Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2019

Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2019
Preliminary decision data
country	Finland
Broadcasting station
Producing broadcaster
place	Logomo, Turku
date	2nd March 2019
Time	9:00 p.m. ( EET )
Duration	approx. 105 minutes
Number of participants	1
Number of contributions	3
poll	50% jury voting, 50% televoting
Opening act	Krista Siegfrids feat. Christoffer Strandberg: Love Parade
Pause filler	Emmelie de Forest : Only Teardrops (Music / Text: Lise Cabble , Julia Fabrin Jakobsen, Thomas Stengaard)
Moderation
Krista Siegfrids , Christoffer Strandberg and Mikko Silvennoinen

The 8th Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu ( abbreviated UMK) took place on March 2, 2019 and was the Finnish preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv ( Israel ).

format

Darude 2015

concept

As in the previous year , the UMK in 2019 consisted of only one participant selected internally by YLE , who presented three songs. These were then evaluated in a voting round, 50% by an international jury and 50% by televoting. The song with the most votes then won the preliminary round.

Choice of contribution

YLE did not start a public call this year either, but chose its ESC participant internally for the second time. The songs that were finally presented in the preliminary round were also selected internally by YLE.

The Finnish interpreter was officially presented at a press conference by YLE on January 29, 2019. The Finnish DJ Darude represented his country together with the singer Sebastian Rejman . As a result, the songs were released worldwide including music videos on February 8, 2019, February 15, 2019 and February 22, 2019.

final

The UMK 2019 took place on March 2nd, 2019 in the Logomo in Turku .

space	Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	UK	NO	IT	CZ	SE	IE	DK	IR	Points
														jury	spectator	total
1.	3	Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman	Look Away M / T: Sebastian Rejman , Ville Virtanen	English	Look away	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	96	148	244
2.	2		Superman M / T: Ville Virtanen , Chris Hope, Thom Bridges	English	Superman	10	8th	8th	8th	10	10	10	10	74	073	147
3.	1		Release Me M / T: Ville Virtanen , Jaakko Manninen, Brandyn Burnett	English	let me free	8th	10	10	10	8th	8th	8th	8th	70	019th	089
Jury - points speaker
- William Lee Adams - Michael Kealy - Ana Bordas - Tali Eshkoli - JOWST - Gabriel Alares - Emmelie de Forest - Jan Bors

Web links

• Finnish preliminary round website (Finnish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} YLE: Suomen euroviisuedustaja vuonna 2019 on Darude - Näin seuraat Uuden Musiikin Kilpailua. In: yle.fi. January 29, 2019, accessed January 29, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Anthony Granger: Finland: Emmelie De Forest Named As Guest Act for UMK 2019. In: eurovoix.com. February 1, 2019, accessed February 7, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Vuoden 2019 Euroviisut käydään Tel Avivissa - UMK huipentuu maaliskuussa! In: yle.fi. September 13, 2018, accessed January 8, 2019 (Finnish). 
4. ↑ Neil Farren: Finland: UMK 2019 to Feature Invited Artists Only. In: eurovoix.com. July 15, 2018, accessed January 8, 2019 . 
5. ↑ YLE: Darude announced as Finnish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. January 29, 2019, accessed on January 29, 2019 (Finnish). 
6. ↑ Neil Farren: Finland: UMK 2019 Details Revealed. In: eurovoix.com. March 1, 2019, accessed on March 1, 2019 .