Tonight: ChatVote 2016 Semi-final 1
The new ChatVote is only a few hours away! This evening, starting at 21:00 CET, the first semi-final will be held in the #esc chat. What exactly happens tonight? In the first part of the show, we will watch the preview videos of the first semi-final of the Eurovision...
Introducing the NEW ChatVote – events over the next two weekends
The ChatVote is dead, long live the ChatVote! We wanted to create a more fun, more exciting, more immediate, more dynamic ChatVote. This was already our plan following last year's event. And now that the Eurovision voting is changing too, it's the perfect time to...
SongHunt 2016: Heat 8
The SongHunt continues - let’s find the best song from the new national final season! Throughout the last weeks, we updated our qualification list with all the chatroom scores for all of the latest national selection performances. Of all remaining eligible songs...
SongHunt 2016: Heat 7
The SongHunt continues - let’s find the best song from the new national final season! Throughout the last week, we updated our qualification list with all the chatroom scores for all of the latest national selection performances. Of all eligible songs (according to...
SongHunt 2016: Heat 6
The SongHunt continues - let’s find the best song from the new national final season! Throughout the last week, we updated our qualification list with all the chatroom scores for all of the latest national selection performances. Of all eligible songs (according to...
SongHunt 2016: Heat 5
The SongHunt continues - let’s find the best song from the new national final season! Throughout the last week, we updated our qualification list with all the chatroom scores for all of the latest national selection performances. Of all eligible songs (according to...
SongHunt 2016: Heat 4
The SongHunt continues - let’s find the best song from the new national final season! Throughout the last week, we updated our qualification list with all the chatroom scores for all of the latest national selection performances. Of all eligible songs (according to...
SongHunt 2016: Heat 3
The SongHunt continues - let’s find the best song from the new national final season! Throughout the last week, we updated our qualification list with all the chatroom scores for all of the latest national selection performances. Of all eligible songs (according to...
2016 round-up: Belarus, Spain, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark decide
Let's take a look at the countries that have selected their entry for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest since our last round-up a few weeks ago! We begin with Belarus, where Alexander Ivanov, better known by the stage name Ivan, will attempt to return the ex-Soviet...
SongHunt 2016: Heat 2
The SongHunt continues - let’s find the best song from the new national final season! Throughout the last week, we updated our qualification list with all the chatroom scores for all of the latest national selection performances. Of all eligible songs (according to...
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First Rehearsal Day in Euroclub
10:35 (Felix) We're in Euroclub and began blogging about the rehearsals in our rehearsals blog! This is the area were we can sit down at tables, and where the Meet & Greet will be held later: [singlepic id=255 w=500 float=none] And upstairs, people settled down in...
Live Rehearsals – Day 1!
A few teething problems on the first day of the Eurovision rehearsals - surely not?! Wireless access in the EuroClub is intermittent, with the support staff handing out temporary dongles to those afflicted by problems, and the viewing room for the rehearsals is a...
Blue skies as Accreditation Centre opens
09:55 (Felix) The first night in Malmö is over! My fellow editor Danny and I have been out for some drinks with friends and colleagues from other websites, and it became - at least for some of us - a quite short night. The place we've been to, you might want to mark...
Arriving in Malmö
14:09 (Felix) The first part of our esc-chat.com team has arrived in Malmö! My colleague Danny is on his way, Martin is joining us tomorrow. During my very short flight from Berlin (45 minutes), I considered leaving my luggage in a locker and going to Copenhagen...
esc-chat.com in Malmö 2013
For the 4th consecutive year, esc-chat.com is covering the Eurovision Song Contest on-site, and for the first time ever we can do this with our complete editor team! We are offering you news, blogging, rehearsal reviews, interviews and a lot more. Here’s the updating...
ESC 2013 line-up check: The southern countries
In the last episode of our introduction series, we're talking about the songs from Southern Europe (excluding the countries that we previously already covered in our Big 5 and ex-Yugoslavia articles). Looking back This is probably the most heterogenous constellation...
Things to do in and around Malmö
With some of us having only a few days left for packing and preparing for Malmö, we'd like to give you some touristy tips about what you could do if you want to escape from the press centre or your hotel room! You might want to see... ...in Malmö: Turning Torso...
esc-chat.com gets ready for Malmö!
After Oslo, Düsseldorf and Baku, we are now getting ready to cover the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö! For the first time, our on-location team will consist of more than one person: Martin, Felix and Danny will deliver you news, rehearsal liveblogs, photos,...
ESC 2013 line-up check: The ex-USSR nations
Our line-up check series is nearing its conclusion, and this time it's the turn of the countries of the former USSR - with the exception of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who came under the microscope as part of our "Eastern EU" article. Looking back With the eastern...
ESC 2013 line-up check: The “pre-1970” nations
Our line-up check series has already taken a look at the songs from the Big 5, the Nordic countries, the former Yugoslavia and the Eastern EU nations. This week, Martin turns his attention to a category we've called “pre-1970”: five countries that have been part of...
ESC 2013 line-up check: The Eastern EU countries
We have already introduced the songs from the Big 5, the Nordic Countries and the former Yugoslavia. This week, Felix is giving his first verdict on a group we are describing as the the "Eastern EU" countries: Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary and Romania. In case...
ESC 2013 line-up check: The Nordic countries
In our series introducing the entries from different groups of participating countries, we've already talked about the Big 5 and the former Yugoslavia. This time, Felix takes a closer look at the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Looking...
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“Petale” by Instinct wins SongHunt 2017
SongHunt 2017, our poll series to find the best non-winning national final song of the year, has come to an end – and “Petale” by Instinct, from the Romanian preselection, is the winner of the grand final!
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Five countries that broke new ground at ESC 2017
Martin takes a light-hearted look at some of the countries that made statistical history at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest – one way or another.
“As I Lay Me Down” by Wiktoria eliminated: Our 7th place in the SongHunt final
Today, As I Lay Me Down by Wiktoria (Swedish final) got eliminated from the SongHunt 2017 final as it had the least amount of votes by 21:00 CET. The song came 7th with a total of 10 votes, and hence has been removed from the SongHunt poll. This was the last...
“Hold On” by Nano eliminated: Our 8th place in the SongHunt final
Today, Hold On by Nano (Swedish final) got eliminated from the SongHunt 2017 final as it had the least amount of votes by 21:00 CET. The song came 8th with a total of 8 votes, and hence has been removed from the SongHunt poll. You can still vote for your remaining...
After Eurovision: No need for hibernation. Stay awake with the new escgo!
ESC 2017 is over – time for us to look back and find some last words on the 2017 season, before looking forward and giving you an update on our plans for escgo! Don’t know us yet? We’ll also show you some impressions of what we’ve done in the past years.
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