The first major pre-party of the Eurovision 2024 season has now come and gone. Over the past two days nearly 30 competing Eurovision acts worked the red carpet and the stage at Eurovision-Spain’s PrePartyES in Madrid. There were interviews and amazing outfits and more than twenty incredible live performances.
So we have to ask: Who gave the best live performance in Madrid? You can watch most of the live performances in our playlist below. Then vote for your favourites. You can vote for as many artists as you’d like, but you can only vote one time. So click the box next to each act you want to support before hitting VOTE.
PrePartyES 2024 in Madrid: All live performances
Please note: We do not have performances from Norway or Germany in our playlist. Norway’s Gåte ended performing “live on tape” — so organisers just aired a pre-recorded performance. Germany’s Isaak is also missing. We uploaded his performance, but his record label has blocked it globally.
Also: Georgia’s Nutsa Buzaladze is not in our poll. Rather than performing her Eurovision song “Firefighter,” she chose to perform a cover of Christina Aguilera’s “Hurt.” This was in honour of her brother who passed away last week. It was a touching performance and moving tribute that showcased her strength, resilience and the love she shared for her sibling.
Poll: Who gave the best live performance at the PrePartyES 2024 in Madrid?
The BEST ones were:
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BELGIUM
Only Portugal and Serbia
Put kosovo in Eurovision please
Just listened to Raiven’s performance. Goosebumps. She’s my #1 now.
Switzerland, really? People have very low standards if they think this is a winner, it’s all over the place with too many disparate styles. Compare this to Bambi Thug who manages to connect the different styles of their song perfectly, Nemo does not. I also think they’re trying to use their non binary label as an attention seeking gimmick.
I agree Bambie has a stronger package than Nemo.
I dont judge the other things, but respect all forms in what the artists presenting themself.
I am so happy to see that my favourite (Switzerland) actually sounded very good life.
But I am quite surprised to see Austria that low. My friends who attended La Riviera said that she was one of the best, people got crazy with her, something I honestly did not expect either.
Just a general response to a lot of people who have said some rude and derogatory comments about Nemo and non binary people as a whole, it never hurts to be compassionate and respectful to people. Let’s spread love and positivity instead.
In terms of Eurovision itself, Greece for the win. But will also root for Italy and Norway. 🙂
Funny to see that 7 out of my current top 10 were not there.
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Switzerland 1st in the odds 🙂
I don’t understand why. Many more songs have double the views than nemo and likes. The song is good but it’s not THE winner vibe.
His social media has low numbers and he’s yet to make any impacts on the charts or Spotify like Joost, mango or Marko. All highly confusing.
Give me one song with winner vibes this year? All of that is clearly just a matter of taste of course. Personnally, The Code is the only song that made me think it could win at the first listen. But this year is very open as none of the songs completely outshine the rest of the competition.
Well it did NOT rise straight to the top of any odds, scoreboards or polls when people first listened to it. Its taken some time for people to warm up, unlike other songs currently at the top (like people freaking loved Croatia before it had even won in Dora, people loved the name when it was still a reserve even).
It happened to me as well, but I really doubted about how it would sound life, because it is such a difficult song… Now, we heard it life, it sounds perfectly, so it is a big contender to win.
The other big option is Croatia, but honestly, it would be to me like a second-hand Kaarija winning, only less original (in English), I never liked that.
I think they’ll win by being the best of the votes combined. Not winn8ng the jury or televote but being top 3 in both and taking it overall.
I agree It’ll be a second third combo that wins him it. I think it’s only Joost now that will stop that victory. Amsterdam April 13th will tell us a story and last in the second semi. Those are the two moments that may change the Swiss tide now.
It doesn’t scream organic. At all!
Remember when all the Croatia haters said the odds didn’t matter? I bet you feel kinda stupid right now saying this 🙂
Switserland is no.1 in the odds now!
Yep. He IS the oddest of them all.
Malta’s 2021 odds story is loading
Time will tell, but this doesn’t seem organic. Yeah.
Personally, I find this fauxpera trocious.
