STAGGY: Review of 2020 Part III Our pundit Staggy may not have made it to Rotterdam, but he can still add his views on what we all could have seen at the Ahoy. You can see what he thought of some other songs HERE. First this time is […]
Let’s face it, for all the complaining that the Big 5 have it easy at the Eurovision Song Contest, it’s actually not so glamourous. Sure they get an automatic spot in the final, but for many years this didn’t translate into placing on the scoreboard! In this new […]
#BIRTHDAY: Tamara Todevska is 35 today A new month and we would normally be in the post-Eurovision period, and maybe suffering from post-Eurovision depression. But no Eurovision and no depression, right? So how to get over PED? Well, we can look back at those heart-warming performances, such as […]
Welcome to the start of Eurovision Ireland’s first ever A-Z of the Eurovision Song Contest. Over the next few weeks, we will be bringing you some alphabetical memories from everyone’s favourite Song Contest. As with all good A-Z’s, we start with A. Amsterdam This year, we were all […]
#STAGGY: Review of 2020 Part II Our top pundit Staggy has views on some of the 2020 crop of songs. If you missed his take on four of them, you can it HERE. He looks at four more. First he turned to Latvia’s Samanta Tīna. Maybe the official […]
#BIRTHDAY: Kenan Doğulu from Turkey is 46 today Let’s be honest – our friends in Turkey are sorely missed from our favourite TV show. They added that bit of exotica to proceedings, and were gunning for another win when they abruptly stopped coming along in 2012. Over the […]
You may have some questions about this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest and how it will be organised. Hopefully, we have answered some questions you may have had. When & Where The 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place on Sunday 29th November. TVP will hold it […]
#BIRTHDAY: Claudia Beni from Croatia is 34 today Back in the 1990s (remember them?), when that pesky new crop of countries wanted in to our favourite TV show, we always thought some of these new breed would win very soon. Just take 1994 for example, when two of […]
Daði Freyr and his band Gagnamagnið didn’t get the chance to prove they can win Eurovision 2020, but they certainly conquered the British public with their Icelandic Eurovision entry ‘Think About Things‘. Last week , Think About Things entered The Official BBC Top 100 on the 43rd position and this […]
LAST WEEK, we revealed the eleven artists that had made it through to the Final of the 2020 Junior Songfestival. Now we can reveal how the eleven artists will form the final four Acts. The final four Acts are: Robin – Soloist Jackie & Janae – Duo Demi, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Wyn Hoop from Germany is 84 today Do you ever get confused by song titles? You expect a song in a certain language because of the title, and you get something else? Songs in Serbo-Croat with English titles for example. Today’s birthday boy Wyn Hoop (né Winfried […]
STAGGY: Review of 2020 Part I Our friend Staggy has been mulling over the choices made by the broadcasters around Europe (and beyond). We normally can’t keep him quiet, but for now he insists that a picture can paint a thousand words. But what did he think of […]
Tomorrow, Norway will be commemorating the tenth anniversary of the last time they hosted the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final – Saturday 29th May 2010. NRK3 will be rebroadcasting the show tomorrow night, from 19:50 CET. This was the third time the Norwegians had hosted the Contest – […]
BIRTHDAY: Nadine Beiler from Austria is 30 today Some countries have had a patchy relationship with our favourite TV show. Take Italy for example. They took over a decade out, and have been pushing for a win since. Then there are our friends in Austria. It’s been a […]
A total of 73 million viewers from across 38 broadcasting markets viewed “Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light” on Saturday 16th May. The European Broadcasting Union did not have figures for seven of the broadcasting markets that also broadcast the show. Italy had an average of 3 million viewers, […]
We mentioned yesterday about whether certain countries could host our favourite TV show, and the headache some broadcasters may face if they ever won. The Mediterranean’s happiest rock has never hosted the big ESC, but they do have two JESCs under their belt. There are a lot of […]
