Eurovision NI Awards 2020: The Winners!

Earlier this evening Eurovision fans joined hosts Nicky McElhatton and Denise Kelly for the fifth annual Eurovision NI Awards. The awards took place on Zoom and honoured the best and shamed the worst from this year’s Eurovision hopefuls.

EBU Outline 4 Scenarios for Eurovision 2021!

Eurovision fans were devastated when the 2020 Contest was cancelled due to the ongoing global Coronavirus Pandemic. All eyes were on Eurovision 2021 to see how future plans for the event would progress. A few months ago, the new EBU Eurovision Executive Supervisor Martin Osterdahl announced that the Contest would go ahead in some form in 2021 but today the EBU revealed the framework for how this would look.

In today’s announcement they announced four possible scenarios for the plans in 2021 ranging from business as usual with a full audience to a Contest on lockdown where participants would perform in a TV studio in their home nation but would still be broadcast on the Final (something similar to the plans for the Junior Eurovision in November).

Eurovision NI Awards 2020: The Nominees

The Eurovision NI Awards are back for a fifth consecutive year in 2020. Initial details were unveiled a few weeks ago, announcing that the Awards will take place through Zoom on Saturday 3 October 2020 from 8pm. Tickets are free and you can register to attend on our Eventbrite page.

Today we reveal the nominees. Read on to find out who has been nominated in our eleven ‘Best’ categories and our five ‘Worst’ Categories. As always you can have your say with the People’s Choice Award and we can confirm that our special award: The Rising Phoenix Award for Outstanding Contribution to Eurovision goes to Jon Ola Sand in 2020.

Eurovision NI Awards 2020 Will Take Place 3 October!

The Eurovision NI Awards are back for a fifth consecutive year in 2020. Unfortunately, the awards will have to take place in a virtual setting this year. This is due to the uncertainties in the entertainment sector regarding being able to host large groups of people indoors in a live event setting as a result of the ongoing COVID 19 Pandemic. But this won’t stop us having the usual fun!

Eurovision 2021 Gets Official Dates!

Much to Eurovision fans’ dismay, the Eurovision Song Contest was cancelled in 2020 for the first time in the show’s history due to the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic. Today the Dutch ticketing partners for the competition PayLogic announced that the show will go on in 2021.

Iceland win #EurovisionWatchPartyNI Grand Final!

On Saturday night we were all supposed to be tuning in to the Grand Final of Eurovision 2020. However due to the Coronavirus, the show was cancelled. Eurovision NI wanted the party to continue so we hosted our very own Eurovision 2020 Watch Party. Two semi finals took place on Tuesday and Thursday and the ten qualifiers from each joined the Big Five and host nation the Netherlands in Saturday’s Grand Final. The Grand Final was won by Iceland’s Dadi Freyr and their song ‘Think About Things’. Read on for the full results including semi finals and the jury/televote split for the Grand Final.

#EurovisionWatchPartyNI Semi Final 2: Results!

Tonight Eurovision NI hosted the second of our Eurovision 2020 Watch Parties. Tonight saw the eighteen countries that were supposed to take part in Eurovision 2020’s Second Semi Final, fight it out for a spot in our Grand Final on Saturday. There were only ten spots available and the results were as follows:

#EurovisionWatchPartyNI Semi Final 1: Results!

Tonight Eurovision NI hosted the first of our Eurovision 2020 Watch Parties. Tonight saw the seventeen countries that were supposed to take part in Eurovision 2020’s First Semi Final, fight it out for a spot in our Grand Final on Saturday. There were only ten spots available and the results were as follows:

James Newman- ‘My Last Breath’ (United Kingdom Eurovision 2020) Lyrics!

James Newman is United Kingdom’s pick for Eurovision in 2020. His song is called ‘My Last Breath’ check out the lyrics below.

Go_A- ‘Solovey’ (Ukraine Eurovision 2020) Lyrics!

Go_A is Ukraine’s pick for Eurovision in 2020. Their song is called ‘Solovey’ check out the lyrics and English translation below.