He Song Festival Eurovision 2024 it’s here. The European music competition kicked off on May 7 with the first semi-final, which was followed two days later, on May 9, by the second. On Saturday, May 11, the grand final will be held that will determine which country succeeds Sweden as the winner of Eurovision after Loreen won the Crystal Microphone in 2023 with her song ‘Tattoo’.
In 2024 there have been up to 37 candidate countries to win the prestigious festival, so the Spanish representative duo, Nebulossa, will have to show off their song ‘Zorra’ to win. The big favorites, according to the bets, are the rapper Nemo Mettler, who will represent Switzerland singing ‘The code’; Baby Lasagna, who will defend the colors of Croatia with ‘Rim Tim Tagi Dim’, and Angelia Mango, who will try to get her cumbia ‘La noia’ to take the award to Italian lands.
As usual, there are six countries already classified for the final: the components of the so-called ‘big five’, which are Spain, Germany, Italy, France and the United Kingdomto which we must add the host of the edition, which in 2024 will be Sweden. Ten of them have already qualified for the first semi-final, and 16 more will compete in the second semi-final, in which 6 will be eliminated.
The first of these semi-finals, which took place this Tuesday, May 7, starting at 9:00 p.m., brought together 15 countries, of which 10 qualified. The competitors who went to the final were Serbia, Portugal, Slovenia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Cyprus, Ireland, Croatia, Luxembourg and Finlandwhile those eliminated have been Poland, Iceland, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Australia.
The second semi-final took place on Thursday, May 9, also starting at 9:00 p.m., but there was one more country among the candidates, making 16 in total. As in the first semi-final, 10 representatives have gone to the grand final. In it they have been classified Latvia, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Israel, Greece, Estonia, Switzerland, Georgia and Armeniawhile they have been eliminated Malta, Albania, Czechia, Denmark, Belgium and San Marino.
For the grand final, which will start at 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, there will be 26 competitors: the 10 winners of each semifinal, the 5 of the ‘big five’ and the host Sweden. The 37 competing countries will have the right to vote, and the public from the rest of the world will be able to support their favorites as if they were part of an extra country.
Remember that you can find out here about everything that happens in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, with a breaking latest news of the semi-finals and final, images, galleries, videos, anecdotes, news… and we will be especially attentive to the performance of Nebula.