Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2017

Applications were issued and a total of 156 applications were submitted by prospective participants in the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2017. After the elimination was held the organisers, PBS, announced the 60 song titles which made it to the first phase on Monday 12 December 2016. The list of the 60 songs shortlisted is shown hereunder:

Maltese Eurovision Songs Contest - Preliminary Round

All 60 songs in the preliminary round...

No Songs Singers 01 Beautifully Bruised Raquel Galdes 02 Bird Of Prey Nadia Vella 03 Bombshell Maxine Pace 04 Breathe Kylie Coleiro 05 Breathe Cherylis Camilleri 06 Breathlessly Claudia Faniello 07 Butterfly Lyndsay Pace 08 Calling Out Wayne William 09 Chasing Maria Cini 10 Child Of The Sun Romina Mamo 11 Chill Out Christian Arding 12 Crazy Games Shauna Vassallo 13 Cruise Control Michela Pace 14 Different Light Jessica Magro 15 Don’t Let Your Heart Say No Dominic Cini 16 Don’t Look Down Miriana Conte 17 Edga of Tomorrow Jessika Muscat 18 Escape Sebastian Calleja 19 Falling Kayla Borg 20 Fearles Rhiannon Micallef 21 Feel Ana Boynuegri 22 Fighting To Survive Cherton Caruana 23 Fireworks Iona Dalli 24 Follow Kevin Borg 25 Follow Me Franklin Calleja 26 Free All Nazio Rotin 27 Gemini Lyndsay Pace 28 Gone Nazio Rotin 29 Heal With Me Gabriella Azzopardi 30 Hey Yo Domenique Azzopardi 31 I Got You Joseph Refalo 32 Immortal Jessika Muscat 33 Kewkba Janice Mangion 34 Laserlight Klinsmann Coleiro 35 Leap Of Faith Corinna Baldacchio 36 Let There Be Light Jessika Muscat 37 Moving Mountains Rhiannon Micallef 38 One Night Tiziana Calleja 39 Pwan In A Game Dario Mifsud Bonnici 40 Prisoner Dario Bezzina 41 Ray Of Light Raquela Dalli Gonzi 42 Rescue Me Clive Isaac Gauci, Karina Caruana 43 Seconds Away Jade Vella 44 Shelter Milk Mi 45 So Simple Crosswalk 46 Sunshine In The Rain Lydon Incorvaja 47 Supernovas Jasmine Abela 48 The Power Kaya Priscilla Giordano Psaila 49 The Rapture Dre’ Curmi 50 Tonight Deborah C , Josef Tabone 51 U Derrick Schembri 52 Unbreakable Maria Muscat 53 Unforgettable Floren Sultana 54 Unstoppable Brooke Borg 55 Wait Forever Stefan Galea 56 We Can Run Avenue Sky 57 When Love Cries Clive Isaac Gauci, Karine Caruana 58 When The Sun Shines Josef Tabone 59 You Aidan Cassar 60 You Richard Edwards Select the Sixteen Finalist On Tuesday 20 December 2016, the 60 songs were further shortlisted to choose the 16 finalists. 11 jury members listened to the recorded songs at St. James Cavalier, at Valletta in the presence of authors, composers and singers. On Wednesday 21 December 2016, the finalist songs were announced on the 8pm news on TVM. It was announced that the final would be held on one night and that the choice of the winning song to represent Malta in Kiev, Ukraine in May 2017, would be done by the public through 100% televoting. The Sixteen Finalist Songs of The Maltese Eurovision Songs Contest 2017 All the 16 songs in the Final...   No Songs Singers Authors Composers 01 Bombshell Maxine Pace Noel Cohen,Michael Macallister Julie hardy, Erin Bowman 02 Breathlessly Claudia Faniello Gerard James Borg Philip Vella, Sean Vella 03 Crazy Games Shauna Vassallo Muxu Matt Mercieca Cyprian Cassar 04 Don’t Look Down Miriana Conte 'Muxu' Matt Mercieca Cyprian Cassar 05 Fearles Rhiannon Micallef Rhiannon Micallef Cyprian Cassar 06 Fighting To Survive Cherton Caruana Dean Muscat Boris Cezek 07 Follow Kevin Borg Kevin Borg Simon Gribbe 08 Follow Me Franklin Calleja 'Muxu' Matt Mercieca Cyprian Cassar,Ivan Grech 09 Kewkba Janice Mangion Emil Calleja Bayliss Mark Scicluna 10 Laserlight Klinsmann Coleiro Mathas Strasser Dreher Emanuel,Stefan Moessle 11 Ray Of Light Raquela Dalli Gonzi Dean Muscat Boris Cezek 12 Seconds Away Jade Vella Giovann Attard Augusto Cardinali 13 So Simple Crosswalk Dean Muscat Boris Cezek 14 Tonight Deborah C & Josef Tabone Angie Laus,Sara Lljunggren Michael James Down, Jonas Gladnikoff, Primoz Poglajen 15 Unstoppable Brooke Borg Christian Schneider, Sara Biglert, Brooke Borg, Aidan O'Connor Christian Schneider, Sara Biglert, Brooke Borg 16 You Richard Edwards (Micallef) Richard Edwards Richard Edwards The Running Order For the Final Night On Tuesday 25 January 2017, PBS Chief Executive John Bundy announced the songs' running order for the final night, Saturday 18 February 2017 at the MFCC in Ta' Qali All the 16 songs in the Final...   