NRK announced the hosts of MGP 2017 and these are Kåre Magnus Bergh and Line Elvåshagen. Kåre Magnus is no new face to MGP as he has already hosted the contest in 2015 and 2016 with Silya Nymoen by his side. This year Line Elvåshagen will accompany Kåre Magnus…

ERT held a press conference for their Eurovision representative Demy which ended a while ago. At the press conference were present Demy, Fokas Evangelinos, Dimitris Kontopoulos, Dionisis Tsaknis (president of ERT’s board council), Lampis Tagmatarhis (ERT’s…

Several Eurovision national selections across the continent are suffering some changes on their respective line-up of participants, as it looks like some of the previously selected acts in Moldova, Slovenia, Hungary and Lithuania did not accomplish the rules…

ESC+Plus has talked to Leander Köteles, vocalist and guitarist of Leander Kills. The band will perform “Élet” in the semi-final stage of A Dal after qualifying from the 1st heat of the Hungarian national selection. ESC+Plus: Hello! First of all, thank you…

RTP have revealed the 8 singers that will compete at the second semi-final of this year’s Festival da Canção. They have been selected by the composers that were previously chosen by the Portuguese broadcaster to participate at the 2017 national selection.…

PBS’ is gearing up for their Eurovision 2017 national selection, the Malta Eurovision Song Contest, which is taking place on the 16th of February at MFCC, the Fairs and Convention Centre in Ta’Qali. After all the acts which entered the process were narrowed…

Earlier today SVT posted the first sketches of Melodifestivalen’s stage. This year is all about the lights and depth. The designer of the stage is Viktor Brattström who also worked on the Eurovision 2016 stage. “The experience we have gained from previous…

AVRO has open submissions aimed to find the best talents that will perform at this year’s Junior Eurovision. The Dutch broadcaster will run the same selection procedure that leaded them to a Top-10 place last year with the trio Kisses and the song “Kisses…

Markus Riva has achieved a number 1 single on the Latvian iTunes chart with his song “Dynamite”, which he hopes will finally take him to Eurovision this year as he bids to represent the Baltic country. He will take part in Latvian national selection, Supernova…

Tomorrow’s show commentator Mikko Silvennoinen has just announced on UMK’s talk-show that Emma has won the official online voting which was opened a few weeks ago and whose results will be added to the televoting results caught on Saturday. This follows My…

Romanian broadcaster TVR is ready to select their 2017 Eurovision entrant in late February. The jury in charge of picking the acts throughout the whole process is made-up by the following singers and experts in the business: Luminiţa Anghel, Ovi Jacobsen…

With the UK’s national final coming up tomorrow, it has been revealed that Sam Bailey, you may know her from winning The X Factor UK in 2013, was offered a song that dated back to 2003 which became a male vocalist the following year –  James Fox sang in Eurovision…

It has been a while coming but Alex Larke, one half of Electro Velvet who represented the United Kingdom in 2015, is about to release his debut solo single entitled “Shine On” on February 3rd. It is already available to pre order on iTunes from today. Something…

The big amount of applications received for “Krajowe Eliminacje 2017” has obliged the Polish broadcaster to postpone the live final, as well as the expiration date of the submission period. TVP doesn’t want to miss a chance to find the best acts that will…

Today the Final of the British national selection for Eurovision 2017 “Eurovision: You Decide 2017” will be held live from London. A few days ago, we launched a survey on our official voting website to let our readers send their votes and know the fans opinion…

Results are in! and the winner of the UK’s national final Eurovision: You Decide is Lucie Jones who will go onto representative the United Kingdom in Kyiv, Ukraine for Eurovision 2017. During the 90 minute show, 6 acts took to the stage in competition to…

After the postponement of the second heat due to the bus accident in Verona, that costed the lives of 16 Hungarian citizens and injured many others, A Dal is back on track. Today’s live show begins this evening at 19:30 CET and it will feature the acts that…

Eurovizija, the epic Lithuanian selection process comes to its penultimate round today. Heat 4 – of 5 – sees 11 hopefuls perform for judges and viewers alike, with the idea that they just may be the act that will represent the Baltic nation at the 62nd Eurovision…

Today we will finally know the name of the Finnish act that will try to bring the Nordic country back to the Eurovision Grand Final after an absence of two years. YLE will hold today the final of their national selection show Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK)…

Today the second heat of the hungarian national selection for Eurovision 2017 “A Dal” will be aired. A few days ago, we launched a survey on our official voting website to let our readers send their votes and know the fans opinion about all entries, and the…

ESC+Plus has talked to Gabrielius Vagelis, candidate of this year’s Lithuanian national selection for Eurovision. Gabrielius took part at the second heat of Eurovizija with his song “Feel Myself Free”, getting the third place and a ticket to the semi-final…