iOTA: ‘I Was Walking Around the house singing it, and then I knew it was the right song’

With less than 24 hours to go until Australia crowns their next Eurovision star, we spoke to multi-talented artist iOTA, who will be opening this year’s selection with a bang with his song, ‘Life.’ Who is iota? iOTA is one of the lesser known artists in the line-up this year, but in fact, he has…

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Aftermath 2019: Dutch victory shows every nation can win Eurovision

The Netherlands won the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. Their first victory since 1975. Something the Dutch celebrated hard, since they have seen the other side of the Eurovision-medal often. Duncan Laurence’s victory with ‘Arcade’ marked the fifth overall victory of The Netherlands in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. But, with three gold medals…

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Aftermath 2019: Italy a strong favourite across Jury and Televote

Since their return to the contest, Italy has remained a strong competitor at the contest, and more often than not, we see Italy somewhere within the Top 10. This year was no exception, with Mahmood finishing in 2nd place with his song, Soldi. This year Italy remained their authentic self at the contest, which led…

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Aftermath 2019: Lazarev disappointed with third place for Russia

In the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, Russia finished in third place with ‘You are the only one’ by Sergey Lazarev. The singer took part in 2019 again, and finished in third place again. A disappointment for the superstar. Lazarev specifically questioned the result of the jury vote, which made him lose the contest in 2016…

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Aftermath 2019: A renewed focus sees a strong result for Switzerland

Switzerland’s success at Eurovision is few and far between, and despite their efforts to turn their luck around, the nation often struggled to determine what would make a successful Eurovision package. With a renewed selection strategy, Switzerland proved that it was possible to turn things around after Swiss representative Luca Hänni achieved a respectable 4th…

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Aftermath 2019: Yet another top 10 result for Sweden

Sweden was one of the contenders for victory, so it was hardly a surprise that the Scandinavian country ended up in the top 10 of the Eurovision Song Contest yet again. Sweden were placed into the top 5 after issues with the dismissal of the Belarusian jury. In total they scored 241 from the professional…

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Aftermath 2019: Finally another Top 10 result for Azerbaijan

In their first six years at the Eurovision Song Contest, Azerbaijan always made it to the Top 10 of the final. But, between 2013 and 2018, the country disappeared from the left side of the table. Until Chingiz came around. The song ‘Truth’ collected 302 points in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. It finished in…

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I Entered a Fan Contest and *ALMOST* Came Last!

Can you believe that I’ve been a part of the Eurovision community for over 10 years, and yet have never entered a fan contest? It’s almost inexcusable, but recently I redeemed myself by deciding to finally dive right into one of the community’s favourite off-season activities – and this is how it went. What is…

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Eurovision 2018: The Successes and Failures of the Big 5

It has been less than a month since Eurovision ended, and as much as I have been distracting myself from Post Eurovision Depression with a binge rewatch session of previous editions, it’s time to focus back on the latest edition of Eurovision to face the music – quite literally. This year we saw a lot…

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The Aftermath: What does Israel’s win mean for the image of Eurovision?

It has been less than a month since Israel topped the table and took out their fourth Eurovision win, yet in this short amount of time, this year’s winner Netta and Israel’s win as a whole has definitely caused a stir both in the Eurovision bubble and beyond. Picked as the bookmakers favourite immediately after…

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