On Sunday we will be watching the 2016 Junior Eurovision live from Valletta, Malta. Today the halves that each country will be performing in have been announced. Ireland will open the contest and Georgia will close the show, but they are the only positions currently know. First Half: 1. Ireland Russia Malta Macedonia Bulgaria Belarus Albania Armenia Second Half: Serbia …
In 9 days we will be watching the 2016 Junior Eurovision Song Contest live from Valletta, Malta. With some countries (Montenegro, San Marino and Slovenia) withdrawing from this year’s contest, and Poland, Israel, and Cyprus returning to the contest, we have a total of 17 countries taking part in this year’s event. So let’s take a look at the songs …
Here we are again for another round of predictions! We’ve counted up your votes, we’ve compiled our lists of qualifiers and we’re ready to take back the title from the readers! On Tuesday, the readers “televote” results were slightly more accurate than ours, but we feel pretty confident today! Once again we were astounded at the response to our poll so thank …
A few weeks ago, RTE, the Irish national broadcaster revealed that they will be represented by former Westlife singer, Nicky Bryne. This weekend the song was performed live on TV for the first time! After a run of bad luck in Eurovision, Ireland have opted for an internal selection in hope of turning around that luck and hoping that a …
The Swedish broadcaster SVT recently presented the theme art for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest yesterday. We at ESC United understand how exciting it is to support your country (or your favorite song) so just as we did last year, we created Logo Flags for most European countries including all possible participants. And if you’re like me and live outside …
Every Sunday at 19:00 CET, the ESC United Know-It-Alls are discussing the latest and greatest news, developments and general Eurovision related info. Today’s panel includes Matt (ESC United Editor-in-Chief), Stefan ( ESC United Editor),Jake (ESC United Editor) and Sadie (ESC United Editor). In this week’s live Hangout we discussed the following topics: – Nicky Byrne (Westlife) for Ireland – Serhat …
After weeks of rumours suspecting Nicky Byrne as the Irish representative, today those rumours have been confirmed by Irish national broadcaster, RTE. The former Westlife member had large amounts of success as 1/5 of the boyband which gained most of it’s success in their homeland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, although they had some success in a number of European countries. …
Every Sunday at 19:00 CET, the ESC United Know-It-Alls are discussing the latest and greatest news, developments and general Eurovision related info. Today’s panel includes Matt (ESC United Editor-in-Chief), Stefan ( ESC United Editor),Jake (ESC United Editor) and Sadie (ESC United Editor). In this week’s live Hangout we discussed the following topics: – Nicky Byrne (Westlife) for Ireland?!? – First …
In discussions with RTE, the Irish broadcaster over the previous months, we brought you the news that they had passed on to us regarding potential times they would announce their plans for Stockholm. We previously announced that Ireland will reveal their decision ‘no later than January‘, in rumours circulating today, it seems Ireland may be sticking to this plan and …
Today the EBU announced the final list of participants. The number of countries has increased from last year’s contest, we will see 43 countries participate in the 61st Eurovision Song Contest! The 43 countries hoping to take home the Eurovision 2016 trophy are: Albania Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia …
