A new Söngvakeppnin champion has emerged during the grand final of the 2024 edition. Hera Björk clinched the title with her song “Scared of Heights”.
This year’s show has severed its ties as the official selection for Eurovision. However, Hera, who previously represented Iceland in 2010, will get to decide whether she wants to sing for Iceland in Malmö.
Söngvakeppnin 2024: Grand final results
The grand final had two rounds. After all five acts had performed, a 50:50 split of votes from an international jury and the public at home determined two acts to advance to the superfinal. These were:
- Hera Björk – “Scared of Heights”
- Bashar Murad – “Wild West”
In the superfinal, the final result was all down to the public. They got another chance to vote, and these new votes were combined with those cast during the first round. Ultimately, Hera Björk emerged victorious.
Running order
- Væb – “Bíómynd”
- Hera Björk – “Scared of Heights”
- Anita – “Downfall”
- Bashar Murad – “Wild West”
- Sigga Ózk – “Into the Atmosphere”
What are your thoughts on the Söngvakeppnin 2024 result? Did Iceland make the correct decision? Let us know in the comments below.
The song itsself is not bad, and I’m enjoying it as a stand-alone song where I can switch my mind off for a few minutes and dance around the apartment whilst doing some cleaning. Unfortunately it’s not for Eurovision. Its going to badly get swallowed up and forgotten in the Semi’s, and that kills me because I love Hera Björk so much! The only chance Iceland have is if they do a revamp, and strip away the dance elements, and go full on ‘The Mama’s’ with the revamp, taking it in the direction of a soaring gospel anthem instead. Hera… Read more »
lol enjoy your NQ, Iceland
One would say Iceland made the right choice by going soft, but not me. You have Poland, Serbia, and Slovenia on that list for the SF1 already. Not to mention, you can include Moldova in the same group as well, probably either Azerbaijan or Portugal too. I’d say… welcome to the non-qualification, Iceland? I don’t see how this generic and dated song could stand out even with the most impressive staging in a televote-only semi.
I’m probably going to regret writing anything at all, but just for the record, almost everybody commenting here has been terrible. No matter how you feel about Bashar Murad or a certain other country. You’re all acting like children. Yes, even those I theoretically should agree with (although my own personal positions are insubstantial to this). What seems like one good artist lost, and what seems like one good artist won. All of you should be ashamed of yourselves.
I’m afraid it’s like this on every thread. Petulant little children stamping their feet. I agree 100% but sadly these people feel no shame. A few of them have one agenda; to turn the narrative to the same topic and engage in a battle of intolerant words. Persevere. There are more contributors like us who want to share our thoughts and are interested in those of others and are capable of exchanging views in a civilised and friendly manner than it might appear. And never regret expressing your opinion.
Not my cup of tea. If it wasn’t going to be Bashar, then Sigga’s effervescent pop song would have been my pick
Congrats Hera! I wasn’t paying too much attention to her song but now that I listened to it a couple of times, it is actually pretty good.
It’s a upsetting that Bashar did not win but kudos to Iceland for having enough faith in him to put him into the superfinal.
It’s a nice song. I admit it’s the kind of typical song people expect to find in Eurovision, and we’ve heard it all before. But it has some advantages: Hera is an experienced singer compared to many other participants. Her performance is very “clean”, no dancers around her, the focus is on her. This is a smart decision when there are so many messy acts which are “more of the same”.
I don’t think she will be top 10 but she can almost reach it, she can grab 1-3 points from many countries.
Wiwibloggs, your comment sections are allowing blatant discrimination. Deal with it. It is unacceptable for you to permit people calling Bashar an antisemitic terrorist with no accountability. Do better. Now.
Don’t support antisemitic terrorists and you won’t be called an antisemitic terrorist.
reality bites…go cry to your mom..
“but sir, my mom lies under the rubles from that appartment block we used to live what got bombed.
And theres nothing left of it.
Please can you help us………………..”end of quote
Reality bites.
lol…next time tell to your mom not to send her sons to rape and kill woman…
I know you have no shame but you should be censured for writing this disgusting comment.
It’s the truth…they raped and killed woman’s and men’s. Don’t believe me ? Read the UN report published today..
