Today PBS have announced the 70 songs that made it through to the second phase of the competition.

A record breaking 210 entries have been submitted to the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2014. Since then, a number of judges have been carefully listening to the songs behind closed doors and have now shortlisted the number to 70. These are the songs that made the cut:

As one can expect, from this list there are lots of familiar names including past representatives Miriam Christine (1996), Fabrizio Faniello (2001, 2006).

Artists that came close to winning in the past and decided to try their luck again are Amber, Davinia Pace and Eleanor Cassar as well as artists that we’ve seen in the national final numerous times like Francesca Borg, Deborah C, Corazon, Pamela, Romina Mamo, Wayne William (Micallef), Dorothy Bezzina, Kaya and Anna Azzopardi.

The next step in the Maltese selection is Friday 29th November, where the 20 finalists will be announced on the local programme Xarabank.

The Maltese national selection will take place on Friday 7th February and Saturday 8th February where the 27th Maltese representative will be chosen.

Gianluca won the right to represent Malta with the song Tomorrow and achieved 8th place in the final.

Stay tuned to esctoday.com for more information about Malta and the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest.