The broadcaster announced that Despina Olympiou will fly the Flag for Cyprus in Malmo. The 37 year old singer was selected internally by CyBC and her song will be in Greek. This song will be truly a song from Cyprus as the singer as well as Andreas Giorgallis (music) and Zenon Zindilis (lyrics) are Cypriot citizens. Unfortunately we don’t have …

Last night the Semi Final/Wild card show took place in Finland and the juries & televoters picked four more songs that would move on the the Final Stage.  Great Wide North, Last Panda, Elina Orkoneva, and Lucy Was Driving will once again perform on February 9th, 2013 when Finland picks their entry for Malmo. Four songs already directly qualified previously brining …

  Over the past few weeks, many different rumors have been floating around on the Internet on who would represent San Marino in 2013 but not too many thought San Marino would go for the same artist 2 years in a row. Fans may remember Valentina from last year when she represented this tiny nation with the “Social Network Song”. …

Peo Nylén is a music publisher for Scandinavian Songs AB.  You may not know his name off-hand but he has been a part numerous Eurovision and National Selection songs in the past twenty years, including Ines “Once in a Lifetime,” Pirates of the Sea “Wolves of the Sea,” and Rollo and King “Never Ever Let You Go.” This year, Peo …

As the Dziesma 2013, the National Selection for Latvia’s 2013 Eurovision entry, approaches, ESC UNITED’s Zack were fortunate enough to talk with Filip Lindfors, composer of not one, but TWO entries: “Upside Down” and “Phoenix Fly.” ESC UNITED: Hi Filip!  Congratulations on your success in Dziesma 2013.  “Upside Down” is one of my favorite songs from the bunch.  How would …

  For the first tim3 in 18 years, only one person will host the Eurovision Song Contest and this morning, SVT introduced Petra Mede as the person with this distinct honor. Some may not be familiar with her so who exactly is she? Petra was born on March 7th, 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden and started her career as a comedian …

Melissa was fortunate enough to go the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix today. She has just sent us this fantastic report! Thanks so much Melissa! —————————– Fighting off a last minute challenge from Mohammed Ali, the drum heavy folk track from Emmeli de Forest “Only Teardrops” managed to score the televote majority after levelling with the ‘Unbreakable’ singer during the Jury …

Zach Kerr is a two Chief Editors of ESCUNITED. This review is an opinion and does not reflect the view of ESCUNITED.   by: Zack It is fitting that I am watching the Iceland National Selection this weekend as in North Carolina, we were hit with part of a winter storm.  Here, a small amount of snow and ice can …

The second Semi Final is over and Norway has voted 3 more songs into the Final show. Let’s find out who they are:     Annsofi – I’m with you [vsw id=”LYXSXx6GNWk” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]   Fjellfolk – Ulvetuva [vsw id=”5e0MqdRROCA” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]   Margaret Berger – I feed you my love [vsw id=”bgGiBRj0yns” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”]    

Zach Kerr and Matt Friedrichs are two Chief Editors of ESCUNITED. This review are the opinions and do not reflect the view of ESCUNITED.     Zach: Despite following Eurovision since the 2003 edition in Riga, I have to admit that this is the first year that I’m actually familiarizing myself with the songs before they hit the Eurovision stage.  …