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The 39 participating countries of 2013

These are the countries that have so far confirmed their participation in Eurovision 2013 so far.  Find them listed below:

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Country Language Artist Song English translation
First half
Austria English Natalia Kelly Shine –
Croatia Croatian Klapa S Mora Mižerja Misery
Denmark English Emmelie de Forest “Only Teardrops” —
Estonia Estonian Birgit Õigemeel Et uus saaks alguse
Netherlands Anouk TBD March 2013
Russia English  Dina Garipova What if
Slovenia English Hannah Mancini Straight into love
Ukraine English Zlata Ognevich “Gravity” —
Second half
Belarus English Alyona Lanskaya “Rhythm of love”
Belgium English Roberto Bellarosa “Love Kills” —
Cyprus Greek Despina Olympiou “Na Me Thimasai” Remember me
Ireland Ryan Dolan Only love survives
Lithuania English Andrius Pojavis “Something” —
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Montenegro Who See feat. Nina Žižić TBD March 2013
Serbia Serbian Moja 3 Ljubav Je Svuda

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Country Language Artist Song English translation
First half
Azerbaijan
Bulgaria Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankulov Kismet
Finland English Krista Siegfrids Marry Me
Iceland Icelandic Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson “Ég á líf” I have a life
Latvia English PeR Here we go —
Macedonia Vlatko Lozanoski &
Esma Redžepova		 CHANGING THE SONG
Malta English Gianluca Bezzina “Tomorrow”
San Marino Italian, English Valentina Monetta “Crisalide” Chrysalis
Second half
Albania Albanian Adrian Lulgjuraj &
Bledar Sejko		 “Identitet” Identity
Armenia Gor Sujyan Lonely Planet
Georgia English Sopho Gelovani &
Nodiko Tatishvili		 “Waterfall” —
Greece Koza Mostra ft Agathonas Alcohol is Free
Hungary Bye Alex Kedvesem
Israel
Norway Margaret Berger I feed you my love —
Romania Cezar It’s my life
Switzerland English Heilsarmee “You and Me” —

Final

Country Language Artist Song Translation
France French Amandine Bourgeois “L’enfer et moi” Hell and me
Germany Cascada Glorious
Italy Marco Mengoni  To be announced
Spain Spanish El Sueño de Morfeo Contigo Hasta el Final
Sweden (host) Robin Stejnberg You
United Kingdom English  Bonnie Tyler Believe in Me
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Stockholm, Göteburg or Malmö? Which city will host Eurovision 2013?

Which city will it be? Like in 2011 will not be a unicque candidate for Eurovision 2013 this time, and as many fans are longing for it is not sure yet that the city will be Stockholm, like happened with Berlin in 2011.

Until now SVT has alternated the hosts, the capital was the host for 1975, Göteburg in 1985, Malmö in 1992 and the last Swedish contest was host in 2000 again in Stockholm. Will they follow the rule?

Göteburg has booked the Skandinavium which can host up to 14.500 seats, together with the Exhibition hall and 3.000 hotel rooms, in the meantime Malmö has done the same move with his Arena which has a capacity of 15.000 seats.

Stockholm will have ready, as we mentioned in our article from 26th March “No more direct to Globen”, its Swedbankarena which can host up to 65.000 viewers but more likely 35.00o for the Eurovision, but the celebration of the Ice-hockey World Championships from the 3rd to the 19th of May, collinding with Eurovision dates, can tip the balance in favour of other Swedish city, as SVT has confirmed.

 

 

 

 

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These are the Spokesperson of the 42 countries

EBU announced the 42 name of the spokespersons. Among them we can see some Eurovision related Artists, such as Mr. Lordi (Finland 2006) and Amaury Vassili ( France 2011) and Safura (Azerbaijan).

 

The complete list of the spokespersons is as follows:

  1. Albania – (Andri Xhahu)
  2. Montenegro – (Marija Markovic)
  3. Romania – (Paul Seling)
  4. Austria – (Kati Bellowitsch)
  5. Ukraine – (Aleksey Matius)
  6. Belarus – (Dmitry Koldun)
  7. Belgium – (Peter Van de Veire)
  8. Azerbaijan – (Safura Alizadeh)
  9. Malta – (Keith Demicoli)
  10. San Marino – (Monica Fabbri)
  11. France – (Amaury Vassili)
  12. United Kingdom – (Scott Mills)
  13. Turkey – (Ömer Önder)
  14. Greece – Adriana Magania)
  15. Bosnia & Herzegovina – (Elvir Lakovic Laka)
  16. Moldova – (Olivia Fortuna)
  17. Bulgaria – (Anna Angelova)
  18. Switzerland – (Sara Hildebrand)
  19. Slovenia – (Lorella Flego)
  20. Cyprus – (Loucas Hamatsos)
  21. Croatia – (Nevena Rendeli)
  22. Slovakia – (Mária Pietrová)
  23. FYR Macedonia – (Kristina Talevska)
  24. Netherlands – (Vivienne van den Assem)
  25. Portugal – (Joana Teles)
  26. Iceland – (Matthias Matthiasson)
  27. Sweden – (Sarah Dawn Finer)
  28. Norway – (Nadia Hasnaoui)
  29. Lithuania – (Ignas Krupavičius)
  30. Estonia – (Getter Jaani)
  31. Denmark – (Louise Wolff)
  32. Ireland – (Grainne Seoige)
  33. Latvia – (Valters Fridenbergs)
  34. Spain – (Elena S Sánchez)
  35. Finland – (Mr Lordi)
  36. Georgia – (Sopho Toroshelidze)
  37. Italy – (Ivan Bacchi)
  38. Serbia – (Maja Nikolić)
  39. Germany – (Anke Engelke)
  40. Russia – (Oxana Fedorova)
  41. Hungary – (Éva Novodomszky)
  42. Israel – (Ofer Nachshon)

