Belgium: Snippets of the Eurosong 2023 entries released

Belgium: Snippets of the Eurosong 2023 entries released
Thursday, 15 December 2022

  • VRT, the Dutch speaking Belgian national broadcaster has released snippets of the 14 competing songs of Belgium's national final 'Eurosong 2023'. 

    VRT which is responsible for the selection of next year's Eurovision 2023 representative has bringing back the 'Eurosong' national final format in order to determine the country's hopeful for Liverpool.

    A total of 7 acts will take the stage in Belgium's national final for Eurovision 2023 with each one of them performing two songs. The competing acts and songtitles previosuly revealed are:

     

    • Ameerah – “The Carnival” / “Armageddon”
    • Chérine – “Ca m’ennuie pas” (It doesn’t bother me) / “Mon étoile” (My star)
    • gala dragot – “emotion ollie” / “t‘inquiète” (don’t worry)
    • Gustaph – “Because of You” / “The Nail”
    • Hunter Falls – “Home” / “Ooh La La”
    • Loredana – “I Dream in Colours” / “You Lift Me Up”
    • The Starlings – “Oceanside” / “Rollercoaster”

    While the full versions of the songs will go public on January 9, 2023 VRT has released snippets of the competing entries giving us a taste of the upcoming Eurosong 2023 national final. 

    You can check out all 14 snippets here.

     

    The national final is set to take place in Paleis 12 / Palais 12 in Brussels on January 14, 2023. The outcome of the competition will be determined by a combination of jury voting and televoting. The tickets for the event will be released for sale soon. 

     

    Belgium in Eurovision 

    Belgium is one of the countries to have participated in the Eurovision SOng Contest since its first edition back in 1956. After 30 years the country achieves to win the contest in 1986 with the 13 yo Sandra Kim and her entry “J’aime la vie“.

    The country has finished last in the contest 8 times while in two of these occasions didn’t receive any point at all. In 2003 with the group Urban Trad and their song “Sanomi” it almost reached its second victory finishing in the 2nd place, only two points behind Turkey and Sertab Erener with her entry “Every way that I can“.

    Although the country has managed to qualify to the final 5 times the last decade, with Loïc Nottet in 2015 and Blanche in 2017 achieving the best results coming 4th in the final, the last two years it hasn’t been that story.  In 2018 with  Sennek and “A matter of time” , failed to reach the final although the juries ranked her 9th in her semi final. In 2019 internally selected  Eliot represented the country in Tel Aviv with his song “Wake up” which failed to reach the grand final.

    In 2020 Hooverphonic were internally selected to perform "Release Me" in Rotterdam. Following the cancellation of the contest by EBU due to the coronavirus pandemic, Hooverphonic represented the country in 2021 in Rotterdam with their song 'The Wrong Place" and after qualifying from the 1st semi final show they finished 19th in the final with an overall total of 74 points. 

    This year, The Voice Belgium winner, Jeremie Makiese flew the flag in Turin, Italy singing 'Miss you' which came 19th in the final with a total of 64 points. 

     

    News Source: VRT

    Image: Newsmonkey

     

     

     

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