Shortly after the Eurovision Broadcasting Union listed the 19 countries that will be participating at Junior Eurovision 2021, Georgia’s 1TV announced that Ranina, Georgia’s method of selection for its Junior Eurovision representative, will begin on Saturday, September 11, at 10 p.m. Ranina has been Georgia’s method of selection since 2018, sending winners Tamar Edilashvili (8th, Junior Eurovision 2018), Giorgi Rostiashvili …
Today, the EBU have announced the nineteen countries competing in this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest. They are: Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Bulgaria France Germany Georgia Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Malta Netherlands North Macedonia Poland Portugal Russia Serbia Spain Ukraine Among these nineteen are a number of countries returning after missing the 2020 contest. Albania, Portugal, North Macedonia, Italy, and Ireland all …
Eurovision 2021 winners Måneskin and Eurovision 2019 winner Duncan Laurence can forget about being called Top 40 charting artists on the United States’ Billboard Hot 100. They can both start calling themselves Top 30 charting artists, as this week Måneskin and Laurence landed at Numbers 29 and 30, respectively. Måneskin’s “Beggin'” previously had a high of Number 35, which then …
It seems that the Ukrainian public broadcaster UA:PBC (also known as Suspilne) has been busy organizing two brand new national selections since May . This week, the broadcaster made two separate announcements about their selection processes for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest this December and the Eurovision Song Contest in May. JESC National Final Ukraine has utilized a national final …
With the 19th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest fast approaching, the EBU is sharing details on how it plans to safely throw a live music event during the on-going pandemic. Similar to during the planning stages of the Eurovision broadcast in May, the EBU has announced, via ESCplus, 3 different scenarios for how JESC can safely take place …
39 years after disbanding and 47 years since having won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, the iconic and world-renowned Swedish supergroup ABBA is set to release new music. The project, currently titled ABBA Voyage, is reported to include five new tracks that will be released this year. A newly registered website is asking devoted fans to register to be …
Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) announced today that Eurovision – Australia Decides, the popular national selection that Australia has used to select its representative at Eurovision, will return for a third time for the Eurovision 2022 season. First used in 2019, it has selected Kate Miller-Heike’s “Zero Gravity” and Montaigne’s “Don’t Break Me” as Australia’s representatives, and the selection has received …
The moment that Eurovision fan chart watchers in the United States have been waiting for has arrived – Duncan Laurence’s “Arcade,” which won Eurovision 2019 for the Netherlands, has finally broken into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. In the song’s 19th week on the main American pop singles chart, “Arcade” hit Number 38 (up from last week’s …
The EBU and host broadcaster France Télévisions have revealed the logo and artwork for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021! The contest will be held in Paris on Sunday, December 19. According to junioreurovision.tv, the artwork drew inspiration from three different elements: imagination, Christmas, and the host city itself. The logo bears more than a passing resemblance to both a …
We at ESC United try to find the positives, even when we’re being critical. We got slammed for a panel video where ESC United Editor-in-Chief and Founder Matt Friedrichs and three other random goons gave their personal Top 10s for Eurovision 2021. How dare we leave out Italy! How dare we include Germany! Georgia! North Macedonia! Denmark! I actually suspect …
