National final season has come to an end and we now have 22 winners who will move on to compete at Eurovision 2024. However, many of the other entries that didn’t make it will remain on our playlists for some time. To celebrate these acts, it’s time for our countdown of Team Wiwi’s Top 50 national final songs of Eurovision 2024.
The team here at wiwibloggs have voted for their favourite songs that competed in the national finals for Eurovision 2024 but were not selected. Over 130 of this year’s songs received points from at least one of our jurors. Now we’re ready to share which of them made it into our Top 50. We’ll reveal ten tracks each day until we reach the winner.
Note this is not an objective list, but is determined by the personal votes of a panel of wiwibloggers. We encourage you to share your own personal favourites in the comments below.
It’s time to find out which song will enter our Hall of Fame. Let the countdown commence!
Team Wiwi’s top national final songs of Eurovision 2024: 50 to 41
50. Clara – “Diamanti Grezzi” (Festival di Sanremo)
49. AILSHA – “Go Tobann” (Eurosong)
48. Sigga Ózk – “Into The Atmosphere” (Söngvakeppnin)
47. BigMama – “La rabbia non ti basta” (Festival di Sanremo)
🥇 Pablo
46. Alfa – “Vai!” (Festival di Sanremo)
45. VB gang – “KABOOM!!!” (Eurovizija.LT)
🥉 Freddy
44. Ingrid Jasmin – “Eya” (Melodi Grand Prix)
🥉 Scarlett
43. Gothminister – “We Come Alive” (Melodi Grand Prix)
42. Lia Larsson – “30 km/h” (Melodifestivalen)
41. María Peláe – “Remitente” (Benidorm Fest)
🥉 Luis
Our top national final songs of Eurovision 2024 ranking is determined by independent votes from a panel of wiwibloggers. They are: Ruxandra, Simon, Oliver R, Pablo, Lukas, Jonathan, Antranig, Mario, Freddy, William, Cinan, Sebastian, Scarlett, Jordi, Antony, Luis, Ron, Tom, and Georgia.
Which songs do you think should feature on the list? Are you surprised by our Eurovision 2024 national final Top 50 choices? Let us know in the comments.
Finally got around doing my top 50 as well…so many great songs…ended up with more than 100 songs…so it was difficult to just short it down to 50…
41: Ailsha – “Go Tobann” (Ireland)
42: Besa Krasniqi – “Esenciale” (Albania)
43: Let3 – “Babaroga” (Croatia)
44: Breskvica – “Gnezdo orlovo” (Serbia)
45: Iulia Teleuca – “Runaway” (Moldova)
46: Bashar Murad – “Wild West” (Iceland)
47: CHAILD – “Hold On” (Luxembourg)
48: Leo Middea – “Doce mistério” (Portugal)
49: Irama – “Tu no” (Italy)
50: BOOOM! – “Dance Like This” (San Marino)
Doesn’t the beginning of “Diamanti Grezzi” sound like Filip Balos’ “Duga je noc”?
I do have my top fifty in a Youtube video, but am more than happy to copy them over here, too!
50 – (Sweden) Danny Saucedo – Happy That You Found Me
49 – (Lithuania) The Roop – Simple Joy
48 – (Estonia) Daniel Levi – Over The Moon
47 – (Serbia) Durlanski – Muzika
46 – (Spain) María Peláe – Remitente
45 – (Norway) Mileo – You’re Mine
44 – (Portugal) Bruno Huca – Pé De Choro
43 – (Ukraine) Nahaba – Glasss
42 – (Albania) Melodajn Mancaku – Nuk Jemi Ne
41 – (Ukraine) Yaktak – LaLaLa
C’est parti ! It’s that time of the year, so let’s reflect once again on this remarkable 2024 NF season starting with my places 50 to 41: 41) “The Angel’s Share” – Elly (Czechia) 42) “Un ragazzo, una ragazza” – The Kolors (Italy) 43) “Água” – Mela (Portugal) 44) “Vox populi” – Mikael Gabriel & Nublu (Finland) 45) “Unlove You Starting Tomorrow” – Monika Marija (Lithuania) 46) “My Friend” – Ollie (Estonia) 47) “My AI” – Super Rob & Erika Norwich (Norway) 48) “Dreamer” – Mélovin (Ukraine) 49) “I won’t shake (La La Gunilla)” – Gunilla Persson (Sweden) 50) “Dno”… Read more »
It’s that time of the year now! This year, as always, there are more than 50 songs across the NFs deserving of mentioning here, but here are my personal top 50:
50. Rita Rocha: Pontos Finais (Portugal)
49. Ryk: Oh Boy (Germany)
48. Martina Serreqi: Vetem ty (Albania)
47. Eldis Arrnjeti: Nje kujtim (Albania)
46. Maria João: Dia (Portugal)
45. Nahaba: Glasss (Ukraine)
44. Bashar Murad: Wild West (Iceland)
43. Mileo: You’re Mine (Norway)
42. Jacqline: Effortless (Sweden)
41. Hristina: Bedem (Serbia)
I love seeing the two very not-for-Eurovision songs back to back here. I was very intrigued by Maria at first, but I kind of put it aside as the season went on. But she still probably should have made my honorable mentions– she was a great performer at FdC and the final would have been better with her in it. “Glasss” was something I didn’t enjoy at all, but I appreciated having it at Vidbir.
