Most of the songs for Belarus’ National Selection are now available for listening on broadcaster BTRC’s website here. The 14 songs are as follows: Matvej Kuper and DUX – “Strippers” TEO – “Cheesecake” Daria – “Starlight” Zhanet – “You will be here” Max Lorens & DiDyuLya – “Now you’re gone” Anastasia Malashkevich – “Runaway” Artem Mikhalenko – “Rapsodiya No. 1” …

Denmark’s European of the year and the latest winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, Emmelie de Forest, is scheduled to perform at Festivali i Kenges 52, the show which selects Albania’s participant for the Eurovision Song Contest. Alongside Emmelie, Albanian singer and winner of The Voice of Italy 2013, Elhaida Dani, will also be performing. You may remember Elhaida from …

RTSH, the Albanian broadcaster, today announced new hosts for their national selection and most popular music festival Festivali i Këngës. With only one week to go, Diellza Kolgeci – a fashion icon from Kosovo – withdrew from her role as the Festivali i Këngës host. So RTSH have decided to take a new approach to the hosting. For the semi-finals, …

The Icelandic national broadcaster RUV has announced the names of the 10 contestants who will compete in the 2014 Icelandic national selection (Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins). In total there will be 3 shows (2 semi-finals and 1 final). The two semi-finals are scheduled to be held on February the 1st and the 8th with the grand final being held on the 15th. …

In 2010, the Romanian duo Paula Seling and Ovi Jacobsen managed to achieve a third place in Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo. Yesterday a teaser for the new song “Miracle” was posted on youtube, possibly the official entry to represent Romania in Copenhagen in May. According to the rumours Paula and Ovi have been in contact with the Romanian TV …

The German broadcaster NRD revealed seven of the eight names taking part in the German selection process of the Eurovision Song Contest. One of these acts will travel to Copenhagen in May to represent their country at the most popular song festival in the world. One more act will be revealed at a later point which is going to be …

The Russian broadcaster has received more applications for their preselection than expected. As a result, the current deadline will now be extended. The previous plan was to air KTO (“Who”) on the 31st of December in order to let the Russian public pick their Eurovision 2014 representative. The new date has not been revealed but the national final is due …

The Hungarian public broadcaster MTVA announced the 30 acts chosen to take part in ‘A Dal’ the popular National Final show. The entries were chosen internally by a professional jury: •Elmaradt pillanatok – Gájer Bálint •Morning Light (Reggeli fény) – Marge •This Is My Life (Ez az életem) – Musicfabrik •Break Up – Lil C •Karcolás (Rise Again) – Polyák …

The Albanian broadcaster RTSH released the names of the 16 participants taking part in Festivali i Këngës 52, the Albanian National Final show. On December 26 & 27 eight songs will be performed each night and unlike a normal Semi Final where some songs are eliminated, all acts will perform on the big Final night scheduled December 28th . Running Order …

The Ukrainian national broadcaster NTU has announced the line-up for their upcoming national final. The public together with a jury will decide who will represent Ukraine in Copenhagen on the 21st of December. – Victor Romanchenko “At the edge of the abyss” – Anna Khodorovska “If there is love”  – Anatoly Shparov “Waiting for you” – NeAngely “Courageous” – Stas Shurins “Why” …