TVR – the Romanian Broadcaster – revealed today that 72 songs were submited to the National preselection for Eurovision 2018. You’ll recognize names like MIHAI (Romania 2006), Alex Florea (Romania 2017) and Xandra (Selectia Nationala 2016 & 2017) but there will be plenty of new faces. Composers/singers from […]
You all remember the “yodel” from this year performed by Ilinca Bacila and Alex Florea on the Eurovision stage in Kyiv. This time the Romanian singer proves that besides having great singing abilities, she has a warm heart as well. Together with the foundation “Dă mai departe” (Pass […]
After finding out last week the name of the winner of the first wildcard – Emma Sandström – today Giovanni Montalbano was announced the winner of the second wild card for San Marino’s 1 in 360 competition. His song “Fra le nuvole” (In the clouds) managed to reach 388,712 votes by the end of the second wildcard […]
She was one of the hot fan favourites to win Vidbir 2017 and represent Ukraine on home soil this year. But Tatyana Reshetnyak, better known by her stage name Tayanna was beaten into 2nd place by O.Torvald. But don’t despair! It’s been announced that Tayanna will return for […]
#AUSTRALIA: It’s Jessica Mauboy for Lisbon! Those early rumours of an Australian national final have proven unfounded, again. Broadcaster SBS has revealed that it will be sending Jessica Mauboy half way across the world to represent Australia in Lisbon. The fourth entrant for Australia has actually been on […]
#LATVIA: Details of Supernova 2018 Latvian broadcaster LTV has announced more details of its selection process for Lisbon. As in previous years, ‘Supernova’ will be the vehicle, and we know the 21 participating songs. We’ll get more details of the format soon, but here’s the list: Agnese Stengrevics […]
FINLAND: Hyvää syntymäpäivää Suomeen!! One of our more erstwhile countries who love Eurovision has today celebrated a big milestone. In 1917, Finland became an independent nation and has never looked back. Over the years, they’ve excelled in athletics, motor sport and ice hockey. Eurovision has had a somewhat […]
Earlier today the stage design for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 was exclusively revealed on Eurovision.tv! Florian Wieder, who was also responsible for the design of Kyiv’s Eurovision stage in 2017 claims his inspiration for Portugal’s first-ever Eurovision stage comes from 4 ideas – maps, the sea, navigation […]
You might remember Emma Sandström from UMK 2017 when she finished 3rd with the song “Circle of Light”. Emma decided to enter San Marino’s Eurovision selection process called “1 in 360” for a chance of getting a wild card and with that a spot in the final. In this first […]
Today Austria became the latest country to reveal their artist for Eurovision 2018. But who exactly is Cesár Sampson? Well luckily for all you readers out there, Eurovision Ireland’s resident graphics designer and native Austrian Sascha Frasz can tell you more about Austria’s Eurovision entrant for Lisbon! If […]