I think you all know where this review is going – and I haven’t even started yet. What a mess this whole situation is, am I right? So, Serhat was chosen as the singer for San Marino, despite not being from San Marino. There’s no rules to say he has to be from San Marino,…
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UMK (Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu) has been a national final process that the Finnish public broadcaster has used for many years, and this year was no exception. After three exciting heats, a total of nine acts competed in the final to earn the right to represent Finland at this year’s edition of Eurovision.  The hosts of…
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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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Albania, in recent history, has more often than not, translated their beautiful native language songs into English. In a few cases, this has been successful enough to allow them to qualify to the final, other times, not so successful. This year, Eneda Tarifa was chosen to represent the nation with a song titled Përrallë, however…
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This year, the Greek broadcaster chose to internally select their act, and they chose hip hop act Argo, which will represent the nation with the song Utopian Land. The song, as per their usual genre, is a hip hop crossed with the traditional instruments often heard in the Greek entries. It’s also interesting to note…
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Israel has chosen their 2016 act for Eurovision with the format of a televised talent program titled Rising Star. Over a number of weeks, acts were eliminated from the contest, and in the final, only four acts remained. The four acts were: Hovi Star –Â Made Of Stars Nofar Salman –Â Made Of Stars Ella Daniel –Â Somebody…
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This year, the Slovenian public broadcaster decided to hold EMA, a national selection. Ten contestants were in the running to earn the right to represent Slovenia at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The show was opened by the host of the show Klemen Slakonja, who performed the Slovenian version of the 2015 winning song, Heroes.…
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Late last year, we reported that Montenegrin band The Highway would be representing their nation at Eurovision this year, and now we have a song to go along with it. The song is titled The Real Thing, and was written and composed by Skansi, Luka Vojvodic and Maro Market. The song is loud, and not…
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Earlier in the Eurovision national final season, we reported that Sergey Lazarev would be Russia’s participant this year. Sergey is one of Russia’s biggest artists right now, and he will be taking the song You are the Only One to Eurovision this year. The song was composed by Philip Kirkorov and Dimitris Kontopoulos, who have…
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As in previous years, Estonia used the Eesti Laul format to choose their Eurovision act. The growing popularity was clear, with 5300 people coming to see the show in Saku Suurhall. The show was hosted by Ott Sepp and Mart Avandi. The ten finalists are listed below: Laura –Â Supersonic Go away bird –Â Sally Mick Pedaja…
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