Eurovision national finals are a tough game. Only one act can win each country’s selection, often leaving many great songs behind. But some of these fallen favourites are given a new chance at victory each year in the OGAE Second Chance Contest.
With this year’s entries now chosen, various OGAE fan clubs around Europe (and the rest of the world) are now deciding their top favourite of the national final acts who didn’t win the ticket to Eurovision.
But before the official result is revealed, we want to hear from you. Check out the competing entries for this year’s contest and then let us know who you think should win.
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OGAE Second Chance Contest 2023
This year’s edition of the “visual event” is hosted by OGAE Sweden, after Medina won the 2022 vote with “In I Dimman”.
OGAE clubs whose broadcaster selected their Eurovision entry using a national final were eligible to nominate one non-winning song as their entry for the Second Chance Contest. OGAE Rest of the World, comprised of fans from country’s who don’t have individual OGAE clubs, selected their entry from the Moldovan and Sammarinese selections.
Competing acts
Albania: Elsa Lila – “Evita”
Belgium: Chérine – “Ça M’Ennuie Pas”
Czechia: RODAN – “Introvert Party Club”
Croatia: Harmonija Disonance – “Nevera (Lei, Lei)”
Denmark: EYJAA – “I Was Gonna Marry Him”
Estonia: OLLIE – “Venom”
Finland: KUUMAA – “Ylivoimainen”
Germany: Will Church – “Hold On”
Ireland: CONNOLLY – “Midnight Summer Night”
Iceland: Langi Seli og Skuggarnir – “OK”
Italy: Lazza – “CENERE”
Latvia: 24.Avenija – “You Said”
Lithuania: Ruta MUR – “So Low”
Malta: Ryan Hilli – “In The Silence”
Moldova (OGAE Rest of the World): SunStroke Project – “Yummy Mommy”
Norway: Ulrikke – “Honestly”
Poland: Jann – “Gladiator”
Portugal: Edmundo Inácio – “A Festa”
Romania: Andreea D Folclor Orchestra – “Perinita Mea”
Serbia: Filip Baloš – “Novi plan drugi san”
Spain: Vicco – “Nochentera”
Sweden: Marcus & Martinus – “Air“
Ukraine: Jerry Heil – “When God Shut The Door”
Poll: Who should win the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2023?
You can vote for as many of the contestants as you want. But remember that you can only vote once – so choose wisely!
Who did you vote for? Are you surprised by any of the clubs’ choices? Which songs would you have submitted? Let us know in the comments.
Am hoping for one of the great songs such as that of Finland or Serbia. Just not Sweden but hey, it’s OGAE, so probably Sweden.
Albania, Poland, Norway, Czechia for me here. Elsa’s song is just phenomenal and gives me shivers.
Ulrikke and Jann!
After reading some of the comments here, do I get the feeling that Jann should try again next year?
If something changes in TVP maybe he will in few years
I hope he tries again and finish 2nd against to a beautiful female pop Icon with summer bop. He won’t go to Esc never
Why not? If the singer could actually sing, I see no problem
Someone is very jealous of Jann’s popularity)
DEAR WIWIBLOGGS! Could you please announce the RULES of your poll? Any poll should have a limited time for voting. We would like to know the closing time. Otherwise, you can stop it anytime you want. Let’s play seriously. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Jann has to win this. That’s not official, but why not? Also even though I’m voting for him my votes don’t count. Only after trying 10 times and only one being added.
can’t understand the hype for Jann even if i don’t like solo as well
instead i’ll talk about how robbed Elsa Lila is. i could see her easily in top10 in case she won. easily the most underappreciated song in national finals.
Please check “NEED A BREAK” music video or “PROMISE” music video and you will understand this “HYPE”. He wrote all his songs. And co-produced the latest video. This is all about talented Artist only, who was robbed and wasn’t able to present his talent on huge Eurovision scene…. Thank you for understanding ;-*
Most of the hate for Blanka stems from sexism. A lot of people just do not like seeing women succeed . No matter what she does she will be put down and called not good enough, because she is a woman. Blanka is a queen. A model, actress,dancer, singer! She does a lot of things and works really hard. Jann could not even sing his own song and flopped like an fish around the stage and moaned and groaned for 3 minutes straight . Everyone calls him great for it but in my opinion it was just plain offensive and… Read more »
No, su canción es una mierda, da igual que sea mujer o hombre. Una canción así mejor valorada que “EaEa” es para discutir el televoto. La gente no sabe valorar canciones exquisitas. A la más minima canción de mierda, todo lo mundo la valora exageradamente bien. Lo que demuestra el temible mal gusto del televoto que sólo vota por lo que ve y se oye en las radios, no saben votar por lo que sienten.
