This year’s Maltese national final entails no less than 40 acts, and today a preview of all the songs has been released.
All the clips
All the clips of the 40 acts that will compete in the Maltese national final have been released today. Below you can find a link to the song preview video and a list of all the acts and their respective songs.
The preview video
Watch the preview video of the competing Maltese national final.
The acts and their songs
Below you can find a list of the 40 acts and their songs that will compete in the national final of Malta.
- Jake – “Love You Like That”
- Clintess – “Lura Qatt” (Never backwards)
- Francesca Sciberras – “Masquerade”
- Ian – “On My Own”
- Maria Christina – “Our Flame”
- Dario – “Pawn in a Game”
- Klinsmann – “Piranah” (Piranha)
- Aidan – “Reġina” (Queen)
- Greta Tude – “Sound of My Stilettos”
- Mark Anthony Bartolo – “Tears”
- Marie Claire – “Thankful”
- Geo Debono – “The Mirror”
- Haley – “Tik Tok”
- John Galea – “Trailblazer”
- Fabizio Faniello – “Try To Be Better”
- Jessika – “Unapologetic”
- Matt Blxck – “UP.”
- Stefan – “What Do You Want?”
- Dominic and Anna – “Whatever the Wind May Blow”
- Maria Debono – “X’allegrija” (What joy)
- Maxine Pace – “Alone”
- Jason Scerri – “Anything Can Happen”
- Bradley Debono – “Blackout”
- Dario Bezzina – “Bridle Road”
- Andre – “Broken Hill”
- Brooke – “Checkmate”
- Nathan – “Creeping Walls”
- The Busker – “Dance (Our Own Party)”
- James Louis – “Dream”
- Christian Arding – “Eku Ċar” (Clear echo)
- Kirstie – “Girls Get Down”
- Eliana Gomez Blanco – “Guess What”
- Lyndsay – “Haunted”
- Stefan – “Heartbreaker”
- Giada – “I Depend on You”
- Ryan Hili – “In the Silence”
- Chris Grech – “Indescribable”
- Dan – “It’ll Be Ok”
- Cheryl Balzan – “La La Land”
- Mike – “Leħen Fiċ-Ċpar” (A voice in the fog)
Prominent names
Among the hopefuls of the 2023 Maltese national final, there are a couple of prominent names, these are the following:
- Fabrizio Faniello: Competed for Malta in the contests of 2001 and 2006.
- Francesca Scibberas: Represented Malta in Junior Eurovision in 2009.
- Eliana Gomez Blanco: Representative of Malta in the 2019 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
The Maltese national final
The Maltese national final will take place on February 11th 2023, and this time around Quarterfinals make their return to this national final. In each of the four Quarterfinals 10 songs will compete of which 6 progress to the Semi-final. In the Semi-finals 24 songs will compete of which 16 make it to the Grand Final. The results will be based on a professional jury and televoting.
There was a draw when it comes down to which act opens the first Quarterfinal and which one will close the fourth Quarterfinal; in this regard the draw resulted in the following:
- Hailey will open the first Quarterfinal with the song “Tik Tok”.
- Maria Cristina will close the fourth Quarterfinal with the song “Our Flame”.
Dates of the Maltese shows
The dates of the Maltese shows are the following:
- Quarterfinal One – January 13th 2023
- Quarterfinal Two – January 20th 2023
- Quarterfinal Three – January 27th 2023
- Quarterfinal Four – February 3rd 2023
- Semi-Final – February 9th 2023
- Grand Final – February 11th 2023
Eurovision 2022
In the contest of 2022 in Turin (Italy) Emma Muscat with the song “I Am What I Am” waved the Maltese flag. Emma ended in 16th place in Semi-final 2, so Malta did not progress to the Grand Final of the 2022 contest.
ESCplus Live
Follow all the nationals live on our dedicated platform “ESCplus Live”. Click on the link to watch all the national live shows on their respective date and time. https://live.esc-plus.com/