"This is the night" is the title of the song that won the maltese national final tonight! Kurt Calleja will now represent Malta in Baku!

Claudia Faniello placed second!

Fabrizio Faniello who already participated in ESC is trying again tonight to win the National Final!

This time, the song is called I will fight for you (Papa's song). 16 acts will perform tonight and the winner will represent Malta in Baku! The composer of th eportuguese song from 1990 "Sempre há sempre alguém" is also competing with the song Look at me now performed by Richard Edwards. 

May the best win!

Participants:

Lawrence Gray - In your eyes (Philip Vella & Cher Vella)

Deborah C ft. Leila James - You make me go uh uh uh (David Vervoort & Pastrick Reiner)

Dorothy Bezzina - Autobiography (Magnus Kaxc & Gerard James Borg)

Gianni Zammit - Petals on a rose (R. Abrahamsson, A. Aly, N. Numhauser & T. Fenech)

Claudia Faniello - Pure (Philip Vella & Gerard James Borg)

Danica Muscat - Seven days (Philip Vella)

Fabrizio Faniello - I will fight for you (Papa's song) (J. Beoerham, N. Edberger, R. Uhlmann, W. Fenech & F. Faniello)

Corazon - Mystifying eyes (Paul Giordimania & Fleur Balzan)

Richard Edwards - Look at me now (Jan Van Dijck & Richard Micallef)

Kaya - First time (Georgiaos Kalpakidis)

Amber - Answer with your eyes (Ray Agius & Alfred C. Sant)

Wayne Micallef - Time (Wayne Micallef)

Kurt Calleja - This is the night (Johann Jamtberg & Kurt Calleja)

J. Anvil - You are my life (George Georgion)

Klinsmann - No way back (Paul Albela, Klinsmann Coleiro & Jonathan C. Spiteri)

Francesca Borg - Take me far (Marco Debono & Doris Chetcuti)

Kim Wilde and Ingolf Lück will be presenting national and international pop stars with their greatest hits from five decades in this dual-language show. Contemporary celebrities will talk about songs that have changed their lives. Was it their first kiss? When they fell in love? Their big break? We’ll have to wait and see!Interviews, original footage and performances will reflect the spirit of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and of today. An award for each decade will be presented to honour the extraordinary achievements of the stars. The show will be today, Saturday, 22nd October 2011. From 20.15 hours live broadcast on 3sat. Repeats will be shown on ZDF prime time on Saturday, 5th of November 2011 after the show "Wetten, dass" and on ZDFkultur a few days later. ‘Shanghai - Paris – Rome, live is a pleasure dome!’The members of JONES featuring FABRIZIO FANIELLO are living in different places all over the globe and meet at night on the internet. Via Skype and thanks to modern recording techniques they are grooving in Shanghai, Malta and Frankfurt. With their dance pop song ‘THE SOUND OF LIFE IS POP!’ they managed to get right into the ZDF/3SAT show ’50 Years of Pop’. Jones featuring Fabrizio, will be broadcasted live from the Arena Leipzig on October 22nd. http://www.50jahrepop.com/

After the launch of Fabrizio´s new album “NO SURRENDER” , its time to release the new single from his current Album. “KNOW ME BETTER” was written by the British/Swedish Writer Team Warren Bacci, Michael Johansson and Johan Bejerholm who has been responsible as well for the Production of it in the World Studios in Sweden. This Release is accompanied with another outstanding Video produced in Germany and some Remixes from British Club Masters “Soundface” (responsible for Mixes for Kylie Minogue among others well known artists). Fabrizio will promote his new Single at TV and Radio stations around the world, you can follow him on http://www.facebook.com/fabriziofanielloofficial Fabrizio was performing in the very first Eurovision Party Portugal, 2 years ago and he is the artist that spent more time at number one in the TOP 20 of Eurovision On Top.

Malta started the day! We can call it a normal performance in the way we expected. The best thing are the three back singers behind the 2 dancers and the singer. Glen sings well and it can work well on TV.

San Marinos entry is a normal ballad performed by a great singer. The song has a very good orchestration and the performance is quite normal. Just the best for a song like this! Probably wont be in the final!

soucer: song festival web.nl

Fabrizio Faniello, the artist that spent more time at number one in TOP 20 (I no can do) is back with a new album. No surrender, the title, is also the name of the song that placed 4th in the maltese National Final. Mary Susan Applegate (The Power of Love), Gary Barlow (Take That), Johan Bejerholm (Arash), Johan Stentorp (Michael learns to Rock) & Apoy (Wali) are some named composers & lyricists of the songs and the quality of the production of the album is of highest standard! The CD format  includes a 12 pages booklet inside with all lyrics, photos & informations to his fans and followers. Recorded in Malta (Philip Vella Studios) , Sweden (World Studios) , Italy (Da Capo) and Germany (FMO AudioVision) the 13 new songs are reflecting the experiences, ups & downs, dreams, hopes and visions of Fabrizio.The album will be launch in an official party on the 27th of April at Zeta Bar in Malta. More information can be found in www.fabriziofaniello.com . We wish the best success for one of our most friendly artists from Eurovision.

A long night with important decisions! Five acts and five countries decided!

Malta: Fabrizio Faniello (2001/2006) didnt won. The mediterranean coutry decided for Glen Vella and One life!

Finland: Paradise Oskar with Da da dam.

Norway: A bit of Afrika will be in Dusseldorf by the hand of Norway since Stella Mwangi won with the song Haba haba.

Iceland: Sjónni's friends with the song Aftur heim won! The song should have been performed by Sigurjón Brink that died last month.

Belgium: Witloof Bay  with the song With love baby will go to Dusseldorf.

Fabrizio Faniello is the number one in the chart of the year! I no can do spent 10 weeks at number one, 27 in the chart! The song got a record of votes with an average of 80 votes per week. The number 2 is for Didrik and the number 3 belongs to this years ESC winner Lena! Norway got 4 songs in the Top 10.

The Top 10 is as follows:

1 I no can do Fabrizio Faniello

2 Best kept secret Didrik Solli-Tangen

3 Touch a new day Lena Meyer Landrut

4 Precious to me Maria Haukaas & Mans

5 Alay Dana International

6 I do not believe in miracles Alexander Rybak

7 Shynshyla Tina Karol

8 Spase ton Xrono Sakis Rouvas

9 Lucy Tom Dice

10 Oah Alexander Rybak

Check the full list here: www.eurovisionontop.com/annualcharts.htm