The National winner and song will then be submitted to the international competition.

Since April, more than 19,000 songs and 7,500 artists have been submitted by visitors.

Alongside this 2614 songs were submitted for the main selection.

Eight songs were submitted and the winning song was chosen by the expert jury.

In the early 1960s, record companies became involved in the selection process for the first time and submitted songs by their artists.

Artists were able to start submitting songs in December.

A record-breaking 3,440 songs were submitted to the competition, with only 28 proceeding to the next round.

They chose her, and then had composers submit songs.

Over 28,000 songs were submitted by aspiring songwriters in the inaugural year of the competition.

The songs can be submitted until 9 February.