[AdSense-B] Earlier this week, the broadcaster responsible for Azerbaijan’s entry in Eurovision, İctimai Televiziya, confirmed the fifteen acts in the running to represent the Caucasian nation in Tel Aviv, with an internal selection pending for one of the artists. The fifteen acts who are in the frame to represent Azerbaijan are; Emiliya Yaqubova Samira Efendiyeva Maryam Shabanova Vlada Ahundova Tofig Hajiyev …
[AdSense-B] An “international artist” has been internally selected to represent San Marino in Tel Aviv, according to the microstate’s national broadcaster San Marino RTV. The press release on the official website for the broadcaster indicates that there will be a press conference in the coming weeks that will detail further information on San Marino’s upcoming participation, however the song has …
[AdSense-B] Before we go into this article, we must stress that these are only rumours at the moment, but we can understand why Russian Eurovision fans are getting excited – Sergey Lazarev has been teasing the reveal of some big news on December 7th (that’s tomorrow)! The Russian performer, who represented Russia in Stockholm with “You Are The Only One” …
[AdSense-B] Don’t panic everyone, but we finally have it – our first confirmed Eurovision artist for 2019! Armenia’s national broadcaster ARMTV has in the last few minutes confirmed that Srbuhi Sargsyan, better known as Srbuk, was internally selected and will represent Armenia in Tel Aviv! The pop singer gained fame in her native country after finishing as runner-up in X …
[AdSense-B] It seems that Austria will once again be one of the trendsetters for Eurovision, with the Austrian news agency Klein’s Zeitung reporting today that an internal selection will be held next month to choose the artist and song for Tel Aviv. In an article detailing the retirement of ORF’s head of entertainment Edgar Böhm, one of his last acts …
[AdSense-B] After a relatively quiet week on the Eurovision news front today we have had an update from Switzerland. Today their German-Swiss broadcaster SRF announced that they had narrowed down all of the 420 songs received to a shortlist of just five. This was done by a set of juries made up of a 100 person audience panel and a …
[AdSense-B] The Eurovision selection season is in its dying embers, but there’s still a lot of energy to be had in the last few entries to surface! Macedonia (FYR)’s entry had been going quietly under the radar for the past few weeks, but now the group Eye Cue have released their explosive and upbeat entry “Lost and Found”, which sees …
[AdSense-B] What a roller coaster 12 months it has been for this year’s Russian entrant Yulia Samoylova. The performer was chosen by the Russian broadcaster Channel One to represent the nation in Ukraine almost a year ago (a year tomorrow, in fact!) in an ill-fated attempt to participate in the Kyiv contest. After the performer was banned from entering Ukraine …
[AdSense-B] Israel gave us a scare back in Kyiv when the long-standing spokesperson for the Middle Eastern nation, Ofer Nachshon, told Europe that 2017 would be their last participation. Boy, are we glad he was wrong though! Since the Israeli national broadcaster changed hands, and the latest season of HaKokhav HaBa concluded, we are now finally at the stage where …
[AdSense-B] Croatia released “Crazy”, the song that Franka Batelić is going to perform at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal. As always, our reaction video to the results is up. Matt was ready to react the Croatian entry. Will we also be crazy for Croatia this year? There’s only one way to find out, watch the video below: …