Sounds like you are mad you overate your own country. The best Blanka was decided and sorry but it was not Palome. The people picked Poland and Blanka stajkow and she will go down as history for the best entry of Poland
You must be really delulu. People don’t support Blanka because they hate nepotism and corruption. This girl can’t sing,is stiff as a metal pole and she’s lacking a charisma. She’s lucky that Eurovision allows backing vocals, otherwise she would made fool out of herselfd just like she did on preselections.
Your name is Bejba yet you have Deep Hatred for Blanka. Make this make sense.
stfu janns better than u your just mad because he doesnt fit into the polish standards just bc hes alternative, bros got a good voice and good stage presence, just because its not disco polo doesnt mean its bad, and what do you mean offensive babes..hes not even gay (i mean he might be but he’s never talked about it )so i dont know where that came from and if its so big of a problem for you then isn’t that abit homophobic boo? Your all against sexism but homophobia is ok? Even if he “couldn’t sing his own song”… Read more »
why you bringing blanka into this
Hate for Blanka comes from an unfair win. And I love how you’re justifying her hate with sexism and somehow even sexuality, making her the victim, and then proceeding to make fun of Jann.
Jann isn’t gay and what the hell are you doing here? Go watch Blanka swimming on IG and leave us grown ups
Um hello I am defending women . U cant be serious . Why do men need to pretend to be girls and gay so they can be famous? And these fans of the men that do this at the same time attack the real women just trying to be themself and share their art like Blanka. Can men just go back to the days where they were actually men and not pose as women and try to silence our voices. Ps Blanka swimming is much more appealing to the eyes than is janns sweaty hair and belly button hanging out.… Read more »
While I think Jann was poor vocally (on the same level as Bejba), and many may disagree with me, I don’t think sexual orientation has anything to do with it. You either have to live peacefully with gays, black people, and fat people around you (the three main groups homo sovieticus is attacking), or else you’ll have to disconnect yourself from the Internet because nobody in the West will understand your persecution of people based on their congenital traits.
One word for you – Countertenor
jann can wear a crop top and pull it off despite being a guy fix your goofy world views and wake up xo
you say many agree meanwhile your comment has -14 votes..
Wow, you got some serious problems there! Jann is a boy, he dresses like a boy, had a long time girlfriend, looks natural in private life, why would you assume he’s trying to get a place of some girl or woman? Because he’s wearing some stage makeup? He got androgenic beauty and he was born that way, that’s why he’s so authentic. His sweaty hear as you call it a hair of an real artist who’s giving all on the stage, and what about his belly?” The real man ” you call them walking around shirtless, I don’t really understand… Read more »
Did you really write this? There is so much beauty in the world that you don’t have to admire a substitute. Dear fans of wiwibloggs, please do not compare Jann and Blanka. They’re completely different people. Blanka performed at ESC, and Jann is a songwriting artist, composer and director. He is an independent artist, his vocal is a countertenor with a scale of four octaves. Blanka is a singer with one song to her credit. Everyone chooses what they like and that’s
Hate for Blanka comes from an unfair win. And I love how you justify her hate with sexism, making her the victim, and then proceeding to make fun of Jann.
What nonsense, what kind of actress is she? She did not play in any film or act in the theater, and she began to learn to dance after the preselections, and she also dropped out of Top Model. She also has no talent and it’s not because she is a woman and she is already after Eurovision, so why do you refer to Blanka? She’s not running in second chance.
Top Model is acting and Modeling show. Why do you need to diminish a successful woman’s accomplishment ?
Successful she?? She realised that kids song, even Solo sounds serious compared to that. Either way, you don’t belong here with this conversation, here is about Jann and his talent. So please stop and leave
Jann.
Some people start hating Jann because they think that he is to blame for the fact that Blanka received a lot of criticism and hate. But it’s not Jann’s fault, it’s the fault of TVP and Blanka herself, who won in a corrupt way and liked hating comments about Jann.
