Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010
| Eurovision Song Contest 2010 | ||||
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| Land |  Portugal | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Festival da Canção 2010 50% Jury 50% Televoting | |||
| Selection date(s) | Online vote 21–27 January 2009 Semi-finals 2 March 2010 4 March 2010 Final 6 March 2010 | |||
| [[ Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest| Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest]] | ||||
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Portugal will select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 through the Festival da Canção competition. A number of changes will be made to the format of the contest from the past number of years, with two semi-finals and a final being held over one week in March 2010 to select the winner to represent Portugal in Oslo, Norway in May 2010.
Festival da Canção 2010
Festival da Canção 2010 will be held over one week in early March 2010, with semi-finals on 2 and 4 March and the final set to be held on 6 March.[1] The contest will be held at the Campo Pequeno, an old bullring, in Lisbon, which has the ability to hold up to 10,000 people, enabling the biggest Festival da Canção ever.[1][2][3]
Until mid January, authors, singers and groups can submit entries for the competition through the RTP website. A expert jury will select between 30 and 35 entries to progress to an online vote, as was introduced in 2009 Contest. Voters from across the world can vote for their favourite songs over the internet, with the top 24 songs progressing to the semi-final stage.[4] RTP will now allow foreign composers to compete in Festival da Canção, after regulating the contest to Portuguese composers only in 2009. However the competing performers must be Portuguese, and the song must also be performed in the Portuguese language.[1][3][5]
Two semi-finals will be held, each containing 12 songs. Televoting will solely select the top six songs from each semi-final which will progress to the final. In the final the winner will be selected through 50/50 jury and televoting.[1][3][4]
420 songs were submitted to RTP, a slight increase from last year's total. 30 songs were selected by a professional jury of José Poiares, the Portuguese Head of Delegation, and music producers Fernando Martins, Ramón Galarza and To Zé Brito.[6] The 30 songs were announced on 20 janaury, and 90 second clips of each song were placed on its website on 21 January for the voting.[7]
Shortly after voting began it was reported by the Eurovision fan community in Portugal that Homens da Luta, current leaders in the voting with the song "Luta assim não dá", had been uploaded on the Internet in May 2009, and performed live in Lisbon in May, breaking Eurovision contest rules. A statement by RTP on the new facts is expected to be made in the following days.[8]
The current voting results are:
| Artist | Song | Lyrics (l) / Music (m) | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nina Pinto | "Meu coração não é meu" | Marios Gligoris (m), Augusto Madureira (l) | 753 |
| Nucha | "Chuva" | Marios Gligoris (m), Nuno Valério (l) | 787 |
| Jorge Guerreiro | "Ai Lisboa" | José Félix (m), Catarina Martins (l) | 232 |
| Banda Trocopasso | "O mundo de pernas para o ar" | Jorge Oliveira (m & l) | 397 |
| Terra D'Água | "Amanhã no mar" | Davide Zaccariahá (m), Tiago Espírito Santo (l) | 220 |
| Seis Po' Meia Dúzia | "Pássaro saudade" | Ricardo Rodrigues (m), Irene Lúcia Andrade (l) | 541 |
| Nuno & Fábia | "Amar (Vieste para me salvar)" | Pedro Brito (m), Pedro Vaz (l) | 892 |
| Filipa Azevedo | "Há dias assim" | Augusto Madureira (m & l) | 346 |
| Homens da Luta | "Luta assim não dá" | Vasco Duarte (m), Jel (l) | Desqualifed |
| David Navarro | "Quem é que sera?" | Jorge do Carmo (m & l), Tó Andrade (m & l) | 175 |
| Dennisa | "Meu mundo de sonhos" | Barreto (m), João Sanguinheira (m), João Novo (l) | 335 |
| Paulo João Sousa | "Pintado a carvão" | Paulo João Sousa (m & l) | 125 |
| Nuno Pinto | "Fogo lento" | Américo Faria (m & l) | 186 |
| Ricardo Levi | "Minha alma lusitana" | Nuno Pires (m), Tó Andrade (l) | 45 |
| Filipe Delgado | "Serei eu" | Ernesto Leite (m & l) | 186 |
| Rui Nova | "Uma canção à Cid (O sol e as estrelas)" | Rui Nova (m & l), Noé Gavina (m) | 98 |
| Filipa Galvão Telles | "O amor não sabe" | José Campos Sousa (m), António Tinoco (l) | 553 |
| Ricardo Martins | "Caminheiro de mim" | Ricardo Martins (m & l) | 250 |
| João Pedreira | "Destino qualquer" | João Pedreira (m & l) | 160 |
| Gonçalo Tavares | "Rios" | Gonçalo Tavares (m & l) | 246 |
| Gonçalo Madruga | "Cores de um mundo" | Gonçalo Madruga (m & l) | 181 |
| V-Boy | "Quanto eu penso em ti" | Mauro Guerreiro (m), Vítor dos Santos (l) | 280 |
| Vanessa | "Alvorada" | Nuno Feist (m), Nuno Marques da Silva (l) | 357 |
| Ouro | "Arco-íris dentro de mim" | José Castanheira (m), Jan Van Dijck (m), Paulo Abreu de Lima (l) | 195 |
| Evelyne Filipe | "A tua voz" | Joachim Vermeulen Windsant (m), Maarten ten Hove (m), Evelyne Filipe (l) | 237 |
| Catarina Pereira | "Canta por mim" | Andrej Babić (m), Carlos Coelho (l) | 813 |
| Claudisabel | "Contra tudo e todos" | Jordi Cubino (m), Luis André Florindo (l) | 84 |
| The Agency | "É assim que as coisas são" | The Agency (m & l) | 219 |
| Davi Duarte | "Serei alguém p'ra ti?" | Davi Duarte (m & l) | 66 |
| Joana Lobo Anta | "Há dias" | Rita Vasconcellos (m), Ana Zanatti (l) | 314 |
At Eurovision
Portugal will compete in one of the two semi-finals of the contest, on 25 or 27 May.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Florindo, Luis (2009-11-20). "Portugal holds National Final on March 6th". ESCToday. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Costa, Nelson (2009-11-19). "'Festival da Canção 2010' at the biggest venue ever". Oikotimes. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b c Dahlander, Gustav (2009-11-24). "Portugal prepares for grand final in 2010". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b Costa, Nelson (2009-11-19). "National selection with two semifinals and one final". Oikotimes. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Costa, Nelson (2009-11-19). "Foreigners can compete in 'Festival da Canção'". Oikotimes. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Florindo, Luis (2010-01-21). "Portugal: 420 songs submitted". ESCToday. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Vranis, Michalis (2010-01-21). "RTP revealed the 30 participants". ESCToday. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Costa, Nelson (2010-01-21). "Day 1: Disqualified song in Portugal?". Oikotimes. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
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