A possible comeback for Eurovision winner Toto Cutogno, but not for Jalisse and Emma. There is still a few days left until the reveal of the now 22 candidates in the Campioni division of Sanremo 2017, but that’s what it looks like now. Read more
After years in USA Kalomira returns to Greece to co-host the first season of Rising Star. This evening the first episode of the show was aired. The 2008 Greek Eurovision participant even sang “behind the wall” in order for people to understand how they can vote from their homes. Read more
Could the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest be moved to Moscow? A Reference Group member appears to stir up the already bad relationship between Ukraine and Russia by saying so. The move of the contest should be due to the problems Ukraine are having with the preparations of the contest. Read more
RAI revealed the 8 participants for the AreaSanremo contest. Two of them will join 6 more artists, from the Giovani selection, in order to compete in the Newcomers category of the Sanremo 2017. In theory one of these could be the Italian 2017 Eurovision entry. Read more
DJ Kon Cept and Georgina have kindly provided us with the song with which they hope to represent Greece at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. It is a modern song with contemporary sound and is fully in English. Read more
Kon Cept DJ and Georgina is ready to compete in a likely Greek national final. He is one of the most famous DJs and musicians in Greece. She came second in the Greek national final for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Read more
Nothing confirmed yet, but 1997 Eurovision participants could be heading for a comeback as they might join the Sanremo 2017. Other interesting names are mentioned as well. Italian superstar Laura Pausine however once again declines the co-host offer. Read more
Not one, not two or three, but six former Eurovision stars take part in this season’s TV talent shows in Greece. All of them are about to premiere and for most of the former participants, this will be their first time as judges or tv hosts. Read more
Greek broadcaster ERT is working with plans to return to the format of choosing their 2017 Eurovision representative. This comes despite interest from former winner Helena Paparizou and also local superstar Demy to take on the task of bringing Greece back into the Eurovision final. Read more
Carlo Conti will announce the 20 artists of the Sanremo Campioni category in a primetime show on Raiuno on the 10th of December. In the same show, the 8 Newcomers will be revealed too. Once again, the final winner will have the right to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest. Read more
After last year’s commercial and television success of the Eurovision Song Contest in Cyprus with the internal selection of the popular rock band Minus One, broadcaster CyBC seems to be heading for another internal selection to pick their 2017 representative. Read more
Will Helena Paparizou represent Greece at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest? Today it was brought up on Greek morning TV that the 2005 winner should be in discussions about this possibility. Helena won the contest in Kyiv so this would make a return to the very same city. Read more
After the video of the Potato Song and a delay of one month, Minus One released a new music video of their cover version of Photograph by Ed Sheeran. Their video shows scenes of Minus One’ s previous gigs, including some moments from Stockholm which we are sure will satisfy all their fans. Read more
Double Eurovision participant Alexia will sing a selection from her 30 year long career at a concert at the Herodium Theatre in Acropolis, Greece on the 4th of October. The concert named Alexia LIVE in Acropolis is going to be a production which will present her big career very well. Read more
Certain Russian artists are still facing a ban from being able to enter Ukraine and as such participate in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Ukrainian Minister of Culture confirmed yesterday that individuals from their black list won’t be allowed entry. Read more
Aminata, who reached sixth place for Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 is trying her luck now in The Voice of Russia. We saw her perform a familiar song in the latest episode of the blind auditions. Aminata gave a marvelous performance of one of Polina’s Russian songs, and qualified to the next phase of the show,… Read more
The so far only Greek Eurovision winner Helena Paparizou joins forces with Constantinos Christoforou, the Cypriot artist who represented his country three times in the contest. Together they released a song for a TV series in Cyprus called Zoi Mou (My Life). Read more
Kiev and Odessa are the two cities left in the host bidding race, and in recent days officials from both sides have been engaged in a verbal war against the opponent city to prove that the proposal of their own city is better. After numerous delays, a decision is expected soon. Read more
Armenian public broadcaster revealed today jury members of its new national selection process for Eurovision 2017, Depi Evratesil. All of them represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest at the past, and their task is to search for the appropriate Armenian singer across the country and abroad for the 2017 representative. Read more
After a lot of delays the city that will host Eurovision Song Contest 2017 will be announced next week, NTU revealed today. The main problem of the three bidding cities remain the venue, as none of them has an appropriate arena to host the contest at the moment. Read more
While we are still expecting to find out which will be the city that will host the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, rumours are circulating across internet that the choice now lies between Odessa and Dnipro. In the meanwhile Odessa has presented today a new improved proposal for hosting the contest, making the city favourite to… Read more
In July 2017, Riga will host the 3rd European Choir Games. EBU in collaboration with the Latvian broadcaster LTV will held a new competition. Choir Of The Year or Eurovision Choir Contest, will be the new member of Eurovision family as announced by today. Read more
Kosovo debutes in the Olympic Games currently taking place in Rio. Yesterday they even won their first medal at the Olympics as Melinda Kelmendi competing in judo in the category of 52 kg won the gold medal. Is the country also on its way to Eurovision? Read more
Two former Eurovision participants for Russia Polina Gagarina and Dima Bilan traveled to Brasil in order to be torchbearers at the torch relay in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympic Games which starts next week. Dima was first and passed the flame to Polina. Read more
Former Eurovision winner Helena Paparizou would be interested in going for another attempt at the contest if the right song is given to her. She revealed that today where she also talked about her recent upcoming plans. Read more
Six cities were in the race to host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest after Jamala’s victory for Ukraine in Stockholm. Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Odessa, Kharkiv and Kherson presented their nominations and today the Ukrainian broadcaster announced the three finalists from which, along with the EBU, they will make the final decision on 27th July. Read more