Eurovision 2020 | 'Universo' is the Spanish song for Rotterdam
'Universo' is Blas Cantó's song for Eurovision 2020. This song has been chosen internally by Spanish public broadcaster (RTVE), and it has been composed and designed to highlight his vocal skills. The title of the song was announced this morning on social media. After two and a half hours creating excitement through a thread on Twitter, RTVE finally announced the title of the song through TikTok. This way of announcing only the title of the song has been criticized by fans an
Denmark | Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2020 semi final songs revealed
The first nine singers and songs that will take part in Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2020 have been revealed today. All of these songs will be competing in a radio semi final, where five of them will advance to the live grand final. All of the songs have been divided into three groups of three songs. One song from each group will advance to the final via public voting. The remaining six acts will have the chance to make it to the final via jury voting, with a jury panel choosing t
Moldova | TRM received 36 songs for national selection
Moldovan Broadcaster TRM announced this afternoon that they have received 36 songs for O Melodie Pentru Europa 2020. There are several returning performers among the line-up, including: Pasha Parfeny (2012), Geta Burlacu (2008), and Natalia Gordienko (2006). Whilst some of the songs are already available on YouTube, the majority of the songs have not been released yet. The competing artists for O Melodie Pentru Europa are as follows: Che-MD feat Irina Revenco – Adio Maria Cio
Martin Österdahl is the new Executive Supervisor for Eurovision
Martin Österdahl has been confirmed as the new Executive Supervisor for The Eurovision Song Contest. He will take over from Jon Ola Sand from Eurovision 2021 onwards. Martin is not a new face to Eurovision, having had previous experience as Executive Supervisor for Eurovision 2013 and 2016, when they were held in Malmo and Stockholm respectively. He has also been a member of the reference group between 2012 and 2018. Director of media for the EBU, Jean Philip De Tender and Ch
Eurovision 2020 | Artist names for Vidbir revealed
Ukraine’s broadcaster STB has revealed the names of this years participants for Vidbir, the national selection for Ukraine.
16 participants will be competing in total and the voting will be both public and jury. 7 of them previously participated in The Voice of Ukraine and The Voice of Ukraine, Elina Ivashenko, Katya Chilly, Khayat and David Axelroad being part of Tina Karol's team. The jury for the 2020 edition of Vidbir will consist of 3 members: Andrii Danylko who repres
Lithuania | Pabandom iš naujo 2020 heat 2 results are in!
The second heat of Lithuania's newly branded national final, Pabandom iš naujo, has come to a close, and we now know the six acts who have qualified to the final. The results were decided by 50% televoting and 50% jury voting. There were a total of five members on the jury panel tonight, who are all musicians, some of whom with a Eurovision background. Aistė Smilgevičiūtė (1999); Darius Užkuraitis; Gerūta Griniūtė; Jievaras Jasinskis (2010 as part of InCulto) and Victor Diawa
Slovenia l Parvani Violet and Saška are through to the final of EMA 2020
Today is the final day for EMA FREŠ, the day that many of us have been waiting for. The final was televised on RTV1 this evening. 10 entries have performed in the hope to get a place in the final of EMA, which is the destination to get one step closer to representing Slovenia in Rotterdam in May. During a 5 week long process with an online contest that was held by RTVSLO in Autumn of last year, people got the opportunity to vote for their favourite acts in daily and weekly du
Norway | Rein Alexander Alexander wins the second semifinal of Melodi Grand Prix 2020
Tonight was the second semi final of Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix in Oslo. Just like last week, four artists competed against each other in two duels. When it came time to the Gold Duel, it was Rein Alexander against Kim and Maria, with Rein winning his spot in the Melodi Grand Prix final. He joins semi final 1 winner, Raylee in the final line-up, along with the pre-qualified acts. In the first phase of the night, Kim Wigaard & Maria Mohn won against Tone Petterson, whilst Rei
Portugal | Listen to the Festival da Canção 2020 entries!
RTP, the Potuguese national broadcaster has today, released the songs due to compete in the 54th edition of Festival da Canção. You can listen to them here: 'Passe-Partout' by Bárbara Tinoco 'Rebellion' by Blasted 'Quero-te abraçar' (I want to hold you) by Cláudio Frank 'Cegueira' (Blindness) by Dubio feat. +351 'Medo de sentir' (Fear of feeling) by Elisa 'Não voltes mais' (Don't come back anymore) by Elisa Rodrigues 'Gerbera amarela do Sul' (Yellow gerbera of the South) by F
Eurovision 2020 | It's Tom Leeb for France
The French broadcaster France Télévisions have just announced they have chosen the 30 year singer, actor and comedian, Tom Leeb, to be France's representative in Rotterdam this coming May. The song will be released in the coming weeks by the broadcaster. In a statement about him being chosen, he has said "The Eurovision Song Contest is an iconic and unifying event. I am so proud of representing France and I can't wait to live this experience with you all." Tom is relatively n
