We could foresee the future with this year’s Barbara Dex Award, and so it comes as no surprise that the Montenegrin superstar Slavko has come out on top. He may not have qualified to the Eurovision Grand Final (much to our dismay), but it was only natural that he wins something other than a place…
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It’s been a week since Eurovision 2017 concluded, and like many other Eurovision fans, we’re down in the dumps with PED: Post Eurovision Depression. We’re pushing through the PED with an in-depth analysis of the contest, starting today with our thoughts on what worked this year. The Opening and Interval Acts Over the years, we’ve…
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Each week, Eurovision Union is dedicated to bring you a specially curated playlist featuring a whole bunch of our favourite songs from this week, from both national final and Eurovision stars new and old. This week we’ve got a mixed bag of new songs from former Eurovision stars, along with some national final treasures. Listen…
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International audiences were first introduced to Israeli performer Harel Skaat back in 2010, when he was selected to represent his nation at Eurovision. His song Milim was heartfelt, but yet powerful, and remains as one of our favourite Eurovision entries of all time. Aside from his Eurovision appearance, Harel has released an impressive collection of…
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve been rediscovering the hidden gems of Eurovision – the songs that didn’t qualify to the final, but we love them anyway. It was an interesting year in 2011, a lot of memorable songs in amongst the group, but today we’re putting the spotlight back on our five favourites that…
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She was the hot favourite to win the Polish National Final in 2016 with her pop-tastic song Cool Me Down, however came a close second after the eventual winner Michał Szpak. Margaret, the young Polish artist is now back with a new titled What You Do, and it’s set to make just as much as…
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It hasn’t even been a week since Eurovision ended, and already we have confirmation from Portuguese broadcaster RTP that the contest will be heading to the Portuguese capital Lisbon. This opportunity has been 53 years in the making, and their eagerness is already clear! This is a stark contrast to the somewhat disorganised process of…
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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…
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The Barbara Dex Award has been an annual award given to the Eurovision star who is deemed as the ‘worst dressed.’ It was named after Barbara Dex, who represented Belgium back in 1993 with a self-sewn dress, which safe to say didn’t look too crash hot. We love a crazy costume or two, so much…
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Over the last week, Eurovision fans have seen months of preparation all come to fruition with two incredible semi-finals, and then of course, the decider – the Grand Final. As you know, there can only be one winner, and that winner was unaimously decided upon by televoters and juries this year, which doesn’t always happen.…
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