costee, the third act revealed to be competing in this year’s UMK 2025, has released the song and music video for his entry, “Sekaisin.” Written by Jussi Tiainen (costee), Teemu Javanainen, and Tomi Tamminen, costee combines pop with traditional Finnish rock vocals to create a dark, yet hopeful song. costee, whose real name is Jussi Tiainen, has had a quick …

Nelli Matula, the second act revealed to be competing in this year’s UMK 2025, has released the song and music video for her entry, “Hitaammin hautaan.” Written by Kaisa Korhonen and Nelli Matula, this radio-friendly pop hit showcases Matula’s vocal range, and is a reflection of her desire to find new meanings in the direction of her life. Matula is …

Neea River, the first act revealed to be competing in this year’s UMK 2025, has released the song and music video for her entry, “Nightmares.” Written by Neea River, Ilkka Wirtanen, and Petri Alanko, this dance-pop banger carries a powerful message: no situation is ever permanent. River, an accomplished songwriter with both domestic and international hits, is thrilled to showcase …

UMK 2025 Entrants Announced Finnish broadcaster Yle has officially announced the seven entries slated to compete in this year’s Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2025 (UMK 2025). Each song will be released between January 7th and January 16th. Neea River – “Nightmares” releases on Thursday, January 9th. Nelli Matula – “Hitaammin hautaan” releases on Friday, January 10th. Costee – “Sekaisin” releases on …

Another year is slowly headed towards it’s final days, and that usually means that the entire cycle repeats. As Basel is steadily getting more and more ready for their upcoming duty of welcoming all of Europe, we need to know, who exactly will be welcomed to the Swiss city. We now have the list, and one of these countries will …

The Finnish broadcaster YLE has announced that their national selection Uuden Musikiin Kilpailu (or UMK for short) will be held on February 8th. The live show will once again be held within the Nokia arena in Tampere, which can hold a total of 15,000 audience members. The executive producer Anssi Autio stated that the decision to keep UMK in Tampere …

Finland might have been about breaking all, or at least some, of the rules this year, but just recently, Yle (Finnish broadcaster) decided to publish the updated rules, when it comes to 2025. Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu – or just UMK – will return as the national as the national selection process for next year as well. Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2025 …

A few days ago, it was announced that the 2024 Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Madrid, Spain. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Spain’s national public broadcaster, Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE), are thrilled to reveal that the 22nd edition of the contest will take place in Spain later this year. This marks a historic moment, as RTVE will …

For the second year in a row, the semi-finals were purely decided by the televote – well, with the exception of San Marino – however, the final is still decided by both the jurors and the televote, which has been the case, since 2009 now. Once again this year, the EBU revealed the full list of all the jurors from …

Speculation has been there for a while now. Fans of the Eurovision Song Contest can be thrilled to hear that last year’s fan-favorite Käärijä will be back for Eurovision 2024 in the second semi-final. There have been rumblings within the Eurovision space for a while, especially regarding Käärijä’s possible connections to the Dutch entry of this year. The Netherlands’ Joost …