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Best of the Bunch: Denmark

Denmark was the first Nordic nation to enter Eurovision, the year after the contest debut. They intended to join the contest in 1956, although their application missed the deadline, and as such, entered the following year. Denmark first won the country in 1963 with the song Dansevise, and since then, have had their highs and…

Best of the Bunch: Czech Republic

Czech Republic is one of the Eurovision babies of the class, with their first Eurovision performance in 2007. Since then, they’ve participated inconsistently, and not overly successfully, but regardless, some of the performances we will discuss today are favourites of ours, and maybe yours too! Today we’re going to recap the performances between 2007 and…

Best of the Bunch: Slovenia

Slovenia began their independent Eurovision journey in 1993, and their first decade of participation was actually quite successful. They received a number of top 10 results, however as soon as 2004 hit, their results became more hit and miss. Today we’re starting our Best of the Bunch journey in 2006, and continuing through to 2015,…

Best of the Bunch: Estonia

Estonia made their Eurovision debut back in 1994, although they were all set to make their debut in 1993, Estonia was made to take part in a qualification round of which they did not qualify through. In 1994, the first time taking part of the Eurovision final wasn’t all that successful, ending up in 24th…

Top 5 Crazy Costumes! Part 1 (2005 – 2008)

There’s many aspects of Eurovision, there’s the music, there’s the fanfare, there’s the staging, and then there’s the crazy costumes. Over the years, Eurovision has seen some borderline ridiculous costumes, but in the context of Eurovision, this is never a bad thing. We’ve gone back in the history books to discover some of the contests’…

Best of the Bunch: France

France have participated at Eurovision an incredible 59 times, meaning they’ve only missed out on two contests, and those were in 1974 and 1982. France was also one of the seven nations who participated in the very first contest, and since then, they have won Eurovision a very respectable five times with the most recent…

Eurovision Throwback: Sopho – Visionary Dream

By: eurovisionunion February 1, 2017July 12, 2018

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Today’s throwback takes us back to 2007, where the contest featured a record 42 nations, including 4 debuting countries. One of those was Georgia, which will be the subject of our scrutiny in today’s throwback. Georgia internally selected Sopho Khalvashi, and a national final was held to decide which song would be sung at their…

Best of the Bunch: Finland

Finland has had a long history at Eurovision, with no less than 50 appearances at the contest. Their debut was back in 1961, and since then, they have performed in the final 44 times in total. Their best result was in 2006, where they won the contest with rock band Lordi, however on the flip…

Best of the Bunch: Poland

Poland made their debut at Eurovision in 1994, and has since made 19 appearances at the contest. Out of those 19, Poland has reached the final 13 times, with their best result being in 1994 – their debut year, where they came 2nd. Since 2006, where we start our Best of the Bunch journey today,…

Best of the Bunch: Croatia

Croatia has been a part of Eurovision since 1993, and participated a total of 22 times. Out of those 22, Croatia has been in the finals a total of 17 times, making them a fairly successful Eurovision nation. You may say, ‘but most of those years didn’t feature semi-finals?’ and that’s true, most of their…