2011

In reaction to the chaotic situation after TRT's announcement about the Turkish representative for Dusseldorf, the national broadcaster released an offical press declaration.

In the first minutes of 2011 in Turkey, national broadcaster TRT announced the name of the Turkish representative who will be participating in Düsseldorf: Yüksek Sadakat. This exclusive news caused a big reaction in the Turkish media.

Turkish national broadcaster TRT announced their representative name in Düsseldorf at this new year's eve. Another rock boy-band Yüksek Sadakat will be the one who will be in Düsseldorf.

Today the European Broadcasting Union announced that 43 countries will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf. This is the biggest number of participating countries since 2008 in Belgrade, when the same number of countries took part.

Ovi, one half of the 2010 Romanian act in Oslo, was recently announced as competing in the Norwegian selection for Dusseldorf as a composer. He will have another very important job to do in the run up to this year’s contest, host of the Romanian final, a job he will share with another familiar name.

The Central European country Hungary is back to the Eurovision Song Contest after a break of one year. The national broadcaster MTV will be responsible for the country's participation in 2011.

The final semi final in Ukraine took place in Kiev and 5 more acts have qualified for the national final to decide what act will go forward to Germany for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. 

The Estonian television announced that there has been another change in the line up for the semi finals. The song Ilusad inimesed by Laika Virgin feat. Fredy Schmidt had to be disqualified because it was already published on August 31st, 2010, one day too early.

Aurela Gaçe won the Festivali i Kenges and will represent Albania at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Germany.

The 6th week of the Azerbaijani national selections which is called 'Milli Seçim Turu' was held yesterday evening. The winner of the night, Ilqara İbrahimova and the jury winner Eldar Qasımov qualified for the final.