Through our Best of the Bunch series, we gave a recap on the Eurovision entries from 2006 to 2015 and gave you the opportunity to choose your Best of the Bunch. As you may remember, the current Best of the Bunch winners were put into our ‘Ultimate Eurovision’ but it’s time to see which of…
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Throughout 2017, Eurovision Union was dedicated in bringing you Weekly Playlists with new music from Eurovision and National Final stars, new and old, as well as stars we’d love to see at Eurovision one day! We made so many musical discoveries, and through 2018, we want to share with you which songs we’ve been loving!…
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We’re up to Day 3 here in the press centre for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and over the last two days we’ve seen all 19 competing acts in the first semi-final take to the stage for their first rehearsals. Today, we’ve got the first half of the second semi-final, starting with Norway and ending…
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After the drama of Russia’s participation in last year’s contest, it was nice to see the country return drama free, or at least as drama free as Russia can be. We were meant to see Julia Samoylova take to the stage last year, but as we all know, Russia withdrew from the competition last minute.…
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We’re in peak Eurovision pre-party season, and in the coming weeks we’ve got quite a few of the parties taking place across Europe including the Moscow Eurovision Party. Last year, the party was cancelled following Russia’s withdrawal from the contest, but it’s back this year, and we have the confirmed participants! The party will take…
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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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After a drama filled 2017 for Russia’s Eurovision efforts, the nation is back, and as we know it will be Julia Samoylova who will finally get her chance to sing on the Eurovision stage. It’s been a while since she was announced as their 2018 representative, and we’ve been patiently waiting for her song, and…
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What’s Eurovision without a bit of controversy, and last year, the big source of Euro-drama came from the host nation Ukraine and their neighbours Russia. We saw Russia select Yulia Samoylova to represent them in Ukraine, however it was soon revealed that she would be banned from entering the host nation due to her ‘illegal’…
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It is not until mistakes are made, that lessons are learnt, and that’s been the case with the European Broadcasting Union in 2017, with the issues surrounding Ukraine hosting the contest, and Russia’s place within the competition. As a result of these issues, the EBU has announced some changes to the rules in order to…
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A few weeks back, we reported that the Ukrainian broadcaster confirmed that the Russian participant Julia Samoylova would be banned from entering the country for Eurovision. As we previously reported, the Ukrainian Government has banned Russian artists who support the 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula by banning them from entering the country. As this…
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