It’s September 1 and the Eurovision New Year has ARRIVED. Songs that are released from today can be submitted for Eurovision 2024.
So we have to ask: What do you hope to see at the song contest in 2024 and on the road to Malmö?
Perhaps you want a country to win for the very first time. Albania, Armenia, Australia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Georgia, Iceland, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Poland, Romania, San Marino, Slovenia….they’re all waiting for their moment!
Two of the past three winners — Måneskin from Italy and Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine — sang in their native language. Perhaps you want to see another language represented at the top of the podium. If so, which one?
Maybe you’re a member of the press and dream of a slightly beefed up press centre, one that is actually open during the first week. (Press conferences with zero media are so sad). Or maybe you simply want to do your work in peace, noting that “work” in the digital age includes things like livestreams…
Do you dream of a scandal-free voting segment? Maybe you want countries to actually be able to deliver their points rather than experiencing supposed technical difficulties?
Whatever your wish, we want to hear it. Shout out your Eurovision wishes below and let’s dream together!
can some please tell me if september 1 is eurovision new year every year!
My only wish is that the UK can select someone that can sing in tune.
IWAS live was too painful on the ears
I had an idea where only the juries from the finalists get to vote but then all the competing countries plus ROW get a televote. So there would be 26 juries and about 40 televote scores giving much more weight to the public while still allowing the juries to reward songs that the public overlook. I don’t think we’ll ever see this in the actual show but I’d like to see the EBU come up with some response to the backlash about the juries.
Love that one! That solves everything I think
I would worry that many viewers in the countries who then would not get to vote (which happens to some countries more often than others!) might not watch the final at all – and some countries might eventually lose interest entirely.
No, everyone can still vote, but not your country gets a jury if you don’t qualify
Happy new ESC year, everyone! This is me, Colin. I have a new name now, and a new email address! Would it be too confusing for everyone for me to switch it here as well? I’m already on You Tube under this name and address. I know, it’s a big change. I don’t want to confuse everyone. Again, happy start of the new ESC season!
Colin… Colin… is that you?
Just do whatever you are most comfortable with, it’s completely up to you.
P.S. Happy New Year to you too!
Yes, it is me, Colin. Looking forward to exchanging opinions with you, Jonas. Thanks!
I already had a feeling, this might be you …
I am happy to see that our interaction has reached the point where we can recognize each other’s writing. Always a pleasure, and looking forward to the next season!
I really don’t understand why they they have not changed yet to 8pm CET kick off time for the final. With 3 to 4hrs+ of show it makes complete sense to bring in more family audiences and increase audiences in general. UK/Iceland/Ireland/Portugal would not mind 7pm as that is still prime time for them and eastern Europe and Israel/Azerbaijan would welcome the earlier start and finish too.
No. The fewer children voting, the better. Just look at Norway and what people end up choosing to send every year because of all the kids who vote — a bunch of childish entries. They already have Junior Eurovision. No need to make the adult Eurovision more attractive for kids.
I hope that we continue competing. As a proud Aussie superfan, I have grown to love Eurovision in the last few years. It is a really captivating show that is a joy to watch every single year. I would hate to see us leave and it looks like there is no news of that right now. But it feels highly likely that we will return at this point for a few reasons. The Australian music industry has welcomed it with open arms We have a devoted commentary team responsible for making it a broadcast here. We provide lots of funding… Read more »
If Australia does come back, I hope the EBU are more upfront and honest about why. In the past, they have hyped up the popularity of the contest down under, the “long history” etc. The portray the country as going into a Eurovision frenzy. In reality, it is the least watched television show on the night. In some countries, it’s the most watched of the year.
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Also, can I please ask where you get your funding figures? The EBU exists all year round and consists of much more than just the contest. I find it hard to accept that a small broadcaster like SBS is second only to the Big 5 in terms of funding. Especially when they’re not even a member.
