There are quite a lot of superstitions related to Eurovision 2024. One of the well-known of them is in regards to the Grand Closing working order – referred to as the “Curse of the Quantity Two”.
The curse is because of the truth that no nation that has carried out second within the working order within the closing has ever gained Eurovision. Spooky.
The truth is, based on The Mirror, 9 acts who carried out second within the closing have ended up in final place – and three of these bought ‘Nul factors’.
So, who might be on this doomed slot for the Eurovision 2024 closing? The working order was determined within the early hours following Thursday night time’s semi-final, so all can now be revealed.
Spoiler alert: unhealthy information for Ukraine, they’re going to be the second nation on stage. However perhaps they’ll be the nation that lastly breaks the “Curse of the Quantity Two”?
Be aware that there might be no quantity 5 within the working order following the disqualification of The Netherlands’ act Joost forward of Saturday’s closing following an incident backstage. Eurovision organisers have confirmed that acts will nonetheless carry out alongside their unique working order quantity.
Grand Closing Operating Order
1. 🇸🇪 Sweden | Marcus & Martinus – “Unforgettable”
Eurovision 2024 hosts Sweden are putting their hopes on twins Twins Marcus & Martinus, who rose to fame as considered one of Scandinavia’s greatest pop sensations after successful Norway’s ‘Junior MGP’ in 2012.
2. 🇺🇦 Ukraine | alyona alyona & Jerry Heil – “Teresa & Maria”
Second within the Eurovision closing working order 2024 are Alyona and Alyone & Jerry Heil – who will intention to turn out to be Ukraine’s fourth successful Eurovision entry with their monitor “Teresa & Marias”.
The music addresses the power of ladies amid Ukraine’s ongoing struggle with Russia, with the duo stating: “On behalf of ladies, we’re speaking in regards to the significance of unity for important actions and victories. And despite the fact that we, as Ukrainians, wrote this music about Ukraine, everybody can recognise themselves within the lyrics.
3. 🇩🇪 Germany | ISAAK – “At all times On The Run”
Isaak Guderian, often called Isaak, started his profession as a avenue musician, happening to star within the German model of The X Issue, singing a canopy of the Oasis music “Wonderwall”. Isaak went on to win the competition Present Your Expertise in 2021. He’s third within the Eurovision closing working order 2024.
4. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg | TALI – “Fighter”
23-year-old singer Tali would be the first act to characterize Luxembourg at Eurovision in additional than three a long time along with her monitor “Fighter”.
Luxembourg disappeared from the competition’s radar for a staggering thirty years. The first perpetrator was really the ever-increasing monetary burden of participation, based on insiders. Different causes cited together with waning public curiosity within the occasion.
Nevertheless, plainly Luxembourg have managed to seek out some money down the again of their couch: on 12 Might 2023, as the ultimate of the 2023 contest loomed (marking the thirtieth anniversary of Luxembourg’s final entry and the fortieth anniversary of its final victory) RTL revealed that Luxembourg would return to the competition in 2024.
6. 🇮🇱 Israel | Eden Golan – “Hurricane”
Eden Golan might be making an attempt to turn out to be the fifth Israeli act to win Eurovision, with earlier winners for Israel together with Netta in 2018 and trailblazing trans artist Dana Worldwide in 1998.
7. 🇱🇹 Lithuania | Silvester Belt – “Luktelk”
Silvester Belt is not any stranger to a contest, having taken half in Lithuanian singing competitons Aš – superhitas and The X Issue. Describing queer icon Troye Sivan as his “all-time inspiration”, Silvester Belt might be performing electro pop single “Luktelk” at this 12 months’s Eurovision.
8. 🇪🇸 Spain | Nebulossa – “ZORRA”
Synth-pop duo Nebulossa might be representing Spain this 12 months with the music “Zorra”. The music identify itself was topic to controversy within the run-up to Eurovision, translating to “vixen” and sometimes used as a misogynistic insult. The music, with themes of ladies’s empowerment, goals to reappropriate the slur, which was allowed to be included within the lyrics by the European Broadcasting Union.
9. 🇪🇪 Estonia | 5MIINUST x Puuluup – “(nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi”
Hip-hop group 5Miinust and folks duo Puuluup might be representing Estonia with the music “(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi”, reportedly breaking the report for longest music title in Eurovision.
10. 🇮🇪 Eire | Bambie Thug – “Doomsday Blue”
All eyes have been on this headline grabbing, non-binary star recently. They discovered time to talk to PinkNews and defined why the historic non-binary illustration at this 12 months’s competitors is “vital – particularly now”.
Bambie Thug additionally claimed that the European Broadcasting Union made them take away messages in solidarity with Palestine shortly earlier than their semi-final efficiency.
Bambie Thug is a self-described “Ouija-pop” singer; and persons are speculating that they’re attempting to “hex” viewers – or presumably simply a person – with their catchy entry “Doomsday Blue”.
11. 🇱🇻 Latvia | Dons – “Hole’
Latvia has gone for a basic ballad for its entry this 12 months, with singer-songwriter Dons singing the music “Hole”. In keeping with the singer, “Hole” explores the sensation of being held “hostage to your personal insecurities, demons, internal emotions, relationships, and views”.
12. 🇬🇷 Greece | Marina Satti – “ZARI”
Marina Satti will characterize Greece in Eurovision 2024, 50 years to the day because the nation first participated.
