Four artists down and 44 to go! Today it’s Latvia’s turn to have their dreams fulfilled! Who did you want to see singing for the Baltic nation in 2016? There was little competition for the Latvian songstress MNTHA who romped to victory and is your dream participant for Latvia! The unusual style of performance by her alienated many when she …

We’re powering through our list of dream artists for 2016, with three already decided. Time to add a fourth, for the microstate of San Marino. Who did you want? Will it be a surprise? Of course not! It was never in doubt – Valentina Monetta achieved the biggest landslide from all 48 countries and was the overwhelming favourite of our …

After Lilit for Armenia and Gülşen for Turkey, it’s time to turn our attention westwards and take a look at 2015’s returnee the Czech Republic. Have we found an artist who could bring the Czechs to their first final? And it was a close-fought battle for supremacy but Lenka Dusilová with Baromantika was the narrow favourite with our readers. The …

Yesterday we kicked off our Dream Team for Eurovision 2016 with Turkey’s Gülşen. Today we find out who people wanted to represent Armenia next year… And it’s a tie for first place, but as Lilit Hovhannisyan was the first name chosen we’ll place the spotlight on her to give us a single artist. Other names who our readers were also …

The first country to reveal their dream team participant, as decided by our readers, is Turkey! The Eurasian country has been absent from the contest since 2013 but TRT are expected to bring Turkey back in 2016 – so who do our readers want to see flying the Turkish flag? There were a lot of names suggested for Turkey, but …

While the confirmations are slowly starting to trickle in for 2016 there are a few countries where fans of the contest often hold their breath and hope for the best. One such country is the Czech Republic who made tentative steps back into the Eurovision family this year, in the hope of achieving greater results than their previous attempts between …

The BBC have, today, confirmed participation for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest to us here at escunited.com! BBC will once again organise the United Kingdom’s selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, although, no decisions have been announced as to whether they will once again opt for an internal selection or they will revert back to the national final process. In correspondence …

Are you sitting at home still mourning the end of Vienna 2015? Just completed your sixth viewing of the voting sequence? Voted in every kind of contest you can find on the internet? Then the Post Eurovision Depression must be hitting you hard… but of course, the excitement never stops and we at ESC United are already looking forward to …

In what could be considered dissapointing but not unexpected news, Luxembourg’s national broadcaster RTL has given indication that the small Benelux state will not be taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest next year in Sweden. Luxembourg has not taken part since 1993 but in recent years many fans have felt a sea of change as the cultural minister of …

The Austrian national broadcaster ORF will organise a national final once again in 2016, its director Kathrin Zechner has confirmed. From the experience of hosting this year’s Eurovision Song Contest the format is expected to place further importance on the Austrian music industry and the broadcaster is expected to work with the industry on finding an entry in 2016. Other …