Very true. Lived in Australia until 2020 and it did irk me that EBU would always hype up that Australia is Eurovision crazy and that is why they invite them when that is not the fact. A very small fraction of the population watch it on TV or take an interest. I am however still glad they take part and hope it gets renewed. On the whole they bring quality entries most of the time except, aherm, 2017 and 2021
I can’t see how EBU would not renew Australian participation, and I speak as Spanish/UK/Aussie citizen. With several countries out due to political reasons or lack of interest or funds if they want to keep numbers around 40 they need to invite Australia back. I hope there is an announcement soon 🙂
Right now in Malmö cars are burning, and massive gang of over 100 people are attacking police with violence!
Source: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/GMmw4B/flera-bilbrander-i-rosengard-stenkastning-mot-polisbilar
Not only that, but Sweden has issued a few terr0r!sm warnings as of late.
What a peaceful multicultural city…
My only wish is Eurovision without Måns Zelmerlöw, here’s why:
Back in 2018 he wore fake Indigenous clothes (Sámi clothing named Gákti) in a tv show, after he backlashed and was even told by Sámi people that it was not appropriate, as they have been forbidden to wear them previously in public, even put to trial because of it; his resposnse was that he is “sad” that people have to be so “toxic” towards him. He never apologized.
Sounds very childish.. its in the past. Move on
Racism, cultural appropriation, abuse etc. weren’t unknown things five years ago.
I didn’t know about that and I’d rather not talk about it (I kind of dislike Sami people bc they have a particular way of being that I wasn’t comfortable with), but I want an ESC without Måns bc the guy has to move on, we’ve seen too much of him at the contest already, and it’s been almost 10 YEARS since he won, he’s not even Sweden’s most recent winner at this point
The vlogger Tom has suggested that there should be more guidelines on the buildup of the jurys so that they are as diverse as possible. Less emphasis on pop and more other music styles. Peharps a few people more, so that it is not just 5 per country. Personally, my dream is to hear a Swedish song from Sweden. The last one was in 1998…
It’s fun to realize that the last time Swedish was used at the contest was Finland’s 2012 entry
Can somebody tell me how to reduce the impact of the juries wothout removing them? How is it possible to have like 30/70 without touching the douze points system? Would be nice to know, because we need two sets of points to keep the excitement until the very end.
To me, complaints about pre-recorded back-up vocals and random running order seems extremely naive about how the show felt 10 years ago. Shownumbers like Chanels and Noas could not be arranged if all the limited people on stage had to be vocalists instead of professional dancers. Advanced and cool staging overall would have to be nixed out of hand because show planning could not space out and work around them. Not to mention the awful and soul-crushing experiences of having to sit through 40-50 minutes of non-stop songs fated for the right part of the scoreboard clustered together (yes, fated,… Read more »
Juries back in the semis and keeping it 50/50 as usual….
One wish above all else! STOP using RECORDED BACKING VOCALS!!
Let’s hear some Flemish, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish at the contest. So many good songs made in these languages yet we hardly hear them! S10 showed us it’s possible for the Germanic languages to do well so let’s go!!
Maybe some Luxembourgis
Things I want to see this year:
The Final being an hour early
Azerbaijan actually singing in Azeri
A fair contest
The televote winner actually winning
50/50 vote
Slovenia, Iceland or Poland winning
Uk making an effort
Luxembourg doing well
Monaco returning
Less English language songs and more bilingual songs.
Minority languages being shown aka Sorbian Yiddish Sicilian etc
Finland carrying on doing well
Sweden not placing in the top 10
TVP having an Internal selection
TVR TREATING THEIR CONTESTANTS GOOD
OLLIE representing Estonia
Also happy to see Estonia at Jesc
Let’s see what Luxembourg will bring (back) to the Contest!
My wishes for the next edition: • Victory of a country who never won before, or at least hasn’t won in decades. • Many different languages and musical genres, though I fear Loreen’s victory over Käärijä would encourage an opposite trend. • A significant revision to the voting system. Either giving the televote more power than the juries, or making thorough changes to the stucture of juries and how they vote (e.g. jurors from more diverse musical background, fewer Eurovision related jurors and each juror watches the shows alone rather than with the other jurors). • Return of the random… Read more »
Jury to have 30% and televoters 70% of votes, this years winner was solely a jury winner, no one could’ve won even if they’d had gotten Finland’s 376 televote score.
