Saturday summary – This weeks big news for you

Another week of many events passed and if you couldn't keep up with everything that happened this past week, we're here to help you. In this post we will go though the biggest news that happened these past 7 days. Check ESCXTRA.com for even more news. Many decisions This past week we got many new songs for the line-up in Tel Aviv. Estonia selected Victor Crone, Slovenia made a surprise decision in the superfinal and voted Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl to Eurovision. Latvia voted for Carousel in the final of Supernova, Croatia went for Roko in Dora 2019 and Romania more or less voted Ester Peony to represent their country in May. Yesterday Germany decided to send the duo S!sters to Tel Aviv. KAN announced ticket prices During the past week the announcements of the ticket prices for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest left many fans speechless. The prices are easily the most expensive tickets ever for Eurovision. A full list of the prices and what will be available can be found below: https://escxtra.com/2019/02/19/kan-reveals-ticket-prices-for-eurovision-2019/ Song names for Israel and Macedonia announced Kobi will song "Home" for his home country in Tel Aviv. The song will be released on March 10. Tamara Todevska announced that the name for her song will be "Proud". The song will be revealed on March 4. Darude's last song revealed Darude will represent Finland together with Sebastian Rejman. But which song will they perform in Tel Aviv? Over the past weeks they published the three songs that are in the race to become the Finnish entry. Now they released the third and last song for the competition. You can listen to all the songs below: https://escxtra.com/2019/02/21/finland-listen-to-darudes-third-umk-2019-song-look-away/ London Eurovision Party This week we got many new confirmation for the upcoming London Eurovision Party. All those news can be found HERE. Moreover, keep checking that page to be the first one to get any news about the next LEP! New Music Friday We had many new releases by Eurovision artists this week! SuRie, Mahmood, Eleni Foureira, Ardian Bujupi and more are featured in our New Music Friday article of this week. This can be found below: https://escxtra.com/2019/02/23/new-music-friday-surie-mahmood-eleni-foureira/ Throwback Thursday This week the Xtra team made a throwback to the year 2003, when Beglium scored an amazing second place. Let us take you back there and see what everybody thinks about that entry below. https://escxtra.com/2019/02/21/throwback-thursday-belgiums-urban-trad-give-traditional-a-whole-new-meaning/ XTRA Debate! Another thing the Xtra team talked about is "Should a song be staged like a music video?". Read all the different point of views and join the debate! In short, there is a new debate coming each week and we love to hear your opinion on these things. https://escxtra.com/2019/02/18/xtra-debate-should-a-song-be-staged-like-a-music-video/ That was this week's recap of the biggest Eurovision news and things that happened the past week. We have another big week ahead of us but don't worry. Next Saturday we'll give you another recap of everything that happens in the next seven days!

Saturday summary – This weeks big news for you

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Dominik Rössing

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