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 …
JESC: Hungary Will Not Participate In Malta
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, …
JESC: Polina Ryzhak Disqualified From Ukrainian NF
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 …
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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 …
UK: 1997 Winner Released As Charity Single
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 …
THE BIG TOURNAMENT 2014 – Vote for your favorite ESC song
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 …
2014: Semi 2 Qualifiers Running Order Allocation
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 …
Exclusive: Last Tickets On Sale Today
A surprise came minutes ago when the official company selling the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest tickets announced that there are some final tickets on sale today. The only link that will provide tickets to the Final of the contest is HERE. They are not available through the site without this link. Keep checking the site throughout today to get your …
2014: Jury Members Announced
Rules of the Eurovision Song Contest dictate that each country, in their votes, must represent 50% televote and 50% Jury vote*. The EBU say that each jury should be a good representation and the rules state: Members of the National Juries must not be employees of Participating Broadcasters. Members shall not have been part of a National Jury the preceding …
United Kingdom: Children Of The Universe Video Released
Alongside Molly’s promotion tour, the official video for ‘Children of the Universe’ has been released. Molly will represent the United Kingdom in Copenhagen next month in the Final of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. The official release date for the single will be on the 28th of April (Monday), which will indeed be aided by the release of the video …