[AdSense-B] In keeping with the “Dare to Dream” theme of Eurovision 2019, Austria’s Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) have announced an audacious pick to follow up last year’s 3rd place finish by Cesar Sampson, with young electropop artist PAENDA being selected with a song called “Limits” to represent Austria in Tel Aviv, Israel. The temptation to keep the same songwriting team behind Sampson …
[AdSense-B] The Macedonian national broadcaster MRT has confirmed a familiar face for Tel Aviv, as Tamara Todevska will be their 2019 representative. Todevska is no stranger to the contest, having participated in Belgrade back in 2008 with Vrčak and Adrijan Gaxha. The group was unable to qualify from the second semi-final with their song “Let Me Love You”, which resulted …
[AdSense-B] While things have been a little bit quiet on the Polish front, today the national broadcaster TVP finally confirmed how the central European nation would be selecting its Eurovision 2019 entrant. An internal selection by the broadcaster will be used for the first time since the selection of Monika Kuszyńska in 2015, although the channel will be accepting submissions …
[AdSense-B] The Netherlands’ broadcaster AVROTROS have once again opted for an internal selection and have decided on an entry for Eurovision 2019, according to Dutch commentator Cornald Maas. The news was shared with the Dutch entertainment news site Show Nieuws, who also recently reported the rumour that it would be a dance track that would defend the colours of the …
[AdSense-B] Earlier this week, the broadcaster responsible for Azerbaijan’s entry in Eurovision, İctimai Televiziya, confirmed the fifteen acts in the running to represent the Caucasian nation in Tel Aviv, with an internal selection pending for one of the artists. The fifteen acts who are in the frame to represent Azerbaijan are; Emiliya Yaqubova Samira Efendiyeva Maryam Shabanova Vlada Ahundova Tofig Hajiyev …
[AdSense-B] An “international artist” has been internally selected to represent San Marino in Tel Aviv, according to the microstate’s national broadcaster San Marino RTV. The press release on the official website for the broadcaster indicates that there will be a press conference in the coming weeks that will detail further information on San Marino’s upcoming participation, however the song has …
[AdSense-B] Before we go into this article, we must stress that these are only rumours at the moment, but we can understand why Russian Eurovision fans are getting excited – Sergey Lazarev has been teasing the reveal of some big news on December 7th (that’s tomorrow)! The Russian performer, who represented Russia in Stockholm with “You Are The Only One” …
[AdSense-B] Don’t panic everyone, but we finally have it – our first confirmed Eurovision artist for 2019! Armenia’s national broadcaster ARMTV has in the last few minutes confirmed that Srbuhi Sargsyan, better known as Srbuk, was internally selected and will represent Armenia in Tel Aviv! The pop singer gained fame in her native country after finishing as runner-up in X …
[AdSense-B] It seems that Austria will once again be one of the trendsetters for Eurovision, with the Austrian news agency Klein’s Zeitung reporting today that an internal selection will be held next month to choose the artist and song for Tel Aviv. In an article detailing the retirement of ORF’s head of entertainment Edgar Böhm, one of his last acts …
[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 …
