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Last night, the recording for Eurovision's Greatest Hits took place at the 4,000-capacity Hammersmith Apollo theatre in London, with the show itself scheduled to be shown in the various broadcasting countries from this Friday. Like all good ESC sites, escgo! was in...
The article below was published on April 1st. That’s all we’re saying. It's been the dream of many Eurovision fans, and now it's coming true - Rīgas Bebrs, the man-sized beaver who entertained and enthralled us all during the broadcasts of the Latvian preselection...
In the last ten years, Belgium has only qualified for the final on two occasions, in 2010 and 2013. Indeed, it has only achieved one single top five placing (Sanomi, 2nd place in 2003) since winning with Sandra Kim in 1986. This year, it's RTBF's turn again to select...
Belarus is often one of the earliest countries to select its Eurovision entry, and the national final staging - and the quality of the webstream! - isn't always the best. Coupled with the local producers' propensity for changing the selected song after the...
[introduction and detailed rules] | [SongHunt explained in 90 seconds] | [results page] The SongHunt continues – let’s find the best song from this national final season! This is quarter-final 1, featuring 12 randomly allocated songs that qualified from the heats...
Azerbaijan has still only a short history in Eurovision. However, it's a very successful one: Seven participations so far, of which six resulted in a top 10 placement, including one victory. It was only at their latest ESC appearance, in Copenhagen last year, that...
It still feels strange to be writing it, and it's going to feel even stranger when we're actually in Vienna, but here goes: It's time to take a look at the home entry that will be representing Austria. After it won the Eurovision Song Contest. Still crazy, right? But...
It was the breaking news of the season: Australia will compete at the Eurovision Song Contest. Allegedly this will be a unique occasion, but nevertheless, this headline caused some controversial debates among Eurovision circles, including the justified question: Will...
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...
Today, the producers of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest revealed the running order for the semi-finals. As in the past two years, the order of performance was determined not by a random draw, but by the producers themselves with the approval of the EBU's Executive...
[introduction and detailed rules] | [SongHunt explained in 90 seconds] | [results page] The SongHunt continues – let’s find the best song from the new national final season! This week, the last of the 12 heats before the quarter-finals, features the 8 highest...
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