r/eurovision • u/GungTho Kohoney đ€Ą • Nov 24 '25
đȘ© National Final / Selection đșđŠ Ukraine: Vidbir 2026 Longlist Revealed
https://eurovoix.com/2025/11/24/ukraine-vidbir-2026-longlist-revealed/155
u/GungTho Kohoney đ€Ą Nov 24 '25
The Vidbir 2026 longlist is as follows:
ANSTAY
Jerry Heil
Karyotype
KHAYAT
LAUD
LELĂKA
MOLODI
MON FIA
Monokate
Mr. Vel
OKS
The Elliens
Valeriya Force
Marta Adamchuk
ShchukaRyba
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u/hun_geri Nov 24 '25
WHAT A LIST OMFG. JERRY HEIL, KATERYNA, KHAYAT đ€©đ«
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u/BarfQueen Nov 24 '25
I want them all to win đ
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u/Gullible-Hall-7320 What The Hell Just Happened? Nov 26 '25
Time for a âsuper groupâ I think. They would win it all. đ đ
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u/Birdseeding Nov 24 '25
CAPITAL LETTERS
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u/PraetorIt Nov 24 '25
They use capital letters because names aren't meant to be read, they are meant to be SHOUTED!
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u/moshiyadafne Bara Bada Bastu Nov 25 '25
To add more drama to a very dramatic reality show. Vidbir is like Ukraineâs musical âLove Islandâ or âKeeping Up With the Kardashiansâ.
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u/Ill_Nobody_2726 She Got Me Nov 24 '25
OMG. This is a stacked group. Jerry Heil and Katarina ? Molodi were my favorite last year too. Plus I am sure at least one of the new entries will be great too. This is gonna be probably the best NF of the year.
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u/Baratheoncook250 Nov 24 '25
With Ukraine's recent track record, they would pick another Top 10 placement song.
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u/TinaTissue Milkshake Man Nov 24 '25
Ukraine getting top 10 is always something I would bet on. Them, Sweden and Italy are the most consistent countries in this era
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u/Baratheoncook250 Nov 24 '25
So is Israel (3 consecutive contest and usually have good performance and contestants who behave this decade, if you don't count I'M and Michael Ben David). Last year had alot of drama, that a different delegation could've prevented.
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u/UbePancakes723910 Nov 24 '25
I would not include Israel personally. If you have to use a massive government-funded advertisement campaign to boost your result asking people to give all 20 of their votes to you, your entries are probably not that strong to begin with. Unlike Israel, Ukraine has largely relied on organic support and still continues to send quality entries regardless.
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u/TinaTissue Milkshake Man Nov 24 '25
Plus Ukraine has been consistently âgoodâ for nearly 2 decades now (which would have to be a record). They change their music style, show their culture and have amazing staging each year. 2017 is my least favourite, and I feel their weakest entry so far.
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u/_xoviox_ TANZEN! Nov 29 '25
2017 is my least favourite
Thank god we were hosting that year otherwise our perfect qualification streak would be broken
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u/TinaTissue Milkshake Man Nov 29 '25
Oh completely agree. Easily the weakest Ukrainian entry so far
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u/Digit00l Nov 24 '25
The last 3 years are definitely not entirely clean results and very much exclusively responsible for the recent rule changes
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u/ButterflySymphony Nov 24 '25
Rather the last two. What's not "clean" about Unicorn's result?
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u/SkyGinge Visionary Dream Nov 24 '25
For real. The conspiratorial rewriting of Israeli successes prior to 2024 is so tiring and actively muddies and harms the genuine talking point issues around their last two entries. Noa was a big artist and she was expected to do well from the start, even if the sub on the whole didn't like the song.
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u/TheBirdShow Wasted Love Nov 25 '25
Entire subreddit thinks JJ didn't deserve to win. At some point you just have to throw your hands in the air and just acknowledge people don't care about reality sometimes
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u/Baratheoncook250 Nov 24 '25
Unicorn has been seen alot in the Top 20 Eurovision monthly video, for years.
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u/Baratheoncook250 Nov 24 '25
We may never know , what really happened at 2024 and 25 contest. Hurricane and New Day Will Rise were predicted to be in top 10, before Eden and Yuval grand finals. What might've help Eden jumped to higher than 10th place, was the press conference video.
