This is by far the most nuanced take I've seen on Eurovision's voting system; it's definitely worth a watch.

As captivating as birds who sing in sync, MARO's guitar trio brought an almost imperceptible, natural beauty to her Tiny Desk, characteristic of an artist truly in her element.

It makes sense that the Portuguese guitarist and singer-songwriter would feel at home in this space given her previous visit to the Desk as a featured player and vocalist in Jacob Collier's Tiny Desk concert. Beyond that, the artist came ready-made for the platform, prepared to lay bare a transfixing expression of bilingual heartbreak, strung together by the seamless narration of three acoustic guitars.

Opening with "há-de sarar," the singer invited the listener to participate in her journey of heartbreak with sing-songy guitar harmonies and gently ebbing Portuguese vocals. Transitioning to "just wanna forget you," MARO reminded the audience of the raw emotionality of her lyricism, trading languages to emphasize the melancholic guitar rhythms, weaving a tale she suggested most can relate to. Finishing with "can you see me?" and "I SEE IT COMING," she encouraged everyone to join in singing, inserting whatever lyrics or sounds they felt compelled to add.

At every stage of her performance, she reminded the listener that regardless of language, culture or place, within a few weeping guitars and mesmerizing vocals lies some deeply and universally felt truths.

The successful YouTubers from De Bankzitters want to go to the Eurovision Song Contest. They announced that on Tuesday during a press conference. Additionally, they will do a large interactive show in the Afas in Amsterdam.

De Bankzitters consist of YouTubers Milo ter Reegen, Koen van Heest, Robbie van de Graaf, Raoul de Graaf and Matthyas het Lam. They say they've been following Eurovision for years and that they want to make a serious attempt to represent the Netherlands in Malmö in 2024. On 13 January 2024 they will give a large show in the Afas in Amsterdam and they also want to show a preview of their submitted song there.

De Bankzitters previously released various successful songs, including "Je blik richting mij" with which they claimed the #1 position in the Spotify Charts in 2022 with more than 22.8 million streams. They also had three songs last year in the Top 2000.

A selection commission comprising among others Cornald Maas chooses from all submissions which act goes to Eurovision. Nothing is known yet about other submissions.

Source: https://twitter.com/fake_eurovision/status/1677596262860726272

They're awesome and make many other funny things like this one, so check them out if you like this. :D

The ESC announcement video that #Malmö will be the venue!

#ESC2024 we are coming!

This is the monthly video of the Eurovision Youtube channel about the top 20 most watched videos. It's always interesting to follow it, and how it develops after the contest has finished.

I wrote down the exact results about it but spoilered it in case you want to see the video first (I'll write my thoughts in the comments). Click on it to read them!

Not just necessarily restricted to 2023, just in general: What songs did you initially like but stopped liking (as much) after the ESC Grand Finale (or the ESC semi in which the song NQed), and what songs did you initially not like so much, but started liking after the ESC Grand Finale (or an NQ)?

Today, Luxembourg started accepting applications for their ESC entry in 2023 on their website https://eurovision.lu. The national final will be televised and deciding on which artist can represent Luxembourg.

All applicants must be a Luxembourg citizen, have lived in Luxembourg for at least three consecutive years or have a strong cultural commitment and a proven connection to the Luxembourg music scene.

The exact requirements with more information about the participation are available on the linked website.

This graph shows the result each country got in its first participation in the Eurovision song contest. Because the amount of competitor rose so much over the decades (originally, there were just 7 competitors, while now, there are regularly over 40), just taking the place each country got wouldn't be accurate or fair - even the last place back then would be much higher than a really good result now. Therefore, I took the relative placement: The first place is 100% and the last place is 0%. This is more fair since it takes into account how many people have participated and accurately shows how good a country really was in the contest.

Some countries with special circumstances are marked with an asterisk and slashes in the line. For one, this is Switzerland 1956 who won the first contest (which some could be argue is kind of unfair because one country had to win it). Additionally, it won with a shady voting system since the Swiss jury had twice the voting power and juries could vote for the own country. The other countries marked are the countries who participated in the first contest 1956. The exact results of it have never been published (just the winner); therefore their real first result is unknown. Instead, I took their results in the second contest (which they all participated in). I also included Switzerland 1957 because of the special circumstances of their win in 1956.

The country bars are also marked in different colours. This is to easily show the type of their placements: Blue bars represent countries whose first participation was before the introduction of semifinals. Green bars represent countries who qualified to the final in their first participation. Red bars represent countries who failed to qualify to the final in their first participation.

Luxembourg will finally return to the Eurovision Song Contest after a 30 year pause. They now publicly stated that RTL will be responsible for the song selection and that they'll start the Eurovision process next week. All details regarding registrations and the recruitment of candidates will be communicated through their official (new) website https://www.eurovision.lu/ .

What I mean is Sweden 2023 vs Sweden 2022, Finland 2023 vs Finland 2022, etc.

I’ll start in the comments, and I’d be interested in what other people think as well! :)

It doesn’t need to be every country, just write it for the countries you want: Maybe the top contenders, or your favourites, or the ones where you’ve got an unpopular opinion.

I found it really funny and cute how she reacted to the video; and it's really nice for the originl editor to be recognised this way :)

I found it quite interesting to see what songs from the grand finale have been streamed most and how that differs from the placement in the Grand finale itself. Therefore I made charts out of it.

This is the second chart which depicts the difference between the stream rank (from the Spotify streams) and the actual placement in the Grand finale.

The United Kingdom has the best stream rank compared to their placement, which makes sense since they've had a good pop song which can be popular in the radio and on TikTok, but an underwhelming performance with a bad placement. Poland also got a much better stream rank, which I also expected, given how that's rather its target audience.

On the other side, Lithuania and Croatia have the worst stream ranks compared to their placements. They both are songs that (in my opinion) are very fitting for the ESC and appreciated by its juries and viewers, but are not songs many people would frequently listen to and stream, so I can also see that.

What do you think about these results? Are there things that surprise you or what you were sure would be like this?

I found it quite interesting to see what songs from the grand finale have been streamed most and how that differs from the placement in the Grand finale itself. Therefore I made charts out of it.

This is the first chart, showing the streams. Sweden has, as expected (since they won the contest) the most streams. Interestingly, Norway also has more streams than Finland.

I just wanted to say welcome to everyone who has found here and wants to be part of the Eurovision space on Lemmy. I've improved this space in the past time (I've added an own unique banner and created more specific rules) and I will start posting some stuff to fill it with content :D Feel free to engage and interact, we can only build good alternatives to reddit this way.

If you have any criticism or things you want to change, just comment here or contact me; I'm open to changes and want to create a space everyone here can enjoy.

As far as I know, there are also other ESC spaces on Lemmy. Currently, we coexist and just see how things go. If you want to see all ESC content on Lemmy, go check them out!

Hello to anyone stumbling across this, I just wanted to let you know that there are existing Eurovision communities at:

!eurovision@feddit.uk (Lemmy / Kbin)

!Eurovision@kbin.social (Lemmy / Kbin)