While you might think this is quite a low number of entries to be submitted to a national broadcaster, TRM don’t seem deterred and instead pointed out that these 28 entries are made up of both experienced answers and newcomers making their first ever entry to the competition. Below is the list of all the acts and their songs:
- Anna Timofei – Endlessly
- Che MD – Inima-n stinga
- Codreanu Maria – Zâmbește soarelui
- Ruslan Țaranu – Come To Life
- Doinița Gherman – Dance In Flames
- Tolik – Glass
- Dima Gaitur – Ona moya
- Vera Turcanu – Black Heart
- Formatia 5 Stele – Maldavian Dance
- Tudor Bumbac – Numai pentru tine
- DoReDos – My Lucky Day
- Sasha Bognibov – Love
- Sandy C & Aaron Sibley – Once Upon A Time
- Bostan – Frățică
- Felicia Dunaf – Alien
- Nicoleta Sava – Esencia del Sur
- Lavinia Rusu – Altundeva
- Marina Cudalb – Bianco e nero
- Denny Feyton – Maybe It’s Love
- Laura Bagrii – Da Bucuriei
- Anna Odobescu – Agony
- Ilia Sorocean & Dasha DaGro – Minds And Veins
- Bella Luna – Moments
- Pelageya Stefoglo – Let’s Start Together Right Now
- Shvets – The World
- Saidy – Beautiful Song
- Cobîlean Constantin – Numai Tu
- Viorela – The Gates Of Love
These 28 songs will now progress to live audition round where they’ll perform for a jury. After this, the jury will chose just 16 entries to advance to the semi-final, which will take place on 22nd February. From here, 10 songs will then go to the final of O Melodie Pentru Europa on the evening of 24th February 2018. The results for both the semi-final and the final will be chosen by 50% jury and 50% televote.
Moldova achieved their best-ever placing at Eurovision last year with Hey Mamma! by SunStroke Project – can one of these names continue Moldava’s good fortune in Lisbon?
Let us know what you think!
Author: James Scanlan
Source: TRM
Image Source: Eurovision Ireland
Categories: Eurovision 2018, Moldova, National Selections, O Melodie Pentru Europa
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Not particularly. I think it’s more of a cultural exchange because of the shared Latin heritage.
“Both Moldova and Romania have a habit of having songs in Spanish in their national selections.”
And not only them ! What about Latvia, Armenia, Norway and who else I may have forgotten !
I do however prefer their OWN languages…
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Of course they’re not the only ones! I wasn’t suggesting that for a moment. Only that culturally, there is a lot of Spanish language music produced in both countries outside Eurovision. Austria even sang at the contest in (quite poor) Spanish in 2005…
I’m hoping we’ll see more national language songs this year. Let’s hope Portugal have started a trend!
You don’t believe they’re all Despacito-wannabe’s then ?
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I listened to Nicoleta Sava – Esencia del Sur. Another Spanish song, but a very nice one !
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Both Moldova and Romania have a habit of having songs in Spanish in their national selections. Would be nice to have a few more non-English language songs this year!