Her fans will be pleased to hear it. The German Eurovision winner from 2010, Lena Meyer-Landrut, will release her third album this autumn called Stardust. As the date of release the 15th of October was announced. Lena will release a new CD called Stardust. After My Cassette Player (released in 2010) and Good News (released… Read more
Norbert Berger, known as one part of the popular German Schlager duo Cindy & Bert passed away. As it was announced tonight the 66-year-old singer did not recover from pneumonia and died in a hospital in Düsseldorf last Saturday. In the 1970s Cindy & Bert belonged to the most successful and popular artists in Germany.… Read more
Today it was announced by the Swedish broadcaster SVT that the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 will be held in Malmö. It is the second time after 1992 that Malmö will be staging the Eurovision Song Contest. Just until the end it was a close race between Malmö and Stockholm. Today the Swedish broadcaster SVT finally… Read more
A big Eurovision event is coming up in Berlin. From Friday, August 3rd until Sunday, August 5th fans from all over Europe are invited by the German and Finnish fan clubs to enjoy a varied programme consisting of parties, reunions and concerts of former Eurovision participants. For the first time Berlin will be host of… Read more
Tonight the German national football team will play their first match at the 2012 European Football Championships against Portugal. Over the years it has become a tradition that a special song was chosen to support the German football team. This time the song is sung by Roger Cicero who represented Germany at the Eurovision Song… Read more
Loreen continues her success through Europe. After topping the charts in the Scandinavian countries and achieving high chart positions in the UK and the Netherlands she finally managed to enter the German single charts on the top position. A huge success for her as no other non-German Eurovision winner has achieved this for a long… Read more
Ten days after the final of the Eurovision Song Contest the results of the German jury were revealed. Germany was allowed to vote in the second semifinal. Would there be a big difference between the jury votes and the overall German votes that were presented by last year’s host Anke Engelke? This is the result… Read more
In Germany a total number of 8.29 million viewers watched the Eurovision Song Contest live from Baku on Saturday night. This is a market share of 36,6% which means that every third German TV viewer saw Loreen winning for Sweden and achieving a very good 8th place for Roman Lob. The highest number of viewers… Read more
The line up for the final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest is completed. Tonight we saw the second semifinal. 18 countries competed for ten remaining spots in the big final. Beside the participating countries the United Kingdom, France and Germany were allowed to vote. The show started at 21.00 CET which meant 0.00 Azeri… Read more
This year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Baku is about to start soon. Right on time the compilation Grand Prix Clubhits, consisting of three discs, was released in Germany. The compilation features 66 uptempo songs which were chosen by the two German DJ’s DJ Ohrmeister from Cologne and DJ Douze Points from Hamburg. Both are known… Read more
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. Unser Star für Baku started on… Read more
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.… Read more
After three semifinals the final of this year’s Melodi Grand Prix took place tonight to pick the Norwegian representative for Baku. In an exciting and well-produced show Tooji finally won the ticket to Baku and will try to take the Norwegians to a Eurovision final again. During the last three weeks the Norwegian broadcaster NRK… Read more
After five rounds the quarter final of the German selection Unser Star für Baku took place tonight. Five artists were left to compete for a place in the semi final. The German viewers decided via televoting that Katja Petri had to leave the show. The show started at 20.15 CET and was broadcasted by the… Read more
Tonight the fifth heat of Unser Star für Baku took place. Six artists were left who competed for five places in the quarter final which will be held on Thursday, February 9th. The public finally decided that Céline Huber had to leave the show. At the beginning we saw short introduction films about each of… Read more
Tonight the third and last semifinal of the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix was held. In the city of Florø eight acts competed for the remaining spots in the final which will take place next Saturday. At the end Yaseen & Julie Maria, Tooji and Petter Øien & Bobby Bare got a ticket and kept the… Read more
The German search for a representative for Baku continues. Tonight we saw the fourth of eight shows of Unser Star für Baku. Due to some criticism about the live voting ProSieben slightly changed the voting procedure. At the end the televoters decided that Sebastian Dey and Umut Anil had to leave the show. At the… Read more
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 show… Read more
Tonight Norway kicked off their national final Melodi Grand Prix. In Ørland eight artists competed for three spots in the final. At the end a mixture of jury and televotiong decided that we will see Reidun Sæter, The Carburetors and Nora Foss Al-Jabri in the final on February 11th. After Stella Mwangi failing to reach… Read more
The second show of the German national final Unser Star für Baku was held tonight. Like last week ten participants competed to proceed to the next round. Five of them were finally chosen by the public via a live voting. The show started with a short review of last week’s edition and a reprise of… Read more
Tonight the German selection for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, Unser Star für Baku (Our star for Baku), kicked off. Ten artists competed for five places in the next show. At the end the public decided who of them would get a ticket. The show started at 20.15 CET and was broadcasted via the private… Read more
The German broadcaster NDR has just revealed that the final of Unser Star für Baku will be held on February 16th, 2012. A total of 20 candidates will compete for the honour of representing Germany in Baku. The winner will be chosen by televoting. Unser Star für Baku will already start at the beginning of… Read more
Boris Novković who represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev in 2005 announced that he will hold a huge concert in Zagreb on December 22nd 2011 because of his 25th career anniversary. The concert will take place in the Dražen Petrović Hall (also known as Cibona Hall) and is not only supposed to… Read more
Today it was announced that the young singer Iris will represent Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku 2012. With her age of just 16 years she will be the youngest Belgian representative ever chosen by the Flemish television. Iris whose real name is Laura van den Bruel was discovered by the record label… Read more
The final show of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf is nominated for the German TV award 2011. Already after the final there was a lot of praise for the well-organized TV show. The Eurovision final will compete for the award in the category "Best entertainment". After 1957 and 1983 the Eurovision Song Contest… Read more
Germany, last year’s winner and this year’s host of the Eurovision Song Contest, is ready to search the successor of Lena Meyer-Landrut and a new star who will represent the country in Baku next year. Together with the private TV channel Pro Sieben the national German broadcaster ARD organizes the selection Unser Star für Baku.… Read more