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Latvia: Four acts reach Supernova final

In a drama-laden semi-final show, four acts won the chance to compete one last time for Latvia’s golden ticket to Eurovision! Tonight’s semi-final stage of Supernova saw the eight surviving artists perform once again. After Samanta Tina’s performance, she decided to withdraw her entry “The Love Is Forever” after suggesting it would not be good enough to represent her country …

Iceland: Greta Salóme Is Heading To Stockholm

2016 is the year, that marks the 30 year anniversary for Iceland’s debut at the Eurovision Song Contest, and with this, the island with about over 300.000 inhabitants celebrated this with a spectacular show. To show how much the Icelandic people care for the song contest, they opened the show with a spectacular opening of previous Icelandic entries from the …

Estonia: Final lineup completed

Five more qualifiers in tonight’s Eesti Laul semi-final have completed the Estonian lineup for the final selection in two weeks time. After the conclusion of tonight’s second semi-final, five more entries made it to the Eesti Laul final following a public vote and jury selection. The five songs that qualified from tonight’s show are; Grete Paia – Stories Untold Meisterjaan …

Finland: Last 3 Acts Selected

The third and last semi-final in Finland’ national selection, know as “”Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2016” has come to an end. In the third semi-final, we had the pleasure of watching the last 6 acts, who are taking part in this years Finnish selection. Lieminen – “Pehmeiden arvojen vaalijat” Tuuli Okkonen – “Don’t Wake Me Up” Gušani Brothers – “Poom Poom” …

Georgia hopeful of Midnight Gold in Stockholm

Georgia’s entry has been confirmed; the Young Georgian Lolitaz will perform Midnight Gold in Stockholm! After five songs were presented to the public and the discerning international fanbase a number of weeks ago, tonight saw the official announcement of which song had won the hearts of the public and jury. Despite “Sugar and Milk” winning the jury vote between Andy …

Latvia: Four more qualifiers in Supernova

The second heat of Supernova reaped rewards for more artists tonight, with 10 performances whittled down to the four qualifiers. Mardara Grēgere, Crowmother, Samanta Tīna, Markus Riva, MyRadiantU, Mārtiņš Ruskis, Dvines, Marta Ritova, Miks Dukurs and Iluta Alsberga performed their entries tonight, and following a period of public voting the two televote qualifiers were revealed. They are; MyRadiantU – We …

Francesca Michielin to represent Italy

After last night’s Sanremo final, which saw Stadio win the competition, the entrant for Italy in Eurovision 2016 has been decided. As the group declined the invitation due to a clash with their touring schedule, RAI has now confirmed that runner-up Francesca Michielin will sing for Italy in Stockholm. X Factor winner Michielin sang “Nessun grado di separazione” (No degree …

Eesti Laul: Five songs advance to final

The first semi-final of Estonia’s selection process took part tonight and saw five songs reach the final stage of the competition. Semi-final 1 of Eesti Laul saw pre-recorded performances from The Jingles, Würffel, Mick Pedaja, Indrek Ventmann, Cartoon, Kéa, Kati Laev & Noorkuu, Zebra Island, Laura and Windy Beach and following the decisions of the assembled expert jury and televoting, …

Slovenia: Song Titles and Writers Announced

We previously announced the 10 acts who will take part in EMA 2016, today, RTVSLO ahve revealed the song titles and their writers. The winning song will be selected on the 27th of February. The competing acts, songs, and writers: Anja Baš – What If (music- Anja Baš; lyrics – Anja Baš; arrangement – Franci Zabukovec, Anja Baš) Anja Kotar …

Romania: Listen To The 12 Hopefuls

The Romanian national broadcaster have revealed the 12 songs in contention for representing Romania in Stockholm for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. There were 94 songs sent in but two of them were ineligible due to not meeting criteria / not completing the forms correctly. These songs have been whittled down to 12 for the semi-final (click on the song …

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