Norway – Tonight the second of three semi-finals of the Norwegian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be held in Larvik. Eight acts will compete for three places in the national final to be held on February 11 in Oslo Spektrum. The qualifiers will be decided by 100% televoting. Read the rest of this entry »
Norway: Second Semi-Final of Melodi Grand Prix Tonight
Posted: January 28, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in Norway10
Eurovision History Chat with Bell and Freeman: Germany
Posted: January 27, 2012 by hikarufreeman in Australia, ESC History, Eurovision Through the Years, Germany, Worldwide FansTags: Eurovision, Joy 94.9
ESC History Podcast – The story of Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest is not one of dominating glory. Just two victories in more than half a century of trying. But it is an engrossing tale. It’s in part about a nation’s cultural redemption The first ESC was 11 years & 16 days after the end of the european war. The other part of the story is about the battle for the soul of German popular culture. For years modernity went head to head with the sweet & highly sentimental schlager style. Read the rest of this entry »
Germany – The first elimination round of the German preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest “Unser Star Für Baku”, was held last night. In the last two weeks ten singers qualified for the elimination rounds. Each of them performed a song of their choosing and two were eliminated at the end of the show: Leonie and Rachel did not get enough votes. Once again the current standing of the voting was be shown during the entire show. Read the rest of this entry »
France – This years French entry will be premiered this Sunday however a snippet of the song is now online. You can listen to the snippet of Echo (You and I) here. The song has been written by Jean-Pierre Pilot e William Rousseau who are also behind Christophe Willem’s hit “Double Je”. Furthermore, the song has been mixed by Veronica Ferraro, who has collaborated with David Guetta and Kelly Rowland on their latest albums. Anggun has repeatedly said that she wants an “American-style presentation” and a bilingual song in English and French. Read the rest of this entry »
Greece – Rumor has it that the Greek band “Melisses” will soon be confirmed as the country’s representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Azerbaijan. ESCDaily reports that one of their sources has been told that the rock/pop band will fly the Greek flag in Baku. A national final will only concern the entry the band will sing. Back in 2010 the band took part in the Greek Read the rest of this entry »
Ireland – The Irish national broadcaster RTÉ is expected to soon solve the mystery concerning the participants of the Irish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The broadcaster, shall announce the five competitors on February 9, during the radio program Mooney. One of them will have the honor of flying the Irish flag in Baku. Two competitors are already known: One of them will be the hyperactive twins of Jedward, who will be mentored by the winner of ESC 1992, Linda Martin. Donna McCaul, who represented Read the rest of this entry »
Germany: First Elimination Round of Unser Star Für Baku
Posted: January 26, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in Germany Germany – The German private channel Pro7 will broadcast the first elimination round of the German preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest “Unser Star Für Baku”, tonight. In the last two weeks ten singers qualified for the elimination rounds. Each of them will perform a song of their choosing and two will be eliminated at the end of the show. Once again the current standing of the voting will be shown during the entire show. Read the rest of this entry »
Ukraine – The Ukrainian national broadcaster has revealed 20 songs that will compete in the country’s selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The national final will be held on February 18. Another two acts will be added to the list through wildcards. One will be the winners of the show “Show Number 1″, the group Nereal’nye and the other will be given to the winner of an online voting at the platform say.tv Read the rest of this entry »
Cyprus: Ivi Adamou to Sing “La La Love” at Eurovision
Posted: January 25, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in Cyprus
Cyprus – Tonight the Cypriot national broadcaster CyBC broadcast the song selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Popular singer Ivi Adamou, who was selected internally to represent the Mediterranean island, perform the three possible entries. The eventual winner was the rhythmic dance song “La La Love”. Adamou didn’t perform any of the songs live. Read the rest of this entry »
Eurovision 2012: The Semi-Final Draw
Posted: January 25, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in Eurovision Song Contest 2012
Azerbaijan – All 37 countries that will have to compete in one of the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest were just drawn to the two semi-finals. Due to the uneven number of participants, the second semi-final will have 19 competitors while the first semi-final only has 18. The countries were allocated to pots that reflect the voting patterns that exist in Eurovision in order to minimize the impact of neighbor votes. Read the rest of this entry »
Eurovision 2012: Venue and Slogan: Baku Crystal Hall and Light Your Fire
Posted: January 25, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in Eurovision Song Contest 2012
Azerbaijan – The EBU has announced that the official venue of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be the newly constructed (and still in the process of construction) Baku Crystal Hall. Furthermore the slogan of the event in 2012 has been revealed: “Light Your Fire” will be the official slogan we will be hearing a lot in the coming months. Stay tuned for more information from the Allocation draw 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
Armenia – After the to and fro about a possible Armenian participation even continued after the official list of participants was revealed, we know have signs that the Caucasian nation is actually going to participate in Baku. The Armenian selection process is in preparation. Armenia’s head of delegation Gohar Gasparian, told the newspaper Novosti Armenia, that the country’s selection Read the rest of this entry »
Cyprus – Tonight the Cypriot national broadcaster CyBC will broadcast the song selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Popular singer Ivi Adamou, who was selected internally to represent the Mediterranean island will perform three possible entries. The winner will be decided by a mixture of 50/50 jury and televoting. Read the rest of this entry »
Eurovision 2012: Live Show and Semi-Final Allocation Draw Today!
