“Russian Woman” by Manizha wins ChatVote 2021!
Our chat community has decided: Russia has the best song in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest!
Chat Story
Felix suddenly realised that we’ve never really blogged about our legendary chatroom before. Time to fix that!
Line-up check 2021: Georgia
The escgo! team reviews “You” by Tornike Kipiani.
Line-up check 2021: Serbia
The escgo! team reviews the Serbian entry for ESC 2021, “Loco Loco” by Hurricane.
We’re excited to launch our first audio format on escgo! In “Three Minutes to Talk”, the challenge is a simple one: Talk about a random Eurovision-related topic for three minutes – completely unprepared! In this first episode, it’s Martin who’s setting Felix something to talk about. But what topic? Hear for yourself!
Line-up check 2021: Iceland
The escgo! team turns its attention to “10 Years” by Daði & Gagnamagnið.
Line-up check 2021: Moldova
The escgo! team reviews “Sugar” by Natalia Gordienko, the latest entry in our 2021 Eurovision review series!
Read more“This thing can do a lot.” (Florian Wieder)
"This thing can do a lot." (Florian Wieder) The quote comes from Florian Wieder, who is the Stage Designer of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. And the "thing"? It's the stage! We're learning a few hints about it in the first episode of Krista Calling, a new fun...
Line-up check 2021: Poland
The escgo! team casts its eye over Rafał from Poland and “The Ride”.
Line-up check 2021: Austria
The escgo! team turns its attention to “Amen” by Vincent Bueno from Austria.
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Line-up check 2021: Spain
The escgo! team reviews “Voy a quedarme” by Blas Cantó.
Line-up check 2021: Italy
The escgo! team reviews “Zitti e buoni” by Måneskin.
Line-up check 2021: Our views on the automatic finalists
The Eurovision 2021 line-up check begins! Our team of editors reviews the entries from the Netherlands and the “Big Five”.
Line-up check 2021: Germany
Does the escgo! team feel love for Jendrik’s “I Don’t Feel Hate”?
Line-up check 2021: France
Martin reviews “Voilà” by Barbara Pravi and Felix and Shi respond!
Line-up check 2021: Netherlands
Kicking off our 2021 line-up check, the escgo! team reviews “Birth Of A New Age” by Jeangu Macrooy.
ESC 2021: The semi-final running orders are revealed!
From The Roop through to Fyr & Flamme, here’s how the two semi-finals will line up in Rotterdam.
SongHunt 2021 – The Final
It’s the grand final of SongHunt 2021 – and YOUR votes will help us find the most robbed national final song of the season!
39 songs: This is the line-up for the Eurovision Song Contest 2021
With the exclusion of Belarus from the 2021 contest, we can now say that we have the final line-up for ESC 2021!
12 more songs to remember from the 2021 national final season
Time to look back and remember some songs from the recently completed national final season that nearly made it into SongHunt 2021… and some that weren’t so close.
New simple URL for the webchat
Our webchat can now be accessed by this simple URL: escgo.com/chat
The chat interface is working again, after we found a fix for the technical problems caused by a fire.
SongHunt 2021 – Semi-Final 4
Our quest to find the most robbed national finalist of 2021 continues – and YOUR votes will help to decide who qualifies!
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The View from San Francisco: Story of My Life
In which Shi overthinks the principles of effective Eurovision storytelling through stagings.
Rehearsals Day 6 LIVE: The automatic finalists
We’re live-blogging the first rehearsals of Italy, Germany, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom and Spain.
Rehearsals Day 6 LIVE: From Austria to Serbia
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of Austria, Poland, Moldova, Iceland and Serbia.
Rehearsals Day 6 LIVE: Malta… and from San Marino to Greece
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of Malta, San Marino, Estonia, Czech Republic and Greece.
Read more“Eurovision starts with my birthday!” (Filipp Kirkorov)
The View from San Francisco: Think about Things
The rehearsals of the first semi are (almost) done, which means it’s “will they, won’t they” time inside Shi’s brain! Scary times indeed.
Rehearsals Day 5 LIVE: From Israel to Ukraine
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of Israel, Romania, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.
Rehearsals Day 5 LIVE: From Cyprus to Belgium
We’re live-blogging the second rehearsals of Cyprus, Norway, Croatia and Belgium.
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It’s time for SongHunt 2021!
The annual quest to find the most robbed national final song of the 2021 season begins – this year’s SongHunt is on the way!
Albina gets the Croatian ticket to ESC 2021
We have a winner in Dora, one of our chat’s favourite national finals of the season!
The Roop’s living a celebration – and Go_A bring the noise
Lithuania and Ukraine have entries for ESC 2021, and the EBU announces that the scenarios for the contest in Rotterdam have narrowed further.
France and Israel select – and news about SongHunt 2021!
Barbara Pravi will represent France, Eden Alene has a new song for Israel… and the SongHunt fun for 2021 will begin soon. It’s all happening!
2021 begins here, with an Albanian winner: It’s Anxhela Peristeri
Not a moment too soon, we officially start to turn our back on the horror year of 2020 with the first selected song for ESC 2021. And the winner of Festivali i Këngës is….
At last, a Valentina wins Eurovision
No, not Monetta – but Valentina Tronel from France is the winner of the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest!
Read our chat’s live verdict on the Eurovision movie!
We group-watched “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” in our chat tonight. Here’s what we thought!