New Music Round Up: April 2018!

Next month will see the 2018 edition of Eurovision take place in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. Ahead of that we look to some of our favourites from past contests to see what they’ve been up to and what new music releases they’ve treated us to this month. Among them are Spanish singers Barei and Manel Navarro as well as new offerings from Tim Schou, Francesco Gabbani, Ira Losco and Fabrizio Faniello. Enjoy!

Review: Italy- Francesco Gabbani ‘Occidentali’s Karma’

Winner of the New Artist category and the Big Artists category in back to back Sanremo Contests, Francesco Gabbani will represent Italy at Eurovision 2017 with his song ‘Occidentali’s Karma’.

Ranking: Eurovision Songs 2017 (Week 9)

The final three Eurovision songs for 2017 were announced this week with Bulgaria, Russia and Armenia adding their songs to the 40 we already had. Now that we have all of the 43 songs for Eurovision 2017, we can for the first time give you a run down of the entire field. Read on to find out which of the songs ranked first and where the three new songs by Kristian Kostov, Artsvik and Yulia Samoilova placed!

Eurovision World Cup 2017: Group H Results!

For the past four days you have been voting in Group H of the Eurovision NI World Cup 2017! We have closed the poll and can now reveal the results and announce which two countries have made it through to the next round of the competition.

The two songs advancing from Group H are Australia’s ‘Don’t Come Easy’ by Isaiah Firebrace who topped the poll with 37% and second place Iceland’s Svala whose ‘Paper’ got 32% in the poll. Meanwhile the other three countries in this poll Switzerland, Armenia and Latvia have been eliminated. Check out the full results below. 

Eurovision World Cup: Group H Results

1. Australia: Isaiah Firebrace- ‘Don’t Come Easy’ (36.84%)
2. Iceland: Svala- ‘Paper'(31.58%)
3. Switzerland: Timebelle- ‘Apollo’ (15.79%)
4. Latvia: Triana Park- ‘Line'(15.79%)
5. Armenia: Artsvik- ‘Fly With Me’ (0%)

Eurovision NI’s Eurovision World Cup continues with the next stage of the competition: the knock out rounds where two songs will battle it out in each match for a place in the quarter finals. Click here to see the line up!

Eurovision World Cup 2017: Group A Results!

For the past four days you have been voting in the first group of the Eurovision NI World Cup 2017! We have closed the poll and can now reveal the results and announce which two countries have made it through to the next round of the competition.

Eurovision World Cup 2017: Group A

Two songs will advance from Group A to the knock out stage of our Eurovision World Cup Contest. Group A consists of  Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Italy and Romania. Listen to each of the songs in this group and vote for your favourite two in the poll below. Poll closes 16th March when the results will be unveiled.

Ranking: Eurovision Songs 2017 (Week 8)

This week has been a corker for Eurovision selections and announcements with all but three of the countries revealing their Eurovision 2017 artists and songs. Australia, Greece, Belgium, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Ireland, Macedonia, Iceland Serbia, Israel, Lithuania, San Marino and Norway have joined the list of Eurovision 2017 songs. We’ve added these to our Eurovision playlist which joins the other 25 songs we already have. We continue to rank our favourites. Here is our top 40. 

Ranking: Eurovision Songs 2017 (Week 7)

This week Latvia, Cyprus, Croatia, Romania, Estonia, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Austria joined the list of Eurovision 2017 songs. We’ve added Triana Park, Hovig, Jacques Houdek, O’G3NE, Nathan Trent, Koit Toome and Laura, Ilinca and Alex Florea and Salvador Sobral to our Eurovision playlist which joins the other 17 songs we already have. We continue to rank our favourites. Here is our top 25 so far. We’ll be back next Sunday with another ranking update when more songs have been announced!

Ranking: Eurovision Songs 2017 (Week 6)

This week Slovenia, Moldova, Denmark and Ukraine joined the list of Eurovision 2017 songs. We’ve added The SunStroke Project, O. Torvald, Anja Nissen and Omar Naber to our Eurovision playlist which joins the other 13 songs we already have. We continue to rank our favourites. Here is our top 17 so far. We’ll be back next Sunday with another ranking update when more songs have been announced!

Ranking: Eurovision Songs 2017 (Week 5)

This week Malta, Hungary and Poland joined the list of Eurovision 2017 songs. We’ve added Claudia Faniello, Kasia Mos and Joci Papai to our Eurovision playlist which joins the other ten songs we already have. We continue to rank our favourites. Here is our top 13 so far. We’ll be back next Sunday with another ranking update when more songs have been announced!