A Choice for Titonüi 8

A Choice for Titonüi 8 is the eighth edition of the A Choice for Titonüi national finals, and it will select Titonüi's entry for Zendari Song Contest 8. It was confirmed by Titonüiyia Television on the 5th of July.

Rumours & Teasers
On the 28th of June 2018, it was reported that Titonüiyia Television is supposedly already preparing for the eighth edition of A Choice for Titonüi. Several sources are claiming that it will see a change in terms of music genres, as compared to previous editions. This was confirmed to be true on the 5th of July 2018.


 * Rumours are going around that Titonüiyia Television are asking artists from several other countries to compete. This was also confirmed to be true on the 5th of July 2018.

Teasers

 * The running order will include "plenty of songs with dance/electronic influences".
 * Emma Blackery will not be competing.
 * Four artists have previously competed in Zendari Song Contest.
 * None of these artists have represented Titonüi so far.
 * On the 12th of July, ONUKA was revealed to be competing.
 * On the 17th of July, JinSoul was revealed to be competing.
 * Four artists have competed in a national final previously.
 * One artist has previously competed in A Choice for Titonüi.

Participants
A playlist can be found here, and a recap can be found here.

Copyright issue
On the 16th of July 2018, Titonüiyia Television faced several copyright issues regarding a song (which is currently not public) in the recap. A decision was made, and the song that was last added to the running order, Galantis with "No Money", was removed. It was replaced by Christina Perri and the song "Sea of Lovers".

Galantis were supposed to close the show, but a decision was made that the affected copyright song would go out 10th, closing the show. Christina Perri was then set to go out as #5 in the running order.

However, only an hour later, more complications with copyright came to Titonüiyia Television's table. They then decided to revert the national final line-up to be the same as 2 weeks ago. This means that Christina Perri would not compete, and that Emly Clausen would go out as #5, with the song "Touch Me (All Over)".

Galantis shortly tweeted out "We are sad that we are forced to leave the contest, but we hope to be invited back in the future!". It was later revealed that both Galantis and Christina Perri have been offered a position in A Choice for Titonüi 9.

Winner backlash
Shortly after Pixie Lott & Stylo G were announced as winners of the contest, several people in the audience and online started demanding that they would give up their win in favor of letting Arlissa and Jonas Blue represent Titonüi in edition #8 of Zendari Song Contest. An online petition was also posted, which reached 3500 names within just a few minutes. The main reason to the backlash was because "Pixie Lott has already competed in Zendari Song Contest, as well as hosted Themedari Song Contest. She should let someone else take the spotlight".

Pixie Lott shortly tweeted out "I am so happy to be the winner of A Choice for Titonüi. However, if TTN wishes to change the representant of Titonüi in ZSC then I would be super happy for Arlissa! She's an amazing human with great talent and I hope to see her in the contest in the future!" after the show.

Despite the backlash, Titonüiyia Television let Pixie Lott and Stylo G compete in Zendari Song Contest 8. They responded to the claims with "Pixie Lott and Stylo G has won the contest fair and square by receiving the most points from all countries. It would be unfair to go against what they think".