We originally thought FYR Macedonia wouldn’t be joining the Eurovision party this year, but by some sort of Eurovision miracle, they were back on the list and we couldn’t be happier to see them strut their stuff on the Eurovision stage once again. Last year the nation really stepped up their game with the song…
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As the most successful nation in Eurovision history, it certainly doesn’t show if you look back at the recent history of Ireland at Eurovision. The nation has failed to qualify since 2013, and even their 2013 result nothing to boast about, finishing last in the final. With Sweden catching up to their 7 win record,…
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Bulgaria have been on a mission over the last three years to turn around their Eurovision results, and successfully so. The once unsuccessful nation have once again promised a ‘winning’ Eurovision song, hoping to improve on their 4th place in 2016, then 2nd place last year, but have they delivered on their promise? We really…
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This year, France held arguably one of the best national selections of the 2018 Eurovision season, with a range of songs all of incredible quality. It was hard to even pick a winner, the songs were although diverse but all really quite good. Most if not all the songs in the final would have been…
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Earlier in the Eurovision national selection season, Malta held their national final to decide who would represent the island nation at Eurovision this year, and quite unanimously the jury and the televoters decided that it would finally be Christabelle’s turn to take on Eurovision with her song Taboo. It’s not her first attempt at representing…
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It’s always an interesting dynamic when a song very early gets labelled a favourite. You get the hard-core fandom rooting for the song, adamantly claiming it’s a definite winner. Then you get the sceptics who claim it’s all just a phase. Italy this year has fallen into that trap, being labelled as a winner quite…
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There’s a lot of pressure as a host nation. For many nations, you’d want to be selecting a song and artist capable of giving the host nation at least a Top 10 position, but not so good that it will win for that nation two years in a row. In more recent Eurovision history, it…
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Estonia is a mixed bag when it comes to Eurovision, with some great results, and some not so great results. Since 2009, they’ve been in the final all but three times, which is not bad at all, and some of those qualifying songs cracked the Top 10 in the final. This year, two former Eurovision…
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Lithuania definitely has to win the award for the longest national final, with a process that lasted for about 3 months longer than it should have. Despite that, at the end, we managed to get a Eurovision song out of Lithuania, and they made the interesting decision to pick Fusedmarc with the song Rain of…
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Switzerland have two varieties of Eurovision acts. Sometimes, well most of the time (recently) they’ve picked shockers. Songs that just don’t make an impact on audiences, and as such don’t get the votes. The other variety is the surprise package, a la Sebalter, where the song is kinda out there, but gains this fan favourite…
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