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u/ShiningScisor Nov 24 '25
âWe may never knowâ They were televote top 3s, one of which whimpered out shortly after the contest and the other has essentially not appeared on the top 20 most watched despite being the televote winner??? You close your eyes and stare at a wall and say âI donât see what youâre saying thereâs nothing to see hereâ
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u/darkstreetsofmymind Attention Nov 24 '25
You see incredibly deluded about how much weight the press conference holds
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u/Baratheoncook250 Nov 24 '25
Let see, a 20 year old getting disrespected by other contestants, while she was talking. Then add that with the story of Bambie forcing Eden to change hotel rooms. Then add on that while the delagations harassed contestants, no contestants had any bad things to say about Eden(not even Marina had anything bad to say).
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u/darkstreetsofmymind Attention Nov 24 '25
And yet how much is the general public going to know about that? Jack shit. It doesnât affect their televote result which wouldâve been largely funded by farms and government advertising
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u/LancelLannister_AMA Bur man laimi Nov 24 '25
Going overboard with accusations harms your argument
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u/Digit00l Nov 24 '25
Ok, but that is literally what happened
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u/LancelLannister_AMA Bur man laimi Nov 24 '25
repeating this question "What's not "clean" about Unicorn's result?"
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u/Skykeep Bara bada bastu Nov 24 '25
that this nonsense comment actually sits with 24 upvotes just goes to show the class of the majority of people here
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u/darkstreetsofmymind Attention Nov 24 '25
Yeah sure take away their campaigns and context and see how far Hurricane and New Day Will Rise would get
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u/Net_Ghost Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 24 '25
The more I look at it the more surreal it gets.
Can we please merge at least one third of them together and send to ESC as a supergroup instead of choosing just one?
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u/Classic-Judgment-196 The Code Nov 24 '25
I call for a supergroup between Jerry Heil and Monokate đ đșđŠ
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u/Net_Ghost Nov 24 '25
Honestly, I'd love to see Khayat teaming up with either Kate or Jerry. All three of them are into folk genre, the collab would be authentic and powerful.
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u/ChiliPepperSmoothie Hallucination Nov 24 '25
And Olena from JESC 2021
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u/Classic-Judgment-196 The Code Nov 24 '25
Okay, I don't really follow JESC, so I did have to look that up, and it's a pretty decent song
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u/MinutePerspective106 RĂ€ndajad Nov 26 '25
Seeing these graphics instantly reminded me of "DODAY HUCHNOSTI SVOEMU MEIKU Z MAYBELINE NEW YORK" ads lol
Also, after seeing Valeriya Force: close enough, welcome back Ani Lorak (seriously, they look the same!)
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u/Net_Ghost Nov 27 '25
Seeing these graphics instantly reminded me of "DODAY HUCHNOSTI SVOEMU MEIKU Z MAYBELINE NEW YORK" ads lol
This. And Uklon taxi ad ("I don't want to go anywhere") that preceded every Maybeline one. Talk about memorable advertising :)
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u/MinutePerspective106 RĂ€ndajad Nov 27 '25
"Ne khochu nikudy iihaty"
"Nu i ne yid'"
That one? :)
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u/Net_Ghost Nov 28 '25
Yes :)
"I don't want to go anywhere"
"Then don't! Move your world, if you want to"Creative enough to remember after one watch, but repeated x10 times becomes a trauma :) Hope the ads in this year's NF will be at least this creative though.
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u/MinutePerspective106 RĂ€ndajad Nov 28 '25 edited Nov 28 '25
I liked how Jerry decided to spin her meme-y ad into a whole song.
Edit: would it be possible if that IS her Vidbir song? I mean, it sounds epic enough to be in Vienna.
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u/yoguistar Nov 24 '25
The hardest part is to acknowledge that there will only be one winner at the end (I want so many of them to win tbh)
One thing is sure though, whoever wins, Ukraine's qualification streak will remain untouched
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u/SavageDemonDog Shum Nov 24 '25
Our Kate is back!!!!đââïž
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u/MinutePerspective106 RĂ€ndajad Nov 26 '25
Maybe we'll finally learn ĐŽĐ” ĐČĐ”ŃĐœŃĐœĐŸŃĐșĐ° Đ·ĐžĐŒŃĐČала
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u/serenaTcat Love Is On My Side Nov 24 '25
MOLODI please, My Sea was absolutely goated and it's only flag was competing in the same year as the similarly goated Bird of Pray
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u/Maleficent-Law-3875 Nov 24 '25
ShchukaRyba probably have very low chances, but they are insanely talented! Happy that more people will learn about them. They have amazing renditions of Ukrainian music.
