Posts by Giannis

Sanremo 2017 dates revealed

Today the first news regarding the 2017 Italian Sanremo festival was released. We now know the dates and the host, but not yet if Italy once again will give the winner of this famous festival the right to represent the country at next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Read more

ERT speaks out about Greek Eurovision 2016 failure

For the first time in the Eurovision history did Greece this year not qualify for the final of contest. As the responsible broadcaster ERT’s boss Mr Lambis Tagmatarchis spoke out about the selection of ARGO, and the criticism that followed the bad result in Stockholm. Read more

Voting running order and spokespeople revealed

As we are approaching the moment that the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 final will start, EBU revealed the voting running order as well as the 42 spokespersons that will announce the jury results and many of them are ex Eurovision participants. Austria will vote first, while the host country, Sweden, will close the voting. Read more

Minus One releases official Live performance video

Minus One presented Alter Ego live for the first time on the 26th of March – after adding visual effects the video is now online. Depite live performances from various preview events already being available, this is the official live video the band wanted to present. Read more

Marco Mengoni won two Tim OnStage Music Awards

Tim Onstage Music awards took place yesterday in Italy. Among the candidates were familiar names that represented Italy at Eurovision Song Contest in the past. Marco Mengoni was one of the big winners of the night, but also Francesca Michielin and Emma was nominated. Read more

Melodifestivalen 2016: Full voting results revealed

The swedish broadcaster SVT released the voting details for all six heats of the competition. Frans broke two records in Melodifestivalen. First he is the only artist that managed to get over 1 million votes in the two voting rounds combined and second that he won with the smallest amount of votes percentage wise, only 14,4% in the… Read more