49 songs have made it through to the first selection process towards the Maltese preselection shows. The island will have a national final and semifinal once again, in order to pick their song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
The shows will take place on the 22nd and 23rd of January. The 49 songs you see listed below, were narrowed down out of a field of 153 songs. Which is 19 more songs than Maltese broadcaster PBS received in 2014.
As was the case in previous years, we see a lot of artists returning to the stage in Malta. Some of them, like Ira Losco who got a second place at Eurovision in 2002, even got on to represent their nation on the real contest.
Here are the names and songs we know so far. This list will be brought back to 20 songs for the semifinal:
| Artist | Song |
| Francesca Bonanno | 96 |
| Jasmine Abela | Alive |
| Deborah C | All Around the World |
| Chaya Fenech | Bare Your Soul |
| Kurt Cassar | Battle Zone |
| Lyndsay Pace | Beautiful |
| Andre Curmi (Dre) | Brave |
| Cherylis & Mikhail | Breaking Point |
| Cherylis | Breathe |
| Jessika | Can’t Let Go |
| Danica Muscat | Castle |
| Ira Losco | Chameleon (Invincible) |
| Francesca Borg | Dancing in the Rain |
| Domenique Azzopardi | Empty Hearted |
| Jean Claude Azzopardi | Exceptional |
| Corazon (Mizzi) | Falling Glass |
| Kelly Ann Mintoff | Feeling Alive |
| Dominic | Fire Burn |
| Iona | Fireworks |
| Raquel Galdes | Flashing Lights |
| Franklin Calleja | Flawless |
| Danica Muscat | Frontline |
| Paul Cuschieri | Go Beyond The Shore |
| Brooke | Golden |
| Nazjo Rotin | Gone |
| Q | Higher |
| Jessika | Hush Hush |
| Dario Mifsud Bonnici | I Love You |
| Franklin Calleja | I Won’t Surrender |
| Christabelle Borg | Kingdom |
| Stefan Galea | Light Up My Life |
| Kimberley Cortis | Lighthouse |
| Franklin Calleja | Little Love |
| Neville Refalo | MI-MI-MIND |
| Joseph Portelli | Paper Boats |
| Panama Band -Simaria | Reaching |
| Sarah Crystal | Right Here With You |
| Aidan Cassar | Rule The World |
| Klinsmann Coleiro | Someday |
| Julienne Liberto | Tell Me What You Wanna Do |
| Ira Losco | That’s Why I Love You |
| Jessika | The Flame |
| Kyle Mangani & Maxine Pace | Tonight |
| Daniel Testa | Under the Sun |
| Amy Agius | Victory |
| Kaya | Without You |
| Maxine Pace | Young Love |
| Malcom | Your Kiss |
| Laurence Gray | You’re Beautiful |