Today marks the final day for any broadcaster with an active membership in the European Broadcasting Union to apply for participation in Eurovision 2023. After this, no additional broadcaster will be able to participate in the contest that did not originally apply – but broadcasters who submitted an application can still withdraw prior to October 11th without financial penalty. Any …
The month of August has been a busy time in the Eurovision alumni world, with artists across the globe releasing a total of 69 singles, collaborations, and for two Eurovision artists full-length albums. From Ukraine to Malta, Netherlands to Australia, there’s a little bit of everything for you to enjoy in this month’s new music round-up! alyona alyona, Jerry Heil, …
In theme with our celebration of the 1982 contest, we have curated a list of fun facts that you might not know about the contest. How many times has Norway’s John Teigan tried to return to Eurovision after his 1982 appearance? How many members of Portugal’s Doce were part of another Eurovision band? What happened to cause France and Greece …
Over the past 10 days, the official Eurovision Song Contest YouTube account, finally decided to share the pre-recorded live on tape recordings little by little. Unfortunately, we have learned that a lot of broadcasters opted to not share their pre-recording tapes, and will leave a lot of fans imagining, what it would’ve or could’ve been like for some countries. On …
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 …
It’s just 1 day till the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy! Connor speaks to French representative Alvan & Ahez. They talked about singing in harmonies, how they met each other, and which other ESC2022 song they would pick to perform on the Eurovision Stage. Check out our interview in the video below! About Alvan …
After a week of rehearsals, technical snafus, and building anticipation, Eurovision kicked off tonight at the Pala Alpitour arena in Turin! In all, 17 acts performed, competing for 10 slots in Saturday’s Grand Final. They were: 🇦🇱 ALBANIA – Ronela Hajati – Sekret 🇱🇻 LATVIA – Citi Zēni – Eat Your Salad 🇱🇹 LITHUANIA – Monika Liu – Sentimentai 🇨🇭 SWITZERLAND – Marius Bear – Boys Do Cry …
Earlier in the week, we asked #YOU to vote on which of the Big 5 rehearsals was the most impressive – and the result is in! The United Kingdom was overwhelmingly chosen as the most impressive rehearsal from the five – 45.4% of the votes went the way of Sam Ryder’s “Space Man” and his intergalactic performance. Second place went …
Well, we made it! It’s finally here! The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 officially gets underway from the PalaOlimpico in Santa Rita, Turin, following Måneskin’s triumph in last year’s contest in Rotterdam. Tonight marks the first semi-final of the contest, with seventeen countries getting ready to perform their hearts out for the European public. Here’s everything #YOU need to know about …
With the Big 5 rehearsing on Saturday (and certainly delivering the goods for us), we wanted to know – which of the five performances from our big nations did #YOU find most impressive? Simply vote in our poll below and we’ll reveal all before the dress rehearsal phase begins on Monday afternoon! Which Big 5 rehearsal has impressed #YOU the …
