National Final Season!!!

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Well as we already know Albania have chosen their song for Moscow 2009, but over the next 3 and a bit months it really kicks in before the final song is chosen on Saturday 14th March.

The next song to be made public is Turkey on New Years Eve when Hadise will perform her song live on a specially produced programme on TRT.

With Greece and The Netherlands having also announced their singers and both Malta and Bulgaria with heats currently ongoing and the Belarus Eurofest Semi Final on December 15th,The United Kingdom officially become the 8th country to start their televised productions with Finland starting the week after and then Iceland, with Bosnia announcing their singer and song on 12 January. Towards the end of January we have the first of the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix heats, then comes the Romanian Heats and Andorran Final before Romania, Cyprus,Denmark and Finland hold their National Finals.So that would appear to be January sorted with at least another 5 performers and songs known, making 8 in total (34 to go).

February gets off to a flying start with both the Dutch, British and Slovene National Finals, followed by the one we all love to watch Swedens Melodifestivalen starting on the 7th. Malta, Iceland, Norway and Bulgaria all bring their heats to an end with their National Finals, whilst both the FYR Macedonia, Poland, Ireland, Ukraine and Croatia hold their National Finals. Latvia would also have held their National Final in February, but have now withdrawn from the 2009 contest. So by the end of February 20 Countries will have definately announced their participants.

March at the moment is another story with only the Serbia, Estonia, Slovakia and Sweden National Finals in the diary so far making 24 songs announced.

So what about the other 18 countries that we believe will be taking part in Moscow:-

Montenegro have called for songs and will choose internally
France, Germany and Switzerland are all choosing internally.
Greece have chosen their singer but not the song.
Belarus have already held their Eurofest Semi Final but no date has been set for the National Final.
Moldova are in the process of choosing songs to go through to the final
Spain are voting on the Internet at the moment until 19th January
Portugal will be starting their Internet vote on January 19th
Israel are choosing the singer internally and the song on the TV with a televote/jury vote

Whilst Belgium, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Lithuania have not made any announcements at all and in the case of Lithuania is still uncertain as to participation.

OOOOOOOh I'm getting all excited now. Bring it on!!!!!!!!!

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