For the first time since Croatia’s debut in the Contest in 1993, national broadcaster HRT passed on a televised competition to select the country’s representative for Eurovision. In an internal selection Nina Badrić was chosen to take the Croatian flag to Baku. The title of her song is Nebo (Heaven), …

After an unfortunate second place at last year’s Austrian national final with the song Oida Taunz!, hip-hop duo Trackshittaz this year came out on top and won the honour of representing Austria in Baku. Trackshittaz is made up of rappers Lukas Plöchl and Manuel Hoffelner who also composed & wrote …

The songwriting team behind Portugal’s entry to the 57th Eurovision Song Contest includes two familiar names to the Eurovision community, Andrej Babic and Carlos Coelho already created the 2008 Portuguese entry Senhora Do Mar sung by Vânia Fernandes, and several entries to the Festival RTP da Canção. The singer of …

The televised Norwegian selection for Eurovision 2012 was held between 21 January and 11 February, when the national final was celebrated at Oslo’s Spektrum. Decided by a mixture of regional juries and televoting, 24-year-old Iranian-born singer Tooji came out the winner with the dance pop song Stay, composed & written …

Željko Joksimović, runner-up of the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Lane Moje, returns to the Contest and will be representing Serbia in Baku. In a special program on 10 March, Serbian broadcaster RTS and Željko presented the entry to the public; Nije Ljubav Stvar (Love is not an …

This year, Spanish broadcaster TVE decided to internally select Spain’s representative for the Contest in Baku and announced in December 33-year-old Pastora Soler to fly the Spanish flag in the capital of Azerbaijan on 26 May. In a televised national final on 3 March, Pastora presented three songs, and chosen …