UMK, the competition to choose the Finnish entry for this year’s Eurovision Song contest, to be held in Basel, Switzerland has just taken place . After a hard fought battle, the International jury and public have decided and it’s ERIKA VIKMAN WITH THE SONG “ICH KOMME “ who […]
Hyvää iltaa Euroopassa ja hyvää huomenta Australiassa! It’s time for the 2023 edition of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu! Whoever wins tonight’s national selection will represent Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool this May!! Sit back and relax, and let Eurovision Ireland’s own James Scanlan entertain and inform you. […]
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 […]
What can we say about Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest? They waited for decades for their first win, but when they did it was with one of the most iconic acts ever and for a time also reigned as the contest’s highest scoring winner to date! Ever […]
The results of UMK are in! Flying the Finnish flag in the Netherlands this May will be Aksel Kankaanranta and his song Looking Back! Finland will need to earn their spot in Saturday’s final by battling their way out of the 2nd Semi Final on the 14th of […]
FINLAND: Live blog of UMK 2019 from 19.00 CET After three weeks of reveals, Finland picks which of Darude’s song will be flying the blue-and-white cross in Tel Aviv in May. Broadcaster Yleisradio is keeping things simple. Three songs by Darude and his pal Sebastian Rejman are in […]
#FINLAND: Saara Aalto to sing Monsters at Eurovision 2018 Finland (and an international jury) have decided to send ‘Monsters‘ to the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon. It won both the vote of both the international jury and the public vote. Here’s the winning song: Are you happy […]
#FINLAND: #AllAboard for the Live Blog of UMK at 18.00 CET Finnish broadcaster tonight chooses a song to represent Finland at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. As we already know, Saara Aalto will fly the flag. But which song will she take with her? Tonight we’ll see her […]
Back in November, Finnish broadcaster YLE announced that Saara Aalto would have the honour of representing Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest this May in Lisbon, and that her song would be selected through the usual selection channel, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu. As Saara has now released all her […]
Yesterday (December 28th) YLE — the national broadcaster for Finland — released the music videos from the ten artists that will compete to represent the Nordic nation at Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv. Their national final Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu will take place on January 28th and the winner will be chosen through a 50-50 televote-international […]