PORTUGAL: Festival da Canção gives us four more finalists The people of Portugal have picked four more songs to compete in next weeks Grand Final of Festival da Canção in Portimão. They join the four picked a week ago. What are the four songs? Igual a ti by […]
UKRAINE: Maruv wins Vidbir 2019 Ukraine has chosen! Maruv will represent her country at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv with Siren song. She won the televote and was second in the jury vote. Here’s the winning song: Do you like what Ukraine’s chosen? Does it […]
PORTUGAL: Live blog of Festival da Canção semi-final two from 22.05 CET In Portugal, we’ll be a little closer knowing who’ll be brandishing the golden ticket. The second semi-final of Festival da Canção will see four songs out of eight progressing to next week’s grand Final in Portimão. […]
UKRAINE: Live blog of Vidbir 2019 Final from 18.00 CET Ukraine has been quietly moving through semi-finals to select an entry for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. Tonight is the big final. Six acts will compete for the golden ticket to Tel Aviv. You know how things work. […]
EDITORIAL: How do you pick a song? Don’t worry, we’re not using a certain Norwegian in this editorial, as we know small children sometimes read our work. You may have read around the Internet about the selection processes of certain countries. We at EI think this needs to […]
FRA: Destination Eurovision Semi-final Two One semi-final down, one to go. As you may have seen from last Saturday, four will make it through to final of Destination Eurovision (DE) on Saturday 26 January. You’ll be able to follow all of the action on France 2, TV5Monde and […]
FRA: Live Blog of Destination Eurovision from 2100 CET So here we are. France is getting the January 2019 national finals going with the first of two semi-finals. Tonight we’ll see nine songs competing for four places in the Final on 26 January. We’re blogging the show for […]
#FRANCE: Blog of the Final of Destination Eurovision! #AllAboard It’s National Final time! And it’s a long time since we’ve been able to say that for France. After two weeks of semi-finals, the eight lucky songs are back to compete for that all important ticket to sunny […]
#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 […]
#UK: Details revealed of Eurovision Your Decision 2018 The UK’s broadcaster, the BBC, has today revealed that it is again going down the route of a national final, and this will happen on Wednesday 7 February 2018 on BBC2. It’s not coming from London, but this year has […]