After the second semi-final the qualifiers have selected their halves for the final! Sweden will perform in 9th position on Saturday, the Big 5 selected their halves on the red carpet, Tuesday the first semi-finalists selected their halves and tonight the last 10 will select theirs. The 10 qualifiers have selected the following halves: Belgium 1st half Georgia 2nd half …

Well, the results are in and we have the results for Semi 2. Ten countries went through and earlier today, we asked team Stockholm to predict the results and also asked our readers so let’s find out:   Here is the breakdown by team Member: Matt: 9/10 Sean: 8/10 Chris: 7/10 Fernando: 8/10 Stefan: 8/10 Toby: 7/10 So Matt did …

The ten countries who have made it through the second semi-final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest are as follows: Latvia Georgia Bulgaria Australia Ukraine Serbia Poland Israel Lithuania Belgium Unfortunately this spells the end for eight of tonight’s countries, but let’s hope they’ll come back stronger next year! So now we know all 26 Finalists. In a few hours, …

Alternative Eurovision fans rejoice! Georgia are your saviours tonight! We got to speak to Nika Kocharov and the Young Georgian Lolitaz, which was a real treat for Matt and Sean who love the song! We talk camera angles, how they approached such an alien project and find out what their favourite Eurovision song is after Sebastian Tellier’s Divine… Nika Kocharov …

First up in tonight’s semi-final is Justs from Latvia, one of the youngest performers in this year’s competition. We spoke to Justs last week about his background in various musical styles, his home country and the simple reason why he entered Supernova. Check it out below! Justs will sing for Latvia in tonight’s second semi-final (May 12th). Does your heart …

Another of tonight’s popular artists is Serbia’s Sanja Vučić who has wowed the press with her powerful performances of “Goodbye (Shelter)” over the past week. Our Serbian editor Stefan was lucky enough to meet with Sanja once again to discuss her energy, why she stares at walls and to find out who the Israeli lodger on her floor is… You …

Here we are again for another round of predictions! We’ve counted up your votes, we’ve compiled our lists of qualifiers and we’re ready to take back the title from the readers! On Tuesday, the readers “televote” results were slightly more accurate than ours, but we feel pretty confident today! Once again we were astounded at the response to our poll so thank …

Ahead of tonight’s performance, let’s revisit some of the artists of the second semi-final! Poli Genova has been one of the fan favourites both in personality and song with many press centre members rooting for Bulgaria tonight. We had the chance to interview her last week about the ancient land of Bulgaria, the song and the love she got from …

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Now that the dust has settled on the pure drama of last night’s first semi-final, we’ve already moved on to the second. Earlier today we had the first run through of the show but tonight sees half of the points decided for this semi-final. Exciting times! We’ll be live from the press centre as ever so you can hear what …