Tonight, Iceland held their final after a series of semifinals. The Songvakeppni was an amazing music show for its fans, while choosing the best entry to represent Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow. Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir won the ticket to the Russian capital. This year’s Icelandic National Final has begun in RUV… Read more
Last Saturday, it was time for the Maltese people to enjoy the Malta Song for Europe, the Maltese national final. After eight semi finals with 56 entries, Chiara had the happy ending with her song What If We. The 22nd Malta Song for Europe was held in Valetta with hosts by Valeria Vella and Pablo… Read more
Tonight, Cyprus decided their entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest which will be held in Moscow this year. Sixteen year old Christina Metaxa has won the competition with her song Firefly. At the RIK studios, the show began with the enjoyable dancing from the hosts Charis and Maria, with the playback of last year’s Eurovision… Read more
Tonight, the Cypriot National Final, which will be held in Nicosia by the national broadcaster RIK, will choose the Cypriots’ favourite song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. The show will begin at 20.15 central European time in RIK studios, and it will be hosted by Charis Kkolos and Maria Michail, who are popular artists… Read more
Today the Polish broadcaster TVP released the songs that are competing in the Polish national final Festiwale I Koncerty. 12 songs are competing in order to represent Poland at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Ten of them are now available to listen to online. The ten songs have been published offically at the festival’s… Read more
Although we still have fourteen weeks to go, thirteen entries have been announced so far. I can’t believe how quickly they were announced, but it seems an exciting contest is coming. This year the competition started with an amazing choice from Greece. All fans, including me, were very excited with such a famous name, Sakis Rouvas is coming back… Read more
Last night the Andorran people had the excitement of a national final to choose their favourite song to be performed at Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow this year. The Andorran broadcaster RTVA anoounced the three names and songs to be compete at this years Andorran final. The three songs have been chosed by an expert jury. Last… Read more
The European Broadcasting Union has offically announced that the third Eurovision Dance Contest will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan this year. The contest will be held at the Haydar Aliyev Sports and Concerts Complex in September 2009. The Heydar Aliyev Sprts and Concerts Complex was built after the founding of the Azerbaijan Republic. It’s expected… Read more
The Slovakian Broadcaster, STV, has announced details of the semifinals and final of the Slovakian national contest, including the dates of semifinals and final. STV has chosen only 50 songs from the 177 submitted songs. Ten acts will compete in each semi final, with the top two selected by televote proceeding to the final. The… Read more
MTV, the Hungarian broadcaster which is member of EBU, has exclusively announced that Mark Zentai has been chosen to represent Hungary in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, which will be held in Moscow with Vigyen a Szél (How We Party). Hungarian broadcaster MTV has decided on their Eurovision Song Contest representative to compete in Moscow.… Read more
The famous French singer, Patricia Kaas, has announced her participating song S’il Fallait Le Faire after French TV confirmed that she is representing France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, which will be held in Moscow on May 16th. After the song of Patricia has been decided, it seems that France is taking one of… Read more
This Saturday, the Lithuanian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, Dainu Diana, held its first semifinal. Ten acts performed for the final tickets, and five of them qualified for the final, which will be held on 14th february. The show came from Vilnus, the capital of Lithuania, and started at 20.00 Central Europe… Read more
TRT, the Turkish national broadcaster which is the only member of the EBU in Turkey, celebrated its 41st anniversary yesterday in İstanbul Lütfi Kırdar Congre Palace. On that night, there were special guests who have participated for Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest in past. Forty one years have passed since the first television broadcast… Read more
Tonight, the 4th heat in Iceland’s Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins was held in Reykjavik. Two songs from four candidates were chosen for the final, which will be held on 14th February. The complete line up with eight songs is now ready. One of them will be representing the country at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Tonight four… Read more
Last night, the Bulgarian Be a Star series’ semifinal leg was held with eighteen powerful songs. Nine of them have qualified for the grand final, which will be held on 21st February. The semifinal series of Be a Star was hosted by Neli Atanasova and Drago Draganov on BNT. The show brought the fans a… Read more
The semi final of Be a Star, the Bulgarian national selection show, takes place tonight after a long break since the heats and quarter finals. Eighteen songs will compete for 9 places in the grand final. The selection process has been a long one with 9 heats and 3 quarterfinals. The show will start at 19.50 CET. An expert jury will choose the nine songs… Read more
Bosnia & Herzegovina’s offical broadcaster, BHRT, has announced the representative and the song (following the same format as last year) for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, which will be held in Moscow. This time it seems Bosnia & Herzegovina will be participating with a rock song by a rock band. After succesful ballads in 2006,… Read more
After Myspace voting in Spain had ended, the results were finally announced yesterday. Today, the Spanish broadcaster TVE, declared the semifinalists who will compete at the Spanish national final. The new selecting system in Spanish national finals will be including three semi and one grandfinal this year. The MySpace voting was divided into ten categories,… Read more
Lithuania’s national final Lietuvos Dainy Diana had it’s first quarter final last Saturday. Although there were rumours about Lithuania’s withdrawal, the show announced that the small Blatic state would in fact take part. According to the Lietuvos Dainy Diana rules, in each of the three quarter finals four competitors qualify directly to the semi finals with jury… Read more
Rumours have surfaced suggesting that Patricia Kaas will represent France in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. She is known as one of the most successful French singers. According to these rumours, after Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom have confirmed big name invlovement in the contest, the French delegation has announced another big name, Patricia… Read more
About two weeks ago, the deadline was reached for Spanish polls on myspace.com, where the songs for the national selection have been submitted. According to TVE, there have already been 2.3 million of votes has casted. According to the offical organisers, TVE, about 978 songs have been received and 455 of them have already been… Read more
Malta has already started deciding who is to represent them in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Russia. During the semifinals held in Malta, there were some old Maltese representatives from previous Eurovision Song Contests, such as Miriam Christine, Chiara and Ludwig. 1st Semifinal: Former Maltese representative Ludwig participated in this semi final. This time… Read more
Georgia has decided to join the Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in Moscow in 2009, after the political crisis and war had ended between Russia and Georgia. Georgia had decided to boycott Russia and not send a song to the contest. At the end of August last year, Levan Kubaneishvili of the Georgian… Read more
The Turkish representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held on May 2009 in Moscow, has been announced. The winner of the internal competition is the song Crazy For You (Düm Tek Tek). The new year was presented by Hadise on the TRT channel in Turkey. After the countdown to 2009 at midnight, Hadise appeared… Read more
Yesterday evening, the Festival I Këngës was held in Tirana, Albania. Kejsi Tola won the competetion and she will represent Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow. The show was held in the Palace of Congress in Tirana. Twenty songs competed in yesterday’s 47th Festival I Këngës and the winner was chosen by a… Read more
The second semifinal of Festival I Këngës was performed yesterday evening. This time, each contestant dueted with a famous singer who has participated in the festival before. The festival started at 20.30 CET and could be watched from RTSH tv and Radio Tirana 1 live. The contestants performed their song with a famous artist from… Read more