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Best of the Bunch: Belgium

Belgium was one of the seven nations to participate in the first ever Eurovision Song Contest, and incredibly, since then, have participated at all but three contests. Also quite incredibly, the nation has only won the contest once, and that was in 1986 when Sandra Kim performed the song J’aime la Vie, and she was…

Best of the Bunch: Austria

Austria has participated at Eurovision an incredible 50 times, and 46 of those times they’ve found themselves in the final – whether that’s by automatic qualification, or due to their talent, beating other acts through the semi-finals. Today we’ll be looking back on the entries between 2007 and 2015, and after we recap, it will…

Best of the Bunch: United Kingdom

If you’ve only recently found yourself getting into Eurovision, you’d probably think of the UK as an unsuccessful Eurovision nation – and you’re not all that wrong – in recent years, the UK has struggled to get results worth bragging about, however through the early days of Eurovision, the nation was a powerhouse at Eurovision,…

Best of the Bunch: Russia

They’re one of the most successful nations to participate in Eurovision, with a total of nine Top 5 results since their debut in 1994. Many of those Top 5 places happened during the years 2006 to 2015, which is the range of years we will be discussing in today’s Best of the Bunch! We’re going…

Best of the Bunch: Montenegro

Previous to 2007, Montenegro participated in Eurovision as part of Serbia and Montenegro, so from 2007 onwards, Montenegro (and Serbia) were on their own, left to fend for themselves. Serbia set the bar pretty high, winning the contest on their debut independent year of 2007, however Montenegro hasn’t had the same luck over the years…

Best of the Bunch: Hungary

Hungary first made their debut at Eurovision in 1994 – well, their first entry would have been in 1993, however at the time, a special qualification round was used for the former Eastern Bloc countries and as you might guess, Hungary failed to qualify, and as such, their first actual Eurovision entry was 1994. Funnily…

Best of the Bunch: Moldova

The subject of this week’s Best of the Bunch is Moldova, a nation relatively new to Eurovision. They first made their debut in 2005 with Zdob şi Zdub, an act we will be discussing today although their later entry. The nation has had a mixed history at Eurovision, with some fairly respectable results over the…

Best of the Bunch: Ukraine

Ukraine first made their debut at Eurovision in 2003, and since their first appearance, they’ve won the contest an incredible two times, and quite consistently finished in the Top 10, if not the Top 5. They’ve missed one contest since their debut, which was 2015, which as part of our Best of the Bunch series…

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…