*ATROCIOUS
I suppose Switzerland might win Eurovision. Stupidity IS spreading fast in Europe and the world and all this nonsense about non binary fluidity and crap might force juries to vote for him/her/they/them/It/us…
Your parents did a lousy job raising you!
Why are you bringing Up my parents? Did I mention yours? Do you know them?
Well the display of your character says everything!!
Ok but then as you said It is MY character… Let me ask you again, why did you dare bringing my parents Up? I could do the same with your mother but my character prevents me to play so dirty.
Someone like you must gargle with bleech before speaking about my parents
If your parents would have raised you right you wouldn’t have such a rotten character!
You are stupid… Very stupid.
And you are nasty!
People are just fed up and tired of this non binary nonsense, including me as a member of LGB community…
Gay here as well and fed Up with non binary and crap.
His/her parents raised them well.
Can’t agree more with you
As gay person i am sicked and tired of this kind of people that drag down the rest of us. We are not deluded, we are not insane and we are normal. Everything we fought for is crumbling down bcs people think we are freaks like this. I can see why regular people see something like this and call as names and attention w.h.o.r.e.s.
Most gay people accepted their homosexuality and fought to live their lives as such at a time when being gay was regarded as unnatural, a sin or something bad. “Non binary” people just call them that because It is trendy, because they dont have to fight… Where were them 20, 30 years ago when we gays were fighting for our rights?
As a gay man I am not part of any group that includes this non binary nonsense.
Hi. I would just like to make it clear that while the term non-binary itself might be relatively new, the concept of gender fluidity and non conforming people have existed for a very long time, and have been misrepresented and kept less visible by Western society for decades due to ignorance and violence. You are being part of the problem by labelling people “freaks”. You ask where these people were 20/30 years ago fighting for gay and queer rights? It was trans and gender non conforming people leading the fight. Even if you do necessarily understand or even choose not… Read more »
AGREE.
You Are Correct That This Westeren Nations Will Suport This Nonsence . There Is A Lot Of MikroPlastik And Other Poisons In Western Diet So It Is Impacting This Brains Functions
Its not specifically the brain, but the hormones that are affected by microplastics.
And these microplastics are found in the environment all over the world, it is not limited to the West.
They also pass the brain-barrier, thats true.
offtopic but our esc2021 hosts Chantal Janzen & Jan Smit have their own schlager festival ”festival der liebe” on 5th April in Ahoy Rotterdam, a singalong festival with some of the biggest schlagers from germany and austria
also performing there is Joost’s songwriter and friend Donnie
there’s no way the general public will see a dude dressed as a tooth fairy singing 85 songs at the same time and think “wow lemme vote for this, this is so likable”… switzerland will tank, bookmark me lol
I am sure you said a similar thing in 2014 about Conchita! lol
Probably also said the same about Kaarija.
Conchita was Classy.
No One Cares About Conchite 10 Years Ago , Back Then It Was New To Be A TransGender But This Its 2024 . Its Just A Trend , And Nemo He Just Wants Fame
Conchita is / was not a transgender.. he was a drag queen and nothing more…
The difference is that Conchita actually had a good song 🙂
Switzerland taking the first place from Croatia in odds is just an April fools joke.
boring april fools joke though, eurovision could’ve also pranked us with ”Kazakhstan debuting at ESC2024 as guest participant in grand final with Dimash Qudaibergen”
Matter of taste once again. You prefer Croatia, I prefer Switzerland. Other people will prefer Italy and others Ukraine, etc…
I’m not surprise of Switzerland first place as Nemo could finish at the 1st or 2nd place with juries and in the top 3 with public while Croatia could finish 1st or 2nd with public (depending on The Netherlands here) but put of the top 5 with juries. I personnally don’t care of who wins in the end as long as it is a good song and an artist that can actually sing.
As gay person i would definitely prefer UK or Belgium, this is cringe and everything that regular people think Eurovision is. Gay dude in tutu, come on now
No more april fool’s ? Hard to do since most past ESC april fool’s are now reality like pre-recorede vocals,
Eden told in an interview that she really wanted to go to the pre parties and meet everyone but hear team told her that they want to keep it as a surprise. Many singers already send to Eden a lovely videos that they can’t wait to meet her in Malmo. That’s what ESC is all about.. united by music.
