Sveriges Television – SVT –  Swedish national broadcaster has just announced the hosts of allocation draw. Jovan Radomir and Alexandra Pascalidou will host us through the semi-final allocation draw for the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm later this year. The semi-final allocation draw will take place this Monday, 25th of January at 11:15 CET Jovan has been spokesperson for Sweden in …

Snippets of the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix were released this week, and some fans noticed one of the songs was rather similar to another song. The song “Happy Rush” by Freddie Kalas came into question due to the fact it was very similar to one of his previous songs “Cannabus”. NRK, the Norwegian broadcaster held an emergancy meeting to discuss …

The Bosnian entry for Eurovision 2016 will be sung in Bosnian and will be released in the second half of February, as confirmed by head of delegation Lejla Babović. The song, which will be performed in Stockholm by Deen, Dalal Midhat-Talačić & the Croatian cellist Ana Rucner, does not currently have a title but it is expected to be revealed …

Malta will become the fifth country to select their entry for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, the day before they will hold their semi-final! Check out the rehearsals for the semi-final.   Danica “Frontline” Franklin “Little Love” Ira Losco “Chameleon (Invincible)” Dominic “Fire Burn” Maxine “Young Love” Lawrence Gray “You’re Beautiful” Sarah Crystal “Right here with you” Kim …

As you know, today RTVE, the Spanish national broadcaster, has revealed full songs of the six candidates that will compete on February 1st in special show called Objetivo Eurovision and it will start at 22.30 CET. Why so late you may think? Well that is prime time on television in Spain, so there is no doubt that it will have huge …

Despite downsizing in recent years, MGP still knows how to draw in fans as one of the most popular national finals! No doubt then that this morning’s news will be welcome to many as we can reveal the 10 finalists of the 2016 edition, set to take place in the Oslo Spektrum on February 27th; Agnete – Icebreaker Elouiz – …

Although previously reported as yet another show on February 13th (almost certainly this year’s Super Saturday), it has now been confirmed that Objetivo Eurovisión (Target Eurovision) will take place on February 1st. Should there be no more surprise announcements, Spain will therefore be the sixth song of the season. Today, Spanish national broadcaster TVE also released snippets of the six …

Every Sunday at 19:00 CET, the ESC United Know-It-Alls are discussing the latest and greatest news, developments and general Eurovision related info. Today’s panel includes Matt (ESC United Editor-in-Chief), Stefan ( ESC United Editor),Jake (ESC United Editor) and Sadie (ESC United Editor). In this week’s live Hangout we discussed the following topics: – Nicky Byrne (Westlife) for Ireland – Serhat …

Today might be widely known as Blue Monday, or ‘the worst day of the year’, but for this year the day signals the oncoming rush of entries, shows and excitement of the 2016 Eurovision selection season. It’s been quite a stuttering start of the season and we’re still awaiting 40 more entries, but luckily there’s a few more events to …

Following yesterday’s announcement that the BBC’s national final to select the United Kingdom’s Eurovision entry would be held on February 26th, Radio 2’s Ken Bruce has this morning confirmed that the six songs set to take part in the competition will be premiered on his show on February 22nd. Ken Bruce will also be revealing the special guest performers for …