In one of the more surprising pieces of news to emerge in the current ESC on-season, Czech Television has confirmed that it will return to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015! Having participated between 2007 and 2009 with extremely limited success (achieving a grand...

Italy has won the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest! The 12th edition of the competition for Europe's young singers was held in Malta, with 16 countries competing for the title - and after a reasonably close voting, it was 14-year-old Vincenzo Cantiello who...

Tonight sees the 12th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest - usually a little treat as the ESC off-season draws to a close, but of course the Macedonian final on Wednesday night means the 2015 on-season has already begun! Having won last year's competition,...

"Esenski lisja" by Daniel Kajmakoski has been selected by the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as its entry for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, to be held in Vienna next May. Although the end of 2014 is still a month and a half away, tonight's edition of the...

Tonight marks the official start of the "on-season" as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia selects its entry for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. It may still be November 2014, but broadcaster MRT is getting a head start on the competition by using the 2014...

You know it's 2014 when the use of an orchestra makes it to the headlines. And indeed, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest itself and the 30th anniversary of Norway's first victory with Bobbysocks, 2015 will mark the first time that...

The rumours in the past days were true, and finally it's confirmed: Trijntje Oosterhuis, a very popular singer in her home country, will represent the Netherlands at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna - with a song written by Anouk! Judith Katrijntje...

Latvia has announced a new format for their national final: "Supernova 2015" will replace the former (Eiro-)dziesma format in order to select the Latvian representative for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna. Supernova, which aims to find songs that a lot...

This year it's RTBF's turn to select an entrant for Eurovision, and once again, they go for an internal selection. With Loïc Nottet, the francophone broadcaster is sending another "The Voice" candidate. Roberto Bellarosa, who emerged from the same format, was already...

Lithuania will hold its national selection for ESC 2015 using the same system as last year. To keep the introduction to this format as short as possible, let's say that the Baltic country will search for its song and its artist more or less independently. However, at...

The first artist for Eurovision 2015 has been revealed in a press conference (click for original Montenegrin article). Knez, a very popular singer, will represent Montenegro in Vienna. His musical style can be described as pop with a regional touch. The song that he...

After having kept us in suspense until today, Albanian broadcaster RTSH now finally confirmed that the country will participate at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Austria. Furthermore, the dates for the upcoming Festivali i Këngës got announced. The...