The Danish broadcaster DR announced their vision on the ‘postcards’ for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Show producer Jan Lagermand Lundme said that “We will be closer to the participants. You as a viewer should get the feeling you know the artist who is on the stage. ” But what does that mean? In case you …
Ireland 2014 : Eurosong candidates to be revealed in early February
RTE, has confirmed that it will reveal the names of the 5 candidates that will compete in the 2014 Eurosong final in early February. As with past years the Irish broadcaster has opted for the same format. 5 mentors will have the sole responsibility of selecting 5 entries for the Eurosong 2014. The national final will be broadcast live on …
Portugal: NF Dates Announced
Portuguese national broadcaster RTP has announced, via ESCToday, that they will have a national selection show to choose their representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen. RTP will use the Festival da Canção format to choose their performer and song; Ten songs will compete in the semi-final on March 8, and after a public televote, the top five …
Lithuania: Maltese Songwriters in the Final 16
On Saturday the sixteen final songs in the Lithaunian National Final were made public. Amongst the 16 songs, one of them is written by two Maltese songwriters. Alison Ellul and Elton Zarb, no strangers to the Eurovision Song Contest National Selections. Alison has participated a number of times in the Maltese selection as a singer (part of Ali & …
Raffle: Win a Eurovision Cushion
Leading up to the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, ESC United is going to have multiple Raffles giving out some awesome prizes to our members and readers. All you have to do is register HERE and fill out your contact information. It is important that your mailing address is included, otherwise your submission will not be counted. Our first prize is a …
ESC 2014: Where are the Balkan countries?
The content of this editorial does not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of ESC United, its editorial board or its readers. One of our editors just wrote an article about the number of participants and I agree that it’s unfortunate we’re only going to have 36 countries this year, regardless of the reasons. Eurovision, in my opinion, is about …
Lithuania: Listen To The 16 Songs
Lithuania tonight saw another act eliminated from their National Final, Eurovizijos. Later this evening the National TV station also announced the 16 songs which have been selected as the final 16. One of these sixteen entries will represent Lithuania in Copenhagen. Here are the titles of the songs: Attention Blowing out cobwebs Breakaway Dying Worlds apart In the rain …
Lithuania: One More Act Eliminated – Eight Remain
Tonight saw the latest act eliminated from the Lithuanian National Selection for the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. Each week an act will be eliminated, last week for Eurovizijos veteran Aistė Pilvelytė eliminated from the competition. This week saw Kristina Radžiukynaitė eliminated from the list of potential entrants. As last week, the winner of the voting was announced and it …
The 2014 Ranking Game – Europe (and everybody else) start voting NOW
The Ranking Game – 2014 edition – is back. Just as in previous Years our readers and forum members will vote for their favorite songs on a weekly basis and we’ll share those results with you every Sunday. At the end of each week we will reset everything and you’ll get to vote again. That way the ranking is up to …
Belarus: TEO to Copenhagen!
After an incredibly interesting National Final, Belarus has chosen TEO to represent their country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen. Yuriy Vashchuk, known as his stage name TEO, sang the interestingly-composed “Cheesecake”. Here is the official video for “Cheesecake”: [vsw id=”TipV3H1jfgI” source=”youtube” width=”600″ height=”450″ autoplay=”no”] The results were half from the Televote and half from the jury, …