One of the best-known names in this year’s line-up for Eurovision comes from Germany: dance pop act Cascada with front-singer Natalie Horler gained international success with songs like Everytime We Touch, Miracle, What Hurts The Most, and most prominently with Evacuate The Dancefloor, one of the biggest selling dance-pop songs …

Albania celebrates 10 years of participation in the Eurovision Song Contest this year, and as usual their representative was chosen through the country’s traditional Festivali i Këngës. Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar Sejko came out the winners with their song Identitet (Identity), composed by Bledar Sejko, with lyrics by Eda Sejko. …

Belgium’s entry to the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, Love Kills, performed by Roberto Bellarosa, underwent a major revamp a couple of weeks ago and sounds quite different now from the version he originally presented in the national final mid December. The song, written by by Jukka Immonen and Iain Farquharson, …

Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO opted for an internal selection this year and chose the American born singer Hannah Mancini to represent the country at Malmö. Hannah has some Eurovision experience on a national level: In the 2011 national selection she took part together with Sylvain and Mike Vale performing Ti Si …

For Ukraine it’s the 11th participation this year, and the country can already look back on quite a successful history in the Contest, with Ruslana’s win in 2004 (Wild Dances), two second places (Ani Lorak, Verka Serduchka) and three more top ten placings (Tina Karol, Alyosha and Mika Newton). Now …

Our showcase of the 39 entries to the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest starts off with Estonia this year. As usual, the order of presentation was determined by a random draw (except for the host country Sweden). When 24-year-old singer Birgit Õigemeel won the Estonian national final ‘Eesti Laul’ on 2nd …