Denmark | Plans for National Final DMGP 2019 Revealed
We have another date for the diary! Danish broadcaster DR have revealed their plans for the Eurovision 2019 season - which will see popular National Selection process Dansk Melodi Grand Prix (DMGP) be used once again to select the Danish representative for the 2019 Contest. It will be the 49th edition of the competition which is also responsible for the three victories for Denmark to date at Eurovision, in 1963, 2000 and most recently 2013 with Emmelie de Forest. Can DMGP 201
Albania | Festivali i Këngës 57 Participants and Dates Announced
Eurovision fans can now officially rejoice! The past few years have seen the Albanian National Selection process - Festivali i Këngës - mark the start of National Final season and now national broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) have revealed the twenty-two participating artists in this years music festival which will span three nights - two semi finals (December 20th and 21st) and the grand final (December 22nd) and there are some familiar faces! Take a look at the
Australia | Details of National Final 'Eurovision: Australia Decides' Revealed
With rumours flying around the past few weeks about the chance of Australian broadcaster SBS choosing to use a National Selection process to find their Eurovision Song Contest 2019 song have been confirmed today with Australian media 'The Courier Mail' reporting that Australia's head of delegation Paul Clarke has released the first batch of information about the plans for a National Final - titled 'Eurovision: Australia Decides' - to take place on February 9th 2019. Following
JESC 2018 | Manw Will Represent Wales at Junior Eurovision 2018 in Minsk
This is Llandudno calling. Tonight saw Wales hold its first ever national final for the Junior Eurovision Song contest that saw Manw win. She will be present in Belarus, Minsk on November 25th to sing the song , "Hi Yw Y Berta" ("She's The Prettiest"). The show which is the first of its kind for Wales, means only Azerbaijan, Portugal, Poland, France, FYR Macedonia and Ireland are yet to decided their entries. Tonight the show was broadcast live on S4C, and was broadcast f
Romania | National Selection Will Consist Of Multi-City Tour
Romania seem already forward thinking in their plans for the 2019 Eurovision season. According to local reports in the Romanian press, the national broadcaster TVR is planning to host a multi- city national selection process. Despite not qualifying this year, it would seem that this has not put off TVR from following the same route, and continue to use the multi-city selection process. The paper, Monitoural de Sucaeva has already reported that the city of Sucaeva has alrea
Norway | Melodi Grand Prix 2019 Date Confirmed as March 2nd
NRK, the state broadcaster for Norway, has confirmed that the date for Norwegian National Selection 'Melodi Grand Prix' is March 2nd 2019. The National Final, which has been used as the selection process for Norway's Eurovision representative since 2003, see's 10 artists perform their potential entries live on Television before an international jury selects a number of the songs to progress to a Super Final. In this years competition, the super final was split into a silver r
Hungary | A Dal To Return As Selection Format
They've featured in the final every year since 2011, and are one of the last countries to confirm for Tel Aviv, but today MTVA announced Hungary will compete in Eurovision 2019 and in doing so announced a call for songs for A Dal 2019 - where the winner will represent Hungary in Israel. A Dal has been used as Hungary's selection format since 2012, and they have qualified every single year the format has been in place to select their entry, one of more unique national final fo
Sweden | 2295 Songs Submitted For Melodifestivalen 2019
It was recently revealed that the preparations for Melodifestivalen 2019 were in full swing. SVT had publically announced the dates, and cities for next years national final season. It has also been revealed that the open period for song submissions has also recently been closed. According to the website Scandipop a figure of 2295 songs have been submitted to SVT for Melodifestivalen 2019. Although not officially confirmed by the national broadcaster, this figure would sugg
Iceland | Söngvakeppnin Returns, With A Minor Change
Last week Iceland announced despite calls and rumours that the broadcaster would boycott the contest taking place in Israel that they will indeed compete, and today they have announced their selection format Söngvakeppnin will be used once more. RUV announced the semi finals will be taking place on February 9th and 16th, with the final taking place on March 2nd 2019, however this year only five songs will be taking part in each heat as opposed to the usual six per heat, this
UK 2019 | Tamar Kepralian Submits Entry To Eurovision: You Decide
Earlier today the United Kingdom announced that they shall be competing in Eurovision 2019 and shall be using the Eurovision:You Decide format once again to decide their entry, and it seems to have caught the attention of one ex-Eurovision artist already. Tamar Kaprelian. Those who are not sure of the name, Tamar is an 31 year-old singer who was born and lives in the United States but has Armenian nationality also, she represented Armenia in the 2015 contest with the super gr
