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With barely 39 entry reaches the national broadcaster of Moldova TRM a new record low. Of these 39 songs there will be 14 remain, after a jury has made a selection. These 14 entries will then broadcast during a semifinal will compete for a final place, where the winner will be crowned to the candidate for the Eurovision song contest in Kiev.

The Moldovan broadcaster TRM has reached a new low. In 2015, the broadcasting as many as 65 entries and they counted 46 in 2016. This year, however, there are only 39 songs who have ventured. Why? Thanks to the new rules that Moldova has compiled for the preselection. Only artists that the Moldovan citizenship may be a song.

The full list of candidates and their songs can be via this link .

A notable participant is Sunstroke Project. They took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010 already in Oslo. Their song Run Away behaaldde a modest 22nd place in the final, but in the aftermath of the Eurovision song contest and the song got more fame thanks to Epic Sax Guy was still their tune fairly well-known.

Where do we go from here with the selection? Saturday 21 January there will be a live audition will take place for the 39 submitted songs, in which a jury the 14 best songs will deliver a ticket to the semi-finals, which would be broadcast on 24 February. There, the group will be thinned further to eight finalists who their efforts during the final on February 25.

Listen to of Sunstroke Project Run Away with Epic Sax Guy: