Finland: Short snippets of the UMK 2023 competing entries published

Finland: Short snippets of the UMK 2023 competing entries published
Tuesday, 27 December 2022

  • Short snippets of the competing entries in the Finnish national selection of UMK 2023 have been released on the competition's social media. 

    Fans can have a taste of what they will be seeing in the 2023 edition of UMK, the show that will select Finland's Eurovision 2023 representative and song. 

    The competition's social media accounts (Instagram) have published short snippet of the songs to compete in Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu on February 25,2023. 

     

    Have a taste of the competing songs we will see in the Finnish national final for Eurovision 2023 from the UMK Instagram post below: 

     

    UMK 2023

    Uuden Musikiin Kilpailu 2023 is set to take place on February 25, 2023 at the Logomo in Turku for a second consecutive year. Out of 363 entries , 7 artists have been selected to compete in next year's national final.

    While the 7 contestants will be unveiled on January 11, 2023 during a special press conference their entries will be released progressively from the next day and up to January 20, 2023. 

     

     

    Finland in Eurovision

    Finland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 53 times since its debut in 1961. Finland won the contest for the first time in 2006 with Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah". The country's best result before then was achieved by Marion Rung with the song "Tom Tom Tom" in 1973, which placed sixth.

    Finland has finished last in the contest eleven times, receiving "nul points" in 1963, 1965 and 1982. Since the introduction of the semi-finals in 2004, Finland has failed to reach the final eight times. In 2014, the country had its best result in eight years when Softengine finished 11th. In 2015, Finland finished last in the first semi-final with the shortest-ever Eurovision entry, "Aina mun pitää" performed by Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät.

    In 2020 Aksel won the national final with the song “Looking Back”.  As the competition was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic he never reached the Eurovision stage in Rotterdam. Last year the rock band Blind Channel triumphed in UMK 2021 with their song 'Dark Side' and went off defending the Finnish colors in Rotterdam, where they achieved the country's second best result finishing 6th with 301 points in the overall score. 

    This year The Rasmus won the UMK national final and went on represeting the nation with their song "Jezebel" which after advancing to the final finished 21st with 38 points in the overall score. 

     

    News Source: UMK

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