Year after year and build-up after build-up for each Eurovision sees fans discussing whether a record number of participating countries will be present at the competition and every year we seem to fall short. But the signs this year seem promising with only a handful of the usual nations declining the EBU’s kind invitation to take part. With Turkey and …

UPDATE: It has now been confirmed that Hovig Demirjian will sing for Cyprus at next year’s Eurovision in Ukraine. The original article follows below. The Cypriot broadcaster CyBC looks set to make their move for 2017 and become the first country to announce their act tomorrow, but in some media it seems we already might know the name! Hovig Demirjian, …

It’s official, Romania will return, when the contest in 2017 takes place in Kyiv, Ukraine. The EBU and TVR has finally come to an agreement, which makes it possible for Romania to compete once again in the Eurovision Song Contest. Therefore, there is no more reason to speculate about if Romania would take part, or not. However this does leaves …

This has come a little out of nowhere! San Marino look all set to announce their participation in Eurovision 2017 this weekend after some scepticism over the voting process was raised by the microstate in 2016. Even better, it looks like we may be getting their songs straight away! SMRTV, the natiomal broadcaster of the tiny state nestled in Italy, …

Hungary will be present in Kiev in May, they will once again use A Dal as their selection process, which they have used for a number of years. The format will stay pretty much the same as previous years but there is one major difference! MTVA are only accepting songs from established acts. They are looking for high quality songs …

Over the weekend we saw the first country kick off its national selection. Following a successful performance from the fierce Iveta Mukuchyan landing the country in the Top 10, the national broadcaster ARMTV has decided to ramp up its efforts to find the next star for the country – and potentially its first winner. The show, Depi Evratisil (Towards Eurovision) …

Perhaps it was too good to be true to have all of our favourite countries in Kiev and alas, it seems to be so. Overnight, the national broadcaster of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BHRT, has confirmed that the Balkan nation will be bowing out of the show in 2017 following increasing financial pressures on the corporation. Bosnia & Herzegovina’s troubled participation …

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The Eurovision season has begun and (most) national broadcasters are working on overdrive to select their song for Kiev next May! Some broadcasters are having an open call for songs, which means you could be part of the Class of 2017! As is traditional, Norway and Denmark have an early open call …

At this stage in the year we start to finalise which countries will be joining the celebrations at the next year’s Eurovision and as the nights draw in and the air gets colder, the 2017 contest is no exception. So let’s take a look at the current state of play and see who is joining the party in 2017! Planning …

Some meaningful news now from the land of tulips and flat land, with AVROTROS confirming today that the Netherlands’ representative in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be chosen internally once more, with the name expected to come in early October. Over the previous few years the broadcaster has ditched its national selection processes which resulted in the country failing …