Following it’s inaugural season in 2022, it was confirmed yesterday by show producer and creator Christer Björkman that the American Song Contest will not happen in 2023. The topic came up while speaking to Euromovidas during Benidorm Fest 2023, where Björkman described that while he is proud of the contest and the team’s work on it, he is not sure …
Due to concerns surrounding COVID-19, the American Song Contest has been postponed until March 21, 2022. The new date for the contest’s Grand Final is now set for May 9, 2022, one day before Eurovision 2022’s Semi-Final 1. The National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) announced that the American twist on the Eurovision Song Contest needed to be postponed due to field …
If you’ve followed the contest in the recent years, you’ve probably already heard about it in the past, but today, we’ve gotten more clues about what it’s all about and when it will be. We’re talking about the American Song Contest, which will air already next year. American Song Contest Back in 2019, everyone came to the press centre for …
Bonsoir Europe! Paris is calling! – The Second Semi-Final has just concluded and with that, we now know the full line-up for “Le Grand Finale”, which is set to take place next week. [AdSense-B] Just like last week, another 9 songs competed tonight, for the 4 remaining spots in the grand final. The show was opened by last years Eurovision …
As many of you will know, Christer Björkman is fast becoming ‘Mr Eurovision’. He has taken part in the contest (in 1992), he has produced Melodifestivalen and he has produced the Eurovision Song Contest. With staffing changes over the last few weeks in Ukraine, and many people worrying if the contest will actually go ahead in Kiev, something needed to be …
In an article in a British newspaper, i, who claim to have spoken with the producer of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, they state that Christer Bjorkman has informed them that “Jake and Joe would continue the UK’s woeful failure to emulate Katrina and the Waves’s 1997 victory”. In this article it says that the Swedish singer / TV producer …
Sarah Dawn Finer’s popular character from Melodifestivalen 2012 is back – Lynda Woodruff will be the red carpet reporter for the Swedish broadcast of Eurovision’s Greatest Hits! Melodifestivalen fans and those who watched Eurovision 2013 will be familiar with her character, an EBU ‘representative’ who was unable to pronounce Azerbaijan and made various other mistakes. She will be making a …
The first Melodifestivalen Semi Final took place last night and Eric Saade and Jessica Andersson qualified for the Finals. As it turns out, several voting app users complained about voting issues resulting in some to question the outcome. SVT admitted while there have been some bugs with the voting app, it didn’t affect the overall results. For the first time, the public was able to vote using …
