Lynn Chirchop will represent Malta this year with a song called "To Dream Again". She scored very well with the juries but did not seem to be a favourite with the public, only receiving 60 points out of a possible 100.

PBS MALTA have recieved 238 entries for their national final. The deadline for submission of entries for Malta Song For Europe was 15th November. 238 songs is a record breaker for malta. 224 songs were sent last year. 50 songs were picked by a panel of judges consisting of 15 Maltese personalities coming from the Maltese music scene/industry on the 21st and 22nd November.From these 50, 24 songs were chosen for the semi finals of ASFE. These 24 songs are listed below:

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Angels
Take me back again
Someday you will see
Look at me
Survive (to stay alive)
Why not?
On top of the world
Call my name
Superstitious
Here today gone tomorrow
Starting over
Light of my life
Welcome
Everywhere I go
My song
One touch
Love will shine forever
My number one
Tell me why
I believe in love
To dream again
And the music
Rain of fire
Feel the beat

The finalists of Malta SFE 2003 will be released to the public on January 12th. They will be bradcast on the maltese channel TVM over a couple of weeks. Each week 6 songs will be shown along with competitions and other well known maltese bands. The programme is called POPin and will start on Sunday 12th January at 18.45.

Applicants can now send in entries for song for europe 2003. The deadline for entries to be recieved is the 15th November. Out of these entries 36 will be chosen to be performed live by the singers behind closed doors where the 36 songs will be cut down to the final 16 songs that will compete on the live shows that will take place on the 7th and 8th February

Below is the calendar of events to choose the Maltese entry for Eurovision 2003:-

16th September	Publication of terms and conditions
15th November	Closing date for the submission of songs
20th to 22nd November	Phase 1: Adjudication of entries through the compact disc
Date by which composers with more than two songs of the same singers should inform Festival Board of their decision (withdrawl or change of singer)
16th December	Phase 2: Adjudication of the 36 songs sung live behind closed doors
7th and 8th February	Third and final phase: The final 16 songs are presented live before the general public and the winning song is selected