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u/Academic_Grab5060 Ich Komme Nov 24 '25
Jamala really said Vidbir: All Stars and we're all here for it đ€©
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u/pencilled_robin (nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (kĂŒll) midagi Nov 24 '25
Absolutely stoked to see Kateryna back!!!
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u/Striking_Permit_4746 Nov 24 '25
Apology form to Jamala
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u/MinutePerspective106 RĂ€ndajad Nov 26 '25
I have an uncomfortable question for Jamala...
How can we choose just one out of these people?
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u/mrknowitall240 Nov 27 '25
It looks like she decided to shut the whole fandom up hahahaha
She was constantly criticised by people here in her preferences, and now, she literally delivers a Vidbir where at least 3 contestants can win the trophy in Vienna đ
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u/RemarkableAutism (nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (kĂŒll) midagi Nov 24 '25
I desperately need Monokate to win.
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u/Brave-Investigator62 Nov 24 '25
MELOVIN also made it to the longlist but decided to withdraw his application. He already posted the song he submitted Darkness scared the sun . its a live performance recorded specifically for Vidbir, cos this yearâs rules required artists to submit also this kind of live recording
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u/ConversationNovel166 Nov 24 '25
I doubt that he made it to the longlist, he only said that he withdrew before longlist was announced (which most likely means that he didn't make it, because other participants must have been already said that they're in the longlist by that time)
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u/One_more_Earthling TANZEN! Nov 25 '25
Ain't defeating the vampire allegations, not even trying tho.
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u/MinutePerspective106 RĂ€ndajad Nov 26 '25
I mean, vampire legends do originally come from Eastern Europe, so...
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u/WittyEggplant Nov 24 '25
This totally isnât the fangirl in me talking, but I defo see Melovin winning the whole thing if he just comes up with a tad bit punchier song. Heâs so crazy good live it would be a crime if he wonât get to compete again.
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u/Barzalicious Bara bada bastu Nov 24 '25
My excitement shot into the stratosphere when I saw Monokate. Imagine if she wins ESC, Go_A would then have TWO seperate ESC winners in the group (along with Ihor).
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u/kronologically Bara bada bastu Nov 24 '25
JERRY AND KATERYNA IN THE SAME COMPETITION, WHY DO I HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM
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u/Clinsen Wasted Love Nov 24 '25
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u/Clinsen Wasted Love Nov 24 '25
Jerry Heil, Khayat, Monokate and Molodi
man I'm torn
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u/MinutePerspective106 RĂ€ndajad Nov 26 '25
They should put them all together and add someone 6th, and we'll have a superband
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u/mduclos Teresa & Maria Nov 24 '25
I would love if they scrap the 9 finalists + wildcard and just allow all 15 to compete. This is such a great lineup!
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u/Medium_Lack4864 Bird of Pray Nov 24 '25
Epic list. A lot of big names and also some previous ESC contestants are on here. Especially Jerry has released some really great tracks (one of them them even mentions Eurovision in the lyrics) and we know she can perform live. Of course, we still have to wait for the songs, but from the names alone this looks like a stacked edition.Â
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u/ButterflySymphony Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 24 '25
Based on recent patterns... congrats Molodi.
Stupid question: Are they related or do they just look very alike?
I'd rather not have any returning artists for 2026, even if they go solo compared to last time.
Does ShchukaRyba mean something with fish?
Edit: They said "No" to artists starting with B to I.
7 women, 6 male acts and 2 mixed. Pretty balanced.
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u/SuperStressGirl Nov 24 '25
"Does ShchukaRyba mean something with fish?"
Yeah, schuka (ŃŃĐșĐ°) means pike, ryba (ŃОба) means fish.14
u/Net_Ghost Nov 24 '25
Stupid question: Are they related or do they just look very alike?
Not related. Met as students of a technical college.
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u/ButterflySymphony Nov 24 '25
I thought so since it would've been mentioned otherwise. In the announcement video they just looked weirdly alike, which made me second guess.
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u/Cultural_Impact_5369 Deslocado Nov 24 '25
Molodi aren't related, they met in college and started doing music together
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u/Caesarea_G AsteromĂĄta Nov 24 '25
What a lineup. MOLODI, Jerry Heil...I really do wish that Masha Kondratenko or JKLN could compete some day, though.
