Eurovision 2024 Live from Malmö: Semi-final 2 Dress rehearsals and jury voting take place

• The 2024 Eurovision week continues to unfold with the Semi-final #2 dress rehearsals taking place in Malmo Arena along with the jury voting. 

  As Eurovision week is unwinding ,after last night First Semi-Final Live Show and the first ten qualifiers determined, the contest progresses this evening to the Jury rehearsal show for the Semi Final 2 competing acts will take place in Malmo Arena. 

  The 16 competing acts will take the stage in addition with the pre-qualified finalists from France , Spain, Italy and Italy. All acts will perform entries which will be watched by the 19 national juries.

  The Jury show in the past editions was of significant importance as the jury votes counted as the 50% of the score with the rest 50% been deteremined by the televoting. Howerver, this no longer the case as the jury voting in the Semi-Finals this year will only be used unless a valid audience vote has not been recorded or needs to serve as  a valid voting results. 

   Photo credit: Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU

  This evening's juring show will not be broadcaster live or can the onsite press film any part of the show as it's exclusively aired for the national juriies. Addtionally a dress rehearsal is set for 15:45 CEST which is accessable to the press and will give one more opportunity to the competing acts to get even more prepared for tomorrow's live show.  

   

  Rest of the World Voting

  Int this year's edition the Rest of the World fans will have a say in the outcome of the show. In order to sychronize the different time zones,  the Rest of the World online vote will open from the end of the Jury Show this evening. The vote will be open until the end of the voting window during the live broadcast of Semi-Final One on May 9.

  Fans from non participating countries will have the chance to cast their votes once the prewatch a clip of all of the cometing entries. Voting will cost 0.99 Euro per vote and can be carried out at www.esc.vote.

  

   photo credit: Sarah Louise Bennett/ EBU

   

  Running order

  Here is the running order for tonight's show:

  1.  Malta – Sarah Bonnici – “Loop”
  2.  Albania – Besa – “Titan”
  3.  Greece – Marina Satti – “Zari”
  4.  Switzerland – Nemo – “The Code”
  5.  Czechia – Aiko – “Pedestal”
  6.  Armenia – Ladaniva – “Jako”
  7.  Austria – Kaleen – “We Will Rave”
  8.  Denmark – Saba – “Sand”
  9.  Latvia – Dons – “Hollow”
  10.  San Marino – Megara – “11:11”
  11.  Georgia – Natia Busalazdze – “Firefighter”
  12.  Belgium – Mustii – “Before the Party is Over”
  13.  Estonia – 5miinust and Puuluup – “(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi”
  14.  Israel – Eden Golan – “Hurricane”
  15.  Norway – Gåte – “Ulveham”
  16.  Netherlands – Joost Klein – “Europapa”

   

  You can always check out the official recap of the 16 competing entries of the 2nd semi final in the orfer they will appear on stage:

   

  News Source: Eurovision.tv

  Images: Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU

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Angelos D.
Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 12 consecutive years along with the 2017-2023 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last two years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.

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