SUPERNOVA 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇱🇻🕸️📊
Our second set of songs of the season are out (at least in snippets)! And among the artists and writers we see many familiar faces, with 15/20 songs being connected to previous entries. Let's take a closer look (a thread 🧵)
Bel Tempo and Legzdina - "The Water"
Andis and Julijs are participating together as "Bel Tempo", but have previously authored songs for Supernova on their own, each reaching second place, Andis with "Heart Beats" and Julijs with "Hush"
Chris Noah - "Romance isn't Dead"
An important songwriter in the Baltics recently, Chris wrote Monika Linkyte's "Stay", and also worked on bangers like "Hush" and "Let Me Think About Me". This is his first involvement as a performer
Citi Zēni - "Ramtai"
No strangers to Eurovision, the boys represented Latvia in Turin with "Eat Your Salad". Fans may remember songwriter Emmy for her MGP entry "Witch Woods"
Grēta Grantiņa - "Monster"
Lots of different writers involved here, including Triana Park member Kristaps, The Ludvig, and Simon Davis, who was involved with Leona's "Undream You" in this year's German selection
Julianna - "Something in the Water"
The smallest graph of this selection, Julianna was a writer on Toms Kalderauskis' song in 2023
Justs - "Fit Right"
Having taken Latvia to the final in 2016, Justs is hoping to return. Helping him are writers behind "Hush" and "The Moon is Rising"
Katrīna Gupalo - "Scarlett Challenger"
2024 fan favourite Katrina Gupalo is back, with her "The Cat's Song" cowriter Edgars Vilcāns returning as well
Luka - "Stronger"
Luka's song was written by one of the most frequent songwriters in Supernova history, Kaspars Ansons. Kaspars has yet to have a song win, will this be his time?
Markus Riva - "Bigger Than This"
A true veteran of Latvian selection, Markus is back after failing to make the lineup last year. Markus has gotten close to winning many times, is this finally his year? Helping him is Roman Nepomiashchyi, who wrote one of his previous 2nd-places
Marta - "Lovable"
Making her third appearance, Marta is helped by frequent writer Reinis "Raum" Straume, who has himself competed on a few occasions. Also in the mix is Jānis Jačmenkins, who has been involved with entries like "Eat Your Salad" and "Let Me Think About Me"
Palú - "Delusional"
Citi Zēni singer Roberts Memmēns was behind this song. On top of his CZ involvement, Roberts has also participated as a soloist, and part of group Framest
Rūta Dūduma - "Chemical"
No stranger to Latvian selections, Rūta makes her return after a nine year absence. In the credits we spot her fellow competitor the Ludvig
Sinerģija - "Bound by the Light"
Fans will remember Madara for her cello-based fan favourite "Esamība", getting her third place in 2018. She attempted to return in 2020, controversially failing to make the final lineup past auditions. Is this her turn to win?
The Ludvig - "Līgo"
The Ludvig made second place in 2017, and is making his grand return this year, authoring three songs, including his own. Also in the mix is Jānis Ķirsis, another member of Framest
Toms Kalderauskis - "Domāju, tu nāc"
His fifth attempt at Supernova, Toms is hoping to finally break through. Helping him is Kate Elpo, who was also involved with Patrīcija Spale's "Heaven's Raining Down on Me" last year
The remaining 5 songs do not seem to have any connections to previous entries
Adelina - "Electric Love"
Emilija - "Heartbeat"
KoBra - "Zelts"
Tautumeitas - "Bur man laimi"
Tepat - "Sadzejot"
And that's all! Hope you enjoyed reading this thread, and found it informative. If you did, make sure to follow me so you don't miss out on similar deep dives I will be making for all other national finals this season. Until then, 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?