Arguments in Israel about who should transfer a 12 million Euro guarantee to EBU, has now reached a level where Israeli politicians are getting involved. Monday, Minister of Finance Moshe Kahlo, urged the broadcaster to pay immediately. Read more
A poor low budget Danish final, songs about Mae West and Louis Armstrong that was clearly beaten by curly hair. Only one year away from finding its right format, Danish broadcaster saved a lot of money on the 1981 national final. So much that it became depressing to watch. Read more
She came third representing Greece in 2008, and this year, Kalomira was offered to return to the Eurovision Song Contest. She however said no to celebrate her anniversary with one more participation. Her no, led to a scandalous selection of the Greek entry. Read more
Vlatko Ilievski was found dead in his car this morning. The police is now looking into what caused the death of the 33 year old singer, who represented FYR Macedonia at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. Read more
At the Greek MAD Video Music Awards, Mikolas Josef will be in Athens to perform together with well known former Greek national finalist Tamta. They will be singing Mikolas’ Eurovision entry, which secured Czech Republic their best Eurovision result ever. Read more
2016 Cypriot Eurovision participants are tying their knots to Denmark even closer. This afternoon, they announced that they signed with the Danish label Mighty Music, which already have a former Danish participant in their catalogue. Read more
Speakers on loud, and one particular Norwegian national final entry on repeat for at least 100 times. That was one of the tasks, Norwegian police was called out for this weekend. Read more
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Laura Rizotto knows the language, the coulture and the music of Brazil. She has just released a cover version of an icon local love song – to celebrate the Brazilian Valentine’s Day. Read more
A lot of Danes have bought the official album with all 43 acts from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The individual tracks however are performing poorly. Only Denmark’s own Rasmussen made the Danish charts. Read more
A noble dressed man, carrying a nice bag, is said to go around delegation hotels to exchange jury points. Mainly delegations from “serious countries” are approached. Deals are made, yet not always lived up to. Read more
Were they really the worst dressed act this year? The fans have spoken and yes, they were – as today they was awarded with the Bababra Dex award. It is not known which part of the two stage outfits people found worst. Read more
If you are suffering from Post Eurovision Depression, don’t worry too much. You are not the only one – and there are ways as to how you can overcome it, without the use of medicine. Read more
This year’s German Eurovision act can be used to remind the younger generation, and it’s politicians, in Denmark, that their support for the Danish minority in Germany is still important. An expert thinks it is needed – and that Michael Schulte is the perfect ambassador for it. Read more
All week we have been hearing from Saara Aalto that she is the person who can’t break away from second place. In Saturday night’s Eurovision final, Saara kept that tradition, only this time it was second last. Read more
TV viewers across the world, the audience in the arena in Lisbon and everyone in the press centre – a lot of people were shocked as a stage jumper took SuRie’s microphone on stage – but none more than SuRie. She received the biggest applause from the audience for pulling through. Read more
We have a winner! After an intense voting, where the jury voting started with six different 12 point’s, finally Netta was crowned the winner of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. Next year, we’ll all be heading to Israel. Read more
In 2010, Jimmy Jump climbed stage during the Spanish performance. This evening, United Kingdom’s participant, SuRie was grabbed during her performance. It’s a tragedy for the Eurovision Song Contest, but the singer received a lot of support from fans and press. Read more
Tonight, the winner of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest will be crowned. Who has what it takes to take home the trophy? How have the current top 5 developed in odds during these two Eurovision weeks. Read more
Can you predict the winner based on the order in which the countries are voting? We have the full list for the 2018 Grand Final for you here. The list of spokespeople include a number of familiar Eurovision names. Read more
Half of the votes for the final were cast Friday evening. Juries across Europe and Australia gave their votes. Tomorrow, we’ll know the winner as the public voting is added to the final result. Who will win the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest? Read more
Eurovision predictions can be hard. Did you tonight do better than the professional bookmakers who were off with three countries in the first semi-final? Did you also beat our team of “experts”? Read more
Ukraine will open, while Italy ends the party. The producers have now made the running order for Saturday’s final, and EBU’s Reference Group approved it. Some will now be more than satisfied. Others however might struggle to put on a positive attitude. Read more
Dropped a bit, but still high in odds, favourite Alexander Rybak will perform in first half alongside Ukraine, while Sweden and Moldova both are in the second half. In a couple of hours full running order is expected. Read more
For the first time ever Russia and Romania failed to qualify for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. Ukraine and Australia are now the only countries still to have a perfect strike. Read more
As expected, all three Scandinavian countries qualified for the final, but eight other countries however leave the competition with unfulfilled ambitions. With the ten qualifiers from tonight, we are now waiting for the final running order to come in a couple of hours. Read more
Half of the votes for tomorrow’s second semi-final were cast this evening as juries across Europe and Australia watched the show, and voted. Their votes will now be added to the TV ones coming from the TV viewers tomorrow evening to make the final result. Read more