMER
- SKYLERR — Time is running out
- Ziferblat — Place I Call Home
- YAGODY — Tsunamia
- NAHABA — GLASSS
Jury voting
To be announced.
Televoting results
The Diia app was supposed to open for voting around 19:30 CET, but many users found themselves with error messages. At 19:47 CET, Suspilne communicated through Telegram that there were indeed problems with the voting, but that voting would soon resume. At 21:00, Suspilne announced that they were still waiting for the Diia app to stabilise to complete the voting.
UPDATE at 21:30: The show has officially been postponed until tomorrow. The voting will go on tomorrow the whole day with results to revealed on Sunday evening.
To be determined.
Combined results
To be determined.
Who do you want to win Vidbir 2024? Which acts are among your favourites? Let us know in the comments down below!
Good luck Ukraine on Eurovision son content. My heart is with you!!?????????
This is definitely the most embarrassing situation of the whole NF season so far. The broadcaster did not react in the right way and if the app isn’t working we could be getting the subjective and often harsh opinions of the jury to select an entry, which is worrying. Personally based on how the jury bullied her for her dress despite looking beautiful and giving us a great vocal performance, I would send Skylerr. In fact, her opinions speak for most of the nation on this issue. This broadcaster has been highly incompetent at dealing with this whole situation and… Read more »
Alyona & Jerry, Yagody or Nahaba for me! All equally amazing choices. Gosh, Ukraine has the strongest selections year after year.
Oh Melovin. Give Dotter her clothes back and the song is very repeatative. How is Ukraine nr. 1 in the odds this year? Because of the war once again..
ESC odds are always pretty much random this early. Last week it said Iceland yet Iceland was literally talking about pulling out. And are people not allowed to like our songs? You’re mad if you think we’d get a second “pity” vote. Did we win 2023? No – and the world has turned it’s eyes away from Ukraine this year, but that wasn’t the case in 2023. The chances are, we won’t win. Think logically for *one* damn second
Yes, of course, after they finished 6th last year, they are first in odds because of a war that Europe (sadly) stopped paying attention to in the meantime. Sure. Just like they were the most succesful Eurovision participant even before the 2022 invasion – that must have been caused by time travellers from the future who voted for Ukraine because of the future war.
Because of course it’s absolutely impossible for people to like something else than you do. It must be some kind of a grand conspiracy.
Why is the word ‘conspiracy’ always painted in a negative light?
China and russia put a lot of resources into breaking Diia app during the war and they failed, but finally, Eurovision did it!
I Fear This Will Benefit Melovin With His Huge Fanbase Getting More Time To Vote For His Awful ”English” Song
Agreed. This is gonna go like the wiwbloggs fan poll.
To be fair he can sing and the lighting was good but that’s it!
So there were 15000 requests per second to the voting app (it’s an enormous number for such an app) and the app logically crashed cz the max predictable load was around 5000 requests per second. (last year statistic says it was 800 per second).
But it’s okay don’t see any problem to know the winner tomorrow.
I’m so excited about the drama and scandals after the winner announcement cz Ukraine is Ukraine
Ukraine should probably withdraw if they don’t have the resources due to the fighting to manage a simple app.
It’s not a simple app, the voting was tacked onto it for Vidbir 2022 (iirc) for entertainment purposes. Diia is a government app the primary purpose of which is to provide access to government issues documents, make appointments and various other official things. The reason it’s being used for voting in Vidbir is because it by definitionhas to be reliable (as a government app) and you only gain access with a Ukrainian ID, so no voting fraud. Going by the numbers of people who usually access it at any given time, it would’ve worked perfectly fine. But Vidbir turned out… Read more »
Diia is not a simple application. Few countries in the world have similar applications with such wide functionality.
Alyona alyona and Jerry Heil were good but I wasn’t blown away, I prefered Nahaba and Yagody I think, more impactful, more in your face. Melovin was perfect, Yaktak too but
I’m fascinated by Nahaba right now I think they are my Vidbir winners their visuals at the beginning are so good but I still can dream lol, Jerry and Alyona will get it and deservingly ngl because it’s a nice song, but the live performance didn’t bring something special, something wow.
honestly we’ve never seen a national final until now suspend their national final at the expense of immediate results until now i belive
very clever of ukraine’s broadcaster to postpone their national final to the day after so we will get a fully transparent result
We’ve also never seen a NF say to someone who is withdrawing ‘No! You can’t withdraw!’
