The national broadcaster TVR has published the songs that have passed the preselection in Romania. These songs will participate in the two semi finals. The semi finals will take part on February 9th and February 16th.

The songs are:
“C’ est la vie” – Yanna
“Come this way” – Zero
“Dragostea mea” – Lucia Dumitrescu
“Dr Frankenstein” – Master MÃ¥ns
“Fairytale Story” – Nicola
“Fight For Life” – Nico
“Follow Me” – Ada
“Heaven” – Ana Mardare, Irvin Doomes
“Love Is All I Need” – Tabasco
“Mas conmigo” – Viper
“Pe-o margine de lume” – Nico si Vlad Mirita
“Prea mici sunt cuvintele” – Leo Iorga & Pacifica
“RailRoad, RailRoad” – Rednex feat. Ro-mania
“Sapte zile” – Paula Seling si Provincialii
“Shine” – Oscar, Lars, Alexander, Fredrik (Sweden)s Edberger, MÃ¥ns Zelmerlöw
“Te iubesc” – Adrian Enache
“The Key Of Life” – Simona Nae
“Time To Rise” – Maya (Slovenia)
“Vorbe care dor” – 3 Sud-Est
“When We’re Together” – Catalin Josan
“Why” - Violeta Andrei
“Yeke Yeke” - Imba
“Your Love” - Paradise
“Zamira” - New Effect feat. Gentiana

In case of disqualification there are and four reserve songs. They are:
“Brasil “– Tom Boxer feat. Anca Parghel & Fly Project:
“La storia della pioggia” – Inesa
“Run Away” – Catalin Josan
“Vânt de vara” – Monique

Twelve songs will be performed in Iceland. They have been split in four semi finals. The lines-ups of the semifinals have been revealed by the national broadcaster RUV.

On January 19th will be the first semi final. The finalists are:
Ína Valgerður Pétursdóttir, Seth Sharp og Berglind Ósk Guðgeirsdóttir - “Lullaby to peace”
Páll Rósinkrans - “Gef mér von”
Magni Ásgeirsson - “Nuna veit ég”

On January 26th will the second semifinal. The participates are:
Davíð Þorsteinn Olgeirsson - “In your dreams”
Baggalútur - “Hvað var það sem þú sást í honum”
Bjartur Guðjónsson - “The girl in the golden dress”

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Fifteen song will be performed on the Macedonian national final. Other six commissioned songs for the final have been withdrawn. That was announced by MKRTV after discussions. On February 23rd only 15 song chosen by special jury, will be presented on the Macedonian national final.

The participants now are:
Aneta Kacurkova - “Poraka” - Robert Bilbilov, Aneta Kacurkova
Elvir Mekic - “Armija” - Jovan Jovanov
Igor Mitrovic - “Se sakame” - Vladimir Dojcinovski
Jova Radevska - “Jas sum ovde” - Jova Radevska
Lambe Alabakovski - “Zemjo moja” - Darko Dimitrov
Nokaut - “Samovila”- Nikola Perevski, Vladimir Krstevski
None - “Vrati se” - Kristijan Gabroski
Parketi - “Strawberry” - Parketi
Risto Samardciev - “Mediteran ska” - Risto Samardžiev
SaÅ¡a Vuckovic - “Sé Å¡to znam” - SaÅ¡a Vuckovic
Sonja Tarculovska - “Balada” - Mesrur Sait
Synthesis - “Docna e” - Grigor Koprov
Tamara feat. Vrcak & Adrian Gaxha -” Izgubena vo nocta” - Vrcak
Tuna - “PraÅ¡uvam bez glas” - Tuna
Vlatko Ilievski - “So drugi zborovi” - Vlatko Ilievski
 
Sanja Lefkova,Maja Vukiæeviæ, Agon & Dzoksi, Bojan & Big Mama, Filip Jordanovski, and Igor Šarevski are the performers who have been withdrawn from the competition.

Fifteen experienced musicians will compete in the Hungarian national final selection for Euro Song Contest 2008. This information was revealed by the Hungarian broadcaster MTV. The national final will be on Friday, February 8th. Jury that included Lévai Balázs, Benko; László, Horgas Eszter and Malek Miklós chose the songs. As MTV announced these are the singers that will take part in the final:

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In December it was announced that the Eurovision Song Contest ticket sales will start on January 13th, but this information have proved to be a little optimistic. But we were assured that probably in the next two weeks the problems will be solved and we will have more information concerning the details about when and where the tickets for Eurovision 2008 will be available.

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The national Montenegro broadcaster RTCG announced the names of the candidates for Eurovision Song Contest 2008.

The artists are six and the audience will select the singer who will represent the country in the Belgrade in 2008. The six artists that will take part in the national selection according the national broadcaster are Jelena Kazanegra, Andrea Demirovic, Vesna Milacic Kaja, Nenad Knezevic Knez and Stefan Filipovic. The six singers will be presented on a special show on the television. The audience will have the right to choose who will represent the country to the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. For the chosen singer will be invited composers to write a song specially for the winner for Belgrade 2008.

