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Albania's Festivali i Këngës #56: Listen to the songs

The songs and videos for Albania's Festivali i Këngës #56 have been revealed. The winner of the Albanian festival will represent Albanian at Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon

Update 19 December 2017:
Semi-final allocation and running order revealed

The songs for this year's Albanian selection, Festivali i Këngës #56, have been revealed. 22 songs have been selected out of 70 received by a five-person jury: Markelian Kapidani, Luan Zhegu, Ben Andoni, Sokol Marsi and Edmond Rapi.

Festivali i Këngës #56 – Lineup

Semi-final 1

21 December 2017

  1. Elton Deda – "Fjalët"
  2. Mariza Ikonomi – "Unë"
  3. Stefi & Endri Prifti – "Mesazh"
  4. Evans Rama – "Gjurmët"
  5. David Tukiçi & Genc Tukiçi – "Të pandarë"
  6. Voltan Prodani – "Pse të desha"
  7. Eugent Bushpepa – "Mall"
  8. Rezarta Smaja & Luis Ejlli – "Ra një yll"
  9. Bojken Lako – "Sytë e shpirtit"
  10. Manjola Nallbani – "I njejti qiell"
  11. Redon Makashi – "Ekzistoj"

Semi-final 2

22 December 2017

  1. Orgesa Zaimi – "Ngrije zërin"
  2. Denisa Gjezo – "Zemër ku je"
  3. NA & Festina Mezini – "Tjetër jetë"
  4. Lorela Sejdini – "Pritem edhe pak"
  5. Artemisa Mithi – "E dua botën"
  6. Ergi Bregu-Latifllari – "Bum Bum"
  7. Akullthyesit – "Divorci"
  8. Xhesika Polo – "Përjetë"
  9. Inis Neziri – "Piedestal"
  10. Tiri Gjoci – "Orë e ndaluar"
  11. LYNX – "Vonë"

Many of the this year's festival's participants have competed in the competition earlier, including three former winners of the festival: David Tukiçi (1969), Manjola Nallbani (1989, 1992 and 1993) and Luiz Ejlli (2004).

Festivali i Këngës #56

This year's Festivali i Këngës will again be held in December live from the congress hall "Pallati i Kongreseve" in central Tirana, with two semi-finals and one final:

  • 21 December 2017: Semi-final 1
  • 22 December 2017: Semi-final 2
  • 23 December 2017: Final

Host of all three shows is Adi Krasta. Adi also hosted the festival in 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2006.

Three juries have selected 14 songs to proceed to the final. There were three juries with different weight:

  • Professional jury: Selects 8 finalists
  • Public jury: Selects 3 finalists
  • Media jury: Selects 3 finalists

The winner of Festivali i Këngës #56 – and the Albanian representative at Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal will be decided by the professional jury (60% of the votes) and the public jury (40% of the votes).

Festivali i Këngës is organized by the Albanian national broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH). Since its start in 1966, all artists have been asked to perform live, with a jury selecting the winner. Since 2003 the winner of the festival is Albania's representative to Eurovision Song Contest.

When Albania in 2004 finally applied EBU to participate in Eurovision Song Contest, they agree to let the winner of the country's most popular festival represent Albania.

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Since debuting in 2004, Albania has been participating in Eurovision Song Contest every year. Best result is a 5th place in 2012, where Rona Nishliu sang "Suus".

Out of the 14 times Albania has participated, they have qualified for the Grand final 7 times.




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