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EUROVISION 2016 SO FAR....

I will gather here all confirmations and selected songs in chronological order. Enjoy the ride, Stockholm here we go.....

March 12, 2016
Donny Montell won the Lithuanian national final with I've been waiting for this night

March 12, 2015
Frans won the Swedish selection with If I were sorry

March 11, 2016
Gabriela Guncikova with I stand will represent Czech Republic
March 6, 2016
Ovidiu Anton won the Romanian final with Moment of silence

March 5, 2016
Michal Szpak won the Polish selection with Color of your life

March 5, 2016
Jüri Pootsmann won Eesti laul 2016 with Play
March 5, 2016
Serbia confirmed Sanja Vučić as their artist. The song will be published later.
March 7 is was reconfirmed it's her, but under her stage name ZAA. The song is titled Goodbye.
The song published March 12


 March 3, 2016

Hovi Star won the Israeli selection with Made of stars

March 3, 2016
Australia announced Dami Im for Eurovision. Her entry will be releaved in 12th.


February 28, 2016
Justs wins the Latvia Supernova with Heartbeats

February 2016
Agnete won with Icebreaker the Norwegian melodi grand Prix

February 27, 2016
ManuElla won the Slovenian EMA2016 with Red and blue

February 27, 2016
Freddie on the Hungarian A dal with Pioneer

February 27, 2016
Lidia Isac won the Moldovan national final with Falling stars

February 27, 2016
Sandhja won the #UMK16 with Sing it away in Finland ahead of a couple of fan favorites :-)

February 26, 2016
Joe and Jake won the Eurovision: You decide UK's national final with You're not alone
February 25, 2016
German national final went smoothly this time and as predicted, the 17-year-old The Voice winner Jamie-Lee Kriewitz won with her Ghost.

February 25, 2016
In France a local tv spoiled the surprise and the secret is out. Amir Haddad will sing for France J'ai cherché
Official confirmation came February 29



February 24, 2016
Croatia returns after three years with The Voice of Croatia Nina Kraljic. Her entry will be revealed on March 9, 2016


February 22, 2016
Cyprus and Minus One revealed their entry Alter ego
February 21, 2016
Jamala wins the Ukrainian final full of drama with her 1944

February 20, 2016
Greta Salóme wins the Icelandic national final Söngvakeppnin with Hear them calling

February 19, 2016
Bosnia & Herzegovina revealed their song Ljubav je... by Dalal & Deen feat. Ana Rucner and Jala

February 19, 2016
Bulgaria confirmed Poli Genova as their entrant. The song will be released in March.
Poli is another returnee having done Eurovision 2011 already.
If love was a crime was revealed March 21


February 14, 2016
After some Italian drama Sanremo winner Stadio gives up their trip to Stockholm and runner up 21-year-old Francesca Michielin will go instead with her entry Nessun grado di separazione

February 13, 2016
Rykka wins the Swiss national final with The last of our kind

February 13, 2016
Lighthouse X win the Danish national final with Soldiers of love

February 12, 2016
ZOË wins the Austrian national final with Loin d'ici. A song in French

 February 9, 2016
Greece will be presented by Europond, renamed as Argo for the occasion, a band from Thessaloniki.
Febaruary 25 it was announced the song is titled Utopian land
The song was presented March 10


February 1, 2016
Barei won the Spanish national final with Say yay! For the first time the Spanish entry will be entirely sung in English.

January 23, 2016
Ira Losco wins the national final in Malta with Chameleon (Invincible) and returns to Eurovision after 14 years. There is a chance the song will be changed though.....
Indeed. The last minute arrived Walk on water....

January 22, 2016
IVAN (Aleksandr Ivanov) won the Belarusian national final Eurofest with Help you fly

January 17, 2016
Laura Tesoro wins the Eurosong 2016 in Belgium with What's the pressure

January 13, 2016
Ireland confirmed the rumors that broke a week earlier: ex-Westlife Nicky Byrne will represent Ireland and hunt for its 8th victory with Sunlight


January 12, 2016
San Marino announced it has chosen internally Serhat, a Turkish singer for Stockholm. The song will be revealed later.
March 9: The song I didn't know was published
March 21, 2016 the song was changed to its disco version:


December 27, 2015
Albania chose Eneda Tarifa and Përrallë (Fairytale) as their entrant as she won the 54th Festivali i Këngës. The song will be sung in English in Stockholm. It's the first known song of the season!

December 15, 2015
Georgia announced Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitas as their internally chosen represants. An open call for the song was launched at the same time.
February 15, 2016
Their entry has been chosen: Midnight gold


December 10, 2015
During the Russian Music Awards it was announced Sergey Lazarev will go to Eurovision when he was awarded as the Singer of the year. Song will be presented at later date.
You are the only one was released March 5, 2016


November 25, 2015
Bosnis & Herzegovina surprised us all by announcing they would make a comeback, and instantly the rumor was the song and act was ready, too. And indeed within 24 hrs they confirmed Deen, Dalal & Ana as their act. The song will be revealed later. Like Kaliopi, also Deen is a veteran, anno 2004.

November 24, 2015
Macedonian television announced Kaliopi will return. She already represented the country in 2012 and the song will be again written by Romeo Grill and will be presented in early March 2016.
February 16: The song is title Dona
Her song was presented March 7


November 21, 2015
ARD has withdrawn Xavier Naidoo for protests, critizism and petitions...... They will go for a national final with various singers after all, it seems....

November 19, 2015
Germany announced they have chosen internally Xavier Nadoo for Stockholm 2016. 
The song will be chosen in a final on Ferbuary 18 where he sings six songs.

November 4, 2015
Cypriot television confirmed the rumours that Minus One has been selected. The song will be written by Thomas G:son..... No comment.
January 31 it was revealed the song is titled Alter Ego

October 13, 2015
Armenian televion announced Iveta Mukuchyan will represent the country in Stockholm. International song search has been launched to find her song.
February 19 it was revealed her song i titled LoveWave and will be out on March 2


October 2, 2015
Montenegro announced they have internally chosen Highway Trio for Stockholm 2015. The band comes from the latest X Factor Adria where they finished 4th. The song will be presented later. In December it was announced Bojan Jojovic (ex-No Name, ESC 2005) has joined the band.
February 15 it was announced the song is titled The real thing
March 4 the song was released:

September, 22, 2015
AVROTROS announced Douwe Bob (23) will be representing the Netherlands in Stockholm. The song (apparently an uptempo) will be presented in due time.
March 4: The song was finally presented:

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