The final voting for the most valuable pop and rock song of the year in the “Music Bank 2023” survey organized by Latvian Radio 2 has begun. This time, in the end, everything is left in the hands of the lowest voters in the final concert, which is a bit strange.
Until January 15, the 25 final songs of “Music Bank” will be evaluated by listeners and experts, and on January 16, the 15 songs and their performers who will fight for the title of the most valuable song of the year will be announced. For the first time in the history of the poll, the winner among the final songs will be determined solely by the votes of the listeners and viewers during the live broadcast of the ceremony on January 27, shortly after 9 p.m., on Latvijas Radio 2 and LTV1 live from the Daugavpils Olympic Center.
“A total of 150 songs have been included in the survey of the 2023 season of “Music Bank”. This season, the survey includes both well-known artists and new names, as well as musicians who had been silent for some time and are now ready to contribute to the development of pop music in Latvia. Not only the musicians themselves, but also the listeners were active, getting involved in creating charts and tirelessly voting for their favorites,” says Kaspars Mauriņš, director of Latvian Radio 2.
Until January 15, everyone can vote for their chosen composition once a day on the survey website. The songs of the “Muzikālās bankas” final vote are also evaluated by the jury, which consists of composer Zigmars Liepiņš, composer and arranger Kristaps Krievkalns, opera singer Raimonds Bramanis, conductor Aigars Meri, DJ and Latvian Radio 5 music editor Uldis Cīrulis (DJ Monsta), trombonist and Latvian Radio big band member Uldis Ziediņš, singer Elza Rozentāle, conductor and singer Laura Leontjeva, music journalist Uldis Rudaks, as well as musicologist and LTV Kulturas editorial director Ieva Rozentāle.
This year “Music Bank” will be held for the 24th time. Last year, the group “Citi zēni” with the song “Lieka stuka” was the winner, the song “Laternas” performed by the group “Sudden Lights” became the second most valuable, while the third place was taken by “The Sound Poets” with the song “By the fire”.
“Music Banks 2023” Top 25 (in alphabetical order):
- “Party” – “Other Boys”, “The Benevolent Type”
- “How much further?” – Chris Noah
- “Dzīparos” – Antra Stafecka, Ivo Grīsniņš Grīslis
- “I’m waiting for winter” – “Triana Park”
- “In the gallery” – Lauris Reiniks
- “Longing Bells” – “Astro’n’out”
- “Is” – “Iron Wolf”
- “The Queen’s Waltz (dame la mano)” – “Storm of Mind”
- “Good Evening” – “Singapore Satin”
- “Latgalita” – “Latgalian rap”, Felipe Gabriel
- “Kingdom of Broken Spears” – Don
- “Let Me” – “Kautkaili”
- “We Go On” – “Sudden Lights”
- “Take me (closer to myself)” – Aminata
- “Thunder will pass” – Aija Andreyeva
- “Predatory” – Raum
- “Rocket science” – Finķis, Patriša
- “Give yourself away” – Dārta Stepanova, Dagnis Roziņš
- “Smiling” – Jānis Stībelis
- “Playing his magic flute” – Intars Busulis
- “Salti” – “Without VAT”, Diona
- “Only in your imagination” – Patricia
- “I want to live” – ArtifexLV, Karīna Tropa, Atis Zviedris
- “She is my therapy” – Aija Andrejeva, Olga Rajecka
- “25” – Mick Galvanovskis
2024-01-03 16:01:52
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