Latvia is going to pick their entry for Malmö tonight, while Italy will announce their artist during the final of Festival di SanRemo. The actual song will be confirmed at a later point. See the tables below for details about all the actual national final formats....

Cascada has won the German final "Unser Song für Malmö" and will thus represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö with the dance pop song "Glorious". Cascada is an internationally successful act, consisting of singer Natalie Horler and two further...

"Österreich rockt den Song Contest", yesterday's national final in Austria, made Natalia Kelly the representative 2013 for the alpine country. Her song "Shine" successully competed against four other entries. In the first part of the show, in which each of the...

Tonight, Austria will pick its entry for Malmö. "Österreich rockt den Song Contest" offers 5 entries for the jury members and televoters, each of the artists has to sing a known Eurovision song, before the actual entries get performed. This Friday all times CET 20:15...

Tonight, the new format of the German final gets launched (also read our in-depth article about it here). Anke Engelke, who is very popular among Eurovision fans since she co-hosted ESC 2011 in Düsseldorf, will be tonight's host. Twelve songs will fight for the ticket...

We are an international website with visitors from all over the world, but having our heartlands in the United Kingdom and Germany, the countries from which our most active editors also come. No wonder, then, that we allow ourselves to write a bit more about what's...

It’s been another eventful week in and around the Eurovision Song Contest, so let’s take a look back and see what happened, as it happened! Monday started with the announcement that Lucky Lips had been given the producers’ wildcard to the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix...

102,032: that's the number of points - mostly televotes - it took to win Melodi Grand Prix on Saturday night. "I Feed You My Love" by electro-pop singer Margaret Berger is the song that will sail under the Norwegian flag at the Eurovision Song Contest in May....

"Marry Me", she sang, and she won Finland's hearts: Krista Siegfrids. Another lesson was taught to those who think they can predict a national final, as neither of the two favourites - Diandra and Mikael Saari - won Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, the Finnish preselection...

Tonight promises to be another busy evening in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, with no fewer than five shows for fans to juggle via the various webstreams. After three semi-finals, Norway will select its entry in the grand final of Melodi Grand Prix, with...

The weekend begins tonight with the first of two semi-finals in Latvia's Dziesmas 2013 competition - the second will follow as part of tomorrow night's big Super Saturday line-up. A 50/50 jury and telephone vote will decide which six lucky songs will make it through...

It’s time for esc-chat.com’s weekly round-up of all the news from the world of Eurovision! On Monday, ESC 2013 host broadcaster SVT announced that the contest in May will be hosted by a solo female - and more specifically by Petra Mede, known to fans from her...