The final day for submitting entries to the Croatian broadcaster (HRT) has just recently passed, and already the broadcaster could share that a record high interest, in taking part in the national final. DORA 2025 The success of Baby Lasagna has truly had a great impact in the Croatian music market, as the Croatian broadcaster could announce that a total …

Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) has officially launched the competition for Dora 2025, the national selection for Croatia’s Eurovision representative. The submission window opens today, September 20, and runs until November 15, 2024. Under the competition guidelines, only unpublished and unperformed songs are eligible for entry, with authors retaining full rights to the music and lyrics, as stipulated by the official rules. …

After the massive success at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden, the Croatian raising star Baby Lasagna (Marko Purušić) has announced Meow Back Tour 2025. As a reminder, Baby Lasagna was the televote winner, getting 337 points from the audience and fans. However, that wasn’t enough to take the trophy to Croatia for the first time since its …

For the second year in a row, the semi-finals were purely decided by the televote – well, with the exception of San Marino – however, the final is still decided by both the jurors and the televote, which has been the case, since 2009 now. Once again this year, the EBU revealed the full list of all the jurors from …

Just like that, the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest has started, the show was seen and in the end, a decision was made. However, our focus for now, will be on the 10 countries that made it out of the first semi-final. Let’s finally dive into their draw. Who goes where? As a reminder, congratulation to all 10 qualifiers, but also …

As the first semi-final quickly approaches, it’s time for us to learn who YOU think will qualify into the grand final tomorrow. A total of 15 acts are set to compete in the semi-final but a total of 10 spots are on the line. Now it’s time for you, the readers of ESC United, to tell us who YOU think …

Today rehearsals continue within the Malmö arena, with all fifteen acts from the first semi-final getting another twenty minutes to rehearse on stage. These rehearsals are important to help the artist be more comfortable on stage ahead of the full dress rehearsals next week, but also allow any delegation to make minor edits to their performances (outfit changes, camera angles, …

Rehearsals are finally ongoing and preparation for the live shows are in full swing, and with that, fans from all over the world, who are part of the OGAE fanclubs have voted and crowed their winner this year. We can officially say congrats to Baby Lasagna who has “Rim Tim Tagi Dim‘d” his way with the fans, but we can …

Yesterday we asked you to vote in our Day One rehearsals poll, and a staggering 471 readers cast their vote. To no surprise, Eurovision fans were in love with Baby Lasagna’s rehearsal. In fact, Croatia received 51% of the votes cast in the poll, a total of 241 votes. Coming in second was Ireland’s Bambie Thug with 65 votes, and …

A total of seven countries and artists have taken to the stage in Malmo to rehearse their Eurovision performances – Cyprus, Serbia, Lithuania, Ireland, Ukraine, Poland and Croatia. And now as is tradition here at ESCUnited we want to hear who stood out to YOU most via our flash poll! Below you will find a listing of all seven acts …