The race for Blanca Paloma’s successor heats up as RTVE have revealed the songs that will participate in Benidorm Fest 2024; the show that will pick Spain’s entrant for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest.
Benidorm Fest 2024 Songs
In a live broadcast RTVE revealed snippets of all the competing entries with their song titles before interviewing each participant.
You can listen to this year’s Benidorm Fest entries by clicking on the link in the table below via RTVE’s website. All songs will shortly be uploaded to streaming platforms.
| Artist | Entry | Language |
| Almácor | Brillos platino | Spanish |
| Angy Fernández | Sé quién soy | Spanish |
| Dellacruz | Beso en la mañana | Spanish |
| Jorge González | Caliente | Spanish |
| Lérica | Astronauta | Spanish |
| Mantra | Me vas a ver | Spanish |
| María Peláe | Remitente | Spanish |
| MARLENA | Amor de verano | Spanish |
| Miss Caffeina | Bla bla bla | Spanish |
| Nebulossa | Zorra | Spanish |
| Noan | Te echo de – | Spanish |
| Quique Niza | Prisionero | Spanish |
| Roger Padrós | El temps | Catalan |
| Sofia Coll | Here to Stay | Catalan, Spanish, English |
| st. Pedro | Dos extraños (cuarto de cuerda) | Spanish |
| Yoly Saa | No se me olvida | Spanish |
The third edition of Benidorm Fest is set to take place between the 30th of January, and the 3rd of February next year. The show is set to take place in the Palau Municipal d’Esports in the heart of Benidorm.
What is Benidorm Fest?
Following a decade and a half interval, Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE revived the Benidorm International Song Festival, and transformed into Spain’s selection show for Eurovision. This is not the first time RTVE has experimented with pre-existing formats to select it’s Eurovision entrants; having previously intermittently used Operación Triunfo. Though this time was to much greater success, as inaugural winner Chanel ultimately finished third at the 2022 contest in Turin. Originally held between 1959 and 2006, the winner of the contest would go on to receive the prestigious award the Sirenita de Oro (trans. The Golden Mermaid). Though the winners of the current iteration of the contest receive a bronze microphone instead.
As the contest is at its heart a celebration of Spanish music, the lyrical contest of each song must be at least 60% from on of the official languages of Spain. Voting in Benidorm Fest consists of a hybrid system, with three voting methods: jury, demiscopic, and televote. the jury consists of music professions ranking the competitors, and makes up 50% of the vote. The demiscopic vote is a weighted system meant to balance the vote based on the demographic make up of Spain, and makes up 25% of the vote. The final 25% of the vote consists of simple televote.
Spain’s Eurovision Journey
Spain debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1961 with Conchita Bautista’s “Estando Contigo”. The country earned its first win in 1968 with Massiel’s “La La La”, and won again in 1969 with Salome’s “Vivo Cantando” in an infamous four-way tie. Although they have yet to win again, Spain earned several 2nd place finishes, most famously with Mocedades’ “Eres tu” in 1973 and Anabel Conde’s “Vuelve conmigo” in 1996.
In 2023, Spain selected Blanca Paloma to carry on the success of Chanel in 2022. As part of the Big 5, Blanca Paloma did not need to qualify to the Grand Final from the semi-finals. At the close of voting, her song “EAEA” finished 17th, with a total of 100 points. Of these, 95 points came from the jury, whilst 5 came from the televote.
What do you think of the songs in the running to represent Spain? Who do you think will succeed Blanca Paloma? As always, let us know what you think by commenting below. Also, be sure to follow “That Eurovision Site” on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tiktok as we gear up for Benidorm Fest 2024!
News Source: RTVE
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