A total of 22 acts were today competing for the honour of representing Ukraine at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. The national final was at the end won by Hajtana. She will now be trying to bring the country into that final, they have never missed out on, with the song Be My Guest. 

Tonight was a busy night in Sanremo’s Teatro Ariston. The remaining twelve acts in the Artisti section sang for the right to be part of the final tomorrow evening. It was the biggest night in the young lives of the four acts left in the Sanremosocial section for new artists as one of them was crowned the winner.

The fourth phase of the UMK contest in Finland was broadcast tonight on YLE 2 channel in Finland.  Nine acts performed at Club Dom in Helsinki. Two acts were eliminated by the expert jury and the public will now vote for the top five performers to make it to the live final.

4 times Eurovision Song Contest participant for Denmark, Søren Bundgaard is one of the songwriters behind one of the Slovenian songs to be aired later today. Instead of his Eurovision partner Kirsten Siggaard he has, this time, teamed up with other well known songwriters. 

The third evening of the Sanremo Festival saw stars from all over the world, such as Sergio Dalma, on stage at the Teatro Ariston singing Italian songs that have been hits in various languages and countries around the world.

After a total of eight shows Germany's national selection Unser Star für Baku finally came to an end tonight. The televoters decided that Roman Lob will represent Germany in Baku. He will sing Standing still and try to repeat the good results Germany scored in the last two years.

Estonia, the hosts of the contest 10 years ago kicks off its televised selection process this weekend, with the first semi-final of Eesti Laul 2012.  A record entry of 159 songs was submitted for the first sift, with a 10 person jury narrowing down the field to 20.  So let's meet the first 10...

Ten qualifiers from two semifinals will meet in the grand final of Eirodziesma 2012. Let's take a closer look at the ten participants who will fight the battle in the Saturday show, that will serve as 10 years anniversary of winning the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time ever. 

After an interview with the Anggun, the French participant for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, she kindly provided us with two signed editions of her latest album. We offered those to our readers in a competition and the two lucky winners have now been selected. 

After yesterday’s slightly anti-climactic events in San Remo’s Teatro Ariston, the second evening had added drama as four songs were eliminated temporally from the festival instead of the scheduled two.

Melodifestivalen continues with it's third heat on Saturday, February 18th. In this article we take a closer look at the performers.

Besides having the opportunity to listen to the two songs already selected by Pastora, today starts the deadline for fans to help her to choose the third song to be performed in the televised show on March 3. The choice will be made between two up-tempo songs: "Me Despido De Ti' and 'Ahora o Nunca'.

Earlier, Bosnian broadcaster, BHRT, announced that they had selected Maya Sar to represent their country in Azerbaijan. Today the broadcaster and Maya Sar came together for a press conference where they announced further details in the selection process and that Maya will be singing Karoke Ti Znam in Baku.

The Finnish hardrock band Lordi, that won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest today reports that their drummer Tonmi Otus Lillman has passed away only 38 years old. The band is sending their condolences to his family and friends, while thanking him for the time they had with him.

On the 21st of April, few weeks before heading to Baku, a long list of this year's Eurovision Song Contest participants will team up in Amsterdam for the anually Eurovision In Concert. So far four countries have been confirmed, but we should be able to expect a bit over 20 to take part. 

This evening saw the opening night of the 62nd Sanremo Festival.  All 14 the artists in the ‘Big’ section for well-known artists performed. The 8 ‘Giovanni’ (for new singers) will sing tomorrow. It is likely that the Italian entry for Baku will be among these eight songs.

Minutes ago the Belarusians decided that it will be up to Alena Lanskaya to bring the country into the final of the Eurovision Song Contest, something they missed out on last year as the rest of Europe didn't love Belarus just as much as Anastasiya Vinnikova did. Tonight's winner was chosen in a big show featuring a long list of Eurovision performers.

The final show of Eirodziesma 2012 will be held on Saturday, the 18th of February. Ten acts coming from two semifinals will once again compete to have the honour of representing Latvia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku this year. A former participant; Bonaparti.lv's Andris Ābelīte is among the competitors.

Tonight the semifinal of the German national selection Unser Star für Baku took place, the last show before the big final. Four artists were left in the competition. At the end the German televoters sent Roman Lob and Ornella de Santis to the final while Shelly Philipps and Yana Gercke had to leave the show.

Last year in Dusseldorf, Italy ended its 14 year absence from the Eurovision Song Contest with a second place. Perhaps heartened by this result, RAI have again entered the contest. Because of the return of Italy last year, Eurovisionary published a history of the festival, which we publish a revised version of here.

In the long selection process in Azerbaijan, we reached the end of Milli Seçim Turu's 2012 edition. Five names, Orhan Kerimli, Elton İbrahimov, Feqan Seferov, Sabina Babayeva and Arzu İsmayilova participated once again to represent the host country where Sabina Babayeva got the honour. The song will be announced at a later date.

Saturday evening 12 participants were fighting to continue to next round in Voice - Danmark's Største Stemme. Among them were three former national finalists. As the show ended Ida Lohmann and Joachim Tranberg was voted out, whereas Bjarne Langhoff still is among the 8 left with the chance to win the talent show.

Tonight, Iceland decided its representative for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Seven acts competed in Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins and Jónsi and Greta Salóme won the Icelandic ticket to Baku. Former Eurovision participants Páll Óskar and Hera Björk performed as special guests during the show.