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.
SongHunt 2020 – Heat 7
The SongHunt continues with Heat 7 – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the 2020 Eurovision season!
SongHunt 2020 – Heat 6
The SongHunt continues with Heat 6 – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the 2020 Eurovision season!
SongHunt 2020 – Heat 5
The SongHunt continues with Heat 5 – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the 2020 Eurovision season!
SongHunt 2020 – Heat 4
The SongHunt continues with Heat 4 – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the 2020 Eurovision season!
SongHunt 2020 – Heat 3
The SongHunt continues with Heat 3 – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the 2020 Eurovision season!
SongHunt 2020 – Heat 2
The SongHunt continues with Heat 2 – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the 2020 Eurovision season!
SongHunt 2020 – Heat 1
The SongHunt begins – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the 2020 Eurovision season!
The allocation draw for ESC 2020
We now know which countries will perform in which semi-final at ESC 2020 – read more!
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.
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Line-up check 2019: Italy
The escgo! team reviews “Soldi” by Mahmood.
Line-up check 2019: Israel
The escgo! team reviews “Home” by Kobi Marimi.
Line-up check 2019: Germany
The escgo! team reviews “Sister” by S!sters.
Line-up check 2019: France
The escgo! team reviews “Roi” by Bilal Hassani.
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!
Line-up check 2019: Azerbaijan
The escgo! team reviews “Truth” by Chingiz.
SongHunt 2019 – Semi-final 1
SongHunt 2019 continues with the first semi-final. The competition between the last remaining 24 songs is extremely strong – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the season!
Line-up check 2019: North Macedonia
The escgo! team reviews “Proud” by Tamara Todevska.
Line-up check 2019: Netherlands
The escgo! team reviews “Arcade” by Duncan Laurence.
Line-up check 2019: Norway
The escgo! team reviews “Spirit In The Sky” by KEiiNO.
Line-up check 2019: Albania
The escgo! team reviews “Ktheju tokës” by Jonida Maliqi.
Line-up check 2019: Russia
The escgo! team reviews “Scream” by Sergey Lazarev.
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Selected Highlights
Check out some of our favourite and most popular articles from recent years.
10 years ago! We look back at some classics from the 2011 national finals
There was no SongHunt in 2011 yet – but if there had been, these are some of the songs we’d have been enjoying there. Join us in a little retrospective!
Line-up check 2021: Norway
The escgo! team reviews “Fallen Angel” by TIX, this year’s Norwegian entry.
ChatVote 2021 season is launched!
It’s the 17th 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.
Line-up check 2021: Cyprus
The escgo! team turns its attention to “El Diablo” by Elena Tsagrinou in its latest review.
“Behöver inte dig idag” by Clara Klingenström wins SongHunt 2021!
SongHunt 2021 has concluded – and the best non-winning song of the season is “Behöver inte dig idag” by Clara Klingenström from Sweden!
Line-up check 2021: Ireland
The escgo! team reviews “Maps” by Lesley Roy, the Irish entry for Eurovision 2021!
Line-up check 2021: North Macedonia
The escgo! team reviews “Here I Stand” by Vasil.
Line-up check 2021: Australia
The escgo! team reviews “Technicolour” by Montaigne.
escgo! at Eurovision
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Gallery: The host city Lisbon
We’ve been out and about in Lisbon, surely one of the most picturesque and personality-filled Eurovision host cities. Enjoy some of our photo highlights in this gallery!
Grand final: First rehearsal tweet blog
Felix was tweeting live from the arena during this afternoon’s first dress rehearsal of the grand final of ESC 2018. This post handily rounds up all his tweets in one place!
Blue Carpet Gallery: Finalists
We attended the Blue Carpet ceremony at ESC 2018 – check out our photo gallery of the automatic finalists!
SongHunt 2018: Introducing the finalists
YOUR votes will decide the winner of SongHunt 2018 – so join us as we introduce the twelve finalists!
Gallery: Eurovision in monochrome
A collection of some of our best black and white photos from inside and outside the Eurovision 2018 arena.
A German in Lisbon: The first results (and more)
The first semi-final, party (and not-so-party) nights and more Lisbon tourism in Felix’s latest round-up of Lisbon life.
Blue Carpet Gallery: Semi-final 2
We attended the Blue Carpet ceremony at ESC 2018 – check out our photo gallery of the artists from the second semi-final!