Eurovision 2021: The stage is set
At the Ahoy in Rotterdam, the stage for ESC 2021 is largely complete ahead of the first stand-in rehearsals. Check out these pics and videos!
Line-up check 2021: Malta
The escgo! team reviews “Je me casse” by Destiny.
“I might be the lucky one”: A look at the ESC 2021 betting markets
With one month to go until the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest week, our resident casual gambler Martin takes a look at how the betting markets for this year’s contest are shaping up!
Line-up check 2021: Ukraine
The escgo! team reviews the Ukrainian entry for ESC 2021, “Shum” by Go_A.
Line-up check 2021: Azerbaijan
The escgo! team reviews “Mata Hari” by Efendi.
Read more“I can confirm that I love this scoreboard.” (MartinF)
"I can confirm that I love this scoreboard." (MartinF) As we often do, on Saturday night we ended up watching a few old national finals in our chatroom. One of them was Euroviisut 1986, the Finnish selection for that year's contest. And when MartinF caught sight of...
Line-up check 2021: Romania
The escgo! team reviews the Romanian entry, “Amnesia” by Roxen.
Line-up check 2021: Israel
The escgo! team turns its attention to “Set Me Free” by Eden Alene.
Insta Report Part 1: The five most popular Instagram accounts of this year’s contestants
Once again, we’ve checked out all 39 artists of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Instagram and picked some accounts that we thought are worth sharing! Today, we’re focusing on the five accounts with the most followers.
Line-up check 2021: Belgium
The escgo! team reviews “The Wrong Place” by Hooverphonic.
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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!
SongHunt 2021: Full results
This page contains the full qualification list for SongHunt 2021 based on our votes in the #esc chat.
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!
Let’s try this again, then: Dates for ESC 2021 announced
As announced today, the next Eurovision Song Contest will take place – in some form or another – in Rotterdam on 18, 20 and 22 May 2021.
“La-ley-la” by CHАKRАS wins SongHunt 2020
“La-ley-la” by CHАKRАS from Belarus is this year’s winner of SongHunt, our competition to find the most robbed national finalist of the season!
Raise a glass to the Eurovision that never was
Tonight should have been the grand final of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. Instead, we fans are still coming to terms with the loss of “our” contest – and doing a pretty good job under the circumstances!
SongHunt 2020: Meet the finalists!
We introduce the 12 national finalists who are looking for your vote in the grand final of SongHunt 2020!
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The View from San Francisco: The Image of You
The third day of the 2021 rehearsals came and went, and with it the glorious display of the full possible range of approaches to Eurovision staging.
Rehearsals Day 3 LIVE: Iceland and Serbia
We’re live-blogging the first rehearsals of Iceland and Serbia.
Rehearsals Day 3 LIVE: From Austria to Moldova
We’re live-blogging the first rehearsals of Austria, Poland and Moldova.
Rehearsals Day 3 LIVE: From San Marino to Greece
We’re live-blogging the first rehearsals of San Marino, Estonia, Czech Republic and Greece.
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The View from San Francisco: Beautiful Mess
The second day of rehearsals was a good reminder of some ground rules to have when following (and – sometimes – watching) the first rehearsals.
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Daði Freyr from Iceland wins Eurostream 2020!
“Think About Things” from Iceland has won Eurostream 2020, the fan-led online alternative to the cancelled 2020 Eurovision Song Contest!
Join us in the #esc chat next week as we support Eurostream 2020!
We’re happy to be one of numerous sites joining in with this fan-led online alternative to the cancelled 2020 Eurovision Song Contest!
Italy wins ChatVote 2020 with “Fai rumore” by Diodato!
ChatVote 2020 has a winner – and by an overwhelming margin, “Fai rumore” by Diodato is our chatters’ favourites of the songs that would have taken part in ESC 2020!
ChatVote 2020: Qualifiers revealed, final voting begins!
If you’re one of our #esc chat regulars, you’ll want to know the finalists for this year’s ChatVote. They’re in here along with all the other details you’ll need to take part in our grand final!
Is always over now? ESC 2020 is cancelled
The news from EBU HQ is bad, to say the least – the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest has been cancelled outright.
Lost in Corona: The curious case of the 2020 season
Everything is up in the air right now when it comes to ESC 2020, but we’re hopeful that the contest will still be able to bring people together in a time of crisis.
The allocation draw for ESC 2020
We now know which countries will perform in which semi-final at ESC 2020 – read more!