Malmö 24: The Collection

Welcome to Malmö 24.

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Here you can follow all the artists and their songs, releases (physical and digital), versions, promo info and unmissable trivia like charts, discographies, some preselection goings-on and useful links for listening and shopping. You know the drill.

We've been to Malmö before, 2013's collection is here.

Also check out the links to previous collections here.

Please note, we're always under construction.

Super Trouper thanks to Rick!, can't do it without you. 

Updates pages on top: 

Czechia - Aiko on a Pedestal, LP out now, ESC version, stripped version

United Kingdom - Happy New Years & Years, Oh you make me dizzy Olly, Extended version, and a host of REMIXES and their DJs + Acoustic, 7"inch cds and USB single, ESC Performance version out now, Daniel O'Donnell remix, Post Eurovision remixes continue

Let's Get Physical: Should I laugh or cry, National Final CDs, Official album CD/LP dates. Not so physical, the karaokes dissected. Comparing versions. more vinyl and CD stuff

Netherlands cdsingle

Switzerland: Nemo cracks the code and WINS, CDsingle with stuff, remix by Felix Jaehn. Final, Orchestral version, WINNER!

Netherlands - Joost Klein's Europapa, cdsingle, remixes, OUT!

The Eurovision Collections 2009 - 2024

Greece - I've been waiting for you, Marina Satti Final, new EP with versions

Moldova: Dum Dum Diddle, Woman In The Middle: Natalia wins Etapa națională Spot the tiny difference, Carnival Brain remix

Germany - Ich will zum ESC, listen, Isaak wins, shit or no shit, New EP with new versions.

Malta - Waterloop, MESC winner Sarah Bonnici, single out now, Acoustic

Australia Bang A Boomerang, Electric Fields return, One Milkali (One Blood), remix. No Final but banging new remix

Sweden - Melodifestivalen 2CD out now, some extra versions, Two For The Price Of One: Marcus and Martinus twins, Acoustic version

Azerbaijan - Fahree & Ilkin, last song revealed, No Final but an atmospheric new version out now

Latvia - Supernova winner Dons, Latvian original version, sped-up version 8, Acoustic version, Final

Norway - MGP, Riddle solved: Gåte to Malmö, "old" LP, New CD & LP compilation, Final

Georgia - Nutsa Buzaladze's Fire Fighter. it's here... Final

Austria - Kaleen, Will Rave. In Final

Estonia: Really Officer..., Weed know.... Baga chips exchanged, Kannatused Ehk Külakiigel Pole Stopperit CD/LP Finaalist

Israel - Rising Star Eden Golan, Hurricane Final

Luxembourg - fighting their way back to the top: Wëllkomm zréck, ESC version out now, Never missed a Final

Ireland - If It Wasn't For The Late Late Nights, Doomsday blues for Bambie, Intimate version out now, Final

Portugal: FdC songs out now, also on CD, Iolanda's victory, to the Final

Lithuania - Eurovizija.lt, Sylvester Belt's out Luktelk, new mix, Final

Serbia - Pesma Za Evroviziju 24, Songs out Teya Dora wins, 2CD out now, Unplugged version, an extra second of intro, Final

Croatia: DORA 2024, Baby Lasagna, Final

Finland - Thank You For The New Music Competition, 90's throwback No Rules! wins UMK but there are Rules for W95♂. Relaxing Remix, Goes Classic, Final

Slovenia - That's so Raiven - Veronika, listen , Acoustic session Final

Cyprus - Silia Kapsis - Liar, Acoustic, Remixes, Final

Ukraine - Vidbir 2024, they decided and sing about Saints. Never missed a Final, Hallelu!

Italy - Mamma Mia! , 16 albums on the way and a 7", alternate 2CD issue, Angelina Mango, Poké Melodrama CD/LP/Picdisc, Duet version with Álvaro de Luna, Sanremo releases updated 7-5

San Marino - Una Voce, it's complicated. Time for Megara, 11:11 in the mix

Albania - Besa Kokëdhima Titanic revamp out now, Live version release

France - My Love My Life, Slimane's Mon Amour, reworked, triple CD imminent

Poland: Luna's Tower, now also acoustic and on 12"inch vinyl

Spain - Benidorm fest CD, Nebulossa wins, life's a Zorra, demo, remix duet

Armenia As Good As New: Ladaniva have a song

Iceland - Songs out, Hera Björk returns

Belgium - Mustii's Party is not over just yet

Denmark - Songs out, SABA's Sand wins

Notes: If you have something to add or correct please drop it in the comments. However, comments are moderated so it may take some time to show up.

Also, I'm not able to sit and await every new release at midnight New Zealand time, so a little patience is appreciated.
All material posted here is either free of rights or original sources are mentioned. If there's anything you want removed, just let me know.

