[AdSense-B] Tonight sees one of the annual highlights from the Eurovision pre-party calendar as the stars of 2017 descend on the Cafe de Paris in London, United Kingdom. The London Eurovision Party, which is now in its tenth anniversary year, is currently taking place in the British capital with 21 of this year’s acts and three special guests performing in …
[AdSense-B] Today is the day many Eurovision fans count down to for the entire year, as the first steps of putting together the contest finally fall into place in the arena. That’s right – the staging for this year’s contest has begun to appear! Today the EBU’s Executive Supervisor for the Eurovision Song Contest, Jon Ola Sand, and key members …
[AdSense-B] While everyone is all too aware of the issues that have arisen in the past week regarding Russia’s artist Yulia Samoylova and the Ukrainian authorities banning her from entering the country, it seems that today has thrown up a major development in the story, with the potential of sanctions or a ban from the contest arising for any countries …
[AdSense-B] Israel Calling 2017 is fast approaching. For the second year in a row, Israel will take its turn to host a pre-Eurovision promotional event and already it has grown into one of the largest. The festivities, taking place between Monday 3rd April and Thursday 6th April, will see a huge array of this year’s stars tour across Israel in …
[AdSense-B] Spotify has become an increasingly accurate parameter for success in the music world, with most charts these days incorporating streaming and Spotify plays into their counts in order to truly determine the most successful songs of the time. This has become increasingly true of Eurovision songs, and while not every participating nation has regular access to Spotify, or not …
This editorial is written from the opinion of the author and does not represent the views of the other editors, the EBU or escYOUnited as a whole. In my previous article, I discussed how Sweden, Slovenia and Spain managed to select songs which were far from being the televoters’ favourites despite there being nominal 50% jury/50% televote voting systems. What …
[AdSense-B] Two of the participating broadcasters in this year’s contest have spoken out to condemn the approaches of both Russia and Ukraine regarding the Yulia Samoylova banning situation. Denmark’s DR has spoken out against the “political battleground” developing in the east, with Jan Lagermand Lundme, the head of entertainment, stating “It is practically unbearable. I know that the EBU takes …
[AdSense-B] The national finals may have stopped and some of the news may have dried up (apart from the Russia-Ukraine situation!) but that doesn’t mean that Eurovision is on hold for the next few months! Tonight, the first preview party of this year’s contest will take place in Riga, Latvia, with performances from a number of Eurovision 2017 artists as …
[AdSense-B] Ahh, national selections. The lifeblood of the Eurovision enthusiast, the catalyst for countless debates, the endless source of all of the drama we have come to crave over the years in our beloved contest. Internal selections can, and often do, throw up some true gems with a guaranteed path to Eurovision stardom, but it’s the multi-song showcases that really …
[AdSense-B] Today has seen the Eurovision Song Contest thrust into the limelight once more, although this time it has been for unsavoury reasons. Ukraine’s national security ministry, the SBU, this afternoon confirmed that Yulia Samoilova would not be permitted into Ukrainian territory to represent her native Russia in Eurovision in May. Since the confirmation, the news has spread far and …
