Yesterday a rumor spread across social media like wildfire, claiming that İTV and Azerbaijan would not be returning to Eurovision in 2023. The news originated through an instagram post from Songfestival Azerbaijan, which reported that the broadcaster had released it’s plans for TV and entertainment programs to be broadcasted over the next year, and that the Eurovision Song Contest was …
Azerbaijan remains the only country who participated last year, but has not announced whether they will compete in Yerevan. Among the 2021 participating countries, only Germany has announced it’s withdrawal from the competition, while Russia has been forced removed completely. The long wait is also not surprising, considering the history between Armenia & Azerbaijan, who just less than two years …
During the grand final, the EBU released a statement that mentioned that six of the participating countries were found to create an “irregular voting pattern”, this led to the jury votes from the six countries being completely removed and replaced by a “substitute aggregated result”. Now, we finally get to see, what the EBU were so suspicious about. The results …
As we reported earlier today, the EBU made the decision to nulify the votes from the Georgian, Romanian, San Marinese, Montenegrin, Azerbaijani, and Polish Eurovision juries for both the second semi-final and grand final. In their press release, the EBU came to this decision alongside the pan-European voting partner due to irregular voting patterns that happened in the jury votes. …
We now know which half of the Grand Final all of this year’s qualifying acts will perform in! At tonight’s post-show press conference, the 10 entries that made it out of semi-final two drew for their slots. Czech Republic, Finland, and Romania will be performing in the first half of Saturday night’s show, with Belgium, Azerbaijan, Poland, Estonia, Australia, Sweden, …
We’re into Day 6 by now, but only into Day 2 when it comes to rehearsal access for the Press. As a reminder, the first 4 days were used as closed rehearsals for all the semi-finalist performances, meaning that the first visible rehearsals for the press, are the second rehearsals for the artists. Today, the second rehearsals continued for the …
In mid-February the annoucement was made by ITV that Nadir Rustamli (Rüstəmli in Azerbaijani), the recent winner of the Voice of Azerbaijan or Səs Azərbaycan, would represent them in Turin this upcoming May. At that time, the broadcaster had received over 300 song submissions for Rustamli to perform live on the Eurovision stage, and shortlisted a total of six for …
Last month, Azeri broadcaster İTV announced that 22-year-old rising star Nadir Rüstəmli would represent The Land of Fire at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. But how did such a seeming newcomer land this important gig? As it turns out, he’s not a newcomer at all. He’s a Lifelong Musician Born on July 8, 1999, in the coastal city of Salyan, …
Late last month the new season of the Voice Azerbaijan wrapped up, and Nadir Rüstəmli was selected as the winner, with former Eurovision winner Eldar Gasimov serving as his professional mentor. Little did he know that he was about to be asked to participate in a much larger TV musical competition – the Eurovision Song Contest. Today Azerbaijan and ITV …
12-year-old singer Sona Azizova was announced as Azerbaijan’s Junior Eurovision artist in August. Since then, curious Eurovision fans have been waiting to see what The Land of Fire had up its sleeve. Well, wonder no more! Today, the official Junior Eurovision YouTube account posted the official music video for “One of Those Days”, Azerbaijan’s selection for this year’s contest. The …