United Kingdom - Olly Alexander - Dizzy

18 - 46 pts, not in semi 

On the BBC Strictly final night singer and actor Olly Alexander announced he was chosen to fly the flag for the U.K. in Malmö.
Olly Alexander (Oliver Alexander Thornton) is of course known as the singer of once trio Years & Years.

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The song is titled Dizzy and is written by Olly himself with Danny L. Harle.

The song was released on March 1.

An extended  version was added / released on March 15. (see comments)

The acoustic version was released on April 26.

The Performance version, released on May 7 is the one used in the Eurovision performance (hence...). It was released just after the first semi on May 7.

Remixes and their makers:

A remix by German DJ duo LIZOT (Max Kleinschmidt & Patrick Art) was released on March 29.

A remix by Italian DJ/Producer Giorgio Prezioso was released on April 5.

The MONSS remix was released on April 19. MONNS is Slovakian DJ Simon Svorad.

The remix by Liverpool DJ ESSEL was released on April 26.

Olly keeps on giving: May 10 sees the release of the D.O.D. remix. D.O.D. is U.,K. DJ Daniel O'Donnell, not to be confused with the Irish singer.

Post Eurovision the Ben Nicky remix was released on May 17

A 7" inch single, cdsingle and USB single are released on May 10.

Here is a shop that sells outside U.K. and here's Olly's U.K. store

More later

Years & Years & Years

Years & Years released three albums but the last one was really only Olly going further under the Y&Y name. His most recent single A Very Bad Fun Idea was released as by "Olly Alexander (Years & Years)" as is Eurovision entry Dizzy.

The official Malmö album does not mention the (Years & Years) bit.

Years & Years first hit Desire charted in the UK, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands but their biggest international hit is King (2015) from the album Communion. That went top 10 in the same countries and also in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark and Australia.

Other known hits are Shine, Eyes Shut and If You're Over Me.

On a personal note: I have been a big fan of Years & Years ever since their first international hit Desire. So I'm exited.

He is one of two artists this year to have sung with Kylie, but so far the only one who did it with Elton and with Pet Shop Boys. So now you know.

Versions

Dizzy - Performance version

- digital 7-5

Dizzy - single version

- digital 1-3, Official Malmö album

Dizzy - extended version (4:41)

- digital 15-3

Dizzy - Acoustic

- digital 26-4

Dizzy - LIZOT remix (2:52)

- digital 29-3

Dizzy - Prezioso remix (2:29)

- digital 5-4

Dizzy - MONSS remix (2:51)

- digital 19-4

Dizzy - ESSEL remix

- digital 26-4

Dizzy - D.O.D. remix

- digital 10-5

Dizzy - Ben Nicky remix

- digital 17-5

Dizzy - karaoke

- Official karaoke album (digital)

DJ services have offered

- Extended instrumental (4:41)

- longer Extended (7:34)

- Prezioso extended (3:00)

- Prezioso longer extended (5:23)

- Prezioso instrumental (2:29)

- LIZOT extended (3:00)

- LIZOT instrumental (2:15)

- LIZOT longer extended (5:08)

- MONNS extended (5:45)

- MONNS instrumental (2:52)

- Instrumental (with less backing vocals than the official karaoke)

- Dirty Disco Pillow Biters remix (6:40)

- Short edit (2:09)

- alt. Extended (3:48)

- DJ Beats (3:13)

Also see comments. thanks Krzysztof

Charts:

Dizzy entered the U.K. charts at 42 after release but fell out of the top 100 the next week.

U.K. top 100 (OCC): 42, - re: 48

U.K. Sales top 100: 2, 15, 54, -, -, 66, 82, 76, 30, 12, 3

U.K. Physical singles top 100: 1

Lithuania top 100 (AGATA): 83, 12

Links and sources:
Olly Alexander: Website, FB, Insta, Shop

Look: Olly signed a card for me!

Czechia - Aiko - Pedestal

11 - 38 pts in semi 2

Aiko won the Czech national selection ESCZ 2024 with her song Pedestal written by Aiko herself (Alena Shirmanova-Kostebelova) with Steven Ansell.

Aiko currently lives and works in Brighton where many moons ago Napoleon did surrender.

Fortune's Child

Pedestal can be found on Aiko's third album Fortune's Child released in 2023 (October 13). The album will also be released on red vinyl LP. 

It is available through her website shop and now hips to many European countries. (Thanks Torsten)
The album has received several favourable reviews in U.K. magazines (websites)

A new version is made for Eurovision, the new video is here.

The digital single of the ESC version was released on March 22, even though it's listed as January 1 on Spotify. A karaoke was released on the same date.

Post Eurovision a stripped version was released on May 17.

