Eesti Laul 2025 received 175 song submissions
65 in Estonian
110 in Foreign languages (including Italian, French and German)
15 songs will be now picked by a 35-member pre-jury, which will be announced in the beginning of November and revealed on December 6th
Estonian delegation's PR Pille-Mai Helemäe:
"The words of our artists have been arbitrarily interpreted in the media and social media. 5MIINUST and Puuluup are preparing for the final rehearsal and will take the stage as planned. (1/2)
Ringvaade continues the yearly tradition of creating the Estonian cover of the Eurovision winner song
Bedwetters - Kood
Lyrics translated by Leelo Tungal
[🎥 Ringvaade 13.05.2024, ETV/ERR]
We understand international Eurovision viewers may be confused about the lyrics in an unknown language, so we asked Estonian accessibility experts to help explain the song's lyrics
🏆 Alika wins 5 awards at Estonian Music Awards 2024
#muusikaauhinnad
Debut Album, Female Artist, People's Choice award & Album of the Year with "Alika" and Song of the Year with "Bridges"
📷 Kanal 2 / Duo Media Networks
Interview with 5Miinust and Puuluup right after qualifying for the finals, where they end up making a bet over who will win
[🎥 ETV's Terevisioon 10.05.2024]
Good morning
#EestiLaul
enthusiasts waiting for the artist reveal
🕖The 15 semifinal participants will be revealed on today's Ringvaade starting at 19:00 EET (18:00 CET), likely in the second half of the show
[📺 ERR]
0⃣1⃣ Ollie "My Friend"
author: Oliver Mazurtšak
Grete: Rock at it's peak
Ott: Ollie hasn't lowered his target, maybe even risen it. Glad to see him back with another really strong song
ERR has published the 41 members of
#EestiLaul2024
pre-jury
The 15 selected semifinalists will be announced on 6th November Ringvaade, while the 5 auto-qualifiers will be revealed on 7th
Estonian delegation has left for Malmö
(kohver and lancelot were watching football in Germany over the weekend and fly separately)
[🎥 eesti_laul on instagram)
Marko Reikop takes Puuluup and 5Miinust boys to the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmö. Some of them did well there, others less so
(Segment has been cut down a bit for length)
[🎥 ETV's Ringvaade 03.05.2025]
Universal Music Estonia has gifted 5Miinust and Puuluup framed pictures in celebration of being the first song in Estonian to reach the 10 million milestone
[🖼️ universalmusicestonia on instagram]
"(nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi" by 5miinust & Puuluup has now surpassed 10 million streams on Spotify (+1 million in 12 days). It's the 17th
#Eurovision
2024 song to reach this milestone. 🇪🇪
5MIINUST ja Puuluup. (sellest) Eurovisioonist ei tea nad (küll) midagi
[they (really) don't know anything about (that) Eurovision]
Just a few years ago, neither 5MIINUST nor Puuluup would have thought they'd go to Eurovision in the near future
[🎥 ETV/ERR]
#EestiLaul
VOTING UPDATE:
* In round one, 3 songs will qualify based on jury + televote. Jury will consist of 25 members, who were also in pre-jury
* In round two 2 songs will qualify based on only televote
Voting opens at the start of the show. One televote costs 1.40€
President of Estonia Alar Karis congratulates 5Miinust and Puuluup on their victory at Eesti Laul
This year an unexpected cooperation brought an expected result at Eesti Laul, and so the will of the people will send 5MIINUST and Puuluup to Malmö.
We do not have any more information about the incident and only the EBU and the artist or the Dutch delegation can comment on it." (2/2)
Source: Kroonika/Delfi liveblog 13:58
Ringvaade report from the Nordic Party - interviews with 🇸🇪, 🇫🇮, 🇮🇸, the surprising connection between Puuluup's Ramo and 🇩🇰 Saba, BBC's Rylan Clark, and YouTubers ESC Norway &
@esc_gabe
[🎥 ETV's Ringvaade 07.05.2024]
5Miinust and Puuluup to Dutch site NU:
"We have had no contact with [Joost] after everything [..], he has enough on his mind. It's really too early to say whether we will pull out if he is not allowed to participate. We don't know what happened, we really have to wait and see."