Sweden won because of combined score. Had the televoters not voted Sweden second.. Sweden would have not won
Because the juries screwed Finland by placing them 4th even though they one the televote by a big margin. It’s undeniable there is a jury bias in favour of Sweden.
Things I want to see this year:
Luxembourg doing well.
Monaco returning.
Iceland, Slovenia or Poland winning.
The Final starting earlier.
The Uk making an effort.
Azerbaijan singing in Azeri because its been way too long….
No autotune.
50/50 vote.
The Televote favourite actually winning.
A fair contest.
OLLIE representing Estonia.
In other news: during the past week, Tattoo got more streams (8M) than all of the other 36 2023 esc songs combined. Thinking about those people who back in March-May said Tattoo was not a great song and worked only thanks to its staging… or to the people saying it was not a worthy winning song … Lmao. It proved to be a massive hit all around Europe. :))
Yes!! I’m so tired of people making her victory not valid
Here in Poland it’s being played constantly. Last week Tattoo even reached the #1 spot on the playlist of the biggest Polish radio station (or the second biggest).
Not this comment being massively downvoted while it’s just stating facts … Can’t you guys be happy that a Eurovision artist/song is getting massive success? Isn’t it what we all wish for Eurovision entries? -_-
Of course it was going to be this way, it’s a pop song sung in English and it won the contest, accessible + heavily promoted
In order to eliminate one of the most fun-ruining elements in the Eurovision season, I wish for the implementation of the Han Solo Rule: NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS!
I’d also love for Slovakia to return to the contest.
Yes, that would be refreshing!!!
They sent interesting songs and looked like they were on to something, and then pulled out of the contest, nowadays we know it was bc of economic problems (ie debt and lack of funds) but it took them too long to say it. I read they plan to come back in 2025, hopefully they do!
– Reintroduce the juries in the Semis
– No pre-recorded vocals except for short samples
– At least allow live Instruments
– Running order drawn completely randomly again
Spot on!
More and better national finals. Internal selections feel as if they’re getting weaker and weaker each year.
Find a way of revealing the televote score so that it impossible to work out how many points there are left. You didn’t need to be Alan Turing to know that Loreen must have one, 93 seconds before Graham Norton said “we have a winner”.
Since the juries don’t have a say in the semi-finals anymore, I think they should collectively select one wild card from each semi-final to advance to the final.
Yes! 9 Qs and 1 “Jury’s choice”. Why not? Sorry, Azerbaijan…
Wish list for National Finals from my Top 3 favourites
Italy-
Emma
Elodie
Francesco Gabbani
NEK
Diodato
Norway
Swing it
Rasmus Thall
Raylee
Margaret Berger
Finland
Erika Vikman
Kuuma
Aksel
Cyan Kicks
Portion Boys
Bess
My wish for ESC 2024 is for juries to get a say in the semifinals again, though generally if countries’ juries expand to 10 members each (whenever it’s financially possible of course) then I don’t think it’ll be as manipulable as it was before. In most cases the jury is a backup net to somewhat filter out the bad meme votes and troll acts.
I just hope the contest won’t devolve back to the 2008 era where each act gets more outrageous than the last just to grab votes, because it can be much too rewarding
But what about small countries like San Marino that struggles to find even 5 people?
She said “whenever it’s financially possible, of course” smh
Honestly, I long to see a winner from a country that has never won before. I would also like a Monaco comeback. Oh, and see Petra Mede presenting the show again (but maybe alone).
Removing juries from the contest would the the biggest mistake that could potentially be made. Some of you might’ve forgotten the televoting-only days at the ESC and the effect it had on the overall quality of songs.
I’d keep 50/50 proportion, but increase the number of professional jurors to at least 10, preferably even more.
I’d also ban the pre-recorded vocals and producers-decided runnig order.
Excellent!!!
As if the 100% televote was the reason for the poor song quality during those years. False equivalency much?
It might not be the only factor, but it definitely had huge impact on which songs came on top.
Honestly I don’t believe jury can really bw reformed so that they start appreciating artsy songs or songs in other genre. In my head having more jury members will just result in more people ranking radiofriendly pop songs first and more people ranking songs in alt genres low even if executed well. I think they should just keep jury, but reduce their influence.
