Romania: All Selecţia Naţională 2023 participants confirmed along with the running order

• The Romanian national broadcaster, TVR, has confirmed the complete line up of the national final 'Selectia Nationala' and revealed the running order. 

  TVR has shared the final list of the national final participants and held a draw in order to determine the running order of the show that will select Romania's Eurovision 2023 hopeful in Liverpool. 

  With the addition of Andrei Duţu who will be singing the song “Statues”, which was submitted without a specific artist to deliver it, TVR completed the line up of the next national final. 

  Through a special draw that took place with a pot of 36 numbers the artists picked one of them and the ones with the lowest number are to perform in the first positions while the biggest ones in the last places. 

  Here is the final line-up and how the running order draw came out: 

  1. Deiona – “Call on Me” 
  2. Andrada Popa – “No Time for Me” 
  3. Ocean Drive – “Take You Home” 
  4. AMIA – “Puppet” 
  5. Andrei Duţu – “Statues” 
  6. Theodor Andrei – “D.G.T. (Off and on)” 
  7. Steven Roho x Gabriella x Formaţia Albatros – “Lele” 
  8. Aledaida – “Bla Bla Bla” 
  9. Adriana Moraru – “Faralaes” 
  10. Maryliss – “Hai Vino” (Come on) 
  11. JaxMan (Erin Dăneţ) – “Bad&cool” 
  12. Andreea D Folclor Orchestra – “Periniţa mea” (My little girl) 

   

  Selecţia Naţională 2023

  Selecţia Naţională 2023 has been the format used to determine all the Romanian Eurovision entries apart from 2021. The live national final of Selecţia Naţională 2023 will take place on February 11, 2023. The outcome of the final will be influenced equally by a jury voting and the televoting results. 

   

  Romania in Eurovision 

  Romania made its first attempt to compete in the contest back in 1993 for the Eurovision Song Contest. After competing in the preliminary  semi-final in Slovenia with Dida Dragan, failed to win one of the three spots that led to the Eurovision stage in Millstreet, Ireland

  Romania officially debuted at the the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 with Dan Bitman and has participatted a total of 23 times since then. Its best reuslts were scored in 2005 with Luminita Anghel and in 2010 with the duo Paula Seling & Ovi achieving in both cases the honorable 3rd place in the Grand Final. In 2016 the country received a penalty by the EBU due to its broadcaster’s overdue debt and was forced to withdraw from the contest, although it had chosen its Eurovision entry and act for Stockholm.

  In 2020 the Roxen was internally selected to represent Romania at ESC2020 with the song was “Alcohol You”, whose production was by Viky Red, the music being signed by him along with Ionuţ Armas and  written by Ionuţ Armas and Breyan Isaac. Unfortunately the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic and Roxen didn't reach eventually the Eurovision stage. However, for 2021 Roxen was internally selected to represent the nation in Rotterdam performing 'Amnesia', which sadly didn't make it to the final. 

  This year WRS won the national final with the song 'Llamame" and defended the Romanian colors in Turin where he finished 18th in the Grand final after receiving 65 points. 

   

  News Source: TVR

  Image: TVR

   

   

   

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Angelos D.
Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 13 consecutive years along with the 2017-2024 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last three years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.