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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.
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!
Interview: Hannah (video)
EurovisionNews: Impressions from the Euroclub press facilities
6 May 2013 | 1st rehearsal day - friends and colleagues from other media talk about their first impressions of the Euroclub press facilities - Natália Kelly shares her impressions from the stage.
Interview: Birgit Õigemeel (video)
Interview: Natália Kelly (video)
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...
ESC 2013 line-up check: The former Yugoslavia
Following last week's article on the Big 5, esc-chat.com's series introducing and giving a verdict on the ESC 2013 entries continues with the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Martin takes a look at the prospects for Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and...
ESC 2013 line-up check: The Big 5
It's hard to divide ESC countries in groups, let alone groups of the same size, but we've done it anyway. In the first edition of esc-chat.com's new series introducing and giving a verdict on the ESC 2013 entries, Editor-in-Chief Felix takes a look at the Big 5:...
Eurovision 2012 – Our voting analysis
So a few weeks have passed since Sweden won the 57th Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Euphoria", and Loreen has gone on to enjoy a big pan-European hit with the track - something that can only be seen as great news for ESC generally. While we're waiting for the...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Final Few Days
Hello again! Apologies for the delay in this post, we didn't have much time in Baku on the last few days to write an article as things were manic with blogging the first dress rehearsal of the final as well as various other things - Baku certainly came alive on the...
Euphoria: Sweden wins ESC 2012
Congratulations to Sweden! Europe went euphoric as Loreen won the 57th Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan. She got a total of 372 points, 365 more than the other extreme of the scoreboard - which was occupied by Norway. The winner's closest neighbour and its...
ESC Final: Our editors’ prediction
The Eurovision final 2012 is just around the corner, so us three editors came together to make one final prediction each - a top ten and a bottom three. At the end of the article we'll take a look at our consensus as usual. We did pretty well in the semi-finals, with...
Happy Eurovision Day!
If we put all the highest holidays and birthdays together, we still don't reach the importance that Eurovision Day has, do we? And now, the biggest day of the year has arrived once again. In about 12 hours, we will know where to book our flights to next year. We will...
Should’ve Had A Flutter, or: Our guide to betting on ESC 2012
The betting market for the Eurovision Song Contest is big business. Whereas 10 or 20 years ago, it was really only the physical betting shops in the UK and Ireland that took much of an interest in our favourite music competition, nowadays there are literally dozens of...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Wednesday and Thursday
Hello from Bakooo! We didn't manage to blog yesterday about Wednesday as we had a bit of a lie in on Thursday. Wednesday was spent in the Press Centre watching the first dress rehearsal of the second semi-final, which you can read again here. We then went to EuroClub...
First Dress Rehearsal FINAL – LIVE!
Hello all! Welcome to the LIVE blog of the first dress rehearsal of the GRAND FINAL! Stay tuned to this page for all the goss on what's happening in the Crystal Hall! Since I've already blogged the semis, I will only comment on changes or how I feel the song fits in...
Semi-final 2: Qualifiers and final draw!
Tonight saw the second semi-final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was arguably a harder semi to call than the first one, resulting in a few fairly major casualties - most notably, the feared Balkan domination failed to materialise, with...