Also don’t do anything in her’s life and her’s bored fans are commenting on Jann. He doesn’t have anything to do with her anymore
JANN – My personal favorite (if not him, then only Ollie/”Venom”) To those who doubt JANN’s vocal skills, have you ever heard ANY of JANN’s performances LIVE? Please just search on YouTube “JANN+LIVE+HD” and you will understand what we all are talking about. If you all say that Bejba performed badly at the pre-selection, don’t you think JANN had a messed up sound there too? We all heard his clear vocal live. He didn’t even have to practice after the preselection. He came out of TVP and sings perfectly clearly everywhere live. In every other place – at his concerts,… Read more »
I’m following his every step since the beginning, it’s so overwhelming to see such a kind and loving person succeed, at least we are not late to the party. And for others I’m advising that they raise their standards, music is not just about some disco polo summerly vibe, it’s about artists who’s sharing their emotional journey with us. Respect that
Just cause Bejba sucked doesn’t mean Jann was automatically good. He wasn’t. He was bad too.
KUUMAA from Finland should really be the winners here.
No. Tvp ruined sound
You are right about Jann but the toxic fans that infect this place will down vote you anyways. They are almost as bad as Manga fans.
We are fans of Jann’s music and we aren’t toxic.Greetings from Nottingham.
You can cheat yourself but „Gladiator” was the only not winning entry that hit international TOPs among songs that were official entries in May, this is only the fact and most of its streams still dont’t come from Poland. Show me another song that was on Eurovision not being there ? And even Jann singing acapella during NFs sounds better than what TVP showed, the mixing destroyed his performance totally, the performance completely prepared in one week with probably one rehearsal. And it was not only his problem, Natasha Urbanska who is a great performer and skilled singer, performing in… Read more »
you sound like a 40 year old man whos wife left him and now he spends his life on facebook hate groups thinking he is important xx
right i resoect your opinion that you may bot like jann but gladiator made it to tops of spotfiy charts for different countries globally, not even in poland but around the world, i think that itself speaks alot
Jann had a worse live vocal than Blanka and it meant more because his song actually needs a good vocal
Maybe because her’s voice didn’t been ruined like his. There are ton of live videos on Tik Tok that can prove my statement
HE HAS ACTUALLY AND HAD ON PRESELECTIONS VERY GOOD LIVE VOCAL. Please just check the recordings of his performance on National Preselections made by the audience. (available on YouTube). There is a lot of LIVE performances of Gladiator song available on YT as well. TVP messed up. It is not Jann’s fault at all. He can sing! Worth to check before you’ll post your negative opinion. I’am not fanatic fan. I’m realistic, I based my opinion on the proofs available on YT. And I saw him performing LIVE!
My winner is: Edmundo Inácio – A Festa. I fell in love with this song, performance, and months after Canção I’m still listening to him and I hope he tries to participate again.
I love both Gladiator and Novi plan drugi san, but the second one give me a vibe Heart of Steel – sound ok, but going to nowhere
Going to say CONNOLY, I still listen to the ding, especially the remastered version and I can’t help but think we might have qualified with her.
But alas
Song**
Dunno where ding came from :L
I would prefer for her to have represented us, but without a jury, I would have said borderline qualifier.
For such a hyped up song I ecpected ” Gladiator” to be much better. It was OK at best. Would not have done much better than Bejba
My favourite is Filip Balos. Now that is a great one,even better than the song Serbia sent to ESC . What were they thinking for not sending hum?
A lot of people perceived Gladiator to have been given a better lyrics, instrumental and performance than Solo. It also seems very original and would have stood out in the grand final of Eurovision quite a bit. It’s hard to tell how well it would have done.
Yes I think the studio version might be fine. But live performance? For me it was messy. So are they voting on song or performance?
Excuse me?? His live performance was fire.
you gotta consider the fact its eurovision, whether you hate janns song and performance or not , it had much more of a eurovision vibe, whereas blanka was quite average, it wasn’t a bad song and theres nothing to complain about , however there are things you could complain about for janns performance, but it had a much better chance as it wasnt boring
messy? he had a very clean performance that wasn’t too much and didn’t rely on annoying screen effects.
but tbh, blanka did work on her voice and her grand final performance wasn’t as horrible as in the nf, still not better than gladiator
Should be Italy, Serbia, Albania, Finland or Spain.
But it’s OGAE, which means Sweden will probably win with their mid song, just like last year.
At least it’s better than last year’s song and better than Tattoo!
The moaning needs to stop! How about your own countries stepping up in 2024.
I know y’all let Australia in for a bit but might be a bit much expecting mine to take part.
Oh, it’s so close between Jann and Filip. They were both my winners from Poland and Serbia. I would love one of those two to win OGAE
I saw Filip posted this voting on his IG story so I guess that’s why he have so much votes. If Jann did it too this site would be crashed
REALLLL
Jann !!! And I want him next year on the Eurovision stage. 🙂
I really doubt it. He grew so much after after NF that he will probably want to focus on putting on new music, touring and stuff. Let him enjoy it. Depending on how next elections go in Poland, i can see him being internally selected in 2-3 years though.
