It has been one eventful week in Eurovision and in Malmö, to say the least. During the Danish live broadcast of Eurovision 2024, announcer Ole Tøpholm shared the five members of the Danish jury. These five were: Jesper Groth (member of the music duo “Fyr & Flamme” and contestant at Eurovision 2021) Søren Torpegaard Lund (musicalperformer and former contestant at …
As is tradition for the Eurovision Song Contest, each country selects a spokesperson to represent their country at the final and reveal the coveted “douze points” from their country’s jury. These spokespersons will announce the results either live from a TV studio, or on occasion will opt to announce them in front of a live crowd. With the contest just …
Yesterday, RTL announced a new phase in the national selection process, as an international jury has been appointed for the audition phase of the Luxembourgish selection. During the pre-selection phase, more than 500 songs were sent to the broadcaster and 300 artists applied, these entries were then sent to RTL where a production team made an initial selection of 70 …
Disclaimer: In this editorial, some opinions of the writer are expressed and do not reflect the views of our other editors, ESC United, or the EBU. Warning: Maths Ahead Following the results of the 2023 Eurovision Grand Final in Liverpool, a few loud voices have expressed their will for jury reform due to the televote winner, Finland, losing to the …
It’s been one month now, since Loreen managed to become the second ever artist, to ever win the competition twice, as well as tying Sweden as the most succesful country in the contest, with Ireland. However, as most might even recall, she didn’t quite convince the televote and yesterday, the debate continued, but this time, it happened within a broadcaster. …
The Ukrainian people can now vote to select their national jury for Eurovision 2023 who will determine 50% of the votes from the country in the Grand Final. Here are the 10 candidates, with some Vidbir alumni. Ukraine’s broadcaster Suspilne has just opened the voting that allows the people from Ukraine to select who they want to see represent the …
Photo: Andres Putting (EBU) [AdSense-B] Good evening, Tel Aviv. After a very long 1st rehearsal and a two hour-break, we are back here at the press center for the Jury Show for Semi-Final 1. Tonight’s performances will be judged by jurors from the 17 competing countries, plus Israel, France, and Spain. The jury show starts at 9pmCET and our …
[AdSense-B] This editorial is written from the opinion of the author and does not represent the views of the other editors, the EBU or escYOUnited as a whole. Just as we thought we were all set up for this year’s contest (only 15 days until the final guys!!), we find that the EBU has announced another change to the voting …
[AdSense-B] Mikolas Josef with “Lie to Me” has been revealed as the winner of the international jury vote in Eurovision Song CZ, the online Czech national final. In a live stream that was hosted this evening by Libor Boucek, the Czech Republic’s commentator on the contest and previously the host of Eurovision Young Dancers, the young performer was confirmed as …
As one of the fastest rising selection shows in the national final hierarchy, Supernova has transformed the fortunes of constant strugglers Latvia since its inception in 2015. Aminata and Justs both brought Latvia back to the Eurovision final with the former finishing 6th, although last year’s winner Triana Park could not manage the same feat, coming last in the semi-final. …
