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Eurovision Song Contest 2024: guide

All you need for broadcast and performer info for a big week Live from Malmö, Sweden on SBS.

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Theme:
United by Music becomes the slogan for all future events.

Venue:
Malmö Arena, Malmö, Sweden.

Hosts:
Petra Mede, Malin Åkerman (pictured, bottom).

SBS presenters:
Joel Creasy
Myf Warhurst
Courtney Act (Backstage)

Semi Final One 

Live Wednesday 8 May at 5:00am AEST (replay Friday 10 May at 7:30pm AEST)

1 Cyprus Silia Kapsis “Liar” * (pictured top)
2 Serbia Teya Dora “Ramonda”
3 Lithuania Silvester Belt “Luktelk”
4 Ireland Bambie Thug “Doomsday Blue”
5 Ukraine Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil “Teresa & Maria”
6 Poland Luna “The Tower”
7 Croatia Baby Lasagna “Rim Tim Tagi Dim”
8 Iceland Hera Björk “Scared of Heights”
9 Slovenia Raiven “Veronika”
10 Finland Windows95man “No Rules!”
11 Moldova Natalia Barbu “In the Middle”
12 Azerbaijan Fahree feat. Ilkin Dovlatov “Özünlə apar”
13 Australia Electric Fields “One Milkali (One Blood)” * (pictured above)
14 Portugal Iolanda “Grito”
15 Luxembourg Tali “Fighter”

Guests: 2018 Swedish entrant Benjamin Ingrosso performing a medley of his songs and three-time winner for Ireland (1980, 1987 and 1992) -a total of 21 people take to the stage in a super medley. Plus Australian born Johnny Logan.

* Australian artist.

Semi Final Two

Live Friday 10 May at 5:00am AEST (replay Saturday 11 May at 7:30pm AEST)

1 Malta Sarah Bonnici “Loop”
2 Albania Besa “Titan”
3 Greece Marina Satti “Zari”
4 Switzerland Nemo “The Code”
5 Czechia Aiko “Pedestal”
6 Austria Kaleen “We Will Rave”
7 Denmark Saba “Sand”
8 Armenia Ladaniva “Jako”
9 Latvia Dons “Hollow”
10 San Marino Megara “11:11”
11 Georgia Nutsa Buzaladze “Firefighter”
12 Belgium Mustii “Before the Party’s Over”
13 Estonia 5miinust and Puuluup “(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi”
14 Israel Eden Golan “Hurricane”
15 Norway Gåte “Ulveham”
16 Netherlands Joost Klein “Europapa”

Guests: Helena Paparizou, Sertab Erener, and Charlotte Perrelli performing their respective winning songs – “My Number One” (Greece 2005), “Everyway That I Can” (Turkey 2003), and “Take Me to Your Heaven” (Sweden 1999) – with an audience sing-along.

Final

Live Sunday 12 May at 5:00am AEST (replay Sunday 12 May at 7:30pm AEST)

1 Sweden Marcus & Martinus “Unforgettable”
TBA France Slimane “Mon amour”
TBA Germany Isaak “Always on the Run”
TBA Italy Angelina Mango “La noia”
TBA Spain Nebulossa “Zorra”
TBA United Kingdom Olly Alexander “Dizzy”

Guest performer: Loreen.

Presenter Petra Mede will also perform an interval number, titled “We Just Love Eurovision Too Much”, alongside one or more as yet undisclosed performers.

Voting:
Australians can vote Live during Semi Final One 5am AEST Wed May 5 and Final 5am AEST Sun May 12. by following the prompts on screen. The jury and Australian public can vote for any country except Australia.

Latest Eurovision Odds see here
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Australian Jury / Spokesperson:
Yet to be announced.

NB: TV Tonight will be publishing Live results following all early morning broadcasts. Please avert your eyes if you are awaiting primetime replays.

Photos: Sarah Louise Bennett, Janne Danielsson / SVT / EBU

4 Responses

  1. Feels like SBS’s heart just isn’t in it any more. Open up SBS on demand and you won’t see a single Eurovision special or promo tile anywhere. Haven’t seen a single promo during SBS World News either. Eurovision is firmly within its charter (more than Alone) and has a very proud history behind it – we wouldn’t have a Curovision culture here without it! Yet the days of special docos with Julia Z driving around the host country or exploring and celebrating Australia’s unique relationship and history with Eurovision seem long gone.

    There was obviously a marked shift to Myf and Joel going more mainstream and less Eurovision fan humour you got with Julia (to our loss) and the investment and interest has dropped even further since then. Atarmon need to realise that doing things like Eurovision properly, by actually spending some money, gives them the social licence to do things that are wildly off charter like Alone. Unfortunately SBS’ slow drift to being dull and ordinary continues.

    1. I checked SBS on Demand and the promo is under New and Upcoming. I’m sure from Wednesday you won’t be able to escape it. There probably isn’t much point trying to plug 2023 ESC, so they need the new content. Yes it’s a shame there aren’t extra specials which I guess gets back to SBS budget. I wouldn’t call Alone wildly off charter. People make the mistake of thinking multicultural = ethnic, and in the 1980s that’s probably true. But Alone does showcase the multi in multicultural including Indigenous, LGBT and even Seniors, connection to land etc.

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