National selection

The Greek broadcaster, ERT, has officially revealed this morning on its website the four candidate songs to represent the country in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. On Thursday, we will know who will sing each of these entries and the the grand finale will take place on 12th of March.

Tonight, Slovenia decided its representative and song for Baku at the final of EMA 2012 among the two acts selected from Misija Evrovizija. Some of the former Slovenian Eurovision entrants were there as special guests of the show and also participants from Misija Evrovizija and a Eurovision winner.

7 years in a row now without qualifying for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. That is the unfortunate Dutch destiny at the Eurovision Song Contest. Today it was decided that it will be up to Joan Franka to change that with the song You And Me. 

In a late Friday show Ireland picked its participant for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Jedward was favourite to do the double and represent the country twice in a row, but up against 4 other strong acts, one of them being Donna McCaul, another one with Eurovision experience it didn't look like a walkover. 

When Ireland on Friday pick its representative for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, two former participants are in the running; Donna McCaul from 2005 and Jedward from last year. Let's take a closer look as to who the five acts and their mentors actually are...

Austria is one of the countries that choses its representative song after a long selection process on the way to the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku. We finally came to an end with the final show in the selection named Wecker rockt den Song Contest. Let's get to know the participants.

RTVE's website visitors have decided with their votes that Ahora O nunca is the third song for Pastora Soler to sing at the tv show where the Spanish entry for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest will be finally chosen. It joins the previously selected Quédate Conmigo and Tu Vida Es Tu Vida.

Minutes ago Georgia decided that it will be up to Anri Jokhadze to represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest in May in neighbour country, Azerbaijan. A total of 9 acts competed in the national final in the country that has never failed to reach the final and always ended up in the best half.

The third semifinal in Lithuanian national selection was held last night. Nine acts fought for the battle of making it to the final where only three acts qualified. The fourth and the last semifinal will be held next weekend with the Lithianian final being scheduled for the 3rd of March.

Molly Sandén and Björn Ranelid feat. Sara Li was voted through to the final by the televoters tonight as the third heat of the swedish national selection Melodifestivalen took place in the town of Leksand in central Sweden. Youngblood and Andreas Johnson gets a new chance to qualify to the final in the second chance heat.

Tonight Latvia made its choice. A total of ten hopefuls were battling in a live show for the ticket to Baku and the combined choice of Latvian audience and the jury showed that Anmary with her "Beautiful Song" was the lucky act.

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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'.

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.