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!
Tusse from Sweden and Manizha from Russia complete the 2021 national final season
The last week of this year’s Eurovision national final campaign ended with the climax of Melodifestivalen in Sweden – and an unexpected and entertaining Russian final!
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Arilena Ara wins the Albanian ticket to ESC 2020!
The first entry for the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest is known – and, as is traditional, it’s Albania who kick us off with the dramatic “Shaj” by Arilena Ara.
SongHunt 2020: Full results
This page contains the full qualification list for SongHunt 2020 based on our votes in the #esc chat.
Eurovision 2020: It could have been anywhere, but it’s Rotterdam!
Forget about The Beautiful South – today it’s all about The Triumphant South Holland as Rotterdam is announced as the host city of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest!
Five milestones in Eurovision history
The history book on the shelf is always repeating itself – but not at the Eurovision Song Contest. We take a look at five milestones in ESC history that changed the nature of the competition.
The View from San Francisco: Rotterdam, or Anywhere
In the final part of her Eurovision 2019 review, Shi reflects on some of the brilliant touches in this year’s production, how Israel (re)discovered its love for ESC, and the end of her Tel Aviv journey.
The View from San Francisco: Another Summer Night
In the second part of her ESC 2019 review, Shi looks at the differing arcs of the returning artists, what made Duncan’s winning reprise so special – and the delegations that made things unnecessarily hard for themselves…
The View from San Francisco: Goodbye to Yesterday
In the first part of her Eurovision 2019 wrap-up, Shi looks at the things a blogger and a delegation can get wrong – and how to accidentally get things just right.
“Dua ta besoj” by Artemisa Mithi & Febi Shkurti wins SongHunt 2019
SongHunt 2019, our season-long poll series to find the best non-winning national final song, has come to an end – and “Dua ta besoj” by Artemisa Mithi & Febi Shkurti, from the Albanian preselection, is the winner of the grand final!
Here’s another fine mess EBU’ve gotten us into…
The full results of the ESC 2019 grand final have been revised following the EBU’s admission that it messed up the calculation of the Belarusian jury votes. We have questions.
SongHunt 2019 – The Final!
It’s the grand final of SongHunt 2019 – and YOUR votes will decide the best national final song of the season!
After 44 years, the Netherlands win Eurovision!
The winner of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest is "Arcade" by Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands - ending a 44-year wait for the country dating back to Teach-In and "Ding-A-Dong" in 1975. In an incredibly exciting results presentation, Sweden won the jury vote...
Who will win the Eurovision Song Contest 2019? Our prediction for the final
Happy Eurovision – the big day has arrived! Tonight the grand final of ESC 2019 will be held in Tel Aviv, Israel. But who will hold the trophy at the end of the show? It’s time for our team’s predictions!
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Line-up check 2021: Finland
Get your mosh on! It’s time for the escgo! team to review “Dark Side” by Blind Channel from Finland.
Line-up check 2021: Bulgaria
The escgo! team turns its attention to Victoria and “Growing Up Is Getting Old”.
Line-up check 2021: Portugal
The escgo! team reviews this year’s Portuguese entry, “Love Is On My Side” by The Black Mamba.
Line-up check 2021: Albania
The escgo! team reviews “Karma” by Anxhela Peristeri, the Albanian entry for ESC 2021.
“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.
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The view from Tel Aviv: The sum and the parts
Semi-final two, the *sensible* semi? Not when you’ve got bizarre staging choices and press centre hypes to deal with. Shi picks through the bones of the last two days in Tel Aviv!
Insta report: The artists of Eurovision 2019
We’ve checked out the profiles of this year’s Eurovision entrants so you don’t have to. Here are 10 posts we couldn’t leave unshared!
The view from Tel Aviv: Is it true? Is it over?
All of the first semi-finalists have now had their first rehearsals. Who’s underperforming? Who’s brought the right package right from day one? Shi takes a look!
Five things to look out for as rehearsals begin
Rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest begin on Saturday. But what in particular should the assembled fan media be watching out for as the 41 participating countries take to the stage for the first time? We take a closer look!
Selam, selam, here we go again, on a journey to… well, you know
It’s been a long journey for Israel at ESC – and for Shi as an Israeli ESC fan. As the rehearsals begin and Tel Aviv beckons, she reflects on her own personal history with the contest and the steps that took her from there to here.
Line-up check 2019: Our views on the automatic finalists
The Eurovision 2019 line-up check is complete! If you missed our reviews of the big five plus host country Israel, now’s your chance to catch up…
Line-up check 2019: Our views on the second semi-final
Continuing its line-up check, the escgo! team has now reviewed all 18 participants in the second semi-final of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. Read what we think here!