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🇱🇺 Luxembourg: The grand duchy will return with a national final in 2024

During the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, we were treated with a grand surprise, which was the announcement of the return of Luxembourg. The small nation has not participated in the competition since 1993, and despite that, the small landlocked nation is set on making a grand return. Luxembourgish national final Luxembourg is one of the founding countries of the Eurovision …

Israeli representative Racheli Haim has passed away, aged 66

Singer and musical theater performer Racheli Haim is known to the Eurovision community as a member of the band Shiru, who represented Israel in the contest in 1993. She passed away last week at 66 after battling Alzheimer’s disease. Eurovision 1978 winner, Izhar Cohen, paid tribute at her memorial: “Racheli Haim, my dear, is gone. When I was Aladin, she …

The 23 entries for the 2023 OGAE Second Chance Contest revealed

This year’s OGAE Second Chance Contest will feature a total of 23 entries from the 24 national finals hosted during the 2023 season. This year 22 OGAE clubs across Europe and their members voted on their favorite entries from their national selection shows, with the winner being selected to represent them in the Second Chance Contest. Since both San Marino …

ESC 2024: Will there be a change in the jury system?

It’s been one month now, since Loreen managed to become the second ever artist, to ever win the competition twice, as well as tying Sweden as the most succesful country in the contest, with Ireland. However, as most might even recall, she didn’t quite convince the televote and yesterday, the debate continued, but this time, it happened within a broadcaster. …

The Netherlands: Junior Songfestival grand final take place on September 23

The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool just wrapped up, but The Netherlands are already looking for their representative at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2023. The Dutch Broadcaster AvroTros revealed that on the 23rd of September, they will find out who will represent the country in Nice, France during a live broadcast from the RTM Stage in Rotterdam. …

🇮🇱 Israel: The Next Star returns as selecting method in 2024

If it ain’t broke, then no need to fix it. Israel has decided to return to their former format when it comes to selecting their Eurovision entrant, which will be through the talent show “HaKokhav HaBa” which translates to “The Next Star“. Return of HaKokhav HaBa The talent show, is an Israeli produced show which made it’s debut back in …

United Kingdom: Sophie Ellis-Bextor dismisses rumours about Eurovision 2024!

The rumour mill surrounding the United Kingdom’s representative at Eurovision 2024 went into full speed last week when British tabloids suggested that the BBC had chosen Sophie Ellis-Bextor, the singer-songwriter as their representative in Sweden. During an appearance on BBC Breakfast on Friday morning, Ellis-Bextor dismissed any rumours about her own participation and clarified that she has not been in …

Voxovation announces plans for Eurovision India, premiere date unknown

In a surprise announcement following the Eurovision 2023 contest, Voxovation appears to be pursuing another international version of the Eurovision song Contest – this time in India. In the announcement, the company states that “India is like an entire content all by itself”, speaking to the 1.3 billion people who live across the countries 28 states and 8 territories. The …

Team ESCUnited is looking for new members – are #YOU interested?

This year we have been working hard to bring #YOU the latest news from across the Eurovision world, and have reached a number of significant achievements such as: Expanded our team to include 12 new staff writers Had 741 articles published on the website after June 1st, 2022 Passed 9,500 followers on our Instagram page and 10,500 on Twitter Onsite …

ESC 2024: Could Stockholm risk not hosting next year?

All the glitter from the past weekend had barely fallen to the ground, before cities around in Sweden started to show interest in hosting next year’s contest, but as it stands, the front runner and expected favorite city to host the contest, might have to surrender the possibility even before things get properly started. Not Stockholm in 2024? Sweden might …

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