We would like to take this opportunity to wish the Irish a happy St. Patrick’s day wherever they might be. To celebrate the Irish holiday and the seven wins that the champion country holds with Eurovision, here are seven things, you may not know regarding Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest. Read more
Back on March 3rd, Hovi Star was selected by HaKokhav HaBa L’Eirovizion, the Israeli national selection in order to represent Israel at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. It had been discussed afterwards that they may have wanted to change the song. Today they revealed the updated version of Made of Stars. Read more
Following the reveal last month that Amir Haddad (known as Amir) would go on representing France at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, it was also announced that his single J’ai Cherché would be his official entry in Stockholm. Today they released the 3 minutes final version of the song. Read more
Laura Tesoro, the winner of this year’s Belgium national selection, Eurosong, released the music video for her Eurovision Song Contest entry, What’s The Pressure, today on the eurovision.tv website. Read more
Four days ago we wrote that Amir Haddad will represent France at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with the song J’ai Cherché. Back then France 2 didn’t want to confirm it, but that they have now done. Read more
It has been an exciting six weeks in Budapest as the 2016 edition of A Dal came to an end tonight and Freddie took the victory. He will go on to Stockholm representing Hungary in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Pioneer. Read more
Following a three episode national selection of O Melodie Pentru Europa 2016, the representative of Moldova was selected by the public of the country and a jury of experts. Lidia Isac will fly the Moldovan flag in Stockholm in May. Read more
The Australian broadcaster SBS has revealed this morning that their representative at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm will be revealed on March 3rd. Following the country’s first appearance as a contestant last year, we are soon to find out who will follow Guy Sebastian’s foot steps next May. Read more
As France 2 reached 3,000 followers on Twitter, we got the second hint of who will be representing La France at the next Eurovision Song Contest, held in Stockholm, Sweden. Read more
As announced in December, the representatives for Georgia at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest will be Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz. On February 4th, the band presented five songs that the Georgian public could choose from. Today, it was announced that Midnight Gold will be the song to compete in Stockholm next May. Read more
The first of two semi-finals of A Dal 2016 was held tonight with nine acts who previously qualified from the first three shows. After votes from the public as well as the show’s judges, a total of five acts will move on to the final. Next week’s second semi-final will see five more contestants joining… Read more
Tonight was the national selection final for Switzerland, entitled ESC 2016 – Die Grosse Entscheidungsshow. Six acts competed in the competition organized by the German broadcaster SRF (Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen). In the end, the Swiss public and the jury picked Canadian singer Rykka as the representative of Switzerland at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in… Read more
The Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO have revealed the song titles to compete at EMA 2016 in the hope of representing Slovenia at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm next May. After revealing the list of artists back in January, we now know who will sing which song. Read more
As you may know by now, the representative for Ireland has been announced and will be former Westlife member Nicky Byrne. Back in January, his single Sunlight premiered online and earlier today Nicky signed his first solo artist deal with Universal Music Ireland. Read more
The third and final heat of A Dal 2016 was on tonight with the last ten artists performing their songs. Six more songs were voted for by the public and judges and will move on to the semi-finals starting next week. With two more rounds of semi-finals and then the final on February 27th, we are one step closer… Read more
Tonight was the first semi-final of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2016 (UMK) with six acts competing for the public’s votes in order to qualify for the final, which will be held on February 27th. Who were the winners and losers of the first semi-final? And will one of these songs make it to Stockholm? Let’s find out… Read more
The second heat of A Dal 2016 was on tonight with 10 more entries performing. Like last week, 6 songs were picked by the public and judges to move to the semi-finals, the 5 songs with the most votes from the first round of voting, and finally a sixth act was chosen from a second… Read more
Heat 1 of A Dal 2016 was on tonight and we had the pleasure to watch the first 10 of 30 entries. Five qualified from a first round of voting to pass on to the semi-finals. A second round of voting then determined one more act to move on resulting in 6 songs guaranteed to… Read more
The BBC has announced that two previous winners of the Eurovision Song Contest will perform at this year’s national selection show called Eurovision: You Decide. The show, which will air on 26th of February, will be an X Factor-style show where the public will get to choose between six acts to send to Stockholm in May to… Read more
NDR, the German national broadcaster, has revealed the 10 finalists competing to represent Germany in May. A national final titled Unser Lied für Stockholm will be broadcast online and on TV channel Das Erste on February 25th. Here is all you need to know about the artists and their entries. Read more
Jānis Vaišļa, best known as one-third of Pirates of the Sea (the band participated at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest representing Latvia), has passed away at the age of 46. Read more
SVT, the Swedish national broadcaster and the city of Stockholm have revealed the official venues for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest EuroClub, Eurovision Village as well as the venue to be used for the opening ceremony. Read more
MTVA, the Hungarian broadcaster, released full versions of the 30 songs competing to represent Hungary in Stockholm next May. Now in its fifth year, A Dal will select the winning entry through its competition with the first heat scheduled on 23rd of January 2016. The six-week long contest held in Budapest will conclude in late February. Read more