No Songs Singers Authors Composers Televoting Number Video 01 Laserlight Klinsmann Coleiro Emanuel Drehen, Stefan Moessle Mathias Strasser 52302101 click on YouTube 02 Ray Of Light Raquela Dalli Gonzi Dean Muscat Boris Cezek 52302102 click on YouTube 03 Tonight Deborah C & Josef Tabone Angie Laus,Sara Lljunggren Michael James Down, Jonas Gladnikoff, Primoz Poglajen 52302103 click on YouTube 04 Follow Kevin Borg Kevin Borg Simon Gribbe 52302104 click on YouTube 05 Seconds Away Jade Vella Giovann Attard Augusto Cardinali 52302105 click on YouTube 06 So Simple Crosswalk Dean Muscat Boris Cezek 52302106 click on YouTube 07 Follow Me Franklin Calleja 'Muxu' Matt Mercieca Cyprian Cassar, Ivan Grech 52302107 click on YouTube 08 Fearles Rhiannon Micallef Rhiannon Micallef Cyprian Cassar 52302108 click on YouTube 09 Don’t Look Down Miriana Conte 'Muxu' Matt Mercieca Cyprian Cassar 52302109 click on YouTube 10 Crazy Games Shauna Vassallo Muxu Matt Mercieca Cyprian Cassar 52302110 click on YouTube 11 Kewkba Janice Mangion Emil Calleja Bayliss Mark Scicluna 523021011 click on YouTube 12 Fighting To Survive Cherton Caruana Dean Muscat Boris Cezek 52302112 click on YouTube 13 Bombshell Maxine Pace Noel Cohen, Michael Macallister Julie Hardy,Erin Bowman 52302113 click on YouTube 14 You Richard Edwards (Micallef) Richard Edwards Richard Edwards 52302114 click on YouTube 15 Unstoppable Brooke Borg Christian Schneider, Sara Biglert, Brooke Borg, Aidan O'Connor Christian Schneider, Sara Biglert, Brooke Borg 52302115 click on YouTube 16 Breathlessly Claudia Faniello Gerard James Borg Philip Vella,Sean Vella 52302116 click on YouTube The Presenters The festival presenters in this edition were actor Daniel Azzopardi, known for television dramas Deċeduti and Strada Stretta, and Charlene 'Charly' Mercieca, a businesswoman who recently had a publicised battle with cancer. Special Guests In the final night interval, the audience present at MFCC were entertained by Gozitan band The Travellers performing two numbers: Dak Li Int and Xemx u Xita, click for video. Then, 2016 winner Ira Losco performed Chameleon and Walk on Water click for video, and her brand new number We are the shoulders click for video. Finally, Christina Magrin, Malta's representative in Junior Eurovision 2016 sang Parachute click for video along with her new song Snow Globe click for video 30 Time Partecipate in Eurovision This year marked the 30th participation for Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest. For the occasion, all past representatives and festival chairmen were invited for the final night [1]. Sponsors This year the festival was sponsored by the following companies:- Go Hamilton Travel 202 Jewellery Esplora Mapfre-MSV Life Finestral cell-1 Inglott Schwarzkopf. Presentation of trophies The presentation to the winners was done by three past singers; Chiara,Ira Losco and Mary Spiteri. The Winners The 3 Winner songs in the Final...   No Song Singer Authors Composers Televoting Votes Video 01 Breathlessly Claudia Faniello Gerard James Borg Philip Vella,Sean Vella 4,996 click on YouTube 02 Kewkba Janice Mangion Emil Calleja Bayliss Mark Scicluna 4,544 click on YouTube 03 Follow Kevin Borg Kevin Borg Simon Gribbe 2,502 click on YouTube click on Video click on Video All the Songs Final Position and Votes The 16 songs votes in the Final...   No Song Singer Televoting Votes 01 Breathlessly Claudia Faniello 4,996 02 Kewkba Janice Mangion 4,544 03 Follow Kevin Borg 2,502 04 Unstoppable Brooke Borg 2,000 05 Follow Me Franklin Calleja 1,303 06 Bombshell Maxine Pace 625 07 Tonight Deborah C & Josef Tabone 572 08 Ray Of Light Raquela Dalli Gonzi 551 09 Fighting To Survive Cherton Caruana 340 10 Laserlight Klinsmann Coleiro 332 11 Fearless Rhiannon Micallef 288 12 So Simple Crosswalk 245 13 You Richard Edwards 186 14 Seconds Away Jade Vella 166 15 Crazy Games Shauna Vassallo 159 16 Don’t Look Down Miriana Conte 156 See also Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest Song Contests in Malta Malta Song Festival editions * 1960s: 1960 - 1961 - 1962 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965 - 1966 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969 * 1970s: 1970 - 1971 - 1972 - 1973 - 1974 - 1975 - 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 1979 Festival Internazzjonali tal-Kanzunetta Maltija editions * 1980s: 1980 - 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 * 1990s: 1990 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 * 2000s: 2000 - 2001 - 2002 * 2010s: 2013 Mużika Mużika - Festival Kanzunetta Maltija editions * 2020s: 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - Malta Eurovision Song Contest editions * Malta Song Festival - 1970s: 1971 - 1972 - 1975 * Festival tal-Kanzunetta Maltija għall-Ewropa: 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 * Malta Song for Europe - 1990s: 1997 - 1998 - 1999 * Malta Song for Europe - 2000s: 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 * Malta EuroSong: 2009 - 2010 * Malta Eurovision Song Contest: 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - (2019-2021 see X Factor Malta) - 2022 - 2023 Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest * 1970s: 1971 - 1972 - 1975 * 1990s: 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 * 2000s: 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - * 2010s: 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019 * 2020s: 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 -