Iceland – The Icelandic national broadcaster RÚV has confirmed its participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö. Furthermore, the channel will choose the Icelandic entry through the national selection Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins once more. It has not been confirmed yet how many rounds will be held and how many singers will participate. In recent years there were three semi-finals with 5 songs each and a final in Reykjavik. In the last years the entry also had to be performed in Icelandic during the national selection. However, for Eurovision, the winning entries were always completely translated into English.
Here is Iceland’s latest entry of 2012:
Source= eurofire.blog.de
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Good news! Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins has been among my favourite national finals for the last couple of years. They usually have an above average number of interesting songs there.
same here! I hope they keep the Icelanic rule! I like to have at least some songs from national finals in the national languages…
Indeed; this year in particular their nf was great. So many songs that I enjoyed: “Mundu Eftir Mer”, “Rityngur”, “Hey”, “Ugaro”.
Best of luck in 2013 Iceland, one of the countries I want to see them winning the ESC so bad!
They’re the only Nordic country not to have won… They should’ve in 2009 in my opinion… but back then they would probably not have had the financial capacities to host
Well, I wouldn’t say that Yohanna’s song in 2009 is actually my cup of tea
…but overall, I think that they deserve to host the event. As for the financial aspect, they may not provide a very high budget as Sweden or Azerbaijan f.e. but I ‘m sure they can deliver a great event even with a lower budget 
Tbh, I would like to see a sort of more modest or low profile event in the future, because, imho, the ESC has gone way too “big” over the last few years.
agreed, loved it many times (2009 and 2012 most of all)
I can’t wait for Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2013!This year,they had my favorite N.F of the season.So many good songs.I hope the trend will continue this year as well.
Iceland has sent great songs to esc in the last 6 years, especially this year’s entry which was terribly underrated in the final result. I vote for a Reykjavik 2014!
I am so glad to read this article. I am becoming used to good Icelandic songs in Icelandic. Unfortunately, they do tend to sing them in English afterwards and in 2012 we witnessed a loss of ‘je ne sais quoi’ when the lovely couple went on stage in Baku. Good luck!
P.S.: Norway and Iceland are my favourite Nordic ESC countries by quite a distance.
I can only with Shevek here. It is such a shame that all songs must for some reason be translated into English when its time for ESC. What did “Mundu eftir mer” gain with that? I do also agree about the quality of Söngvakeppni during the latest years, even though I wasn’t overwhelmed by the songs of this year. In 2011, on the other hand, they offered us one of the best national finals ever.
Still gutted about Regina losing this year but I expect something good from Iceland despite last year’s somehow unfortunate and pompous effort. The translation saved the song from an even worse result and only benefited the song. In general Iceland has some of the most successful translations every year. Let’s what they have to offer in 2012 !
A great 2012 NF indeed ! And one of the few esc countries that knows how to use some proper English in their songs.A quite stable and serious esc competitor as well.Since 2007 :
2007 : 8/12
2008 : 7/12
2009 : 10/12
2010 : 8/12
2011 : 8/12
2012 : 9/12.
which means they are probably the most successful Nordic nation in my books ( possibly second to Norway? I need to work on my statistics first ! )