Posted: January 25, 2012 by isabelabueno in Eurovision Song Contest 2012Eurovision 2012 – This Wednesday, Baku will hold a live show to introduce itself as the host city of Eurovision Song Contest 2012. During the ceremony, the Mayor of Düsseldorf will hand over the Host City Insignia to the Mayor of Baku. Then, there will be the Semi-Final Allocation Draw and also the presentation of the slogan and theme art for Baku 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
France – It has just been confirmed that Anggun’s song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be presented this Sunday at 16:00 CET. This years French entry will be presented at MIDEM, which is the largest music trade industry fare in Cannes. According to Warner Music she will not perform the song live at the fare though. Read the rest of this entry »
Armenia – The organization of Armenians in the Netherlands called “Dear Angels” launched a campaign for the singer Lucia Moon (stage name Babayants Lucina, who is born in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh) to become the Armenian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The Armenian broadcaster had appeared on the official participants list of the EBU despite tensions with hosting Azerbaijan. Read the rest of this entry »
Iceland – RÚV has published the list of artists that will compete in the second semi-final of the Icelandic national selection. The semi-final will be held this Saturday and will see two of these five songs qualify for the national final. The final’s line-up will be completed after this semi-final. These are the competitors: Read the rest of this entry »
Hungary – Next Saturday, the Hungarian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest will start with the first of two semi-finals. A total of 20 songs will compete in the selection. They had been presented in a radio show and can now be listened to on soundcloud. Read the rest of this entry »
Sweden – The first semi-final of the immensely Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest “Melodifestivalen 2012″ will be held on February 4. SVT has started airing a trailer for the first semi-final featuring Danny Saucedo (naked..), Charlotte Perelli and Molly Sandén. Melodifestivalen is the most popular television program in Sweden with almost half of the population tuning in every year. Read the rest of this entry »
Estonia – All twenty songs of Eesti Laul, the Estonian national final, have been posted online and can now be listened to in full. There will be two semi-finals, scheduled for 18th February & 25th February. Five songs from each semi-final will be chosen to go to the national final on 3rd March in Tallinn. Let us know which are your favourites now that all twenty can be heard, and which you think will make the final in Baku. Read the rest of this entry »
Austria – Ireland’s Jedward have reviewed all of the Austrian finalists in an interview for ORF’s programme Chili. The twins, who represented their country in Dusseldorf last year with “Lipstick” found it hard to focus for a while due to Conchita Wurst having a beard. So who did the Irish brothers choose as their favourites? Check out the video of the interview to find out. Read the rest of this entry »
Iceland: Regína Ósk and Simbi & Hrútspungarnir for National Final
Posted: January 22, 2012 by hulluna in Iceland Iceland – Regína Ósk and Simbi & Hrútspungarnir qualified tonight in Iceland’s second semi-final. Regína Ósk previously represented her country in Euroband, with “This Is My Life” in 2008. It finished in 14th place in the Final in Belgrade. The third semi final of Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins will take place next Saturday, on January 28th. Check out tonight’s qualifiers: Read the rest of this entry »
Norway – The Norwegian semi-final was held tonight in Ørland Hovedflystasjon. Reidun Sæter, The Carburetors and Nora Foss Al-Jabri were selected to go through to the national Melodi Grand Prix 2012 in Oslo on February 11th. Norwegian broadcaster NRK will hold 2 more semi-finals on January 28th and February 4th. You can watch the three performances… Read the rest of this entry »
Denmark – Denmark tonight chose its representative to send to the 2012 Euovision final in Azerbaijan and picked Soluna Samay, singing “Should’ve Known Better“. Soluna beat “Take our hearts” by Jesper Nohrstedt, and Christian Brøns & Patrik Isaksson’s “Venter” in the superfinal of three acts in a nail biting finish. All foreign juries had voted for Jesper Nohrstedt and he was two points in the lead before the votes from the public televoting were added on. Read the rest of this entry »
Turkey – Can Bonomo was completely unknown to most of his fellow countrymen before TRT announced that he would represent Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Since the singer’s nomination has created quite the flurry in the press and on Internet forums. Unfortunately not because he is a complete newcomer with relatively little experience, but mainly because of his religious believes: Can Bonomo is a Jew. Read the rest of this entry »
United Kingdom – Former X Factor act Diva Fever today gave a strong hint on Twitter that they have been looking into becoming the United Kingdom’s entry this year. Diva Fever’s Craig tweeted Tony Cowell, the brother of X Factor mogul, Simon Cowell, “We’re doing good 
Been looking at doing Eurovision this year- what you think? If Simon likes us hopefully Euorpe will 
C x“. Diva Fever were one of the campest acts the UK X Factor has seen. Read the rest of this entry »
Poland – Eurovision fans in Poland have to cope with more bad news after Poland’s withdrawal from the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. TVP has revealed in their newsletter, that neither the semi-finals nor the Eurovision final will be broadcast in Poland this year. Polish fans have the option to watch the shows via the eurovision.tv webcast or on neighboring countries’ Read the rest of this entry »
Eurovision 2012: Logo and Theme to Be Revealed
Posted: January 21, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in Eurovision Song Contest 2012 Eurovision – The official Eurovision website eurovision.tv reports today that the official slogan and theme for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be revealed on January 25. On the same day the host city insignia exchange and the semi-final allocation draw will be held. Since 2004 the host country has designed their custom logo and theme for the contest. Read the rest of this entry »
Denmark: The Final of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2012
Posted: January 21, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in Denmark
Denmark – Tonight the third Eurovision entry of the 2012 will be chosen in Denmark. DRK will broadcast the final of the national selection “Dansk Melodi Grand Prix” live from Aalborg. The show will see a total of nine artist fighting for the Danish ticket to Baku. Originally ten songs were supposed to compete but he entry “Nowhere” had to be disqualified for being published too early. The national final on January 21 will be divided into 2 phases. First all artists perform Read the rest of this entry »