Idk I get the sense that he might want to come back. He seems enthusiastic despite the backlash and was supportive of Blanka.
He was respectful after he’s being robbed and didn’t said one single bad word that would jeopardise his application for some years to come, but the problem is TVP, they want to do on their own way, and they’re doing it terribly. Jann doesn’t like when someone else is interfering, he likes to control everything about he’s career
i think you all are really sleeping on filip baloš, he was one of my faves of the season. i enjoyed samo mi se spava a lot more but filip likely would have done better at eurovisiom given luke’s final placement
even tho he is second in this voting, i didn’t really hear any hype for him as much as i did for songs like nochentera, gladiator, or when god shut the door. pleasantly surprised by how high he is here, but wiwi polls are known to be easily influenced by people who vote their own country
I disagree with some of the picks. Should have been Agoney for Spain and Princ for Serbia. These were the runner-ups on these countries. What’s going on?
Agoney 4 Spain? U are a closeted gay
Princ’s song was the definition of meh by Serb standards though.
His song is just terrible, and he is like from the cave. Back in stone age vibe
I guess that what happened in Spain is that Nochentera has become a massive success here.
Nochentera is a HUGE hit in Spain and was one of the people’s winners, so it makes sense, like we’re talking Rosa Linn levels.
Many people enjoyed Filip’s final performance and was almost Eurovision ready.
Princ?? ? Wtf man, he’s terrible
Jann is the winner.<3
Jann????????
My personal perfect Eurovision 2023 national selects would have been: Albania – “Evita” Belgium – “Oceanside” Croatia – “Nevera (Lei, lei)” Czechia – “Introvert Party Club” Denmark – “I Was Gonna Marry Him” Estonia – “Venom” Finland – “Cha Cha Cha” Germany – “Melodies Of Hope” Iceland – “Ég styð þína braut” Ireland – “Too Good for Your Love” Italy – “Supereroi” Latvia – “You to Hold Me” Lithuania – “Love of My Life” Malta – “Re?ina” Moldova – “Soarele ?i Luna” Norway – “Love You in a Dream” Poland – “New Home” Portugal – “Ai Coração” Romania – “Bad… Read more »
Ireland – good shout
New Home was rushed and unfinished song. Vocals aren’t everything
It’s a lot for me when you realize Jann’s vocals were in the league of Blanka during the Polish national selection final performance.
I’m not going to argue with you but I’m sure a lot of people will about this…
Well, people need to scratch their ears from time to time. While the Eurovision Song Contest is not the Voice of Europe, I prefer to have healthy ears compared to bleeding ears. Facts are, the 2023 Polish national final had very poor vocals, whereas it’s Blanka or Jann. However, artists such as Alicja simply proved that if you’re a good vocalist, you’ll do just fine even with broken equipment. I feel like the younger generation is becoming less demanding in quality, and whatever goes wrong, the Z generation considers it to be art, exclusive, etc. In reality, though, maintaining mediocre… Read more »
Sorry, I’m millennial also artist and I say Jann is one of the kind. You can write 100 comments like this, but you can’t change the facts
Sweden Italy and Germany were my dreams too!
Jannhttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f1f5-1f1f1.svg??????
Very good songs and the choice is difficult
?1. Novi plan drugi san
2. Venom
3. Ylivoimainen
4. Gladiator
5. Introvert Party Club
6. Nochentera
7. Cenere
8. When God Shut The Door
9. Air
10. Hold On
gosh though i loved Albina & Familja Kelmendi i’m still so devastated that we coudn’t see Evita performed on the 2023 stage…
Only Jann from Poland?
With all respect to Phillip but this is just impossible that Serbia won over Poland, something is wrong here
Much better track and far superior performance from Filip, nothing impossible or wrong at all about this result to anyone that isn’t just a Jann fanatic…
Filip posted this voting on his IG story, that’s why
Jann of course
Elsa Lila’s ”Evita” had Fai Rumore potential in it.
My votes go to:
Finland: KUUMAA – Ylivoimainen
Norway: Ulrikke – Honestly
Portugal: Edmundo Inácio – A Festa
Germany: Will Church – Hold On
The wrong song from Sweden is here – they had the best rock song of 2023 in their selection, a song that was much better than “Tattoo” – “Six Feet Under”!
100% right! Smash into pieces “Six feet under” is PHENOMENAL!
