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

Anna Filipchuk has been chosen to represent Russia at the upcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Belarus with her song "Nepobedimy" (Invincible). A total of 12 acts took part in the national final, held at the Artek Camp in Crimea, with Anna being declared the winner by a mix of 50% jury vote and 50% public online vote. The jury was made up of: Igor Krutoy, Ukrainian-Russian music composer, performer and producer Larisa Dolina, Azerbaijani-Russian singer and actress

Russian Broadcaster Channel One have today officially announced that Yulia Samoylova will be flying the flag for Russia at Eurovision 2018 in Lisbon. On the official website for Channel One, it appears that they have confirmed their participation via an official statement. Yulia has been posting on social media the last few weeks, especially on her official Facebook and Instagram accounts, hinting at a possible Eurovision participation, which led to many fans speculating whet

Russia has confirmed that they will be taking part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Minsk, Belarus. They have also confirmed on their official VK page for Junior Eurovision that they will be making changes to their selection process. More details on these changes are expected in the coming weeks. The 2018 Junior Eurovision in Minsk will be the 16th edition of the contest to date and it will also be the second time that Belarus is hosting the event, the first time

The last 4 countries of Junior Eurovision 2017 are getting ready to take to the stage for their first rehearsal. So let's see how they did. Polina Bogusevich from Russia was first up this afternoon and she definitely gave it her all! Polina seems to have re-created a house on stage with her, complete with dancers too, just like her music video. Polina has very impressive vocals and gave a very powerful and emotional performance of her song. Up next are Irina and Jana from Ser

It's been over four months since Portugal was crowned the winner of the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine and many Euro-Fans are still craving for more Eurovision. To quell our need for more Eurovision, we set out to find singers from all over Europe and Australia and compile them into a wish-list for the Eurovision Song Contest. Over this six part series we will travel from Norway to Australia, from Iceland to Portugal and from Finland to Italy in search of our

Dima Bilan, 2008 winner, and the public choice in 2016, Sergey Lazarev have deligthed eurofans with a new collaboration - ''Прости Меня'' (Forgive me). Both with huge successess and acomplishments indivdually, and both with large international fan-bases, Prosti Menya is the song which fans have been waiting for. It's a mid - tempo, pop ballad filled with emotion and pain in their voices, but don't be too hasty in judging the track until you have given it a full listen here. A

The national broadcaster of Belarus, BTRC, have begun their selection process for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017. All candidates who would like to take part have until 30th June to submit their song to the Belarussian broadcaster. Once submitted, a jury will listen to all of the songs and decide which songs will make it to the live national final, where the winner will be decided by a combination of jury and televotes. In Russia, 21 songs have been selected to compet

When Ukraine first entered the Eurovision Song Contest in 2003 with Oleksandr Ponomoryov's entry "Hasta La Vista", very few could have predicted Ukraine's success at the competition. They have made thirteen appearances, two wins, eight top ten places, and have never come lower than nineteenth position. For a relatively new comer, this country has certainly been successful, and left its mark on Eurovision history. With great success has also come to volition a rather turbulen

After weeks of battles between the host broadcaster, EBU and Channel 1, the decision has been made about the Russian singer Yulia Samoylova in this year's event. After the reveal of the Russian singer, a rumor emerged about Yulia being banned. Later, this rumor became a reality because the Ukrainian government found out that the Russian singer broke the Ukrainian laws by performing in Crimea. Different solutions were proposed in order for Yulia to participate in this year's E