It’s the place you want to be if you’re not first or second, it’s of course third. Not every song can win the Eurovision Song Contest, although we wish sometimes we could have multiple winners in the same year, but coming third is a pretty extraordinary effort considering in recent contests there have been 40+…
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We’ve reached that time of year, where we finally have all the songs, and the fandom battles it out with their opinions of who should win Eurovision. We’ve been doing some prediction polls over the national final season, and we have to admit, the predictions have been on the money, so we want to see…
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Running on a high from their 3rd place in last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the pressure was on for Moldova to continue their success in this year’s contest. This year the broadcaster decided to continue with their process of O Melodie Pentru Europa, however this year the competition featured only one televised final, rather than…
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Seeing an artist to return to the Eurovision stage is not a new concept. In fact, by the second ever Eurovision Song Contest in 1957, there were already two returning artists, Corry Brokken for The Netherlands, and previous winner Lys Assia for Switzerland. Over the history of the contest, artists have returned to the Eurovision…
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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 ÅŸi 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…
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Arguably, one of Moldova’s most memorable Eurovision moments (amongst some of the most outrageous) would have to be Epic Sax Guy, who first made his appearance on international television screens in 2010 as part of Sunstroke Project. This year, we are lucky enough to be graced with the presence of the meme-worthy Epic Sax Guy…
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The Moldovan national final took place last night, where the top 8 acts chosen the previous night in the semi-final performed again, with the winner earning the right to represent Moldova at Eurovision this year. The winner was chosen through a voting split of 50/50 jury and televote. During the show, last year’s participant Lidia…
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Last night, the first and only semi-final in Moldova took place, with the top 14 songs being cut down to eight. The results of this O Melodie Pentru Europa semi-final were decided through a combination of both jury votes and televoting, with four songs qualifying through the jury and four through televoting. Here are the…
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Things are really heating up in the Eurovision world, with the last few weekends being packed with national selection shows. We also had quite a few internal selectees early on in the Eurovision season who have yet to release their Eurovision entries, but as time starts to run out, we can expect to see an…
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They’re dropping like flies in Moldova, with the announcement that Boris Covali will also be withdrawing from the Moldovan national final. This is the third act that has left before the show has even began, after Constantin Cobilean and Irina Kit were both withdrawn. Boris was due to compete in the national final with the…
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