In 1984 Italian broadcaster (RAI) didn’t go with the Sanremo contest to pick their Eurovision entry. Instead they internally selected two very successful Italian solo acts, Alice Visconti and Franco Battiato, duetting together on the song, I Treni Di Tozeur. Read more
The EBU announced today that 41 countries will take part in the Eurovision Song Contest when the world’s biggest live music event returns next year. Read more
Bulgaria were appearing at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010 for the sixth time, having only managed to qualify for the final once, in 2007. They were hoping to do better, when they sent one of their bigger stars, Miroslav Kostadinov, better know by his stage name, Miro. Read more
With the American chart topper ‘Fly Robin Fly’ in the bag, then the Canadian number one, ‘Get Up And Boogie’, as a follow up, no way Germany weren’t going to win the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977 with Silver Convention. Read more
There aren’t many years in which a Eurovision Diva goes on to have a very successful career, yet 1988 was able to produce two. One was Celine Dion, who won for Switzerland, and the other was Lara Fabian, a Belgian representing Luxembourg. Read more
The Roop have signed a deal with Warner Music Group one of the biggest labels in the world. The group who were supposed to represent Lithuania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with ‘On Fire’, are now on fire as part of this major deal. Read more
It was way back in 1998, when Sweden last sent a song to Eurovision, sung in the native language. The song was ‘Kärleken Är’, performed by Jill Johnson, as a sort of tribute to the recently deceased Princess Diana. Read more
In 1972, the United Kingdom broadcaster (BBC) commissioned the first group to represent them at the Eurovision Song Contest. Not just any group, though, they picked the chart topping quintet, the New Seekers, who recorded the million selling single, ‘I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing’. Read more
Having just had a number 11 hit on the British charts with ‘Call It Love’, the odds were in Deuce’s favour that their follow up song would stand a good chance of representing the United Kingdom at Eurovision 1995. Things didn’t work out that way, but did the Brits make the right choice that year? Read more
It took five attempts, but perseverance paid off for Lithuania’s Ieva Zasimauskaitė when finally in 2018 she won the right to represent her country at the Eurovision Song Contest. For some Eurovision fans, this was a song they needed to grow into. Read more
In 2011 one country was drawn in the semi final, where they could choose where they would appear in the running order. Poland was that country and the Head of Delegation decided they would like to perform first. Thus Magdalena Tul with her song ‘Jestem’, opened the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Read more
Having won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1971 with Severine and ‘Un Banc, Une Arbre, Une Rue’, Monaco tried their luck again with French singer, Marie in 1973 with a similar topic in ‘Un Train Qui Part’. Read more
Latvia, unfortunately have not had great success at Eurovision, and after failing to qualify two years in a row, the country sent one of their upcoming biggest bands, Musiqq to give it a go in 2011 with ‘Angel In Disguise’. Read more
It’s perhaps a little unfair to title this article, Eurovision 1981, as this was in fact the last and fourth time, Peter, Sue and Marc represented Switzerland. However we are discussing ‘Io Senza Te’, their Italian language entry from 1981. Read more
Armenia got of to a great start at Eurovision after debuting in 2006. They began with an unbroken run of finishing within the top 10. This success continued through to 2010, when Eva Rivas finished in 7th place with Apricot Stone. Read more
‘If Not For You’ and ‘Banks Of The Ohio’ were just two of the songs that had turned Olivia Newton-John into a chart regular, when she was asked to represent The United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974. Read more
In 2008, Germany chose what had once been a popular girl band to represent them at the Eurovision Song Contest. No Angels were picked to sing the song ‘Disappear’, but unfortunately it all went horribly wrong. The band ended up sharing the least amount of points with Poland and The United Kingdom. Read more
In 2016 Donny Montell represented Lithuania at the Eurovision Song Contest for the second time. The song was ‘I’ve Been Waiting For This Night’. By finishing in ninth place he gave the country their second and, to date most recent finish in the Top 10. Read more
The Eurovision Song Contest 2020 should have seen the return of the third artist to represent San Marino multiple times, but due to the coronavirus crisis, for Senhit it was not to be. Senhit last represented San Marino in 2011 when, known as Senit, she sadly missed the finals with the song Stand By. Not… Read more
Two semi finals of Eesti Laul were held on 13 and 15 February 2020. On February 29, Uku Suviste won the final, and was supposed to represent Estonia at this years Eurovision Song Contest. Read more
KEiiNO, Norway’s 2019 Eurovision entrants have finally released their debut album, OKTA today. To celebrate its launch the band performed a live concert in honour of the occasion. Read more
All good things must come to an end and sadly, this week meant the last week for Eurovision Home Concerts. This was the seventh week Eurovision artists, past and present performed Eurovision hits from their homes. Read more
Today’s bumper show of Eurovision Home Concerts featured no less than 13 acts from the present and past. They came with one aim – to entertain us with their Eurovision entry and a past classic – and entertain us they did Read more
Like all the 2020 Eurovision acts, Russia’s LITTLE Big should now have been in Rotterdam rehearsing for next weeks semi finals. So since that’s not happening they have released a new video for the song ‘Hypnodancer’. Read more
This year, a backing group from the prior year’s contest should have been stepping upfront on the Eurovision stage, albeit with one member less. Yes we are talking about The Mamas from Sweden. Read more
Probably no-one is feeling the pain of Eurovision 2020 being cancelled more than Destiny Chukunyere, who would have sung ‘All Of My Love’ in Rotterdam next week, representing Malta. Read more