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 …
Montenegro’s Highway release new song and video
While there has been little news since the announcement of Highway as the 2016 Montenegrin performers, the band have clearly been busy behind the scenes. Today, the former X Factor three-piece released a video for their new song “Sam”, which sees the band change through various outfits while performing in caverns. You can watch the new video from Highway below; …
POLL: Who Should Win JESC 2015?
Tomorrow night the participants from 17 countries will take to the stage in Bulgaria and will be broadcast live to the world, all hoping to take home the trophy of this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Who do you think should win tomorrow night? Here is the recap from the dress rehearsal to help you make up your mind: [socialpoll …
JESC: Day 4 of Rehearsals
The fourth day of rehearsals have concluded and all acts have now had two rehearsals. There are no more split rehearsals for this years contest. Tomorrow the kids will take to the stage for the first dress rehearsal at 13:00CET followed at 19:30CET for the jury final, where the jury members from 17 participating countries will make their decisions and …
JESC: Day 1 of Rehearsals
The first day of rehearsals for this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest is now complete. Kids from 9 countries took to the stage to rehearse their entries for JESC this year. I am going to comment on the rehearsals after my first watch (views expressed in this article are my own, and not essentially those of ESCUnited.com). Let’s take a look …
JESC: 3 Weeks To Go!
This time in three weeks we will be watching the 13th Junior Eurovision Song Contest, broadcast live from Sofia, Bulgaria. 17 countries will take to the stage in hope of gaining the title of 2015 Junior Eurovision winner. Out of the 17 songs that will participate, we know 16 of them. We are only waiting for the newcomers, Ireland, to …
JESC: Interview with Jana Mirković
We had the opportunity to have a chat with Montenegrin representative at upcoming Junior Eurovision, Jana Mirković. Hello Jana, thank you for your time for this interview. The pleasure is all mine. How did you feel when you found out that you will represent your country at Junior Eurovision? At first I was very happy and now I am so impatient because …
JESC: Montenegrin Song “Oluja” Revealed
After a delay of two days, the Montenegrin song has finally been revealed. It was announced that the song would be revealed on Friday, although the big reveal was delayed by two day and was in fact, revealed today. The song, “Oluja”, which will be performed by Jana Mirković in Sofia on the 21st of November in the 2015 Junior Eurovision Song …
ESC United Podcast: Montenegro picks the act, Italy and the UK take Eurovision seriously and should we change the Point System
The Eurovision season is slowly picking up so it’s time to start with our first Podcast of the 2016 season. Over the next months, Matt and Adam are going to discuss anything Eurovision and share their thoughs and ideas. This time it’s only going to be the two of them but they’ll have special guests going forward to bring in …
Highway to represent Montenegro
Highway, a three-piece boyband who found fame during the second series of The X Factor Adria, finishing fourth, will represent Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, it has emerged. Despite rumours of a Montenegrin walkout over the jury scandal in Vienna, RTCG has confirmed that Highway will succeed Knez as the Montenegrin performers. They become the second confirmed performers …