Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015

Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Preliminary decision data
country	Malta
Broadcasting station	Television Malta
Producing broadcaster
place	Malta Shipbuilding, Marsa
date	22nd November 2014
Time	8:00 p.m. ( CET )
Number of participants	20th
Number of contributions	20th
Preliminary rounds	1
Preliminary round dates	Semi-finals: November 21, 2014
poll	50% international jury voting, 50% televoting
Opening act	Semi-finals: Federica Falzon : Diamonds (Music: Elton Zarb, Gillian Attard; Text: Matt Muxu Mercieca, Federica Falzon ) Final: Conchita Wurst : Rise Like a Phoenix (Music / Text: Charly Mason, Joey Patulka, Ali Zuckowski , Julian Maas )
Moderation
Daniel Chirop and Lyona Xuereb Gatt

Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015 (abbreviation: MESC 2015 ) was the Maltese preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna ( Austria ). The singer Amber won with the song Warrior .

format

concept

On July 11, 2015, the Maltese public broadcaster Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) confirmed Malta's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna and announced that the Malta Eurovision Song Contest would remain the preliminary decision for the ESC. A total of 134 entries were sent in for the preliminary round, 20 of which were selected by an expert jury to take part in the semi-finals, which will take place on November 21, 2014 in Marsa Shipbuilding . Here, the audience and a jury, each with 50% of the votes, selected the 14 finalists who will compete on November 22nd to succeed the group Firelight , which represented Malta at the ESC in 2014.

The hall in which the preliminary round took place is a former shipyard where the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 took place a week earlier . The MESC normally takes place in February, but in order to be able to use the elaborate JESC stage again, the event has been brought forward to November.

On October 13, 2014, the WE Media studios produced the music videos for the respective songs, which were released on October 20.

In contrast to the previous year, the winning song can be changed by the artist after the finale, but it must be performed by the same artist as well as written by the same authors.

As the opening act for the finale on November 22nd, Conchita Wurst sang Rise Like a Phoenix and Heroes . The opening act for the semifinals were both the 20 semifinalists, who sang the song Together , and Federica Falzon , who competed for the island in the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Attendees

On September 26, 2014, the 20 semi-finalists of 134 submissions were announced in the TV program Xarabank on TVM. Among them are former representatives of Malta, such as Gianluca Bezzina (as a member of the band L-Aħwa), who competed for the island in 2013 in Malmö , Sweden, and participants in the preliminary round of previous years.

Semifinals

Here are the semi-finalists who competed for a place in the final on November 21, 2014:

Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	Translation (unofficial)
01	Lyndsay Pace	Home M / T: Boris Cezek	At home
02	Iona Dalli	Could Have Been Me M / T: Philip Vella	I could have been
03	Franklin Calleja	Still Here M / T: Alexander Rybak	Still here
04th	Christabelle	Rush M: Elton Zarb; T: Matthew Mercieca Muxu	Intoxication
05	Jessica	Fandango M: Philip Vella; T: Gerard James Borg	-
06th	Chris Grech	Closed Doors M: David Cassar Torregiani, Chris Grech , Edward Mifsud, Peter Borg; T: Chris Grech	Closed doors
07th	Karen DeBattista	12, Baker Street M: Jan van Dijck; T: Emil Calleja Bayliss	-
08th	Daniel Testa	Something In The Way M / T: Måns Ek, Charlie Mason	Something in the way
09	Glen Vella	Breakaway M / T: Kevin Borg, Simon Gribbe	outbreak
10	Raquel	Stop Haunting Me M: Elton Zarb; T: Matthew Mercieca Muxu	Stop chasing me
11	Domenique	Take Me As I Am M / T: Aidan O'Connor, Sara Biglert, Christian Schneider, Madeleine Jangklev	take me as I am
12	Lawrence Gray	The One That You Love M / T: Elton Zarb, Lawrence Gray	The one you love
13	Deborah C	It's OK M: Elton Zarb; T: Matthew Mercieca Muxu	It's OK
14th	Danica Muscat	Close Your Eyes M: Elton Zarb; T: Emil Calleja Bayliss	Close your eyes
15th	Corazon	Secretly M / T: Corazon Mizzi	Secretly
16	L'Aħwa	Beautiful to Me M / T: Erik Anjou	Nice for me
17th	Amber	Warrior M: Elton Zarb; T: Matt Muxu Mercieca	warrior
18th	Trilogy	Chasing A Dream M: Paul Abela ; T: Joe Julian Farrugia	Chasing a dream
19th	Minik	Once in a While M / T: Elton Zarb, Rita Pace	From time to time
20th	Ekklesia Sisters	Love and Let Go M / T: Philip Vella	Love and let go

