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This time last year, I was writing about Armenia as the bookmaker's favourite for victory in ESC 2014. What a difference a year makes: This year's entry from the Caucasian nation would be flying completely under the radar if it wasn't for the controversy surrounding...
Albania hasn't reached the final since 2012, when Rona Nishliu achieved a remarkable 5th place, the best result for the country to date. Albania has been in the contest since 2004, and has always used its traditional Festivali i Këngës as its national selection...
Just five days ago, the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest came to a climax with the grand final. And unlike in previous years, we don't have to wait for the split results anymore - they are now openly available on eurovision.tv to provide more transparency. Winners and...
After waiting for a victory for more than 45 years, Austria won the Eurovision Song Contest again - for only the second time ever! Conchita Wurst from Austria scored the highest result with the song “Rise Like A Phoenix”. In total, she collected 290 points, ahead of...
Just like for the semi-finals, the esc-chat.com team has compiled the individual predictions of its members. But this time we've done things a little differently! Each of us has made a ranked prediction of the Top 10, followed by two unranked groups containing the...
The voting order for tonight's Eurovision Song Contest final has been revealed. The spokespersons of the 37 participating countries will announce the results in the following order (name of spokesperson in brackets): Azerbaijan: (Sabina Babayeva) Greece: (Andrianna...
Last night, these ten countries have qualified for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014: Malta Norway Poland Austria Finland Belarus Switzerland Greece Slovenia Romania esc-chat.com's prediction was nearly correct Before the show, we published our prediction...
Tonight, the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 will be held. 15 countries will compete for the 10 available tickets for the grand final on Saturday! You can read up here how the first dress rehearsal of tonight’s show went. Just like back on...
Last night, these ten countries have qualified for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014: Montenegro Hungary Russia Armenia Azerbaijan San Marino Ukraine Sweden Netherlands Iceland esc-chat.com got all "sure qualifiers" right! Before the show, we published our...
Tonight, the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 will be held. 16 countries will compete for the 10 available tickets for the grand final on Saturday! You can read up here how the first dress rehearsal of tonight's show went. As every year, we from...
All of the semi-finalists for this year's Eurovision Song Contest have now rehearsed for the first time, and esc-chat.com has been keeping you up-to-date with live daily rehearsal blogs from Danny, our man on the scene in Copenhagen. But those of us who aren't in...
Just over a year ago, I wrote a piece about the BBC's attitude towards ESC and the logic behind Bonnie Tyler's participation. It began with the line "It’s frustrating being a British fan of the Eurovision Song Contest" - and I could have started this line-up check...
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