In a world where fear and isolation has run rampant and Eurovision has been cancelled, music can provide so much more than simple entertainment – now more than ever it can create community, comfort, distaction, and most importantly conversation points. For all of these reasons I have decided to reinstate the music roundup 3 months earlier than usual. Due to …
Topping off a fantastic 2017 for the young Bulgarian star, Eurovision 2017’s runner-up Kristian Kostov has taken the prestigious Public Choice Award at this year’s European Border Breakers Awards. [AdSense-B] The accolade, which is chosen by the public to honour the next rising star in Europe, has previously been won by stars such as Dua Lipa, The Baseballs, Eurovision’s own …
[AdSense-B] The Semi Final 1 of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 took place last night and as expected, it was full of surprises and emotions. Ten out of 18 countries qualified for the Finals. Unfortunately we will not know until after the Grand Finale on Saturday where the songs ended up in the Ranking and whether a song received the …
[AdSense-B] VRT, the Flemish broadcaster in Belgium and the broadcaster in charge of next year’s participation for the country, has decided to take a leaf out of the Walloon broadcaster RTBF’s book, who has internally selected to good success in recent years. RTBF’s choices have included Roberto Bellarosa in 2013, Loïc Nottet in 2015 and this year’s entrant Blanche who was …
[AdSense-B] We had chance to speak to super young and retro Blanche from Belgium. She made mesmerizing statements about her song “City Lights.”! #YOU can check out the intriguing interview below; Who do #YOU want to see us interview next? Send us your questions and we’ll try to ask the artists!
[AdSense-B] The ESC United “Expert” Panel is back. The Editorial team got to enjoy all 43 entries of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, review and rank them accordingly. Needless to say, this is all subjective and you may totally disagree with us. There is a reason we put quotation marks down. Which is why we included a poll and in …
[AdSense-B] Last month, once all of the songs for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest had been chosen, we put one very simple question to #YOU: Who did you want to win Eurovision 2017? While it may be a question some have taken in different directions, we feel that it is an accurate barometer of how people are feeling about the …
[AdSense-B] We told you that the snippet was out and now many people in Europe are waking up to the news that the Belgian entry has been released! Blanche is one of the youngest artists in this year’s contest but you wouldn’t know that from hearing the entry which belies her years. The darker synthpop song twinned with Blanche’s deeper …
[AdSense-B] It might be the bright City Lights guiding Belgium to their next success at Eurovision – or so we suspect? It seems that ahead of tomorrow morning’s reveal of the Belgian entry, a snippet of the song has already been released onto YouTube, with the song being called “City Lights”. The song seems to be an upbeat pop entry with …
Last November, the Belgian RTBF announced that Blanche will be the artist that will represent Belgium for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv. Today, RTBF announced that the entry will be revealed on 8th March. The entry will be revealed during a press conference. Belgium will be competing in the first half of the first semi-final which will be …
