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!
SongHunt 2020 – The Quarter-Finals
All four quarter-finals of SongHunt 2020 are being held simultaneously. Here are all the details!
SongHunt 2020 – Quarter-Final 4
The quarter-finals of SongHunt 2020 are underway – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the 2020 Eurovision season!
SongHunt 2020 – Quarter-Final 3
The quarter-finals of SongHunt 2020 are underway – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the 2020 Eurovision season!
SongHunt 2020 – Quarter-Final 2
The quarter-finals of SongHunt 2020 are underway – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the 2020 Eurovision season!
SongHunt 2020 – Quarter-Final 1
The quarter-finals of SongHunt 2020 are underway – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the 2020 Eurovision season!
ChatVote 2020 is launched!
Here are the details of the streamlined ChatVote 2020 that we’ll be holding to crown our chatters’ favourite from the 2020 songs.
SongHunt 2020 – Heat 8
The SongHunt continues with Heat 8 – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the 2020 Eurovision season!
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.
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Rehearsals Day 2 LIVE: Greece and San Marino
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 2 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 2 LIVE: Iceland, Estonia and Portugal
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 2 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 2 LIVE: Belgium, Georgia and Australia
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 2 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
The view from Tel Aviv: A letter to Daniel
It’s the first day of rehearsals in Tel Aviv, but a good friend of ours is missing. Shi takes a moment to remember our friend and colleague Daniel Gould.
Rehearsals Day 1 LIVE: Belarus and Serbia
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 1 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 1 LIVE: Slovenia, Montenegro and Hungary
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 1 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 1 LIVE: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland and Poland
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 1 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
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: United Kingdom
The escgo! team reviews “Bigger Than Us” by Michael Rice.
Line-up check 2019: Spain
The escgo! team reviews “La venda” by Miki.
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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.
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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.
Line-up check 2021: Croatia
The escgo! team reviews “Tick-Tock” by Albina from Croatia.
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Chat Awards 2018: The winners!
From the best song at ESC 2018 to the hottest hottie of the season – presenting the winners of the annual #esc Chat Awards for 2018!
Albania kicks off the 2019 season with “Ktheju tokës”
Jonida Maliqi is the winner of Festivali i Këngës, making “Ktheju tokës” the first song in the line-up for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Junior Eurovision 2018: Poland wins in real life, Georgia wins in #esc
escgo.com and the #esc chat woke up from the off-season hibernation by gathering to watch the 2018 edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest this afternoon! And of course, it wouldn't be an #esc viewing of a Eurovision-related event without some voting, would it?...
“Fără tine” by Dora Gaitanovici wins SongHunt 2018
SongHunt 2018, our poll series to find the best non-winning national final song of the year, has come to an end – and “Fără tine” by Dora Gaitanovici, from the Romanian preselection, is the winner of the grand final!
Mea culpa: The art of being wrong about Eurovision
If people were never wrong about the Eurovision Song Contest, there’d be no point in it being a contest. Martin takes a looks at some of his biggest missteps this year…
The View from San Francisco: Lisboa – Jerusalem
Eurovision 2018 was a series of journeys for Israel, for Netta, and for Shi too. She looks at the ESC experience from an Israeli perspective – and the aftermath in the Israeli media and beyond.
A German in Lisbon: Yeah Yeah, Inflammation
Felix sums up the last few days of his Lisbon experience – including an encounter with his 2018 fave at Euroclub – and looks ahead to the grand final.