As part of the Eurovision rules, each nation can have a maximum of 6 people on stage. Some acts use that to their advantage, featuring backing singers, dancers, or having a complete band on stage. Other times, nations may choose to present their acts as soloists on stage to focus on the talent within that…
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In Part One of What’s On This Weekend, we gave a preview on the national finals being held on Saturday, which includes heats from Hungary and Lithuania, and semi-finals from Sweden and Ukraine. If that isn’t enough Eurovision for you, don’t worry, because there’s more! On Sunday, there are two shows to choose from, the…
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Latvia is one of Eurovision’s newer nations, as they made their debut in 2000. They have since participated in 17 contests, and reached 10 finals. Even in their short time in Eurovision (short in the context of the history of Eurovision), they have managed to win the contest in 2002 with Marie N and the song…
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Over in Lithuania, the fourth and final heat of Eurovizijos has taken place. A total of 11 acts have perfomed, with six spots into the next round available. The 11 acts competing were: Alanas Chosnau – 7 Days Valerija Iljinaite – You Made Me Glow Vlad Max – I’ll Never Let You Down Queens of…
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Each week, Eurovision Union will be bringing you a specially curated playlist featuring songs recently released by Eurovision or National Final artists, and a few of our old favourites. This week, we’re featuring some newer releases from some of our favourite 2016 Eurovision artists, and some songs to get us in the mood for the…
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Lithuania has become well known for their mammoth National Finals, often lasting months before a song and artist is chosen. Over the years the format has changed, however this year, the show producer from LRT has promised that the show will be more streamlined. A total of 51 entries will compete in the Eurovizijos Atranka…
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On the eleventh day of Eurovision… We’re inching closer to the end of our journey, but before it ends, we make a stop off at Vienna, where the 60th Eurovision Song Contest took place after Conchita Wurst’s win the previous year. This was the second time Austria had hosted the competition, with the previous time…
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Not long after performing at Eurovision with the song Heartbeat, Justs is back with a new song called Ko Tu Dari? (Latvian for What Are You Doing?). The accompanying video clip has also been released. Justs has written this song himself along with the lyricist Dominiks Jarmakovičs. The song has a summery feel to it,…
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With the success of the Supernova national final format last year, the Latvian public broadcaster decided to employ this format once again. The final of Supernova took place in Riga, where four acts performed to win the right to represent their nation at the 61st edition of Eurovision. The four acts that performed were: Catalepsia…
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Although only having four songs in the final for Supernova this year, the Latvian national final was really entertaining (thanks to Riga Biebrs). At the time, I wasn’t overly impressed with the songs, but I was hoping that Aminata would win. And she did. Her performance was powerful, mesmerising and addicting, and I’m so glad…
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