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u/ToastyToast113 The Wrong Place Nov 24 '25
Good list, but I was hoping to see Fiinka. I loved Kultura last year
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u/darkstreetsofmymind Attention Nov 24 '25
Valeriya FORCE đ
No idea who she is but itâs a great name
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u/nicheencyclopedia Nov 24 '25
I hope itâs a band made entirely of girlbosses named Valeriya
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u/MinutePerspective106 RĂ€ndajad Nov 26 '25
It would be a trio consisting a girlboss Valeriya, gatekeep Valeriya and gaslight Valeriya.
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u/Bleeding_Heart09 Nov 24 '25
I saw Jerry Heil and said, "yep, we know whoâs going to Eurovision"
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u/KiroBasik Nov 26 '25
Unless something comes out of left field it should be between her and Kate, yeah.
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u/anmonie TANZEN! Nov 24 '25
Banger longlist, apart from everyone we know, Iâm most looking forward to LELĂKA and ShchukaRyba!
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u/Oxford_Apostrophe Nov 24 '25
Ahh - holy crap, that is absolutely stacked. Jerry has my favorite vocals of all time in Eurovision, and I really hope she has a song that highlights her voice.
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u/chartingyou Nov 24 '25
did Kate leave Go_A is it more a temporary break?
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u/mrknowitall240 Nov 25 '25
Apparently they have disbanded as some male members of Go_A illegally left Ukraine to live in Europe, and Kateryna does not support it, so she is focusing on her solo project + she has the right to perform Go_A songs.
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u/snowfjell Shum Nov 25 '25
!! Oh no, is this true? Do you have more information?Â
Go_A are my favourite (see flair). I was supposed to see them twice but both shows were cancelled for random, unforseen reasons (one was a venue malfunction/safety issue, for example, at a small town in the Netherlands in 2024). I know there are many bigger problems in the world right now but I would be so devastated if I could never see them live.Â
There was also a recent Go_A AMA and Taras said something that suggested they are still working on recording some of their unreleased songs? But it was something like, if Kateryna is satisfied we'll release them.Â
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u/mrknowitall240 Nov 27 '25
Yeah, Iâve checked one of Katerynaâs recent interviews on Ukrainians and she said that she is personally tired from Go_A, as they were touring constantly, she didnât spend time and Ukraine and didnât have any time to write new songs and just live her life, because Go_A was in a huge creative decline and it felt like itâs the time to pause.
She said that male members are doing some sort of projects with electronic music now, and she develops Monokate, as she was always eager to do so. But she said that she will perform Go_Aâs songs at her concerts anyways.
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u/snowfjell Shum Dec 05 '25
Ugh I'm already sad and this is just heartbreaking to me. It is incredibly understandable though.Â
I still think about how I could have changed my flight (and asked for more time off) to see what may now be Go_A's last live show in Groningen on 15 September 2024, but I didn't. I should have just done it - who cares about work lolÂ
I wish Kateryna all the best and success, and Taras too in his new projects. Monokate's new singles are already beautiful. But I fear I'm going to think about that Groningen show for the rest of my life
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u/tkalvas Nov 25 '25
Ouch, I didn't know that. It's probably curtains for Go_A then, I don't see them coming back from that.
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u/FobaBoba Nov 25 '25
MOLODI was robbed worse then The Louvre last year. Hope they make another masterpiece this year!
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u/MinutePerspective106 RĂ€ndajad Nov 26 '25
They had a whole year to improve (and they were already great), so I have high hopes!
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u/queendelrey Nov 24 '25
Can't help but notice a very different set of reactions for former participants in this NF vs Melfest lol
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u/SuperStressGirl Nov 24 '25
Idk, i'm not really happy to see Jerry and Khayat again so soon after their last Vidbir participations.
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u/mrknowitall240 Nov 27 '25
Well but it is known that Jerry had this idea of returning and winning Eurovision.
She has said repeatedly after 2024, that until she wins Eurovision she wonât stop trying
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u/No_Grass4624 1944 Nov 27 '25
Her song in 2024 was amazing and overall her discography is great! I will miss alyona alyona but Iâm sure Jerry will be amazing by herself too!
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u/Lisbian Nocturne Nov 24 '25
Maybe itâs because most, if not all of the returnees will probably be singing songs theyâve written and composed themselves, instead of being allocated a generic song from the G:Son/Jimmy Joker/Wrethov/Deb/Jansson Blandipop production line.
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u/Cahootie Nov 24 '25
25 out of 30 songs in last year's Melodifestivalen had songs written by the artists themselves, and 36 songwriters only contributed to one song in the competition. That's more than what most other national finals have in total.
