PBS has just announced that they have received 138 songs for Malta Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place on the 20th and the 21st of November this year. They also released the list of 48 songs that qualified for the second phase in the Maltese national selection. These 48 songs will be performed in front of a jury, which will then select the best 20 to take part in the televised semi final, and final respectively.
In the 48 songs we find many familiar names, some of which already took part in Eurovision: Gianluca Bezzina (as part of L-Ahwa), Glen Vella, Ludwig (as part of Trilogy), Miriam Christine, Olivia Lewis. Here’s the full list of qualifiers:
- Amber – Warrior
- Andreana Debattista & Fiona Cauchi – Never ask why
- Anna-Maria Grima – Eclipse
- Annabelle Vella – Indestructible
- Bekkie – Dream of love
- Chris Grech – Closed doors
- Christabelle – Rush
- Corazon Mizzi – Secretly
- Danica Muscat – Close your eyes
- Danica Muscat – Love call
- Daniel Testa – Something in the way
- Dario Mifsud Bonnici – The thief
- Deborah C – It’s OK
- Domenique Azzopardi – Empty hearted
- Domenique Azzopardi – Dark dark waters
- Domenique Azzopardi – Hey yo
- Domenique Azzopardi – My next tattoo
- Domenique Azzopardi – Take me as I am
- Estelle Imbroll – Hold my hand
- Fiona Cauchi – Your phone
- Franklin Calleja – Still here
- Gabriella Azzopardi – Ringside
- Glen Vella – Breakaway
- Gloriana Arpa Belli – For all those times
- Iona Dalli – Could have been me
- Jacqueline Richard – Break all borders
- Jessica Muscat – Fandago
- Joseph – What? When? Where?
- Karen Debattista – 12, Baker Street
- Kurt Cassar – Call it love
- Kurt Cassar – Where do we go?
- Kylie Coleiro – Stuck without me
- L-Ahwa – Beautiful To Me
- Larissa Borg – See through lover
- Lawrence Gray – The one that you love
- Lyndsay Pace – Home
- Malcolm – Shine a light
- Marilena Gauci – Hurricane
- Minik – Once in a while
- Monroe – Flame
- Neville Refalo – Look
- Olivia & Miriam – Hold on to love
- Raquel Galdes – Stop haunting me
- Simaria Galea – Freedom
- Soraya Cardona – Who needs a heart
- Sr Michaela, Sr Monica, Sr Rita, Sr Claudia, Sr Denise & Sr Magdalong – Love & let go
- Stefan Galea – What you wanna hear
- Trilogy – Chasing a dream
The final 20, which will make it to the semi finals of Malta Eurovision Song Contest will be revealed in Xarabank, a popular TV Show on TVM on the 3rd of October.