I know nemo has something in his song that is catchy but I can’t hear winner. Is it just me? Anyone else struggling g to understand why he is favourite to win now?
Becauspf his delusional gender identity… grown-up man wearing 4 years old tutu and tiaras…
I said song. No everyone lives in the backward Middle East
Neither do I, when grown-up up man decide to wear 4 years old girl tutu dress and tiara it has nothing to do with being backward or “progressive”… it’s just wrong on so many levels… and the song is just average… little girls dress is what pushing him as a frontrunner …
I am totally with you. I have never and I wont listen to the song/brainwash. There is no such thing as being non binary no Matter the song or if he wins or whatever.
The song is terribly messy, i don’t see the appeal
I needed some time to appreciate the song, but after understanding the lyrics and after the live performance of Saturday, I do think he has a better chance than Croatia.
But I don’t think we can speak of 1 favourite yet, perhaps when we see the rehearsals. This year is wide open and I love it.
at least you understand the lyrics, i can’t understand what they’re singing tbh
would appreciate it more if it was in german (their discography mainly exists out of german language songs too btw) same goes for Croatia btw, would also love it more if it had croatian lyrics in it (but croatian language had a success last year with Let 3 so)
I think that he is very good vocally and that people expect a good staging for them, since they have a team that delivered in the past. That explains the odds, but I feel that can be dangerous, because now the expectations are very high.
I don’t see it as a winner either. We had a similar situation with Gjon’s Tears, this reminds of that very much.
First of thanks to the wiwbloggs team for bring us all those clips for free. We can already see the winners and the waysides. I voted Portugal, but I thought Armenia were the biggest surprise. I can see that clicking hard in Malmö.
Switzerland was phenomenal. It sounds also fresh comparing the last year (and many other years)
Does not matter who participates or not… The WINNER is BUSTER!! He is a ROCK STAR!! Watch it yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/71_6wG45a6M
Croatia looses the throne in the odds soon. Good. That Käärijä copy is embarrasing. Switzerland is coming now. Both at 16%. But still no runaway winner this year.
the runaway winner obviously is Israel this year
Eden not doing any pre-parties makes me think she has something pheno-pheno-phenomenal planned for us in May, this years landslide winner a la Loreen 2012 & 2023
She is not doing preparties because she is not welcomed
Hahahhahaha, pressed much 🙂
I don’t know about Nemo’s clothes though. He should skip the ballerina dress in May. It’s offputting.
Nemo uses they/them pronouns, please refer to them as such in the future 🙂
I have two opinions about that ballerina outfit. If we are just talking about the song and him as an artist, he should do whatever he feels like, to express himself and what he stands for. Totally with him, 100%. When it comes to the contest, there needs to be a balance so he gets votes from a wide audience. It’s all about balance and there’s nothing wrong with that. There are many ways to show you are gender-fluid or neutral. Otherwise, everyone must be free to express themselves in the way that feels natural. I am rooting for Switzerland,… Read more »
You’ve rooted for every country as some point
I understand you prefer Switzerland, and be happy if he comes on top. But cheer8ng that someone is going down is just mean…
The Croatian song can be a winning one. We just have to wait and see if Baby Lasagna is enough to win with this song. When I see him live, I feel there’s something missing. The song is a banger though. But does it suffice to have a good song to win?
I really liked Malta ‘Loop’ for its choreography, voice and the overall package.
I Love Israel, and israeli people don’t wanna mess with me, i am the king of jinxing, and Eden’s career deserves to be ended so much, so yes i’ll ”support” her
Have you had your medication today?
my medication? no
solely hating doesn’t help, only backfires on you, so then we need to do it differently
Eden Golan all time best music superstar of the world, with her ethnic ballad hurricane, everyone needs to vote for Israel, or else
3.3 million youtube views!!!! and some not ranking it, lol
Israel the best country in the world, only love coming from there
The views are not because people will vote on the song. It’s because it’s Israel. Pretty controversial that they are taking part at all.
be careful what ur saying, some are easily offended in here 😉
I Am So Sad That You Changed Into This Kind Of Person I Thought You Were Smart Anonymouse
Is there no video of Germany?
