#BIRTHDAY: Lars A Fredriksen from Norway is 51 today It’s been 23 long years since the free language rules was re-introduced. Is it a good thing? Well, there have only been three winners since 1999 that had no English in them. So is it a good thing? Well, […]
Tonight Norway held the 4th Heat of Melodi Grand Prix 2022 to find out who will go forward to fight it out in the MGP Grand Final to be held on 19th February at the H3 Arena in Fornebu, Norway , for the honour of flying the Norwegian […]
NRK, the Norwegian national broadcaster, are the first to confirm their participation at the 2022 Eurovision Young Musicians. They are one of the eleven countries that were due to participate at the cancelled 2020 Contest due to the Coronavirus pandemic. As is with tradition, NRK will use Virtuos […]
#BIRTHDAY: Hanne Krogh from Norway is 66 today Eurovision has had a lot of innovations over the years. Of course the most recent ones include the new voting structure and HD, but the changes go back for years. Can you imagine, for example, Eurovision songs without preview videos? […]
This week sees the week-in, week-out 2022 National Final marathon continue! This week has seven shows and three announcements… Monday 24th January Ukraine – Vidbir Artists Announced Tuesday 25th January EBU – Semi Final Allocation Draw (11:00 GMT/12:00 CET) Wednesday 26th January Spain – Benidorm Fest Semi Final […]
This week sees the week-in, week-out 2022 National Final marathon continue! This week is just the start of things, with just two shows and one announcement… Friday 21st January Portugal – FdC Artists & Songs Announcement (Time TBC) Saturday 22nd January Lithuania – Pabandom iš naujo Heat 3 […]
#NORWAY: Live Blog of MGP Semi-final 1 from 19.50 CET 21.17 – Thanks for following our blog tonight. Do you agree with the result? Should one of the other three songs qualified? Tell us what you think. And goodnight 21.15 – So Frode beats Trollfest and Eline to […]
This week sees the week-in, week-out 2022 National Final marathon continue! This week is just the start of things, with just the one show and one announcement… Monday 10th January Norway – MGP Songs & Artists Announcement (12:30 GMT/13:30 CET) Wednesday 12th January Finland – UMK Artists Announcement […]
NRK, the Norwegian national broadcaster, has announced that twenty one songs will be in the race for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest. While five songs will automatically progress to the Grand Final, four Semi Finals will feature four songs each. A Second Chance round will also take place. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Benny Borg is 76 today Back in the 1970s, it was almost the same countries that turned up every year. There was none of this semi-final tomfoolery. And as for the concept of countries further east taking part. Well, that would just be madness. Obviously things chance, […]