The United Kingdom’s Sam Ryder achieved yet another once-in-a-generation milestone today, with his Eurovision 2022 runner-up entry “Space Man” becoming the highest charting Eurovision entry on the British Official Singles Charts in 26 years. This week, “Space Man” was involved in a battle with Harry Styles’s “As It Was” for chart domination, but ultimately the former One Direction singer pipped …
Every Eurovision fan knows that time moves differently depending on which point of the season we find ourselves in. During the build-up to Eurovision, time really seems to crawl by in SloMo — then, once everything kicks off, it still feels like it’s all over in a Snap! After so many national finals, pre-parties and shock moments, Eurovision 2022 is …
During the grand final, the EBU released a statement that mentioned that six of the participating countries were found to create an “irregular voting pattern”, this led to the jury votes from the six countries being completely removed and replaced by a “substitute aggregated result”. Now, we finally get to see, what the EBU were so suspicious about. The results …
Eurovision 2022 runner-up Sam Ryder will perform at HM Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee concert on 4th June, the BBC have confirmed. The concert will mark the 70th anniversary of the Queen’s ascencion to the British throne, with the “Space Man” singer invited to perform in front of Buckingham Palace in London as part of a star-studded line-up. Diana Ross, …
Marius Bear shocked many Eurovision fans last week when he qualified from the second semi-final. His performance during the jury show clearly left a mark on the national juries, who awarded him 107 points and put him in 5th place out of 17 songs. His televote score, however, only came out to 11 points, and once combined together he would …
Yesterday, just days after their landslide victory in Turin, the members of Kalush Orchestra returned home to Ukraine. The band had extended their time in Turin in order to perform at the Germany Consulate with fellow Eurovision artist Malik Harris and do some TV interviews. By Monday afternoon they arrived by bus at the Ukranian border to re-enter their homeland. …
It has been reported in the British media on Sunday that Years & Years were “rejected” by the BBC and TaP Music for Eurovision 2022, in favour of the eventual runner up Sam Ryder. The Mail on Sunday reports that Olly Alexander, now the only permanent member of the popular electro-pop project Years & Years, put himself forward to represent …
As we reported earlier today, the EBU made the decision to nulify the votes from the Georgian, Romanian, San Marinese, Montenegrin, Azerbaijani, and Polish Eurovision juries for both the second semi-final and grand final. In their press release, the EBU came to this decision alongside the pan-European voting partner due to irregular voting patterns that happened in the jury votes. …
Immediately before the jury results were revealed in this weekend’s Grand Final of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, the EBU released a statement noting some “irregular voting patterns” from a number of national juries in both the Second Semi-Final and the Grand Final. In their statement, they announced, “In the analysis of jury voting by the European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) …
Congratulations are in order to …. KALUSH ORCHESTRA of Ukraine. The group won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest after receiving a record-shattering 439 points from the televote. (Moldova, Spain, and Serbia were the only other entries to receive more than 200 points from the televote.) The group were in 4th place after the points from the 40 international juries were …
