Building on the success of our Best of the Big 5 series, Eurovision Ireland is broadening its search for your favourite entries from countries across the continent, spanning the contest’s entire back catalogue – starting with Ireland! You’ve gone through decades worth of songs, choosing your 20 finalists. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Zlata Ognevich from Ukraine is 35 today It’s only right that politics shouldn’t really play a part in our favourite TV show. They often almost mix, but thankfully it’s mainly kept a lid on. However, the odd singer here and there has dabbled in politics. One such […]
Over the last couple of months, Eurovision Ireland have been looking for your all time favourite songs from the Big 5 members of the Eurovision Song Contest, and also Ireland. Each month, we run semi finals, a final and then reveal the results on a live video through […]
Welcome to our first country-specific #AtoZ series. During the National Final season, we will look at a different country alphabetically each week. This week, we are looking at Norway and today we are looking at F-I… Fairytale “Fairytale” is the most recent winning Norwegian entry – from back […]
#BIRTHDAY: Muriel Day from Ireland is 79 today Ireland. Home of seven wins of our favourite TV show. Is that eighth one just around the corner? Well, anyone can win, even if a certain other country is only one win behind. Delving into Ireland’s history, in 1969 they […]
Welcome to our first country-specific #AtoZ series. During the National Final season, we will look at a different country alphabetically each week. This week, we are looking at Norway and today we are looking at A-E… Alexander Rybak Alexander Rybak took Norway’s third victory in 2009 with “Fairytale”. […]
This morning, the first Semi Final artists, along with the automatic Finalists have been announced. The first Semi Finalists and their songs are: Stina Talling “Elevate” Jorn “Fate Bloody Faith” Blåsemafian “Let Loose” Beady Belle “Playing With Fire” The automatic Finalists have also been announced. Each Finalist will […]
#BIRTHDAY: Samira Bensaïd from Morocco is 63 today If you were the only person ever to represent your country, how would you feel? Would you want your country to send participate again, which would sully your unique record? Or would you be happy that you’re unique? There is […]
The format, jury and location for Eurovision France, c’est vous qui décidez! has been announced. After all twelve acts have performed, a public vote will save seven of the acts, while the jury will save one further act. The eight acts will then face the vote again, where […]
Croatian media have announced that HRT have decided against allowing an audience to attend Dora 2021 on Saturday 13th February – due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Croatia have joined a number of countries who are holding national selections behind closed doors this season. They include Albania, Denmark, […]
Two days before Christmas, the following 23 acts were announced to be taking part in Pabandom iš naujo! 2021: Aistė Brokenleg Aldegunda Be U Group Black Spikes with Indre Launikonyte Donata Virbilaitė Evelina Sašenko Evita Cololo Gabrielė Goštautaitė Gabrielius Vagelis Gebrasy (Audrius Petrauskas) Gintarė Korsakaitė Martyna Jezepčikaitė Milita […]
This week see’s the return of the week-in, week-out National Final marathon season! This week has two shows, as well as song and artist announcements… Monday 11th January Norway – Semi Final 1 Songs & Artists Announcement (11:10 GMT/12:10 CET) Wednesday 13th January Finland – UMK21 Artists Announcement […]
#BIRTHDAY: Aminata from Latvia is 28 today Does it ever pique your interest when you see someone with a noteworthy name taking part in our favourite TV show? They could be a native of their country, but have an interesting ancestry. Today’s birthday girl Aminata Savidogo is one […]
Efendi, the Azeri artist that was supposed to represent the nation at the cancelled 2020 Eurovision Song Contest, will be back for the 2021 Contest in Rotterdam. The search for songs by Ictimai TV, the Azeri broadcaster, has opened and will continue until Tuesday 19th January. Songs can […]
The song that Dadi Freyr will br representing Iceland with at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, will be revealed by RUV, the Icelandic national broadcaster, in March, ahead of the Heads of Delegation meeting. As part of his entry, Dadi is asking you to form part of a […]