Today, the 2024 Summer Olympics continue and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. We will be celebrating the best of Eurovision participating countries, ranked by their gold medal success at the Summer Olympics, up to and including Tokyo 2020. Australia rank 10th overall – 164 […]
#BIRTHDAY: Agnete from Norway is 30 today Eurovision is tough. All the fans can be quick to judge sometimes, and many happily say they do/don’t like a specific song. But it can be stressful for the performers, who give it their all. In 2016, today’s birthday girl Agnete […]
#BIRTHDAY: Gabriela Gunčíková from Czechia is 31 today Our friends in the Czech Republic have had an interesting time in our favourite TV show. As we know, the semi-finals are bloodbaths, and getting out of them can be tricky. In their first three attempts, the Czechs accrued 10 […]
#BIRTHDAY: Amir from France is 40 today Do you ever get caught up in the storms of interest that surround some songs? A momentum builds behind [insert song here] and people think it just has to show up to win. The fan community can sometimes get it very […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lidia Isac from Moldova is 31 today Which country would like to see win the contest for the first time? And would you go there if they did? Several countries are gunning for it. Let’s take Moldova for example. Not always a ‘fashionable’ country, but with some […]
#BIRTHDAY: Francesca Michielin from Italy is 29 today We all know that one of the Big Five (at least) is really gunning for its next win. Year after year it generally out-performs the other four with its results. And when it does win, it will be another glorious […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ana Rucner from Bosnia and Herzegovina is 41 today It would be good to see certain countries come back to our favourite TV show. Not just those micro-states, but there are some larger ones that did well in the past, but now sit on the sidelines. It […]
#BIRTHDAY: Poli Genova from Bulgaria is 37 today The fan community can be a big mover and shaker in what sinks and what doesn’t at a Eurovision. They can use their cunning and guile, and occasionally influence what the televoters of Europe can vote for. Obviously, it’s not […]
#BIRTHDAY: Justs from Latvia is 29 today It’s always a tough ask, when you take part in the contest the year after your country does well. This might be because your country won, or could just be because your country had a really good result the previous year. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Kaliopi from North Macedonia is 57 today We often talk about those that take part in our favourite TV show over and over again. And also we talk about those trailblazers. Well, today we have someone who fulfils both criteria. Back in 1996, you’ll know that there […]