Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2020

Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2020
Preliminary decision data
country	Finland
Broadcasting station	,  ,
Producing broadcaster	,
place	Mediapolis Television Studio, Tampere
date	March 7, 2020
Time	9:00 p.m. ( EET )
Number of participants	6th
Number of contributions	6th
poll	50% jury voting, 50% televoting
Moderation
Krista Siegfrids and Mikko Silvennoinen Green Room Ville "Viki" Eerikkilä and Juuso "Köpi" Kallio

The 9th Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu ( abbreviated UMK) took place on March 7th, 2020 in the Mediapolis Television Studio in Tampere and was the Finnish preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam ( Netherlands ). The singer Aksel Kankaanranta won with his song Looking Back .

format

concept

After Darude and Sebastian Rejman had already been eliminated in the semifinals at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv ( Israel ) and had only finished last, the public broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle) considered changes to the selection process. According to a survey of 1617 viewers, 53% decided to return to the original concept of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, a selection of ten performers with their own songs. On June 3, 2019, Yleisradio announced that they would produce UMK 2020 together with the radio station YleX. Under the direction of Tapio Hakanen , the music director of YleX, a selection of up to ten artists and their songs took place. In an interview in September 2019, Hakanen confirmed that between four and ten participants should take part in a final. The final number of participants should be based on the quality of the contributions. Hakanen would also like to reintroduce the preview shows , which were part of the preliminary decision until 2014 , so that the Finnish audience would be better acquainted with the performers and their songs.

Due to the low capacity of the Tampere TV studio , no tickets were sold for the show. However, from the beginning of 2020 it was possible to register for a seat in the audience. The voting took place via televoting, SMS voting and free of charge via the Yle.fi app. According to Yle, 120,000 users opened the app on the day of the preliminary decision. The total number of votes cast was 114,664.

Choice of contribution

From November 1 to 8, 2019, potential performers had the opportunity to submit a contribution to Yleisradio. At least one composer or producer had to be a Finnish citizen. According to Yle, a total of 426 entries were submitted. A ten-member jury headed by Tapio Hakanen selected six entries and their interpreters from all the entries. Other jury members included UMK producer Anssi Autio, director Juha-Matti Valtonen, the choreographies Reija Wäre, Samuli Väänänen ( Spotify Finland), Perttu Mäkelä ( A&R manager at Etenee Records), music journalists Ida Karimaa and Katri Norrlin, Johan Lindroos (Yle Radio Suomi) and Amie Borgar (Yle X3M).

Moderators

On January 16, 2020, the two radio hosts Ville "Viki" Eerikkilä and Juuso "Köpi" Kallio were presented as moderators of the Green Room . One day later, Yleisradio introduced Krista Siegfrids and Mikko Silvennoinen as the main moderators of the preliminary round. Krista Siegfrids moderated her fifth and Mikko Silvennoinen his third.

Attendees

The participants were determined by November 30, 2019 and were presented at a special press conference on January 21, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. ( EET ). This was broadcast live in the Yle Areena media library and moderated by Krista Siegfrids and Mikko Silvennoinen. As in the past two years, the participants and their songs were published over several days. On January 24th and between January 28th and 31st, 2020, the six performers and their songs were presented in a six-minute broadcast on Yle TV1.

final

The finale is scheduled for March 7, 2020 at 9:00 p.m. ( EET ) at the Mediapolis Television Studio in Tampere.

