Most of you will be celebrating the new year tonight. However, you might want to watch the final of Georgian Idol tonight, as it will be decided there who will represent Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam 2020. Four contestants are still in competition: Barbara Samkharadze Tornike Kipiani
Tonight, Festival i Këngës 2019 was won by Arilena Ara with the song “Shaj”. Second prize was for top favourite Elvana Gjata, while Sara Bajraktari became 3rd. Arilena won season 2 of the Albanian version of the X-Factor in 2013. In 2014 she had her first hit “Aeroplan”. She also
Tonight at 20:30 CET (scheduled, but at the nights of the semifinals we experienced a delay) the first national final of Eurovision 2020 starts: Festival i Këngës, the Albanian preselection. Twelve songs and artists will compete to win the 58th Festival i Këngës. One of the songs will represent Albania
Tonight the four finalist of Georgian Idol were chosen. One of these four will, on december 31, be chosen as the winner of Georgian Idol 2019 and….. represent Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest. There is, however, a difference compared to this year’s national selection. During the final of last
We’ve heard all twenty songs of Festival i Këngës 58, the Albanian national final for the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. The professional jury, consisting of Mikaela Minga (Albania) Christer Björkman (Sweden) Dimitris Kontopoulos (Greece) Felix Bergsson (Iceland) Rita Petro (Albania) decided which 12 songs should go to the final on
Sad news from France: at the age of 84, Alain Barrière died of a cardiac arrest. Barrière took part in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Elle était si jolie”. He reached the 5th place. Another worldwide hit of Barrière was “Ma vie” in 1964. After a long
People who visited Het Grote Songfestivalfeest in Amsterdam last weekend might have noticed that the song “Fly on the wings of love” was sung by only one Olsen Brother, Jørgen. Today, his brother Niels Noller Olsen announced that he has to end his career. In may this year, Niels was
Next sunday, Albania will choose it’s Eurovision entry for 2020. It might be a good moment to look back in the Albanian eurovision history. Just let me cry…. cry…. cry…. for this is the best I can do now. That is the translation of the lyrics of Rona Nishliu‘s Eurovision
Vincent Bueno will represent Austria in the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. He will sing the up-tempo song “Alive”, which will be presented to the audience in march 2020. Vincent is not completely unknown to the Eurovision audience. The Austrian-born Filipino singer took part in the Austrian national final in 2016.
Upcoming: the Albanian national final Festival i Këngës, which will be held december the 19th, 20th and 22nd. Twenty new songs, all in Albanian, will be presented on those evenings. After the 22nd of december we know the first entry for Rotterdam! Do you wanna hear the songs already? It’s