This morning news broke from Rotterdam as a press release revealed that the EBU would be honoring the allocation draw from the cancelled 2020 contest this upcoming May. One of the big reasons the EBU decided to keep the same allocations is because fans are also carrying their tickets over from cancelled event and into the 2021 show. Many fans …
And just like that the 2021 national final season has been launched as Albania’s RTSH reveals the 26 songs competing to represent the country in Rotterdam. Things with the contest are going to be interesting this year as official dates have still not been confirmed for the contest, and they will not be hosting the festival within the traditional venue …
Earlier today Albanian broadcaster RTSH announced the artists who would compete in the annual contest Festivali i Këngës, which is in its 59th year. The national final is also a celebration of Albanian music and culture, and while it does serve to select the song and artist for Eurovision, often times the song goes through many changes and revamps before …
This morning it was discovered that the rulebook and submission window for A Dal 2021 were released on the official A Dal website. Last year the country decided to pull out of Eurovision but continue the A Dal show to feature and celebrate “Hungarian musicians in the pop scene.” According to the rule book posted on the website: entries must …
After Eurovision 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the EBU promised that Eurovision fans would not have to go without the contest next year. In order to maintain that promise, the EBU and dutch host broadcaster AVROTROS created a 4 part plan to host the contest. Each plan takes into consideration 4 different realities that could happen in …
On August 15th Bulgarian broadcaster BNT retweeted a message from the “Black Sea Eurovision Songwriting Camp 2020” which announced a camp being hosted in Burgas and Primorsko. In their retweet, BNT confirmed that this songwriting camp would be used to produce VICTORIA’s Eurovision song for 2021, but also mentioned that the camp could be used for other artists looking for …
In 2020 the French delegation decided to ditch the national selection “Destination Eurovision” to internally select Tom Leeb. After the contest was cancelled and it was announced that Leeb would not be selected for 2021, France 2 announced there are plans to return to a national selection show. Rather than using the same format as Destination Eurovision, France 2 has …
The list of 2020 acts that will return in 2021 is slowly expanding, but unfortunately, so is the list of participants that would’ve participated in 2020, but won’t in 2021 also. Another 2 countries how now made it official, that their 2020 participant will not return in 2021. France While writing, I just realized that we’re talking about the two …
The 2020 season will most likely always be remembered for how it almost had an ending, but that ending was cut short… but where there is an ending, the is a new start and the 2021 season is already blooming upon us, starting in Finland! Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2021 In 2021, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (in short: UMK) will celebrate it’s …
Around this time last month, all of us were expecting to watch or even be in Rotterdam for the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. However, no one would ever expect that a global pandemic would put a stop to all of that. Rather than focusing on what could’ve been, then let’s take a fresh breather and look forward …
