Line-up check 2015: Belgium
In the last ten years, Belgium has only qualified for the final on two occasions, in 2010 and 2013. Indeed, it has only achieved one single top five placing (Sanomi, 2nd place in 2003) since winning with Sandra Kim in 1986. This year, it's RTBF's turn again to select...
Line-up check 2015: Belarus
Belarus is often one of the earliest countries to select its Eurovision entry, and the national final staging - and the quality of the webstream! - isn't always the best. Coupled with the local producers' propensity for changing the selected song after the...
SongHunt 2015: Quarter-final 1
[introduction and detailed rules] | [SongHunt explained in 90 seconds] | [results page] The SongHunt continues – let’s find the best song from this national final season! This is quarter-final 1, featuring 12 randomly allocated songs that qualified from the heats...
Line-up check 2015: Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan has still only a short history in Eurovision. However, it's a very successful one: Seven participations so far, of which six resulted in a top 10 placement, including one victory. It was only at their latest ESC appearance, in Copenhagen last year, that...
Line-up check 2015: Austria
It still feels strange to be writing it, and it's going to feel even stranger when we're actually in Vienna, but here goes: It's time to take a look at the home entry that will be representing Austria. After it won the Eurovision Song Contest. Still crazy, right? But...
Line-up check 2015: Australia
It was the breaking news of the season: Australia will compete at the Eurovision Song Contest. Allegedly this will be a unique occasion, but nevertheless, this headline caused some controversial debates among Eurovision circles, including the justified question: Will...
Line-up check 2015: Armenia
This time last year, I was writing about Armenia as the bookmaker's favourite for victory in ESC 2014. What a difference a year makes: This year's entry from the Caucasian nation would be flying completely under the radar if it wasn't for the controversy surrounding...
Line-up check 2015: Albania
Albania hasn't reached the final since 2012, when Rona Nishliu achieved a remarkable 5th place, the best result for the country to date. Albania has been in the contest since 2004, and has always used its traditional Festivali i Këngës as its national selection...
Running order for ESC 2015 semi-finals revealed!
Today, the producers of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest revealed the running order for the semi-finals. As in the past two years, the order of performance was determined not by a random draw, but by the producers themselves with the approval of the EBU's Executive...
SongHunt 2015: Heat 12 – The Last Chance
[introduction and detailed rules] | [SongHunt explained in 90 seconds] | [results page] The SongHunt continues – let’s find the best song from the new national final season! This week, the last of the 12 heats before the quarter-finals, features the 8 highest...
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SongHunt 2017: Full results
The full qualification list for SongHunt 2017 based on our votes in the chat, plus an overview of the heats and later rounds.
SongHunt 2017: Introducing the Last Chance Poll
In addition to the usual method of determining the participants based on votes in our chat, each of the eight heats of SongHunt 2017 will include the current two most popular songs from this rolling poll, i.e. the songs with the most cumulative votes in the Last Chance poll when the new SongHunt heat is created.
SongHunt 2017 begins – here’s what’s new!
escgo! proudly announces the launch of SongHunt 2017! The first heat will be launched on Sunday 29 January - and the brand new Last Chance poll is already underway! It's the third season of our annual poll marathon aimed at finding the best national final song of the...
Chat Awards 2016 – The winners!
On Sunday night, the 2016 edition of the escgo! Chat Awards were held in our #esc chatroom. This fun annual event attracted a healthy audience of chatters, all of whom got the opportunity to vote on the nominees in various categories as we honoured our favourites from...
“Helpless” by The Hardkiss wins SongHunt 2016
SongHunt 2016, our poll marathon to find the best national final song of the year, has come to an end: “Helpless” by The Hardkiss, from the Ukrainian final, has won the grand final! “History” from Norway ended up in 2nd place, followed by “Don't Worry” from Sweden in...
Final Post-Mortem: The View from San Francisco
Well, well, Sweden. What can I say. I know a lot of fans complain about your attempt to take over the Eurovision world, but I have to hand it to you – you are bloody good at it. That was some show. I needed a few days to work out everything in my head. I have to admit...
“1944”: Ukraine wins Eurovision Song Contest 2016
Ukraine's entrant Jamala has won the 61st Eurovision Song Contest with the song “1944“, the country's second victory in the competition after Ruslana's "Wild Dances" in 2004. The winner scored a total of 534 points, followed by jury favourite Australia in second place...
The Final Countdown: The View from San Francisco
It’s here! It’s here! It’s finally here! And what better way is there to spend the time between now and Te Deum than going through the finalists for some thoughts, comments and personal wishes? This time I consulted with my friend, the Eurovision sorter, and made a...
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