Read the text: “Germany’s Isaak is also missing. We uploaded his performance, but his record label has blocked it globally.”
Record label blocking it is just crazy to me. Do they not want for a song to be talked about so he can place better in eurovision?
I mean, this is NDR we are talking about. Them actively wanting to finish last isn’t far-fetched. They’ve been successful for a couple of years now.
That’s so weird. There’s no way he did not sound good vocally, so there could be no concern there. I guess they’re doing the opposite of promoting it.
If I were Isaak I’d be annoyed about that.
The Lable Knew Our Ears And Eyes Will Bleed If We Hear/See It So I Support Them A Lot .
Not liking Nemo’s song is a totally valid opinion, but can we NOT mock their outfit choices please.
”Choices.” – Tatianna
I am not bothered that Nemo is in a dress, I’m bothered that it is so mismatched. Songwise it is hard not to like, the song has everything.
So true. This queen would be read to filth on drag race.
Why not, we would do that with every other artist. I love them, but that outfit is terrible, but I am sure that in May we can expect more elaborated dress. I am not worried about Nemo.
His outfit is hideous
And the song is unlistenable.
Them/There is total gimmick, he should definitely grow a beard and throw on wig, hey why not, he can identify before the show as big black woman and call himself Shaniqua. That would be amazing and totally mesmerising
My half-brother’s daughter is called Shaniqua. It’s a lovely name, though we all call her Niqi.
I liked their frock but I think it’s valid to give opinions on outfits as well as songs. It is a contest of both the audio and the visual.
when i say i don’t like their styling, it’s not coming from a place of being against non-binary expression, it’s just that i don’t think the clothing looks good in a performance
like i just think the tutu is just an ugly look in general, nothing against nemo as a person
I was pleasantly surprised with the level of almost all countries. Nemo has amazing vocals, but I still have restraints regarding outfit and how this will get staged. I also feel that the hype is about his character and music video, not around the song and vocals, but such a strong performance will definitely help him with judges. Don’t see it as a winner, but strong contender definitely. Croatia improved massively and if they nail staging and judges appreciate it (with a top 5 spot) they should have the win in the bag. Out of the acts we didn’t here… Read more »
I agree with almost everything you say Ultima, except Finland. The guy should not attempt falsetto.
I think he is not a great singer, but not bad. He is giving voices to many cartoon characters (translation to Finnish) and he sings songs as well. I think he is just not that experienced live and in this type of performance where he needs to jump around etc. Should be good until the contest. But I don’t think that affects their chances, should be safe qualifying and then a solid placement, around 15th perhaps. Maybe incidentally top 10 if all stars align.
Came to say the same, just wanna add that I can see Austria being this year’s letdown
so manny judgement after one pre party. wait until may in malmo
Now I remembered which song Croatian one remindes me off… It’s that Chipi chipi chapa chapa, dubi dubi daba daba… same vibe, same type of song, similar singing style and skill… overall quite similar and on the same level
The Middle Of The Road song? Whaaat?!
Nope, don’t hear it.
No, it’s that Peruvian little girl singing that chipi chapa dubi daba song… it’s quite popular on tiktok, with some dancing cats videos or similar… croatian song is giving mi the same energy, same artistic value… basically they copied that little girl’s song
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Being oblivious to TT trends and s***, I just listened to this kiddie crap and… concluded that you’re simply trolling.
That’s the Chilean little girl called Christell who got famous in that country in a talent show in 2003-04.
That’s the one, same song, even the same choreo from the video…
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. That was our song
I love how croatia lives rent free in yall trolls heads.
I’m not trolling, just stating the obvious abou the song named rigi dagi timi taki… it’s complete ripoff of chipi chapa dubi daba…
Childishly and purposefuly misnaming the frontrunning song is trolling.