Evdokia Kadi and her song Femme Fatale will represent Cyprus at the Eurovision song Contest 2008. She won the right to defend her country in Belgrade and defeated nine other candidates, including Marlain Angelidou. The other candidates were . Evdokia Kadi - Femme Fatale, Nikolas Metaxas - “I Can’t Be”, Marlain Angelidou - “Rejection”, Myria Pambori & Alexis Manison - “Turning To You”, Sofia Strati - “This Can’t Be Love”, Nikolas Metaxas - “Butterfly”, Constantinos Andronikou - “Calling You”, Eleni - “Moments Of Madness”, Mirto Meletiou - “Rescue Me”, and Elizabeth - “Sugar Mountain”.

The jury favourite was Marlain Angelidou, but the audience proffered Evdokia Kadi by televoting.

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The national final in Azerbaijan, after certain confusion on the date, will be held on February 2nd. It is the public broadcaster Ictimai TV’s choice. Five candidates will compete to represent Azerbaijan in Eurovision 2008.

The participants are: Elnur, who is the winner of Sing your song contest, Aynur Iskenderova - she is a participant of Azeri star contest, Aytaj Jafarova, Rock group Unforma, and Erkin Osmanli who is participant of Akademiya song contest. The public via televoting and special jury will take the important decision, who to represent the country on Eurovision Song Contest 2008. It is expected that the popular name from the Eurovision scene  Dima Bilan (Russia 2006) will be part of the jury and Toto Cutugno (Italy 1990), Ruslana (Ukraine 2004), Marija Šerifović, (Serbia 2007) are invited as special guests.

The five candidates that will take part in the German national final for Eurovision Song Contest 2008 have been announced by the German broadcaster NDR. The final will be on March, 6th. The finalists are No Angels, Tommy Reeve, Cinema Bizarre, Marquess, and Carolin Fortenbacher. No Angels will perform the song “Disap”, Tommy Reeve - ” Only One woman. “Forever and Never” is the song written for Cinema Bizarre ,”La Histeria” for Marquess and  Carolin Fortenbacher will sing the song ” Hinterm Horizont”.

The most popular group that will take part in the German finals is No Angels. It was created in a talent show on German TV. They scored several big hits.

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The 17 songs that will participate in the National Eurovision Song Contest “Go Malta Song for Europe” have been announced by MaltaSong. On Thursday, January 24th, the songs will take part in the semi finals and eight of them will pass to the final on Saturday, January 26th. The jury vote will not be made public, until the competition is not concluded, in order to avoid influencing the public.

The songs in running order are:
Pamela & Glen - “Loved by you”
Claudia Faniello - “Caravaggio”
Eleanor Cassar - “Give me a chance”
Mary Spiteri - “My last encore”
Morena - “Casanova”
Daniela Vella - “Throw your stones”
Rosman Pace - “Love is just the way”
Klinsmann Coleiro - “Go”
Morena -.”Vodka”
Pamela - “Whispers”
Klinsmann Coleiro - “Superhero”
Jean Claude Vancell -”Contradiction”
Chris & Moira - “Alright”
Jessica Muscat - “Tangled”
Mary Spiteri - “If you believe”
Petra Zammit - “Street car of desire”
Claudia Faniello - “Sunrise”

The ten acts that will take part in the Polish preselection for Eurovision Song Contest 2008 were announced by TVP. In Piosenka dla Europy 200 on February 23d, will participate the following singers:

“I say my body” - Queens (Music - Lukasz Pilch, Lyrics - Marcin Skoczylas)
“Dlatego Walcz” - Margo (Music - Filip Siejka, Lyrics - Malgorzata Gadzinska)
“Viva la musica” - Men Meadow (Music - Thomas Gson, Andreas Rickstrand, Lyrics - Thomas G:son)
“The Devil” - Kasia Nova (Music - Harald Retinger, Ulrich Fischer, Lyrics -  Harald Reitinger)
“Super Heroes” - Sandra Oxenryd (Music - Knut-AËœyvind Hagen, Andreas Rickstrand, Lyrics -  Knut-Ayvind Hagen )
“Thing we’ve got” - Afromental (Music - W. Lozowski, B. Sniadecki, Lyrics - Wojciech Lozowski)
“For Life” - Isis Gee (Music and lyrics - Isis Gee)
“Kietbasa” - Zalewski Krzysztof (Music and lyrics - Zalewski Krzysztof)
“Lovin’U” - Edi Ann  (Music and lyrics - Edyta Kuczynska)
“It’s not a game” - Starnawski & Urban Noiz (Music - Marcin Urban, Lyrics: Bozena Intrator)

