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 …
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 …
Israel was among the first group of countries to internally select their 2020 artist following the cancellation of the contest. Eden Alene was selected to represent Israel after she won the selection show The Next Star for Eurovision, which allows the crowd to “up vote” a singer’s performance – those with the highest vote percentages will move on in the competition. …
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 …
It has been announced today that the EBU have amended the rules of the Eurovision Song Contest, to ensure next year’s show goes ahead, and that the contest is never again cancelled due to a global crisis. The amended rules have announced that, for the 2021 contest, backing vocals and harmonies will be permitted to be provided on the backing …
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 …
The news stormed in this morning as one of the biggest daily newspapers in Serbia published that Hurricane girls will represent Serbia next year in Rotterdam. As their sources say, RTS decided not to organize Beovizija because of the financial issues expected because of the Covid-19. Instead, due to the rules of the contest, Hurricane girls will prepare a …
While the dust had settled on the hopes of Eurovision 2020 a long way back, thanks to the unique situation our world finds itself in, last night’s Europe: Shine a Light show paved the way to a new era, a new contest and a new hope for the Eurovision community. So, on what would’ve been the first day of the …
Warning: this editorial is prone to strong personal opinions and potentially controversial takes. This editorial reflects the personal opinion of the author and does not represent ESC United or its other staff as a whole. Eurovision 2020 is over. It had been official for a while, thanks to the emergence of a certain viral pandemic that has held both our …
