Finland

Finland will be represented in Kiev by the duo Norma John with their dark ballad ‘Blackbird’. Allie Lindo followed the show for us last Saturday and looks back on the show in our podcast Scout Around. Out of all chosen songs so far, this might [read more…]

Norma John has won Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2017 and will represent Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song ‘Blackbird’. While some other early fan favourites struggled, it was a clear victory for the pure ballad.

This Saturday Finland will make up their mind. Who will represent Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kiev? It is time for Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2017!

After a preview show for the ten acts that will take part in UMK 2017 in Finland, a first voting round has been held. The group My First Band with their song “Paradise” was the winner after all votes were counted by a special jury.

The Finnish acts for national selection UMK 2017 are revealed. Today, local broadcaster YLE has announced ten acts to compete at Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2017.

Finland will be cutting down their selection format UMK to just one show, to be held on the 28th of January in Espoo. Ten songs will compete in the final, with the winning act earning the right to represent Finland at the 62nd edition of [read more…]

At Eurovision 2016, the myth of the influence of so called “bloc voting” was debunked once again. From Scandinavia, only host nation Sweden was in the grand final. Frans gave the reigning country another top 5 result with “If I were sorry”.

Tonight, Sandhja won the national final of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, where Finland chose the power-pop number as their entry in Stockholm. From 18 finalists, three semi-final heats pared the competition down to the best nine entries, and the public decided that the song Sing it Away was worthy [read more…]