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!
FESTIVALI I KËNGËS 63 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇦🇱🕸️📊
The days are getting darker and FiK-mas is just around the corner! Of the 30 lineup, 22 songs have connections to other entries. Big names, new stars, seasoned songwriters, this has everything. Let's take a look (a thread 🧵)
Ardit Çuni - "Amane"
A newcomer to FiK himself, Ardit is helped by Stivi Ushe, who competed himself last year, with the dramatic ballad "Askush si ty". Also worth noting that in these graphs, songs are labelled by Eurovision year (so one year later than the FiK year)
Mal Retkoceri - "Antihero"
Last year's winner is back, again bringing a self-penned song. Will Mal be able to achieve succes again, and perhaps even the ticket to Basel?
BENIDORM FEST 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🕸️📊🇪🇸
One of the most anticipated national finals in recent years, BenidormFest is back once again. Of the 16 songs 8 have connections to previous entries in the world of Eurovision. Let's take a closer look (a thread 🧵) #BenidormFest2025
Celine Van Heel - "La casa"
While "La casa" will be Celine's first release, her team features clear Eurovision experience in the form of Alfred García, who represented Spain in Lisbon in 2018. On top of his entries from the 2018 selection, Alfred also took part in Benidorm 2023
David Afonso - "Amor barato"
True Junior Eurovision royalty involved here! Alejandro and Luis took Spain to second place last year in Nice, and are once again behind the Spanish JESC entry this time on home turf. "Amor barato" marks their first collaboration for the adult contest
JUNIOR EUROVISION 2024 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇪🇺📊🕸️
With less than 10 days to go, it's time to take a look at the teams behind each song. Though the artists have no previous involvement with Eurovision by nature, 14/17 songs have known Eurovision names behind them (A thread 🧵)
🇦🇱 Nikol Çabeli - "Vallëzoj"
Just like last year, Albania's entry was written by fan favourite writer Eriona Rushiti. She is known for succesful FiK entries like "Kthëju tokës", "Duje" and "Zjarri im". Also in the mix is JESC 2022-writer Endri Muçaj
🇦🇲 Leo - "Cosmic Friend"
Big names in the mix here, with the team behind "Qami Qami" and "Do It My Way" involved again. Maléna (Arpine Martoyan) won the contest herself in 2021, while Tokionine (David Badalyan) and Vahram Petrosyan have experience in the Armenian scene
EESTI LAUL 2025 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇪🇪📊🕸️
We have our first 15 songs for what's shaping up to be a highlight of the 2025 season! All songs have connections to previous entries, so even though we have to wait a month, we can already get a feel for the songs now! (A thread 🧵)
An-Marlen - "Külm"
2022 fan favourite An-Marlen is back! As with "Lõpuks muutub", An-Marlen has writing credits on "Külm" too
Andrei Zevakin feat. Karita - "Ma ei tea sind"
No stranger to Eesti Laul, Andrei has written and performed many entries already. He is joined by the team behind Ariadne's robbed 2022 fan-favourite "Shouldn't Be Friends", including Ariadne herself
MONTESONG 2024 SONGWRITER DEEP DIVE 🇲🇪🕸️📊
Welcome to the first NF deep dive of the season! In this series, I look at all links between the writers/artist of a national final lineup with other songs from the Eurovision world. The thread contains a detailed plot for each song 🧵
A quick disclaimer: Many of the credits were revealed with an initial instead of a full first name. Thus there may be a slight insecurity with some of these connections. If any mistakes come to my attention, they will be noted at the end of the thread. Now let's get to it!
Neonoen - "Clickbait"
Band member Marko has a past with the Eurovision world. In 2005 he placed 6th in the Serbo-Montenegrin national final. Two years later, he placed 3rd in the first ever national final of an independent Montenegro. How will his band do this time?
Hello Mello 2024 Songwriter Deep Dive 🇸🇪🕸️📊
Trying something new with a non-Eurovision contest, though obviously heavily inspired. If this does well, I may do more, perhaps Kënga Magjike 2024. Of the 25 entries, 22 have Eurovision connections 🧵
Valencia Montpaz - "Dancing All By Myself"
While Malin has written songs for Moldova, Lithuania and Croatia, Christian has been in Mello before, with David Lindgren's "Skyline" and Anton Hagman's Loreen-ending "Kiss You Goodbye"
Leon Frohm - "Better Days"
Anderz Wrethov has been a big player in recent Eurovision history, and now adds Hello Mello to his CV. He is joined by Marcus Winther-John (Break a Broken Heart/La teva decisió) and John-Emil Johansson, who wrote Malta's JESC entry last year