TVE, the Spanish national broadcaster has received more than 700 entries so far in their quest to choose the 2009 Spanish Eurovision representative for Moscow in May. You still have until the 17th of December to submit your song and entry in order to compete in the Spanish national selection and thus represent Spain at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.
More than 700 entries have been submittedto the TVE Myspace Eurovision 2009: El Retorno, Spanish national selection so far in the past 2 weeks since it opened. More than 700 solo artists and groups have uploaded their song along with their presentation video. The number of entries submitted will surely grow as the deadline for the submission of songs in on the 17th of December.
Not all the entries that have been submitted will be elegible to compete as not all comply with the rules and regulations set by TVE. The official list of the competing entries will be announced on the 19th of December when online voting will kick off on the TVE officialSpanishEurovision webpage www.rtve.es/eurovision. The public will be able to vote for their favourite entries for a month, until the 19th of January. Soon after the Spanish broadcaster will announce the list of the 50 candidates with the highest voting results that will qualify to enter the Spanish Eurovision national final preliminaries. These 50 candidates will be the top 5 artists/groups with the highest results from each of the 10 different competing categories in the selection.
These preliminaries will be held in February, from where 10 candidates will be chosen to compete in the Grand Final of the Spanish Eurovision national selection Eurovision 2009: El Retorno. Stay tuned to esctoday.com for the latest news about Spain and its Eurovision 2009 national selection.