In case of disqualification or withdraws one of the following singers will go to the final:
“Do something” - Plastic (Music - Agnieszka Burcan, Agnieszka Burcan)
“Don’t let the fire die” -  Grzegorz Kloc (Music - G. Kloc, Lyrics - Olga Pruszowska - Kloc)
“Women to love” - Michal Karpacki (Music - M. Karpacki, Lyrics - M. Karpacki)
 ”What’s going on?” - Zenon Boczar (Music - Z. Boczar, Lyrics - Z. Boczar, Steve O’Brien)
“Czy to milosc czy zabawa” - Kashmir (Music - Kamil WyziÅ„ski, Lyrics - Katarzyna Pietras)

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In Belgium the group known as Dynamite was not selected for Eurosong 2008, but in Lithuania, where the band in known as Cisco Kids was. They will take part in on of the three heats on January, 12th, 19th or 26th. In Eastern Europe and Lithuania the group is known with the songs “Sex Su Blondine” (Sex With The Blonde) and “Kas NeÅ¡okines” (Everyone Who Doesn’t Jump Is Gay).

In the country there are 36 candidates for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. They are: Aiste Pilvelyte, Angelas, Asta Kairyte, Auguste Vedrickaite Buzzer’s, Cisco Kid, Egle Lokyte, Face Time, Flaer, Flaxon, Funny Beat, Gyvai, Ingrida PaukÅ¡tyte, Ingrida eiliete, Jeronimas Milius, Julija & Girma, Justas Lapatinskas, Justina Adeikyte, KaÅ¡tonai, Kristina Botyriete, Laiptai, Mini-Me, MyMagic, Nerri, Onsa, Raimonda Masiulyte, Sasha Son, Skyders, Slapjack, Suicide DJ’s, Sweetness Theory, Trylika, Vilma VoroblevaitÄ—, Vudis & Gredas, Wake Up and Pokeris.

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LRT, the Lithuanian broadcaster announced, after a long national preselection and endless series of semifinals, that the semifinals will take place on three Sunday nights. The final will be on February 2nd. In three heats thirty five songs will compete. Directly to the final, two wildcards will be given .

LRT received more than 70 songs from national and foreign writers. The Head of Delegation, Jonas Vilimas said that 35 songs are ready to fight for a ticket to Eurovision 2008. On January 12th, 19th and 26th the songs will be divided into three heats and four songs of each heat will qualify for the final.

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Austria will not take part in Eurovision Song Contest 2008, as it was announced earlier, but the head of the program Wolfgang Lorenz stated that ORF will broadcast the Eurovision 2008 finals on May 24th.He said that broadcasting the finals is still an option and it will be aired on ORF. But if the broadcaster changes his opinion, the new program Plus4 might take over the show. This is a private channel. It will be on air in February but Martin Blank-executive producer, did not want to comment yet. Definitely the channel ATV will not take over the contest.

Austria withdrew from Eurovision Song Contest, after the disappointing results in 2004 and 2005. The country returned in 2006 but then again won the second last place. Eric Papilaya finished 27th on the semifinal with only four points. Austria is one of the less successful countries in the contest.

HRT has announced the candidates who will compete to represent Croatia to the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade. On February 22nd fourteen candidates will take a part in a heat. For the finals on February 23nd six of the candidates will qualify. Ten other songs are directly qualified.

The candidates for the heat on February 22nd are:
“Kaci Mi “- Vlatka Grakalić (Fedor Boic)
“Idi Leda Mi Okreni” - Martina  (Marino Mahic, Darus Despot)
“Gdje Je Srce Tu Je Dom” - Antonija Å ola (Antonija Å ola, Silvio Pasaric)
“Romanca” - Kraljevi Ulice & 75 Cents (Miran Hadži Veljkovic)
“Dotkani Zveijzde” - Danijela Pintaric (Zoran Jeager, SrÄ‘an Sekulovic)
“Lako Zaljubljiva” -Maja Å uput (Branimir Mihaljević, Fayo)
“Tvoje Oko Za More Duboko” - Bonaca & Nera (Ivo Mikulcin)
“Kakav Tucan Kraj” -  Ivana Radovnikovic (Stjepan Markovic, Ivana Radovnikovic)
“Za Tobom Luda” - Zorica Kondza  (JoÅ¡ko Banov, Nenad Nincevic)
“Andero” - Emilija Kokic (Emilija Kokic)
“Ja San Umra Za Ljubav” - Cani Stipanicev (Miro Buljan, Nenad Nincevic)
“Sanjam” - Ivo Gamulin (Andrej BaÅ¡a, Fayo)
“Iskoci Sa Mnom Iz Jurecef Vlaka” - Ibrica Jusic (Marko Tomasovic, Mario Vukelic)
“Ne Razumijemo Se”- Mor Roll (Vedran Å ilipetar)

Reserve candidates are:
Luka Bulic - “Spoznaja”
Leonora Surian - “Prijateljstvo”
Vlatka Kopic Tena & Robert Jaman - “Bure I Plime”
Lite Motive - “Moja Presuda”

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