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2020 host trio invited for 2021

photo: NPO/Avrotros/EBU Now that the city of Rotterdam has presented their will to organize the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, more things become clear.  The 2020 host trio, Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley and Jan Smit will be the 2021 hosts as well. That is what Chantal Janzen said in the RTL

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Andres (Eurovision 1972) passed away

Today we received the sad news that Dries Holten passed away on April 15. Dries is better known as Andres, who achieved great fame as half of the duo Sandra & Andres. The duo got together in 1966 and sang together until 1975. After that Andres continued as half of

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Council Rotterdam: host city Eurovision 2021

Photo: Jeroen ‘t Hart Today is the day the council of Rotterdam had to agree being host city for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. And they did! From all the 41 councilors voting, 33 agreed with this. Apart from the money the city of Rotterdam already spent on the contest,

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Draw first semifinal Eurostream 2020

Today, our friends of Aussievision did the draw for the first semifinal of Eurostream 2020. This is what the draw looks like: 01 Sweden02 Ireland03 Belarus04 Australia05 Lithuania06 Russia07 North Macedonia08 Slovenia09 Azerbaijan10 Norway11 Israel12 Malta13 Croatia14 Belgium15 Romania16 Cyprus17 Ukraine The first semifinal will be streamed on may 5th.

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Eurovision in Concert: april 10 2021

Save the date! April 10 2021 will be the new date for Eurovision In Concert. The organizers of Eurovision In Concert announced the news today. The event will, just as it was planned this year, take place in Afas Live in Amsterdam. If you bought tickets for this year’s EIC,

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Iceland wins “Der kleine Song Contest”

In Austria, they had their own song contest this year. Divided over three shows, an expert jury chose three songs to be judged by Austrian televoters. And the winner is…. Iceland! Daði  & Gagnamagnið got 48% of the votes with their song “Think about things”, while Austria was the runner

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Europe Shine A Light in 45 countries!

Europe Shine A Light, the tv show that will replace the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest, can be heard and seen in 45 countries. All the participating countries will transmit the show, which can be seen on may 16, 21:00 CET. Beside that, the show will be broadcast by television stations

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Eurostream: the online alternative for the Eurovision Song Contest!

Following the cancellation of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest due to the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak, several major Eurovision websites, among which Eurovision Universe, have joined forces to organise the first ever 100% online edition of the Contest. Under the joint name Eurostream 2020, three scheduled live shows (with two Semi-Finals

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Rotterdam warmly willing to organize Eurovision 2021

photo: Jeroen ‘t Hart Apart from the €15,5 million costs the city of Rotterdam already made for the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest, it will cost the city €6,7 million extra to host the 2021 contest. However, the mayor and councillors wrote a letter to the council about this, stating that

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