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🇮🇸 Iceland starts with Söngvakeppnin

Iceland starts with Söngvakeppnin tonight. It is, already since 1986, the Icelandic national final. This year, 5 songs compete in each semifinal. Two of them go to the final, along with one wildcard. In the final, the songs can be sung in any language. In the semifinals, they have to

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🇸🇪 Third heat of Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen, the Swedish national selection, continues with a third heat. As Sweden is the host country, the winning song will go directly to the final. Two songs will go directly to the final, two other songs will go for ‘final qualification’, something that will be decided after the 5th heat. The

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🇩🇪 Isaak represents Germany in Malmö

Isaak won Das Deutsche Finale, the German preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. He will sing the song “Always on the run”, written and composed by Greg Taro, Isaak Guderian, Kevin Lehr and Leo Salminen. That is what the German audience and an international expert jury decided. Both agreed on

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🇩🇪 Germany selects a song tonight

Tonight is the night of Das Deutsche Finale, the German final for the Eurovision Song Contest. Nine songs will compete from Studio Berlin Adlershof. The show will be hosted by Barbara Schöneberger. An international jury and televoters will select a song on a 50/50 base. The show starts at 22:05

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🇮🇹 Italy: Angelina Mango confirmed for Eurovision

After winning San Remo, Angelina Mango confirmed that she will represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest. She did that in the winners press conference after the contest. It is the procedure: the winner of the Festival di Sanremo gets the first choice to represent Italy. He or she can

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🇱🇻 Dons for Latvia in Malmö

Dons wins! It’s gonna be Dons for Latvia. will sing the song “Hollow”, which is written by Artūrs Šingirejs, Kate Northrop and Liam Geddes. Dons will perform in the second half of the second semifinal. You will find the full results here: Dons, “Hollow” Vēstulēs, “Kur?” Katrīna Gupalo, “The cat’s

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🇮🇹 Italy: Festival di Sanremo final

Tonight will be the final night of the famous Festival di Sanremo. 30 songs will compete for the trophy. 5 songs will be selected for a superfinal. The winner will be decided by 33% press jury, 33% radio jury and 34% televote. The winner is the one who got the

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🇱🇻 Latvia will select an entry tonight

Latvia will select their entry tonight. After a semifinal last week, 10 songs will compete in the final of Supernova. The show starts at 20:10 CET and you can watch it here. Lauris Reiniks and Ketija Šēnberga will host the show, that takes place in LTV Studio 6 in Riga.

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🇫🇮 Finland in search for Käärijä’s successor

All eyes are on Finland this year. After the success of Käärijä, everybody’s anxious to hear what the Nordic country will bring. Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK), the Finnish national final, contains 7 songs. None of the artists ever took part in the national final. The show starts at 20:00 CET

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