ESC+Plus had the chance to talk to Klemen Slakonja, who hosted Slovenia’s national final in 2011, 2012, and 2016 and whose interval act at EMA went viral throughout Europe this February. ESC+Plus: Hello Klemen! First of all, thank you so much for taking your…

Last night saw all the contestants left in The X Factor UK take to the stage twice each, during the “Louis Loves” week. A bit of a strange theme week, but all songs were “selected” by one of the the judges, Louis Walsh, and this category really seems to have…

According to local media, the Ukrainian organisation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 could be at risk due to a delay of procedures. “In early October, the European Broadcasting Union showed National Television of Ukraine a red card threatening to interrupt…

Results are in …. and Saara Aalto has made it through to the semi final stage of The X Factor UK becoming one of the top 4 acts through with a chance of getting to the Grand Final on December 11th. We could have our very own Finnish Euro Princess in the Final…

Albanian head of delegation, Kleart Duraj has confirmed to us that this year’s Festivali i Këngës, the national selection show used to select the countries Eurovision representative, will be held between 21st -23rd December. Semi Final 1 – December 21 Semi…

Lidia Isac is back in the Eurovision game as she is trying to represent Switzerland in Kyiv along with Daniele Guastella. The 2016 Moldovan representative has announced on Facebook that she has been chosen to compete at the Expert Check round of Die Entscheidungsshow…

RTVE has just revealed the number of submissions received for the on-line competition that will give one of the candidates the right to compete at the Spanish national final for Eurovision 2017. 392 applications from different composers and singers around…

So with just over 12 hours left until we are finding out the acts for the Melodifestiavalen shows next year, we have one last particularly exciting rumour; Krista Siegfrids is reported to be returning to the Melfest stage one year since she made her debut…

Welcome to DailyPlus, your favourite show about Eurovision and Junior Eurovision! This is our last episode of 2017 and we bring you all the latest Eurovision news from last week: some speculations have been recently going around all over the Ukrainian media…

The live auditions of the Belarusian national selection for Eurovision 2017 will be held this morning, when 67 acts will be taking to the audition stage in order to become one of up to 15 acts that will make it through to the next phase of the process. Check…

This morning, SVT have revealed the 28 acts which will take part in the 2017 edition of Melodifestivalen, which will form the national selection process to pick Sweden’s representative and song for Eurovision this coming May. Check out the acts for Melfest…

So today saw the auditions take place for the Belarusian national final in front of a panel of judges. 67 acts took to the stage in a bid to make it to the Grand Final of EuroFest to be held what is thought to be in January, with the broadcaster stating that…

The Spanish broadcaster has revealed the name of the 30 candidates that will compete for a place at the national final, which will be held in February. From a total of 392 applications received, RTVE have selected the following ones that will face an on-line…

What a difference a few years make… after the success in 2016 with Czech Republic finally making it to the Grand Final of Eurovision, when Gabriela Gunčíková sang her song “I Stand” making it Czech Republic’s 5th attempt at Eurovision since their debut in…

An interesting Armenian cooperation of adult and junior artist has been recently released. Aram MP3, who represented Armenia at the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, and Mika, from the 2015 Junior Eurovision, have presented their first joint work. The song is…

Macedonian broadcaster, MRT, have opened up a call for submissions for their representative, Jana Burčeska who they revealed had been internally selected last month. It is the second year in a row they have selected internally, after they sent Kaliopi in…

The ball is still moving on Ukraine 2017, putting rumours to bed of being stripped of hosting rights. The executive producers for the contest in 2017 have been named by the EBU and NTU; Victoria Romanova and Oleksander Kharebin. Victoria Romanova joined NTU…

A new poll has just been open on ESC+Plus You! Vote for your favourite songs in the Eurovision style site by clicking on the banner below: About ESC+Plus You: ESC+Plus You is a microsite created by the ESC+Plus Network where you can vote for your favourite…

A new poll has just been open on ESC+Plus You! Vote for your favourite songs in the Eurovision style site by clicking on the banner below: About ESC+Plus You: ESC+Plus You is a microsite created by the ESC+Plus Network where you can vote for your favourite…

So a couple of weeks ago now, we had the artists announced for Eesti Laul 2017, the national selection for Estonia participation at Eurovision 2017. So far we have two songs already presented to us, and we have had the pleasure of talking to some of them…

RTVSLO has just revealed the name of the selected candidates that will compete at this year’s EMA. A total of 16 acts out of 90 submitted ones will fight for the right to represent Slovenia at the next year’s Eurovision. The identity of qualifiers and songs…