It has been a while coming and the speculations ran wild all over Europe about who might host the 2020 contest. Many big names were rumoured to be the ones to take on the job, and earlier today the news finally came out through social media and through the official Eurovision website. AVROTROS has just made it all official and …
NOTE – This post is an editorial and therefore heavily prone towards subjectivity, as well as strong opinions and speculation. Anything stated beyond this point is the author’s personal opinion and does not necessarily represent the views of ESC United as a whole or its other editors. The Eurovision deck is constantly reshuffling itself, but if there’s something most fans …
Things have not looked good for Latvia in Eurovision in the last few years, given that they have not qualified for the Grand Final since the 2016 contest in Stockholm. But it seems that something has changed this year, and more artists are interested in representing the Baltic country than ever before. Today the Latvian broadcaster LTV revealed that 126 …
Yesterday on the site we reported that Sandro Nicolas was potentially approached by CyBC to represent Cyprus at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. Less than 24 hours after those rumors started, more news has come out regarding the Voice of Germany alum’s potential involvement with the Mediterranean country from Greek fan site EurovisionFun. While the broadcaster has not officially declared …
Cyprus is taking the 2020 edition of the contest just as seriously as they have the others, and have already begun work to determine their representative for Rotterdam. According to OGAE Greece, a total of 120 entries were sent from broadcaster RIK to those responsible for internally selecting Cyprus’ 2020 artist. From that list, they have already made their short …
This morning the EBU confirmed the number of countries that will be present in Rotterdam, and also confirmed what Eurovision fans had been speculating all along: Hungary and Montenegro have decided to withdraw from the contest for 2020. While we are always sad to see a Eurovision country leave the contest, we deeply hope that their absence will only be …
Today a post surfaced on The Irish Sun website that declared that The Rua are being considered for Eurovision 2020, quoting an anonymous source and using personal deduction. While we don’t know if this claim is factual or not, the site itself made a strong claim for why the band should be in Rotterdam. For readers who are unfamiliar with …
Eurovision fans have noticed that the Hungarian broadcaster has been very quiet regarding their participation in Eurovision 2020, causing rumors to spread that they may be considering a withdrawal from the contest. These murmurs became stronger when the official rules for A Dal 2020 were posted online, as the rules themselves made no mention of Eurovision, violate the song release …
As October enters it’s last few days, we have been impatiently waiting for Albanian broadcaster RTSH to announce the artists for FiKmas 2019, or by it’s official name Festivali i Këngës 58. In the last four years, RTSH has announced the participants for the music competition in late August or Early October. So far we have yet to receive any …
Blas Canto is not the only news coming from Spain these days. As part of the yearly round-up of Eurovision pre-parties, Spain’s ES 2020 Party have announced their dates and the location for their event. This is the event’s fourth iteration and will be taking place in the same venue. The Spanish Pre-Party has become a recent staple of the …
