Saturday Summary – This week’s Eurovision news headlines

It’s Saturday once again and it means that it’s time to once again round off the latest news from the Eurovision world. More countries confirm their participation for Eurovision 2020 Italy has confirmed that it will be attending the party in Rotterdam. https://escxtra.com/2019/10/08/italy-confirms-participation-for-eurovision-2020/ Latvia has confirmed their participation, with Supernova as their selection method. https://escxtra.com/2019/10/10/latvia-to-choose-its-entry-on-february-8/ Malta will also be participating in next year's contest, with X Factor Malta finally confirmed as their selection method. https://escxtra.com/2019/10/12/malta-confirms-participation-for-eurovision-2020/ Poland has also confirmed their participation. The way they will select their entry will be confirmed at a later date. https://escxtra.com/2019/10/06/poland-confirms-participation-in-eurovision-song-contest-2020-in-rotterdam/ France to select their act through a National Final France Télévisions has confirmed that they will select their act through a National Final. https://escxtra.com/2019/10/06/france-to-select-their-eurovision-2020-entry-through-a-national-final/ Gromee to compose Junior Eurovision 2019 theme Poland's Eurovision 2018 representative Gromee has confirmed that he will be composing the Junior Eurovision 2019, which is due to take place next month. https://escxtra.com/2019/10/09/gromee-to-compose-the-junior-eurovision-2019-theme/ Anna Kearney to represent Ireland at Gliwice-Silesia As we are getting closer to the competition, more countries have confirmed their participants, Anna Kearney will be representing Ireland next month with Banshee. https://escxtra.com/2019/10/06/anna-kearney-to-represent-ireland-at-gliwice-silesia/ Italy will be represented by Marta Viola in Gliwice-Silesia Earlier this week, Italy confirmed that Marta Viola will be representing them in Gliwice-Silesia. In addition to that, her entry La Voce Della Terra has been released. https://escxtra.com/2019/10/09/italy-releases-junior-eurovision-entry-la-voce-della-terra-by-marta-viola/ Carla to represent France at Gliwice-Silesia France has earlier announced that they will be represented by Carla with the song 'Bim Bam Toi' https://escxtra.com/2019/10/11/carla-releases-her-entry-bim-bam-toi/ Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 participants released their entries With only more than a month to go, participants have released their Junior Eurovision entries, either for the first time, or their revamped version. Starting with Australia, Jordan Anthony has released his entry 'We Will Rise' https://escxtra.com/2019/10/06/australia-jordan-anthonys-we-will-rise-is-released/ From Spain, Melani Garcia has released her entry 'Marte' https://escxtra.com/2019/10/06/melani-garcia-releases-junior-eurovision-entry-marte/ From Georgia, Giorgi Rostiashvili releases his entry “We Need A Love” https://escxtra.com/2019/10/07/giorgi-rostiashvili-releases-his-entry-we-need-a-love/ From Russia, Tatyana Mezhentseva and Denberel Oorzhak release video for “A Time For Us” https://escxtra.com/2019/10/08/tatyana-mezhentseva-denberel-oorzhak-russia-video/ From Ukraine, Sophia Ivanko releases “The Spirit of Music” https://escxtra.com/2019/10/08/sophia-ivanko-releases-video-for-the-spirit-of-music/ From Serbia, Darija Vračević releases her entry ‘Raise Your Voice’ https://escxtra.com/2019/10/08/darija-vracevic-releases-her-entry-raise-your-voice/ From Kazakhstan, Yerzhan Maksim releases his entry ‘Armanyńnan Qalma’ https://escxtra.com/2019/10/10/yerzhan-maksim-releases-his-entry-armanynnan-qalma/ From Portugal, Joana Alemida releases her entry Vem Comigo (Come With Me) https://escxtra.com/2019/10/12/portugal-joana-alemidas-vem-comigo-come-with-me-released/ From Malta, Eliana Gomez Blanco releases her entry ‘We Are More’ https://escxtra.com/2019/10/12/eliana-gomez-blanco-releases-her-entry-we-are-more/ From Wales, Erin Mai releases the revamped version of “Calon yn Curo” https://escxtra.com/2019/10/12/wales-revamp-calon-yn-curo-by-erin-mai-for-gliwice-silesia/ Duncan Laurence’s Eurovision win awarded as Best TV Moment of 2019 Duncan Laurence's win at the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv took the Best TV Moment at this year's Golden Televizier Ring Gala. https://escxtra.com/2019/10/11/duncan-laurences-eurovision-win-awarded-as-best-tv-moment-of-2019/ Don’t forget our latest editorials where we look back at the 2007 and 2008 Junior Eurovision. We also had a new Eurovision Trivia and the usual round up of new music from your favourite Eurovision artists in our weekly New Music article. Make sure you also take a look at our homepage for all the other week’s news and articles. We’re early into the new Eurovision season but our eyes are firmly on what’s happening around Europe and the world. As always, we’re bringing you all the Eurovision news as it happens. Let us know your thoughts and any comments on the past week @ESCXTRA.

More countries confirm their participation for Eurovision 2020

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