In my opinion selecting something like 15 or 20 industry professionals from diverse musical backgroungs (and not only those affiliated with the national broadcasters) might make an actual difference. There’s plenty of time to tally up all the votes right before both semis and the final.
At least that would make the jury vote more valid than it is right now.
Exactly!
Yessssss!!! Poland winning would be great!
I’d rather ser a corrido tumbado from Spain
No more disrespectful comments, the ammount of hate by Loreen’s fans is insane. She won, yet her fans keep talking down on others.
Seriously? Have you seen the amount of hate Loreen received just because she’d won?
Exactly, there’s constantly comments like “Flop Flop Flop”, “Unicrap”, “Queen of Trash”, “I Wrote Sh*t” etc. coming from these people, it’s just not nice in any manner.
And the hate from Käärija fans simply because he did not win? Did Loreen fans boo other artists on stage?
Loreen didn’t get even one 12 points from televoters, so it’s pretty obvious reaction from the audience – which wasn’t filled with Käärijä fans, but Eurovision fans in general.
And that makes booing justified? Should they also have thrown stuff at her too?
Did Loreen cheat? Did she force any juries to vote? She knew the rules of the game, so did Kärrija and so did fans.
Instead of being toxic, how about fans learn some manners instead of acting like children when they dont get what they want?
Did you know it’s considered rude to answer a question with a question – or in your case questions.
So? Its also rude to boo people who has done nothing wrong. Not getting 12 points is not a reason to boo. That is just petty. The fact that you and other toxic ” fans* encourage it as legit..
If they assaulted Loreen on stage I guess you would tolerate it too because she did not get 12 points.
Where did I encourage being hateful?
…you said and then immediately proceeded to do it yourself.
Not putting a question mark in there, does not make it not a question (“did you realize…”).
That’s some delicious irony right there. Just saying.
No more disrespectful comments, that’s all, but you wrote one anyway, and no my comments without questinmarks weren’t rhetorical questions.
Bring back the random draw. And remove the strength of the jury vote and let the public decide
I wish Eurofans will remember that it’s just a fun entertainment show and find a life. Like seriously.
I really need our non-winning countries to step up their games! Come on, Poland, Croatia, Malta, ROMANIA.. Give us more. Cyprus does not have to send Eleni again to hope for a victory. Same goes for Poli who I loooove. Come back strong, Bulgaria. I heard Bosnia And Herzegovina is coming back with Dzejla Ramovic. I honestly HOPPPPEE so music that is not just a rumor. Give us 8-10 people on stage. Give us no pre-recorded vocals. Give us more native languages. Work on improving the Jury voting. Bring the crowd closer to the stage.
So music = so much*
Sorry, I got too excited about the idea of B&H coming back with Dzejla Ramovic. That would be amazing.
Hope to see at least 40 countries in 2024!
Unfortunately, for Bosnia, there’s no change (and it’s official, here’s the link). Till the funding issues are not resolved (and that’s a 100% political subject), they won’t come back.
Gwendal, where can I check the official news, please?
iceland winning and reykjavik 2025
Eurovision in Reykjavik being my first Eurovision in person would be so iconic!
Running order not decided by 2 biased persons every year. Fed up to see always the same getting a good spot, and the same getting killed intentionally.
Totally agree (as you’ll see in my post). It’s like these 2 people have decided the winner already!
Gone are the days when we’re all surprised or excited during the voting. Since they decided the running order, it’s almost mathematically possible to tell who’s going to win, and that’s just wrong (and extremely boring).
I was lucky enough to be at the grand final this year and the voting was so boring and there was such an anti- climatic atmosphere in the arena when Loreen won.
My main wish is that there is a fair and decisive winner next year, one that pleases everybody. Chances of that happening?
Besides Maneskin there will always be winners that people disagree with. Countries that didn’t win the televote, like Ukraine 2016, Netherlands 2019… there’s Ukraine 2022 where people keep pinning it down as nothing but a political victory… The whole Käärijä VS Loreen debate… There will be MANY more winners people will throw a hissy fit over in the coming years. That much is inevitable, especially with how volatile the fandom has become in recent years
Even with Måneskin people will say either France or Switzerland were better.
