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Best of the Bunch: Romania

Romania first debuted at Eurovision in 1994, and incredibly, the nation has managed to appear in every single final for each year they have participated in since their debut. The nation hasn’t participated every year since their debut however, missing out on 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001 and most recently in 2016, where the nation was…

Best of the Bunch: Iceland

Iceland has now participated in Eurovision 30 times, with their debut year 1986. Since their participation, the northern nation has missed only two contests and they’ve come 2nd twice (one of which we’ll be discussing today). Today we’ll be beginning our Best of the Bunch journey in 2006 and continuing on until 2015 (to keep…

Best of the Bunch: San Marino

I would have liked to have said San Marino is one of the smallest, but most successful nations in Eurovision, but this really couldn’t be further from the truth. Despite the fact that the nation has only qualified to the final once in a total of 8 attempts (including the most recent in Kyiv), there…

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…

Best of the Bunch: Latvia

Latvia is one of Eurovision’s newer nations, as they made their debut in 2000. They have since participated in 17 contests, and reached 10 finals. Even in their short time in Eurovision (short in the context of the history of Eurovision), they have managed to win the contest in 2002 with Marie N and the song…