Some more, featuring our own SBS team!
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I had a feeling it wouldnât be Stockholm.
I thought Malmo or Gothenberg. Malmo is a good spot, just across âThe Bridgeâ from Copenhagen.
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This weekend Loreenâs 2023 winning song âTattooâ will hit 200 million streams on Spotify, making it the fastest Eurovision song ever to push 200M+ streams.
It also already ranks as the 8th most streamed Eurovision song on Spotify ever (in that short period). With daily streams still of 1.5million+ per day, it will definitely get up there as one of the most streamed Eurovision songs ever. Itâs very close to overtaking her last winning song âEuphoriaâ.
Compare that to this yearâs second place song âCha cha chaâ who a lot of people thought was robbed of the title. It has an impressive 90M streams on Spotify but thatâs less than half of Tattoo. Itâs streaming numbers are dropping too, it is currently getting only 1/4 as many daily streams as Tattoo.
https://twitter.com/vodimtenigranku/status/1682021737398153217?t=ByVS1MKP8XTgeCLJco-wvA&s=19
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Cyprus love sending Aussie born artists it seems
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well, not just Australian, the last Cypriot born person to represent them was 2017
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SBS confirmed at its upfronts today that it would broadcast next yearâs event from Malmo, but was still in discussions with the EBU regarding participation by an Australian artist.
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It will be interesting to see if Israel actually compete? They were on the list of confirmed countries but that was obviously before the events of the last few weeks.
So far it seems that 35 countries are confirmed but there are also strangely a few countries that have not confirmed whether they are participating or not. The countries still waiting confirmation on are: Armenia, Australia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania and North Macedonia .
In the last few years competing countries were confirmed by Late October or early November, however for 2024 Eurovision has stated that it is still being finalised and will be announced in the coming weeks.
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The United By Music slogan becoming permanent is very obviously a precursor to the EBU announcing Israel will be competing next year.
Unlike the case of Russia where a lot of the broadcasters refused to participate if Russia was allowed to still be part of the contest, there has been no pushback from other EBU members when it comes to Israel taking part.
In terms of the participation list not coming out yet, I think thatâs all down to Australia as our contract expired this year and a new one has to be negotiated.
Regarding Israel performing itâs going to be controversial judging by the comments on the Eurovision Instagram pages. Itâs kicking off already from both sides.
None of the ones that in the competition already, at least. Still a few EBU members that donât compete because Israel does (self-referring to a post of mine from six months ago). I agree that itâd probably rock the boat too much (from an EBU point of view) to exclude the IPBC though, even if itâs going to it likely being more controversial than theyâd like.
Junior Eurovision on You Tube - opening ceremony in a few hours.
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Apparently tickets on sale tomorrow for Malmo. Wonder what the chances are of scoring any? Thinking of going.
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They go on sale at 7 pm AEDT tomorrow night, last year the first wave of tickets sold out in less than 30 mins. Luckily I have managed to score live show tickets through the OGAE ESC Australia fan club.
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Thereâs been no official announcement about Australiaâs participation next year yetâŠhowever on the ticket page for Eurovision, there is this:
The Live TV Show is exactly that: a live television show. Audiences across Europe (and Australia) will get to cast their votes to add to the Jury scores. No randomisations this time - itâs all for real!
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I mean, itâs strange that they wouldnât just say âand around the worldâ in brackets, either wayâŠ
Unless the plan is to at least want to keep them - and thus at least publicly suggest the ball is more in SBSâ court - and/or they were planning to not extend the ârest of the worldâ audience vote they did last year.
If they keep the latter⊠weâll get to cast our votes either way, just would go to the RoTW total if we donât enter (but we wouldnât then have a jury). The plot thickens.