Finnish broadcaster YLE has now released more information on the selection process for the 2020 Eurovision season. Unlike the previous two years, the selection UMK will return to an open format, previously used between 2012 and 2017. In 2018, the Finnish broadcaster decided to change their approach for Eurovision by internally selecting their artist, but…
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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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Previous to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final, it was announced that the Belarusian jury was dismissed due to the members revealing their votes after the first semi-final, which is against the rules and regulations set by the EBU. As a result, the voting partner, Digame created a substitute aggregated result, based on the…
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Moments ago the running order for the two semi-finals of this year’s contest was revealed. As we know, the producers of the show now decide in which order the participants perform in, although in which semi-final and in which half of the semi-final the participants perform in was already randomly pre-determined through the Semi-Final Allocation…
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The Eurovision selection process is well and truly underway in Latvia, with the nation’s broadcaster revealing the 33 participants and their audition tapes. Last week, the Latvian national broadcaster LTV held the second round of auditions for the upcoming edition of Supernova, the selection process the nation uses to select their Eurovision entrant. A total…
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Sweden’s long running national selection, Melodifestivalen has been a staple in the Eurovision season and is highly anticipated. The upcoming edition is no exception, and many fans have been waiting for the announcement of who will be competing in Melodifestivalen 2019. That time has come, and now we know who will be competing as well…
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The official announcement has been made, and we now know the nations who will be competing at Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Earlier today, the EBU announced that 42 nations will be competing at Eurovision 2019, 36 of which will be competing in the semi-finals with 6 automatically qualifying for the final (France, Italy,…
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Earlier in the week, Hungarian broadcaster MTVA opened the submission period for their national selection, A Dal. Up until November 8, interested participants will be able to submit their songs through the official A Dal website. The applications must feature the following: The audio file in flac, m4a, mp3, ogg, wav or wma format The…
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Ukrainian broadcasters STB and UA:PBC have announced that they will be continuing with their national final process of Vidbir to select their Eurovision act for 2019. The two broadcasters have also announced that their collaboration will continue for another three years. STB will organise the national selection, while UA:PBC covers the cost of the participation…
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Albania are often one of the first nations to select their Eurovision act, and 2019 is no exception. Today the broadcaster RTSH announced the artists who would be participating in the upcoming Festivali i Këngës. The national final will held over three days with two semi-finals to be held on December 20 and 21, while…
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