Turin to host Eurovision 2022 on May 10, 12 and 14!
After much speculation, the Italian host city of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest is finally known.
Home Composed 2021: Europe’s amateur songwriters need your votes!
The competition for Eurovision fans who write their own songs is celebrating its 30th birthday. Here’s how you can help decide the winner!
Ten things we learned from the 2021 live-on-tape performances
We watched the live-on-tape performances of the ESC 2021 songs – here’s what we took away from the experience!
Between the years: Looking ahead
The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is over – time to look ahead: Observations, speculations, and a whole lot of wishful thinking.
Between the years: Looking back
The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is over – time to look back: Praise, critique and other observations.
Felix and Martin discuss the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 and speculate a bit about the near future.
A top three of Italy, France and Switzerland? It’s been done…
The top end of the 2021 scoreboard had a familiar feel as some of Eurovision’s oldest participating countries had their moment to shine – but not for the first time!
The View from San Francisco: Zitti E Buoni
Shi has quite a few personal words to say and thoughts to share about the 2021 Eurovision final and what came after.
“Zitti e buoni”: ITALY wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2021!
Rock ‘n’ roll triumphs! The winner of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest is “Zitti e buoni” by Måneskin, the entry from ITALY!
Who will win the Eurovision Song Contest 2021? Our prediction for the final
Happy Eurovision – the big day has arrived! Tonight the grand final of ESC 2021 will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. But who will hold the trophy at the end of the show? It’s time for our team’s predictions!
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ESC 2021: The escgo! predictions for tonight’s semi-final 1
It wouldn’t be Eurovision without some predictions from our team! These are the songs that Felix, Shi and Martin think will qualify from tonight’s first semi-final.
Je me cash: A look at the betting markets for the first semi-final
Martin takes his traditional look at the betting markets for the contest, starting with tonight’s first semi-final!
The View from San Francisco: Tonight Again
In which “hey, don’t I know you from somewhere?” isn’t a pick-up line.
Semi-Final 1, Jury Rehearsal: Live blog
We blogged the jury rehearsal of the first semi-final as it happened. Check out our rolling liveblog!
Semi-Final 1, First Dress Rehearsal: Live blog
We blogged the first dress rehearsal of the first semi-final as it happened. Check out our rolling liveblog!
The View from San Francisco: Is This What You Wanted?
In which Shi ponders about the auto finalists and the difference between “not trying to win” and “trying not to win”.
Rotterdam 2021: Turquoise Carpet Report
Today, the Turquoise Carpet event was held in Rotterdam as part of today’s opening ceremony! We followed the event on its live stream – and here are our highlights from today’s glamorous opening event!
Overthinking is fun: The automatic finalists draw their halves!
The “big five” have drawn which half they’ll perform in during next Saturday’s grand final. A perfect excuse for a spot of speculation!
Rehearsals Day 8 LIVE: The Direct Finalists
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of the direct finalists: Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom and Spain.
The View from San Francisco: Let Me Try
In which Shi’s sleep deprivation and overthinking tendencies have a date with the predictions for semi 2.
Stage Verdict 2021
Now that Felix has seen all the entries of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 rehearsed at least once, it’s time for him to share his verdict!
Rehearsals Day 7 LIVE: From Finland to Denmark
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of Finland, Latvia, Switzerland, and Denmark.
Eurovision Chat
Our chat is most active during Eurovision, national finals and our various chat events, but you’re welcome to visit any time!
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Check out some of our favourite and most popular articles from recent years.
ChatVote 2022 is launched!
It’s the 18th edition of the annual live event in which our chatters pick their favourite song from the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest – here’s everything you need to know about the escgo! ChatVote 2022.
“Ay mamá” by Rigoberta Bandini wins SongHunt 2022!
SongHunt 2022 has concluded – and the best non-winning song of the season is “Ay mamá” by Rigoberta Bandini from Spain!
ESC 2022: Semi-final running orders revealed!
The order in which the songs will be performed in the semi-finals of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest was announced today in a pair of video revelations. Who’s singing when? Find out here!
SongHunt 2022 – The Final
It’s the grand final of SongHunt 2022 – and YOUR votes will help us find the most robbed national final song of the season!
40 songs: This is the line-up for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022
All 40 songs known: We have the final line-up for ESC 2022!
SongHunt 2022: 12 finalists known!
The semi-final stage is over in SongHunt 2022, and this means: We know our first 12 finalists! Here they are, and that’s what’s happening next!
Before “Fulenn”: Five times smaller languages should have made it to Eurovision
France will be represented in Turin by a song in Breton – a language we’ve seen on the ESC stage only once before. We take a look at five memorable songs in smaller languages that had their chance at reaching the Eurovision stage, but that stumbled at the final hurdle!
Eurovision Update: Girl power rules as the national final season concludes
Sweden! Iceland! Portugal! And a whole load of internal selections! All of this awaits you in the latest escgo! Eurovision Update…
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The Sound of Beauty: The ESC 2022 allocation draw is here!
Who’s in the first and second semi-finals? The allocation draw for the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest has taken place!
SongHunt 2022 – Here are the dates!
It’s time to announce SongHunt 2022! The first chat event and poll launch will take place on Sunday 20 February. Find out everything you need to know, and save the dates in your calendars!
Turin to host Eurovision 2022 on May 10, 12 and 14!
After much speculation, the Italian host city of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest is finally known.
Ten things we learned from the 2021 live-on-tape performances
We watched the live-on-tape performances of the ESC 2021 songs – here’s what we took away from the experience!
Between the years: Looking ahead
The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is over – time to look ahead: Observations, speculations, and a whole lot of wishful thinking.
Between the years: Looking back
The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is over – time to look back: Praise, critique and other observations.
Felix and Martin discuss the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 and speculate a bit about the near future.