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Bulgaria: No participation in Vienna

Sad news have reached us this morning: Bulgaria won’t return to Eurovision next year. The Bulgarian broadcaster BNT confirmed their withdrawal to the fan site esctoday.com, stating financial problems as their main reason to stay out once again. They had previously submitted a preliminary application but decided to pull out within the final deadline. The full list of participants will …

Söngvakeppni 2015

Icelandic broadcaster, RUV, has announced the start of their search, ready for their national final, Söngvakeppni. They are asking for songs to be submitted by the 20th October, and the national final will be broadcast in February 2015, final date to be confirmed. Iceland have used Söngvakeppni since 1986, and after having chosen Yohanna and her beautiful ballad “Is It …

A Pussycat Doll enters the Swiss NF

The Swiss preselection has only been open for 9 days and we already have a prominent name: Jessica Sutta from the Pussycat Dolls! The famous girlband split up in 2010 – since then Jessica Sutta has been pursuing her solo career as a Pop/Dance artist. She joined the band in 2002 and was therefore involved in major hits such as …

Serbia to spend €50,000 on promotion in 2015

RTS are allegedly set to put aside €50,000 just on marketing and promotion for Serbia’s Eurovision entry in 2015, suggesting that the broadcaster are back in it to win it! Saša Mirković will work with Vladimir Graić to find Serbia’s returning entry and the former explains what Serbia’s €200,000 fee for Eurovision 2015 will break down into; ‘RTS called me …

United Kingdom Calling: Song submissions wanted

United Kingdom broadcaster, BBC, has today announced that they are now actively seeking their entry to send to Vienna, for Eurovision 2015. Executive producer of the BBC, Guy Freeman, today said “We’re keen to provide as many routes into the selection process as possible, whilst remaining realistic about the proven amount of experience required by anyone wishing to put themselves …

Malta: Who are the Ekklesia Sisters?

Every so often we find a performer that grabs attention for reasons other than their song. We’ve had Lordi, Verka Serduchka, Buranovskiye Babushki and Conchita Wurst in recent years, and some others have tried but fallen at the national final stage. This year, Malta might just be the country to grab headlines with their artist; one of the more surprising …

Israel changes selection format

Today several Israeli media reported about a change of format in the Israeli preselection. Previously the radio station 88 FM was appointed by the IBA to select an artist internally – after shortlisting Marina Maximilian, Ester Rada and Asaf Avidan and approaching them, all three declined the offer. As a result of that, a new selection method was chosen. The …

Malta: Semi-finalists announced – with preview clips

Tonight on the Maltese television show Xarabank the 20 artists and their songs that will take part in the Maltese national final, MESC, were announced. Included in the qualified artists are many familiar faces, including Glen Vella (who represented the tiny island nation in 2011), Gianluca Bezzina (as part of L-Aħwa) and Franklin, whose entry “Still Here” was written by …

Italy planning to select through San Remo

The rules of the prestigious San Remo festival in 2015 have been published and it seems that, unlike in 2014, Italian broadcaster RAI will be using the contest once again to select the Big 5 country’s representative. The recently published rules state; The winning artist of the “CAMPIONI” section will have the right to participate representing Italy at the 2015 …

Internal selection for Montenegro

The Montenegrin broadcaster RTCG announcd that the representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 will be selected internally rather than through an elaborate selection process. Sergej Cetkovic who was the first representative to qualify from the Semi Finals was also selected internally so the decision by the broadcaster shouldn’t come as a major surprise. No additional details are known at this …

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