News is slowly starting to trickle in about Eurovision 2017, and now, Belgium has released information about their act, who was internally selected by RTBF. Ellie Delvaux, who is known by the artist name Blanche will represent Belgium in Kyiv! Blanche has previously taken part in The Voice Belgium, and is now working with Pierre…
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The EBU has now officially announced that there will be a record high 43 countries participating in Eurovision 2017 held in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. This equals the total from 2008 and 2011, which also featured 43 countries. The countries returning to the contest after absence include Portugal and Romania, who did not participate in…
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The broadcasting of Eurovision is a task taken on by a representative national broadcaster from each participating nation. The broadcaster must play the entire show, including all the songs, the recaps, the voting and the reprise. The only times broadcasters may cut out to advertising breaks is during interval acts. From 1999 onwards, there was…
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After an extremely successful act last year in Eurovision for Belgium, the bar was set high for whoever was lucky enough to earn the opportunity to perform this year. After a national final, it was decided that Laura Tesoro would be the act representing Belgium with the song What’s the Pressure. The song has some…
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This year, the Flemish public broadcaster followed tradition and used a national final to select the representative for Belgium. This year, five artists competed for the top spot and they were: Adil – In Our Nature Laura Tesoro – What’s the Pressure Tom Frantzis – I’m not Lost Astrid – Everybody Aches Amaryllis – Kick…
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Not long after the 2015 Grand Final, Belgium has announced their plans for the 2016 contest. Two broadcasters are involved in organising the acts, RTBF and VRT take turns in choosing the process for selecting their Eurovision. With Loic Nottet chosen by RTBF, 2016 plans will be organised by VRT. As in 2014, VRT would…
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After months of waiting, we finally have our first semi-final qualifiers. Warning, this article contains spoilers! Here are the qualifiers: Armenia Belgium Greece Estonia Serbia Hungary Russia Albania Romania Georgia There were some shock exits, and some surprise qualifiers. Despite some of our sadness from seeing our faves leave, it was still an amazing show!…
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Roberto Bellarosa, the Belgian representative from 2013 has recently released a new song from his upcoming second album. Amongst new photos from a photoshoot for the new song, Roberto has also released a video to accompany the song, titled ‘Suis ta Route’. The upbeat song can be heard via Youtube (also linked below) and can…
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Anita: I think this is FABULOUS. When Belgium chose their representative early on in the Eurovision National Final season, I didn’t take it too seriously. Remember when they chose Roberto Bellarosa? It was like that all over again. Then, as we got closer to the date of the song reveal, I was anxious to see…
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Months ago, we learnt that Belgium would be sending the 18 year old Loïc Nottet to Eurovision. Last night, we first got to hear a 30 second snippet of the song, but now we can both listen to the complete song, and watch the video for his Eurovision entry called ‘Rhythm Inside.’ Nottet’s record company,…
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