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Germany: Unser Star für Baku - Heat 5
Tonight the fifth heat of Unser Star für Baku, the German national final took place. One participant had to leave the show tonight. Unfortunately for Céline Huber, she was the one leaving the show. Once again the show started with a popularity vote. Just like the past few weeks, Roman Lob ma...
Sweden: Top Cats [Interview]
This Saturday, Semifinal 2 of Melodifestivalen 2012 will take place in Göteborg and escXtra has taken the time to catch-up with Top Cats and ask them a few questions! escXtra: Hi guys! Firstly, as you will be unknown to most of our readers, please can you tell us how you were formed? Top ...
Hungary: A Dal - the most viewed show on Saturday
The second semi final of A Dal, which was held on Saturday, received even higher viewing figures than the first semi final. Almost one million people watched the entire show, which means that A Dal was the most viewed programme of the day, and m1 the most viewed channel in the country. A total o...
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Song Presentation on 10/11 March
Bosnian broadcaster BHRT have revealed that their entry for Baku will be revealed on either Saturday 10 March or Sunday 11 March. The exact wording of the press release states "The song that will represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time will b...
Romania: TVR's participant wishlist announced
TVR has just announced their wishlist for the Romanian national selection. Every year, TVR comes up with a list with popular names in the country, which they would like to see taking part in their national selection for Eurovision. This year's list includes some previous Eurovision entrants, suc...
Serbia: Song presentation on 10th of March?
Months ago, RTS has announced that Željko Joksimović is going to represent Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, with a song composed by himself. According to esctoday and escserbia, it was now reveiled that the song will be premiered on the 10th of March live at 21:00 CET. Željko Joksi...
Sweden: Record viewing figures
SVT reports that a total of 3,370,000 people watched the first semi final of Melodifestivalen, held last Saturday. That is the highest rate of the first semi final, since semi finals were introduced back in 2002. The former record from a semi final was 3,295‚000 people from 2009. SVT is very...
Croatia: Nina Badrić to Guest In Several Countries
HRT reports that ever since Nina Badrić was announced as the Croatian Eurovision entrant for Baku, international media are very interested in her, and that she has already received lots of invitations from other national broadcasters. Nina Badrić will perform in the final of the Bulgarian na...
Finland: Leola [Interview]
Finland has changed tactics this year and strayed away from it’s long used Euroviisut format to be replaced with the new open casting show ‘Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu’. From 540 acts in the running, just 10 remain, and we spoke to one of the members of the band Leola, Kuisma Eskola (third from...
Azerbaijan: Kurt Calleja to Guest
He may only have been chosen as Malta's Eurovision representative this weekend, Kurt Calleja already as a date in his promotional tour diary. He will be performing at next Sunday's Azeri final in Baku, in which Azerbiajan will choose its singer for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. He will sho...
Norway: Wildcard and the final running order announced
In the past three weeks, nine acts qualified for the final of Melodi Grand Prix 2012. It was reveiled today who gets the wildcard, and who will be the 10th finalist - Lise Karlsnes. Lise took part in the third semi, which was held on the 4th of February. Even though she was one of the favorite...
Belgium: Urban Trad says farewell
The Belgian entrants in 2003, the group Urban Trad, had their final concert last night. The band announced their farewell tour a while ago. That tour ended tonight, with a concert in Brussels. Urban Trad rose to European fame in 2003, when they were chosen as the Belgian representatives for th...
Hungary: Four qualifiers from semi final two of A Dal [Interview]
Last night, the second semi final of A Dal was being held in Budapest. 10 acts took part once again, and three acts made it to the final via jury voting, and televoters from all around the world decided who the fourth qualifier is going to be. escXtra has got a short interview with every of the f...
Finland: Iconcrash [Interview]
Finland has changed tactics this year and strayed away from it’s long used Euroviisut format to be replaced with the new open casting show ‘Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu’. From 540 acts in the running, just 10 remain, and we spoke to three out of the five members of the band Iconcrash; Jaani, Mat...
Baku 2012: Take a look inside the Crystal Hall
World Architecture News has given us a peek inside the 25,000 seat Crystal Hall, which will play host to the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, from the Azerbaijan capital Baku. The hall is described as a pure steel structure, as opposed to the commonly used reinforced concrete, and has been design...
