Every week all songs selected either via NF or internal selection are up for a vote and our members give points to their favorite songs. At the end of the week the host will tally up the points and post the results. This is Week 5 and includes the Danish song selected last weekend. This week’s ranking: 1. DENMARK …

From Zack: At ESC UNITED, we want to put the focus back on the totality of the entries.  That means we want to honor everyone involved, particularly the composers.  After asking our readers for their thoughts on the composers that we should retrospectively cover, we got some great feedback and will be featuring some of them in the upcoming week.  In …

Malta has chosen their 2013 representative for the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo. It was a rather tight race between Kevin Borg and Gianluca Bezzina but in the end the latter won the race. Congratulations to Gianluca, we wish you the best of luck!   [vsw id=”PJ65p8N-2yE” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]

  Congratulations to Eyþór  who is going to represent Iceland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmo, Sweden.   [vsw id=”riTHVd9-iCE” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]

  The third and Final Semi Final took place and three more songs qualified for the big Final show. They will join the 6 songs qualified from the previous Semi Finals, in addition one wild card will be added bringing the number of  Finalists to 10. Here are tonight’s Qualifiers   Gaute Ormåsen – Awake [vsw id=”kMsX6kwNuqg” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] …

So as I watch A Dal 2013 and Melodifestivalen 2013, I can tell the budgets are a bit disparate between the two.  Still, I think tonight’s show did a great job.  It’s a bit more hands-on in the sense that the jurors provide feedback for the artists.  But at the same time, it makes it come off as a bit …

I’m excited to say that this is the first time I have ever watched the renowned Melodifestivalen and I am stoked! Live from Karlskrona, we start with a fantastic introduction that walks viewers through the last year.  We get clips of the performers and then watch Loreen’s win.  Then we go to Baku and watch Loreen once again achieve victory. …

  From Zack: Roy is the president of OGAE REST OF THE WORLD.  If you know Roy, you know that he is one of, if not THE biggest RALPH SIEGEL fan.  So when we found out that RALPH SIEGEL would return to EUROVISION 2013 with SAN MARINO’s entry, Roy decided to take a look back at Ralph Siegel’s illustrious Eurovision …

As we are doing with LATVIA, we at ESC UNITED are featuring another OGAE REST OF THE WORLD country in our ROAD TO MALMO series: HUNGARY! To start things off, we are reviewing the ten songs of Heat 1 in A Dal 2013, the Hungarian National Selection.  Six songs will progress to the semi-finals: three via televoting and three via …

As previously announced by the Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO, Slovenia would not hold a National Final due to major financial cuts and today they announced that Hannah Mancini will be flying the flag for Slovenia in Malmo. She may not be an unknown face to some ESC fans, in 2011 she took part in the National Final for her country as …