Over the last few weeks, we have seen news, comments and opinions flood in regarding the host city or in this case, the host nation of Eurovision 2019. As we know, Eurovision is (normally) hosted in the nation that had won the previous year, and since Israel won, the trend would follow so Israel would…
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On the back of two non-qualifications, and more broadly a mixed history of hits and misses, it has now been announced that the much loved Malta Eurovision Song Contest will not be used to select the Maltese act for Eurovision 2019. Maltese broadcaster TVM has announced that the worldwide television programme The X Factor will…
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For the Eurovision 2018 season, Finnish broadcaster decided to scrap their usual multi-artist format of their national selection to preference one artist. As we know, it was Saara Aalto who was internally selected, with a national selection held later on in the season in order to decide her Eurovision entry. Although Finland finished 25th in…
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After three years of non-qualification, Finland looked towards one of their biggest pop stars Saara Aalto to bring Finland back to the Eurovision final. Now that the contest is over, and we know that the final result was underwhelming for Finland, how will they approach Eurovision 2019? For Eurovision 2018, Finnish broadcaster YLE put aside…
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We are still digesting the result of Eurovision 2018, but already broadcasters are looking forward to next year’s edition of the contest. One of the nations beginning their preparations is Germany, who became one of the favourites in this year’s edition and ended up finishing in 4th place. With a Top 5 result, the broadcaster…
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She was the hot favourite with the bookmakers for most of the lead up to the contest, and Israel’s Netta Barzilai has conquered the contest. Her wish can now come true – she can now bring the contest back to Israel. It’s been 20 years since their last win with Dana International, and in total…
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Late last week Australian Broadcaster SBS somewhat unexpectedly dropped the teaser video for who would be representing Australia at Eurovision 2018, and already the time has come where we can name Australia’s 4th Eurovision representative! Through a continuation of the teaser video, we saw that the artist that Australian commentator Joel Creasey casually messaged was…
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Us Australians are usually (im)patiently waiting for broadcaster SBS to announce who will be representing the nation at Eurovision, but it’s a Christmas miracle because we won’t have to wait long at all to find out who will be the 4th Australian representative. SBS have released a short video preparing viewers for the announcement, and…
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Progress is being made in the organisation of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, with news now released on the logo, slogan and overall theme of the contest, as well as the list of participating nations for 2018. Portuguese broadcaster RTP has been hard at work coming up with the overall concept for the contest, and…
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We’ve come to know a Montenegro who selects their Eurovision act and entry through an internal selection, however things are going to change for 2018. For the first time in a long while, Montenegro is opting to use a national final selection process to choose their 2018 Eurovision act, and we now have more information…
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