Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024

Greece is set to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden. The Greek broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) internally selected Marina Satti as the Greek representative for the 2024 contest.

Eurovision Song Contest 2024
Country Greece
National selection
Selection process
  • Artist: Internal selection
  • Song: TBA
Selection date(s)
  • Artist: 24 October 2023
  • Song: TBA
Selected entrantMarina Satti
Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2023 • 2024

Background
Main article: Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2024 contest, Greece has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest forty-three times since its debut in 1974.[1] The nation has won the contest once to this point, in 2005 with the song "My Number One" performed by Helena Paparizou. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004 contest, Greece managed to qualify for the final with each of their entries for several years. Between 2004 and 2013, the nation achieved nine top ten placements in the final. The nation's first entry to not qualify to the final was "Utopian Land" performed by Argo in 2016, which placed 16th in the semi-final, marking Greece's worst placing at the contest and their absence from the final for the first time since 2000. In the 2018 contest, Greece failed to qualify for the second time with Yianna Terzi and the song "Oniro mou", finishing 14th in the semi-final. After three consecutive contests when the nation qualified for the final, Victor Vernicos with "What They Say" failed to qualify to the 2023 final, finishing 13th in the semi-final.[1]

The Greek national broadcaster, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), broadcasts the event within Greece and organises the selection process for the nation's entry.[2] ERT had been in charge of Greece's participation in the contest since their debut in 1974 until 2013 when the broadcaster was shut down by a government directive and replaced firstly with the interim Dimosia Tileorasi (DT) and then later by the New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (NERIT) broadcaster,[2][3][4][5] renamed to ERT by the new government in June 2015.[6][7] Greece has selected its entries in the past both internally and through the national final format Ellinikós Telikós (most recently held in 2017). ERT confirmed their intention to participate in the 2024 contest on 15 September 2023, without specifying their intended selection method.[8]

Before Eurovision

Internal selection

On 24 October 2023, ERT announced they had carried out an internal selection for the Greek entrant, revealing that Marina Satti had been chosen.[9] A submission window for interested composers is open between 25 October 2023 and 1 December 2023 in order to select the entry; it has not been disclosed whether this selection will also be made internally or through a national final.[10]

References
  1. "Greece". Eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  2. Floras, Stella (11 June 2013). "Greece shuts down public broadcaster ERT". ESCToday. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  3. Savaricas, Nathalie (11 July 2013). "Greece's state-run TV service resumes with a blast from the past". The Independent. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  4. "Greece's replacement public broadcaster launched". Deutsche Welle. 4 May 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  5. Paravantes, Maria (11 June 2005). "Joy In Greece Over Eurovision Win". Billboard. Vol. 117, no. 24. p. 17. Retrieved 16 January 2009 – via Google Books.
  6. Maltezou, Renee (28 April 2015). "In symbolic move, Greece to reopen shuttered state broadcaster". Reuters. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  7. "Greece's state broadcaster ERT back on air after two years". BBC News. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  8. Ilias, Timos (15 September 2023). "Greece: ERT has confirmed its participation in Eurovision 2024 | EXCLUSIVE". Eurovisionfun. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  9. Ilias, Timos (24 October 2023). "Marina Satti will represent Greece in Eurovision 2024!". Eurovisionfun. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  10. Ntinos, Fotios (24 October 2023). "Greece: This is the procedure by which Marina Satti's song will se selected for Eurovision 2024!". Eurovisionfun. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
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