 

So Let the show begin.

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MF2013; No more direct to Globen

Goodbye Globen; Melodifestivalen Organisation has announced the new venue for the 2013 edition to be held next  9th of March 2013, the new Swedbank Arena. Due to the increasing attendance of public the event will be moved to this brand new venue which will be inaugurated on 14th November with football game Sweden – England.

The closable roof allows this space to be multifunctional and to host between 15.000 and 65.000 spectators depeding on the type of event, it will give Sweden the chance to host events which were not able to visit the country due to its venues limitation.

The stadium is located in Solna a municipality part of Stockholm’s metropolitan area and will be connected by train and tram (still to be finished) with the center of the capital. A massive complex with shops, hotels, restaurants and offices it is also planned to be built beside the venue.

 

Sweden gets ready for hosting huge events; will be Eurovision 2013 one of them?

 

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Moldova : Pasha Parfeny to Baku

The final of the Moldovan national selection took place on Sunday 11th March. 21 acts competed for the right to represent Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Pasha Parfeny won tonight’s show with the song ‘Lautar’.

 

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Party for everybody with Russia

The final of the Russian national selection took place on 7th March. 25 acts competed for the right to represent Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Buranovskie Babushki won today’s show with the song ‘Party for everybody’.

Video Performance from National Final

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Running order for the Melodifestivalen Final

SVT, the Swedish national broadcaster has announced today the running order for the final of Melodifestivalen 2012. The final of Melodifestivalen will take place next saturday the 10th of March.

The running order for the Melodifestivalen Final:

1. David Lindgren – Shout it out
2. Thorsten Flinck & Revolutionsorkestern – Jag reser mig igen
3. Dead by April – Mystery
4. Lisa Miskovsky – Why start a fire
5. Top Cats – Baby Doll
6. Loreen – Euphoria
7. Ulrik Munther – Soldiers
8. Björn Ranelid feat. Sara Li – Mirakel
9. Molly Sandén – Why am I crying
10. Danny Saucedo – Amazing

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Running order for Russian National Final

RTR, the Russian national broadcaster has announced the names of the 25 finalists that will compete at the 2012 Russian national final scheduled to be aired on the 7th of March.

The 25 candidates:

1. Lena Maksimova
2. Ksenona
3. Irson Kudikova
4. The UPS
5. Sardor
6. 4Post
7. Efrosiya
8. Unite it
9. Katya Savelyeva
10. Olga Makovetskaya
11. Rene
12. Farinelli Balls
13. Polina Smolova
14. Chinkong feat. Karina
15. Mari Karne
16. Mark Tishman
17. Ed Sulzhevskij
18. Elena Ekimova
19. Julia Volkova(T.A.T.U.) & Dima Bilan
20. Riff Action Family
21. Aida & Timati
22. Pavla
23. Syostry Syo
24. Buranovskiye Babushki
25. Jet Kids

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Tickets sales begins today.

Eurovision.tv announced the ticket sales start as from today. Here is the press release from their Website:

NOTE: 1 AZN is approximately 1 EUR.
If events are sold out at any given moment, please check again later to find out if additional tickets have become available again.

Step by step: Buying your tickets

  • Tickets are being sold online by the official international ticket partner of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, Ticketmaster
  • After buying your ticket(s), you will receive a confirmation voucher by email
  • With your confirmation voucher, passport and credit card, you pick up your ticket at one of the designated ticket offices in Baku, Azerbaijan. Locations and opening hours will be published on this website within the coming weeks. Ticket buyers will also receive an email with this information.

Important notes

Don’t buy tickets to the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 through other websites or from resellers, public or private. Advance booking for official tickets is available exclusively through the official ticket sales website.

Any tickets that may become available at short notice will be sold online and at the box office of the Crystal Palace in Baku.

Ticket vouchers and tickets to the Eurovision Song Contest are not for resale, private or public, and cannot be exchanged or returned.

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4 songs for the Greek National Final

ERT, the Greek national broadcaster ERT has revealed today the the four songs that are taking part in the Greek national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.
The Greek National Final will take place on March 12th, 2012, and that there will be a total of four candidate entries. The artists’ names will be revealed on 1st of March while ERT will broadcast the 4 video clips of the songs.

You can listen to the songs below:

1. Killer Bee
2. No parking
3. Aphrodisiac
4. Baby I’m yours