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A new rule for the Eurovision Song Contest was announced yesterday. From 2013 onwards, the running order will no longer be determined by drawing lots, but instead will be decided by the producers of each year's show. The host country's spot will be the only one to be...
In something of a surprise move, SVT and the EBU today announced that Malmö will host the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. It had been widely assumed in fan circles that the newly completed Friends Arena in Stockholm, which will be home to next year's Melodifestivalen...
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...
Hello again! Apologies for the delay in this post, we didn't have much time in Baku on the last few days to write an article as things were manic with blogging the first dress rehearsal of the final as well as various other things - Baku certainly came alive on 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...
We have run our small 2nd chance polls for semi-final 1 and semi-final 2, now the winners of both will meet an entry from the German final (as the other automatic finalist countries didn't run a national final with more than one entrant). So now we get to our own...
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...
Hello from Bakooo! We didn't manage to blog yesterday about Wednesday as we had a bit of a lie in on Thursday. Wednesday was spent in the Press Centre watching the first dress rehearsal of the second semi-final, which you can read again here. We then went to EuroClub...
Hello all! Welcome to the LIVE blog of the first dress rehearsal of the GRAND FINAL! Stay tuned to this page for all the goss on what's happening in the Crystal Hall! Since I've already blogged the semis, I will only comment on changes or how I feel the song fits in...
Last night saw a few surprise qualifiers - at least for us - with Malta and Lithuania being successful, and Georgia losing its 100% qualification record. But today, history moves on to the preparations of the grand final! Today at 15:00 CET our editor Danny will...
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