The second show of the Lithuanian selection 2018 Eurovizijos atranka took place and the qualifiers tonight were –
A welcome return was by Paula who participated in the 2017 selection and she is back with her song 1 2 3. You can hear the song below.
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The second semi-final of the Destination Eurovision selection took place in France.
The four acts who made it to the final were –
Madame Monsieur – Mercy
Max Cinnamon – Ailleur
Nassi – Rêve de gamin
Igit – Lisboa Jérusalem
First place went to Madame Monsieur and you can see their performance below.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-5UnMdKg70
The host nation Portugal has announced details of their selection 2018 Festival da Canção – An exciting name to look out for is the return of the 1993 Portuguese participant, Anabela.
Semi-final 1
Semi-final 2
The two semi-finals will take place on 18 February and 25 February and the final will be on 4 March.
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The final five songs for the 2018 Depi Evratesil have been released.
Robert Koloyan, Maria’s Secret, Lusine Mardanyan, Mariam Petrosyan, Gata Band.
Source: YouTube/Depi Evratesil; ESC Covers
The five finalists for the revived national selection 2018 Montevizija have been announced in Montenegro.
The final will be on 17 February.
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The 28 songs in contention for the 2018 Moldovan national selection have been released.
There will be a live audition where 14 songs will make it to the grand final.
The song causing some reaction right now in the media is by DoDeRos. The man behind the song is Philipp Kirkorov (1995 ESC Russia) and many other songs from Eurovision from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, etc.
You can hear all the songs at the TRM MD YouTube site https://www.youtube.com/user/trmMultimedia/videos
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The third set of songs from the 2018 Depi Evratesil have been released the broadcaster AMPTV.
The acts are Mger Armenia, Arman Mesropyan, Asmik Shiroyan, Zhanna Davtyan, Gevorg Harutyunyan.
All the songs so far can be heard at the official YouTube channel of Depi Evratesil https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwrI8ZznUiLSvukl8IoPbZA
Source: ESC Covers; YouTube/Depi Evratesil
Armenia have announced and released the first and second batch of songs for the 2018 Depi Evratesil national selection.
Tamar Kaprelian, Amaliya Margaryan, Nemra, Hayk Kasparov, Suren Poghosyan were released on 15 January.
Sevak Khanagyan, Kamil Show, Angel, AlternatiV, Tyom were released today 16 January.
The next batch of songs will be announced tomorrow 17 January.
You can view all the songs at this link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwrI8ZznUiLSvukl8IoPbZA
Source: ESC Covers; YouTube/Depi Evratesil
Ukraine have announced the 18 acts that will compete in the national selection over two semi-finals and the final and the theme of the shows will be Celebrating Diversity.
All the acts have wrote their owns songs this year.
Amongst the returning acts is Tayanna, who finished in second place in the national selection in 2017.
Here are the 18 acts –
Who will follow O.Torvald and represent Ukraine at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest?!! The songs will soon be revealed. We will see!!
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The local broadcaster, NRK, in Norway have announced the 10 finalists for the 2018 Melodi Grand Prix. Some familiar names are in the line up including the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest winner for Norway, Alexander Rybak. Also, back is Stella Mwangi (this time as part of a duet) from 2011.
Here are the lucky finalists –
All the songs can be heard at this link on the NRK website https://www.nrk.no/mgp/her-er-artistene-i-mgp-2018-1.13867010
Source: Eurovision.tv; ESC Covers