With the mad rush towards the end of the national final season and the excitement of the running order draw, one important thing slipped our mind here at esc-chat.com - namely, to round up the final internally selected artists for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. So...

Today, the draw was held to determine the running order for the two semi-finals of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest and the starting positions for the pre-qualified finalists (the "Big 5" plus the host nation of Azerbaijan). You can see the full results of the draw...

We have now heard 41 of the 42 entries for this year's Eurovision Song Contest! Tonight, Belgium, having already internally selected 17-year-old singer Iris to represent them in Baku in May, asked the television audience to choose between two songs for her to sing -...

Throughout this season, esc-chat.com has been bringing you articles summarising all of the national finals taking place on a certain day, with comprehensive song lists, stream links and starting times to help you navigate as many as half-a-dozen near-simultaneous...

Eleftheria Eleftheriou will represent Greece at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Aphrodisiac". It was already clear that the Mediterranean country would send something up-tempo and slightly trashy to this year's contest, as the four songs in the running...

The end of the 2012 national final season is rapidly approaching, and tonight it's the turn of Greece to add another song to the line-up of entries that will be performed in May in Baku, Azerbaijan. Four entries will be presented in the Ellinikos Telikos show, before...

The line-up for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest is nearly complete! Tonight Moldova selected their song for Baku, and it was Pasha Parfeny who came out on top. For all it was performed in English, the song appears to be called "Lautar". Then again, we're not quite...

Tonight, Moldova becomes the latest country to select its entry for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku. The Selecţia Naţională show features only one returning ESC entrant, Geta Burlacu, after Epic Sax Guy was tragically eliminated at the internal selection...

11:48 (Felix) While some other #esc chatters in Stockholm go to sleep just now as I write this, I just returned from an awesome breakfast in the hotel. The days in Stockholm usually pass by like a rocket, and this time it's not any different. My hands and throat are...

Did anyone really believe otherwise? Saturday night saw the grand final of Melodifestivalen 2012, and as predicted all along, it was Loreen who came out on top with the bookies' favourite "Euphoria". Things were all but tied up after Loreen comfortably won the...

For the second time - the first being in 2008 - Portugal will be represented at this year's Eurovision Song Contest by a dramatic ballad penned by the songwriting team of Andrej Babić and Carlos Coelho. It was a fairly unanimous verdict in Lisbon on Saturday night,...