They promised us a shorter national final, and that is what we are exactly getting, but that doesn’t stop them from bringing in a lot of potential. LRT (National broadcaster of Lithuania) has earlier today revealed the 36 potential candidates to represent the country in Rotterdam. Eurovizijos Atranka 2020 Back in September, it was announced that the show will be …
When you’re succesful at Junior Eurovision and less successful at Eurovision, what would the logical solution to turn this bad luck be? Well, according to TVP (National broadcaster of Poland), you just try and do the same, but will it work? Szansa Na Sukces! In Junior Eurovision, Poland has managed to do something that has never been done before, which …
A few days ago, Moldova announced that they had opened up for their national selection, which will include live auditions for everyone to watch. If you’re one of those fans who love the live auditions, then you’ll be happy to hear that Belarus has announced something similar. Live Auditions! BTRC (the national broadcaster of Belarus) announced a few days ago …
Tornike Kipiani emerged victorious from a tight New Year’s Eve Georgian Idol final and earned the right to represent Georgia at Eurovision 2020. For the second year running the Idol franchise was used to select Georgia’s artist and 31-year-old Tbilisi native Kipiani, the overwhelming favorite to win after posting five successive elimination round victories, narrowly edged out 2nd place Barbara …
We are heading into a New Year, and by the crack of midnight on this December 31, 2019, we will know who has won Georgian Idol and who will represent the Caucasus nation at Eurovision 2020 in Rotterdam. Unlike last year’s Idol, we will have to wait for the song as it will be written after the winner has been …
Albania’s national final is over, there is not much left of 2019 and we’ll have a quite slow start of 2020, since most songs will first be selected in February(Yeah, I know, the Czechs will select in January, but they scrapped their national final, which is what most of us probably looked forward to watch). Anyhow, let’s take a fast …
Disclaimer: This editorial is written from the opinion of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of ESC United, its staff or anyone associated with Eurovision. Last weekend, the national final of Albania, the long-running Festivali i Këngës, took place to decide the Albanian selection for Rotterdam. It was the young, impressive vocalist Arilena Ara who wowed the …
As this decade draws to a close in the coming days, we wanted to test your knowledge of the 2010s in the Eurovision world. First up, we wanted to see if #YOU could remember the top five entries from the last ten contests. Sounds easy? Wait until the timer is ticking down on your answers. We’ve been generous and given …
For fans hoping that the film adaptation of the famous Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Cats” would capture the spirit of the Broadway phenomenon and be a success, their hopes were crushed as “Cats” opened to only $6.5 million at the U.S. box office. On paper, a film adaptation of the iconic fourth longest running show on Broadway starring top shelf …
Things are gearing up in the Balkans. Croatian broadcaster, HRT, has published the list of Dora participants and Serbian broadcaster, RTS, has published new info regarding Beovizija. As we already know, Dora 2020 will be held in Opatija again on February 29th. 16 acts will take the stage and there are also four back-ups, just in case. Among them was …