I think only Rybak and Loreen first win are the winners no one disagrees with
I think YLE is glad Käärijä got second. All the kudos of other runnersup like Verka and no costly festival to organise.
Remember that from today on, any published song may become a contender in May 2024! (:
Ireland winning the 8th ?
Sweden sharing the record for only one year… harsh.
Not harsh – deserved I would say. How many of there 7 songs deserved to win? I mean Herreys, Carola, Charlotte, Mans – none of them deserved winners in my opinion. Even Waterloo wasn’t a great song : it was just very different for its time. Loreen, tbf, had catchy and memorable songs both times but again was Tattoo much different to what Sweden normally send? ( I can guarantee if Ireland or the uk had sent Tattoo, then we’d be heading to Finland next year!)
And was Irelands 7th wins deserved? All of them ballads. And they eve won three years in a row
Let’s be real, both Ireland and Sweden are overrated and didn’t deserve most of their wins
Bring back the draw for the order of appearance. I just do not agree with the production team choosing the running order – it’s totally unfair, it is a huge advantage to certain counties and a huge disadvantage to there. Plus, it more or less tells the fans how well a country did in their respective semi. At least with the random draw, it’s pure pot luck – no one can really say it’s fixed/unfair – it is exactly what it says on the tin : random! I’d also bring back the language rule and the orchestra, but I’ve been… Read more »
Also, I’d like (most) absent countries to come back (esp Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Bosnia). Maybe also a Micro 1 spot (like the Big 5) for smaller nations, like Monaco and Andorra (although San Marino manages somehow). Maybe even the Vatican!
Wooooow!!! The “Micro 1 spot” -that’s such an awesome idea! Why not? This would really encourage small states to stay in the contest. Their presence and participation add something special.
I wish they would disallow recorded backup vocals again, please! Also: double the jury size and diversify it by age and genre expertise!
Some of my main wishes would be:
– Sweden sending a song in Swedish, something similar to THEOZ’s Melodifestivalen 2022 & 2023 entries
– Luxembourg coming back strong and getting a top-5 finish
– Iceland finally winning
– Malta doing well in the televote
– More memorable voting moments like a quadriple 0 in 2021 lol
– Latvia and Georgia finally returning to the final
– Finland capitalizing on their momentum and coming back even stronger
– Elsie Bay or Atle Pettersen representing Norway
– Farah Abadi and Oscar Zia hosting
Oof, too much text lol
Also, I’d like (most) absent countries to come back (esp Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Bosnia). Maybe also a Micro 1 spot (like the Big 5) for smaller nations, like Monaco and Andorra (although San Marino manages somehow). Maybe even the Vatican!
I wish they would disallow recorded backup vocals again, please! Also: double the jury size and diversify it by age and genre expertise!
Biggest wish for me is to have UK win again but its unlikely unless the BBC send someone who can sing with a song that sounds British or has a more cultural approach
Main wish is to see Sweden coming up with a bold and original song instead of the typical overdone pop song they love to bring up
Well I had a disappointing summer with my vacation to Thailand being canceled last moment and on top of that I failed in acquiring era tour tickets. So inorder to have something to look forward to I booked myself a solo trip to copenhagen for next may 😀
so my wish is to have Joost Klein represent the netherlands and my province of friesland at eurovision 2024 and be our own dutch kaarija.
And my other wish is for the wiwibloggs comment section to start supporting emojis 😉
Or at least all the characters in the languages used in the contest? It’s absolutely absurd not to be able to spell the names of Eurovision artists and songs
Even my ancient car stereo attempts to render “Tam, kudy ya ydu” in Ukrainian. It’s kind of adorable.
Things I don’t wanna see at ESC 2024: – X-Factor-like qualifiers announcement -Landslide tele winner not winning -Turqoise carpet (it will happen tho) -Press centre being closed for 2nd rehearsals -Countries massively sending songs in English -Fans treating ESC participants like trash (Ireland 2023) -Fan-favourite performing first in the final -Basic stage -Mans Zelmerlow getting too much work -Clearly mid songs being hyped and predicted unrealistic result But two things that I definitely don’t want to see happen, but happened this year is song that won televoting by a landslide not being the overall winner and press centre being closed… Read more »