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🇭🇷 Dora 2024: Slimane and Raiven will perform as interval acts during the two semifinals!

The Croatian broadcaster HRT announced that this year’s edition of Dora will host some of the competing artists from this year. To be more precise, Slimane from France and Raiven from Slovenia are due to perform during the semi-finals. As a reminder, both artists were chosen internally and we haven’t seen them performing their songs live much which is something …

ESCUnited’s complete guide to this weekends national finals – February 10th

It’s another glorious day of Eurovision shows across Europe, and we’re back to give you the information you need to know so you can follow along and watch. There are a total of five shows slated for today, two are elimination shows in both Sweden and Lithuania, while three countries will determine their Eurovision entries tonight – Finland, Latvia, and …

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🇭🇷 Croatia: Dora Announces Changes in Voting System for 2024!

Croatia has taken another step in redesigning its national selection. After introducing the semi-final format, they also decided to change the voting system for this year. Just as a reminder, the last time Dora had semi-finals was back in 2011. What we already know A total of 24 artists will compete in the semi-finals with their songs being already released. …

🇱🇻 Latvia: Supernova Entries Announced! Final Slated for February 10th

Europe tuned into the Latvian program, “Rīta Panorāmā“, to find out the entries for this year’s edition of Supernova, the national final selection process for Latvia’s entry at the Eurovision Song Contest. We also learned some details regarding the dates for the semi-final and the final, 3rd of February and 10th of February, respectively. Further clarifications for the Supernova format …

Alika rehearses her Eurovision entry "Bridges" in Liverpool. Photo: Corine Cumming / Sarah Louise Bennett

🇪🇪 The search is on for Estonia’s next Eurovision entry! Eesti Laul 2024 submissions are open

After a top-10 finish at Eurovision 2023, Estonia is now seeking submissions for next year’s Eurovision hopefuls. Submissions for Eesti Laul 2024 are open now through October 23, broadcaster ERR announced today. “We are waiting entries to the competition that will represent Estonia in front of the whole of Europe, in the best way possible,” said Karmel Killandi, editor in …

Söngvakeppnin Songs Revealed! Find Out Who Iceland Chooses on 4 March

Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV) announced the newest crop of songs in Söngvakeppnin today in between the national finals currently taking place in Norway, Lithuania, and Moldova. The competition will compose of two semi-finals on 18 February and 25 February of five songs each, and all songs in the semi-finals will be performed in the Icelandic language. Songs that qualify to the final …

Supernova Returns! Latvia Chooses Their Entry on 11 February

Europe woke up today to news from Latvijas Televīzija (LTV), in that we now know the schedule for Supernova, Latvia’s national final format. A semifinal for the competition will air on Saturday, 4 February, with the final airing the week after on Saturday, 11 February. This bumps up the number of national finals scheduled to conclude on 11 February to …

ESCUnited music round-up: New releases from former national final participants (January 2022)

This year we are trying something a little different, and offering Eurovision fans two music round-ups a month, one from current and former Eurovision participants and the other from those who unfortunately never made it to the ESC stage. We believe that all artists who enter the Eurovision pre-selections are still a big part of the community, and we hope …

Portugal: Here are the first five qualifiers of Festival da Canção!

Lisbon, 20 February 2021.  The first semifinal of Portugal’s musical bonanza Festival da Canção aired tonight.  As one may expect, it was the anti-Eurovision National Final, filled with lowtempo nostalgia ballads and excellent fashion. A perfect remedy for tonight’s heady brew of middle-of-the-road scandi pop. Let us get acquainted with tonight’s hopefulls! The Line-up: The Black Mamba – “Love Is …

Lithuania: Pabandom Iš Naujo kicks off with a bang!

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 …

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