The dates have been announced for when interested artists can submit their songs for Melodifestivalen 2021. The submission period will open on Monday 24th August, while closing on Wednesday 16th September. Rules are available HERE for any interested artists. Unlike many other broadcasters, SVT have chosen not to […]
Kazakhstan has no clear answers when it comes to participation at this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The Head of Delegation for Kazakhstan, Zhazira Dyussembekova, had the following to say to on the situation: “Unfortunately, right now I cannot give you a clear answer to the questions.” Like […]
#BIRTHDAY: Aliona Moon from Moldova is 31 today We know that anyone can win our favourite TV show, whether it’s that Nordic country that many fans have as their default 12 points, or whether it’s that outsider that captures the zeitgeist before sinking back into obscurity. But have […]
#BIRTHDAY: Silje Vige from Norway is 36 today Can you imagine how it feels if you’re closing a contest. And not just closing any old contest, but closing the biggest contest the world had ever seen at the time. And imaging doing all of this if you were […]
No decision on participation at this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest has yet been made by North Macedonia. MKRTV are awaiting instructions from the European Broadcasting Union. The Head of Delegation for North Macedonia, Rade Spasovski, had the following to say to on the situation: “We have not […]
The first act that will be participating in Melodifestivalen 2021, will be selected on Saturday 12th September – two weeks later than normal. P4 Nasta is a radio Contest for upcoming artists and have selected one act for Melodifestivalen every year since 2013 – the winner taking part […]
The Dutch national selection competition, Junior Songfestival, have revealed the eleven artists taking part in this year’s competition, with a hope of going to Poland in November. The eleven artists are: Demi Jackie Janae Jayda Maud Naomi Robin Teddy Thijs Thimo Tyrone The eleven artists will not be […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lena from Germany is 29 today The 2020 Eurovision season is over. Or at least would have been over, had it happened on Saturday. But birthdays go on. For some birthday at this time of year, we might still have been in a Eurovision season. Is it […]
Following the viral success of “Think About Things”, Dadi Freyr is back in lockdown with his new single – “Where We Wanna Be”. You can watch Dadi’s new single below: Author: Richard Taylor Source: Scandipop
On Saturday night during “Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light”, Warsaw was announced as the host city of this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest – however the Polish bid submitted to the Eurovision Broadcasting Union had Krakow as the host city. The President of Krakow has fallen out with […]
As the dust settles on the Eurovision that never was, many of you out there know that we here at Eurovision Ireland held our own contest of sorts via Facebook Live and that your votes declared Lithuania the winner of Eurovision 2020. But if we know Eurovision fans, […]
BIRTHDAY: Merethe Trøan from Norway is 50 today Do you remember the old days? When the contest was all done and dusted in one night, and none of these new Europeans were able to do their thing? Well 1992 was probably the last ‘old’ contest as we know […]
They weren’t due to be in Rotterdam this year and won’t be participating in Rotterdam next year – yes RTVA of Andorra have revealed that they are staying away from the party for yet another year. The RTVA press department had the following to say: “Ràdio i Televisió […]
Your votes have been counted and verified. It’s time to crown your winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020! We revealed Eurovision Ireland’s winner in a live Facebook broadcast earlier this evening. Did you miss it? Never mind, here it is again! If you want to have a […]
The RTE website have ran a poll to find the all-time favourite Irish winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. Coming out on top of the poll with 35.39% of the votes was “Rock ‘n’ Roll Kids”, performed by Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan. Relieve “Rock ‘n’ Roll Kids” […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ott Lepland from Estonia is 33 today It’s always good when a singer’s birthday comes along whose song is a personal favourite. And when it’s perhaps a Baltic song, even better. And it comes from an excellent year. Estonia has only had one win so far, but […]
