Since this year’s Eurovision winner Ukraine was deemed unable to host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest and EBU turned their focus in the United Kingdom to take over the hosting honours, many cities across the country have shown interest in the task. Bristol is the latest addition to the list, with an offering they describe… Read more
If you ask the bookmakers, it’s pretty clear who will win the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest. Ukraine is topping with a 32% predicted chance of winning. They are followed by host country Italy along with Sweden battling for second and third place. Read more
Jeangu Macrooy represented The Netherlands at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Birth of a new Age’. But his career in music started, together with his twin brother, a full decade earlier. Read more
It’s time to crunch the numbers and dig further down into the result of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. The full result has just been revealed, and it shows quite some interesting details about the two semi-finals. Read more
Daði og Gagnamagnið’s worst nightmare seems to have come true. After one of the on-stage performers has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, they unfortunately had to withdraw from performing live at the Eurovision Song Contest. Before travelling to Rotterdam, every delegation had to record a so-called live-on-tape performance of their song. These recordings would… Read more
A skydiving parachutist and a mix of many musical influences didn’t score Georgia all that many points in 2014. Their song, for better or worse, remains hard to forget among Eurovision fans. Read more
It’s a theme everyone can relate to; Best Friends. The four 13 and 14 year old girls brings friendship from a children perspective to the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. ‘Best Friends’ is what Junior Eurovision should be about. Read more
An international jury that went against the wishes of the local population, and a song that today is appreciated by almost our entire panel of Eurovision fans. Whatever happened to ‘Eighties Coming Back’ in 2003 remains a mystery, for Estonia it marked the start of a dark period in their Eurovision history. Read more
He stood out in 2003, and today, 17 years later, Alf Poier still stands out. He finished 6th, but asking Eurovision fans, it’s clear that this song isn’t understood and appreciated that much now. Read more
Forty-seven years ago, this song hopelessly flopped at the Eurovision Song Contest, reaching a mere 14th place. It was deemed old-fashioned already then. And yet it has lasted all those years, and many Dutchmen would remember it much better than more recent songs. Read more
The new Eurovision Song Contest movie is fully packed with impossibilities, plot holes and clear rule violations, but yet extremely enjoyable. If you never heard of the contest, here’s your guide to what they didn’t get right, when writing the script for Eurovision Song Contest: The story of Fire Saga. Read more
We’re wrapping up our 2020 discussion series with Jeangu Macrooy, who was set to represent host country the Netherlands in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. But in response to the COVID-19 situation, this wasn’t meant to be. Over the past weeks, the EuroVisionary team has been revisiting the would-be entries. In this last edition we’re… Read more
It’s decided; all songs selected for the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest will not be eligible for it’s replacement in 2021. The EBU however does intend to honour the songs in some way of form with an alternative show, and their online platforms. Read more
Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen has advised that all public events with an audience over 1000 is to be held without audience or postponed. Kristina Sindberg, senior press and event adviser in charge of DMGP 2020 confirmed that this affects the Danish final. Read more
The Moldovan public has spoken and decided that Natalia Gordienco will represent the country at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. Earlier, a professional jury picked 20 songs out of 36, and tonight that field was reduced to just the winning song: Prison. Read more
Slovenia decided! It’s up to Ana Soklič to try bring the country honour in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in a few months. With a 7th place as best result, Slovenia is hoping to crawl higher up the scoreboard this year. Read more
Tonight, in Armenia 12 acts fought for the honour of representing their country at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The target for the winner is clear: First bring the country back into the final, and second, try to secure their first victory. Read more
Rotterdam celebrates as Amsterdam joins The Hague, Leeuwarden and Breda and officially announces that they will not be able to host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Read more
An 11th place to United Kingdom scored in 2011 helps them leave four countries behind them in the list of the worst scoring countries the past ten years. Only twice in the final and an 18th place as best result, San Marino however really needs to improve for the next decade. Read more
With two victories and another five songs in top 5, Sweden is best performing country this past decade. Russia comes in as second. We take a look at how each country have done the past ten editions of the Eurovision Song Contest. Read more
EBU did most likely not mess up the televoting results from the Italian broadcaster, nor was RAI completely wrong. We can now been explain what we feel confident about lays behind the apparent difference. Read more
Did you also enjoy this year’s interval act, where former Eurovision acts performed each other’s songs? 2015 Eurovision winner Måns Zelmerlöw performed Eleni Foureira’s “Fuego”, which finished second last year. Read more
It’s time to crunch the numbers. The full result for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest has just been revealed, and it shows quite some interesting details regarding the two semi-finals. Read more
The year was 2003 when I visited the Eurovision host city for the very first time. I was so proud of my press accreditation, and my family couldn’t really relate to what I was doing in Riga. A total of seventeen Eurovision I’ve attended so far, including one Junior. After all those years, I was… Read more
Beating nine other contestants, Anna Odobescu won tonight the national final in Moldova and thus will represent the country in Tel Aviv, Israel in May. Several well known names entertained in tonight’s show. Read more
Dora returned with a spectacular and interesting final this year. Eventually, Roko Blažević was crowned the winner. His dream will come true, as he’ll represent Croatia in in Tel Aviv. Read more