BIRTHDAY: Loreen from Sweden is 36 today Hang onto your hats, your gloves, your scarves. It’s Sweden. Yes, again. You might be getting tired of the country of the blue-and-gold flag, but with a lot of singers there are a lot of birthdays. Every year, another website has […]
EUROVISION: Loreen is top of the pops In its annual chart of the favourite songs of 2018, Euphoria has been revealed by ESC Radio as Number One. This is the seventh consecutive year Loreen’s winner from 2012 has placed first. The runner-up was Fuego by Eleni Foureira, mirroring […]
One of the best things about Eurovision is that it moves every year – so not only does every contest give you another set of songs to enjoy, but it also gives you a brand new host city to explore and fall in love with! But just how […]
What makes a winning Eurovision song? This is the million dollar question and Ivan Yates from Newstalk Radio speaks to the man who has been part of Eurovision for many years plus he gave us Dustin The Turkey back in 2008. Bill Hughes – Award Winning TV and […]
Loreen took us higher and higher, all the way uh-uh-uh-uh-uppp with Euphoria – but Eurovision Ireland’s James and Bogdan took the cable car instead! Running along the waterfront outside the Altice Arena, the Telecabina Lisboa (sometimes also called Teleférico do Parque das Nações) opened for tourists during Expo 1998 […]
Yesterday, our friends at ESC Radio showed off their annual countdown, to find the favourite songs of 2017. In what proved no surprise, Euphoria by Loreen won again for the sixth consecutive year. As you know, she won the 2012 Contest in Baku for Sweden. The full […]
Some of you may recall that last year I published a best and worst at Eurovision article for every country that was taking part in Eurovision 2016 with the exception of Australia who were only competing for the second time. So this year I will publish one for […]
This morning it was revealed via Facebook live the running ordere in the four semi-finals for Sweden’s most watched show, Melodifestivalen. A total of 2,478 songs were submitted for this year’s competition to SVT but only 28 songs made it into the semi-finals. The running order is as […]
Well, dear readers, if you’re anything like me you too will be completely surprised (and delighted!) by the news from Sweden this morning. The lineup for Melodifestivalen 2017 has been revealed by broadcaster SVT and there are a number of surprises in there for Eurovision fans. Charlotte Perrelli, twice […]
For all Eurovision fans, the 2017 season well and truly started this week as Cyprus became the first country to announce their singer for the contest next May in Kyiv! 27 year old Hovig has the great honor and responsibility to represent Cyprus. His song, which will be […]