#EDITORIAL: Shine a light As usual, the devoted Eurovision fan community will be picking apart what happened on the evening of Eurovision Day. Except, it was no normal Eurovision Day (is there ever?). In place of the usual riotous cavalcade of quality song, we had a pared down […]
Last night, the BBC showed “Eurovision: Come Together” as part of their Eurovision coverage for this year. The show had a vote to find their all-time favourite Eurovision Song Contest entry. Last night at the end of the show, Waterloo, ABBA, was revealed as the winner. This morning, […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and its Dutch Members NPO, NOS and AVROTROS are excited to have reached an agreement to stage the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam at the Ahoy Arena. The Dutch city was due to host the Contest this month before the event was […]
During “Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light”, further information was revealed surrounding this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest. During the show tonight, Viki Gabor, last year’s winner revealed the logo and slogan for this year’s Contest. The slogan is #MoveTheWorld – and we even have it in Polish, #RuszŚwiatem. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Can Bonomo from Turkey is 33 today It’s always sad when a country decides to sit out our favourite TV show. And today’s sad enough, when our favourite TV show isn’t actually taking place at all in its usual form. We had a now-absent country yesterday, and […]
In a series of articles during Eurovision fortnight, we are going to have a look back at our Interviews from years gone by. Today we look back at our interviews with Ryan O’Shaughnessy in 2018. At The London Eurovision Party Outside Lisbon’s Oceanarium Over Looking Lisbon Old Town […]
In a series of articles during Eurovision fortnight, we are going to have a look back at our Interviews from years gone by. Today we look back at our interviews with Sarah McTernan in 2019. At The London Eurovision Party After The First Rehearsal In Tel Aviv On […]
Here we outline the television and online coverage of all Eurovision 2020 programming for today. All times are in CET. With Australia’s timezone been so different, their programming can be seen HERE. Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light is tonight’s main even and will be broadcast live at 21:00 (on […]
Here we outline the television and radio coverage of all Eurovision 2020 programming for the weekend – especially for the UK and Ireland. All times are in GMT. Here is a list of programming in chronological order: Friday 17:40: UK – Ultimate Eurovision Winners! – MTV OMG 19:00: […]
Dear readers, Eurovision Ireland needs you! Eurovision 2020 will always be remembered as the contest that never was, but that doesn’t mean we can’t crown our own winner! You’ve voted in our polls for both Semi Final 1 and Semi Final 2 – now its time for the […]
Tomorrow night during “Eurovision: Come Together”, the British public will be asked to vote for which Eurovision song is their favourite of all time. The voting will open once all the entries are shown and will then closed as a specified time during the show – before the […]
Here we outline the television and online coverage of all Eurovision 2020 programming for today. All times are in CET. With Australia’s timezone been so different, their programming can be seen HERE. Here is a list of programming in chronological order: 16:30: UKRAINE – What Europe Is Singing About […]
Ireland’s Newstalk Radio has a day of Eurovision coverage tomorrow. Here are the highlights coming your way: Linda Martin – Breakfast, from 08:40 GMT Paul Harrington – The Pat Kenny Show Dana – The Moncrieff Show Niamh Kavanagh & Marty Whelan – Hard Shoulder Drive Time Listeners outside […]
As we won’t be getting an official Eurovision Semi Final tonight, we here at Eurovison Ireland decided to recreate the drama and suspense by revealing the results of our qualifiers poll LIVE on our Facebook page! But who joined the qualifiers from Tuesday’s 1st semi final? In case […]
The official running order for the second Semi Final, was revealed during the second edition of “Eurovision Song Celebration” tonight. Each participant was shown in the order they would’ve performed in Rotterdam. Greece would’ve opened the show, while Latvia would’ve closed the proceedings. The running order for Semi […]
The European Broadcasting Union recently launched Eurovision Home Concerts. Show seven, the final Concerts for now, will air tomorrow (Friday 15th May), on YouTube, at 17:00 CET. The week seven acts to perform are: Diodato – Italy Go_A – Ukraine Dami Im – Australia 2016 Yohanna – Iceland […]
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