After internal selections in 2021 and 2019, and a very small final in 2020, Poland has brought back a bigger scale (and renamed) national final with ten entries. Tu bije…
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Eurovision 2022 national selections: Lithuania preview – Pabandom iš naujo! final
The double success of The Roop in Lithuania’s national selection in 2020 and 2021 seems to have inspired a continued improvement in the overall quality of the songs, in the…
Eurovision 2022 national selections: Latvia preview – Supernova final
Latvia’s national final, Supernova, has been running since 2015 (barring last year when the 2020 winner was awarded the Eurovision place automatically) and in the first two years gave Latvia…
Eurovision 2022 national selections: Estonia preview – Eesti Laul final
Estonia went bigger than usual with their long-running national selection show, Eesti Laul, with this year being the 14th edition. 40 songs were entered, with four quarter final and two…
Eurovision 2022 national selections: Ukraine preview
It feels more than a little surreal and near flippant to be writing this preview of Ukraine’s national selection show, just at a time when the threat of invasion from…
Eurovision 2022 national selections: Italy preview – Sanremo final
Quite to my surprise, the final night of the great Italian musical festival, Festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo, has arrived. I think its return to its usual slot in…
Eurovision 2022 national selections: Spain preview – Benidorm Fest
Spain has brought back its national final with a new (well, partially resurrected) name of Benidorm Fest and a new format. We’ve already had two semi-finals where a mix of…
National selections for Eurovision 2022
I have kept this page up-to-date as we progressed through season, confirming known details of the plans and progress of the national selections, whether they be national finals, or artist…
Eurovision 2021: semi-final 2 results reaction
Another great and enjoyable show and mercifully for those of watching on the BBC, fewer cut aways from the actual show items after the contrived “funny” Line of Duty skit…
The best of the rest: Eurovision 2021 national final favourites (part 2)
This is a second part to my list of ten favourites from national final shows. In the first part I picked 5 songs from 5 different countries; in this second…