Three semi-finals hit Europe tonight! Bulgaria starts things off at 19:30 CET with its only semi, where 12 out of 22 entries will be voted into the final on 29 February, by both juries and SMS. Latvia continues proceedings with its second of two semi-finals, selecting...

Five singers managed to get into the next stage of "Unser Star für Baku" yesterday, meaning the other five contestans had to leave the show. After an unbelievably tight race for the places 1-6, Kai ended up on what the hosts called the "Arschplatz" - 6th place, and...

"Unser Star für Baku" begins tonight with the first out of seven heats before the final on 16 February. The selection format will roughly follow the 2010 scheme of "Unser Star für Oslo". New is the jury which will remain constant throughout all the shows this time,...

Five songs qualified in yesterday's first semi-final in Latvia. Together with the next five qualifiers from semi 2, they will compete in the Latvian national final on Saturday, 18 February. The results were made up by both televoting and juries. The chat's top 3 all...

Eirodziesma 2012 kicks off tonight with the first of two semi-finals. 10 contestants will perform their entries, and five of them will be the lucky ones to proceed to the Latvian Final on Saturday, 18 February. The voting is expected to be made up of 50% televoting...

As 2012 is slowly approaching the chat world, we, the team behind esc-chat.com, would like to wish you a Happy New Year! To our chatters from Australia, Asia, Europe and the Americas, as well to all our website readers, Facebook fans and Twitter followers, we wish you...

Rona Nishliu and her song "Suus" won the Albanian National Final yesterday. It's the 50th winning song in the history of Festivali i Këngës, and the 9th entry that the country sends to Eurovision. Even though Goldi Halili achieved more points in the chat's voting for...

Moments ago, Rona Nishliu won the 50th Festivali i Këngës with the song "Suus", and thus will represent Albania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. She also won the voting in the chat, where she got an average of 8.13 points. Marjeta Billo came 2nd with 6.42 points,...

"Festivali i Këngës" comes to its final tonight! 20 songs compete for the right to represent Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The show is coming from the Palace of Congresses in Tirana, the hosts are Nik Xhelilaj, Hygerta Sako and Enkeleida Zeko. After two...

A total of eight songs were voted out in the both semi finals of Festivali i Këngës. Everyone else is asking what your fave is tonight, we want to know: Who will you miss the most? Who should have been in the final? [polldaddy poll=5797142]

"Festivali i Këngës" takes a break from the competition and instead looks back on the past 49 years tonight. The contest was established in 1962, long before Albania's first participation at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2004. Already before, we wrote a long article...

Actually 49, if we count the years from the first edition until today. When the "Festival of Songs" went on air for the first time in 1962, hardly anyone in the ILA venue would have guessed that this would be the Albanian national final for Eurovision, one day in the...