esctoday.com | your daily eurovision centre http://www.esctoday.com 2012-02-12T02:39:01+01:00 Greta Salome & Jonsi are the 2012 Icelandic representatives. The duo was selected by a combination of jury voting and televoting at a 50% stake. In Baku they will perform the song Mundu eftir mer. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18305) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18305?rss 2012-02-11T23:36:36+01:00 eurovision Iceland Greta & Jonsi selected Iceland Tooji will represent Norway this year in the Eurovision Song Contest. Four acts advanced to the super-final but in the end Tooji who was the hot favourite to lift the trophy, won the ticket to Baku. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18304) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18304?rss 2012-02-11T22:46:19+01:00 eurovision Norway Tooji Norway Baku The second semifinal in Lithuania has concluded. Three more acts have qualified for the national final. Lithuania will hold two more semifinals this month and the final on March 3rd. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18303) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18303?rss 2012-02-11T22:40:04+01:00 eurovision Lithuania Lithuania: Three more acts proceed final Hungary has decided - Compact Disco will represent the central European country in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, to be held in Baku in May. The Hungarian entry in Baku is entitled Sound of our hearts. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18302) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18302?rss 2012-02-11T22:14:28+01:00 eurovision Hungary Compact Disco will represent Hungary Eurovision 2012 Following three semi-final shows that took place in the past weeks Iceland will select its representative for the next Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Baku. The Icelandic selection better know as Songvakeppni Sjonvarpsins will present seven acts and a combination of jury voting and televoting at a 50% stake will send one of them to Baku. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18300) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18300?rss 2012-02-11T21:27:22+01:00 eurovision Iceland LIVE: Icelandic final The second semifinal of Melodifestivalen 2012 has come to an end. The two acts with the most votes have won a spot in the final, while there will be a second chance for the two acts that placed immediately after. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18299) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18299?rss 2012-02-11T21:23:45+01:00 eurovision Sweden Sweden: more acts direkt till Globen Hungary selects its 2012 Eurovision entry tonight through the final of A Dal, the country's national selection. Eight acts will battle to become the Hungarian representative in Baku. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18292) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18292?rss 2012-02-11T20:13:50+01:00 eurovision Hungary Watch now: National final Hungary Following three semi-final shows the Melodi Grand Prix final is taking place in Oslo. This year's Norwegian selection is presenting ten acts. The winner of tonight's show will compete in the second semi-final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18298) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18298?rss 2012-02-11T19:52:36+01:00 eurovision Norway LIVE: Melodi Grand Prix Final The second semifinal of Melodifestivalen, the Swedish selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, will take place tonight in Göteborg. Eight artists will compete. Two of them will directly qualify for the final, while another two will have a second chance at the 'Andra Chansen' show. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18291) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18291?rss 2012-02-11T19:45:35+01:00 eurovision Sweden Watch now: Second semifinal Sweden Lithuania continues its quest for an entry to the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest tonight. Another nine acts will battle for three spots in the final. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18290) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18290?rss 2012-02-11T19:45:27+01:00 eurovision Lithuania Watch now: Second semifinal Lithuania The Albanian entry Suus will be sung in the Albanian languge at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku. Esctoday.com is happy to get this exclusive new from the Albanian representative Rona Nishliu. We also had the opportunity to have chat with the Albanian hopeful singer. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18297) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18297?rss 2012-02-11T11:00:37+01:00 eurovision Albania Rona Nishliu sing Albanian The Norwegian national final of Melodi Grand Prix will be held tonight. The country's representative for Eurovision 2012 will be chosen from a total of ten acts who previously qualified from the semifinals. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18294) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18294?rss 2012-02-11T07:26:36+01:00 eurovision Norway Tonight: National final Norway Tonight, Iceland will be selecting its representative to the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Seven acts will compete to win the final of Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18293) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18293?rss 2012-02-11T07:26:13+01:00 eurovision Iceland Tonight: National final Iceland NTU, the Ukrainian national broadcaster has announced today the running order of the 22 competing acts at the forthcoming 2012 Ukrainian national final. The draw for the running order was held tonight on the talk show Shuster Live. The 2012 Ukrainian Eurovision national final is scheduled to be held on the on the 18th of February in Kiev. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18296) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18296?rss 2012-02-11T00:46:57+01:00 eurovision Ukraine Ukraine: Running order revealed RTVSLO has announced that a total of 6 songs will compete at the forthcoming 2012 Slovenian Eurovision national final, EMA. Eva Boto and Eva & Nika Prusnik will sing 3 songs each. RTVSLO will hold a press conference on the 16th of February in order to present the titles of the competing songs and their respective composers. The songs will be aired in their full length on the radio on the 17th of February. The 2012 EMA will be held on the 26th of February. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18295) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18295?rss 2012-02-10T21:45:13+01:00 eurovision Slovenia Slovenia: songs compete 2012 The Finnish selection process for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, UMK (Uuden musiikin kilpailu), The contest for new music, has revealed tonight the 2 acts leaving the contest. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18289) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18289?rss 2012-02-10T20:45:21+01:00 eurovision Finland Finland: acts eliminated, Spyro gets wildcard The third progress show will air on YLE TV2 tonight. Now the last six finalists will sing live for the judges for the first time. In tonight's reality style show six artists will be followed in more detail. Two acts will get eliminated. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18283) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18283?rss 2012-02-10T19:45:04+01:00 eurovision Finland Watch now: Third elimination show Finland The 2012 Turkish representative Can Bonomo will be flying to Baku this weekend where he has been invited to attend the 2012 Azerbaijani Eurovision national final. He will be singing some of his favourite songs during the show. The Azerbaijani national final will be held on Sunday the 12th of February at the Heydar Aliyev Palace and will be aired live at 18.00 hrs CET (21.00 hrs local time) on Ictimai. The show will also be streamed live on the official Eurovision Song Contest website. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18288) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18288?rss 2012-02-10T19:38:53+01:00 eurovision Turkey Turkey: Bonomo perform Azerbaijani final! Azerbaijani authorities and EBU have released information regarding the visa procedure for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, as well as more details concerning the hotels, accreditations for fans and press and ticket sales today. The visa procedure has been simplied and Eurovision fans and accredited journalists will be happy to know that they will be able to obtain an Azerbaijani visa upon arrival at Baku International Airport (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18287) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18287?rss 2012-02-10T17:52:28+01:00 eurovision Azerbaijan Azerbaijan: Visa accreditation details released Renata Shtifel is one of the finalists that will be competing at the forthcoming Ukrainian 2012 Eurovision national final schedueled to be held on the 18th of February in Kiev. The multi talented Ukrainian artist has released the videoclip of her competing entry Love in Sunlight Rays. Renata's song has been composed by none other than ALyosha (Ukraine 2010) and Vadim Lisitsa (ALyosha's producer). Whilst her producer is TImofey Nahorny who also happens to be Mika Newton's (Ukraine 2011) producer. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18286) http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/18286?rss 2012-02-10T10:33:33+01:00 eurovision Ukraine Ukraine: Renata Shtifel releases videoclip