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 …

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 …

The Georgian public broadcaster has announced that the Caucasian artist or band will be internally chosen. Despite the candidate to wave the Georgian flag is unknown, GPB confirmed that it will be chosen on September. Could any Eurovision voice go back to the contest ? could even a former Junior Eurovision performer have the honor to sing for Georgia in the senior category ? …

Céline Dion, winner of Eurovision Song Contest in 1988 has decided to leave stage for a long time. The Canadian artist has been forced to switch off her microphone because of her husband’s health. René Angélil, Céline’s former manager fights against a throat cancer. In 1998, a malignant lump was found in his throat. Céline showed him how much she adores him …

After weeks of positivity regarding Hungary participating in the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, today MTVA, the Hungarian National Broadcaster have confirmed to ESCUnited.com that they will not be sending an entry to the 2014 edition of the contest. Many rumours have been heard with regards to the JESC Executive having high hopes for Hungary participating in Malta in November, …

Today it was announced by NTU that one of the songs has been disqualified from the National Final of Ukraine for the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The song perform Polina Ryzhak, entitled ‘Tse Ukraina’ was found to be a cover version of a Miley Cyrus song ‘Nobody’s Perfect’. Therefore the song has been replaced with the song that placed …

The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 season is over so it’s time to look ahead and start getting ready for the 2015 season. Once again, ESC United is focused on bringing in the contest closer to the readers and put the fans in the spotlight. But we can’t do that without a proper team so if you are interested in becoming …

Back in 1997 Katrina and the Waves took Europe by storm, and won the Eurovision Song Contest by a landslide, with 227 points in the Point Theatre in Dublin. Today, Irish singer,Lee Matthews has released a cover of the winning song with proceeds going to the charity, Join Our Boys. The Charity has been set up in aid of Duchenne’s Muscular …

ESC 2014 is over and we’ll have a lot of time to kill. So it’s time to start this year’s Big Tournament edition where all entries from 1956 – 2014 will compete for your vote, hoping to move on from The Preliminary Round, to the Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and the Big Final Round. This popular Tournament is a good …

After another exciting semi final tonight, the ten qualifiers have selected their semi final ‘half allocation’, meaning the acts have selected from a bowl the half of the semi final that they will perform in on Saturday’s Grand Final. Here are the the countries and the half they selected: Norway – First Half  Greece – First Half  Romania – First Half  Austria – First Half  Poland – First Half  Belarus – First …