This week see’s the fifth of the week-in, week-out National Final marathon season! This week has three shows, as well as song and artist announcements… Monday 8th February Norway – Semi Final 5 Songs & Artists Announcement (11:30 GMT/12:30 CET) Wednesday 10th February Denmark – Dansk Melodi Grand […]
LITHUANIA: Pabandom iš naujo! has a winner! After four shows, the good people of Lithuania has picked a representative for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam in May. And that winner is… The Roop! With the song Discoteque The song won the jury vote… …and the televote […]
Tonight, Melodifestivalen 2021 took to the national selection stage. We had two direct finalists and two second chancers. Direct to the Final were: Danny Saucedo – Dandi dansa Arvingarna – Tänker inte alls gå hem Through to Andra Chansen are: Paul Rey – The Missing Piece Lillasyster – Pretender Let us […]
#LITHUANIA: Live Blog of Pabandom iš Naujo! Grand Final from 20.00 CET We’re almost there. Tonight the Baltic nation decides who will represent it at the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam in May. Over the last three weeks, twenty acts have been whittled down to five, who will […]
Tonight see’s the return of Melodifestivalen – with all six shows this year coming from Stockholm, with no audience. For Semi Final 1, Christer Bjorkman will be joined by Lena Philipsson for hosting duties – Christer will be joined by somebody different each week. Join me, Richard, from […]
#BIRTHDAY: Justs from Latvia is 26 today It’s always a tough ask, when you take part in the contest the year after your country does well. This might be because your country won, or could just be because your country had a really good result the previous year. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Kejsi Tola from Albania is 29 today If you’ve ever got through your national final and represented your country at our favourite TV show, should you try again? There have been some performers who have got through more than once, and won after they’d fallen short the […]
This evening, 30 second clips of each of the rehearsals from the first semi final of Melodifestivalen 2021, has been released. You can listen to the clips below: Kadiatou – One Touch Lillasyster –Pretender Jessica Andersson – Horizon Paul Rey – The Missing Piece Arvingarna –Tänker inte alls gå hem […]
Everyone’s favourite Sámi-rapping Norwegian supergroup have just released the official music video for their Norsk Melodi Grand Prix entry – we are of course talking about KEiiNO and Monument! Monument is one of the 12 songs that will be performed in the final of Melodi Grand Prix on […]
BTRC, the Belarusian national broadcaster, has announced that approximately 50 songs have been submitted for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Song submissions are down by around 50% from 2020, when 95 songs were submitted. It’s currently unknown whether BTRC will hold a national selection or an internal selection. […]