Ictimai, the Azerbaijani national broadcaster, have extended their song submissions for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, in Liverpool. More than 200 songs were submitted by the original song submission deadline of December 31st, however this has been extended to January 15th. According to the Azerbaijani Head of Delegation, […]
iTV, the Azerbaijani national broadcaster, has confirmed that over 200 songs have been submitted for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, in Liverpool. Vasif Mammadov, the Azerbaijani Head of Delegation, had the following to say: “Our goal and desire with this is to have local composer’s music featured in […]
#BIRTHDAY: Səbinə Babayeva from Azerbaijan is 43 today It’s time for another one of our home entrants today. That poisoned chalice of wanting to win on your home turf, but not wanting to bankrupt your country. What do you do? Today’s birthday girl Səbinə Babayeva had that dilemma […]
#BIRTHDAY: Samra from Azerbaijan is 28 today We’ve got a birthday today for one of our friends from Azerbaijan. As you’ll know, they won once and would love to win again. They tend to use non-Azerbaijani songwriters, but that hasn’t held them back. That might be why they […]
Ictimai, the Azeri national broadcaster, have denied a non-participation at the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, in the United Kingdom. Rumours of a non-participation is due to a lack of the Eurovision Song Contest been mentioned in the new season programming publication. Alasgar Valiyev, Deputy Chief of Staff of […]
#BIRTHDAY: Aisel from Azerbaijan is 33 today When your country has a good record in our favourite TV show, it puts extra pressure on performers to keep up this tradition. But there will come a time when that country will do badly. In 2018, our friends in Azerbaijan […]
This afternoon, the European Broadcasting Union released a statement surrounding the voting irregularities of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania & San Marino. The statement can be seen below: “This year’s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) was an enormous success in bringing hundreds of millions of people across the world […]
It’s always one of our most read articles of the year! You loved it when we covered this in 2018, 2019, and 2021, so it’s time to crunch the numbers again for 2022! With the semi finals done for another year, it’s time to check in and see whose qualification […]
Tonight all the fun of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 continues with the Second Semi Final, coming to the world live from breath-taking Turin, Italy at 21:00PM CET (make sure you check your local listings to find out where you can watch!) With only 10 spots left in the final, […]
Buona Sera Europa , Buongiorno Australia! After all the excitement of last night’s First Semi Final, the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 continues with the Jury Show for Semi Final 2! Tonight at Turin’s PalaOlimpico, the 18 countries taking part in the 2nd Semi Final will perform their entries […]
As much as we love the Eurovision Song Contest, there is something in the old adage that some things just don’t translate very well. In a musical coming together of different countries and cultures, what sounds poetic and elegant in one language might not quite have the same […]
#BIRTHDAY: Aysel from Azerbaijan is 33 today Do you have an all-time favourite duo? Is it one of those pairing that achieve notoriety, like a certain Belgian twosome from 1973? Or someone a lot more recent like two Spaniards in 2018? Either way, we love duets as they […]
#ESC2022: Eurovision Ireland reviews… Part VI We at Eurovision Ireland have taken a look at the songs participating in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest (plus one other). In seven reviews, we pick apart the songs, and see if we can find our favourite. You can find some of […]
#BIRTHDAY: Efendi from Azerbaijan is 31 today It was in 2020 when things changed. That contest we were all looking forward to in Rotterdam was almost upon us, and then it got cancelled. Luckily, for many of the acts chosen, they got a free pass to 2021 when […]
iTV, the Azeri national broadcaster, has revealed Nadir Rustamli’s song for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin. You can watch the official video of ‘Fade to Black’ below: Let us know what you think about Azerbaijan and the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest – either in the comments […]