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In an incredibly busy weekend, Ukraine, Moldova, Slovenia, Hungary, Latvia, Armenia and Romania all selected their entries for ESC 2018. Join us as we round up all the action!
Our German team member Felix looks back on his country’s national final. Was the revamped preselection concept a success, and are things pointing the right way for the future?
On Valentine’s Day, we discuss a matter of the heart. Specifically, the Melodifestivalen heart. Is it spoiling the excitement of the Swedish semi-finals?
This weekend’s Romanian semi-final takes place in a salt mine. (Of course it does.) But you might be surprised to learn that there’s a long history of salt at the Eurovision Song Contest…
The UK has chosen its entry for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest – but what did we learn from the national final show in Brighton?
The allocation draw for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest has taken place. As in recent years, the countries had previously been divided into "pots" based on their voting history with the aim of ensuring a balanced spread across the two semi-finals. To allow the...
The BBC have released the UK finalists for the 2018 contest – time for Martin, the British member of the escgo! team, to cast his eye over the six candidates.
A sad piece of news today from the host country of ESC 2018, as we learned that Portugal's 1966 representative, Madalena Iglésias, has passed away at the age of 78. After two unsuccessful entries, 1966 marked the first time Portugal sent a more upbeat pop song to the...
Presenting the winners of the #esc and escgo! Chat Awards for 2017!
Eugent Bushpepa will represent Albania at ESC 2018 in Lisbon with his song "Mall". Here's how that, and Festivali i Këngës in general, makes us glad. We're glad to see that Albania is trying something new at Eurovision. We're glad to see that one of our chat's big...
SongHunt 2017, our poll series to find the best non-winning national final song of the year, has come to an end – and “Petale” by Instinct, from the Romanian preselection, is the winner of the grand final!
Martin takes a light-hearted look at some of the countries that made statistical history at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest – one way or another.
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