Let’s face it, for all the complaining that the Big 5 have it easy at the Eurovision Song Contest, it’s actually not so glamourous. Sure they get an automatic spot in the final, but for many years this didn’t translate into placing on the scoreboard! In this new […]
Next year in Rotterdam, the same 41 participating countries that were due to participate in 2020, will all return once again. There will be no debuting or returning countries to the line-up. A reminder of the line-up can be seen here: Executive Producer of the 2021 Eurovision Song […]
Let’s face it, for all the complaining that the Big 5 have it easy at the Eurovision Song Contest, it’s actually not so glamourous. Sure they get an automatic spot in the final, but for many years this didn’t translate into placing on the scoreboard! In this new […]
The Grand Final of next year’s Melodi Grand Prix will take place on Saturday 20th February, NRK, the Norwegian national broadcaster has confirmed. The first of five Semi Finals will commence on Saturday 16th January. All six shows will take place at the H3 Arena in 2021, where […]
RTCG, the Montenegrin national broadcaster, has confirmed to ESCToday that they will not be returning to the Eurovision Song Contest next year. Montenegro has previously stayed away from the Contest for two consecutive years – that was in 2010, when the Contest was held in Oslo and 2011, […]
In the penultimate edition of our Best of the Big 5 series, we asked you who is your all time Eurovision favourite from France – and the results are in! You’ve made your choices from each and every French Eurovision song to date and chose 20 finalists – […]
Bosnia & Herzegovina will continue their absence from the Eurovision Song Contest in 2021 due to financial constraints. BHRT, the Bosnian national broadcaster, told ESCToday the following: “We will not participate at the forthcoming 2021 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam due to ongoing financial hurdle the broadcaster is facing.” […]
All six shows for next year’s Melodifestivalen will take place from the same venue in Stockholm – SVT has just announced. 2021 was due to be the twentieth anniversary tour for the Contest. Anette Helenius, the Project Manager for Melodifestivalen, had the following to say: “An intermediate tour […]
Uku Suviste has reunited with Dimitris Kontopoulos and Sharon Vaughn, the winning team behind his entry “What Love Is”, to record his entry for Eesti Laul 2021. Uku has an automatic semi final spot in Eesti Laul 2021 due to ERR holding the annual national selection. The automatic […]
It has been confirmed that the Ariston Theatre will have an audience for Sanremo 2021. It is still to be decided exactly how many audience members and journalists will be allowed to attend the event next March. Those attending will have swabs taken at the beginning of the […]