H.I.M., APOCALYPTICA, TARJA TURUNEN Rumored As Contenders For Finland's EUROVISION

October 19, 2006

According to ESCToday.com, H.I.M., APOCALYPTICA and ex-NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen are among the rumored artists that will compete in the race to represent Finland on home ground at the Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki. The announcement of the finalists, originally due on Monday, November 6, will now take place on Wednesday, November 8. YLE has been in close negotiations with all major record labels and is looking for entries that will become hit records in Finland.

The announcement of the 12 finalists that will bid to follow LORDI as Finland's representative is highly anticipated. YLE has sworn all artists involved with the final 12 acts to secrecy, so don't expect any news to be confirmed until the press conference next month. We saw in neighbouring country, Sweden, last week that artists can be disqualified from the selection procedures for making public statements that can influence the selection process.

The selection format for 2007 will remain the same as last year's. There will be four semi-finals, in which three artists will peform two songs each. The public will select each act's best song by televoting. This will leave all 12 acts with one song in the final. The final will take place on February 17th 2007.

Of course since LORDI won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with "Hard Rock Hallelujah", Finland is automatically qualfied for the final of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest.

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