final

In the finale, which will take place on November 22nd, 2014, 14 acts sang to win the preliminary round. Ultimately, it was won by Amber with the song Warrior .

space	Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	jury	spectator	Points
01.	09	Amber	Warrior M: Elton Zarb; T: Matt Muxu Mercieca	60	12	72
02.	12	Christabelle	Rush M: Elton Zarb; T: Matthew Mercieca Muxu	40	07th	47
03.	01	Glen Vella	Breakaway M / T: Kevin Borg, Simon Gribbe	35	04th	39
04th	05	Chris Grech	Closed Doors M: David Cassar Torregiani, Chris Grech , Edward Mifsud, Peter Borg; T: Chris Grech	33	02	35
05.	11	Franklin Calleja	Still Here M / T: Alexander Rybak	18th	08th	26th
06th	14th	Daniel Testa	Something In The Way M / T: Måns Ek, Charlie Mason	24	00	24
07th	06th	Ekklesia Sisters	Love and Let Go M / T: Philip Vella	13	10	23
08th.	13	Lawrence Gray	The One That You Love M / T: Elton Zarb, Lawrence Gray	13	05	18th
09.	07th	Jessica	Fandango M: Philip Vella; T: Gerard James Borg	12	06th	18th
10.	04th	Trilogy	Chasing a Dream M: Paul Abela ; T: Joe Julian Farrugia	09	03	12
11.	08th	Deborah C	It's OK M: Elton Zarb; T: Matthew Mercieca Muxu	12	00	12
12.	03	Minik	Once in a While M / T: Elton Zarb, Rita Pace	11	01	11
13.	10	L'Aħwa	Beautiful to me M / T: Erik Anjou	10	01	11
14th	02	Karen DeBattista	12, Baker Street M: Jan van Dijck; T: Emil Calleja Bayliss	00	00	00

Jury voting

song						total
Breakaway	8th	6th	8th	7th	6th	35
12, Baker Street	-	-	-	-	-	00
Once In A While	1	2	5	3	-	11
Chasing a dream	4th	3	-	2	-	11
Closed doors	7th	7th	10	5	4th	33
Love and Let Go	3	1	4th	-	4th	13
fandango	-	-	-	4th	8th	12
It's OK	2	4th	6th	-	-	12
Warrior	12	12	12	12	12	60
Beautiful To Me	-	-	-	7th	3	10
Still here	6th	5	-	6th	1	18th
Rush	10	10	2	8th	10	40
The One That You Love	-	-	1	10	2	13
Something In The Way	5	8th	3	1	7th	24
Jury points speaker
- Ola Melzig - Francesco Biasia - Gohar Gasparyan - Owen Galea - Adriana Zarb Adami

See also

• Eurovision Song Contest 2015
• Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Early national finals for Malta & FYR Macedonia ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
2. ↑ Malta: PBS confirms participation in 2015 (English)
3. ↑ National finals for Malta & Macedonia ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
4. ↑ Malta: Music Video shooting MESC 2015
5. ↑ Watch the official video clips of each possible entry for Vienna (English)
6. ↑ Early national finals for Malta & Macedonia ( Memento of the original dated December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
7. ↑ Malta: Conchita Wurst opens MESC 2015 final (English)
8. ↑ Line ups for Macedonian & Maltese preselections ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
9. ↑ Malta: Amber has won