Versions
Pedestal - Eurovision version

- digital 22-3, Official Malmö album

Pedestal - original version
- album Fortune's Child (LP/Digital)

Pedestal - Stripped

- digital 17-5

Pedestal - karaoke of ESC version

- digital 22-3, also on the official karaoke album (digital)

- the karaoke has no backing vocals as such but has the speaking voices in the interlude bit.

Charts:

Lithuania top 100 (AGATA): 49

Links and sources:
Aiko Website, FB, Instagram, Shop

ESC-History's Czechia page on 2024

Switzerland - Nemo - The Code

Congratulations Nemo!

Herzlichen Glückwunsch Nemo!

Felicitations Suisse!

Congratulazioni!

and Gratulaziuns Svizra as well

1 - 591pts / 4 - 132 pts in semi 2

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Nemo represented Switzerland in Malmö with the song The Code. 

They are the winner of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

The Code won the jury voting and came fifth in the televote.

The song was announced and released on February 29.

The song is written by Benjamin Alasu, Lasse Nymann, Linda Dale and Nemo Mettler themselves. 

A remix by Felix Jaehn was released op April 26.

An version with the Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn was released on May 10.

Also check out the video of this where Nemo wears a very familiar outfit.

There's also an acoustic version but that is only on video (so far)

Photo below from SRF Press release copyright SRF/Ella Mettler.

CDsingle

A CDsingle will be released with three versions. For now it is available here at Bravado and here at Digster in a bundle with a wristband and poster.

(Universal)

Thanks Alexandre!

P.S The release date says 5-10 which would be november 5 but Universal confirmed it's May 10.

Versions:

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The Code - original

- digital 29-2, cdsingle, Official Malmö album

The Code - remix by Felix Jaehn

- digital 26-4, cds

The Code - Orchestral version

- digital 10-5

The Code - karaoke

- Official karaoke album (digital), cds

Charts:

Switzerland top 100: 22, 98, -, -, 86, 98, -, -, 50, 22, 1

Lithuania top 100 (AGATA): 45, 3

Swedish top 100 (Topplistan): 5

Finland top 50 (Ifpi): 5

Ireland top 100 (Irma): 17

Germany top 100 (ODC): 14

U.K. top 100 (OCC): 18

Netherlands top 100: 13

Netherlands top 40: 37

Italy top 100 (FIMI): 61

Norway top 40 (VG Lista): 13

- In Norway the Felix Jaehn remix charts

Belgium (Flanders) top 50 (Ultratop): 15

Links and sources:
Nemo FB, Insta
SRF press release

Netherlands - Joost Klein - Europapa

DQ  / 2 - 182 pts in semi 2

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The Netherlands was represented in Malmö by Joost Klein.

The Netherland were disqualified pending an investigation following an incident with Joost and a member of the production team.

I know we're always trying to focus on the records and all that insignificant fan boy stuff but make no mistake, we're heartbroken.

The song Europapa is in Dutch with phrases in German, Italian, French and English. 

It is written by Joost Klein himself with Donnie. (Donny Ellerström)

Later it is also credited to Paul Elstak, Teun de Kruif, Tijmen Melissant and Tim Haars.

The Outro also has Dylan van Dael credited as songwriter/producer.

The song was released on February 29.

The single is also released on the 29th of february with an extra track Europapa - Outro, a longer version of the outro on the video.

A set of remixes and versions is released on April 5 on a EP titled Europapa: Greatest Hits. Tracks:

- Europapa

- Official remix with vieze asbak & gladde paling

- Used remix by Belgian DJ used (Jo Eelen))

- DJ Paul Elstak remix

- Sped Up

- Ringtone by DJ Klingelton

DJ Klingelton also released a ringtone of the Eurovision anthem (25-3-24)

And here's a behind the scenes / making of the video video

A cdsingle is available from Joost Klein's merch store. But it is already Sold Out, at least for now....

Thanks Jan G. & Jeroen.

cdsingle

pic from Joost's Instagram

Joost has released a number of digital singles most notably Friesenjung with Otto Waalkes and Ski Aggu which was a #1 hit in Germany and Austria and also charted in Switzerland, Netherlands and even was a #100 in the Swedish charts.

He has released 8 (digital) albums so far. You will find his work under the name Joost at your favourite digitalia.

Versions:

Europapa - single without Outro

- Official Malmö album

Europapa Outro (long)

- above both digital 29-2

The video has a shorter edit of the Outro following the single version.

Remixes:

Europapa - Official remix with vieze asbak & gladde paling

Europapa - Used remix by Belgian DJ used (Jo Eelen))

Europapa - DJ Paul Elstak remix

Europapa - Sped Up

Europapa - Ringtone by DJ Klingelton

- above 5 versions digital 5-4 on Europapa: Greatest Hits EP 

Europapa - karaoke (instrumental except for some Hey's and effects)

- Official karaoke album (digital)

Charts:

Europapa enters the Dutch top 100 at #18 after only 7 hours after release. Also enters the top 40 at #1 after 1 week.