Thanks, Zanoni! When I was doing my 35th-50th place selection, one of the criteria was also creativity, and these two just had to be featured. 🙂
It’s sometimes amazing to see how similar our tastes have become over the years, but, as you already know, nine of these songs are going to feature in my top fifty at some point, and I actually like Dia, too!
Yeah, this year, we’ll have a lot of the same songs somewhere on our lists, and I feel like even those that will be featured on mine, and not on yours, or vice-versa, are the ones the other one is still fairly okay with, only not to a similar degree. Overall, very similar, yeah.
PS. I have to mention that Ryk is my winner of the German national selection!
PS. Bashar Murad is winner of Songvakeppnin 2024 as well!
my favourite (along with “Go Tobann”), Janus Wiberg’s weirdly-overlooked “I Need Your Love,” which surprised many observers by finishing 3rd in the Danish NF (2nd in the televote). Not much to write home about in the studio version, to be honest, but the live version’s a very different beast: Wiberg is a phenomenal performer who invests his heart and soul into every line. I hope he’ll be back for Denmark in a future NF/ESC.
I am very Happy to not be the average Euroviewer and be able to appreciate folk music. I think María Peláe Remitente IS such a beautiful song, so powerful and emotional. I really pity those Who only hear a woman yelling and prefer more “conventional” mainstream (boring) songs with a basic “message” delivered in a childish way.
EYA is the best one out of these
Eya and Go Tobann are my favorites in this list, for different reasons. Gothminister too, a nice use of the concept of a doll house.
Sara Siipola better be #1
I’m expecting it. Personally, I’m hoping for “Sinceramente,” which checks a lot of boxes and would set a good precedent getting out of the north. I would roll my eyes at “Damdiggida,” even though I do like it.
Why Sara Siipola? Not with her lazy produced ballad…
Here we are, I just updated my own ranking and Wiwibloggs begins to share theirs… So here we go: 41. Italy : Clara – Diamanti Grezzi 42. Estonia : Anet Vaikmaa – Serotoniin 43. Luxembourg : One Last Time – Devil in the Detail 44. Serbia : Konstrakta – novo, bolje 45. Malta : Erba’ – Sirena 46. Ukraine : Ingret – Dreamer 47. Italy : The Kolors – Un Ragazzo Una Ragazza 48. Italy : Diodato – Ti Muovi 49. Lithuania : Pluie de Comètes – Be Careful 50. Norway : Farida – Heartache I did the math: I’ve got 8 Italian entries in my top 50, 7 from Estonia and 5 from Sweden. Unsurprinsingly, if I have to give them points “biathlon-way” (100 points for the 1st, 80 for… Read more »
I’ve got 9 Sanremo songs in mine, followed by 6 from Benidorm Fest (and several honorable mentions tbh). That was truly 2 historical editions for both festivals to me.
Elsa Lila from Albania if she win she could be winner of esc 2024 with Mars, but Besa bought the victory with fathers money, corruption director of television Rtsh who is one of the most known man with afairs
The music in FIK was good this year, but then the results were announced and it was like they were out of a different show than the one I watched.
Is Go Tobann only 49th? Gothminister’ve been higher as well.
Agreed.
Only 49 is a scandal !
#JusticeForGoTobann
It was a very enjoyable national final season. All of my top 50 I am a big fan of and there are some classics to come which will be on my playlists for a very long time.