5Miinust Lancelot revealed on Postimees' "Mis Uudist?" how they'll change the Lay's line in (n)netm(k)m:
ainus kott mis laual täis pandipudeleid
(the only bag on the table is full of deposit bottles)
ETV celebrated the 69th (nice) anniversary yesterday
But what marks has Eurovision left in ETV's history? Here are the most significant moments
[🎥 ETV Kõige kõigemad, ETV/ERR 2020]
#eestilaul2024
Finals running order
1. Brother Apollo
2. Carlos Ukareda
3. Ewert and The Two Dragons
4. Anet Vaikmaa
5. Ollie
6. Daniel Levi
7. Uudo Sepp, Sarah Murray
8. Peter Põder
9. 5Miinust ja Puuluup
10. Nele-Liis Vaiksoo
Youtuber Epix Eurovision Guy appeared on today's morning show Terevisioon to talk about the Eesti Laul semifinal, both as an eurovision fan and as a jury member
🧵 for tl;dr, he usually uploads interviews to his youtube channel after a week
[Guest Performances]
Last year's winner Alika will be joined by fellow super-finalist Bedwetters to perform a version of Bridges that combines Alika's vocals and Bedwetters style
Interview with 5Miinust and Puuluup on today's Hommik Anuga [28.04.2024] (Part 1)
Talharpas, preparties, spilling some tea, fans, kindergartens, new album and Eurovision
🏆 ERR's Raadio 2 has announced the Hit Songs of the Year (based on online vote by listeners)
Estonian Hit of the Year: Villemdrillem - Leekiv armastus
International Hit of the Year: Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha
🗓️ ETV has published their schedule on Eesti Laul finals week
Eesti Laul 2024 final part 1 will start at 19:30 EET (18:30 CET) until news & sport at 21:00 EET (20:00 CET)
Part 2 will start at 21:30 EET (20:30 CET) and last until 23:00~23:05 EET (22:00~22:05 CET)
In an hour (20:00 EET/19:00 CET) ETV will have an hour long special showing the preparations in Tartu for both the Eesti Laul semifinal and the entire culture capital of Europe year
🗓️ERR has released the TV schedules for Eurovision week
== ETV ==
Tue May 7th: Eurovision SF1
Thu May 9th: Eurovision SF2
Fri May 10th: ABBA: Against the Odds
Sat May 11th:
21:35 How are the preparations for Eurovision in Malmö
22:00 Eurovision Finals
Commentator: Marko Reikop
[17.12.2023] YouTube's Top 100 Music Videos of the week ranking:
#1
5MIINUST x Puuluup
#2
Ollie
#10
Daniel Levi
#19
Traffic
#42
Ingmar
#50
Carlos Ukareda
#57
Ewert and The Two Dragons
#68
Brother Apollo
#74
YONNA
1⃣5⃣ Laura "Here's Where I Draw the Line"
authors: Laura Põldvere, Johannes Lõhmus
Grete: True veteran, 7th time when including Eurolaul, usually with Sven Lõhmus but this time Johannes - who isn't related to Sven
Ott: Seems like they collabed well as she's also listed as author
Winners of Kroonika's 2024 Estonian Entertainment Awards:
Artist of the Year - 5Miinust & Puuluup
Entertainer of the Year - Kristjan Jõekalda (TV Host)
Sexiest Man of the Year - villemdrillem (Artist)
Sexiest Womand of the Year - Eeva Esse-Sõõrumaa (TV Host/Journalist)
Kroonika has released the list of nominees for 2024 Estonian Entertainment Awards
Entertainer of the year:
Alika Milova
Andrei Zevakin
Sexiest man of the year:
NOËP (Andres Kõpper, Tenfold Rabbit/Meelik)
Artist of the year:
5Miinust & Puuluup
For context, the "new zealand leaks" in esc refer to when artists/labels upload songs for release on specific day but don't set a specific time+timezone. It then defaults to midnight at every timezone, meaning people in (or vpn-ing to) new zealand get releases first
Ewert and The Two Dragons
@ewert2dragons
(Eesti Laul 2024) announces that after 15 years they'll stop the activities as a band after this summer's concerts
Translation in alt-text
Congratulations to the latest winner of the Superstar show Ant Nurhan
Born in Turkey, Ant has family in Estonia and studied Estonian while singing in WAF music school. He has also expressed hopes to go to Eurovision
Check out his performances:
🖼️ TV3
#EestiLaul2024
semifinal will open with a ✨ pink carpet ✨ party, broadcast live on ETV at 18:45 EET/17:45 CET
Additionally all of the postcards will be Tartu themed
#VaikePuustLinn
- Marko Reikop (Estonian commentator) sabotaged the boys by giving them weird tasting licorice on the carpet (ERR's plan so they don't win)
Kohver: Vote for the Danish chick (may have bet money on her)
Päevakoer: and Switzerland
Marko: and Lithuania
Tonight's Ringvaade will have the boys give their fresh impressions from Eurovision and Estonian version of "The Code" performed by The Bedwetters (lyrics translated by Leelo Tungal)
🕢 19:00 on ETV, but likely in the 2nd half of the show
[🖼️ Ringvaade instagram stories]
With a week to go until
#EestiLaul2024
finals, here are the latest charts:
Youtube Top 100 Music Videos (from week ago until today):
#1
5Miinust x Puuluup
#4
Traffic
#31
Ollie
Grete: A song with a great name, group consists of 5Miinust's remaining 4 members and 2 from Puuluup
Ott: It's definitely an unique song, just from the combination of 2 groups. They've made an interesting song, it might be the earworm of this selection (like parmupillihullus)
On May 18th
#Tartu2024
will host "Kissing Tartu" concert which will also celebrate Estonia's 30th participation in Eurovision
Featuring preformances by: 🇦🇹Conchita Wurst, Victor Crone, Liisi Koikson, Lenna Kuurmaa, Koit Toome, Hanna-Liina Võsa, Jaanika Sillamaa, (cont)
ETV's schedule for 20. January:
18:45 EET - Eesti Laul 2024. Pink Carpet
19:15 EET - Eesti Laul 2024. Semi-final part 1
21:00 EET - News, Weather, Sport
21:30 EET - Eesti Laul 2024. Semi-final part 2
22:35 EET - Scheduled end / start of next show
ERR has revealed to Delfi/Kroonika that this year the price per vote is 1.40€
"This year we wish that with these complicated economic times everyone who wish to could still vote. As there's only one semi, the people's votes will matter more" - Karmel