[AdSense-B] After a relatively quiet week on the Eurovision news front today we have had an update from Switzerland. Today their German-Swiss broadcaster SRF announced that they had narrowed down all of the 420 songs received to a shortlist of just five. This was done by a set of juries made up of a 100 person audience panel and a …
[AdSense-B] The Eurovision selection season is in its dying embers, but there’s still a lot of energy to be had in the last few entries to surface! Macedonia (FYR)’s entry had been going quietly under the radar for the past few weeks, but now the group Eye Cue have released their explosive and upbeat entry “Lost and Found”, which sees …
[AdSense-B] What a roller coaster 12 months it has been for this year’s Russian entrant Yulia Samoylova. The performer was chosen by the Russian broadcaster Channel One to represent the nation in Ukraine almost a year ago (a year tomorrow, in fact!) in an ill-fated attempt to participate in the Kyiv contest. After the performer was banned from entering Ukraine …
[AdSense-B] Israel gave us a scare back in Kyiv when the long-standing spokesperson for the Middle Eastern nation, Ofer Nachshon, told Europe that 2017 would be their last participation. Boy, are we glad he was wrong though! Since the Israeli national broadcaster changed hands, and the latest season of HaKokhav HaBa concluded, we are now finally at the stage where …
[AdSense-B] Croatia released “Crazy”, the song that Franka Batelić is going to perform at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal. As always, our reaction video to the results is up. Matt was ready to react the Croatian entry. Will we also be crazy for Croatia this year? There’s only one way to find out, watch the video below: …
[AdSense-B] It seems like we’re getting a song release every day now! The latest country to join the party for Lisbon is Croatia, with Franka Batelić an internal choice for Croatian broadcaster HRT. Today, we finally got to hear her entry “Crazy” after it was revealed during the channel’s evening news. The song certainly has a distinct minimalistic feel with a …
[AdSense-B] Another day, another song revealed to the Eurovision masses! This time it’s the turn of Australia to have their entry revealed, although it seems evident that the official reveal was not planned just yet. Jessica Mauboy returns to the Eurovision stage as a competing artist in 2018, and her entry “We Got Love” has made it online. The midtempo …
[AdSense-B] On the eve of the reveal for Azerbaijan’s Eurovision entry, we finally have a song title; Aisel will perform “X My Heart” in Lisbon! The news, which has been confirmed by the INFE Azerbaijan group, comes as the Caucasian nation prepares to unveil its 2018 entry tomorrow, 4th March. Greek composer and producer Dimitris Kontopoulos has written the song …
[AdSense-B] Despite a busy weekend in the Eurovision world, it seems we are on the horizon of another major announcement, as the Croatian broadcaster HRT has confirmed its representative for Lisbon will be announced tomorrow, 13th February! The broadcaster confirmed that news on the selected representative would be forthcoming in a post to their official Facebook feed, as shown below. …
[AdSense-B] The national broadcaster has chosen Eleni Foureira as the representative for Cyprus in Lisbon according to INFE Greece, the leading source of Eurovision news for Greece and Cyprus. Become a Patron! The singer, who has previously tried to represent her home nation of Greece, will be internally selected by Cypriot broadcaster RIK following an agreement made between the performer …