Also enters the Belgian Flemish charts at #1 after 1 week.

Dutch top 100: 18, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

Dutch top 40: (tip 28), 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 7, 1

Belgium (Flanders) top 50 (Ultratop): 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 8, 6, 3, 1

Belgium (Wallonia) (post ESC) 35

Lithuania top 100 (AGATA): 40, 55, -  re: 22, 1

Swedish top 100 (Topplistan): 4

Finland top 50 (Ifpi): 2

Ireland top 100 (Irma): 22

Germany top 100 (ODC): 13

U.K. top 100 (OCC): 37

Norway top 40 (VG Lista): 17

Switzerland top 100 (Hitparade.ch): 12

Links and sources
Joost Klein: Instagram

You can watch the video here

AVROTROS Eurovision pages (in Dutch)

Croatia - Baby Lasagna - Rim Tim Tagi Dim

2 - 547 pts / 1 - 177 pts in semi 1

Rim Tim Tagi Dim by Baby Lasagna is the Croatian entry for the 2024 Eurovision.

The song is written by Baby Lasagna a.k.a. 

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Marko Purišić himself.

He is the only one this year with a song written by just one songwriter, himself.

Rim Tim Dagi Tim was released as a digital single on January 12.

Baby Lasagna won the televote in the final with 337 points, 14 more than the runner up.

He also won his semi final (semi 1)

Initially Baby Lasagna was not in the line up for DORA 2024 but he was the first reserve. When singer Sza Sza withdrew he took over and now he's going to Malmö.

A full album, Demons and Mosquitos is expected later this year.

As the guitarist of Manntra, Marko Purišić fisnished fourth in the DORA 2019 competition with In The Shadows.

DORA 2024, Croatia's selection for Malmö, had their final on February 25 with semi's on February 22 and 23. 
There were 24 songs in the competition. 
Underpants Rockers Let3 had another go and heartthrob Damir Kedžo, who was chosen for the ill fated Rotterdam contest in 2020, also gave it another try. Let3 finished 3rd with a little help from Severina (Eurovision 2006) and Damir finished 4th.

All songs have been released as separate digital singles, search for DORA 2024 on Spotify or check this Youtube playlist (by HRT)

Versions:

Rim Tim Tagi Dim - original

- digital 12-1, Official Malmö album

Rim Tim tagi Dim - karaoke

- Official karaoke album (digital)

Charts

Billboard Croatian top 25: 2, 2, 6, 10, 13, 16, -, 20, -, 2

Lithuania top 100 (AGATA): 24, 4

Swedish top 100 (Topplistan): 6

Finland top 50 (Ifpi): 4

Ireland top 100 (Irma): 26

Germany top 100 (ODC): 50

U.K. top 100 (OCC): 36

Netherlands top 100: 41

Norway top 40 (VG Lista): 33

Belgium (Flanders) top 50 (Ultratop): 46

Switzerland top 100 (Hitparade.ch): 11

Links and sources:

Baby Lasagna: Insta, Shop, FB
DORA 2024 at ESC-History
HRT Dora pages, Eurovision pages (in Croatian) FB, Insta

 

Let's Get Physical

Let's Get Physical is the page to see who has stuff you can actually hold in your hands. Promo info, if any, can be found at each country's page
It's a bit quiet here for now of course...

Physical Single Releases:

Netherlands - early cdsingle

Switzerland - cdsingle with stuff

Poland - 12" inch red vinyl

U.K. - cds, 7"and USB singles 

Promo's are spotted of Italy and France

National Finals:

Italy's Sanremo 2CD is out on February 9.
Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2CD is out on March 3.

Portugal Festival da Canção CD available now

Spain's Benidorm fest songs CD

Serbia's 28 songs out on 2CD now

Artists albums:

France: Triple CD for Slimane

Italy - Angelina Mango's debut album on CD, LP and Picture Disc

Estonia: Album out on 26-4

Czechia: Aiko's acclaimed album has a vinyl release.

Norway: A long version of Ulveham was already released on LP

+ New LP/CD compolation with ESC version of Ulveham on June 16

Armenia: Ladaniva's album is out on CD and LP

The Official Album:

2CD out on 19-4 (digital is earlier)

Alternative versions / edits can be (only*)found on this album for Ireland, Spain, Serbia, France, Germany, Lithuania and Italy

* at the moment of writing.

The digital album with karaokes/instrumentals is out now (12-4)

- Note: Info in each country's section has the tracks as karaoke when there's backing vocal support, it qualifies as instrumental even if there's an minor ooh, aah or hey in the track. 

Coloured vinyl 3LP  out on 24-5

The DVD set is expected on June 28.

pre-release image from Eurovision.tv

Some interesting National Final artists' physical releases are mentioned at their country's pages:
Italy, Norway