{"id":80677,"date":"2025-12-31T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=80677"},"modified":"2026-01-12T19:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:26:14","slug":"malta-maakt-kandidaten-malta-eurovision-song-contest-bekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/landen\/mt\/malta-maakt-kandidaten-malta-eurovision-song-contest-bekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta maakt kandidaten ‘Malta Eurovision Song Contest’ bekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eilandstaat Malta heeft de kandidaten bekendgemaakt voor de Maltese Songfestivalvoorronde\u00a0Malta Eurovision Song Contest<\/em>. 18 kandidaten hopen Malta te vertegenwoordigen op het volgende Songfestival in Wenen. De halve finale van de Maltese voorronde gaat door op 15 januari, de finale twee dagen later.<\/p>\n

Update 5 januari: de achttien liedjes zijn inmiddels uitgebracht.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tijdens de halve finale beslist een jury samen met het publiek<\/strong> over wie naar de finale gaat. Ook de finale wordt op die manier beslist.<\/p>\n

Ex-deelnemers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Aan de start verschijnt een aantal artiesten dat al eerder hoopte voor Malta naar het Songfestival te gaan. Matt Blxck<\/strong> deed in 2024 een poging met het opvallende\u00a0Banana<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ook Aidan<\/strong> nam al deel. Hij werd bij zijn recentste deelname, in 2023, gediskwalificeerd<\/strong> omdat hij, tegen de regels in, posts op sociale media geplaatst zou hebben over zijn lied.<\/p>\n

Nog niet gewonnen<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Op het Songfestival kon Malta nog niet winnen. Twee keer werd het tweede, in 2002 met Ira Losco<\/strong> en in 2005 met Chiara<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

De laatste jaren behaalt Malta wisselende resultaten<\/strong> op de liedjeswedstrijd. In 2021 werd het land nog 7e in de finale met Destiny<\/strong>. De drie edities daarna kon Malta zich niet kwalificeren voor de finale, in Bazel werd Miriana Conte (foto)\u00a0<\/em>17e in de finale.<\/p>\n

Hieronder alle deelnemers, met de titel van hun liedje.<\/p>\n

Adria Twins – Ner\u0121\u00e0 nqum<\/em><\/p>\n

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Aidan – Bella<\/em><\/p>\n

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Chess Galea – Shout It Out<\/em><\/p>\n

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Denise – Trophy<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ema – Achikuku (Don’t Think About It)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Franklin Calleja – Guide You Home<\/em><\/p>\n

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Janice Mangion – Univers<\/em><\/p>\n

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Kelsie Borg – Let a Girl Breathe<\/em><\/p>\n

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Kelsy Attard – Perfectly Broken<\/em><\/p>\n

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Kurt Anthony – On the Borderline<\/em><\/p>\n

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Liston Bongailas – Mela<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mark Anthony Bartolo – Mumenti sbie\u0127<\/em><\/p>\n

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Matt Blxck – Ejja lejja \u0127dejja ‘l hawn (The Flute)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Matthew Cilia – Brutality Mentality<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mychael Bartolo Chircop – My Sweet Angel<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nathan Psaila – Ganador<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rhiannon Micallef – Hold Myself Up<\/em><\/p>\n

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Stefan Galea – Pose<\/em><\/p>\n

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De wedstrijd is op 15 en 17 januari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12914,"featured_media":78879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,7521],"tags":[7117,7171,6020,6021,2807,2113,254,6633,7079,3052,6626,3400,6628,219,17,6630,4925,4926,6309,6627,6909,19,6634,7170,6624,6632,6631,2216,6625,6629,1291,591],"class_list":["post-80677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mt","category-wenen-2026","tag-basel","tag-bazel","tag-belgie-eurosong","tag-belgie-songfestival","tag-esc","tag-esf","tag-eurosong","tag-eurosong-2024-belgie","tag-eurosong-2025","tag-eurosong-belgie","tag-eurosong-zweden","tag-eurosongfestival","tag-eurosongfestival-2024","tag-eurovisiesongfestival","tag-eurovision","tag-eurovision-sweden","tag-gastland-songfestival","tag-gaststad-songfestival","tag-gustaph","tag-loreen-eurovision","tag-nemo","tag-songfestival","tag-songfestival-2024-belgie","tag-songfestival-2025","tag-songfestival-zweden","tag-stockholm-eurosong","tag-stockholm-songfestival","tag-suisse","tag-sweden-2023","tag-sweden-songfestival","tag-switzerland","tag-zwitserland"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["nl","fr","en"],"languages":{"nl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80677"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81150,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80677\/revisions\/81150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}