EUROVISION 2015: THE STORY SO FAR....

Here's in order who's been selected, how and what about the song? I will update this all the way to mid March 2015 when we will have the last entries chosen.... Enjoy the ride!

And listen the Youtube Playlist here.

17.32015 Montenegro presented Knez's Adio
16.3. 2015 Australia presented Guy Sebastian's Tonight again

16.3.2015 San Marino presented Michele & Anita's Chain of lights

15.3.2015 Russia presented Polina Gagarina's A million voices
15.3.2015 Albania presented Elhaida Dani's I'm alive
15.3.2015 San Marino leaked Michele & Anita's Chain of light

15.3.2015
Azerbaijan confirmed Elnur Huseynov with Hour of the wolf as their entry

14.3.2015
Mørland & Debrah Scarlett won the Norwegian final with A monster like me

14.3.2015
Måns Zelmerlöw won easily the Swedish final with Heroes

13.3.2015
The Makemakes won the Austrian final with I am yours.

12.3.2015
Israel presented their Golden boy, Nadav Guedj.

12.3.2014
Armenia finally presented their last Genealogy artist and their song Don't deny
11.3.2015 Spain released its video for Amanecer
10.3.2015 Belgium released their song Rhythm inside
10.3.2015 Czech Republic released their song Hope never dies

9.3.2015
Russia announced Polina Gagarina will sing for them in Vienna. The song should be Secret poison.

9.3.2015
Poland announced Monika Kuszynska will represent them with In the name of love. Polish version

8.3.2015
Voltaj won the Romanian selection with full televotes and jury votes with De la capat, that most likely and sadly will be in Vienna All over again

7.3.2015
Leonor Andrade won the Portuguese final with Um mar que nos separa

7.3.2015
UK revealed their entry and song. It's Electro Velvet, yet another duo with Still in love with you.

5.3.2015
Drama in Germany when Andreas Kümmert wins the natinal selection with Heart of stone but then turns it down in live broadcast in favor of runner up, wildcard winner Ann Sophie and Black smoke.

5.3.2015
Guy Sebastian has been presented as the first ever Australian artist. The song will be presented later.

4.3.2015
Maria Elena Kyriakou won the Greek final with One last breath

28.2.2015
Boggie won the Hungarian A Dal with Wars for nothing

28.2.2015
Eduard Romanyuta won the Moldovan O melodie pentru Europa with I want your love

28.2.2015
Maraaya won the Slovenian EMA15 with Here for you

28.2.2015
Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät aka PKN won #UMK15 with Aina mun pitää

27.2.2015
Molly Sterling wins the Irish final with Playing with numbers

23.2.2015
Surprise announcement from Albania: for the first time the winning song from FiK won't be the entry, not even in a remix. Elhaida Dani will go to Vienna with a completely different song, I'm alive

22.2.2015
Aminata won the Latvian Supernova with Love injected and wil go to Vienna.

21.2.2015
Stig Rästa & Elina Born with Goodbye to yesterday were the big favorites and did win Eesti laul final in the end as predicted.

21.2.2015
Vaidas Baumila and Monika Linkyté were chosen to sing This time for Lithuania in the end of a very long separate selection process for the song and the artist(s)

17.2.2015
Israel chose Nadav Guedj as their represant. His song will be revealed later.
26.2.2015 it was announced his song is called Golden boy.

15.2.2015
Bojana Stamenov won the Serbian 3-way final with Ceo svet je moj. It might be performed in Vienna as Beauty never lies though

15.2.2015
Il Volo wins Sanremo with Grande amore and thus represents Italy.

14.2.2015
Maria Olafsdóttir won the Icelandic final with Unbroken.

11.2.2015
Armenia anounced it has formed a supegroup with artists from five continents as Genealogy. Their entry is called Don't deny and will be presented later.

7.2.2015
Denmark chose Anti Social Media and The way you are out of ten songs in their final. This blogger still wonders why....

1.2.2015
Giannis Karagiannis won the Cypriot final with One thing I should have done (video) ahead of televoter's favourite Without your love by Panagiotis Koufogiannis.

1.2.2015
Czech Republic announced Marta Jandová & Václav Noid Bárta will sing for them in Vienna Hope never dies

31.1.2015
Melanie Rene won the Swiss final with Time to shine

23.1.2015
France announced Lisa Angell with N'oubliez pas as their entry for Vienna.

14.1.2015
Georgia had its national final with five songs and both jury and televoters chose Nina Sublatti with Warrior. The second warrior in Vienna so far....

14.1.2015
Spain revealed it's going to be Edurne for Vienna 2015 with Amanecer. The song will be released later.

28.12.2014
Albania had its 53rd festivali i Këngës over three days and in the end the last song heard in the final, Diell by Elhaida Dani won with a margin.

26.12.2014
Uzari & Maimuna won the Belarusian EuroFest with Time as a minor surprise ahead of Alexander Rybak's Milki project and televoting winner Muzzart. Here's the studio version.

11.12.2014

The Netherlands or Trijntje Oosterhuis revealed her song, written by Anouk, for Vienna 2015 in a radio show. It's Walk along. (The day after she performed it live)

27.11.2014
San Marino announced it will send its Junior Eurovision entrants of 2013 and 2014 to Vienna 2015: Michele Perniola (16) and Anita Simoncini (15) of The Peppermints. Song will be revealed later.

22.11.2014
Malta Eurovision song contest 2014-2015 ended with a clear win for Amber and her Warrior, gaining full marks from every juror and televote. Video

12.11.2014
The Skopje Fest in Macedonia gave us our first song, when Daniel Kajmakoski won with Lisja Esenski and will represent Macedonia in Vienna 2015.

10.11.2014
The Netherlands confirmed Trijntje Oosterhuis - who is taking up Traincha as her stage name for obvious reasons - as their artists with a song co-written by Anouk. The song will be revealed later.

3.11.2014
Belgium announced Loïc Nottet as their artist. The song selection details will come later.

31.10.2014

Montenegro announced Knez would be their artist and thus the first known artist for 2015. The song will be revealed later.

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