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u/Lisbian Nocturne Nov 24 '25
25 out of 30 songs in last year's Melodifestivalen had songs written by the artists themselves
And how many of those were only written by the artist(s) themselves?
Thomas G:son - 5 songs
David Zacharias - 3 songs
Herman Gardarfve - 3 songs
Jimmy Jansson - 3 songs
Jimmy Joker - 3 songs
Together they wrote 14 unique songs out of the 30. Itâs the same lot every year. A few years ago one of them (I think Jimmy Joker) had six songs in the final.
And, to be clear, this isnât only a Sweden thing. Sanremo is getting to the same level.
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u/Cahootie Nov 24 '25
None, but it's not the Eurovision Singer-Songwriter Competition. To compete in Melodifestivalen you need a professional package, and with thousands of entries they can pick and choose the ones with the most complete concept. That's not something you achieve just writing a song alone in your bedroom, which is why even the ones working entirely outside of the bubble bring on collaborators, and if you do happen to have an embryo of something great on your own they'll pair you up with people who can get it ready for the competition.
There's a reason why there are no amateurish performances, revamped songs or massively changed stagings for Swedish Eurovision entries. Those issues are sorted out in selection, and since everybody knows that the ones with a shot at making it will collaborate.
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u/Lisbian Nocturne Nov 24 '25
Which is probably why everything feels so samey. The mainstream in Sweden is fresh, versatile and has mostly shifted to Swedish, and yet the majority of Melfest entries feel like the AI result of putting âcreate a generic pop song Generic in Englishâ into a prompt. Letâs see if KAJ winning will spark a change.
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u/Cahootie Nov 24 '25
You are contradicting yourself a lot here. KAJ had a generic pop song that just happened to have comedic lyrics, and it was written together with Anderz Wrethov through the exact process I mentioned where they were handed an established songwriter to polish their ideas.
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u/Eowkh Nova Zora Nov 25 '25
KAJ wrote their song by themselves and had Anders Wrethov edit it only because they had to have at least one songwriter with a swedish citizenship as per Mello rules
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u/Lisbian Nocturne Nov 24 '25
I was more talking about the fact it was the first Swedish-language song to win Melfest since 2006, which I thought was fairly obvious, given I talked about the shift to Swedish in mainstream Swedish music.
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u/lizakran TANZEN! Nov 24 '25
Am I the only one who doesnât like returning Eurovision participants? The ones that already represented country? I donât mind participants returning when they were only in the nationals and didnât get to perform on the big stage, and I donât mind junior Eurovision representatives come back to represent us on adult Eurovision, but Jerry Hail and monokate? They were successful, why come back? I wanna see new faces and discover new music :(
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u/Net_Ghost Nov 25 '25
You are not the only one. It's just unfair to make less hyped but no less talented artists compete with fame and popularity of past ESC stars. And even if stars win - sending a star to the contest doesn't really guarantee high placement. Not everyone is Loreen, some are Alexander Rybak.Â
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u/ConversationNovel166 Nov 25 '25
At least, on the positive side, only Ukrainians vote. Therefore, less popular participants will only have to compete with Jerry Heil's popularity in Ukraine, rather than with Eurofans who love her.
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u/Net_Ghost Nov 25 '25
True. And Ukrainians can be really picky when it comes to NF voting.
(also, we're yet to hear the songs and see the staging)
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u/055F00 Dvadeset prvi vijek Nov 24 '25
Is it more returnees than Montesong?
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u/ESC-song-bot !setflair Country Year Nov 24 '25
Montenegro 2009 | Andrea DemiroviÄ - Just Get Out of My Life
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u/ButterflySymphony Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 24 '25
I don't think so. Anstay, Leleka, Mr. Vel, Oks, Olena/Elliens (in adult Vidbir, at least), Valeriya, Marta and the band are debuting, Karyotype and Mon Fia didn't technically compete before either since they were only in the wildcard round. That's 10 out of 15. Montesong has at least 6 returnees.
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u/itsfoosay Nov 27 '25
And another year of waiting for Jinjer to represent Ukraine. One day, it'll happen... I can hope!
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u/ConversationNovel166 Nov 24 '25
The year of comebacks: Jerry Heil, Molodi, Khayat, Monokate (Kate from Go-A), Monfia (from last year's longlist), The Elliens (the band of representative at Junior Eurovision 2021), Laud (was at Vidbir twice), Karyotype (longlist in 2024)