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In our series introducing the entries from different groups of participating countries, we've already talked about the Big 5 and the former Yugoslavia. This time, Felix takes a closer look at the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Looking...
Following last week's article on the Big 5, esc-chat.com's series introducing and giving a verdict on the ESC 2013 entries continues with the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Martin takes a look at the prospects for Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and...
It's hard to divide ESC countries in groups, let alone groups of the same size, but we've done it anyway. In the first edition of esc-chat.com's new series introducing and giving a verdict on the ESC 2013 entries, Editor-in-Chief Felix takes a look at the Big 5:...
So a few weeks have passed since Sweden won the 57th Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Euphoria", and Loreen has gone on to enjoy a big pan-European hit with the track - something that can only be seen as great news for ESC generally. While we're waiting for the...
Congratulations to Sweden! Europe went euphoric as Loreen won the 57th Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan. She got a total of 372 points, 365 more than the other extreme of the scoreboard - which was occupied by Norway. The winner's closest neighbour and its...
The Eurovision final 2012 is just around the corner, so us three editors came together to make one final prediction each - a top ten and a bottom three. At the end of the article we'll take a look at our consensus as usual. We did pretty well in the semi-finals, with...
If we put all the highest holidays and birthdays together, we still don't reach the importance that Eurovision Day has, do we? And now, the biggest day of the year has arrived once again. In about 12 hours, we will know where to book our flights to next year. We will...
The betting market for the Eurovision Song Contest is big business. Whereas 10 or 20 years ago, it was really only the physical betting shops in the UK and Ireland that took much of an interest in our favourite music competition, nowadays there are literally dozens of...
Tonight saw the second semi-final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was arguably a harder semi to call than the first one, resulting in a few fairly major casualties - most notably, the feared Balkan domination failed to materialise, with...
Tonight, the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be held! Once again, 18 entries will compete for the privilege of ending up in one of the 10 envelopes for the final. As in semi 1, nine envelopes will be digital (as they have been in recent...
Tonight saw the first semi-final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan. There were arguably no great surprises among the qualifiers, with Hungary and Albania representing perhaps the closest thing to a bookmakers' nightmare. Meanwhile, the EBU...
Tonight, the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be held! 18 entries will compete for the privilege of ending up in one of the 10 envelopes for the final. As we learned yesterday, 9 envelopes will be digital (as they have been in recent years),...
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