published 21.02

Romanian representatives in 2007 ESC have decided ­ they will compete at Helsinki as TODOMONDO, giving up their name from the national selection.
       
"We discussed more variants of names, including some funny ones. Finally, we reckoned we shouldn?t go too far from the name we had used in the national selection. The combination TODOMONDO was on everyone?s taste and came off victorious at the «poll»", declared Mister M.
       
Practically, each member of the group had something to say about the new name: Kamara?s request was that the new name kept the word Mondo, Ciro wanted by all means a word in Italian, Andrei insisted to have a name close to the one that had brought them on the first position in the national selection, Vlad ­ to maintain a musical hue and Valer stated the idea of a combination between words from different languages.
       
TODOMONDO has to pass different "tests" and lessons until the moment of the European final. On Monday, the six members of the band had a first meeting with the musician Cornel Fugaru, who would assist them with the technical vocal side, on Tuesday they had a long discussion with Eduard Carcota (the composer of Mihai Traistariu?s Tornero), in order to rearrange the instrumental part of the song; as for the next days, they are going to start the choreography lessons with Doina Botis, who also works for bands like Akcent, Wassabi, Morandi or for the show Dansez pentru tine (Dancing with the Stars), on ProTV channel, and who can be seen by Romanian audience on the stage of the National Theatre in Bucharest, where she plays (dancing and singing) in the musical Chicago.

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Grupa Rolly - Kad se sjetim (Pjetar Dedivanovic - Lj.Jovovic, V.Dedivanovic)
Grupa Grim - Kada ona ljubi te (Nebojsa Dzukanovic)
Marko Vukcevic - Svaki put me tebi vodi (Marko Vukcevic - Slaven Vukcevic)
Stevan Faddy - Hajde kroci (Slaven Knezovic - Milan-Minjo Peric)
Stefan Filipovic - Ne mogu bez tebe (Mirsad Serhatlic - Sanja Peric)
Dalibor-Dado Dzurovic - Zasto (Sergej Cetkovic)
Grupa Crveno i Crno - Luda sam bez tebe (Mihailo-Miha Radonjic - Goran Atanaskovic)
Milena Vidakovic - Duga (Svetlana Raickovic)
Nina i Dan poslije - Andzele (Zoran Radonjic - Nina Petkovic)
Ivana Radinovic - Nemam snage (Mihailo-Miha Radonjic - Momcilo Zekovic-Zeko)

published 16.02

EBU has announced changes in ceremony for the draw of running order. There will be, as usual, three draws conducted during the HoD-meeting: The starting order of the Semi-Final, and the Final, plus the starting order of giving points at the final.

New element will be that there will be five wild cards in the draw for the Semi-Final and three wild cards in the draw for the Final, picked in the beginning of the draw. The Heads of Delegation from the countries drawn a wild card will be invited up to the stage and will decide there themselves the starting position of their country.

Svante STOCKSELIUS, Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest, says: "We believe this will add more excitement to the draw. More information about this procedure will be given prior to the draw, but I would suggest the Heads of Delegation to start thinking on which one is their favourite starting position."

The draw will be televised live by YLE and via internet.

1. L.B.P. - Story Of Life So real
2. Petr Bende - Zaklinam sve more
3. Vlasta Horvath - Adios
4. Lili Marlene - Zena ze stinadel
5. Samer Issa - When I am with her
6. Helena Vondrackova - Samba
7. Helena Zetova - Love me again
8. Kabat - Mala dama Burlaci
9. Gipsy.cz - Muloland
10. Petr Kolar - Prisaham

published 12.02

Verka Serduchka has been confirmed as candidate for Eurovision, her team has submitted entry to the competition. We do not take this contest seriously, we just want to show ourselves and to have fun", commented representative of the singer. It is generally considered though after selection of Danish drag act DQ chances of Verka Serduchka for positive result have been significantly lowered.

Other confirmed entrants are Vitaly Kozlovski, Evgenia Vlasova, Irina Yarina, GODO, Aviator, NeAngeli and singer Bondarchuk. Representative of Irina Yarina claimed that 2 hours before deadline there was just 17 entries submitted. NTU didn't confirm the figure though announced to be investigating the possibility to run open selection between all entrants with televoting. It is expected that details on the format of the competition and list of contenders will be announced tomorrow.

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опубликовано 12.02

Верка Сердючка подтверждена в качестве одного из кандидатов на то, чтобы представить Украину на конкурсе песни Евровидение 2007, ее представители подали заявку на участие в конкурсе. "Мы не относимся к "Евровидению" как к чему-то очень серьезному. Андрей Данилко поедет на людей посмотреть, себя показать и народ повеселить", прокомментировал представитель артиста. Однако, после выбора представителем Дании певца-трансвестита DQ по-общему мнению шансы на успешное выступление Верки Сердючки на конкурсе понизились.
Другими подтвержденными кандидатами являются Виталий Козловский, Евгения Власова, Ирина Ярина, GODO, Авиатор, НеАнгелы и певец Бондарчук. По сообщению представителей Ирины Ярины, за два часа до окончания срока подачи заявок в НТУ было поданно лишь 17 композиций. Представители НТУ не подтвердили эту цифру, однако объявили о том, что в настоящее время рассматривается вариант открытого отбора среди всех участников с телеголосованием. Ожидается, что подробности формата отбора и имена участников будут объявлены завтра.
Дополнительная информация - страница Украины

They Can't Stop The Spring (John Waters & Tommy Moran)
Walk With Me (Stigg Lindell)
The Thought Of You (Matti Kallio)
Until We Meet Again (Malachi Cush, Pam Sheyne, Martin Sutton & Don Mescall)

Sarbel - Yassou Maria (Marcus Englof, Alex Papakonstantinou - Mack)
Tamta - With Love (Nikos Terzis - Poseidonas Giannopoulos)
Christos Dantis - No Madonna (Christos Dantis - Christos Dantis, Natalia Germanou)