Malta: Many former artists amongst 49 potential songs

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: