Brussels, 9 January 2023 Belgium have kicked off the week-long Eurosong marathon. From Monday to Friday, we’ll get to know the participants in Eurosong 2023, and their songs. Every day, VRT will release a 30 minute reality show, presenting the contestants during their bootcamp (or “song club”). During this bootcamp, each artist will showcase their two songs, with their competition …
Brussels, 2 January 2023 The new year has begun and Belgium’s resolution appears to be: “leave nothing to chance”. VRT have announced their plans of including a professional jury during their national final, Eurosong. The Flemish national broadcaster have been keeping their cards close to their chest, only offering new information piecemeal. The inclusion of a professional jury (previously rumoured …
Brussels, 15 December 2022 This morning we were treated with a surprise, courtesy of Belgium’s broadcaster VRT. The titles of the fourteen songs competing in their national selection, Eurosong, have been revealed, alongside snippets of their live renditions. Earlier, 7 artists had been revealed to be taking part in Belgium’s upcoming selection, Eurosong (their first edition since 2016). Each participating …
Brussels, 8 november 2022 Flemish broadcaster VRT have finally revealed the “Zalige Zeven” (Delightful Seven) that compete in the upcoming Belgian National Final, Eurosong 2022. (not to be confused with Ireland’s NF, which is also called Eurosong). Earlier we have reported on VRT’s hunger to win Eurovision proper this year. We now know which singers and songwriters Flanders have put …
Brussels, 14 oktober 2022 More information concerning Belgium’s upcoming NF has surfaced. Belgian fan website Songfestival.be reports that VRT’s upcoming Eurovision selection will feature seven Flemish talents and is set to air mid-February. The competition will take place inside the Paleis 12 indoor arena in Brussels. Eurosong BE is also slated to feature fourteen songs, two for each participating artist. …
Brussels, 22 September 2022 A few bits of news have come up about the upcoming Belgian NF. Next year, it will be the turn of Flemish broadcaster VRT to organize the Belgium participation at Eurovision, and after choosing internally for two consequetive contests, VRT hasopted to revert back to their public selection, Eurosong. Details about how Eurosong would be organized …
Brussels, 20 August 2022 VRT’s commentator for the contest, Peter Van de Veire confirmed tonight that Belgium will revert back to a national selection for the 2023 contest, to be held somewhere in the United Kingdom. In previous years VRT, who are the Dutch-speaking Flemish broadcaster, have resorted to internally selecting their entrant. Sennek (Laura Groeseneken) and Hooverphonic were the …
On the night of April 24, 1982, delegations from 18 countries descended on the Harrogate International Centre for the 27th Eurovision Song Contest. Which of that year’s entries would Team ESCUnited crown? To decide, we have gathered five of our best (?) and brightest (??) from around the globe to weigh in with their 1982 Top 10s. They are: From …
Over the past 10 days, the official Eurovision Song Contest YouTube account, finally decided to share the pre-recorded live on tape recordings little by little. Unfortunately, we have learned that a lot of broadcasters opted to not share their pre-recording tapes, and will leave a lot of fans imagining, what it would’ve or could’ve been like for some countries. On …
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. …
