Rehearsals Day 3 LIVE: Moldova, Romania, and Denmark
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 3 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
Rehearsals Day 3 LIVE: Armenia, Ireland, Latvia and Switzerland
Check out our live blog from the press centre and Day 3 of the rehearsals for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest!
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!
SongHunt 2019 – Semi-final 2
SongHunt 2019 continues with the second 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!
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!
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SongHunt 2019 – 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 season!
Five things that still annoy me about the German final
Felix may be a fan of this year’s German entry by S!sters, but that doesn’t make him any less critical of the German final. Here are his five things that ARD needs to get right next time!
Mahmood, Cinderella, and a fairytale with a happy ending
OK, happy end! It’s not just a line from a classic Eurovision performance – it’s the reality of Mahmood’s Sanremo journey. Shi takes a look at why the Cinderella story is so enduring and how it has parallels in our ESC world.
SongHunt 2019 – 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 season!
Weekend round-up: Joci Pápai, jury politics and ginormous props
Entries from Germany, Ukraine, Hungary, Denmark and Lithuania joined the ESC 2019 line-up this weekend. Let Martin talk you through all the Friday and Saturday night action!
Comment: Wait, what has Germany actually done?
Felix is shocked by the negative reactions to S!sters’ victory in the German final. But should he be getting all defensive about it? Some personal reflections on an unexpected fan experience.
A confident result: It’s S!sters for Germany!
Causing headaches for typographers all around the continent, the duo S!sters (NB. not actually sisters) won tonight’s German final with the song “Sister”.
Weekend round-up: From Estonia to Ester Peony
Estonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Latvia and Romania all added their songs to ESC 2019 on this Super Saturday (and sleepy Sunday) weekend. Find out what we’ll be hearing in May with our weekend Eurovision national final round-up!
SongHunt 2019 – 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 season!
SongHunt 2019 – 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 season!
Weekend round-up: The UK, Australia and Montenegro have decided – and Italy too?
From Salford on Friday night to Sanremo in the early hours of Sunday morning, here’s your weekend round-up of what’s been happening in the world of the ESC 2019 national finals!
SongHunt 2019 – Heat 1
The SongHunt begins – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the season!
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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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Rolling the dice: How the running order for ESC 2018 might look
While we wait for the producers to determine the running order of the semi-finals, Martin engages in a bit of idle speculation about what they might be thinking…
Seven more internal selections complete the line-up for ESC 2018
As the submission deadline approached, Austria, Ireland, Israel, Russia, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Georgia all presented their internally selected entries for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. Here’s our round-up!
Stockholm in March, then… and now?
There are national finals. And then there's Melodifestivalen. Whether you like it or not, there's no doubt that the Swedish preselection is - by far - the most popular and most talked-about national final format that exists in our Eurovision world. It's as polarising...
Ingrosso, Ieva and a familiar violinist complete the national final season
It's hard to believe it, but it's true: we've reached the end of another national final season. And for once, Sweden wasn't the last country to select its entry - but more about that later. Saturday night saw what has become a frequent occurrence, namely the schedule...
The ABC of ESC: Australia, Belgium and Croatia present their songs
As the deadline approaches, more and more countries are revealing their internally selected entries for ESC 2018. See what Australia, Belgium and Croatia have in store for us!
Weekend round-up: Saara, San Marino and a soaring soprano
The last big Super Saturday of the 2018 national final season has been and gone. Join us and dive into the entries that joined the battle for the ESC crown this weekend!
What a weekend! Seven countries choose their songs for Lisbon
In an incredibly busy weekend, Ukraine, Moldova, Slovenia, Hungary, Latvia, Armenia and Romania all selected their entries for ESC 2018. Join us as we round up all the action!