Albanian broadcaster RTSH has opened the submission period for the next edition of Festivali i Këngës, which will be the 58th edition of the song festival. Artists and Songwriters are invited to submit their entries for the competition, which since 2004 has been used to determine the Albanian Eurovision representative. The broadcaster has not yet…
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You may remember our original Best of the Bunch series, which aimed to find the best Eurovision entry from each nation from the years 2006 to 2015. From that series, we created the ‘Ultimate Eurovision’ which featured the winners of each of the poll, which you can read here. Over the past year, we aimed…
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Moments ago the second semi-final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest took place, with the final 10 qualifiers decided on by both the national juries and the public vote. A total of 18 competing acts performed their entries on stage. Here are the qualifiers: North Macedonia The Netherlands Albania Sweden Russia Azerbaijan Denmark Norway Switzerland…
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Today marked the third day of the second rehearsals for the semi-finalists, starting with Croatia through to Azerbaijan Who impressed, and who runs the risk of non-qualification? Our guest writer Dennis (ESCdaily) gave his thoughts on the performances of the day! Croatia Roko starts his performance lying on the floor, while the floor LEDs are…
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Albania are a nation that are hit or miss when it comes to Eurovision and for each successful entry, there seems to be two unsuccessful entries. Last year the nation returned to a national language entry for the first time since 2013, and with Eugent Bushpepa belting out his song Mall flawlessly, it was gratifying…
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Albania were one of the first nations to select their entry for this year’s edition of Eurovision, and now that the season has come to a close, the nation has now revealed the final version of their entry, Ktheju Tokës. As we know, Jonida Maliqi won Festivali i Këngës back in December with the ethno…
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The national final season has now passed, and we have all 41 competing entries of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. That means one thing, it’s POLL TIME! Vote in our poll below of who you think should win this year’s Eurovision Song Contest! Vote for one act, or vote for multiple! Make sure to share…
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We are in the midst of the Eurovision 2019 season, and with just over a dozen of the songs selected already, we wanted to check in with you, the fans, to determine which are your favourite entries so far! Follow Eurovision Union on each of our Social Media accounts to keep up with all the…
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Last night, the Albanian national selection Festivali i Këngës took place, where 14 artists performed their entries in the hopes of not only winning the contest, but also to represent Albania at Eurovision in 2019. Over the previous two nights, a total of 22 artists performed their entries during two semi-finals. In the first semi-final,…
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Over the last two nights, the semi-finals of Albania’s Eurovision national selection, Festivali i Këngës have taken place with the final to be held tonight. A total of 22 artists performed their entries on both nights, on the first night the artists performed alongside the RTSH Symphonic Orchestra as has been done in previous contests…
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