2000 and Whatever – Russia

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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Ultimate Eurovision 2.0 – Part 5!

You may remember our original Best of the Bunch series, which aimed to find the best Eurovision entry from each nation from the years 2006 to 2015. From that series, we created the ‘Ultimate Eurovision’ which featured the winners of each of the poll, which you can read here. Over the past year, we aimed…

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Eurovision 2019: Sergey Lazarev to return for Russia!

After many rumours surrounding his participation, it is now confirmed that former Russian representative Sergey Lazarev will return to represent Russia at this year’s contest. We last saw Sergey represent Russia back in 2016 where he represented the nation with the song ‘You Are The Only One’ which placed third with 491 points. The song…

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Best of the Bunch: The Trials – Russia

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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12 Days of Eurovision: Day 12

On the twelfth day of Eurovision… Back to Sweden we go for our last Day of Eurovision, and this time, the contest is held in the capital Stockholm. Måns Zelmerlöw took out the trophy in Vienna, and his Eurovision duties aren’t over yet, as he hosted the 2016 contest alongside Petra Mede, who hosted the…

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2016 Reviews – Russia – Sergey Lazarev – You Are The Only One

For a while now, Russia has been the favourite with the bookmakers to win Eurovision 2016 and it’s easy to see, when they are sending their best male artist with the song You Are The Only One. The song is a crowd favourite, but is it mine? Short answer, no. I’ve never found myself to…

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Russia’s Sergey becomes the Only One to Beat

Earlier in the Eurovision national final season, we reported that Sergey Lazarev would be Russia’s participant this year. Sergey is one of Russia’s biggest artists right now, and he will be taking the song You are the Only One to Eurovision this year. The song was composed by Philip Kirkorov and Dimitris Kontopoulos, who have…

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