New music this week from 90s Eurovision alum Petra Frey, who brings us a little schlaeger to brighten up our February! The National Triple Play takes us to tiny Andorra to hear half of their entire back catalogue, and the fan favourite delivers another wonderful song chosen by one of you. Plus as always our usual check up on the weeks Eurovision news…

This Weeks Highlights

Andorra has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest six times, debuting in the 2004 contest and participating every year thereafter until the 2009 contest. To date, Andorra remains the only nation to have never competed in a final, with its best result being a 12th-place finish in the 2007 contest’s semi-final. Andorra withdrew from the contest following its 2009 appearance, with the national broadcaster Ràdio i Televisió d’Andorra (RTVA) citing financial difficulties as the reason for its withdrawal. The country has not entered the contest again since. Interest in the contest has, however, remained high in the country, while statements from the Andorran government and broadcaster indicated that a future return was possible, depending on financial backing.

RTVA used a mixture of methods to select its entrants in the years it competed, employing a national final for 2004, 2005 and 2009 and selecting internally between 2006 and 2008. A televote was principally used to determine the nation’s points, however, due to the country’s small population, on occasion a jury was required as the number of votes received from the Andorran public was deemed too low to be considered valid.

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Marta Roure i Besolí is an Andorran singer and actress who comes from a musical family. Her great-grandfather, Joan Roure i Riu, was a trumpeter, her grandfather Joan Roure i Jané a sardana was a composer, her aunt Meritxell Roure i Morist has been a piano teacher, and her father Jordi Roure i Torra a band director, trumpeter and trumpet teacher. Marta has a sister, Anna, who is a piano teacher.

In 2004, Roure was chosen to represent Andorra in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with her song “Jugarem a estimar-nos”, following a programme on the Andorra Televisió. It was the first time Andorra competed at the Eurovision Song Contest, and the first time a song in Catalan language was performed at the competition.

Track List

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1	It’s All About You	Juliana Pasha	2010 Albania
2	Secret Combination	Kalomira	2008 Greece
3	Sense Tu	Jenny	2006 Andorra
4	La Mirada Interior	Marian Van De Wal	2005 Andorra
5	Jugarem A Estimar-Nos	Marta Roure	2004 Andorra
6	Wild Soul	Cristina Scarlat	2014 Moldova
7	Long Live Love	Olivia Newton John	1974 United Kingdom
8	Liebe bleibt ein großes Wunder	Petra Frey	2024 Non Contest
9	Mojot Svet	Karolina Gorcheva	2007 North Macedonia
10	Unicorn	Noa Kirel	2023 Israel
11	Let Me Fly	Debbie Scerri	1997 Malta
12	Hatrid Mun Sigra	Hatari	2019 Iceland
13	The Last Of Our Kind	Rykka	2016 Switzerland
14	Energy	Nusa Derenda	2001 Slovenia
15	Et Uus Saaks Alguse	Birgit Oigemeel	2013 Estonia

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