Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience (2026-02-25): Melodifestivalen 2026 Interviews with Smash into Pieces and Cimberly, Interviews with wavvyboi, Myle and Laura Nahr,

Radio International - The Ultimate Eurovision Experience is broadcast from Malta's Radio 105FM on Tuesday evenings from 2100 - 0059 hours CET. The show is broadcast live on Wednesday evenings from 1900 - 2300 hours CET on the Eurovision Radio International Mixcloud Channel as well as on the Facebook Page of Eurovision Radio International with an interactive chatroom.

 

 

AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK 

• Live Interview with Laura Nahr (German National Final - Unser Lied für Wien)
• Live Interview with Myle (German National Final - Unser Lied für Wien)
• Live Interview with wavvyboi (German National Final - Unser Lied für Wien) 
• Melodifestivalen 2026 - Heat 4:  Interviews with:  Smash Into Pieces, Cimberly and Meira Omar
• Eurovision Spotlight: Eurovision 2026 National Finals with Alasdair Rendall
• Eurovision News with Nick van Lith from www.escXtra.com 
• Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
• Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann
• Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal 
• National Final Update for Eurovision Song Contest with Alain Forotti 
• New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists 
• Your music requests 

Melodfestivalen 2026:  Radio International continues with the coverage next week when JP will be in Malmö at Heat 4 of Melodifestivalen 2026. This week check out the Eurovision Spotlight with Ross for the qualifiers of Heat 3 from Kristiansta. 

The Heats are scheduled as follows:

Heat 1:  31 Jan 2026 - Linköping - Saab Arena

Heat 2:  07 Feb 2026 - Gothenburg - Skandinavium

Heat 3:  14 Feb 2026 - Kristianstad - Kristianstad Arena

Heat 4:  21 Feb 2026 - Malmö - Malmö Arena

Heat 5:  28 Feb 2026 - Sundsvall -  Gärdehov

Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2026:  07 Mar 2026 - Stockholm - Strawberry Arena in Solna 

Melodifestivalen 2026 - Heat 4 Allstarz

Congratulations to Smash Into Pieces and Cimberly winning the Heat 4 of Melodifestivalen 2026 out of the Malmö Arena on Saturday, 22 Feb 2026. Smash Into Pieces were the first winning act being announced after the first voting round. They will be competing in the Grand Final with the song "Hallow". Cimberly and her song "Eternity" won the second round of voting and also has won and secured herself a place in the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 20026 in the Strawberry Arena of Stockholm, Solna. The favourite to also win the Heat was Meira Omar with the song "Dooset Daram" came third and is with that in the Final Kval round of the competition and has a chance to advance into the Grand Final after Heat 5. JP has been in Malmö and conducted interviews with all participating acts of which you will some this week and some next week on Radio International.

 

The Complete Coverage Page of Heat 4 can be viewed by clicking here where you can also watch the interviews.

 

Eurovision Song Contest - Das Deutsche Finale 2026:  Germany will be selecting their entry to the  Eurovision Song Contest 2006 on Saturday, 28 Feb 2026 in Berlin with nine acts competing for the right to represent Germany in Vienna on 16 May 2026. Eurovision Host 2025 Hazel Brugger and Germany's regular National Final Host Barbara Schoeneberger will be presenting the acts from a studio in Berlin with a live audience. Radio International has reached out to some of the acts for an interview and the team is happy to welcome to the show Laura Nahr on the show this week who will compete in the German National Final with the song "Wonderland". Then, joining the Radio International Interview Team on the show this week is Myle who competes with the song "A OK". And also on tghe show live will be wavvyboi who competes with the song "Black Glitter". 

 

wavvyboi, Laura Nahr and Myle  live on Radio International this week

 

The Eurovision Spotlight - The Eurovision National Final Season:  The New Eurovision Year 2026 has started and with that also the National Final Season for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 is in full swing with countries selecting their entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. JJ won Eurovision 2025 and with that Austria will host the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in the Wiener Stadthalle on 12 and 14 May 2026 for the two Semi Finals and the Grand Finale to take place on Saturday, 16 May 2026. Until the end of March 2026 the National Final Season for Eurovision 2026 is on and Radio International's team members will be highlighting the best picks of the national finals. Alasdair Rendall continues the series with taking a look at National Finals of the last seven days.

 

Eurovision News, New Song Releases, Birthday File, Coverspot, Eurovision Calendar: Also JP will be joined by David Mann for the Eurovision Birthday File and Eurovision Coverspot.  Javier stands in for Nick and will be presenting the Eurovision News courtesy of escXtra.com. There will be a lot of the great new releases of Eurovision artists on the show as well as great Eurovision Classics. Javier will be updating us on the upcoming Eurovision events in the Eurovision Calendar and Alain Forotti gives us already the updates of the National Finals to the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 and and....

 

 

 

Eurovision 2 Album: The Eurovision 2 Album is now available on powerworldmusic.bandcamp.com, and CDs are also available by messaging Tony Power on Facebook to order copies. 

https://powerworldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/eurovision-connects-2

For full details of this week's Show Content and Play List - click here