For the first time since 2015, Greece has opted to organise a national selection in order to choose their entry for Eurovision Song Contest. This morning in the show Proían Se Eídon the 12 hopefuls to wave the Greek flag in Basel have been revealed.

Greek broadcaster ERT has received a total of 187 songs out of which 15 were selected (12 as official participating entries and 3 as back up songs in case someone withdraws from the contest). The line up is as follows:

• Andy Nicolas – “Lost My Way“
• BARBZ – “Sirens”
• Dinamiss – “Odyssey”
• Evangelia – “Vale”
• Georgina Kalaitzoglou & Yannis Vlaseros – “High Road”
• Klavdia – “Asteromata”
• Konstantinos Christoforou & Kostas Karafotis – “Παράδεισος”
• Kostas Ageris – “Γη μου”
• Nafsika Gavrilaki – “Unhurt me”
• Rikki – “Elevator”
• Thanos Lambrou – “Free Love”
• Xannova Xan – “Play it”

The songs will be released later today at ERTFLIX as well as on YouTube. The contest is set to take place on 30th of January at the Christmas Theater in Athens. It will be hosted by two time Greek representatives Sakis Rouvas (2004 and 2009) and the winner of Eurovision 2005 and third placed artist of 2001 Elena Paparizou. The decision of the winner will be made 25% international jury votes; 25% Greek jury votes and 50% public vote.

At Eurovision 2024, Marina Satti managed to receive a total of 126 points which was enough for 11th place in the grand final of the show. You can check out the performance below