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News Round-up of the day. Who will follow Maja Keuc, representing Slovenia in Baku.

EMA, the Slovenian national final is expected to be held in January. this year the name remained the same but the system changed completely. Preselections have been held in 5 cities for what is called Misija Evrovizija. In the weeks to come auditions will determine which singers will make it to the knock out rounds that are going to be televised later on. 

News Round-up of the day. 32 Names have been selected for Misija Eurovizija, RTVSLO keeps the excitement up.

On 2 October the Slovenian broadcaster will make the names public, then the selecting among these artists can start resulting in a grand finale in january. EMA will remain the final Eurovision selecting format, where a combination of jury and televoting will determine who will represent the country.

News Round-up of the day. Yesterday 5 acts survived the first Lithuanian semi final, tonight 2 made it to the final of EMA.

Eva Boto and the twins Nika and Eva Prusnik will meet each other in the Slovenian final, EMA, on 26 February. They got most votes from the jury and the televote tonight.

Samanta Tīna & Dāvids Kalandija, Paula Dukure, Andris Ābelīte, Rūta Dūduma and PeR were the lucky ones in Lithuania last night. They got their ticket to the Lithuanian national final.

++ Visa for Baku, a piece of cake  ++  48.4 million Euro allocated for the ESC ++ Will the contest improve the human rights situation in AZ? ++..

Tomorrow Norway (see details), Iceland (details) and Hungary (details) will select their Eurovision entry. This means yet another buzzing Eurovision night as Sweden and Lithuania also will continue their hunt for a suitable act for the Eurovision Song Contest. On Sunday the Germans will set the next step in their quest for a Star in Baku, presenting their semi final with only four remaining artists.

Slovenia selected Eva Boto in a system similar to the German one this year. Two acts competed against each other, both singing three songs. In a superfinal, both sang one selected song. And there and then Eva Boto apparently impressed more than Nika & Eva Prusnik. She will sing Verjamem in Baku.

++ Atomic Kitten for the UK? ++  Results in Estonia and Lithuania ++ Slovenia choosing between Evas at EMA ++..

For the first time since years the Netherlands are having a real national final again, with multiple artists singing different songs. From the 491 submitted entered songs, six made it to tonight's contest. The broadcast starts at 20:20 CET, there is a webcast available (see top of our front page). The singers will compete against each other in three duels, the three winners will meet each other in a superfinal.

++ Roman for Germany! ++  Loads of Eurovision this weekend ++ Søren is back! Without Kirsten, and not for Denmark ++ ..

By the end of this weekend at least 16 of this years entries to the Eurovision song contest will be known. Let us know what is your top 10 so far? Will it be mystical Iceland on top? Poppy Cyprus? Oriental Norway? Alternative Switzerland? Artistic Albania? Middle of the road Denmark? (whoops was there a bit too much opinion in that last one?) Swinging Malta? Or any of the tunes we will get to know this weekend? You can find links to all selected entries on our frontpage or here.

News Round-up of the day. The Jedward Brothers released their new music video today, wow oh wow.

They are joined in the clip by American Pie actress Tara Reid, whom they met in Celebrity Big Brother, earlier this year. Watch the clip below.