[introduction and detailed rules] | [SongHunt explained in 90 seconds] | [results page] The SongHunt continues - let’s find the best song from the new national final season! This week, as the rules require when there are no shows or fewer than 8 competing songs in the...

"Diell" by Elhaida Dani will represent Albania at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria. The 53rd edition of the traditional Festivali i Këngës doubled up as the Albanian national final for ESC as usual, with two semi-finals on Thursday and Friday being...

[introduction and detailed rules] | [SongHunt explained in 90 seconds] | [results page] This is the launch of SongHunt 2015! After many weeks of preparations, considerations and pure theory, we now finally get to the practical part: Your votes! Let's find the best...

Slovenia's broadcaster RTVSlo has revealed the details of this year's EMA (Evrovizijska Melodija). The date for the final is Saturday, 28 February. A total of 12 songs will compete, of which half will be chosen from submissions and half will be sung by invited acts....

Hungary will once more use the very successful A Dal format in order to determine its Eurovision entrant. The format sees six live shows: three heats, two semi-finals and a grand final. The dates are as follows: Saturday, 24 January: Heat 1 Saturday, 31 January: Heat...

Tonight, the final of the 53rd Festivali i Këngës will be held in Tirana. Ever since the country joined Eurovision in 2003/2004, the traditional Albanian song festival also functions as the selection format for the ESC entry. In the previous two nights, two...

Tonight, Albania is hosting the second semi-final of its 53rd Festivali i Këngës. Tonight, 13 songs will be competing, in the hope to qualify for the Grand Final on Sunday. Already yesterday, nine entrants qualified in semi-final 1. Tonight, again, nine songs will...

Uzari & Maimuna won the national final in Belarus with the song "Time". The duet was one out of 15 entrants in tonight's final. A jury of 7 members, and a televoting counting as much as 1 jury member, finally decided who's supposed to represent Belarus in Vienna....

Tonight, two countries are hosting a show as part of their selection process for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. While Belarus holds the third national final of the season (after Macedonia and Malta), Albania kicks off its traditional Festivali i Këngës with the...

Last Saturday, the ChatAwards 2014 were held in the #esc chatroom. This was the second edition of the annual event. What began as an experiment last year has now turned into a tradition. Our chatters and Facebook fans were asked in advance to nominate candidates in...

We're happy to introduce you to SongHunt, our new big feature for the website and the #esc chatroom! As a successor to the ChatCharts, we have developed a new and complex (but still understandable) system with the aim of finding the best song of the national final...

As the year draws to a close and the on-season starts to heat up, new and exciting times are ahead not only for fans of the Eurovision Song Contest, but also for this website. After many years as "esc-chat.com", it's time for a change. For various reasons, we will...