Today, the Spanish broadcaster RTVE presented us the two songs in the running for Blas Cantó to sing at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. As announced before, instead of choosing the song internally, you can decide which of the 2 song will be performed by Cantó in Rotterdam. Will it be Voy a quedarme or Memoria ? Voy a quedarme …
With special thanks to FSC moderator aardvark for contributions to this article. Forum Song Contest 143 – January 2021 The 143rd edition of the Forum Song Contest took place during January, and was hosted in Göreme, in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, following the Turkish victory in the previous contest. This exciting edition had 36 participating countries from Europe, the …
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 …
This editorial is written from the opinion of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of ESC United as a whole or its other contributors. Let’s face it, this year has been bleak, and long, and I’m sure like many others out there it is slowly wearing me down. So imagine my relief to know that the month …
Today sees the only official Eurovision contest of a difficult year take place as the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 gets underway this afternoon, live from Warsaw in Poland. Of course, things will be a bit different this year, with no audience and each country performing live from home, but we’re still hoping for the same Eurovision magic we have …
WARSAW, 8 September 2020 After months of silence, the EBU has finally unveiled their plans for the Junior Eurovision 2020, with some good news and bad news. The good news is, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place, unlike its cancelled adult counterpart. The bad news is that it won’t be a Junior Eurovision as we know it. [embedyt] …
Our “Expert” Panel continues for another year, with 15 members of the ESC United team having sat down to review the hopefuls that were set to represent their nations at Eurovision 2020 in Rotterdam! As a quick reminder, the rules of our “Expert” Panel are simple; our team provide a score for each entry between 1 and 10, with .5 …
It is becoming more and more common for artists to post home concerts on social media and youtube to entertain their fans during the pandemic. The Spanish have decided that this is not enough and have decided that Pre-Party ES will happen completely online and for free. The concert was originally scheduled to take place this upcoming weekend in Madrid …
The second round of our annual Forum Ranking Game has concluded following the deadline for votes on Saturday 15th February, and we have a new leader – it’s Latvia! A new entry straight in at number one this week, Samanta Tīna’s “Still Breathing” earned the most points out of the six entries from the voting members of our forum to …
As ever, the moments following a national selection or a song release for the contest generates considerable discussion on our forum, with many Eurovision fans quick to praise or critique the latest releases in the contest universe. At ESC United, we are all about #YOU, so we wanted to highlight the forum buzz around each song selected for this year’s …
