As promsied last week in our first artist spolight article, we are back to shine some light on the remaining artists competing to represent France at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2021. As we’ve referred to in other articles on France, this year’s line-up of artists were selected through a public submission process, unlike in Destination Eurovision where artists were …

Minutes ago it was confirmed by the Junior Eurovision official website that the winning country of this years contest will host the show next year. France came back to the contest after 13 years of absence and immediately snatched a silver medal. This year marked their fourth participation and Valentina took the trophy with J’Imagine. Delphine Ernotte Cunci, president of …

This editorial is written from the opinion of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of ESC United as a whole or its other contributors. Let’s face it, this year has been bleak, and long, and I’m sure like many others out there it is slowly wearing me down. So imagine my relief to know that the month …

Earlier this week, we asked #YOU to vote for your favourite entry of this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest to gauge which songs may be going into this afternoon’s show as favourites, and we can now reveal your results! In our poll, it was Belarus’ Arina Pehtereva who came out on top with “Aliens”, securing 26% of the votes! Second …

Today sees the only official Eurovision contest of a difficult year take place as the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 gets underway this afternoon, live from Warsaw in Poland. Of course, things will be a bit different this year, with no audience and each country performing live from home, but we’re still hoping for the same Eurovision magic we have …

We wrote about France Télévisions’ decision to return to a national final selection back in July, and it looks like today some more details have been released about what the show may look like. France turned to a national final for the first time in 2018 to select their Eurovision entrant and continued the show for their 2019 selection. Without …

All opinions expressed in this article are those of the person quoted and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the other team members or ESC United as a whole. It’s 10 days to go until Junior Eurovision 2020, and we are counting down the 12 nations participating in this year’s remotely held and Warsaw, Poland hosted contest on Sunday, …

All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Junior Eurovision fan press Corps! A day in the JESC Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal’s a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I love Junior Eurovision! Arina Pehtereva from Belarus will present “Aliens,” and this is …

WARSAW, 8 September 2020 After months of silence, the EBU has finally unveiled their plans for the Junior Eurovision 2020, with some good news and bad news. The good news is, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place, unlike its cancelled adult counterpart. The bad news is that it won’t be a Junior Eurovision as we know it. [embedyt] …

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 …