United Kingdom: Song and artist presentation today!

After many rumours from different sources, BBC will be finally revealing the name of the internally selected artist for Eurovision 2015 tonight!

The artist and the song will be presented during a special show called “Our Song for Eurovision 2015” on the BBC Red Button service, right after the broadcasting of “The Voice”. Scott Mills will be in charge of hosting the event to be broadcasted live at 22.25 CET (21.25 local time).

Shortly afterwards at around 22:40 CET viewers across the rest of the world will be able to watch the song on Eurovision.tv.

BBC has made public the following statement regarding the selection process:

“Last autumn, we opened the sparkling Eurovision door to anyone who wished to submit a song and performer for consideration as our UK entry for the 2015 Contest. The result of that open submission process was a very impressive collection of songs, of every conceivable type, that came in from a huge variety of amateur and professional writers and performers. Thank you to everyone who made the effort and got involved.

Some of the submitted songs were easily good enough to be commercial tracks straight away and others had clear potential, so it wasn’t hard to draw up an initial short-list of interesting contenders. What we did next, was consider the strengths and weaknesses of each song in detail, with the realities of the Contest foremost in mind. We also gave the short-listed writers an opportunity to come back with any further suggestions or refinements which they thought would really maximise the impact of their songs. Ultimately, one song stood out as having both instant impact and real memory staying power.”