Lorena C has filled the tenth place in the Spanish national final for Eurovision 2008. She has been chosen to replace Null System, who was disqualified for breaching Eurovision rules. She will perform her song “Piensa Gay”.

 The song “Mourning” by Null System have been disqualified from the Spain national final. The information was confirmed by the Spanish national broadcaster RTVE.

There was information from readers that the song appeared to have been available to purchase since July 2007. Investigation has been done and it was proved that Null System broke the rules.

The jury is working on selecting a new song to replace “Mourning”.

The Spanish national broadcaster will be airing the national final next Saturday. The show will be held in Madrid, in Avenida de Burgos in Estudios Bunuel. The show will start at 22.30 CET. It will be broadcast by TVE International America few hour later, too.

 In Eurocancion 2008 will compete 10 participants. 5 of the singers have been selected by the public through internet and another 5 have been selected by jury. The main idea of each one of them will be to take the golden ticket and to represent Spain in Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade.

A special show will organize the Andorran national broadcaster RTVA. It will be on March 12th with Gisela.

In special interviews, Gasela will talk about the promotional champagne of “Casanova” and will tell interesting information about the making of the video. The show will last 45 minutes. Later in Cataluña the show will be aired by TV3.

The Spanish broadcaster TVE has announced five singers who will join the public favorites in the national final for Eurovision 2008.

The jury favorites are:
Ell*as -”100×100″
Null system- “Mourning” 
Marzok Mangui- “Caramelo”
D-vine- “I do you” 
Innata- “Me encantada bailar”

The complite list for the Spanish national final on March 8th is:
Rodolfo Chikilicuatre - “Baila el chiki chiki”
La Casa Azul - “La revolución sexual”
Arkaitz - “Un olé”
Coral - “Todo está en tu mente”
Bizarre - “Si pudiera”
Ell*as -”100×100″
Null system- “Mourning”
Marzok Mangui- “Caramelo”
D-vine- “I do you”
Innata- “Me encantada bailar”

At the end of spectacular show in Greece, was decided Kalomoira to represent her country in Eurovision Song Contest 2008. The song “Secret Combination” is written by Poseidonas Giannopoulos and Kostas Pantzis. The winner was chosen by jury - 40% and televoting - 60%.

Greece is very successful country in Eurovision Song Contest. The country in the last years is always among the first 10 countries. This year the country will take part in the first semi final on May 20th.

 The national broadcaster NDR revealed the five celebrities who will present the participants on the stage on the German national final which will be held on March 6th. The celebrities should convince the public to vote for them. The both semi finals will be aired.

Oliver Pocher (comedian) for Marquess
Marc Bator (news anchor) for the No Angels
This year the supporters will be:
Katja Ebstein (singer) for Carolin Fortenbacher
Kim Fisher (comedian) for Tommy Reeve
Tetje Mierendorf (comedian) for Cinema Bizarre

The UK national final will be hosted by Adrianes Chiles and Christine Bleakley. It will start at 20.00 CET.

Rob McVeigh said “I’m the only one with a ballad and I feel it would be a new approach for the country”. Simona Armstrong another participant said ” “I love singing, I love performing, if you like my song please vote for me”. These are their answers to the question ‘Why should you win Eurovision?”

Sirusho will represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. As many their countries, Armenia’s national final will give the chance the public to choose their song among 4 or 5 songs.

The national final will be on March 8th at 18.30 CET. The final will be hosted by Andre and Hayko and Felix Khachatryan. If the singer wants to perform her own song it will be allowed to sing it. That song will be released just before the Armenian final. About that she says:“It is important to choose the best song taking into consideration that people in Europe also vote according to their first impression. When the song is not good for the first time when people hear it, but it is “not bad” for the second time we have a completely different picture. So I trust that this selection will be interesting not only because of new songs, but the votes will draw the most realistic picture we want to have. Let’s see what happens.” 

TV Russia finally announced the participants in the Russian final 2008 for Eurovision Song Contest. A special jury shorted 25 finalists. They will compete on March 9th, in the Akademicheskiy Concert Hall at 21.20 Moscow time.  The winner will be decided by eight - member jury and televoting.

