Finland tonight began their quest to find their representative for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. 12 acts and a wildcard were revealed from the new national selection show, UMK (Uuden Musiiken Kilpailu).

Danish band Johnny Deluxe, who participated in the 2009 Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, splits up after ten succeful years. The band says that they simply don't have the engagement and commitment to continue. Lately most of the bandmembers have also experienced success as songwriters. 

Norway found their first three finalists last Saturday and now it is time to take a closer look at the next bundle of 8 acts who will compete for three more final spots. Get to know the participants for the second Norwegian heat this Saturday and tell if you can predict the outcome. 

Tonight we saw the third show of the German national selection Unser Star für Baku. After the first two shows ten candidates were left who competed for one of eight spots in the upcoming show. At the end the TV viewers decided that Rachel Scharnberg and Leonie Burgmer had to leave the show.

The Georgian broadcaster, GPB, has barely managed to get thirteen artists to represent the country in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Now there will be a group of experts to decide how many songs will compete in the national final to be held in February.

This Saturday will see the last of the three regulary heats in this year's Söngvakeppnin Sjónvarpsins, with the final on the 11th of February drawing closer. It's time for us to become better acquainted with the last bunch of hopefuls fighting for the last two tickets to the final.

Cypriot singer Ivi Adamou tonight gave the performance of her life (so far), giving her best to three songs, one of which would she would sing in Baku in her country's quest for Eurovision glory. 

Some of the most renowned composers of the country have been invited by the Portuguese broadcaster, RTP, to work in the composition of the songs that will compete in the national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.

After a long speculating period in Armenia, ARM TV has confirmed its participation in a rival country, Azerbaijan. The details of the act will be announced at the end of January. Rumours suggest that the Lucia Moon and 2008 representative Sirusho will represent the country.

So far very few countries already have their song ready for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, but today 37 of the participating countries were allocated a spot in one of the two semi-finals. At the same time Light My Fire was presented as theme for this, the 57th contest. 

After a long waiting time and many speculations about whether or not they would be ready in time, the newly build, Chrystal Hall in Baku was finally approved by the EBU as venue for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. 

BRTC tv in Belarus held a press conference to make the draw for the final of the 2012 Eurofest.  Five acts will compete in the Belarus national final to be held now on 14 February at the Minsk Sports Palace, where the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest was held.

They are on the way to Baku and Hungarian broadcaster MTV published online the full versions of the participating songs in A Dal, via its website. The first semifinal will take place 28 January, and last year's representative name Kati Wolf will be back as a jury member this year.

For the first time in many years the competitve TV station TV2 actually tried to compete with the Danish final, the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, but failed dramatically as the Danish TV viewers clearly prefered the national final to the other big show The Voice.

Finland will kick off their selection named UMK (Contest for New Music) with its first show on Saturday. It has now up to forty acts revealed online by national broadcaster YLE via its website. The number of participants will be narrowed to twelve before the first show starts.

The remaining 5 songs yet to be heard in this year's Icelandic national selection have today been published by the broadcaster. On Saturday they will compete for the last two spots available in their final that will be held on the 11th of February. 

It was a genuine happy, allmost in seventh heaven, 21 year young Soluna Samay, who made her entry at the press room after winning the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2012. EuroVisionary bring you her reactions as well as comments from some of the other participants.

The period of submitting entries came to an end in Moldovan selection process. Yesterday, the national broadcaster TRM revealed the list of approved entries, which is a total of sixty, including former Moldovan representative in 2009 Nelly Ciobanu and 2008 representative Geta Burlacu making a return this year.

Iceland just finished their second heat of Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins, in the search for who can represent the country at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Out of the five acts presented, Regína Ósk and Simbi & Hrútspungarnir managed to convince the jury and audience enough to advance to the national final.