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Eight artist are in the running to represent Denmark on (almost) home turf in Malmø! A lot of familiar faces can be spotted in the credits. It's time for my #DMGP2024 songwriter deep dive! 🕸️📊🧵
#Eurovision #DMGP #Eurovision2024
Saba - Sand
In addition to Danish indie star Pil, "Sand" was written by Swedes Jonas Thander and Melanie Webbe. This is their first collab, but they have previously written entries like ""I've Been Waiting for This Night", "Bigger Than Us", "Move", and "Love Is Forever"
Aura Dione - Mirrorball of Hope
Danish pop star Aura Dione makes her DMGP debut with the help of Michelle Leonard and Alexander Brown. While the former is know for Lenna's "Slingshot" and German fan favourite "Wear Your Love", the latter had a song in DMGP14
Basim - Johnny
Basim will be no stranger to eurofans, having secured 9th place at Eurovision 2014. He also wrote another entry that year. Frederik Nordsøe is a major hit-maker in Denmark, responsible for many top 10 singles. He previously competed at DMGP twice
Stella - Sign Here
Stella makes her debut with the help of Tim Schou. Tim was the singer of A Friend in London who gave Denmark a top 5 finish at Eurovision 2011. Since then he has written a range of NF songs, including fan favorite "Lige Her" and Loreen-ending "Kiss You Goodbye"
RoseeLu - Real Love
Another new singer, RoseeLu's song was written by the forces behind Alphabeat, as well as Jakob Groth Bastiansen (Sidse Holte - "Vi er der om lidt") and Joachim Ersgaard, who wrote 2019 English/Greenlandic fan favourite "League of Light"
The remaining songs do not seem to have any connections to previous entries:
Chu Chu - The Chase (Zoom Zoom)
Janus Wiberg - I Need Your Love
UBLU - Planetary Hearts
By the way, I'm doing a fan jury for DMGP 2021-2024, let me know if you want to participate
And that's all! Hope you enjoy the entries! Check out my thread of previous deep dives, and keep an eye out for deep dives for Sanremo, Dora, Söngvakeppnin and more. I'll leave you with this network of all DMGP entries since 2009. Take care!
SANREMO 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇮🇹🕸️📊
Always a highlight of the Eurovision year, Sanremo is back for the 75th time. And as always, the songs feature many familiar faces from Sanremo past and present. Let's take a closer look at all the connections (a thread 🧵) #sanremo25
Sarah Toscano - Amarcord
"Amarcord" was written with the help of regular writers Federica Abbate and Jacopo Ettorre who previously collabed on "Due" and "Fino a qui", as well as a team of less frequent writers who worked on "No grazie" and "Furore"
Serena Brancale - Anema e core
Another Abbate/Ettorre song, this time with Nicola Lazzerin in the mix. Nicola is making a big debut in this years contest, being behind 4 of the original 30 songs. Serena herself competed in the Newcomers section back in 2015
POLSKIE KWALIFIKACJE 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇵🇱🕸️📊
After a brief experiment with internal selection Poland is back to giving us national finals. In the lineup we find multiple entrants and songwriters from the past. Let's take a closer look at all the connections (a thread 🧵)
Chrust - Tempo
"Tempo" was written with the help of Krzysztof Falkowski, who was behind Maciej Musiałowski's entry in last year's internal selection, finishing 9th, receiving Kasia Moś highest points
Daria Marx - Let It Burn
Daria made the superfinal back in 2022 with her hit song "Paranoia". Now she's back, this time with the help of veteran writer Peter Boström and DMGP 2025 entrant Maria Broberg. The two also collaborated on Xannova Xan's song for this year's Greek final
VIDBIR 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇺🇦🕸️📊
As always, #Vidbir is a highlight of the Eurovision season. This year, five out of the ten entries have connection to other entries in the Eurovision world. Let's take a closer look at all the connections (a thread 🧵)
A quick note:
As I source my database from different sources, different translitterations have to be harmonized for me to make these connections. Due to that some connections may have been missed. Please let me know if non-Ukrainian transliterations have been used in the plots!
Molodi - My Sea
The Mariupol group is making their Vidbir debut with the help of one of last year's winning songwriters, Anton Chilibi. On top of his "Teresa & Maria" involvement, Anton also wrote Carpetman's "Endless Fight"
EUROSONG 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇧🇪🕸️📊
Tonight is the night, where we'll once again witness a Belgian selection, after last years internal process. What really sets #Eurosong apart, is the fact the 5/8 were written by the same person! Let's take a closer look (a thread 🧵)
Leez - Perfectly Imperfect
Perfectly Imperfect was written by Will Knox, who was involved with Eurovision 2019 winner "Arcade", in addition to a few NF entries. Also in the mix is Loek van der Grinten, who helped write Netherlands 2023 entry "Burning Daylight"
Le Manou - Fille à papa
One of five songs written by Willem Vanderstichele, who is truly making an impactful debut in the Eurovision world
ETHNIKÓS TELIKÓS 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇬🇷🕸️📊
After many years of internal selections the Greek selection is finally back to our screens! Among the participants we see a few connections to former entries, both recent and older. Let's take a look (a thread 🧵) #EthnikosTelikos
Klavdia - Asteromata
One of the two big favourites, Asteromata was written by the writing team Arcade, who were also involved with Stefania's 2020 and 2021 entries. Will they be able to add another Eurovision participation to their resumé?
Constantinos Christoforou and Kostas Karafotis - Paradeisos
Constantinos is no stranger to Eurovision, having represented his native Cyprus three times (1996/2002/2005). Will he be able to at a Greek participation to his list? Rodoula was involved with two Cypriot entries as well
MALTA EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇲🇹🕸️📊
Another year, another MESC. Like previous years, the song list is filled with connections to previous entries, with not a single song being disconnected. Let's take a closer look! (a thread 🧵)
Adria Twins - Qalb ma' Qalb
A collaboration between regular Maltese writers Sebastian Pritchard-James (Loop) and Joe Julian Farrugia (We Are More) and Swedish writer Melanie Wehbe (Move/Sand/Love Is Forever)
Dario Bezzina ft. Joseph Il-Muni - Għażliet
Dario's fifth attempt, and the second with the help of mega-writer Phillip Vella (7th wonder/Desire/Breathlessly/etc.). Could this be Phillip's 7th Eurovision entry?