Today is the last day of national finals in 2016. Two Grand Finals will take place in Sweden and Lithuania. Lithianian entry will be selected through the national final “Eurovizijos” dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka, organised by the Lithuanian broadcaster LRT. The first show of the competition aired on 9 January 2016 and two months later – 12th of March six entries will try to fly …

In the latest round of the Lithuanian national final, Eurovizijos, we have seen another three songs eliminated from the competition, which means that another five will progress to the next round. The acts competing in tonight’s show were: 1 E.G.O. “Long Way From Home” 2 4 Roses “Butterfly” 3 Ieva Zasimauskaitė “Life (Not That Beautiful)” 4 Aistė Pilvelytė “You Bet” …

I managed to catch up with Swedish songwriters, producers and identical twins Ylva and Linda Persson about their 2016 Eurovision journey, they have entered many national selections this year, so I decided to ask some questions about their Eurovision Journey.   What makes competing with Songs in the national finals special? We have a huge passion and love for Eurovision …

A busy, busy week for all Eurovision fans. Switzerland, Austria and Denmark all have chosen their entries for Stockholm while a bunch of other countries continued their search by holding Semi Finals. Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Iceland, Ukraine and Lithuania all were busy with Eurovision this week and we all certainly appreciate it. But there is no way that you can …

After another show in Lithuania we have eliminated a few more songs in Eurovizijos 2016. Eight acts took to the stage in Lithuania to perform their songs and only five of them survived to the next round. For the first time in this year’s contest Donny Montell did not win the group. The results after combining all the results together: …

Tonight is a huge night in Eurovisionland. (Potentially) Three songs will be selected for Stockholm, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. Italian TV channel will offer the opportunity to the winner to go to Eurovision, but, that is down to the act. Ukraine: Semi-Final 2 SunSay  – Love Manifest Pur:Pur – We do Change Peaks of Kings – Last Hope Pringlez – Easy to love Victoria Petryk – Overload …

In todays ESC United  Know-It-Alls Podcast, we are going to review the songs from the many, many Semis that took place yesterday. Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Ukraine all selected a few songs and send the rest packing while Hungary and Lithuania are still narrowing down the field of acts through Heats. In case you didn’t have the opportunity to listen …

After a rather show beginning to the National Final season, today and beyond it is full steam ahead! We will have no less than six countries broadcasting shows for their national selection! Ukraine – Semi-Final 1: 18:00 CET Anastasia Prykhodko – I am Free Now The Hardkiss – Helpless Tonya Matvienko – Tin Whistle Vladislav Kurasov – I’m Insane Låvika …

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 …

Tonight will be the calm before the storm, there are only two countries broadcasting heats for their national finals, Hungary and Lithuania. Next Saturday it’s full steam ahead and your Saturday nights will be filled with Eurovision goodness! Lithuania: Show 4 The ten songs which qualified over the last three shows will be performed tonight, where eight of them will qualify …