The full list of finalists is:
1. Andrei Makarenko (Nizhniy Novgorod)
2. Nora Adam (Moscow)
3. Natalia Terehova (Moscow)
4. Natalia Astafieva (Chelyabinsk)
5. Anna Mushak (Sankt-Peterburg)
6. A-Studio band (Moscow)
7. Alexandr Panayotov (Ukraine)
8. Prime-Minister band (Moscow, Ukraine, Mongolia)
9. Pierre Narciss & Jam Sheriff (Camerun, Nigeria)
10. Alexei Vorobyov (Tula)
11. Zhenya Rasskazova (Moscow)
12. Yuliya Mikhalchik (Moscow)
13. Aza Bataeva (Grozniy)
14. Anatoliy Alyoshin (Moscow)
15. Elena Gorbushina (Gorskaya) (Moscow)
16. Zhenya Otradnaya (Moscow)
17. Tamila Grischenko (Odintsovo)
18. Roman Bezhin (Moscow)
19. Alsou Zainutdinova (Kazan)
20. Dima Bilan (Moscow)
21. Max Lorens & Satsura (Belarus)
22. Monte-Christo band (Moscow)
23. Sabrina (Moscow)
24. BK band (Pyatigorsk)
25. Olga Vyarvus (Tiraspol)

Nico & Vlad Mirita were chosen to represent their country in Belgrade with the song “Pe o margine de lume”.

The final results from the national competition are:
Nico & Vlad Mirita - “Pe-o margine de lume” - 271 points
Biondo - “Shine” - 264 points
Paula Seling & Provincialii - “Seven days” - 208 points
Catalin Josan - “When we’re together” - 197 points
Zero - “Come this way” - 181 points
Leo Iorga & Pacifica - “Prea mici sunt cuvintele” - 164 points
Nicola - “Fairytale story” - 162 points
Tabasco - “Love is all I need” - 126 points
Rednex feat. Ro-Mania - “Railroad, railroad” - 96 points
LaGaylia Frazier - “Dr Frankenstein” - 93 points
Simona Nae - “The key of life” - 73 points
Yana - “C’est la vie” - 37 points

Tamara feat. Vrcak & Adrian will represent Macedonia in Eurovision Song Contest. In Skopjefest 2008 fifteen songs competed but Tamara won both the jury and the public vote. In the second and third place were Risto Samardiev & Flash and Lambe Alabakovski.

Part of the show in Skopje was dedicated to Tose Proeski, who was killed in a car accident. Ruslan Alehno and Hari Mata Hari took part too.

Eurobandið will represent Iceland in Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade. After eleven quarter finals and four semi finals, the audience chose the band with the song “This is my life”. That was one of the most favorite among the public even before the final. At the end of the show were announced the top three.

These are:
Eurobandið – “This is my life”
Mercedes Club – “Ho, ho, ho, we say hey, hey, hey”
Dr. Spock –“ Hvar ertu nú?”

Isis Gee will represent Poland in Belgrade with her song “For life”. The jury and televoters gave her maximum points. Natasza Urbanska took the second place and in third tied Man Meadow, Plastic and Edi An.

Kraljevi Ulice - Kings of the Street have won the Croatian national final Dora. The group will represent the country in Belgrade. They are extremely popular band as they perform daily on Zagreb’s main square.

Kings of the Street took part in Dora 2006 and 2007 so their third performance was the lucky for them. They got the same points from the audience as Antonija Å ola’s song - “Gdje je srce tu je dom”, but the group received more points from the jury.

The complete results:
Kraljevi Ulice en 75 Cents – “Romanca” - 31 points
Antonija Å ola - “Gdje je srce tu je dom” - 31 points
Ivo Gamulin Gianni – “Sanjam” - 25 points
Bonaca & Nera - “Tvoje oko za more du” - 24 points
Maja Å uput - “Lako Zaljubljiva” - 22 points
Tamara Obrovac – “Amor” - 20 points
Emilija Kokich – “Andeo” - 20 points
Prva Liga i Druge – “Vila” - 20 points
Ivana Banfich - “Mir” - 16 points
Pero Galich - “Otvori mi o” - 15 points
Giuliano - “Plava vjestica” - 14 points
Dye & Colors - “Zazmirim iputujem” - 12 points
Alen Islamovich - “Mirno spava kosa plava” - 11 points
Maja Blagdan - “Zvala sam ga Angele” - 9 points
Hari Roncevich - “Lezim na suncu” - 6 points