Good evening and welcome back to our news round-up where we recap everything you might have missed for Eurovision 2021! We have an interesting slate of news from artist confirmations, song announcements, music videos, and a national final on the rocks – let’s get started! North Macedonia confirms Vasil for Rotterdam This morning it was confirmed that MKRTV has selected …
It seems that Israeli broadcaster KAN simply cannot catch a break for Eurovision this year, as their national final plans have changed once again. Earlier this year they announced a complex national selection that would feature a 16 song, multi-show national final and each week since have changed that plan. Now they have made another change, and have cancelled the …
Vilnius, 16 January 2021 The Super Saturdays of the 2021 Eurovision season have commenced. In a rather lean season, Norway and Lithuania have aired the first heats of their respective national finals. This article will focus on the Lithuanian selection, Pabandom iš Naujo! Due to the ubiquitous pandemic regulations, the show did not air live, having instead been recorded on …
Tonight, Norway kick off their Eurovision 2021 search in style, with the famous Melodi Grand Prix flinging open its doors once again (in a metaphorical sense, of course). Norway’s lengthy selection begins with the first semi-final in Fornebu tonight, and there is some considerable star power already announced as part of the selection. It was revealed earlier this week that …
The versions of the final three songs in Israel’s HaShir HaBa L’Eurovizion, as recorded by Eden Alene, have now been released via Israel Hayom, one of Israel’s leading news outlets. The details of each song’s amendments are also clear, in particular with “Ue La La” which has been extended to the full three minute allocation in the latest version, with …
Nikkie de Jager (NikkieTutorials) has confirmed she has been upgraded to a main presenter of Eurovision 2021 in Rotterdam in her latest YouTube video. The video, in which the beauty vlogger discusses her year and her predictions for 2021, she discusses the contest and her feelings on her involvement as the online host of Eurovision 2020. “I’ve always dreamt about …
Italy’s Sanremo has long been the height of Italian musical culture and it’s not surprising to see that next spring’s festival will once again attract some of Italy’s biggest stars! Among the guests will be rapper and two-time participant Achille Lauro (2019 with “Rolls Royce” and 2020 with “Ne me frego”) and singer Elodie (well-known for her entry “Andromeda” from …
Spain is set to hold a national selection to decide Blas Cantó’s Eurovision 2021 entry, according to eurovision-spain. The Spanish site reports that Cantó’s team, Warner Music and TVE have come to the decision and that a selection show will be held at some point before the end of February to select Spain’s entry for Rotterdam. Thus, the Spanish public …
Been busy over the festive period? We hear #YOU. It’s tough to keep up on all of the little news bits, rumours and updates in the Eurovision world, so we’ve been across the Eurovision community to put all of the recent smaller updates together for #YOU! Finland’s YLE has confirmed that the participants of this year’s Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu will …
Latvia’s returning Eurovision artist Samanta Tīna has this morning released the music video for her new song “Tikai Romāns”, although it is understood the song is not in contention for Eurovision 2021. The dramatic pop ballad, meaning “Only a Novel”, was written in 2019 and sharing the meaning of the song, Samanta Tīna spoke to Latvian morning show “Rīta Panorāma”; …
