This week, Jamala released a video to accompany her new single release, 'Solo'.  She has said about the song that  "for some “Solo” is nearly an anthem for feminism; for someone else, it is a story of saying goodbye; and, for others, it is a saga of a strong…

"In collaboration with artists of 12 nationalities, Mikolas Josef, the most streamed Czech musician of all time, publishes his latest summer hit - Acapella.
In the song, you will hear the voices of two other singers - American singer Frankie J (known for…

Fresh off the controversy which involved the display of Palestinian flags during the Tel Aviv voting portion of Eurovision 2019 which allegedly lead to El Al airport agents assigning Einar, Clemens and Matthias the worst seats on their outbound flight - Hatari…

Like all good predictive models, we need to take a look and assess the accuracy of our ESCplus predictions so we can go back and recalibrate if necessary.  Let's take a look at how well it fared for the 2019 season:Semi-final 1 - May 14, 20197/10This is somewhat…

Today Ranina, one of the most ambitious productions by the Georgian public broadcaster GPB, will hold its final with three candidates aiming to represent their nation in Gliwice - Silesia. The show, which will last approximately one hour, will be hosted by…

The annual tradition of the Barbara Dex award is traditionally seen as a way to recognize the act who is the worst dressed onstage at Eurovision. This year, the honors have gone to Conan from Portugal in his performance of 'Telemovies'
The full top 5:Portugal…

AVROTROS has revealed the date of the Junior Songfestival 2019 final. The broadcaster will select the next Dutch representative from a live show that will take place on 28 September.
The Netherlands' preparations for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019…

This year's Eurovision attracted 182 million viewers across 40 television markets.
This year's Grand Final managed to increase the overall share of the audience from Lisbon's 2018 event by about one percentage point.  This means that around 36.7% of the TV…

As the Eurovision Song Contest sets its course for the Netherlands fans have already started to speculate around which city will host the event next year. Today, the Dutch broadcasters have officially commenced the process for competing for the hosting duties.Next…

How powerful is Eurovision? A new study done by Pornhub.com hints that the annual song competition is so fixating that distinct trends can be seen in the site's traffic during the hours of the live broadcast.Traffic levels on the site were down as much as…

You'll soon be able to own the official DVD of this year's Eurovision Song Contest.  The DVD featuring all the performances from Tel Aviv, Israel will be available for purchase on June 21st.
The multi-disc DVD package will include coverage of the Semi-Finals…

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The stand-in rehearsals allow the producers of the show to test camera angles, lighting effects and other technical elements required by the delegations. These rehearsals take place ahead of the Eurovision weeks following the instructions of each country.…

The ESCplus artist spotlight keeps you up to date on artists in the national final / Eurovision community.It's summer 2019 and Norway's Keiino have just prevailed as the Eurovision televote winners - a great outcome for Norway. This makes me think that the…

After two unsuccessful attempts to reach the Eurovision Grand Final with well-known artists, the Finnish broadcaster has announced the return of an open selection process to choose the national hopeful for 2020.UMK and YleX will produce the two upcoming seasons…

Saraa Alto's single, 'Dance Like Nobody's Watching' has been selected by the London Pride committee as their official anthem for this year's festivities.
The song was selected in part due to the powerful lyrics of support.
Dance like nobody's watchingNobody's…

Junior Eurovision 2018 entrants Roksana Węgiel and Daniel Yastremski have dropped their first collaboration single, Nie Zmienisz Mnie, composed by Juliusz Kamil and Roman Kolodko. Roksana represented Poland in Minsk with the song Anyone I Want To Be, which…

After 180 million plus viewers watched Eurovision from Tel Aviv around the world, and countless others picking up clips and articles - it is safe to say there are many gawkers into the Eurovision spectacle every year that will do nothing more than forget…