Let’s face it… the last 18 months have been anything but ordinary!! And in these strange times of COVID, social distancing and frantic hand washing, even Eurovision has undergone massive changes to ensure the event we know and love can go ahead. We all knew it was going […]
Hyvää iltaa Euroopassa ja hyvää huomenta Australiassa! This is Helsinki calling! Tonight we’ll discover who will be flying the flag at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 for Finland – it’s time for Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu! Sit back and relax, and let Eurovision Ireland’s own James Scanlan entertain and […]
Happy New Year! As it’s almost the first day of 2017 and we’re all thinking about the coming year, we here at Eurovision Ireland decided to kick off 2017 with our wish list of things we’d love to see at this year’s contest – now just 5 months […]
Sweden have announced their first Act that will compete at Melodifestivalen 2014. The band “EKO” today won the Swedish Radio Talent contest “Svensktoppen nästa” and have been awarded a place in the heats of Melodifestivalen 2014. Eight acts competed in the “Svensktoppen nästa” today. They represented different regions […]
We have been waiting for the breakdown of the Jury and Tele voting from Eurovision 2013 with much anticipation. This was the first year where the ranking system was employed by the EBU. The juries ranked the 26 countries from 1 to 26 in order of preference where […]
Moran Mazor has won Kdam 2013 with the song “Rak Bishvilo” and will represent Israel at Eurovision 2013. In the 50/50 Jury and Public vote, Moran jointly won the Jury vote and came second in the Public Vote. Both Mazor and Ron Weinreich received 64 points from the Jury. When […]
(Photograph Courtesy of oe3.orf.at) At the ripe old age of 17, Natália Kelly has won “Österreich Rockt Den Song Contest” aka the Austrian national final with the song Shine composed by Andreas Grass, Nikola Paryla, Alexander Kahr and Natália Kelly herself The voting was a 50/50 split between […]
(Photograph courtesy of RTVE) Spanish on-line voting has concluded and we can reveal that the 3rd song to compete in the Spanish national final will be “Atrévete”. It was the clear winner with almost 70% of the total vote. El Sueño de Morfeo who will represent Spain at […]
(Photograph Courtesy of MTV) Tonight another 6 acts made the final of the Hungarian National Selection (A-Dal). 3 were selected by the public and 3 by the jury. Gáspár Laci & Plastikhead – A szeretet él – jury choice Odett – Ne engedj el – jury choice Kállay […]
(Photo courtesy of eurovisionaz.com) Azerbaijan’s 2013 Eurovision entry took another step towards selecting their representative for Malmö. In the words of one of the songs that she performed in this week’s heat – Rəvanə Əliyeva had to “Hold on and Be Strong“. Yes the winner of this week’s Milli Seçim Turu shows […]