Croatia definitely
Now, about my two other favs this year…
Raiven. Wow, just wow. I don’t think I ever stanned a Slovenian entry, but Veronika is beyond gorgeous.
And Kaleen… Weeell, she started off rather decent, but then she fell apart. I hope things work out better on the ESC stage.
Jesus these comments are horrendous, at this point it would be better to just disable comments everywhere.
Welcome to the bowel of the Euorovision fandom.
Somebody tell Joost amd his gang there’s a poll… Oh wait, Europapa didn’t cum.
Just a note for people who dislike Eden Golan, blame KAN, not her.
Difficult to judge, because the acoustics in the videos are not very good.
Croatia’s vocals seem to improve. Good.
Angelina at all. She Is so powerful and strong! Hera didn’t deserve the last Place. Her vocali One of the best! She Is SO Underrated!
No hometown country bias in one word below who do you think will win?
For me
Netherlands
Switzerland will dominate the jury vote, Nemo’s vocals are spectacular.
I just hope he wears something better in Malmo, I don’t like his dress here or the sheer tulle dress from his music video & artwork.
Please use the correct pronouns, Nemo is they/ them. Thank you 🙂
But the song is just trash
I think Switzerland, Croatia, Italy, Ukraine and The Netherlands are the 5 potential winners this year. I see Switzerland taking it – Nemo’s live performances are captivating.
It looks like the two favorites for the crown will win their semifinals (Croatia will definitely win the first semifinal and Switzerland the second one). Who will win the final between those two? I’d put my money on Croatia…
My absolute favorite was M&M … but whith AIR!
Something we’ve heard 103939 times before. They’re good but nothing special imo
From the early January whem RTTD was released it kept on growing and growing, becoming the absolute fav for the throne this year. With limited resources, they managed to create this small but fantastic crowd pleaser with actual sunstance, as opposed to boring tired a** party anthems, accompanied by great visuals both stills and videos. He deserves it. And so does Croatia, finally. On our own. This performance hopefully shuts down the usual nasty vocal police. B*** him! I know some of you wouldn’t object to it. :p Said it before, I”ll say it again… Paraphrasing the great late Prince…… Read more »
Yeah he’s great. Fantastic song. What was the starred B word? Boff? 😀
Rhymes with ‘mate’ pronounced with a strong British accent…or ‘kite’. 🙂
I admit Marko is a huge threat for my own faves yes, hence why i’ve been trying to bring him down a little
But yes honestly it is good song with very lovely ethnic traditional outfits
Hehe fair enough.
Hope they stick to the peasant look for Malmo.
I’m sorry, but Marco tore down the roof! Did you see how the crowd reacted to the song? They were singing along! He didn’t even need to sing but you could tell he definitely improved! And then his gritty acapella version of the chorus at the end shows how he is masterfully on his well to winning! By Malmo the heads will roll in his favour!
For me, best live performance was TEYA DORA ????
3,387,000 views + 100,000 likes = Israel 2024
In just 20 days! AMAZING! 2nd most liked official video this year. (And this is AMAZING cause you can only vote for a song and not against a song).
the more you post here, the more i immediately downmark you
”you can only vote for a song” you stink like fish same how eden golan stinks out of her mouth
LOL
It literally has 44% dislikes
pro-p@lestinians and Israel’s haters that will not vote in ESC anyway.. LOL
if israel wins, i am done with ESC so it is hopefully then cancelled for good
wish Eden was never born
Hurricane is coming…. LOL
a non-european troll country winning ESC a thousand times yuk
A mild fart you mean
a very very mild one, if u can think of hurricane as a masterpiece, you definitely need a hearing aid lol and i also can easily copy and paste hebrew lyrics to any song, doesn’t make the song suddenly become authentic or ethnic haha, those hebrew lyrics add nothing, nada to that basic ballad
No, that would be the case if Croatia wins.
Eden is worse, when i look at her i only think of that she knows fully well how to spread her legs really well in front of the red lights lol
How dare you correct United by Music. If UbM says Croatia is the worst, who are you to question that wisdom. UbM is ultimate authority on this! 😉
Croatia i have nothing against
I have something against troublemakers for attention though, it is our mission to hopefully make israel nq and serve out justice for the sake of song contest and light entertainment show, okay fair Eden is pretty and i should not sink that low but i am on my last nerve atm
This is disgusting. Shame on you!
