As we know, the Contest should be seen as a competition for song-writers. These highly important people often get overlooked in favour of a glamorous, attractive or vivacious performer. But crafting that winning song is an art, and it takes skill and a little bit of luck to […]
Sweden has finally decided who will be travelling all the way from Stockholm to, erm Stockholm in May to hold up a whole nation’s honour. Frans and his song ‘If I were sorry’ is the sixth Swede in this unenviable position. So we look at the previous five […]
Who will represent Lithuania at Eurovision 2016? Four years after he last trod the Eurovision stage, in Baku, Donny Montell will be off to Stockholm in May with his song “I’ve been waiting for this night“. The fact is that since the first Lithuanian show on 9 January, […]
We’re into the final weekend of national finals, and after several months our friends in Lithuania will have a song to throw into the mix in Stockholm. If you’ve been glued to what’s been happening in downtown Vilnius, you’ll know there will be six acts tonight. You can […]
This year there will be two songs with stars in their titles. What could be nicer? Imagining those stars on a dark night’s sky, forming countless constellations with strange names. So with this alignment of stars, here are some other songs about them. Here are our recent articles […]
Unless you were living in a cave in Mars with your fingers in your ears, you will know that the UK has picked a duo to represent it in Stockholm. If you missed it all, you can read the blog here and the winner article here. Here’s the […]
Finland’s selection process for Eurovision 2016 – Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu – has just finished, and Sandhja has won the lucky golden ticket for the gig in Stockholm. In a close run thing, she beat off competition from Saara Aalto and Mikael Saari. Luckily with him finishing third I won’t […]
Welcome to the final part of the fun and games from good old Finland. As you may have seen last week, the people of the country selected the final three songs for the final of UMK – Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu tonight. Join us at 20:00CET for our LIVE BLOG. You […]
Our friends in Bosnia & Herzegovina have come back to the fold, and have chosen an song internally. As Bosnian songs go, it ain’t bad either. Getting past the name of the act, which I’ll call DDAJ for now, the song is called ‘Ljubav je’, which means ‘Love […]
UMK’s thirdsemi-final has just finished, and tonight Finland selected three more songs to go to the final of the competition on Saturday 27 February. Are your favourites from tonight among them? If you missed the blog (and where were you?), you can find it HERE. Tuuli Okkonen – […]
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