41. Mistra – Waltz of Death (Norway)
42. Vidar Villa – MER (Norway)
43. MeidE – Zoo (Lithuania)
44. Emma – Apnea (Italy)
45. Martin – Jigsaw (Lithuania)
46. Zejna – Nabolja (Serbia)
47. Anzela – Paskubek (Lithuania)
48. Loredana Berte – Pazza (Italy)
49. Let 3 – Babaroga (Croatia)
50. Traffic – Wunderbar (Estonia)
I have decided to exclude the following from my top 50 list on the basis that their song was not officially selected as part of a national final process, or they would have ultimately entered another song. However, there are some absolute classics in here and I feel that they need to feel the love of being part of the Eurovision family 1. Omini – Mare Forza 9oi (Italy) 2. Alexxandra – Vibe (Poland) 3. Famasongs – Techno Anyma 080823 (San Marino) 4. Levie – Lodowate dlonie (Poland) 5. Donna Vegas (with Liza Bonzan) – STAR! (Poland) 6. Flat Bit… Read more »
Lithuania’s selection was sneakily really good, for my taste anyway. Two of the three you picked are appearing on mine. I’m also looking forward to digging into your unofficials!
Jigsaw is legendary ?
Sorry, that question mark is supposed to be the praise/pray emoji.
Liking the start of your lineup, Kosey!
Songs that you’ve included that will be in my own top fifty are your no.’s 46 and 49. But, there’s even more here that I think were excellent and were close to making my cut. Jigsaw and Zoo from Lithuania were both great and unlucky to be in such a strong selection this year. Pazza and Mer are also strong, too.
I don’t care for Wunderbar or Apnea at all, but otherwise, a nice start. Looking forward to the rest!
Ollie « My Friend» and St. Pedro «Dos Extraños»
Mine :
50th : Traffic “Wunderbar” (Estonia)
49th : Farida “Heartache” (Norway)
48th : Tomas Robin “Out of my mind” (Czechia)
47th : Melovin “Dreamer” (Ukraine)
46th : Catalina Solomac “Fever” (Moldova)
45th : Erica Cody “Love Me Like I Do” (Ireland)
44th : Arsi Bako “Zgjohu” (Albania)
43th : Filip Balos “Duga Je Noc” (Serbia)
42th : Katrina Gupalo “The Cat’s Song” (Latvia)
41th : Elly “The Angel’s Share” (Czechia)
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This has been a very enjoyable NF season! My final playlist for whittling this list down to 50 had almost 100 songs on it (and , and I kind of love them all too, so I’m going to go the maximalist route and list them all 🙂 Albania: “Nan,” “Mars” Czechia: “Starlet,” “Out of My Mind,” “Good Enough” Croatia: “Babaroga,” “Do mjeseca” Denmark: “Planetary Hearts,” “Real Love” Estonia: “Bad Boy,” “FOMO,” “No Dog on a Leash,” “Oblivion” Germany: “Love on a Budget,” “Undream You” Iceland: “FLOW.” Italy: “Tuto gold,” “Governo punk,” “Fino a qui,” “Vai!,” “Tu no,” “Casa mia” Lithuania:… Read more »
Great respect for your list, some significant diligence has gone into that. My list went as far as 61 which all deserved a place on the Top 50 and many more on top of that which I have enjoyed. 43 and 44 on your list were just outside my top 50 and 42 and 47 you will have to wait a few days for if you know what I mean! Sigga’s track is not a complicated piece of art but boy is it so uplifting – it is such a positive piece of work. And on My AI, I am… Read more »
National finals were my Roman empire this year. 🙂
Zanoni, you introduced me to Love Bites by Bambie Thug. Thank you for that. Seeing as there was a brief 48 hour period where that MIGHT have been the entry… will you be including the song in your 50?
I have too many official contenders to put in my list! Bambie will have to settle for being very high in my ESC ranking.
Here is my greatest/most annoying “what if?” of the year. When the Icelandic songs were released, I went to a certain website that archives national final songs, and this track was on there. CeaseTone’s “Flow.” It absolutely melted my brain. I loved it.
Uh… it wasn’t the Songvakeppnin song, which is also titled “FLOW.” This one was 4 minutes long, and from CeaseTone’s 2021 album. I like CeaseTone’s NF entry; it’s up there in my honorable mentions. But this is one of my favorite songs I’ve heard this year.
Flow – YouTube
I’m sure they will take some comfort from that, at least!
Love Bites might just be my favourite song of the season, eligibility questions aside.
I have “Glow” in my top fifty at some point, but also appreciated “The Cat’s Song” and “In The Night”, too.
Yay! This first set of 10 from the Wiwi team is surprisingly good! Three are in my own top 50, with a few of my honorable mentions as well.
Scarlett, Circus X for the win!
Gothminister deserves to be in the top-10.