The Russian folk group Buranovskiye Babushki first participated in a national selection for Eurovision in 2010, when they finished surprisingly third. They returned for this year’s Russian final and won the competition. The title of their entry for Baku is Party For Everybody, composed by Viktor Drobysh and Timofei Leontiev, …

The United Kingdom’s entry to the 57th Eurovision Song Contest provides an exciting combination: Engelbert Humperdinck, a big name in the international music industry for over forty-five years, with over 150 million records sold worldwide, teamed up with Grammy award-winning producer Martin Terefe and Ivor Novello winner Sacha Skarbek, who …

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 …