Then again we’ve never seen a winner from a previous edition of Eurovision say to a participant that their dress is a problem and give no other feedback whatsoever!
It happened in Finland in 1996.
I’m expecting alyona alyona and Jerry Heil to win this easily, although Mélovin, Ziferblat and Anka were good too.
I really hope Jerry Heil and Alyona Alyona win!
We will trust the organisers at face value that there were difficulties.
But, as Ireland found out winning three times in a row it’s pretty costly to stage. Who would keep paying for all the Ukrainian wins? Does it benefit them to lose?
Yeah, there were plenty of people in the live chat and Twitter complaining about how the app wasn’t working. Conspiracy theories really run rife here huh.
So who would keep paying for the Ukrainian wins? It doesn’t make sense for them to keep winning financially and for others to stage it.
It’s documented Ireland wanted to lose in the end because it was costing too much.
So why would Ukraine not purposely lose?
Who pays? Who hosts? Is it worth it?
Why won’t it makes sense for others to help host? The UK was pretty thrilled to do it last year and I’m sure they would do it again. It helps with tourism afterall.
The Ukrainian music industry is developing at a frantic pace, and Eurovision is one of the few musical events that allows the country to leave the “gray zone” and be seen in the world
I hope Melovin will win!! <3 I already want to vote for him in the international final!! 😀
It dose’nt mater who gonna einn in Ukraine, its gonna winn ESC anyway
Riight, just like they won JESC 2023 or ESC 2023, and how Maria Sur won Melfest 2023.
Oh, wait – THEY DIDN’T!
They basically did!
In Other Words , Ukraine Telewisions Is Coming Up With A Fake Result
The country is at war. You dont know the difficulties they are facing with voting.
Then withdraw then! The money should be used to protect the innocent people of Ukraine!
Do you really think they needed to do all this just to fake a result? They would just have the fake results ready with 0 technical difficulties. Like you have to be such a moron to think they need an extra day of voting to fake a result.
Yes, they kept the show live and hour after it was supposed to end, are re-airing it tomorrow, and working on fixing the voting platform all just to rig it. If they really wanted to rig it they’d just ignore the complaints they were getting and pretend like their app was working just fine. Y’all need some common sense.
“Oh, hold on guys. I know we’re at war, but can we rig Vidbir? Because we want a bunch of Eurofans descending on us – you know, because we NEED one more stupid thing to think about.”
They could’ve come up with a fake result during the actual show either way? What’s your logic with postponing the results for that.
What an embarassment!
What, that a country at war didn’t have a perfect nf?!?!
No, the app crashing! If they don’t have the money to keep the app working, withdraw and use the money to protect Ukrainians from the tyranny of Russia!
Would Keiino have won if it was 50/50 voting? They didn’t even show the table after Gåte won.
No One Cares Go To Norway
Yes
Why do we need to show that when the hosts announced how much points Keiino needed to get to win (and they informed us that Keiino got less points than this)? They didn’t show the table of the votes after previous Norwegian winners either
Just send Melovin again,
or Alyona and Jerry
I believe that there was a winner that they did not want and they are making such a setup to make the jury choose the winner.
Vidbir is just scandalous!
Please, Norway, give us a decent winner because Beniform fest final starts like right now and my two winners performes 1 and 2!
Ukraine being Ukraine: amazing songs and mess organization.
So apparently they’re gonna show the show again and the televote will be open…
If the app doesn’t work again…JURY CHOOSES THE WINNER
Anyone got an update?
Good Lord, not one year without something happening. I’m starting to think if Ukraine shouldn’t consider switch to internal selections.
not a single year without some Ukraine drama…. god those origanizers need to grow up
An application to vote not working in a country at war which can at any time have internet trouble and all those kinds of things, I won’t call it “drama”. People need to stop criticizing for the sake of criticizing, especially on something minor like this which was not dependent on the organizers. At best, they could have thought of doing like Czechia’s doing at giving the result later, letting time for people to vote but it might cost more to have it going on for so long, potentially creating a problem of fraud too, etc. All in all, stop… Read more »
They’re not. Actual Ukrainians are complaining about this.
