Hungary will choose who will represent the country to Eurovision Song Contest 2008 tonight. Jury and audience vie televoting will select the winner among the 15 candidates.  The national final will start at 20.10 CET.

The participants in running order are:
EZ ONE zenekar – “Lesz ki hazavár”
Lola – “Legszebb nap “
Imre Zsuzsa – Érintés “
Vágó Zsuzsi Zsuzsi Mészáros Árpád Zsolt – “Két szív”
Fiesta – “Gyűlölve szeretni”
Antal Zsuzsa & Fishers Company – “Falak között” –
Dure – “Nem ismerlek már”
21 gramm – “Még egy dal”
Gál Csaba Boogie – “Úgy figyeltelek” 
Candies – “Van aki nyer”
Adrien Szekeres – “Piszkos tánc”
Mónika Hoffman – “Légy te az Első”
Orsi Szatmari – “Véletlen”
Csézy – “Szívverés”
Pflum Orsi – “Távol”

TVP, the Polish national broadcaster, after weeks of speculations, finally revealed the three wild cards. To the Polish national final, Piosenka dla Eiropy, have been given the opportunity to participate to Izabela Kopec, Natasza Urbanska and Zywiolak.

Natasza Urbanska is well known from the TV Chanel 1 and the show “The Hit Night or Golden Saturday”. She will perform song called “Blow up”. It is composed by Rickey Fernand.

The unique band Zywiolak will perform the song “Noc Pupaly”. It is composed by Robert Wasilewski. The band performs songs in hard folk. They are passionate about folk art and midieval instruments.

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Daniela Nane and Iulian Vrabete will host the first semi final of Eurovision Song Contest in Romania.

The songs that will fight for the places on the final are:

“Pe-o margine de lume” -  Nico & Vlad Miriţă

“La storia della pioggia” - Innesa & Millenium

“Te iubesc” - Adrian Enache

“Dr Frankenstein” - LaGaylia Frazier (Sweden)

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Eurovision Song Contest is one of the most popular and best organized annual competitions. In USA, there are many similar, but no one is so favorite and with so many participants from different parts of the continent.

The countries, active members of European Broadcasting Union, each year submit a song to be performed on live television show. Each country has the chance to choose the best singer, who can popularize his country and music, not only around Europe but and in the rest of the world. Because Eurovision Song Contest has many fans in the different parts of the world. As one of the most watched events, Eurovision is broadcasted in Australia, New Zealand, India, Canada, South Africa, Hong Kong and many other counties outside Europe, despite the fact that these countries do not compete. It is enough to say that in 2006 Eurovision Song Contest has been watched in 140 countries via internet.
The successful and modern televoting system has been placed in 1975. Since then the audience can vote for their favorite singers via televoting and in our days by SMS, in addition. In case of televoting failure, there is jury who can take the final decision.

Very good is the rule that the countries may not cast their vote for the song from their own country. It gives equal chances to all participating countries to win the most popular Song Contest in the last 51 years.

Azerbaijan will take part in Eurovision Song Contest for first time in 2008. Elnur Gusseinov was selected to represent his country.

He performed two songs to the national final. “If you are never back” and “Day after day” are the songs that reached the final. On February 15th will be decided which of these song will represent Azerbaijan for first time in Eurovision Song Contest 2008.

Melodi Grand Prix was held in Denmark. The regional televoting decided Simon Mathew to represent the country to Eurovision Song Contest 2008. His song “All night long” is written by Jacob Launbjerg, Nis Bøgvad and Svend Gudiksen.

The results from the national final are:
48 points - Simon Mathews - “All night long”
46 points - UNITE - “Tree of life”
42 points - Sandee May - “Spanish soul”
16 points - Kendra Lou - “Until we’re satisfied”
16 points - The Dreams - “La’ mig være”
10 points - Hassing - “Come on over”
8 points - Amin Jensen - “Luciano”
8 points - Josefine & Lars - “Sweet memories of you”
6 points - Lasse Lindorff - “Hooked on you”
0 points - Charlie - “Den jeg er”

The Estonian national final, Eurolaul 2008, was held. For the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest was chosen Kreisiraadio, to represent the country. Through televoting the song “Leto svet” was decided to go to Belgrade. The back-up jury selected “Ice cold story” as their favorite song.

The results from the final are:
“Leto svet” - 52.518
“Ice cold story” - 30.963
“365 Days” - 12.990
“One on one” - 2.660
“God inside your soul” - 2.399
“Real big money” - 1.444
“Uksinduses” - 1.189
“It’s never too late” - 866
“Question Man” - 837
“Stefani” - 646

In 2008, Estonia will compete in the first semi final on 20th May.

The young Jeronimas Milius won the Lithuanian national final that took place in the LRT studios in Vilnius. Jeronimas Milius was unknown to bigger part of the TV viewers and the radio audience, but he won their hearts with the operatic ballad “Nomads in the night”.

In the heart, Jeronimas Milius is a metal rocker, but he perfumed a melody rock song for a wider audience. The twenty three years old singer has been a part of the metal band Soul brother. After his performance, the press in Lithuania wrote “Stop Eurovizija, send Jeronimas to Belgrade”. The audience seems shared that point of view and sent Jeronimas Milius to Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade.

On Wednesday, February 6th, the Greek broadcaster ERT, will present the three songs that will take part in the country’s national final for Eurovision Song Contest 2008. The news, were announced on a press conference in Athens.

The songs to be presented to the media and press are:
Chryspa- “A chance to love”
Kalomoira- “Secret combination”
Kostas Martakis- “Always and forever”

The press conference will start at 11.30 CET.