[AdSense-B] Tonight, Hungary continues its quest to find a star for Eurovision 2019 and follow in the footsteps of heavy metal band AWS, who kept Hungary’s qualification streak intact in Lisbon. With all of the last eight Hungarian entries reaching the Eurovision final, there’s no pressure on this year’s crop to maintain the record. Ten acts will take to …
[AdSense-B] Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and Blink TV have added two more songs to the six already released for the upcoming “Eurovision – Australia Decides” national selection. Last week, SBS surprised us when they announced the participation of chart-topping rock band Killing Heidi’s singer Ella Hooper, and today she released her entry “Data Dust.” An alternative rocker in the …
[AdSense-B] The Macedonian national broadcaster MRT has confirmed a familiar face for Tel Aviv, as Tamara Todevska will be their 2019 representative. Todevska is no stranger to the contest, having participated in Belgrade back in 2008 with Vrčak and Adrijan Gaxha. The group was unable to qualify from the second semi-final with their song “Let Me Love You”, which resulted …
Rumors have been going crazy from the very point when Israel won the contest last year, and those rumors have now finally been put to rest. The EBU and KAN have finally announced who will guide Europe & Australia through the 3 live shows in May. [AdSense-B] In Lisbon, we had 4 females to guide us all through 3 fantastic …
Last year, Norway taught us how to write a song and now the question that remains, is if any of these 10 acts know how to write a winning song? [AdSense-B] Once again the national broadcaster of Norway, NRK, has decided to go with a national final, and ten names have been announced not long ago. Not only have they …
This editorial is written from the opinion of the author and does not represent the views of the other editors, the EBU or escYOUnited as a whole. It occurred to me last week, during the results live stream after the second semi-final of Destination Eurovision, that the debate had centred on which of the two semi-final winners would be the …
[AdSense-B] Eagle-eyed fans of the contest seem to have found a demo for the Dutch entry for this year’s contest, although this has not yet been confirmed by the Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS. The song, entitled “I Miss You” and of course performed by Duncan Laurence, has surfaced on YouTube in the past few hours courtesy of the Planet ESC channel. …
[AdSense-B] Next up for our series of interviews with the Latvian hopefuls is the band Double Faced Eels. We spoke to their lead singer Reinis Straume ahead of their Supernova debut, about the time he screamed until he nearly fainted and how the band ended up with their curious name… Hello Double Faced Eels! First of all thank you for …
[AdSense-B] While things have been a little bit quiet on the Polish front, today the national broadcaster TVP finally confirmed how the central European nation would be selecting its Eurovision 2019 entrant. An internal selection by the broadcaster will be used for the first time since the selection of Monika Kuszyńska in 2015, although the channel will be accepting submissions …
[AdSense-B] The country of Belarus, one of the last to kick off their process for Eurovisio 2019, have begun preparations for their national final, officially opening the submission period for entries. Interested artists have until January 31st (a week from tomorrow!) to submit their entries, with live auditions being held shortly after then. Many fans may remember last year’s audition …
