Latvia's songs are available

This country had 71 submissions and the jury narrowed them down to 20.

Listen to Latvia's songs:

http://eirovizija.lv/lat/eirodziesmas-2011-pusfinals/finals/

The Latvian Broadcaster returns to the pattern used two years ago when the song for Eurovision Song Contest was selected during two semi finals. Five songs from each semi final 10 entries will qualify for the final - three of these songs will be determined by the televote, but two will be chosen by the jury. There is also a novelty - The Second Chance Round where the 10 songs not qualified for the final compete. Only two entries, one chosen by televote and the other by jury, will pass to the final.

The first semi final is taking place on February 5, 2011, the second - on February 12, 2011, the Second Chance round - on February 19, 2011, but the final of Eirodziesma 2011 will be broadcast from Ventspils theatre hall "Juras Varti" on February 26, 2011.

Omggggggggggggg what I heard ... The snow froze my word so yeah wtf.

Well so the tags are " Turkey" " Tarkan " and " Teurovision" all starting with T , how wonderful Now my point is to announce that Tarkan confirmed his participation in esc or something like that. Here it is : http://eurovision-turkey.com/portal/sayfa.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2725

Ewwwwwww , the post was in november so TRT is probably gonna announce it in late december . And thats probably gonna be a belly dancing song as usual and Europe loves them , sooooooooooo it could win ...

People can now submit a song for Emmy until January 15th. The public will decide the winner through a televised final.

I heard *supposedly* the record companies of the singers interested in going to Germany must pay 60% of the bill themselves. The names of the contestants are expected to be known later this week.

More Belgians are in the national final; scroll all the way down to where it says Artistes 100% to hear them.
http://eurovision.akamusic.com/ Exactly 2 weeks from now is the deadline to reach 20,000 Euros and be in the national final.

Azerbaijan bent its own rules and instead of just accepting one person from a heat (the televoting favorite) they also chose the runner-up as a wildcard. Nikola Barkley's from Scotland and she's working in Baku and she was chosen despite missing lots of notes in all the performances of her that I saw. (My guess is that Azerbaijan wants a native English speaker to go for them)

Attention Lenavision is here and here are the latest news about the german delegation in Dusseldorf except for the fact Lena is going to defend her champion title which we all know

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,735103,00.html

Stefan Raab (surprise, surprise), Anke Engelke and Judith Rakers are the 2011 Eurovision hosts.

Copied from a facebook post from our lovely icelander

ESC NEWS UPDATE ICELAND:
Jóhanna Guðrún will be singing again this year,
Jóvgan (the guy from Faroe Islands) is also singing
Buffið (known icelandic band I think you'll love) is performing a new song,
along with few others less known icelandic artist who are also amazing.
...The songs are very different. Pop, folk, punk, rock, ballads, duets etc etc etc.
Show starts 15th January and then we'll get to hear those songs.

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The rules of this year's icelandic preselection are that all songs will be performed in Icelandic (yay!) and if the winner wants to sing in English then RUV will pay for the translation.

Let's show our hosts:

Anke Engelke:

Judith Rakers:

Stefan Raab:

LOL @ the first two photos of beautiful German women and scrolling a little bit more u see Stefan Raab who looks like a perv T_T'

Haha.. ganz typisch deutsch sind diese Moderatoren!

All titles for Eesti Laul 2011 are announced

1. Rolf Roosalu (aka Rolf Junior) - All & now (Rolf Roosalu, Liis Lass)
2. Victoria - Baby had you (Viktoriya Suslova, Stanislav Bulganin)
3. Noorkuu - Be my Saturday night (Mart Vainu)
4. Jana Kask - Don't want anything (Jakko Malti, Jana Kask)
5. Ithaka Maria - Hoppa-pa-rei! (Ithaka Maria Rahula, Peeter Pruuli)
6. Outloudz - I wanna meet Bob Dylan (Stig Rästa, Fred Krieger)
7. Laika Virgin feat. Fredy Schmidt - Ilusad inimesed (Andero Nimmer, Indrek Ups, Jarek Kasar, Fredy Schmidt)
8. Uku Suviste - Jagatud öö (Rein Rannap, Indrek Hirv)
9. Elmayonesa - Kes ei tantsi, on politsei (Nicolas Behler, Nora Reitel, Helen Heinmäe)
10. Andur - Lapsed ja lennukid (Madis Aesma, Mihkel Kirss, Gert Pajuväli, Madis Kirss)
11. Kait Tamra - Lubadus (Kait Tamra)
12. Janne Saar - Meeting the wolf (Janne Saar, Carola Madis)
13. Sofia Rubina - My melody (Sofia Rubina, Talis Paide)
14. Sõpruse Puiestee & Merili Varik - Rahu, ainult rahu (Allan Vainola, Mait Vaik)
15. Getter Jaani - Rockefeller street (Sven Lõhmus)
16. Mid - Smile (Markus Robam)
17. Shirubi Ikazuchi - St. Cabah (Silvi Pilt)
18. Mimicry - The storm (Paul Lepasson, Timmo Linnas, Kene Vernik, Jaanus Telvar)
19. Jaan Pehk - Valss (Jaan Pehk)
20. Marilyn Jurman & Karl Kanter - Veel on aega (Marilyn Jurman, Karl K)

All songs in Dutch and the national final's next month.

Song titles:
* De stroom (The stream)
* Nooit alleen (Never alone)
* Toen ik jou vergat (When I forgot you)
* Ga dan niet (Don't go then)
* Weelderig waardeloos (Luxuriously worthless)

I believe this is the website to hear the Austrian contenders:

http://cluboe3.orf.at/gutenmorgenduesseldorf/

Mimicry and Laika Virgin for !!

Some Estonian songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqZ6_6DdZjA&feature=player_embedded Mimicry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_1gVdvEtlE&feature=player_embedded Laika Virgin
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sopruse-Puiestee/217239240878 Sõpruse Puiestee


if anyone has links of any national final songs they could contribute, then please post them;D

Oh, they're soo good! Proper music.. probably too good for Eurovision tbh.

You can always count on Estonia to provide the REAL MUSIC™.

Another Estonian 2011 song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj9mTanN4YI&feature=player_embedded

I heard some more are online, I'll post them as soon as I can find them.

When talks about the deadline to announce your participation come up, I always see two: December 20th and 25th. I'm not sure what's going on or which date is the right one, but I'll keep you guys posted and keep those fingers crossed for more countries from the last few years returning.

Possible comebacks:
San Marino
Montenegro
Hungary

Slovakia said they were out because of money, but I read a report that said that they still applied so hopefully the hole in Central Europe will be smaller in 2011. Of course there's always going to be a hole because of their sore loser neighbor, but meh.