After three semi-finals, Lithuania chose its entry for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest last night. As expected, hot favourite Donny Montell - real name Donatas Montvydas - won the ticket to represent the Baltic nation in Baku with his song "Love Is Blind". He will...

Depending on who you listen to, the Andra Chansen round of Sweden's Melodifestivalen selection process last night threw up yet more surprises, with the big favourites with fans and bookmakers alike failing to proceed to next Saturday's grand final. In the top half of...

We already knew that Pastora Soler would sing for Spain at this year's Eurovision Song Contest - but last night we discovered the song with which she'll take to the Baku stage. Three entries were presented as part of a national final show that also looked at Soler's...

As it became March, and the NF season slowly reaches its end, we get another set of important shows tonight: Estonia is having the Eesti Laul final after two semis, Lithuania decides upon its entry after three semi-finals. In Spain, Pastola Soler will perform three...

Sofi Marinova has won the Bulgarian national final for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. She will represent her country in Baku with the song "Love Unlimited", which triumphed over hot favourite Dess in tonight's grand final. Sofi finished 3rd with the jury and a...

Tonight, Bulgaria becomes the latest country to select its entry for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. A semi-final was held way back on 15 January to determine the twelve entries that will fight for the honour of representing thir country in Baku, Azerbaijan, in May....

Eva Boto will represent Slovenia in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest with "Verjamem" ("I Believe"). At the culmination of the long-running Misija Evrovizija process, Boto ensured that Jedward remain the only twins in the 2012 line-up (so far!) by beating young Nika...

The Netherlands will be represented at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest by Joan Franka and the song "You And Me". In something of a minor surprise - at least if you go by bookmakers and fan opinions, neither of which are necessarily terribly reliable! - Franka...

Another busy week of Eurovision preselection action comes to a close tonight with finals in Slovenia and the Netherlands. In Slovenia, the extensive Misija Evrovizija process to select an artist for Baku - which began on the other side of Christmas! - concludes with a...

For only the second time in its history, Finland will be represented by a  Swedish-language entry in the Eurovision Song Contest. Pernilla Karlsson won the final of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, the Finnish preselection process, with her song "När jag blundar" (which...

Saturday night saw further semi-finals in Sweden, Lithuania and Estonia, as the trio of northern countries continued to whittle down the field in the search for an entry for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. The biggest surprise of the night arguably came in Sweden,...

After last Saturday's madness, this one is comparatively calm, with only Finland selecting its entry for ESC 2012 as the extensive Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu selection process comes to its conclusion. Meanwhile, by the end of tonight we will have heard the Swedish,...