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Cyprus 2018 🇨🇾 it’s official: ultimate pop icon Eleni Foureira to Lisbon CYPRUS - It is finally confirmed that Eleni Foureira and CyBC reached an agreement for Eurovision 2018 more information soon

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Moldova 2018 🇲🇩 TRM announce 16 finalists as semi final skipped MOLDOVA - Following the live auditions with the 27 hopefuls at Karaoke Concert Hall Atrium in Chisinau, TRM decided the 16 acts which will participate directly final.

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Moldova 2018 🇲🇩 TRM deciders the 16 semi finalists MOLDOVA - Following the live auditions with the 28 hopefuls at Karaoke Concert Hall Atrium in Chisinau, TRM decided the 16 acts which will participate in the semi final.

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Turkey 🇹🇷 TRT movies further away from the EBU shutting down their Eurovision liaison office TURKEY - More sad news come from Turkey. As we read at ESCape News fan site for the Eurovision Song Contest and as we tried to understand from the contact we had with their team, it seems that Turkish national broadcaster has shut down the Eurovision office at TRT, which serves in each broadcaster as a liaison between the national broadcaster and the European Broadcasting Union.

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Serbia 2018 🇷🇸 date and venue for Beovizija announced SERBIA - Following the 17 participants for Beovizija 2018, RTS revealed today that the national final will take place on February 20th at the Sava Centar, the venue which hosted the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. There will be 100% public voting to decide the representative for Lisbon.

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Malta 2018 🇲🇹 Aidan releases new version of ‘Dai Laga’ after breaching rules `

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January 24 🇪🇺 the latest #Eurovision headlines

LITHUANIA – The third Lithuanian Heat is underway and already the show has been recorded. The jury: Beata Nicholson, Viktoras Diawara, Giedrė Kilčiauskienė Ramūnas Zilnys cast their votes and the results bring Greta Zazza with the song “Broken Shadows” in the top of thee scoreboard. On Saturday the public voting will be added to the scores and we will know the qualifiers to the next round.

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Cyprus 2018 🇨🇾 record label confirms internal selection proposal to Eleni Foureira

CYPRUS – Ott is no secret anymore that Eleni Foureira and thee internally selected composer Alex Papaconstantinou are recording the Eurovision 2018 song for Cyprus. Eleni Foureira’s record label today confirmed that CyBC has officially proposed to the singer to represent the country in Lisbon. The record label emphasises that there is no final answer by the singer to the Cypriot national…

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Cyprus 2018 🇨🇾 is this the singer for Lisbon? CYPRUS - Cypriot national broadcaster which cancelled the national selection for thee artist who will represent the country in the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, started a marathon of trying to approach and internally select an established artist from the Greek market.

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Czech Republic 2018 🇨🇿 Mikolas Josef wins international jury vote; change in the national final?

CZECH REPUBLIC – Mikolas Josef is the winner of the international jury votes as announced shortly on Facebook earlier this afternoon. The International jury for the Czech selection is made of ten Eurostars: Dami Im, Iveta Mukuchyan, Nathan Trent, Jalisse, Liora, Robin Bengtsson, Naviband, Sanja Vucic, SunStroke Project and Norma John.

Interesting that Mikolas Josef is leading also the…

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United Kingdom 2018 🇬🇧 Måns Zelmerlöw reveals song hints UNITED KINGDOM - Tomorrow BBC will reveal the songs for the national final, Eurovision: You Decide 2018. Host, Måns Zelmerlöw, published a video in which he shares some hints for the songs as he listens to them using headphones.

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Spain 2018 🇪🇸 listen to the national final songs SPAIN - Somehow we knew it wouldn't be so easy for the OT students to go to Eurovision and RTVE made it real.

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Sweden 2018 🇸🇪 changes in the Melodifestivalen voting

SWEDEN – When a Nordic country like Sweden, make changes in the format of their national selection, it makes headlines as we all know that Melodifestivalen and its idea / format surely influences the Eurovision Song Contest. Almost 10 days before the first Melodifestivalen semi final kicks off the Swedish national broadcaster announced a change in the voting procedure for the biggest and most…

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Spain 2018 🇪🇸 nine songs for the OT Eurovision Gala finalists

SPAIN – Spanish national broadcaster revealed that in the OT Eurovision Gala three will bee five finalists with nine songs performed. The nine songs are: five solo acts, 3 duets and a song which was aired yesterday and you can enjoy it in this post.

Currently there are four finalists for the 29th of January OT Eurovision Gala: Aitana, Miriam, Amaia, Alfred. The fifth finalists decided to bee Anna…

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January 23 🇪🇺 find when Dutch entry will be revealed, who's in the intl' jury of Czech final and more...

January 23 🇪🇺 find when Dutch entry will be revealed, who’s in the intl’ jury of Czech final and more…

SAN MARINO – Eleven participants for the San Marino selection and the shows are under recording guess where: in Bratislava at thee TTV JOJ studios. Producer Mathias Strasser says: It works between us, everyone is absolutely professional, the musicians are excellent, and we are able to create an excellent world class show. Presenter Nick Earles says: Everyone is very nice, friendly, the directors…

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Greece 2018 national final date decided #eurovision #oikotimes #allaboard #melfest #umk #DestinationEurovision #eestilaul #eestilaul2018 #srfesc #eurovisiongr GREECE - Greek national broadcaster just announced that the national final for the country will take place on February 16th via ERT1.

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Serbia 2018 🇷🇸 local media leak Beovizija participants SERBIA - Local media leaked the names of the Beovizija 2018 participants although it is expected to ttake place an official RTS announcement today.