Articles discussing Eurovision’s history and its relevance today can be found in this section. These can range from interviews with former contestants to examinations of promotional materials.
Since 2009, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has included a hybrid system of both international jurors and televoters to calculate the results. From 2016 onwards the split in the jury and televote result has been presented as a part of the results, however in the years before that this was not the case. This means …
1997: Split Eurovision Results All In One Place! Read More »
Technical Difficulties “I don’t know… searching the internet” Amazon Alexa Everything Wrong With The Eurovision Stage ‘Sun’ Won’t Rotate It sounded like beauty, it sounded like grace but that muckle sun is stuck in its place! One of the most ‘iconic’ and anticipated features of the Eurovision stage this year was the beautiful rotating sun …
Alexa? How to Build A Eurovision Stage That won’t Disintegrate? Read More »
Hello again, this site has been so quiet! I do apologise but there has been a lot going on in life, just in general. Eurovision never sleeps though and there is much to talk about. Today though the participants picked internally by broadcasters are beginning to be announced (finally) so it makes a lot of …
Eurovision Internal Selections – When They Come They Come Fast And Furious Read More »
By now most of you probably know that the Montenegrin broadcaster Radio Televizija Crne Gore (RTCG) has confirmed their Eurovision 2022 participation. This follows a planned absence in 2020 which was continued into the 2021 edition in Rotterdam. This is great news for us all, as a country with a long Eurovision tradition returns to …
Welcoming Montenegro Back To Eurovision With (Surprising?) Data Of Course! Read More »
Since 2009, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has included a hybrid system of both international jurors and televoters to calculate the results. From 2016 onwards the split in the jury and televote result has been presented as a part of the results, however in the years before that this was not the case. This means …
2018: Split Eurovision Results All In One Place! Read More »
Whilst the contest originates from a time when radio broadcasting was much more accessible to mass audiences than the television was, visual appearance has always played a factor at Eurovision. Every contest was televised (though the televised versions of 1956 & 1964 are now lost) giving everyone an incentive to look and perform their very …
Props: A Brief History Of The Many Unusual Accessories At Eurovision Read More »
The official Eurovision YouTube channel has been posting videos for a number of years now and like all channels of a certain size, these videos have triggered a mixture of reactions. Previously on this site, we explored the most watched Eurovision entries on the channel, which maybe told us about the audience the channel is …
Eurovision YouTube – The Most Notable And Notorious Videos Read More »
Knowing which Eurovision song is the most popular is a complex question. Do you consider physical sales, digital sales, streaming, radio plays etc? Factor in that some songs have had 60 years of time to spread or originated in countries with significantly larger populations than others and even the notion of even understanding why these …
Discover The Surprising Most Watched Eurovision Songs Read More »
Eurovision 2022 season finally feels like it is starting now that Belgium has announced Jérémie Makiese as their Eurovision representative, this being even before we know the host city. However, countries have been declaring their participation (or lack thereof) in the contest for a while now and speculation as to who is competing is as …
Theoretically Which Countries Can We Expect To Appear In Eurovision? Read More »
Since 2009, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has included a hybrid system of both international jurors and televoters to calculate the results. From 2016 onwards the split in the jury and televote result has been presented as a part of the results, however in the years before that this was not the case. This means …
2017: Split Eurovision Results All In One Place! Read More »