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The Norwegian entry in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest Hold on be strong is nominated in the Hit of the year category of the annual Spellemann music awards. The song, which was written by Mira Craig and performed by Maria Haukaas Storeng, is only the second Eurovision Song Contest entry ever to be nominated for an award following the 1995 winning song Nocturne. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12848)
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Veteran rocker Remu, taking part in the second heat of the Finnish national final selections for the Eurovision Song Contest has released a video for his entry Planeetta. The song is also being used as an advertisement for Internet Service Provider by the same name, Planeetta. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12849)
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As announced in December, this year Portugal chooses their song for the Eurovision Song Contest earlier than previous years. Festival da cancao will take place on the 27th February. The 24 songs pre-selected by RTP will be available online on 19th January. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12851)
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As previously reported by, FYR Macedonia will select its next Eurovision Song Contest entry on Saturday 21st February following two semi finals on Thursday 19th February and Friday 20th February. 16 songs will participate in each semi final and the top half will qualify for the final. Today, national broadcaster, MKRTV, have announced the 32 songs and composers that have reached the semi finals. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12839)
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Birthe Kjær, the 1989 representative for Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest in Lausanne, Switzerland, will return to the Eurovision world at the end of this month as host of the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix. She will co-host the show with television and radio presenter, Felix Smith. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12840)
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As revealed by esctoday.com back on December 19th, Georgia will participate at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Last night, in the first public statement regarding the Caucasian state's u-turn on competing, the national broadcaster states that their heads were turned because the EBU did not give up on them. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12841)
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Melody and the Vivancos are currently leading in the Eurovision 2009, El Retorno online voting with 66,103 votes. The Andalusian child artiste has toppled Soraya into 2nd place. Soraya is the hot favourite to represent Spain at the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest enjoying fame, name and recognition on home soil. She is close 2nd with 65,523 votes followed by Santa Fe who have climbed up very fast in the recent days. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12843)
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Israeli Broadcaster, IBA, has been looking at alternative options for their next Eurovision Song Contest representative after the record label dispute with Harel Ska'at and Hed Arzi seems unlikely to be resolved in time. It now seems that Maya Buskila is their first choice and could be announced as the next representative for the country as early as next week. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12844)
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Iceland will start their search for the song to represent the country in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow this Saturday. There will be four heats leading to two semi-finals and the final on February 14th. Two songs from each heat will go on to the semi-finals. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12845)
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Lithuanian broadcaster will start the Lithuanian Song Contest, Lietuvos Dainų Daina, this Saturday, 10 January. The website eurodiena.lt says the official announcement of the country's participation in this year's Eurovision Song Contest will follow this week but says that "at this time we can be almost assured that LRT will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest". (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12846)
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The BBC are celebrating a ratings success with the first show of the five week Eurovision Song Contest national selection series, Your Country Needs You. The first weekly show attracted a peak audience of 5.86million viewers and an average share of 4.9million viewers. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12834)
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Marius Moga, the Romanian composer and member of the band Morandi is participating again this year in the Romanian national preselection. He has composed a song for Dalma Kovacs, the winner of national broadcaster TVR's Faimosii television show. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12835)
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Spanish Eurovision fever is picking up fast, with national broadcaster reporting more than 2,300,000 votes cast so far in the online voting to select entry. Soraya is leading with 61,925 votes ahead of Melody and recent Spanish finalists, Santa Fe and Mirela. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12837)
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The BBC has placed short clips of the six finalists for the Eurovision Song Contest selection show online. The six finalists enter the live competition part of Your Country Needs You this Saturday as Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber decides who will present his composition in Moscow. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12836)
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One more member club has joined the family of OGAE International. Ogae Romania was created in August 2008 and now is officially a member of OGAE International. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12838)
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Today, 6th January, the opening of the envelopes with the songs submitted to the Romanian broadcaster for the country's preselection for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Bucharest. On Thursday, a special jury appointed by TVR will shortlist 24 songs to compete in the two semifinals and the next day all songs will be posted on TVR's official site. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12833)
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Tefkros Neocleous walked the Eurovision Song Contest stage last year when he accompanied Evdokia Kadi as a backing singer and dancer. This year, he tries to represent Cyprus on his own with Mary, a rock power ballad he will perform himself in the Cypriot national final. In an exclusive interview with Esctoday.com he talks about his song, his experience in Belgrade and his views on the new voting system in the Eurovision Song Contest final. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12832)
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Jasmine is a Romanian female pop singer. She entered the Romanian final for the Eurovision in 2007 with the song "Music in my soul" and last year, although she sent two songs for the selection, none of them entered the semifinals.
(http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12821)
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RTP, Portugese national broadcaster, have revamped their website for Festival da Canção 09, their national selection show for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12827)
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The UKeurovision & Schlager party have announced their first event of the new year. The monthly parties resume at The Enclave in London on the last Friday of every month, and that means the next event takes place just one night before the United Kingdom selects its 2009 Eurovision Song Contest representative! (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12828)
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As earlier reported, the United Kingdom will decide their entry for the 2009 contest, beginning tonight. The show is about to begin and esctoday.com will bring you live coverage right here.
(http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12826)
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The seventh semi final of Malta Song for Europe 2009, the Maltese selection for the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, is about to take place. Another seven acts will compete to be one of the 20 acts who are going to reach in the national final. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12829)
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The six acts competing to represent the United Kingdom at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest are now confirmed. They will be Charlotte, Damien, Emperors of Soul, Francine & Nicola, Jade and Mark. Next Saturday 10th January, they will compete in the first live show for the audience votes. Each week, one act will be eliminated until the final three acts take their place in the Your Country Needs You final on Saturday 31st January. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12830)
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All eighteen semi finalists of the Bulgarian preselection for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest are now available to listen to on the broadcaster’s official site. There are three more songs that still remain to be heard, the three wildcards which will be produced by BNT. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12831)
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Alex Panayi returns this year to the Cypriot final with a very special song to him. He will be performing his own composition, There is love on 7th February hoping to represent his homeland and celebrate the 20th anniversary of his first participation on Eurovision stage in Moscow. We met with Alex at the set of the Greek edition of the X Factor where he is currently working with the groups and he spoke to us about his song, his views on the voting system, Cyprus' chances in the Eurovision Song Contest and Sakis Rouvas among other things. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12819)
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Turkey's national broadcaster, TRT, has opened a poll for the country to assess the Turkish entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. And the results shows that people of Turkey have strong support for the song that was revealed on New Year's night. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12818)
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Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber has spoken to the BBC about his forthcoming talent contest to find the British entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12820)
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On Friday January 30th 2009, the draw to decide which countries will appear in either Semi-Final 1 or Semi-Final 2 will take place. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12822)
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Tonight, the United Kingdom will kick off its national selection Eurovision: Your country needs you. In an introduction show, the six performers to take part in the elimination shows starting next week will be revealed. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12823)
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Malta will continue its search for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest tonight with the seventh semi final being held. Another seven acts will compete to be one of the 20 acts which are going to reach in the national final. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12824)
