Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The Busker with Dance (Our own party) has won the Maltese ticket to Eurovision song contest 2023 in Liverpool. All in all the top-3 is quite surprising but also very refreshing. Maltese wnated to take a risk this time around and I think they will benefit from that come May. Results (Jury + televote): 1. The Busker - Dance (Our own party) (41 + 80) 121 2. Ryan Hili - In the silence (41 + 44) 85 3. Matt Blxck - Up (45 + 31) 76 4. Maxine Pace - Alone (28 + 45) 73 5. Brooke - Checkmate (39 + 31) 70 6. Chris Grech - Indescribable (27 + 7) 34 7. Ian - On my own (19 + 3) 22 8. Fabrizio Faniello - Try to be better (12 + 9) 21 9. Eliana Gomez Blanco - Guess what (10 + 10) 20 10. Christian Arding - Eku car (11 + 6) 17 11. Nathan - Creeping walls (3 + 9) 12 12. Dan - It'll be OK (8 + 2) 10 13. Cheryl Balzan - La la land (5 + 4) 9 14. Giada - I depend on you (1 + 2) 3 15. Geo Debono - The mirror (0 + 3) 3 16. Stefan - Heartbreaker (0 + 3) 3 To be updated

 Emma Muscat (22) joins Mahmood & Blanco and Achille Lauro as household names for Italian viewers at Eurovision song contest 2022 in Turin as she won Malta's national selection last night with Out of sight. Emma studied music and dance, and started uploading her songs to Youtube in 2016 and two years later she was in Italy taking part in Amici di Maria de Filippi finishing fourth and getting a record deal. 2018 and 2019 she was inIsla of MTV with names like Jason Derulo, Martin Garrix, Bebe Rexha and Ava Max, dueted with Joseph Calleja and Eros Ramazzotti. Then followed her EP, Christmas songs and featuring with Italian stars like Shade and Junior Cally, followed with collaborations with Biondo, Astol and Alvaro De Luna and her first major hits.  And now she's ready to step out to the spotlight for real and represent her island in her adopted home country.  All the jurors gave her full 12 points (while all of them giving 10 to Aiden) and she clearly won also televote,...

Malta returns to national multi artist selection after experimenting with X Factor and internally chosen songs for a couple of years. And it is like time stood still: mainly same names and same songwriters and same sounds return. Only that Maltese language is heard in more than one song this year, and Malta's biggest star abroad at the moment, or at least in Italy, Emma Muscat is taking part. Add Euroviison veterans Richard Edwards and Jessica Muscat, Nicole Azzopardi sung at Junior Eurovision 2010 and Francesca Sciberras the year before. Philip Vella & Gerard James Borg, ever present have saved their songs all these years and are back as are Swedish peter Boström and Greek Dimitri Stassos and Nektarios Tyrakis and most of the other names are also Malta Eurovision regulars, both writers and artists.  As I said, time has stood still. A total of 22 songs were in the semi-final and 16 make the final cut. When writing this we still have all 22 in the running so I will update that p...