The line-up for Ukraine’s Eurovision 2024 selection is now complete. After a wildcard round to select the last finalist, ANKA has emerged victorious with her entry “Palala” and will now compete in Vidbir 2024.
Broadcaster Suspilne held an online public vote in the Diia app to choose the 11th finalist of Vidbir 2024. ANKA with the song “Palala” got the most votes — 80,944 (26.78%) — securing a ticket to the final of the national selection to be held on the 3 February 2024.
Online public voting took place from 15 to 21 December. More than 300,000 Ukrainians cast their votes.
Our readers agreed with the decision. ANKA was the top pick from our poll, securing almost a quarter of the vote.
- ANKA – “Palala” – 23.63%, 203 votes
- STASYA – “Rika” – 19.44%, 167 votes
- KRYLATA – “Queen” – 17.11%, 147 votes
- Carpetman – “Endless fight” – 13.39%, 115 votes
- SWOIIA – “Little Angels” – 6.29%, 54 votes
- TESLENKO – “Lights go up” – 5.94%, 51 votes
- SHÉPA – “SUPERNOVA” – 5.94%, 51 votes
- PARFENIUK – “Among the Winds” – 5.12%, 44 votes
- KARYOTYPE – “Sadness” – 3.14%, 27 votes
Total votes: 859
As the “public choice” winner, ANKA will now join the 10 finalists selected through auditions. One of them will represent Ukraine at Eurovision 2024 in the Swedish city of Malmö.
Vidbir 2024 finalists
- alyona alyona & Jerry Heil — “Teresa & Maria”
- ANKA — “Palala”
- Drevo — “Endless chain”
- INGRET — “Keeper”
- MÉLOVIN — “DREAMER”
- NAHABA — “GLASSS”
- NAZVA — “Slavic English”
- SKYLERR — “Time is running out”
- YAGODY — “Tsunamia”
- YAKTAK — “Lalala”
- Ziferblat — “Place I Call Home”
The songs of the ten finalists selected through auditions will be released in January.
As in previous years, the winner will be determined by a combination of public and jury voting. Ukrainians will choose the jury of the final by online voting.
Are you excited that ANKA has won the wildcard vote for Vidbir 2024? Which of the other finalists’ songs are your most looking forward to hearing? Let us know in the comments below.
David Axelrod should’ve been in this years Vidbir again 🙁
i still find Horizon so magical, ukrainian paul potts
Please Ukraine, choose her! After this big disappointment last night in Albania I need something pleasant and this is the right one !
Melovin sings in english so it should be him again, the more songs in english the better
I don´t like him….
Less english songs are really better….
We already have UK, Australia, Norway and Sweden. That´s enough !
english songs are the only songs which can become global hits
eurovision needs to be another talent show like the voice or x factor
Not at all. sorry…
Have you noticed the betting every year sets up for political odds.
This year yet again Ukraine favourites followed by Israel?
Bit sad really
Would be nice if the odds would be withheld until all the songs were released so it could be judged on just that and not influencing people to follow what they bet
I wish stasya would have made it through to the final, her song was my favorite. Anka was my 2nd choice though, so I’m somewhat happy anyway
It’s such a shame that there was only one wildcard, both Anka and Stasya were clear standouts last night. But I’m happy Anka made it anyways! 🙂
I HAD hoped for Carpetman. A kind of jazzy modern song is something i’d be open to Ukraine to experiment with.
While I like this song I still kinda hope there will be better songs in the final.
Good song, but why so short ?
A shame PARFENIUK didn’t make it as he was my favorite, but ANKA was a close second! Ukraine’s already delivering such quality for only a wildcard round, I’m sure the rest of the Vidbir line-up will be even better
Same favourite.
But Anka was one of the top three for me so not too bad.
It’s a shame that the top two couldn’t qualify. ANKA and STASYA were both clear stand-outs.
I thought we weren’t going to know the wildcard entry until the end of December. Well good luck to everyone.
Yessss very good song !