space	Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Points
						jury	Viewers (televoting, SMS & app)	total
1.	3	Aksel Kankaanranta	Looking Back M / T: Joonas Angeria, Whitney Phillips, Connor McDonough, Riley McDonough, Toby McDonough	English	Look back	76	94	170
2.	2	Erika Vikman	Cicciolina M: Janne Rintala, Mika Laakkonen; T: Janne Rintala, Erika Vikman, Saskia Vanhalakka	Finnish	Cicciolina	58	99	157
3.	6th	Tika	I Let My Heart Break M / T: Neea Jokinen, Timo Oiva, Oliver @ i-One Music, Lotus Wang, Sami Tamminen, Kalle Mäkipelto	English	I let my heart break	50	77	127
4th	4th	F3M	Bananas M / T: Olli Äkras, Hanna Ollikainen, Rafael Elivuo	English	Bananas	64	20th	084
5.	1	Catharina Zühlke	Eternity M: Marcia "Misha" Sondeijker, Roel Rats, Josefine Myrberg, Henrik Tala; T: Catharina Zühlke, Marcia "Misha" Sondeijker, Roel Rats, Henrik Tala, Josefine Myrberg	English	eternity	42	24	066
6th	5	Sansa	Lover View M: Sansa, Yotto, Anton Sonin; T: Sansa	English	Lovers view	30th	06th	036

Detailed jury voting

Interpreter	song	UK	ET	DE	BG	IT	RU	SE	NL	total
Catharina Zühlke	Eternity	-	6th	10	-	10	6th	6th	4th	42
Erika Vikman	Cicciolina	12	4th	8th	4th	12	4th	4th	10	58
Aksel Kankaanranta	Looking back	10	12	12	12	4th	12	8th	6th	76
F3M	Bananas	8th	8th	4th	8th	8th	8th	12	8th	64
Sansa	Lover View	4th	10	-	10	6th	-	-	-	30th
Tika	I Let My Heart Break	6th	-	6th	6th	-	10	10	12	50
Jury points speaker
- Poli Genova - Laura Põldvere - Reinhard Ehret - Erik Bolks - Elize Ryd - Lucía Pérez - Tutta Larsen - William Lee Adams

transmission

broadcast	Send date	Channel	Candidates
Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2020	March 7, 2020, 9:00 p.m.	,  ,	6th

Odds

In total, an average of 885,000 viewers followed the broadcast on Yle TV1. 1,538,000 watched at least three minutes of the program.

Web links

• Finnish preliminary round website (Finnish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yleisradio : UMK ja YleX yhdistävät voimansa: avoin kilpailu tekee paluun Euroviisuihin. In: yle.fi. June 3, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019 (Finnish). 
2. ↑ Anthony Granger: Finland: YLE Considers Format Change for UMK. In: eurovoix.com. March 4, 2019, accessed March 26, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Stratos Agadellis: Finland: UMK to return with open selection in 2020; YleX joins the project. In: esctoday.com. June 3, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Tim Jumawan: More details about UMK 2020 have been announced. In: escxtra.com. September 13, 2019, accessed on September 14, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Yleisradio : Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu kiinnosti suomalaisia ​​- finaalilla 1,5 miljoonaa katsojaa. In: yle.fi. March 10, 2020, accessed March 10, 2020 (Finnish). 
6. ↑ Yleisradio : UMK ja YleX yhdistävät voimansa: avoin kilpailu tekee paluun Euroviisuihin. In: yle.fi. September 28, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019 (Finnish). 
7. ↑ Yleisradio : Uuden Musiikin Kilpailuun yli 400 hakemusta - finaaliin valikoitui kuusi artistia. In: yle.fi. November 28, 2019, accessed November 28, 2019 (Finnish). 
8. ↑ Yleisradio : Here are the UMK finalists - Who will represent Finland at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest? In: yle.fi. January 21, 2020, accessed on January 21, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Yleisradio : UMK-kilpailijat paljastetaan tiistaina 21. tammikuuta, seuraa lähetystä Yle Areenasta! In: yle.fi. January 16, 2020, accessed January 16, 2020 (Finnish). 
10. ↑ Robyn Gallagher: Finland: Entries open for new and improved national final UMK 2020. In: wiwibloggs.com. November 1, 2019, accessed November 1, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Anthony Granger: Finland: UMK 2020 Entries To Be Revealed Over Eight Days? In: eurovoix.com. January 7, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Anthony Granger: Finland: 885,000 Viewers For Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2020. In: eurovoix.com. March 9, 2020, accessed on March 10, 2020 .