After two days of auditions, the Belarusian jury has selected the finalists to compete at the Eurofest 2015 to be held on the 26th of December. There are several familiar faces from previous Eurovision national finals among the fifteen acts and Alexander Rybak is on the list of composers. BTRC, the national broadcaster of Belarus,… Read more
ERR has revealed the artists and songs taking part at the upcoming Eesti Laul 2015. A total of 219 entries were submitted for this year’s national selection which is a new record number for the Estonian broadcaster. An internal jury reviewed all the songs and selected the top twenty. The number of submissions has grown… Read more
After a great show from the Marsa Shipbuilding, Amber gained the most points tonight and therefore she was granted the honour of representing Malta with her song Warrior at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Vienna next May. The final of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest for the selection of the Maltese… Read more
Young Italian singer Vincenzo Cantiello won the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest held this evening in Malta with a powerful rendition of his song Tu Primo Grande Amore. Bulgaria came second and the third place was awarded to Armenia. After winning last year, the Maltese broadcaster had the honour of hosting the final of the… Read more
Last evening the national final season for 2015 officially kicked off and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia hosted Skopje Fest 2014 to decide who would be their entrant for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. Daniel Kajmakoski was selected to fly the Macedonian flag in Vienna next May. The broadcast started at 20:15 CET from… Read more
More than 120 artists, entertainers and celebrities have joined a charity project to raise funds to fight AIDS and many of them have recorded duets which are included on this album. Among them we find some former Eurovision representatives from France, Luxembourg and Belgium. This year, the French organization Sidaction that fights against AIDS and… Read more
Lordi, the Finnish monster rockers who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006, are back with their seventh studio album Scare Force One. In order to celebrate the release of the new album, the band will perform a concert on the 1st of November at The Circus in Helsinki. Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest… Read more
We have the first artist for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest! The Montenegrin national broadcaster, RTCG, held a special press conference in Podgorica yesterday where their next Eurovision entrant was presented. It is Knez who will fly the Montenegrin flag in Vienna. RTCG has decided to select their next Eurovision Song Contest representative internally like… Read more
Amaury Vassili is back with his fourth studio album which is a brilliant tribute to Mike Brant, the Israeli singer who achieved fame in France in the 70s. It compiles all greatest hits from Mike Brant including a virtual duet and an unreleased song. The young tenor who represented France at the Eurovision Song Contest… Read more
Serbian broadcaster RTS has revealed that the Serbian entry for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest will be chosen in a competition between three songs composed by Vladimir Graić and three singers. Two of them will be established artists but there is also a chance for newcomers. The Serbian broadcaster confirmed a few weeks ago the… Read more
Everything is ready for the release of Planeta Azul (Blue Planet), the hotly anticipated debut album from Ruth Lorenzo which is scheduled for tomorrow. She has been working on this album for five years and all the songs have been written by Ruth herself. It has been a very difficult journey for Ruth Lorenzo who,… Read more
The Belarusian national broadcaster BTRC has announced the national selection procedure for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. Applications will be accepted until the 21st of November and the national final will take place no later than January 23rd next. BTRC has announced more details about the application procedure and participation rules and a call for… Read more
Federica Falzon will be representing Malta on home soil with the song Diamonds which has now premiered. It is a wonderful and evocative song, sung entirely in English, with expressive and dramatic melodies and a pop opera style that we have never heard before at the Junior Eurovision. Diamonds is the title of the song… Read more
TRM has announced the rules and dates for next year’s Moldovan national selection. Songs can be sent in to the broadcaster until the 15th of December. The semi-finals will be held on the 24th and 26th of February and the national final will take place on the 28th of February. Like in recent years, the… Read more
Softengine, the young rock band that represented Finland at the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, will release their debut album, We Created The World, on the 17th of October. This album will definitely take the band to a whole new level, musically, song wise and in terms of production. With this new album the Finish rock… Read more
Raphael has a status close to that of a living legend being one of the most important artists in the Spanish music scene of all time. On this brand new album, he has re-recorded some of his classic hits giving an interesting twist to his most iconic songs. Raphael has represented Spain twice at the… Read more
Željko Joksimović and Tony Cetinski have been friends for many years and, during this time, they have always been thinking about a musical project together. Finally, here is their first single, Zabluda, which is a prelude to a joint concert that will take place later this month in Serbia. Two of the most famous singers of… Read more
The qualifying artists were presented one by one last evening at the tv show Xarabank where each of them performed a snippet of their songs. Among the twenty acts are several familiar faces including former Eurovision representatives Ludwig Galea, Glen Vella and Gianluca Bezzina. The Maltese broadcaster, PBS, has received 134 submissions for the upcoming… Read more
The Macedonian broadcaster has revealed the names of the twenty acts that will participate at this year’s Skopje Festival which will take place on the 12th of November. Among them there are some of the most established artists of the national music scene and some familiar faces for Eurovision fans. MRT, the FYR Macedonian broadcaster,… Read more
The Maltese representative at the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, Firelight, has just released their debut album called Bakdrop Of Life. It contains eleven brand new songs and all the members of the band have been fully involved in the making of each track. Since the folk band Firelight won the Maltese national final back in… Read more
Sophia Patsalides was chosen internally by Cypriot broadcaster CyBC back in July and her Junior Eurovision entry has been officially presented earlier today. It is an upbeat song called I Pio Omorfi Mera which means The Most Wonderful Day. Last July, CyBC officially announced that Cyprus would return to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest after… Read more
The Estonian broadcaster has revealed the dates and set up regarding their national selection for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. The winner will be found on the 21st of February and there will be three super-finalists instead of two so the audience will have more options to choose from. Next year’s Estonian representative and song… Read more
The Belarusian final for the Junior Eurovision took place last evening. Ten contestants performed in the big show and the winner was determined by a professional jury and the viewers. After a three way tie for first position, it was decided that 14-year-old Nadezhda will represent Belarus in Malta. The two-hour show started at 21:00… Read more
Pere Pubill Calaf, better known as Peret, has passed away today in Barcelona at the age of 79, due to complications from cancer that had been detected weeks ago. He was one of the most iconic figures of the Spanish music scene and represented Spain at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. Peret was a composer,… Read more
Last evening in Bukovel the national final to select the Ukrainian representative for the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest was held. Trio Sympho-Nick was the favourite of the audience and the jurors thus they will represent Ukraine in Malta with their song Pryide Vesna. The participants have spent the last days together in a special… Read more
After representing Belgium in Copenhagen with the moving ballad Mother, Axel Hirsoux has released his new single called Bellissimo. This song has the classic style of his Eurovision entry but his strong voice sounds much more lively keeping his deep and tender tone. Bellissimo, which means Very Beautiful, is a pop ballad that, despite the… Read more