The group Velvet Fire and the 2010 disqualified entrant Eleftheria Eleftheriou are the two new names for the 2012 Greek National Final according to one of the most respected portals in Greece, yupi.gr. Velvet Fire is a new group in Greece while the Cypriot and X-Factor participant will try...
WHO’S ENTERING FOR RUSSIA 20...
posted by ALENKA (SWITZERLAND)
Russian submissions are underway up to February 10th and already some names reported by oikotimes.com the past few months are now confirmed. Sergey Savin and the grannies Buranovskie Babushki officially submitted a song for the Russian National Final 2012 and as many of you know they are the...
MEDIA RUMOUR DORIANS FOR BAKU
posted by SUBMITTED
Dorians Armenian rock band is not against participation in Eurovision 2012, which will be held in Baku. In the voting in social networks the band leads the probable candidates for participation in Eurovision 2012. “It is not a secret that we have never suffered from Eurovision...
MELISSES: WE HAVE NO IDEA ON THE R...
posted by FOTIS (GREECE)
For days now a small fan site claims they know that Melisses group will be chosen internally to represent Greece in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. As oikotimes.com exclusively reported for months now Melisses are not interested in Eurovision at the moment but they are not excluding the idea...
MEDIA CLAIM NAMES FOR SLOVAKIA 201...
posted by MARKUS (GERMANY)
Thomas Puskailer and Barborou Balúchovou are reported to be the two singers for the Slovakian internal selection, Nový Čas newspaper and eurocontest.cz reported few moments ago. Thomas Puskailer seems to be the favorite to represent Slovakia in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest as he is more...
DIVA FEVER TWEETS THEY MIGHT GO TO...
posted by SUBMITTED
Diva Fever only finished 13th on Britain’s X-Factor. But if their recent tweet has an ounce of truth in it, they may be representing the U.K. at Eurovision 2012. Craig Saggers and Josef Al-Smadi met while studying at the University of Leicester. Al-Smadi was actually working at a gas company...
GEORGE SAMPANIS NOT IN
GREEK NF 2012
posted by FOTIS (GREECE)
It is almost clear to many media that ERT will soon announce 3-4 acts for the Greek national final with artists from Universal Music as it is the only record label which will share the costs for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest as the rest of the record label refused to pay. Today the information come from well respected newspaper Ethnos concluding that the national selection will include the names of Malou Kyriakopoulou, Panagiotis Tsakalakos and most likely Professional Sinnerz group. One of the composers seems to be George Sampanis known mostly from his compositions to Helena Paparizou. ERT and Universal have not yet confirmed or refute...
ONE MORE RUMOUR FOR UK 2012
posted by GHASSAN (DENMARK)
After tabloids reporting various candidates for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest as representatives of the United Kingdom, one more hit the internet world today. Melanie C fans, most likely started a campaign to promote her bid to… Eurovision. We all know that BBC will decide for the...
PLUMBO WITHDRAW FROM MGP 2012?
posted by GHASSAN (DENMARK)
Plumbo group was in the line up for the 2012 Melodi Grand Prix, in the 3rd semifinal with the song “Old Nordmann” but kjendis.no claims that the band withdraw from the national selection due to the reactions of their joke made in the Norwegian Grammy awards...
NOMISMA IN THE GREEK LINE UP?
posted by ELIAS (GREECE)
A weird e-mail is circulating to various newsdesk as of this morning. The e-mail claims that group Nomisma with the song “Nicko” are in the line up for the Greek national final. We have asked ERT for a reaction and their response was “the procedure is still ongoing there is...
EUROFEST GUESTS STILL A SECRET
posted by GHASSAN (DENMARK)
The Belarusian national broadcaster is not revealing the names of the guest performers for the upcoming Eurofest 2012, the show through which Belarus will decide upon its participation to the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. While various forum sites and some posts in wikipedia pages claimed...
JULIETA TO BAKU
CLAIMS LOCAL PRESS
posted by MARKUS (GERMANY)
Since IBA decided to cancel the KDAM 2012, Israeli national broadcaster is searching to select internally for Baku. It seems that various artists in the list of IBA cannot or are willing not to do Eurovision this year for various reasons. For example: Idan Raichel turned down the proposal because of lack of time as he is preparing his new album. Maya Buskila is also between Eurovision and a new TV program which will be recorded in Los Angeles. Though, Roni Dalum and Miri Mesika are still in the race to represent Israel in Baku. Julieta though is the one that officially submitted a proposal to IBA for the contest. She has released two...