The 61st edition of Festivali i Kenges concludes tonight! After tonight’s show we may have a couple of different winners – the overall winner of the festival as selected by the professional jury, the best newcomer (also selected by the jury), and the act that will go on to represent Albania in Eurovision 2023, which for the very first time will be selected by televoting, which has been opened last night.

We asked YOU to let us know your own personal favorites in this year’s Festivali i Kenges, and the current standings of our poll is as follows:

1. Albina & Familja Kelmendi – Duje – 17%
2. Manjola Nallbani – Dua – 16%
3. Elsa Lila – Evita – 13%
4. Fifi – Stop – 9%
5. 2 Farm – Atomike – 6%
6. LYNX – Nese ke besim – 6%
7. Rovena Dilo – Motit – 6%
8. Enxhi Nasufi – Burre – 6%
9. Rezarta Smaja – N’Eden – 5%
10. Vanesa Sono – Aroma jone – 3%
11. Evi Reci – Ma kthe – 3%
12. Urban Band – Ne cdo hap – 2%
13. Gjergj Kacinari – Dje – 2%
14. Erma Mici – Kozmosi i dashurise – 1%
15. Alban & Lore – Melodi – 1%
16. Petrit Carkaxhiu – Emri yt miresi – 1%
17. Sergio Hajdani – Veshtire – 1%
18. Franc Koruni – Ne pritje – 0%
19. Melodajna Mancaku – Gjysma e zemres sime – 0%
20. Gent Hoxha – Ajer – 0%
21. Fabian Basha – Nje gote – 0%

Albina & Familja Kelmendi are the favorites amongst our readers at the moment of writing this article. They are followed very closely by Manjola Nallbani in second place, and Elsa Lila in a slightly more distant third place. On another hand, Franc Koruni, Melodajna Mancaku, Gent Hoxha and Fabian Basha all received less than 1% of the votes.

Our team has also listened to the 21 songs which are still in the game, and our team’s ranking is as follows:

1. Albina & Familja Kelmendi – Duje
2. Fifi – Stop
3. Manjola Nallbani – Dua
4. Enxhi Nasufi – Burre
5. Vanesa Sono – Aroma jone
6. Erma Mici – Kozmosi i dashurise
7. LYNX – Nese ke besim
8. Elsa Lila – Evita
9. Rezarta Smaja – N’Eden
10. Rovena Dilo – Motit
11. Urban Band – Ne cdo hap
12. 2 Farm – Atomike
13. Petrit Carkaxhiu – Emri yt miresi
14. Sergio Hajdini – Veshtire
15. Fabian Basha – Nje gote
16. Gent Hoxha – Ajer
17. Evi Reci – Ma kthe
18. Gjergj Kacinari – Dje
19. Alban & Lore – Melodi
20. Melodajna Mancaku – Gjysma e zemres sime
21. Franc Koruni – Ne pritje

Both our readers and our team members agree that we should see Albina & Familja Kelmendi win tonight’s festival and the ticket to Eurovision as well, and they are thus ESCBubble’s winners of this year’s Festivali i Kenges!

You can still let us know who YOUR personal favorites are by voting in our poll right here (the poll will close after the end of tonight’s show):

Give a listen to “Duje” by Albina & Familja Kelmendi right here:

Make sure to check back to ESCBubble.com at 9pm tonight, and watch the Grand Final of Festivali i Kenges live with us!