On Monday evening the first semi final of Armenia's selection show Depi Evratesil took place, and saw ten acts competing for five spots for Sunday's final. Although the show was well produced and well received by many, that quickly faded after the qualifiers were announced and Tamar Kaprelian, who represnted Armenia in 2015 with the group Genealogy failed to advance. And following a tweet sent out by Tamar shortly after the broadcast, many are questioning the validity of the

Beovizija, Serbia's national final for Eurovision 2018 took place tonight in Belgrade, with Sanja Ilić & Balkanika earning the right to represent Serbia at Eurovision 2018 in Lisbon with their song "Naša deca" (Our Children). This is the first time in three years that Serbia has hosted a national final, the last being in 2015 when Bojana Stamenov won "Odbrojavanje za Bec" (Countdown to Vienna) with "Ceo Svet Je Moj" (Beauty Never Lies). The show was hosted by Aleksandar Stoja

Earlier today, ESCPortugal brought us the news that unfortunately Beatriz Pessoa's qualification to the Final of Festival da Canção was withdrawn when RTP announced that a mistake had been made when allocating the points from the public after telephone voting. The 7 points that the young singer was given were supposed to go to Maria Amaral. As the mistake was corrected it meant that Beatriz Pessoa dropped down to eleventh place with 4 points and one place ahead was Rui David,

Last week we got to hear a snippet of all the 13 songs that competed yesterday in the first semi final of Festival da Canção. Now it is less than a week till the second semi final which means that it is time to hear a little teaser from the remaining 13 songs that will compete next Sunday for their place in the Grand Final on March 4th. RTP released the 45 second audio clips of each song earlier today and they can be heard on the main Youtube channel for Festival da Canção. C

Tonight the first semi final of Armenia's selection show Depi Evratesil took place and from the 10 semi finalists who took the stage, we know the five which qualified for the Saturday's final. The top five were selected through a combination of a jury and public televote, amongst the ten competitiors tonight was Tamar Kaprelian, who represented Armenia in 2015 as part of the group "Genealogy, but this year is trying to represent Armenia as a soloist, the five acts which quali

Last night was the fist semi-final of two of RTP's Festival da Canção 2018, Portugal's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. The show was televised from RTP's Studio 1 in Lisbon where 13 artists performed but only 7 were chosen forward to go to the Grand Final that will be on March 4th. The 7 artists qualifying to the Grand Final were Peu Madureira with 22 points, Janeiro with 16 points, Catarina Miranda with 16 points, Beatriz Pessoa with 11 points, Anabela wit

Tonight Televiziunea Română took us to the historic city of Sighișoara. There we heard the final 12 artists competing for the remaining 3 seats in the Grand Final of Selecția Națională. The judges were the same as in previous 4 semi finals, Liliana Ștefan, Viorel Gavrilă, Ilinca Băcilă, Nicu Patoi and Marian Ionescu and the hosts were the dynamic duo Diana Dumitrescu and Cezar Ouatu. After an amazing night and some really great acts the three lucky acts of the evening with mo

The third Baltic nation to broadcast their pre-selection show is Estonia, who opted for the traditional 'Eesti Laul' to find their representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. Tonight, they broadcast their second and final semi-final. Estonia's second semi-final consisted of ten singers, and songs, that all battled it out for a place in the grand final which is to be held on the 3rd March 2018. It will be a super Saturday indeed, as that date see's several other cou

In the previous weeks, Latvia have selected 5 candidates: two from semi-final 1, Edgars Kreilis, and Liene Greifane and three from semi-final 2. Madara and Ritvars were selected on the day of the show., but a few days later it was announced that there had been a mistake in the calculation of the votes and thus, Markus Riva was announced the runner-up of the show. To play fair, Supernova allowed Ritvars to participate in the final. Tonight, the third and last semi-final took p

Tonight, the second and final semi final took place as three more artists advanced to next weeks final, completing the lineup for the grand final of Vidbir 2018, the winner of which will go on to represent Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon. The nine competing acts were as follows: Ingret - "Save My Planet" Mélovin - "Under The Ladder" Julinoza - "Hto ya?" Tayanna - Lelya" Kadnay - "Beat Of The Universe" Yurcash - "Stop Killing Love" Mountain Breeze - "I See You