SBS and Blink TV have announced the winner of the Eurovision – Australia Decides TikTok Wildcard competition as Erica Padilla! Erica is an 18-year old singer songwriter from Melbourne, and becomes the 11th artist to grace the Gold Coast stage at the end of this month. Her TikTok submissions attracted millions of views over the course of the competition, and …
Jaguar Jonze has today released her Eurovision – Australia Decides entry, to vie for a chance to compete in Turin in May! Jonze’s second foray into the Australia Decides landscape is a deeply emotive rock ballad entitled “Little Fires”, with a progressive build and a highly impressive single-take vocal performance. Jonze set herself up for a sort of “songwriting camp …
Two singers missed tonight’s Eesti Laul due to health concerns, but it was one artist’s on stage stunt that had the audience really talking. Tonight’s semi-final was full of outside the box staging ideas. Andrei Zevakin and Grete began their performance of “Mis nüüd saab” backstage. Through a bit of camera trickery, Stig Rästa simulated floating in zero gravity. And, most …
Estonia’s Eurovision selection Eesti Laul will continue this week, and ahead of the semi-finals we got to chat with the band Boamadu. Together we talked about how the band was founded, their process of writing songs, and the meaning behind their song “Mitte Kauak”. Meet Boamadu below! Hello Boamadu – thank you so much for meeting with us today! Why …
Is Sanremo already over? If the Spotify numbers decided, it would be. After debuting on the first night of Italy’s Sanremo Music Festival, Mahmood and Blanco’s “Brividi” debuted at #5 on the Spotify Global Chart. According to @chartdata on Twitter, this is the biggest debut for an Italian song in the history of that chart and accounts for over 3.5 …
After the 72nd edition of Sanremo 2022 started off with a bang yesterday, tonight the remaining songs competing for the iconic palm tree statue, as well as the honour of representing Italy at Eurovision, were revealed. On the second night of the Festival di Sanremo, the last 13 of the 25 big artists participating took to the Ariston stage and …
Tonight, during the second night of the Festival di Sanremo, the much-anticipated host announcement for Eurovision 2022 took place. During a beautiful cover of ABBA’s I Have A Dream, the hosts of Eurovision 2022 were revealed to be none other than Laura Pausini, Alessandro Cattelan and Mika. Laura Pausini is an Italian singer who became famous when she won Sanremo …
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The 72nd edition of the Festival di Sanremo kicked off tonight at the Ariston Theatre, and the race to select Italy’s favourite song of 2022 and Eurovision representative has well and truly begun. Tonight, the first 12 of the 25 artists taking part in Sanremo performed their song for the first time. …
Today Lithuania completed the fourth show in their Eurovision national final and decided half of the line-up for the Pabandom is Naujo final on February 12th. According to a tweet by Gebrasy earlier this week, the semi-final performances were pre-tapped ahead of today’s broadcast on January 24th – likely to reduce the number of people on set and to prevent …
After two semi-finals and a grand final of the revived Benidorm Festival, we finally have a winner and the name of the artist that will represent the Spanish colors in Turin, Italy. Benidorm Fest 2022 Before we look into the results, let’s have a quick look at how we got to this point. We have to rewind time back all …
