Three of the Eurovision 2020 artists have revealed their position going into next year’s contest, with some dissapointing news for fans hoping to see as many returning artists as possible in Rotterdam next year. Croatia’s Damir Kedžo and Finland’s Aksel Kankaanranta have both confirmed in interviews in their home countries that they have not submitted entries to Dora and UMK, …
Within the past month alone, a plethora of small news clips and information has been released regarding the 2021 Eurovision cycle. Rather than writing a complete article over each piece, we here at ESCUnited want to combine them into multiple smaller articles to report what we know about the season as of today. Without further ado – let’s get started! …
This morning news broke from Rotterdam as a press release revealed that the EBU would be honoring the allocation draw from the cancelled 2020 contest this upcoming May. One of the big reasons the EBU decided to keep the same allocations is because fans are also carrying their tickets over from cancelled event and into the 2021 show. Many fans …
And just like that the 2021 national final season has been launched as Albania’s RTSH reveals the 26 songs competing to represent the country in Rotterdam. Things with the contest are going to be interesting this year as official dates have still not been confirmed for the contest, and they will not be hosting the festival within the traditional venue …
It looks like Switzerland’s work on Eurovision 2021 is starting early, with the team behind the country’s participation in the contest posting a teaser this afternoon. Switzerland are one of 20 countries so far who have given a second chance to their 2020 participant, with Gjon’s Tears selected internally once more by SRG SSR, and the broadcaster has teased that …
Earlier today Albanian broadcaster RTSH announced the artists who would compete in the annual contest Festivali i Këngës, which is in its 59th year. The national final is also a celebration of Albanian music and culture, and while it does serve to select the song and artist for Eurovision, often times the song goes through many changes and revamps before …
After Eurovision 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the EBU promised that Eurovision fans would not have to go without the contest next year. In order to maintain that promise, the EBU and dutch host broadcaster AVROTROS created a 4 part plan to host the contest. Each plan takes into consideration 4 different realities that could happen in …
In 2020 the French delegation decided to ditch the national selection “Destination Eurovision” to internally select Tom Leeb. After the contest was cancelled and it was announced that Leeb would not be selected for 2021, France 2 announced there are plans to return to a national selection show. Rather than using the same format as Destination Eurovision, France 2 has …
The 2020 season will most likely always be remembered for how it almost had an ending, but that ending was cut short… but where there is an ending, the is a new start and the 2021 season is already blooming upon us, starting in Finland! Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2021 In 2021, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (in short: UMK) will celebrate it’s …
Around this time last month, all of us were expecting to watch or even be in Rotterdam for the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. However, no one would ever expect that a global pandemic would put a stop to all of that. Rather than focusing on what could’ve been, then let’s take a fresh breather and look forward …