I’m not denying what has happened including what’s in the same report regarding the IDF and potential crimes. I’m saying that using that as a response to someone on this platform is disgusting and does a disservice to victims. I don’t expect you to understand you clearly can’t put a coherent sentence together.
i really got under your skin
lol
Where are you Wiwibloggs staff? You were so hyped to announce that Israel’s participation at Eurovision is in doubt, but once it’s confirmed that WE DO participate – complete silence. You are bunch of hypocrites. Next year when Eurovision will be held in Israel, you are not invited.
It’s Sunday. Don’t you think Wiwi people deserve at least one day per week off?
…The EBU still has time to turn that around. Until I hear them explicitly say that yes, they can perform with some song, then I’m not calling Israel a sure thing.
That’s what makes me so suspicious of the whole mess. The EBU hasn’t made any official statement either way.
Are you ok?
What does you nickname here imply?
Arrogance.
hey pumpkin, you just posted this:
TheChosenPeople
1 hour ago
Reply to Kevan1994
Unlucky for you, they can’t fight the truth.
In the next post you are going full steam at it.
if ESC 25 will be held in Israel you will have 3 other candidates to attend: Belarus, Russia and Azerbijan.
Hallelulia drop another bomb before you can sing a song!!
PEACE NOW
Good luck to Israel, despite all the challenges. I hope for a great result for you guys, you deserve a bit of a moral boost after all this stuff going on.
The song is pretty awful
How do you know?
Umm, cos I listened to it…
What I meant was where is it available for you to listen to? Duh!!!!
YouTube. Have you heard of it?
Gosh no! Is that a radio station that you have exclusive access to, where you can base your qualitative definitive judgement on a 50 second clip ???
Are you high
Discussion over. I see you don’t get sarcasm.
Agreed. This was probably composed in ’94, it sounds so outdated..
Queen Hera.
I was present that year at ESC she sang Je ne sais quoi and supported her with a little Icelandic flag.
WoW!!! She was EPIC with that song!!
She oozes good old fashioned ESC Class and Style!!
Indeed a true Queen.
Many older demografhic will love her song!!
Did somebody actually root for Bashar‘s Song? Did y‘all liked it?
I liked his song. But even if he weren’t there…Iceland picked off her name, not off of song quality. There were better songs there aside from Bashar’s.
This is NOT true. Hera has previously participated but did NOT win. So…
i liked bashars song, but i did not root for him
The song is quite bland and dated, but the general level of the final, after leaving better options in the SFs, was very low. It’s obvious Iceland stands no chance of getting into the Grand Final.
I am glad, though, that Icelanders didn’t fall for a political song. “Wild West” was equally bland but we had the risk of it pulling the pity card and winning Eurovisión.
Icelandic Anita Meyer and i love it, i love her same amount as i did in 2010
her composer Ferras also worked with stars like Helene Fischer, Katy Perry, Luis Fonsi and many more btw
Out of the eembeers!
Okay on a serious note there’s nothing wrong with Hera’s song, it’s pleasant and all but it’s extremely generic and outdated for me. I was never into the schlager genre to begin with, as I find these songs boring and too similar to each other.
Politics aside, Bashar’s song was way better with a modern country feel and a strong performance. I wasn’t impressed by him either but I would have certainly preferred him to have won.
I feel like Bashar is sort of Ali Express version of Lil Nas X. The gay cowboy thing etc. Am I wrong?
I did not like Wild West. The song has an artistic merit but I believe it should have been better worked on and refined, to stand out. Also, performed live, the song lost even more, I found his vocals rather weak (not bad but not good either) and the overall feel was very dark and one could not connect.
Better luck next time!
I also can’t say that I would have voted for it at ESC had it won, but I would certainly like it more than Scared of Heights. Anyways
I hadn’t made the connection but you’re right. Well I wouldn’t wish that result on her.
Happy for Hera, she definitely have the best entry for Eurovision.
Good luck Island ?
Good news finally
Yassss, Scared of heights is this years because of you.
I guarantee you Israel will start this contest favourite to win in May.
It’s wrong and disgusting on every level. Overnight Israel have gone from 40/1 to 14/1
Downvoted so people actually want Israel to win? WOW
There’s just lots of zionists reading wiwibloggs, on eurovision reddit there’s not as much support for I.srael.
Plus Israel are rubbish at every sport so they live for Eurovision more than any other country. They have nothing else they are good at
I heard that israeli people are not so good in sports, because its in their culture to stimulate the brains, to be good at school etc. More important than sports.
Maybe that’s why its a stratup hightech country.
Politics aside (completely), one must read how the odds are crafted. They are not a poll, nor do they show preferences. The odds are a tool to see trends and put bets. So, Israel rising or Iceland falling in the odds, or Switzerland climbing to 5th place, they are all a result of a multifaceted calculation (trends, betting volume, news that may affect the outcome, etc). If you remember, Malta in 2021 was accused of putting bets in the platforms that made the odds shortened and Destiny was predicted the winner. Don’t watch it if you don’t like or want… Read more »
Israel has no betting trend right now. It’s purely a reaction to Iceland losing Bushy Muddy. So, they have to go with Israel as the political back up plan to shift the odds. Politics rules this competition and is also ruining it. People thought Greece and Cyprus voting for each other every year was bad. This is now becoming crazy and ruining what is a song contest. If you look at betting patterns Joost has had the most bets placed but remains behind Israel. No patterns involved on bets placed for that outcome. Let’s analyse point two. News… Well the… Read more »
Topnotch comment.
I say grace to your words.
There’s a strong wind coming in from the North West of the Low Countries!!
Never forget were The battle of Waterloo has been fought over??
The shake of up of the old Europe heading in to the future.
La grande Concours des Chansons d’Eurovision 1956, has been founded on the ashes of WW II, bringing PEACE and Unity amongst the affected countries.
You should have known that my Dear?
Welkom in Europa.
Waterloo 2024.
If Israel send a great song, why shouldn’t it win?
If the song is great they should. But favourites shouldn’t be decided on race religion or war.
Israel was favourite in December. Then Iceland and watch Israel start favourite in may. That’s not song that’s pure politics
I’m glad she won !
Iceland made the right choice. And I believe Hera’s song could appeal to a lot more people than most on here seem to think, exactly because it’s somewhat old-fashioned. Don’t forget there’s a market for this type of pop, too.
If you’re over 70!
This likely would have done well in the 1990s.
In the 90s people were much more progressive than now. In a natural way, not forced by institutions and protests groups who like to label people and think that’s progressive.
The more labels you put on people, the more you polarize.
Also the music was much more innovative.
It were the times of electric music, techno, hardcore house, extravaganza, nightlife capital Amsterdam (which became less and less welcoming for gay people in the last two decades).
The 99s were the times wher people didn’t label other people with genders, skin colors, etc.
People were people and labels were not important.
I love how you describe this heartfelt sentiment of you.
From the 50’s up to the 90-00’s so much has been happening in the field of music. It went hand in hand with freedom and emancipation of lots of people or groups. Very special period indeed. Big names for ever written in our memories.
Only i dont think so their were less divions, labels, namecalling or polarization.
I think the difference is back than we didnt have the WWW, worldwideweb like we are having today!!
I love you Hera Björk. You are an icon
i knew she had a special something
Yes, a camel toe
Thank god for that! And I don’t know that Hera would deny to go to Eurovision because of Israel’s participation. If I remember correctly, she was present in Tel Aviv in 2019 and performed at some events.
Still in shock that Iceland ACTUALLY chose a SONG and not politic . Wow. Hurra for my Nordic neighbors!!!
You watch Israel in the odds now. Politics will rise again this time Israel will be the chosen one to climb the odds chart. Grrrrrrrr
Such nonsense, the pro Palestina police is frustrated that Iceland did not fall for their propaganda and now they try to express their disappointment by bashing Israël again.
I feel like your whole body itchy, you little monkey.
Love your comments and dedication ?x ??
I imagine this result is disappointing for both sides of the divide because you can neither gloat nor b***h about it. I’m glad of that but not sure about the song. Hera looks glorious and no questioning her power house of a voice but I can’t help feeling there has to a better showcase for it.
yasssss, welcome back Queen Hera with your banger
the evil defeated
You just can’t help yourself can you? The only evil I can detect is your brand of toxicity.
You are the weakest link. Goodbye!
I’m not pro-Palestine, but in Bashar’s defense, he acted very respectful and nice towards Icelanders. And the song wasn’t some kind of outrageous propaganda. He might’ve ruined it with that “my people are being exterminated” remark, plus the watermelons everywhere.
What do you mean towards Icelanders? He was well representing them and not Palestine?
But will she go??!
Yes
Yes, she was never an anti-Semite
Stupid remark. Being against a regime who’s killed 12 000 children isn’t anti-Semitic.
Ignoring the fact that the Palestinian regime is the one who started the killing, and still holding multiple hostages, and refusing any deal to release them, is antisemitic.
