The content of this editorial does not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of ESC United, its editorial board or its readers. Last week I discussed why I thought many Balkan countries were not participating in Eurovision this year. I recently saw an interview with Srđa Trifković, a Serbian-American writer, about Eurovision on RT.com (you can read excerpts or watch …
ESC 2014: Where are the Balkan countries?
The content of this editorial does not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of ESC United, its editorial board or its readers. One of our editors just wrote an article about the number of participants and I agree that it’s unfortunate we’re only going to have 36 countries this year, regardless of the reasons. Eurovision, in my opinion, is about …
The 2014 Ranking Game – Europe (and everybody else) start voting NOW
The Ranking Game – 2014 edition – is back. Just as in previous Years our readers and forum members will vote for their favorite songs on a weekly basis and we’ll share those results with you every Sunday. At the end of each week we will reset everything and you’ll get to vote again. That way the ranking is up to …
Belarus: TEO to Copenhagen!
After an incredibly interesting National Final, Belarus has chosen TEO to represent their country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen. Yuriy Vashchuk, known as his stage name TEO, sang the interestingly-composed “Cheesecake”. Here is the official video for “Cheesecake”: [vsw id=”TipV3H1jfgI” source=”youtube” width=”600″ height=”450″ autoplay=”no”] The results were half from the Televote and half from the jury, …
36 countries? Ouch!!! (That hurts!!)
The content of this editorial does not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of ESC United, its editorial board or its readers. This morning, the EBU announced that 36 will take part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. This number may or may not go up as Slovenia was given a ten day extension to find a …
Songs Released for Hungary’s National Selection
The Hungarian broadcaster, M1, has released all of the 30 songs for Hungary’s national selection A Dal 2014. All participating songs have been released on YouTube and SoundCloud. Here’s a list of the 30 participating songs and you can listen to a compilation of the Hungarian songs here. We All – Bogi Eg Veled – Der Heni Miert Ne Higgyem? …
Artists released for Latvia’s National Selection
Latvia has announced the artists that will participate in their national selection for Copenhagen. The Latvian broadcaster, LTV, had previously selected the 24 songs for the contest in early December. In addition to announcing the artists, LTV has also provided the running order in the national selection. Latvia’s selection is broken up into two semi-finals. The first semi-final will be …
Diamond Flags – A Belated Holiday present to our readers
About a week ago DR presented the theme art for the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. ESC United is giving back to the community and created Flags in the shape of the Diamond logo used for official purposes. We created a pack of 59 flags including a Bonus Diamond for the Valentina Monetta fans out there. All you have to do …
Ten Finalists Selected for Lithuanian National Final
Lithuania Radio and Television (LRT) has announced the ten finalists for its national selection Eurovizijos 2014. Eurovizijos is a ten-week competition, starting with 20 artists and 16 songs, organized by LRT. In this most recent phase of the competition, ten of the twenty contestants were selected to advance to the next round. LRT will release the 16 songs for the …
The Language Rule: How much does English help?
The content of this editorial does not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of ESC United, its editorial board or its readers. Starting in 1999, the EBU allowed countries to sing in any language, whereas before songs had to be in a country’s native language(s). Because English is a widely spoken second language, the older rule gave an unfair advantage …