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 […]
Dobriy vechir! Kiev calling! First there were 17, then 6… but only one can take that all important ticket to Stockholm! Yes! It’s the Ukrainian National Final! Tonight the 6 finalists chosen from the 2 exciting semi-finals will sing their hearts out for the chance to represent Ukraine […]
Is Nicky Byrne Eastern European Bound? The Ukrainian national final for Eurovision 2016 is tomorrow. The show is hotly contested and has gained a lot of international attention. We know that there will be special guests on hand who will be performing. It is widely rumoured that a […]
Lithuania: Right, pay attention at the back, because this gets complicated. As you may already be aware, the Lithuanians never like to do anything simple at this game. This year they’ve decided to divide their selection process into two halves – those with songs and those without. The […]
BELGIUM – Tonight you can follow our Live Blog Here of the Belgian Semi Final in Eurosong as they search for their entry for Eurovision 2016. The 5 Acts will performed stripped back versions of their potential Eurovision entries. We heard clips of them recently – SEE HERE […]
GERMANY – It seems as if nothing is going right for the German National selection since last year’s drama that saw Ann Sophie go to Vienna by default – SEE HERE. Then there was the selection and then deselection of Xavier Naidoo as Germany’s entrant for 2016. Now it […]
(Photograph Courtesy of www.topromanesc.ro) Tonight the first semi-final of “Selecţia naţională” will take place in Romania. Sixteen acts will fight it out for 6 places in the National Final on 9 March. Hosting the show will be Paula Seling & Ovi (Romanian Eurovision 2010 Representatives), Andreea Bănică (Romanian Singer) and Marius Rizea(Actor) The 6 finalists will […]