2000 and Whatever – Italy

We may not get to see our 2020 favourites take to the stage, but that doesn’t mean we can’t reminisce on our Eurovision favourites. This series is aimed to discover the team’s favourite entries from the 21st century, from 2001 to 2019. In collaboration with ESCDaily, we will be reviewing some of their 21st Century…

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Former Eurovision and National Final stars perform at Radio Italia Live!

The Italians are no strangers to live concerts and festivals, and with Summer in full swing, some of Italy’s best musicians have recently performed in a concert of epic proportions. Radio Italia Live featured two dates recently, the first in Milan on the 27th of May, while the second was on the 29th of June…

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RAI announces full line-up for Sanremo 2019!

Eurovision news is coming in hot, and the next nation to announce their national final line-up is Italy! The Festival di Sanremo is a national tradition, and has more recently been used to determine who will represent Italy at Eurovision. This year there has been a format change to Sanremo with the competition comprising of…

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Eurovision Union’s November Playlist!

Throughout 2017, we enjoyed creating weekly playlists featuring songs from Eurovision and national final stars, new and old. This year, instead of (im)patiently waiting for artists to release new music each week, we’ve decided to focus on new music on a monthly basis. We’ve selected songs that have been released on Spotify this month, and…

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Eurovision Union’s May Playlist

Throughout 2017, we enjoyed creating weekly playlists featuring songs from Eurovision and national final stars, new and old. This year, instead of (im)patiently waiting for artists to release new music each week, we’ve decided to focus on new music on a monthly basis. We’ve selected songs that have been released on Spotify this month, and…

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Top 5 Third Place Eurovision Songs

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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Eurovision Union’s Weekly Playlist (38/52)

Each week, we’ve been creating specially curated playlists featuring some of our favourite songs from Eurovision and National final stars, new and old! In this week’s playlist we’ve featured some past songs from Eurovision performers we’ve been enjoying this week and we’ve also got some newer tracks from former national final artists! Listen to the…

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Eurovision Union’s Weekly Playlist (20/52)

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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Italian News and Italian Tunes!

There’s some serious talent coming from Italy, and we’re not just talking about the upcoming favourite to win Eurovision 2017, Francesco Gabbani. Although we can’t dismiss Francesco’s work, including his recently released album which we will be discussing, we also have to talk about some of the new releases from some of our favourite Italian…

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Best of the Bunch: Italy

Italy was one of the original countries to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, and they have fairly consistently participated since then, up until 1998, where they took a pretty extended break from the contest. They returned to the contest in 2011, so that’s where we will pick up today. Usually in the Best of…

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