Bulgaria withdrew from Eurovision following the 2022 contest in Turin. During their last participation, the ageing rock band Intelligent Music Project finished 16th in the semi-final with “Intention.”
In the aftermath of that, Bulgaria’s official Eurovision account had a bit of a meltdown, said the broadcaster no longer had any interest in Eurovision, unfollowed everyone on its list and then deleted all of its tweets.
But two days ago that same account shared the news that “United By Music” would be the permanent Eurovision slogan before stating that “performers from nearly 41 countries share the values of the competition every year.” That’s a very specific number. It almost sounds like Bulgaria is counting itself in. Could Bulgaria be planning a return to Eurovision?
Bulgaria: Will Poli Genova return to Eurovision in 2024?
Well, we’ve got some more fuel for the fire.
On Thursday we were in Sofia, Bulgaria celebrating the release of Poli Genova’s new album “Last Night.” We had a quick kiki with the Eurovision 2011 and 2016 star backstage and asked whether she was ready to make her return to the competition.
As you’ll recall, when Eurovision was last held in Sweden she competed and came fourth.
When asked if she would like to return, Poli told us: “The moment I have the green light I’m going to do it.” She punctuated that with a laugh, as you can see in the excerpt below.
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Of course, this isn’t the first time that Poli has stated she’s ready to get back on the ESC stage. Before Bulgaria had time to lick its wounds in Turin, she told me that she had plans to meet with Bulgaria’s state broadcaster to present them with her Eurovision proposal.
As we all know now, that didn’t work out and Bulgaria withdrew. But that was then and Poli Genova is always now. Is it possible her plan is finally coming to fruition?
Let us know what you’re thinking down below…
2018’s ‘Bones’ is one my all-time faves!
I love Poli, but even if she’s not the one coming back, I hope Bulgaria makes a comeback
Didn’t she take part in a pro-Kremlin rally last year?
Didn’t like her first participation song but her entry from 2016 was perfection. If true more of the latter in song quality please
How do you get to 41?
35 confirmed so far
Let’s add Australia, Armenia, Romania as all were in Liverpool. Makes 38
Bulgaria would be 39.
So maybe North Macedonia and Montenegro?
North Macedonia is pretty much confirmed at this point
Victoria is kinda hinting on her return , honestly i’ve been manifesting for that for a long time and now seems like it’s possible more than ever
I wish i had focused on Athena Manoukian manifestion
YESSS! I really want to see VICTORIA again! We have to wait until next week…Fingers crossed.
It’s been talked about countries that asked artists (teams??) to cover Eurovision costs. In one case that was a condition specified in contest rules that were made public, then a public selection show (or more) was organized, and the winner went on to Eurovision.
Respect of other countries it seems there was just the paying artist (team or sponsor) going straight to Eurovision. Ensuing optics of pay-for-play. That s***s.
I am rather for Kristian returning since it would have been his second time also he is even more mature so with the right song he could even aim for a win but ofc it all depends if delegation truly wants to return to the contest and not just show up.
So much esc artists want to return next year it seems.
Colour me not surprised. LOL!
Third time?!? This is not San Marino…Bulgaria have so many artists and they deserve a change. Currently on my list are:
1.Lidia Ganeva
2.DARA
3.NICKA
4.Mihaela Marinova
5.Nika Paris
I would like to see VICTORIA again too! She is amazing!
Isn’t Nika Paris from UK?
She is bulgarian. Her real name is Nikol Palascheva. She sing mostly in french.
So Victoria has the right to bring a 3rd song to Eurovision but Poli no…..ok
It will be her second time at the stage. 😉
NICKA (Nadeja Alexandrova) had great performances on The Voice Of Bulgaria , however her current musical style doesn’t promise a lot when it comes to Eurovision
She is great singer and I like her musical style. I love her song ”Upset”.
She was great in both 2011 and 2016, but give someone else a chance, Bulgaria is not a small country.
Agree!
Long as she apologizes for that time she did blackface…
I’d love for Poli to return, but only on the condition that Philipp Kirkorov is not on the team. Red lights starting flashing for me when they attended Torino 2022 together.
This is pure hearsay: a yo u tu be account claimed to have met Bulgaria’s 2017 representative. They also claimed that supposingly a very well known name who’s written for said year would be writing songs and/or returning to Eurovision under another name.