This week finally sees the national selection season leading up to Rotterdam 2020 kick into action, with Albania’s Festivali i Këngës once again beginning our road to the Eurovision Song Contest. Now, we at escYOUnited are a passionate, opinionated bunch, so we will take the time to review every single main selection entry of the 2020 edition. Where better to …
It’s time for the polls for this year’s contest to begin, and boy are we excited! As ever, it is Albania who will be first up to select their song for Eurovision 2020 and by the end of this week we will have our first track to dissect, enjoy and obsess over! Festivali i Këngës will take place this week …
Australia’s Eurovision broadcaster SBS has finally completed the line-up for next year’s national selection, announcing the final four acts earlier today. The four acts announced today are Diana Rouvas, Jack Vidgen, Jordan Ravi and Jaguar Jonze. Jack Vidgen found fame as the fifth winner of Australia’s Got Talent in 2011, at the age of just 14. Since then he has …
It is officially his crown to lose as Tornike Kipiani earned his fourth leader title in a row. In a Giya Kancheli themed episode, Kipiani experimented with a classical Georgian favorite and it paid off handsomely, as Kipiani ran away with the win with 29.09% of the vote. Barbara Samkharadze came in second for the third week in a row …
The official broadcaster of the Czech Republic, Česka Televize, has announced that there will be seven acts competing to represent the central European nation in Rotterdam, 2020. The Czech Republic’s unique online national final will count with seven competing, curiously one less than last year’s selection. Source: Česka Televize The broadcaster has yet to comment on the reduction from eight …
Austrian broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) revealed earlier this morning that singer – songwriter Vincent Bueno will represent Austria at Eurovision 2020 with an up-tempo song called “Alive.” “Alive,” which will be released shortly before the song submission deadline in early March 2020, will have “personal hashtags” as a theme, with drawing positivity from within tying these hashtags together. Say hey …
The below editorial features the opinions and views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of #escYOUnited as a whole, Eurovision or the EBU. Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS revealed today the concept behind the postcards for Eurovision 2020 to be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The brief postcard, the video introduction to each competing artist at the contest, …
They are the early birds every season, and once again, the country of the two-headed black eagle is once again about to start up the season. Despite a disastrous earthquake that’s heavily damaged the country and even been named the deadliest earthquake of 2019, the show and spirit must go on! Festivali i Këngës 58 Rumors started to surround, that …
It was an intense live show of Georgian Idol, as Tornike Kipiani kept his cool during a stage invasion while performing a very eccentric take on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Gethsemane (I only want to say)”. No matter, though, as Tornike received the most votes for the third week in the row and did not let the bearded stage invader who …
In a break from tradition, albeit in extraordinary circumstances, it seems that Albania’s national selection for Eurovision and one of the nation’s traditional festivals will move from its usual December timeslot, according to the news site Lajmi.net. Following the devastating earthquakes that hit the Balkan nation in November, the national broadcaster RTSH looks set to announce the move of Festivali …
