As is tradition for New Years Eve, fans counted down to the new year with the top 250 Eurovision songs of all time. Voting opened earlier this winter, where fans could submit their top 10 songs and award them 1-8, 10, and 12 points Eurovision style. ESCRadio and Songfestival.be then worked together to tally the point totals and played each …
Nikkie de Jager (NikkieTutorials) has confirmed she has been upgraded to a main presenter of Eurovision 2021 in Rotterdam in her latest YouTube video. The video, in which the beauty vlogger discusses her year and her predictions for 2021, she discusses the contest and her feelings on her involvement as the online host of Eurovision 2020. “I’ve always dreamt about …
RTV SLO (The Slovenian national broadcaster) announced today that Ana Soklič’s song will be decided on the 27th of February 2021. Like last year, they’ll use their national final EMA to decide which song Ana will perform at Eurovision 2021. In July, RTV SLO encouraged songwriters to submit songs to be sung by Ana on the Eurovision stage. In the …
Italy’s Sanremo has long been the height of Italian musical culture and it’s not surprising to see that next spring’s festival will once again attract some of Italy’s biggest stars! Among the guests will be rapper and two-time participant Achille Lauro (2019 with “Rolls Royce” and 2020 with “Ne me frego”) and singer Elodie (well-known for her entry “Andromeda” from …
Spain is set to hold a national selection to decide Blas Cantó’s Eurovision 2021 entry, according to eurovision-spain. The Spanish site reports that Cantó’s team, Warner Music and TVE have come to the decision and that a selection show will be held at some point before the end of February to select Spain’s entry for Rotterdam. Thus, the Spanish public …
Fellow Festivali i Këngës 59 participants Mirud and Xhesika Polo have collaborated on the former’s entry “Nëse Vdes”, with Mirud releasing this duet today. The Albanian singers took part separately in Albania’s selection for Eurovision 2021, with Xhesika performing “Më mbron”, and while neither of the performers finished in the top three on the final night, they certainly captured hearts …
Been busy over the festive period? We hear #YOU. It’s tough to keep up on all of the little news bits, rumours and updates in the Eurovision world, so we’ve been across the Eurovision community to put all of the recent smaller updates together for #YOU! Finland’s YLE has confirmed that the participants of this year’s Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu will …
Latvia’s returning Eurovision artist Samanta Tīna has this morning released the music video for her new song “Tikai Romāns”, although it is understood the song is not in contention for Eurovision 2021. The dramatic pop ballad, meaning “Only a Novel”, was written in 2019 and sharing the meaning of the song, Samanta Tīna spoke to Latvian morning show “Rīta Panorāma”; …
The opinions expressed in this article are those of members of our forum, and do not necessarily represent the views of ESC United as a whole or its staff. On Wednesday, Albania became the first country to show their hand for Eurovision 2021, as Anxhela Peristeri emerged triumphant in Festivali i Këngës 59 to be selected as the Albanian hopeful …
Bulgaria’s returning Eurovision representative VICTORIA has released a behind-the-scenes look at her recent Christmas concert, alongside a seasonal greeting to Eurovision fans and her followers. The “Tears Getting Sober” performer held a Christmas Concert on wheels on December 20th, travelling around the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Now, with the help of Bulgaria’s Eurovision sponsor iCard, she has given fans a look …
