[AdSense-B] Australia’s national broadcaster Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) has confirmed that the country will take part in Eurovision 2020… and 2021… and 2022… and 2023! The deal comes off the back of a successful national selection held this weekend in the Gold Coast, where Kate Miller-Heidke was chosen to represent the Oceanic nation in the song contest. SBS’ head of …
[AdSense-B] After a marathon run in the competition’s fifth year, Israel’s artist on home soil has been decided – it’s Kobi Marimi to Tel Aviv! The 27-year-old singer from Ramat Gan, a city close to this year’s host city, won the Israeli selection process HaKokhav HaBa this evening and will therefore represent Israel in 2019. נראה שקובי מרימי רק מתחיל …
The below editorial features the opinions and views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of #escYOUnited as a whole, Eurovision or the EBU. [AdSense-B] The audience silence said it all that night on January 23, 2019, when the fourth heat of Lithuania’s Nacionaline Eurovizijos Atranka took place. It was their fortune to be saved by Alen …
Controversial Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini have been on the defensive today after a series of tweets passive-aggressively attacking the choice of Mahmood as winner of the 69th annual Sanremo Music Festival this weekend. Italian politicians griping about the annual Sanremo Music Festival, which is Italy’s unique national selection process and was the inspiration for the …
[AdSense-B] Serbia’s national final Beovizija returns for a second consecutive year, and this time it’s bigger and better! A massive 24 acts and songs will compete in this year’s three-night competition, with the winner crowned as the latest Beovizija champion and Serbia’s act for Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv. The twenty four songs competing are below, and #YOU can hear …
Bună seara from Arad! – It’s been 2 long weeks since the first semi-final, but tonight we had the second semi-final taking place. With that, we now know the 12 finalists for the national final next week. [AdSense-B] Live from the Banat region in western Romania, 12 acts competed in the second semi-final in order to progress to the final and …
[AdSense-B] With tonight’s second semi-final of Selecția Națională deciding this year’s Romanian finalists, our editor James took a look at the candidates. Which acts does he feel are best? 2 Gents – Ielele James – 6 – “Despite the bass drops and the “we’re singing behind the bins” echo effects borrowed from modern pop, this song is not that interesting. With …
The grand Italian festival Sanremo took place this past week, and what a glorious week it has been of new Italian music, but what we care most about is, who is going to Eurovision, so let’s have a look at this past week’s festival! [AdSense-B] Often seen as the mother of the Eurovision Song Contest, since our beloved contest was …
[AdSense-B] Melodifestivalen is without a doubt the most popular national final in Europe, and the schlager excitement came once again tonight, as the second semi-final took place in Malmö. Semi-final 2 Last week, the first 7 acts took part in the show, and tonight, it was time for the next 7 acts to take part. As always, the Swedes were …
[AdSense-B] Five acts took the stage in Podgorica tonight – D-Moll, Andrea Demirović, Monika Knezović, Ivana Popović-Martinović and Nina Petković. Also, a special game for the people who voted was organized. One lucky person won a five day trip to Tel Aviv for two with tickets for the live shows. There were two rounds of voting. In the first round, …