Instead, Ukraine needs to withdraw if they don’t have the money to keep their NF going! Put the money into blasting Putin’s goons!
Well then! See you tomorrow, I guess LOL
gotta feel for them. they’re probably like “oh god, we have to come back here AGAIN tomorrow. let it endddd”
After watching the performances, my favorites tonight we’re Nahaba and I hope they win!
Also, Melovin surprised me in a good way, he’s improved a lot since 2018.
However, I regret to say that I didn’t feel this year as strong as previous Vidbir editions…
Just a reminder they’re keeping EVERYONE in that studio until they’ve gotten the final results…
See you in a month!
is there like laws or regulations that they can’t keep them foever
Contractual reasons.
And now they’re denying Skylerr to even withdraw due to contractual reasons
Vidbir and drama, name a more iconic pair.
Sanremo and Amadeus being handsome.
I’m starting to think the results will come out right after I’ve gone to bed… zzzzzzz
What have I missed? Everything going smoothly, I assume?
jk
Can we have one year without Vidbir drama. PLEASEEEE
Is it possible the aggressor state has hacked the app?
No, they said the servers overloaded. It’s all local.
“technical difficulties”
nothing like baseless suspicion…
Overloaded servers could be DDOS.
It’s possible, but the contest was extremely popular this year with over 140K viewers on YouTube alone. Since the official Diia app is the only way to vote, the pressure on the servers was simply unbelievable. Imagine if 100K people start to open the same site, which server will withstand such a load. On the one hand, it is a sad story, on the other hand, it shows incredible interest.
Why is taking so long?
I’m hearing rumours the app is broken AGAIN meaning we might not get the results tonight! The jury might be chosen to pick their favourite instead!
Jesus give us results! They talking and talking and talking…
The app is broken!
So…what happened with the results? Can the ukranians here confirm if they were able to vote?
I voted a few minutes ago because app didn’t work
how did Jerry Heil and Alonya do?
In my opinion they sang really well but the problem is the staging. It’s too dark. It reminds me to Netherlands 2015.
Not fantastic tbh
The sound on Melovin was perfect. But while Jerry Hail was singing the sound was not so great, she sounded weak. And we all know she has a powerful voice, it’s not because of her, but because of the sound and the mic…
There was something wrong with the sound today in general. Very strange
She pulled her ear piece out at the start of the song, and was pointing to her other ear during the song. Definitely she was having technical issues.
I didn’t like Vilija’s performance at all. The song is too generic and written on kitschy phrases, while the visuals remind me of morning excercise. Was she inspired by dj nevykele? One of the worst acts tonight.
I so feel for these people! Ad libbing on live tv in a bomb shelter in a country under siege.
Voting app didn’t apparently work so they extended the voting window! Disaster!
Now they will announce it later on.
Is this real?
So glad I stuck around!
Verka was great wasn’t she! Still bringing the party for Ukraine
absolutely!
But awful as a jury member. Always complaining and giving critics. I totally dislike the fact it’s been in that jury for the 10th time, or something like that. Aren’t there other music artists in Ukraine that are eligibile for that jury, apart Verka and Jamala?
This year the jury was chosen by the audience. By the way, in the same application Diya, which now broke down when voting for the winner, could not withstand the load
Tsunamia is the best!
Is the voting going to last 50 minutes more?
Moving away to the fourth semifinal of Lithuania for Monika Marija. Bring good results!
Stefania only gets better with time
Buy everyone I’m going to Norway.
See you there
Be right with you!
Just learned a new word: SUPER POOPER!
Ukraine, you have one job:
PLEASE SEND ANASTASIA DYMYD TO EUROVISION WHEN SHE GROWS UP!
She is iconic! In hindsight, she should have won JESC last year and she sings BETTER than Tarabova!
Can people who are not in Ukraine vote?
no, gov app needed
Based on performances between the favorites, I’d say Melovin and Yagody were excellent tonight.
Not really impressed by Jerry Heil and alyona but I also won’t surprise me if they win extremely easily.
*IT won’t suprise me, ffs.
Please, bring back the ability to edit comments, I beg, lol.