Baku 2012: Second castings: lighting the fire of fame in Baku
The second castings for the promotional videos and other material for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 were underway last week, with hundreds of budding young stars coming along to audition for their place in the world's largest annual television show. With the show's theme and insignia now re...
Malta: Kurt Calleja wins the Maltese ticket to Baku!
After a marathon national final that spanned almost four hours, Kurt Calleja has won the chance to represent the tiny island nation at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan. Kurt and his song 'This Is The Night' was the winner in a close race in which second and third place went to Cl...
Lithuania: Beissoul, The Independent and Multiks to the final
Tonight, the first semi-final of the Lithuanian preselection was screened by national broadcaster, LRT. The semi final consisted of nine songs, which were pre-recorded. You can view our impressions of the songs here. Three qualifiers were selected by televote for the final, which were: Bei...
Hungary: Results of the second semi final of A Dal
Tonight was the second show of this year's Hungarian preselection A Dal, a two-hour long show from the MTV studios in Budapest. Four songs have gone through to the final, with three being selected by an expert jury, and one remaining song selected via televote. The expert jury consisted of Jen...
Norway: 3 more finalists for Melodi Grand Prix
The third and final Melodi Grand Prix too place in Florø tonight. With six finalists already confirmed, three acts joined the line-up for next Saturday's final. The progressing entries are: Bobby Bear & Petter Øien – Things Change Yaseen & Julie Maria – Sammen Tooji – St...
Sweden: First semifinal results
Tonight 2 entries qualified directly to Globen and they are: Loreen - "Euphoria" Dead by April - "Mystery" There were 2 more songs which qualified to Andra Chansen round and will have a chance to win a spot in the final: Thorsten Flinck & Rev... - "Jag reser mig igen" Sean Banan - "Sea...
Hungary: A Dal - semifinal two
The second semifinal of A Dal will take place tonight. Another four songs will qualify for the final. [liveblog]
Malta: Maltese National Final
Tonight Malta selects the song which will become the 25th song to fly the Maltese flag at the Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision.tv will be streaming the show here (requires the octoshape plugin) but as per usual we'll be liveblogging the whole event here. The show is expected to start at 20:40...
Sweden: First semi final
Hello All! We are starting one of the most exciting national finals of the season - Swedish preslection for Eurovision aka Melodifestivalen! I will be your guide tonight and will report on what is happening. You can tune in by clicking here. [liveblog]
Norway: Last semifinal in Melodi Grand Prix
This evening, Norway's most westerly town, Florø plays host to eight artists hoping to win one of three remaining tickets to next weekend's Melodi Grand Prix final. Competing tonight are: Tooji – Stay Marthe Valle – Si Petter Øien – Things Change Yaseen & Julie Maria –...
Finland: Jari (Jari & Taika) [Interview]
Finland has changed tactics this year and strayed away from it’s long used Euroviisut format to be replaced with the new open casting show ‘Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu’. From 540 acts in the running, just 10 remain, and unfortunately Jari who we spoke to during the week was eliminated in last n...
Sweden: Full Versions of 1st Semi Final songs online
SVT have this afternoon uploaded full versions of the songs competing in tonight's first semi final of Melodifestivalen 2012. The show will be aired live via the SVT website here from 20:00 CET tonight and will run for 90 minutes until 21:30 CET. escXtra will be live blogging the semi final for...
Finland: Iconcrash #1 most requested on YLEX Radio
Finnish band Iconcrash who are one of the lucky 12 acts in this year's new concept national final 'Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu' have made history by having the first song from a Finnish National Final to be the most requested song on state broadcaster YLE's radio offshoot, YLEX prior to the contest. ...
Lithuania: 1st semifinal impressions
Tonight, the first semifinal of the Lithuanian national preselection takes place. However, I managed to attend the recording of the show on Friday and here are the impressions from the studio. The hosts: we have 2 hosts this time - Darius Užkuraitis who has been commenting ESC in Lithuania ev...
Azerbaijan: Artist Selection on 12 February
Azerbaijan will select its singer for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest next Sunday, it has been announced. After this week's semifinals, five acts remain in the running to be the first Azeri artist to sing on home soil at Eurovision. The final of 'MiIli Seçim Turu' will take place at the Haydar ...-
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