Jedward’s tour dates mysteriously stop on the 18th of Feb and start again in June. Wonder if they have anything in mind for May?

This is the most modern entry that France has sent in – in my opinion. For the vast majority of the song it is a great song, but there are bits like the start and once or twice in the song when it sounds like reversing that put me off it. But this is by far my favorite so far – yes there are only 5 entries, but unlike every other year most of these are good songs before the ‘tweaking’ happens. I have a feeling that there will be a slightly revised version, plus it may look and work perfectly live on stage – which we have yet to see. Anggun will be doing a lot of touring through the various national finals around Europe to promote the song.

Also smart move on their part for putting part of it in English, it’ll have people singing it remembering it  And at the end of the day, as a French friend said to me – “At least we have a song to dance to  ”

Performed in the Danish national final this year, here is a list fo the songs that he did.

“Fly on the Wings of Love” Olsen Brothers, Denmark 2000
“Hold Me Now” Johnny Logan, Ireland 1987
“Fångad av en Stormvind” Carola, Sweden 1991
“Satellite” Lena Meyer-Landrut, Germany 2010
“A-Ba-Ni-Bi” – Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta, Israel 1978
“Hard Rock Hallelujah” Lordi , Finland 2006
“Fairytale” Alexander Rybak, Norway 2009

A lot, that’s how much. La La Love was chosen to be Ivi Adamou’s song for Baku. Bravo Cyprus, bravo

It’s catchy yet its not. But we will form a better opinion when the song is released in full soon.

Edit: After listening to it on a few (dozen loops) it works, something we will be dancing to later on in the year

Hands up here who was surprised with the “Land of Fire” reference?

“Should’ve known better” by Soluna Samay will represt Denmark this year. Otherwise known as Anna Bergehdahl 2.0.

It’s a decent song but I do not seeing doing any well in final though.

We did love Ditte Marie - Overflow, she was fabulous and at least in tune this year

12 acts will compete to represent Bulgaria on February 29th.

1. Tsvetelin Atanasov-Elvisa ft. DZ – Love goes around (Popout)
2. New 5 – Change for a better life
3. Rene Ranev – Alone (Popout)
4. Go Week – The way you see the world (Popout)
5. Simona Sivanio – Eternal
6. Svetozar Hristov – Kick me down (Popout)
7. Vyara Pantaleeva - Vyara
8. Ivailo Kolev ft. Hipnotik - Searching for the words (Popout)
9. Steliyana Hristova - Putyat (Popout)
10. Todor Gadzhalov –  Still love you (Popout)
11. Dess – Love is alive (Popout)
12. Sofi Marinova – Prosto lyubov (Popout)

So here is the obligatory post about all the countries now

43 in total:

• Albania (RTVSH)
• Armenia (AMPTV)
• Austria (ORF)
• Azerbaijan (Ictimai TV) (Host Broadcaster)
• Belarus (BTRC)
• Belgium (VRT)
• Bosnia & Herzegovina (BHRT)
• Bulgaria (BNT)
• Croatia (HRT)
• Cyprus (CyBC)
• Denmark (DR)
• Estonia (ERR)
• Finland (YLE)
• France (France TV)
• FYR Macedonia (MKRTV)
• Georgia (GTVR)
• Germany (NDR/ARD)
• Greece (ERT)
• Hungary (MTV)
• Iceland (RÚV)
• Ireland (RTÉ)
• Israel (IBA)
• Italy (RAI)
• Latvia (LTV)
• Lithuania (LRT)
• Malta (PBS)
• Moldova (TRM)
• Montenegro (RTCG)
• The Netherlands (TROS)
• Norway (NRK)
• Portugal (RTP)
• Romania (TVR)
• Russia (RTR)
• San Marino (SMRTV)
• Serbia (RTS)
• Slovakia (STV)
• Slovenia (RTVSLO)
• Spain (RTVE)
• Sweden (SVT)
• Switzerland (SRG/SSR)
• Turkey (TRT)
• Ukraine (NTU)
• United Kingdom (BBC)

1) Harry

2) Dougie

3) Danny

4) Thomas

and finally

5) All together now, ahhhhhhhhh