What an incredible show Malmö! Tonight live from Malmö Arena in Southern Sweden the first of three shows of Eurovision 2024 delivered the first ten qualified acts to this Saturday’s final. And what a sensational TV production SVT put together for the millions and millions of Eurofans watching from all over Europe, Australia and beyond. We have ten lucky qualifiers!
It could not have started in a better way. Put together Eleni Foureira, Eric Saade, Chanel, Petra Mede and the comeback of Luxembourg and we have it: an incredible first semi final of Eurovision 2024. At the end of fifteen amazing performances and an interval act with two-times Eurovision winner Johnny Logan the two hosts of this year’s edition Petra Mede and Malin Åkerman announced the ten lucky qualifiers to the Grand Final on Saturday 11 May 2024.
Tonight’s contestants
- Cyprus – Silia Kapsis – Liar
- Serbia – Teya Dora – Ramonda
- Lithuania – Silvester Belt – Luktelk
- Ireland – Bambie Thug – Doomsday Blue
- Ukraine – Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil – Teresa & Maria
- Poland – Luna – The tower
- Croatia – Baby Lasagna – Rim tim dagi dim
- Iceland – Hera Björk – Scared of heights
- Slovenia – Raiven – Veronika
- Finland – Windows95man – No rules!
- Moldova – Natalia Barbu – In the middle
- Azerbaijan – Fahree feat. Ikin Dovlatov – Özünlə apar
- Australia – Electric Fields – One milkali (one blood)
- Portugal – Iolanda – Grito
- Luxembourg – Tali – Fighter
The qualified acts
Ten acts advanced to the Grand Final thanks to the sole support of the televote of the participating countries, plus the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden and the Rest of the World. They are:
- Serbia
- Portugal
- Slovenia
- Ukraine
- Lithuania
- Finland
- Cyprus
- Croatia
- Ireland
- Luxemburg
Recap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-awO-OLsrA
Running Order
The running order is set to be announced right after the Second Semi-final. This is how the ten qualifiers drew their starting position:
- Serbia – producer’s choice
- Portugal – producer’s choice
- Slovenia – second half
- Ukraine – producer’s choice
- Lithuania – first half
- Finland – second half
- Cyprus – second half
- Croatia – producer’s choice
- Ireland – first half
- Luxemburg – first half