KUUMAA are my find of the season. Ylivoimainen is great, but their back catalogue is amazing. Hope they can go to the contest one year, they deserve the platform!
Yes!! Same thing for me. I am so happy to have discovered them and I also went back listened to their back catalogue on Spotify. They’re amazing!
Markus & Martinus with the song Air. Mellos top 2 (Loreen) were both potential ESC winners. Amazing
Agree re Air but don’t think it would have got as much “jury love”
I liked Bridges but SO LOW was missed.
Bridges won over Venom, Stay won over So Low.
How come Spaniards choce Vicco over Agoney??? Quiero arder could have easily reach Top 10 in Liverpool
Because its selected by those who think they know better than the rest of us. Remember they selected someone stood on my foot song for Spain claiming it was the best thing since sliced bread and yes it got 5pts from the public! Agoney for them is tooooo commercial and doesn’t reflect Spain or its culture just like Chanel and Slo~mo which im sure you will remember finished 3rd and picked up more than 5pts from the public.
Spain was 9th with the jury so don’t pretend it was a huge flop like, say, Mae Mueller (which I also like btw).
I mean I like Mae Mueller song, I don’t like that it flopped (though I can see why it did).
Because Nochentera is a BIG viral hit in Spain with 70 million streams and 15 million YouTube views! Plus, Vicco won the demographic vote and is the people’s champion essentially. It makes sense that Spain would go for that instead of a song similar to Blanka’s.
As much as i like Agoney, Vicco is my favourite spanish artist from this year. Spanish semi was so strong this year. They had like 5 really good choices.
Nochentera has become a massive success in Spain. I guess that’s why they chose it over Quiero Arder.
ylivoimainen only
This is the correct answer.
italy or lithuania, but neither will
I can put together a clear top 5 out of Serbia first, Portugal second, Finland third, Italy fourth and Albania fifth. Also quite disappointing to see Maryna Krut, Gala Dragot, Soren Lund and Aliona Moon being ignored by their respective clubs, the entries they chose instead are definitely much weaker for me…
There are a lot of good choices here for OGAE but some don’t make sense given there was a more popular song or song that came 2nd. I can understand Nochentera, since it became a BIG HIT in Spain and was a fan favourite, but Introvert Party Club?! Where’s Pam Rabbit with “Ghosting”? Who gets to decide these things? Lucky Jann even made it for Poland!
Latvia’s choice is odd when there are at least two other better songs!
“Introvert Party Club” or “Ghosting” is a coin flip for me. That said, after digging into Pam’s catalog, I’m convinced they’ve gotta send her to Eurovision one of these years.
She can certainly perform live!
Elsa Lila could have been top 3 with the juries in Liverpool
In terms of my preferences, I voted Estonia, Italy,Belgium, Finland and Serbia, they’re probably my favourite nf songs of this year that are in ogae. Wouldve loved to have seen Elsie Bay, Søren and Gala Dragot (but I loved both Chérine and Gala’s songs).
I think Jann could walk this in terms of popularity coupled with people being upset about the nf’s results.
Jann’s Gladiator is masterpiece, song is very deep meaning, dark and hits different. Listen to Venom and some more, don’t get you captivated as Gladiator
Amm… When will we finally discus this years results?!
Go Jann!! That guy deserves everything. True artist
gladiator wasn’t even that good lol
What did you say?!?!?!?
I kinda agree. Live performance was a bit of a mess. I’m sure, if he would’ve qualified, they would sort ir out
The song is good….other things i’m not sure. He probably would have improved for Eurovision.
Blanca was iconic in all the wrong ways. After that performance nobody is ever allowed to say that the song or artist weren’t good enough. I was amazed and she and the Polish delegation should get all the love.
Dear Lord
Chérine and Vicco!
Estonia, Finland, Italy, and Albania have the best candidates IMHO! Four absolute gems. I also understand the wish for Poland to win this, due to circumstances. Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Norway, Czechia, and Ireland also have good songs. Iceland and Romania are the opposite, as they’d be my certain bottom 2 if they had been chosen for ESC instead of the actual entries.
Nicklas Sonne – Freedom deserved the second chance over “i was gonna merry him”
Was the best performance on the night
And was the televote winner
Also “lige her” with Søren Torpegaard Lund was the most beautiful moment
Vocals was right on point
I was gonna merry him was a fan favorite before the show but honestly did not live up to the hype
Not the best vocals and staging was weird/kinda creepy
I wouldve given one of the other 2 songs a second chance
I liked Micky Skeel aswell but understand why its not on the list
Agreed! Was expecting Nicklas or Riley to easily win it anyway!