RTP the Portuguese broadcaster has today released the 16 songs that will compete to perform at the Eurovision song contest in Rotterdam in May.
The Festival da Canção 2020 Final will take place on March 7th
All 16 songs are available to listen at the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLk_Qhdpz4U&list=PLMedIwg0kZw9hoW8XIv4VoadpqMGif87k&index=1
The candidates to represent Czech Republic at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest have been announced. We can all vote by using the official Eurovision App https://eurovision.tv/app from Monday 20 January to Sunday 2 February.
The seven finalists are –
Source: ESC Covers
Arilena Ara overcame some tough competition at ‘FEST’ 58 the Albanian national selection show, to book her place in Rotterdam for Eurovision 2020.
Her stunning vocal performance beat the other pre-show favourite Elvana Gjata with her song ‘Me tana’ into second place, with young talent Sara Bejraktari coming in a respectable third with another great vocal performance on the night.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ot7mLma0K8o
Eurovision.TV today announced the three hosts of the 2020 contest in Rotterdam
Eurovision commenter Jan Smit, presenter, actress and singer Chantal Janzen and former Eurovision star Edsilia Rombley have been chosen to host the ceremonies which will kick off with the first semi final on Tuesday 12th May 2020
Photo NPO/AVROTROS/NOS
Full story on Eurovision.TV here: https://eurovision.tv/story/eurovision-2020-presenters-chantal-janzen-edsilia-rombley-jan-smit?fbclid=IwAR2svnm5DOE8avX_0mUNkJ4IWnuHF8_-b-kR1sL-Izt-whrau8_NVXyNqDo
The first Images of the 2020 Eurovision stage design have been release today.
Designed by Florian Wieder , the stage has a very minimalist design which according to Florian “I was inspired by the unique characteristics of Dutch Design”
Photo courtesy of NPO/AVROTROS/NOS
For more information and images visit the Eurovision website:
The EBU has revealed the art work for the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest.
ESC Covers was informed this morning of a possible withdrawal from the 2020 Eurovision song contest in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and we were going OH NO NO and singing the Bernie Paul song. Roy van der Merwe especially is sad as their 2019 entry HEAVEN is his second favourite song of 2019.
But due to financial problems and the high costs of participation in the Eurovision, Montenegrin television will not participate and will not send its representative to Rotterdam. We believe the RTCG broadcaster has tried to prevent withdrawal at all costs, and the European Broadcasting Union has extended the time for Montenegrin to make a decision by October 10. Unfortunately, it was not possible to provide funding to start the country in the competition.
Participation cost in Tel Aviv was higher due to Montenegro being drawn in the first semi final and also their group D MOL had 6 members who all had to be accommodated.
Spanish TV announced today that BLAS CANTO will represent them at the 2020 Eurovision song contest in Rotterdam.
In an announcement made earlier today, the BBC confirmed the UK’s participation in Eurovision 2020 and also gave details of a new selection process for the song and artist.
The UK public will no longer have the opportunity to vote on their preferred choices, as the BBC has dropped the ‘You Decide’ show format which has been used to select the UK entry for Eurovision since 2016 and will instead move back to internal selection.
In a surprise move however, the whole process will be done in collaboration with the music company BMG and therefore it is very likely that both the songwriters and artist will be selected from the labels own extensive roster of artists.
Read the full story here on the BBC website:
ESC Covers did not really write about all the speculation of 9 cities/towns in the Netherlands that expressed interest to host the 2020 Eurovision song contest. There are enough websites and blogs reporting on that and it is virtually impossible to come up with any new news on such matters.
However, the fact that Amsterdam announced today that it will not host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2020, is quite sad to us since it is the capitol and ESC Covers like the contests to be in the capitol with easier access to the main airport as flying into Europe from South Africa is quite a challenge otherwise.
It seems the capital of the Netherlands cannot submit a suitable venue for the event and so mayor Femke Halsema announced the city’s official withdrawal this afternoon.
ESC Covers now hope it will be Rotterdam.
