Eurovision 2020 l Finland chooses Aksel with "Looking Back"
Tonight was the final of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, Finland's national selection to find a song and artist to represent them at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The final featured six contestants that competed for the opportunity to represent the Nordic country with their original songs. After two years of having an internally selected artist perform multiple songs in the national selection, the Finnish broeadcaster YLE have returned to the origina
Eurovision 2020 | Cyprus releases 'Running' by Sandro Nicolas
The Mediterranean country has published the song that Sandro will sing in Rotterdam. An emotional song very different to the last Cypriot en
Eurovision 2020 l Victoria will sing "Tears Getting Sober" for Bulgaria
(Source: ESVLV97 on Youtube) Victoria Georgieva, who has taken the ticket for Bulgaria to compete in Rotterdam for this years edition of Eurovision Song Contest, has released her song "Tears Getting Sober" alongside an emotional music video. Her song was released on the Bulgerian television channel BNT1 at 9am CET. The song is about acknowledge mental health issues and talking about how you feel about being on the lowest point in your life. Composers of the song is herself to
Eurovision 2020 l San Marino chooses former contestant Senhit
It's Senhit for San Marino! This little micro state have been a very sneaky one this year about who is going to represent them in Rotterdam for Eurovision Song Contest. They decided to choose the rumoured artist Senhit that has competed for San Marino in 2011 with the song "Stand By". The San Marinese broadcaster SMRTV have decided to have a selection online starting tomorrow on Senhit's website. The songs you can vote for are "Freaky!" and "Obsessed". From tomorrow Saturday
Junior Eurovision 2020 | The contest comes back to Poland as they host for a second time
It has been confirmed that Poland will once again play host to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest! This will be the first time in Junior Eurovision history that the same country will host the contest two years in a row. Jacek Kurski, President of Polish broadcaster TVP has spoken out: "Polish Television is honoured to once again embark on this wonderful adventure and to organize this global event. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest is also important because it gives young per
Eurovision 2020 | Lesley Roy will sing 'Story Of My Life' for Ireland
After many months of silence, we finally have Ireland's entry for Eurovision 2020! Dublin based singer songwriter Lesley Roy will sing 'Story Of My Life' in the first half of the first semi final. The song was revealed on RTE's 2FM Breakfast Show with Doireann and Eoghan. Lesley is expected to give her first live performance of the song tonight at popular Dublin nightclub, The George. Talking about her song, Lesley has said: “We wanted something uptempo and triumphant, which
Eurovision 2020 | Vincent Bueno has released 'Alive'
Vincent Bueno, who will fly the Austrian flag at this years Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam, has released his song and accompanying music video for 'Alive'. His song was premiered on Hitradio Ö3, which has previously premiered the likes of Cesar Sampson's 'Nobody But You' in 2018. Upon the release of his song, Vincent spoke to Eurovision.tv about it: "The song itself has undergone massive evolution and got a good push in the final sprint. I worked with very young produce
#throwbackthursday | Countries of the past - part two
Several weeks ago we had a look on 4 countries that participated in the past, but not in 2020. Now we will take a look at the 5 remaining countries. Turkey: Turkey Participated 34 times between 1975 and 2012, and they won the contest once, in 2003, when singer Sertab Erener sang her song ‘Everyway that I can’, bringing the 2004 contest to Istanbul. Turkey came close to victory in 1997 and 2010, placing 3rd and 2nd respectively. In 2012 the country made their last appearance w
Denmark l Running order for Dansk Melodi Grand Prix has been revealed
(Source: Schlagerpinglan) Soon it will be the season for Eurovision 2020 national selections to end. One of the three northern countries left, that is going have a national final is Denmark. Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2020 is finally going to happen on the last "Super Saturday" this weekend, where several countries are going to choose their representative for this year's edition of Eurovision Song Contest. This years is very special for the Danish people. They are going to witne
Switzerland | It's Gjon's Tears for Switzerland with "Répondez-moi"
After much speculation, the Swiss national broadcaster has finally revealed that Gjon's Tears will be representing Switzerland in Rotterdam in May. He will be singing the song "Repondez-moi", marking the first time in 10 years where the country has sent a song to the contest in French. Gjon's Tears, real name Gjon Muharremaj, is a 21 year old Swiss artist with Albanian-Kosovar heritage. He has previously took part in Albania's Got Talent when he was 12 years old, took part in
