Photo: Thomas Hanses (EBU) [AdSense-B] Rehearsals for Semi-Final 2 wrap up today. Today, the second half of Semi-Final 2 steps on the stage for the first time. #YOU can watch our livestream below: Today’s rehearsals include: CROATIA – Roko – The Dream MALTA – Michaela – Chameleon LITHUANIA – Jurij Veklenko – Run with the Lions RUSSIA – Sergey Lazarev …

[AdSense-B] Malta’s representative in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, Michela Pace, has released the music video & the track for her entry “Chameleon”. #YOU can see the video for Michela Pace “Chameleon” below;   Malta will be hoping to make it through to the Eurovision final for the first time since 2016. Malta will compete in the second half of …

[AdSense-B] We always love when previous Eurovision representatives release new song. Although we are in the middle of the national selection season, 3 artists released new material this weekend. Jessika, the 2018 representative for San Marino released No La Conoces ( You don’t know her). The song sang mostly in English & has a very spanish flavour. You can listen …

[AdSense-B] It’s really hotting up now in The X Factor in Malta! This evening’s semi-final saw all eight acts perform – but half of the acts would be heading home at the end of the show! The eight remaining semi-finalists all performed once under the theme of “Movie Spectacular”. The first performances were as follows (original artist in brackets); Owen …

[AdSense-B] Tonight, the live shows of Malta’s version of The X Factor continued, as two more acts were eliminated from the competition which will decide the Maltese artist for Tel Aviv. Each of the remaining ten acts performed once again, under the theming of ‘throwbacks’ – retro songs for the performers. #YOU can see the performances below (original artist in …

[AdSense-B] The first live show of this year’s edition of The X Factor in Malta took place this evening, the culmination of a process that began with the audition stages of the competition way back between July and October, to Judges Houses in December. Twelve acts took to the stage for the first time tonight, represented in four different categories …

[AdSense-B] Our next interview from Lisbon comes courtesy of Malta and this year’s entrant Christabelle. After four attempts, the young singer from Mġarr battles with the concept of mental health in Lisbon with her entry “Taboo”, and we spoke to her about the message of the song, how she wanted to tell a story with her performance and the vocal …

[AdSense-B] Did #YOU miss out on this morning’s rehearsals and live stream? Well, fear not! We have #YOU covered with our reviews, so take a look at how Georgia, Poland, Malta and Hungary got on with today’s first batch of rehearsals below! GEORGIA – Iriao – For You “Music is not fireworks, it is feeling”. The words of Salvador Sobral …

This editorial is written from the opinion of the author and does not represent the views of the other editors, the EBU or escYOUnited as a whole. [AdSense-B] Last weekend, over three quarters of this year’s Eurovision acts headed to Amsterdam and the AFAS Live arena for the tenth Eurovision in Concert. I’m sure many of you will have seen …

This is the last big piece of the puzzle, before we all finally can properly speculate, who’s going to qualify, and who won’t. The Running Order has finally been revealed, and now we know, when every semi-final country will perform. [AdSense-B] A total of 43 countries will take part in this years contest, and 37 out of these 43 countries …