Her song-writing type combines the Greek, Arabic and Balkan musical traditions that she grew up round, having launched her first full-length album, Yenna, in 2022. She’s singing “Zari” in Eurovision 2024.
13. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | Olly Alexander – “Dizzy”
UK entrant Olly Alexander is one other performer who has been producing quite a lot of column inches on-line recently. He’s experiencing one of many greatest weeks of his profession so far because the UK’s 2024 Eurovision Music Contest entrant – and he plans to make it “as homosexual as doable”.
He additionally confronted a setback within the semi-finals when he had a “slight wardrobe malfunction”, explaining: “my mic pack fell off and [I] needed to improvise however that’s high quality, it’s reside TV, it occurs!”
He revealed his deliberate music on 1 March 2024. Within the monitor, Olly Alexander has a easy request: he desires to be taken by the hand and spun round “in a second that by no means ends”. You possibly can learn our evaluation right here.
Olly Alexander is thirteenth within the Eurovision closing working order 2024.
14. 🇳🇴 Norway | Gåte – “Ulveham”
Folks-rock band Gåte gained Norway’s nationwide choice competitors Melodi Grand Prix 2024.
The group is a longtime identify in Norway and consists of members Gunnhild Sundli, Magnus Børmark, Jon Even Schärer, Mats Paulsen, and John Stenersen.
15. 🇮🇹 Italy | Angelina Mango – ‘La Noia”
After rock band Måneskin shot to fame after successful for Italy in 2021, the nation has some huge sneakers to fill. Fortunately, chart-topping Angelina Mango may bag that coveted “douze factors” along with her single “La noia”.
16. 🇷🇸 Serbia | TEYA DORA – “RAMONDA”
Serbian singer-songwriter Teya Dora might be representing the nation with the music “Ramonda”, named after the flower Natalie’s ramonda.
The flower is seen to characterize the Serbian folks’s struggles and victory throughout World Warfare One, as a consequence of its means to revive itself even after it’s utterly dried out.
17. 🇫🇮 Finland | Windows95man – “No Guidelines!”
Windows95man, an alter ego of Finnish DJ Teemu Keisteri, is made for Eurovision. His efficiency sees him put on a retro Windows95 t-shirt and scandalously quick jorts as he dances with pyrotechnics connected to his hips. Windows95man has teamed up as a duo with Henri Piispanen who dominates singing their effortlessly catchy, upbeat monitor “No Guidelines.”
18. 🇵🇹 Portugal | iolanda – “Grito”
“Grito” was written by Iolanda Costa alongside Alberto Hernández. In a latest interview she defined that she wrote the music after being invited to take part in Competition da Canção 2024, and described it as “a scream of self defence and trusting in your self”.
19. 🇦🇲 Armenia | LADANIVA – “Jako”
Ladaniva have dropped the video energetic music Jako, forward of their journey to Malmö in Might. The duo is made up of Armenian vocalist Jaklin Baghdasaryan and French multi-instrumentalist Louis Thomas.
20. 🇨🇾 Cyprus | Silia Kapsis – “Liar”
Though born and raised in Australia, Kapsis is of each Cypriot and Greek descent and has appeared on The Jennifer Hudson Present and varied Nickelodeon programmes.
She wrote her debut single, “Who Am I?” on the age of 12, which she launched in 2022, adopted by “No Boys Allowed” and “Disco Dancer”.
21. 🇨🇭 Switzerland | Nemo – “The Code”
“The Code”, by Swiss singer Nemo, is described as a music that explores their expertise popping out as non-binary, with the singer explaining that they didn’t “really feel like a person or a girl… I needed to break a couple of codes”.
Eurovision betting odds presently recommend the 24-year-old Swiss musician is one of many favourites to win the grand closing – even earlier than their semi-final look.
22. 🇸🇮 Slovenia | Raiven – “Veronika”
Combining pop and opera to create a novel sound, Raiven is a mezzo-soprano singer, in addition to an creator, songwriter and harpist. She’s represented Slovenia 3 times at Eurovision, singing “Črno Bel” in 2016, “Zažarim” in 2017, and “Kaos” in 2019.
23. 🇭🇷 Croatia | Child Lasagna – “Rim Tim Tagi Dim”
Croatia might be represented by Child Lasagna – a venture by musician Marko Purišić – with the music “Rim Tim Tagi Dim”, a monitor representing an adolescent’s journey from Croatia in quest of a brilliant future out of the country.
24. 🇬🇪 Georgia | Nutsa Buzaladze – “Firefighter”
Nutsa Buzaladze is not any stranger to competitors: She completed within the high 12 in American Idol in 2023, performing “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” with none apart from Aussie pop queen Kylie.
25. 🇫🇷 France | Slimane – “Mon Amour”
Slimane began performing within the piano bars of Paris’ Pigalle district, and went on to win The Voice France in 2016. He’s since offered two million albums, and secured 5 Nouvelle Radio des Jeunes music awards and a Victoire de la Musique.
26. 🇦🇹 Austria | Kaleen – “We Will Rave”
Final however not least, we have now Austria’s Kaleen, who’s the ultimate act within the Eurovision closing working order 2024. Pop star {and professional} dancer Kaleen might be competing on behalf of Austria. Presenting a techno-inspired pop monitor, “Video games”, she’s elated to “present the world” what she will do.
You possibly can watch each single video for every Eurovision closing working order 2024 music right here.
The Eurovision 2024 reside closing will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Saturday eleventh Might at 8pm.