Yesterday the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Israeli national broadcaster KAN made the announcement fans had been waiting on for months - the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest will be hosted in Tel Aviv with the shows falling on May 14th, 16th and 18th. The site for the competition was also announced as the Tel Aviv Convention Centre which has a capacity of 9,000. However this morning large newspaper 'Israel Hayom', which has the largest daily circulation of all print media

After weeks of speculation over whether the Eurovision Song Contest will be going to Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, this morning the EBU published a video on to YouTube confirming that Eurovision 2019 will be held in Tel Aviv! Executive supervisor for the Eurovision Song Contest Jon Ola Sand confirmed today that the contest will be hosted in Tel Aviv at the International Convention Centre. This is the first time that the contest will be held in this city. In addition to the host city

Earlier this summer, the Dutch powerhouse Glennis Grace impressed American audiences with her incredible rendition of Whitney Houston's 'Run To You'. Two weeks ago in the quarter finals, she did it again with a breathtaking performance of 'Never Enough' from The Greatest Showman and just when we thought she couldn't outdo herself, this week Glennis performed in the Semi Finals of America's Got Talent Season 13, performing 'This Woman's Work' by Kate Bush. Last night, after wi

It's one of Swedens' biggest shows in the broadcaster calendar and today SVT announced released the dates and the cities Melodifestivalen will be hosted in for 2019. The competition, as in recent years will commence over the first weekend in February with the final taking place in the second weekend of March, the cities and dates for the 2019 edition are: February 2nd - Gothenburg February 9th - Malmö February 16th - Leksand February 23rd - Lidköping March 2nd - Nyköping Marc

After Israel won Eurovision 2018 back in May with 'Toy' by Netta, there was some initial controversy over calls to boycott the contest if it were to be hosted in Israel. On Friday, in a letter posted to The Guardian, it was revealed that 140 artists, broadcasters, musicians and actors signed a petition in support of Palestinian calls to boycott the contest next year due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. In light of this, Jan Lagermand Lundme, Danish entert

Thirteen years ago, songstress Glennis Grace represented the Netherlands at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest and despite her soulful ballad 'My Impossible Dream' being expected to do well the powerhouse vocalist narrowly failed to make the finals of the contest finishing fourteenth out of twenty five. However Glennis has definitely had the last laugh as earlier this year she auditioned for season thirteen of America's Got Talent and wowed audiences with her performance of Whi

For second year in row France will choose their Eurovision representative trough national final titled Destination Eurovision. Yesterday French Television held a press conference, where Caroline Got, the director of the France 2, revealed more details about 2019 edition of Destination Eurovision. Here are the main changes of the next year edition: - All 3 shows will be transmitted live. In 2018 semifinals were pre-recorded - There will have changes in the jury members. Furth

This week marks the nineteenth edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians contest, hosted in Edinburgh. Over the weekend eighteen young musicians from all across Europe represented their country by performing in one of six semi finals - in a bid to advance to the grand final on Thursday 23rd August 2018. We heard an eclectic range of sounds and performances, from violins to saxophones and guitars to the harp. The juries have voted and the confirmed finalists, in alphabetical c

German broadcaster NDR has wasted no time in unveiling their plans for their national selection for Eurovision 2019. After several years of disappointing results for Germany, with the 'Big 5' member not being able to escape the bottom of the scoreboard, in Lisbon singer-songwriter Michael Schulte managed to take Germany to the left hand side of the scoreboard finishing in an impressive 4th place - scoring 340 points. Following a few years of format changes it appears that NDR

Earlier this year Aisel represented Azerbaijan in the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with her pop track 'X My Heart' and now she is back with her new release titled 'More Emotion'. Straying from her recent pop performance, her new single incorporates her sultry jazz and soul roots, overlaying this with a melodic house music beat. The song, which oozes class, was both composed and written by Aisel herself before being produced by Azerbaijani producer STKHA with the music video,