In today’s ESC United Know-it-Alls podcast, the ESC United panel is reviewing and dissecting the 13 songs taking part in the Belarusian National Final. Matt, Zack and Calvin lightheartedly go over all songs and share their thoughts and opinions. In the end, their results were combined, along with the votes of our ESC United readers previously posted on our website. …
Get ready for another episode of our Podcast, the last one of 2016. Today’s topics include: Russian army choir – Eurovision 2009 interval act – loses 64 members in plane crash tragedy. Albania chooses Lindita and her song “Botë”. Armenia selects Artsvik for Eurovision after marathon national selection. Eurovision in Concert tickets will go on sale very soon. Our …
The Eurovision Song Contest 2016 will no longer see a total of 43 participating countries, but instead 42. This decision comes after in the recent week, where rumors were turned into truth, and slowly developing into fear, with the national Romania Broadcaster, TVR (Televiziunea Română). Around 1 week ago, news were slowly coming out, that Romania’s participation was in serious …
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: …
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 …
For the first time since 2011, the UK are having a National Final. Since we first heard that the UK would be having a National Final, we know some more information. We know that there are 45 OGAE members that make up the selection panel for the open auditions. Members are randomly chosen to ensure this is a fare process. …
Its been a few weeks since OGAE UK had passed their choices to the BBC from the songs that were sent in from the open selection, and we still haven’t heard anything from the BBC regarding the whole process. But searching the internet we have found some interesting hints as to who could have potentially been selected for the UK’s …
As you probably remember, we recently reported how Jelena Karleuša could represent Serbia in Stockholm. She tweeted the article, but two weeks later she said that she won’t be doing to the job, as her team and RTS, the Serbian national broadcaster, have different visions. So we got back to business and investigated who else was RTS also considering. The …
A well known Ukrainian singer has launched her bid to become the Ukrainian representative at Eurovision 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden. Viktoria Petryk has released a song called Overload which has been composed by Swedish duo Ylva and Linda Persson. Viktoria will be taking part in the Odessa audition round on Saturday 12th December. Petryk is no stranger to competing at such a …
Yesterday the official list of participants was published and just like in 2008. and 2011, we have 43 countries running for the trophy. Among them are Serbia and Croatia, who last participated in 2013. Today Serbian press reported that Jelena Karleuša will most likely be internally chosen to represent the country. She was also called last year by RTS …
