It’s fairly quiet in the Eurovision world at the moment, so we thought we’d take a moment to reflect what has happened so far to prepare us for the 2018 contest. The biggest piece of news so far would have to be the host city announcement, and if you didn’t yet know, the contest is…
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It seems like only yesterday that it was announced that there would be an addition to the Eurovision family of events, but yet somehow it’s already here! It’s the eve of the first Eurovision Choir of the Year, and it’s safe to say that here at Eurovision Union we’re excited to see how it will…
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France finally hit the jackpot in 2016 with Amir, a fresh artist with an incredibly catchy song, and finally they hit the top 10 for the first time since Patricia Kaas in 2009. This year, they internally selected their artist and song once again, and it will be Alma performing the now bilingual version of…
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For many across Europe and the world, Eurovision is a show we fondly watch through our television screens. This year in France, Eurovision will be hitting the silver screens, specifically the Grand Final which France will be participating in as part of the Big 5. The cinema experience came from the hope to revive the…
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A while back, Alma was announced as the next French representative for Eurovision in 2017 with the song Requiem, which was originally released entirely in French. There were reports that the song would be revamped to be bilingual, and now the official bilingual version has been released alongside the reworked official video. The song has…
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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…
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As part of the Eurovision rules, each nation can have a maximum of 6 people on stage. Some acts use that to their advantage, featuring backing singers, dancers, or having a complete band on stage. Other times, nations may choose to present their acts as soloists on stage to focus on the talent within that…
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Exciting news from France overnight, where the representative who will follow on from Amir has now been chosen. After his success for France in 2016, the French broadcasters France 2 and France 4 have joined forces to internally select the act who will represent France in Kyiv. They have decided that an upcoming young artist…
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On the eleventh day of Eurovision… We’re inching closer to the end of our journey, but before it ends, we make a stop off at Vienna, where the 60th Eurovision Song Contest took place after Conchita Wurst’s win the previous year. This was the second time Austria had hosted the competition, with the previous time…
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We don’t have to travel far to our next destination, it’s just over the bridge! We’ve gone from Malmö to Copenhagen, after Emmelie de Forest’s win in 2013. This was the third time that Denmark have hosted the contest, with the more recent time back in 2001. The hosts of the show were Lise Rønne, Nikolaj…
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