Albania

Albanian finalists known

Yesterday, the first presentation of the 25 Albanian semifinalists could be seen and heard live on television. Tonight, the same 25 songs will be presented, but now accoustic. You can watch the show at 20.35 here. That means, if there is no delay like yesterday. However, the results are already

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Albanian national final in open air this week

Tonight, the Albanian national final Festival i Këngës will start. This year, it will be a 3-day event with the same songs presented all 3 evenings. Due to COVID-19, Albanian television decided to have the contest in the open air. The three shows have been prerecorded, only the results coming

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Allocation draw 2020 will be the same in 2021

As the countries participating in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest will be the same as in 2020, the allocation draw also will be the same. Eurovision.tv just confirmed that the 41 participating countries agreed on that. That means, the countries will perform in the same part of the same semifinal

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Albanian songs online

Today, Albanian broadcaster RTSH revealed the titles of all the Festival i Këngës songs and…. put them online! The winner of Festival i Këngës, a contest to be held at the end of December, will represent Albania at the Eurovision Song Contest. Just follow the links and you can enjoy

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Albania: song contest addict since 1962

Photo Anjeza Shahini: tomboy30, wikimedia commons It was 2004 when Albania first participated in the Eurovision Song Contest. Already in december 2003 they had it’s national final, Festival i Këngës. The winner was Anjeza Shahini with the song “Imazhi yt”, a song that exceeded the 3 minutes, and not a

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Iceland wins Eurostream2020!

After an exciting voting, Iceland has won Eurostream2020, the online alternative for the Eurovision Song Contest. After a wonderful evening, we now know who might have won the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. It’s Daði & Gagnamagnið who reached the first place. Congratulations, til hamingju Ísland!!Iceland was the winner of both

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Winners 2nd semifinal Eurostream 2020 known!

The winners of the 2nd semifinal are known now. Behind the name of the country, you will find the place where they will perform in the final: Georgia (25)Greece (5)Albania (15)Iceland (18)Denmark (4)Armenia (24)Switzerland (1)Serbia (7)Bulgaria (10)Austria (9)

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This week: Eurostream 2020!!

Of course, we would have loved to keep you updated for the rehearsals of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. But unfortunately, that is impossible.Thank goodness, this week we can follow Eurostream 2020, a great alternative for the contest.On Tuesday, may 5th, you can watch the first semifinal show. On thurday,

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Iceland wins “Der kleine Song Contest”

In Austria, they had their own song contest this year. Divided over three shows, an expert jury chose three songs to be judged by Austrian televoters. And the winner is…. Iceland! Daði  & Gagnamagnið got 48% of the votes with their song “Think about things”, while Austria was the runner

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Albania to sing: “Fall from the sky”

In december, Arilena Ara won the Albanese song contest Festival i Këngës with the song “Shaj”. Today the final, and English, version has been presented: “Fall from the sky”. Where Lindon Berisha wrote the Albanian lyrics, Michael Blue, Robert Stevenson and Sam Schummer are responsible for the English words.

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