Over the last two weeks, we’ve seen a total of 26 artists take to the Festival da Canção stage in Portugal, with each act hoping to be the lucky one to represent Portugal on home soil this year. From each of the two semi-finals, a total of 7 entries have qualified from each semi, meaning…
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San Marino surprised us all this Eurovision season as they decided to amp up their selection process, and open the opportunity for artists across the world to apply for their innovative process of 1in360. The competition was organised by San Marino RTV alongside UK-based talent agency 1in360. Over 250 entries from 60 countries around the…
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With a run of non-qualifications over the last few years, Iceland is hoping to reignite their Eurovision spark this year. As usual, the nation used their national selection format of Söngvakeppnin to select their act, with a total of 12 participants this year. There were two semi-finals held with six participants in each, with the…
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen Estonia sort through twenty diverse but talented acts through their Eesti Laul semi-finals, and after a week’s break between semi-final 2 and the final, the anticipation just kept growing. Over the weekend the Eesti Laul final took place, and we now have our winner! The show took place…
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Poland have become a force in Eurovision since their return to the contest in 2014, qualifying to every final since then, and the broadcaster TVP is hoping that this year will be no exception. The nation used the usual format of Krajowe Eliminacje to choose their Eurovision 2018 representative with a total of 10 competing…
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We’re finally getting to the pointy end of Lithuania’s national selection, with both semi-finals now complete and the list of finalists set in stone. Last week we saw the first seven acts perform their competing entries with only three acts qualifying, with this week following in the same format. Here is the line-up: Marija –…
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It’s was one of the most anticipated national selections of the 2018 season, and we finally reached the day that Finnish Eurovision representative Saara Aalto would be elected a song that she would take to Eurovision. As we know, this year’s UMK was different to previous years, with the Finnish broadcaster scrapping the multiple artist…
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Over the last month, we’ve seen seven acts perform each week, with two artists qualifying directly to the final, and two acts each week getting a second chance at reaching the final. We’ve now reached that second chance round, with four duels, and four winners. Here’s the line-up: Duel 1: Margaret vs. Moncho Duel 2:…
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He’s a little bit country, and a little bit rock ‘n roll, and he’s a whole lot of Eurovision this year. We’re of course talking about Waylon, who was selected quite early on in the Eurovision season as the Dutch representative for this year. He previously represented The Netherlands back in 2014 as part of…
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Earlier in the national final season, we learnt that Cyprus had internally selected Eleni Foureira to represent the nation. She has been labelled the ‘Queen of Pop’ across Greece and Cyprus, so fans were expecting big things from her entry titled Fuego. The song was written by Alex Papaconstantinou, Geraldo Sandell, Anderz Wrethov, Viktor Svensson…
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