Every week all songs selected either via NF or internal selection are up for a vote and our readers award points to their favorite songs. At the end of the week we will tally up the points and post the results. This is Week 1 and so far we have three points in the running so let’s find out which …
France: Maltese Songwriters in French Final
As escunited.com announced earlier this week, Alison Ellul and Elton Zarb have made the final 16 in the Lithuanian National Selection. Today we can announce that three more Maltese nationals are in the French National Final. No strangers to the Eurovision Song Contest, Gerard James Borg and his writing partner Philip Vella, who have written a number of the Maltese …
Slovenia: Back with a National Final
Slovenia waited until the very last minute (including a 10 day extention) to confirm its participation in Copenhagen. Earlier this morning they advised that they would indeed join the party bringing up the total of participating countries to 37. The Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO also confirmed that EMA will return. The popular selection format was used in the past to find …
Dansk Melodi Grand Prix: Hosts revealed
Jacob Riising and Louise Wolff have been announced as the two hosts for Denmark’s song selection for Eurovision 2014. The two will oversee the evening’s events in Odense’s Arena Fyn, on the 8th March, hoping to present Europe with an act to defend Denmark’s 2013 win. Wolff is by far the more experienced, hosting Melodi Grand Prix in the two …
2014 “postcards’ concept revealed
The Danish broadcaster DR announced their vision on the ‘postcards’ for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Show producer Jan Lagermand Lundme said that “We will be closer to the participants. You as a viewer should get the feeling you know the artist who is on the stage. ” But what does that mean? In case you …
Ireland 2014 : Eurosong candidates to be revealed in early February
RTE, has confirmed that it will reveal the names of the 5 candidates that will compete in the 2014 Eurosong final in early February. As with past years the Irish broadcaster has opted for the same format. 5 mentors will have the sole responsibility of selecting 5 entries for the Eurosong 2014. The national final will be broadcast live on …
Portugal: NF Dates Announced
Portuguese national broadcaster RTP has announced, via ESCToday, that they will have a national selection show to choose their representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen. RTP will use the Festival da Canção format to choose their performer and song; Ten songs will compete in the semi-final on March 8, and after a public televote, the top five …
Lithuania: Maltese Songwriters in the Final 16
On Saturday the sixteen final songs in the Lithaunian National Final were made public. Amongst the 16 songs, one of them is written by two Maltese songwriters. Alison Ellul and Elton Zarb, no strangers to the Eurovision Song Contest National Selections. Alison has participated a number of times in the Maltese selection as a singer (part of Ali & …
Raffle: Win a Eurovision Cushion
Leading up to the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, ESC United is going to have multiple Raffles giving out some awesome prizes to our members and readers. All you have to do is register HERE and fill out your contact information. It is important that your mailing address is included, otherwise your submission will not be counted. Our first prize is a …
ESC 2014: Where are the Balkan countries?
The content of this editorial does not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of ESC United, its editorial board or its readers. One of our editors just wrote an article about the number of participants and I agree that it’s unfortunate we’re only going to have 36 countries this year, regardless of the reasons. Eurovision, in my opinion, is about …