February to bring name of Eurovision contestant

Aysor, Armenia
Jan 16 2010

February to bring name of Eurovision contestant

Armenia’s selection details fore Eurovision Song Contest 2010 will be
announced soon, when 10 best songs will be performed on February
10-15. At the moment the Committee is still receiving applications
from candidates who hope to get a ticket for Eurovision 2010, and will
stop it by February 1.

The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 will be the 55th Eurovision Song
Contest. The contest will take place at the Telenor Arena, in the
municipality suburb, which is situated in the southern part of the
Greater Oslo, Norway. This follows Alexander Rybak’s win at the 2009
Contest with "Fairytale". It will be the third time Norway has hosted
the contest, having previously done so in 1986 and 1996.

The semi-finals will take place on 25 and 27 May 2010, with the final
on 29 May 2010. It has been announced that the voting system used in
the semi-finals will change from previous years to balance jury voting
with televoting, while the return of the orchestra is also being
proposed.

39 countries will take part in the contest. Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Albania, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany,
Denmark, Estonia, Turkey, Ireland, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Latvia,
Poland, Lithuania, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Malta , Macedonia, United
Kingdom, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal,
Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Finland
and France have ticket for final.