Not feeling any shame, no
Dude, you really need to look for professional help. So much anger and hatred inside of you will not end well.
This is disgusting. Shame on you!
BTW I’ve expected soo much more dislikes.. 2 billions muslims vs 7 millions Israelis… it’s amazing that the likes wins!
Not everyone thinks about zio pr0stitute
This is disgusting. Shame on you!
all for the likes lol, with that ariana grande/christina aguilera clone from planet plastique with her english generic snooze troll ballad
do i care about the few hebrew words near the end, NOPE, i don’t care about a non-european language
Can’t wait for the moment they announce Israel has gotten 0 televoting points ?
Troy, you know exactly what to write to make people more against Israel. No way you really support Israel, this just has to be a false-flag campaign!
I wish I could report you for spam.
“26 Songs: Vocal Destruction Edition” LOL they were awful!
So glad the Eden wasn’t there! She is SOOOO much better than this…
You mean, she’s not welcome there.
By the way, Israel received an invitation to all the parties this year, but the Israeli delegation decided that it was better to keep the surprise, like Noa did last year. It definitely helped Noa. 2nd in the juries, 3rd overall LOL
The surprise you’re referring to is security precautions for an israeli-ruzzian singer, but the real surprise is coming in Malmö, I agree.
i’m sure most who like Eden’s song are israeli people themselves 😉 and you can’t vote for your own country
a normal sane person elsewhere in europe will hear this is just a mediocre been there done that million times before ballad, nothing special about it at all
the best scenario for the contest would be Israel to safely NQ, rather than jeopardizing the grand final with their presence, no israeli delegation at the final, pretty sure there would be no more threats
Watch the reaction videos from around the world 🙂 and even Pro palestinian swedish blogger posted that “the Israeli song is the best this year, and I can’t stand it, they are gonna win, and it’s pisses me off, you don’t even know how much we hate Israel in Sweden”.
The more hate Eden will get the more vote she’ll get… LOL
Whatever makes you sleep soundly. It won’t be as comfortable for the whole delegation in Malmö as you claim it, mark my words. 🙂
Israelis LOVE action!! The media and everyone will talk only about Israel.. as I’ve said… The more hate Eden will get, the more votes she’ll get!! 🙂 can’t wait for May 🙂
We already knew that, you don’t need to tell us
Can’t wait for may either, hate??? My comments arent hate though, and no one would talk about eden if not for you know what
You have your opinion about Israel, which you can have, but your comment about Eden was disgusting. So don’t say you are not a hater because it proved that you totally are…..Why wiwibloggs haven’t blocked you after so many vile comments is a mystery!
i think troy that you have alot of hate inside yourself
Troy is a troll I think.
Not Israeli at all if you read the comments in the last weeks.
Just wants to annoy the people here.
You can keep her.
Imagine calling Eden better than all artists invited to this pre-party because her delegation team doesn’t allow her to enjoy her Eurovision experience properly.
The movements in the odds are probably a more realistic view on how the artists performed instead of this poll..
Let’s see what happens there the coming days.
Switserland already jumped to 2nd.
Switzerland another boring stupid english overrated snooze
Croatia are always sooo perfect at eurovision, 100% qualifying status UGH so annoying that they can never flop
best thing about this pre-party is, No Israeli delegation present here!
Israel’s song is on another level… Noa did it last year and won the 3rd place and 1st in “the rest of the world” vote.. Israelis knows what they are doing! 🙂
i would be on another level but they all are lucky i am not taking part lmao
Except you can’t repeat that success cus Unicorn is better miles than Hurricane.
miles better*
The funniest thing is that up until this year Israel used to host one of the biggest pre parties of the contest with huge attendance from the participating countries. Nobody couldn’t care less about the Palestinians. All this hate is a trend and as every trend it will not last.
Most improved: Croatia & Czechia
Nemo, without a doubt.