It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The Eurovision season has begun and (most) national broadcasters are working on overdrive to select their song for Kiev next May! Some broadcasters are having an open call for songs, which means you could be part of the Class of 2017! As is traditional, Norway and Denmark have an early open call …
Norway: Return of International Jury For MGP
The Norwegian TV channel have announced that they are in it to win it in 2017! They want to replicate the success of Bobbysocks and Secret Garden by bringing back the international jury to their national final. The international jury was used in 1985 and 1995 when Norway won the Eurovision Song Contest. It has been stated “What we’re doing …
Morland’s debut album is out
He represented Norway last year in Vienna in a duet along Debrah with the song A Monster Like Me and they’ve finished on a respectful 8th place. Now, Morland is back with his debut album, after an EP that was published three years ago. There ten songs can be found and it is released for sale in Norway, also worldwide via Spotify. …
Predictions: Televote (Readers) vs. Jury (Team Stockholm) – Semi-Final 2
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 …
Eurovision news roundup
In just four days first members of our team will start landing in Stockholm. The excitement is rising, so lets calm down a bit and see what has been going on in past few days. Croatian delegation was introduced on a press conference today. Nina will be followed by four back vocalist. They are Andrej Babić, who composed six Eurovision …
Norway: Agnete talks with us
We took a time to talk with lovely Agnete, who will represent Norway at Eurovision Song Contest 2016! Her song has a strong message behind it with ‘being there for someone who is struggling’ and she is very proud to be here. Hello, Agnete! How do you feel in this euphoria about Eurovision? Does it make pressure on you or …
Agnete Wins Melodi Grand Prix 2016!
God Kveld from Norway! After some great years for Norway, will it keep going their way? 3 times in a row, they have finished in the Top 10, but can they make it to 4 in a row, in these difficult times where more than 40 countries compete? Background The mission objective was pretty clear, as we saw in the …
Norway: Listen To The Full Songs
Its been eagerly awaited and now is the time. you can listen to all the Melodi Grand Prix 2016 songs in full! Agnete – Icebreaker Elouiz – History Freddy Kalas – Feel Da Rush Laila Samuels – Afterglow Makeda – Stand Up Pegasus – Anyway Stage Dolls – Into The Fire Stine Hole Ulla – Traces Suite 16 – Anna …
Come Together: Country Flags available for download
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 …
Norway: Freddy Kalas to sing “Feel Da Rush”
Following news that Norwegian national final entrant Freddy Kalas would be allowed to compete despite plagiarism with his song, NRK has today confirmed that the singer will perform “Feel Da Rush”, a rewritten version of his original entry. Kalas, real name Fredrik Auke, had one day to re-write the chorus which was alleged to be too similar to one of …