Among countless Eurovision National Selections this weekend, we also saw the start of Estonia’s national selection. Eesti Laul will feature two semi-finals, as per usual, with 10 acts competing in each semi-final, all hoping to receive one of the 5 qualifying spots of each semi-final. The competition qualifiers will be decided by a 50/50 split…
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Over the weekend the first of two semi-finals took place in Iceland, where a total of six participants performed what could end up being the Icelandic Eurovision entries. To get to that stage, of course, the acts must qualify through to the final, of which three acts did in this first semi-final. As we know,…
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This weekend the first of two semi-finals took place in Ukraine, where a total of nine acts performed their entries live on stage, facing a jury and of course the public vote. A total of three qualified to the final, and they will join the next three qualifiers of next week’s semi-final! Here are the…
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Sanremo Song Festival remains one of the most prestigious song festivals not only in Italy, but across Europe with 68 years of history. This year, the competition continued on with new artists in both the Newcomers and Big Artists all of which performed their competing entries which faced both the jury votes as well as…
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This week marked the second semi-final of Latvia’s selection process, Supernova, with another seven acts competing for just two qualifying spots. As in the previous semi-final, the qualifiers are decided through a mix of televoting as well as the votes of a jury of music professionals. This week saw a group of diverse acts including:…
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Hungary’s national selection continued this weekend, and after three exciting heats, we’re now at the semi-final stage of the competition. A total of nine competitors performed their potential Eurovision songs on stage once again, facing the jury and the Hungarian public vote. As in previous weeks, the voting is done in two rounds, however now…
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Among the countless national selections this weekend, Denmark was one of two nations to decide on their song and artist combination for Eurovision, and it certainly made for an exciting show. The show took place in Aalborg, and was hosted by Annette Heick and Johannes Nymark. There were 10 acts competing this year, and we…
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We’re up to Heat 5 in Lithuania, however we’ve reached the point where there are no new entries to hear, but rather just a slow elimination of the songs that qualified over the last four heats. This week there were 12 participants, with half of those going through to the next round. As in previous…
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Sweden’s popular national selection Melodifestialen continued this week with the second of four semi-finals taking place, this week in Gothenburg and once again hosted by David Lindgren. This week we saw another seven acts perform, but at the end of all the performances, only two acts can advance directly to the final, while two get…
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We all expected the usual UMK national selection process from Finland this year, but they announced early on in the Eurovision national final season that it would be Saara Aalto to represent the nation, with three songs to be revealed at a later date – and guess what, it’s now that later date and we…
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