With Adelén, Sirkus Eliassen and Gaute bagging the final three spots in the Norwegian final this coming Saturday, there was one space left reserved for NRK’s wildcard. You can imagine the scenes of jubilation, when NRK contacted the act in question yesterday evening. Saturday’s final semi-final from Larvik saw 16 year old Adelén sweep all… Read more
Iceland was the latest country to select its entry mere minutes ago, in a final with seven strong candidates and just as many potential winners. Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson was the final choice to carry on a proud Eurovision tradition and defend the Icelandic honour in Malmö. Gott kvöld, Ísland! The road to the Icelandic final… Read more
Tomorrow, Iceland will select it’s 27th representative at the Eurovision Song Contest. The intial line up consisted of twelve contenders, featuring no fewer than two former entrants and four Söngvakeppni veterans. From a total of 240 submitted entries, only seven remain, fighting for the honour of representing their country in Malmö later this year. Last weekend… Read more
With two heats already over, and four of the spots in the final already occupied by strong contenders, the heat is on as the temperature rises with six acts battling it out for the last remaining spots in the final that are up for grabs. Eurovisionary tuned in to see just what was on offer… Read more
Saturday sees the last semi final from Larvik, before the grand final in Oslo Spektrum the following Saturday. Will the brothers in Sirkus Eliassen manage to mobilize all of the fans that bought their last few hits? Or will the goth group Gothtastic pull out all the stops and give us a spectacular stage show… Read more
With the third and final heat of Melodi Grand Prix to take place on Saturday in Larvik, NRK announced the final seven contenders for the last few spaces in the final tonight. Following a rather mixed response to the winner of the first heat. Gromth & Emil Solli-Tangen, Margaret Berger win last week met with… Read more
Popular Swedish artist Peter Jöback has entered Melodifestivalen on two previous occasions, and in his home country, his career has gone from strength to strength. He has built a reputation for himself as one of Sweden’s premier musical stars, and is soon to become historic. Artist Peter Jöback‘s major breakthrough came with the musical hit… Read more
Following the changes made by RÚV to the Söngvakeppnin format, tonight saw the second heat of the national selection take place. Last night’s preliminary heats saw some major upsets, with both Magni and Jóhanna failing to bag one of the three spots in the final. Last night’s preliminary heats saw some major upsets, with both… Read more
Icelandic broadcaster RÚV has now revealed all participants competing in this Saturday’s second heat of Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins. With both firm favourites and relative newcomers to the scene featured in the line up, Eurovisionary invites you to take a closer look and to get to know those taking part a little better. You might find the background information… Read more
This year’s Icelandic selection, Söngvakeppnin 2013 finally got underway tonight and what a way to start proceedings! A number of big names lining up to participate, practically guaranteed a fantastic show for fans, but how would the public decide? Tonight’s was the first and without doubt the most difficult of the two semis this weekend, with… Read more
This week’s batch of artists failed to match last week’s in the big name stakes, with only Margaret Berger and Hank being semi known to the general public. The bigger names were to be found among the songwriters, including Alexander Rybak and Bjørn Johan Muri. With the second heat only two days away, Eurovisionary invites… Read more
With the second heat of Melodi Grand Prix from Florø rapidly approaching, it was time once more for NRK to announce the second batch of contenders in this year’s selection. Would they manage to come up with an equally eclectic mix of artists as last week? Last week’s line up featured some big names, two… Read more
Icelandic broadcaster RÚV has now revealed all participants competing in this Friday’s first heat of Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins. The line up includes both established artists and relative newcomers to the scene. Eurovisionary invites you to take a closer look and to get to know those taking part a little better. RÚV released details concerning the running… Read more
Melodi Grand Prix season finally got underway tonight, with the first seven hopefuls taking to the stage in Steinkjer. The line up featured everything from rockabilly and electronica through to folk pop and metal opera. But who would take Norway’s fancy and bag the first three spots in the final? NRK promised us a varied… Read more
Swedish superstar and 2012 Eurovision winner Loreen has had an eventful, whirlwind year. You’d have thought that with all that has happened, she’d be in need of some respite? On the contrary, as the singer revealed yesterday, she is already preparing to record her new album! Since her victorious performance on a balmy Baku night… Read more
Former Dutch entrant Gerard Joling is one of the biggest names in the Dutch music industry. With an impressive nine number one singles notched up, Joling has signed up to a new record label much to the chagrin of his former label, NRGY Music. Representing the Netherlands with the ninth placed Shangri-La at the 1988… Read more
Broadcaster NRK presented the first seven names of this year’s participants in Melodi Grand Prix, new project producer Vivi Stenberg promised us a varied line up, a promise she most definitely lived up to! The line up for the first heat consists of a number musical genres, including blues/rockabilly, folk music, electronica, ballads, metal, opera,… Read more
Norwegian broadcaster NRK have kept unusually tight lipped about the participants in the 2013 edition of Melodi Grand Prix, witholding information in what can be best described as a change of tactic. Fans need wait no longer, as this evening, the seven participants in the first heat this Saturday were presented on primetime TV. Out… Read more
Latvian broadcaster LTV confirmed today the twenty-four acts that have made it to the semi final stages of the Latvian selection, Dziesma 2013. Submissions could be entered up until the end of November. Today’s announcement sees some familiar names back for another try. A total of 122 entries were submitted to LTV when ther dealine… Read more
As reported last week, all participants in this year’s edition of the Icelandic selection, Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins are now confirmed and with a mere twelve days to go, the week began with a preview of this year’s entries on the Rás 2 channel. The confirmation of big names including two former Eurovision entrants among this year’s participants has… Read more
Former Swedish Eurovision entrants Jill Johnson and Lena Philipsson are to feature in special concerts on the 16th and 20th of January. Broadcaster SVT will be recording the events with the intention of broadcasting the show in the coming months. Two very different types of music will join forces in just under a week’s time,… Read more
Icelandic broadcaster RÚV put an end to speculation yesterday by releasing the full details of all writers, composers and most importantly all artists that will make up the twelve competing entries in this year’s Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins. As reported here on Eurovisionary at the beginning of last month, Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir was finally confirmed as one… Read more
Fans of the Dutch trio 3JS must have woken to quite a shock this morning, with the news that the trio are to become a duo. The news breaks mere days away from the start of the popular group’s Bronnen theatre tour of the Netherlands. With the start of the Bronnen tour due to kick off… Read more
Former Norwegian entrant Anita Skorgan was in her heyday the hottest property along with ex husband Jahn Teigen on the Norwegian music scene. With the heady 80’s a distant memory, Skorgan’s music has reached new heights of popularity following a primetime show featuring her music. Anita Skorgan ranks among the very best when it comes… Read more
With their submission deadling having closed almost a month ago, broadcaster MTV recently announced its intention to stick with and to develop the A Dal selection concept further when searching for the successor to Compact Disco and the Hungarian entrant for Malmö. MTV introduced the A Dal selection process last year, with the band Compact… Read more
Dutch superstar and entrant for the Netherlands at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest Anouk announced recently that an album release is in the works. Anouk, the 37 year old singer, who first came to the attention of music lovers across the continent with her smash hit Nobody’s Wife, was earlier this autumn confirmed by Dutch… Read more