Posts by Charlotte

Plagiarism accusations towards “Disappear”

German media are accusing songwriter Remee of having “stolen” his song from a German talent show. Remee turns it the other way around by stating that his song was written first. It came as quite a surprise for the Danish songwriter, Remee, that he won the German national final as, previously reported here on EuroVisionary,… Read more

It’s Dima time again!

After winning the 2008 Russian national final Dima Bilan is in for a rematch. He came second in 2006 with the song Never Let You Go – will he make it this time? 26-year-old Dima Bilan is a well-known name among Eurovision fans as he almost managed to give Russia its first victory in 2006.… Read more

“Androla” crashed in Swedish drama

Nordman and Sibel won the Swedish second chance round, but all spotlights are targeting Carola Häggkvist. How did she go from being queen of Melodifestival to being near humiliated and having a glorious career thrown in pieces? Two songs managed to beat their opponents in the direct shootout duels in the Swedish second chance round… Read more

Winning songwriter didn’t know he had sent in songs

Danish songwriter and x-factor judge, Remee was a bit more surprised than normal after winning the German final. Reason: He didn’t know he had sent in songs for the 2008 German selection – and that he even had two songs in the final! As EuroVisionary has previously reported Remee could have had his Eurovision debut… Read more

No Angels in Belgrade

Tonight the German population decided who will be representing them at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. They went for the female band No Angels and their song Disappear. No Angels consist of the four girls; Nadja Bernaissa, Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Mölling and Jessica Wahls and was originally founded as a quintet back in 2000 for… Read more

Live: Grand Prix Vorentscheid 2008

Last year Roger Cicero ended 19th in the final. Tonight five names will compete for the chance to prove that they can do better than that in Belgrade in May. 20:16:53 – The show has just started, we will be updating you as the show continues. You can watch the show via the link in… Read more

Tonight: German final

Last year Roger Cicero ended 19th out of a total of 24 participating countries in the final. Tonight five names will compete for the chance to prove that they can do better than that in Belgrade in May. The participants in the 2008 German national final are the two pop groups No Angels and Marquess,… Read more

Odds on Swedish second chance and final

If NordicBets odds are to be trusted Carola Häggkvist and Andreas Johnson will qualify for the final in Globen via the Second chance round. Ola and Sibel will be fighting for the second spot, but Charlotte Perrelli or Sanna Nielsen will win the final. On Saturday eight songs will compete in the so called second… Read more

Old and new Eurovision blood on top in Norway

Maria Haukaas Storeng who is representing Norway in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest is selling well in Norway, something she has in common with Jahn Teigen who has represented the country three times. The single top 20 in Norway is based on actual sales and Maria Haukaas Storeng’s winning song Hold on, be strong is… Read more

Press release from TVR

A couple of days ago EuroVisionary closed the case regarding all the accusations of plaigiarism and breaking of rules from Romania. TVR seems to do the same in their latest press release. EuroVisionary has translated this to English. Translation of press release from TVR: After numerous attempts to discredit the fairness of the contest, numerous… Read more

Video news / 28th february 2008

Our news update from the 28th of February 2008. Featuring pre selection songs from Finland and Sweden plus selected songs from Bulgaria, Iceland, Ukraine, Israel, Ireland, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Poland, Romania and Greece. Read more

Spanish song disqualified

The selection in Spain has been hit by its first official scandal as one of the ten songs selected for the final has been disqualified. Fans are asking will this be the only one? Fans have been reporting about plagiarism, voting fraud, songs being too political and now a chosen song has been kicked out… Read more

Will Spain save Eurovision?

In an attempt to “save” the Eurovision Song Contest, Spain is this year using a different format where the public have had the chance to vote on more than 530 songs. Ten of these have now qualified for the final held on 8th of March. The selection process Salvemos Eurovisión (Let’s Save Eurovision) might be… Read more

2008pl Isis Gee – For Life

Isis Gee will be representing Poland at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade.This is the music video for her entry called For Life. hhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgtsjKlmRSE Read more

Greece ready for national final

Tomorrow evening the Greek population will pick the entry that will represent the country in Belgrade. You can see the promotion videos of the three songs that are competing in the show, that features four of the songs the winner will be up against in May. The show will be presented by Betty and Mathilde… Read more

UCMR-ADA: Pe-o margine de lume is not plagiarism

As previously reported TVR would look closer into the matter regarding plagiarism accusations towards the Romanian winning entry. A special meeting held today has now ended and the result from the committee: Pe-o margine de lume is not plagiarism. Fans might be accusing TVR of not being objective, but in order to meet those accusations… Read more