Don’t talk about the Israeli violence while ignoring the hostages and the massacre. The war didn’t start from nothing.
Palestinian resime started the killing? You realize Israel has been bombing them for decades, wake up!
And vise versa
Boring and dated – 2,5/12 for Iceland. No final this year.
Off topic: Israel decided to change the lyrics of the 2 songs to be less political according to the request of the EBU, the Israeli song will be revealed on March 10.
When was this confirmed?
This morning
good news!
Nice!
No one really cares about Israel lol
I do certainly care about Israel!
Wiwibloggs will rush to write an article about the possibility of us being out but not when we might still be in…
I’m so happy Hera won, for all different reasons…
Good for you Hera! Enjoy experiencing, have fun, nice to have you back.
Hera is loveable and seems like a really nice person. Maybe personality has won. Also, by voting for her, the public bought some quiet and they knew what they would get and what to expect.
Bashar could probably get Iceland more attention and focus as we all know. He wasn’t the best vocalist of the evening, and performance was messy but his song was the best, regardless of the political issue.
Honestly, he is singing was amazing. I just didn’t like the song and between Hera and him both songs didn’t really feel strong.
If at all, Bashar could have gotten more easily to the final but then his song wouldn’t be up high I feel.
I apologize if anyone could be offended by my comment. But I am Croatian and naturally want Baby Lasagna to win. Still, as ESC fan cannot help myself to be excited when new amazing entries are revealed, as we had with The Netherlands, Austria, Cyprus, Switzerland and UK. But this was different since Islandic songs weren’t the strongest, imo Bashar’s songs as a song shouldn’t be contender to win Eurovision, and I’m sorry, but Island was undeservedly rising in the odds. I would rather put The Netherlands on the podium here. So happy with Söngvakeppnin eventual uncoupling for multiple reasons… Read more »
Netherlands do have a superb entry inteed, thst can be the main competition of Baby Lasagna. I have both of these entries battling for my first place in my top 3!
Icel
*sorry for that Icel, forgot to erase it, lol.
Just realized I was typing Croatian words for the country the whole time, sorry 🙁
*Iceland, Icelandic 🙂
I love how people just love to find some “victims” (of war or similar) and to cheer for them, vote for them thinking they did some good deed with it, just because of lack of making some real good deeds in their lives…
So true! All the social media warriors dont care about human rights.
Sending Hera some love ?????? well deserved!
Im left speechless by stupidity.
Reminds me of the Belgian ‘Cherine – je m’ennuie’ scenario of last year…
Still on my playlist…?
Instead of celebrating Hera’s song most of your comments are pure venom an hypocrisy. But if that’s in you , go on, embarrass yourselves.
You salty?
Sure, because Eurovision is precisely what the Mossad has on its mind right now
He is a sick troll…
Mossad is willing to do anything just to have their way. Their motto is “through deception, you shall make war”.
Threat successfully removed! Goodluck Hera, nice song 🙂
The more hate she will get the more votes she’ll get! 🙂
Another threat on her life?
I really wish Wiwibloggs would ban you or something, you keep talking about her like that
Why are you threatening an israel singer everwhere on this blog?
Because of people like you its clear what israel is fighting against and why the Israeli people always need to protect themselves against people like you.
No moderators on this site to suspend this troll account spreading not only hate speech but now repetitive threats of violence against the Israeli singer?
I’m glad we avoided another Ukraine 2022 moment.
Man the stark contrast between here and the eurovision subreddit is something else.
A lot of people over there did not seem to want Hera to win, whether they were rooting for Bashar or for someone else..
Bashar’s song wasn’t so strong and Bashar was probably too controversial to even Icelanders and he competed to Hera who is popular there. Myb even racism played a role, but overall I think Hera’s song is lovely, she doesn’t deserve the hate.
OMG Hera decided to withdraw!! With runner up as the replacement according to the rules! Look at the odds Iceland back in top5!
As I understand they would withdraw entirely. I did not saw any signs about Hera being political lol. That would be totally staged by the broadcaster.
Are you kidding me?No Bashar but Hera?
Downvoters didn’t get that I was happily surprised but ok
I really don’t believe this result. Bashar performed miles better than her. Maybe an investigation is needed?!
An investigation on how your body still functioning when you clearly has no brain cells.
NQ for sure.
Just proves these things aren’t rigged.
No, it proved that the fandom and social media isn’t the entire world.