‘Only Teardrops’ topping the European charts
Eurovision winner Emmelie de Forest enjoys great success around Europe with her winning entry ‘Only Teardrops’. The song is topping the iTunes charts in several countries as can be seen […]
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Sweden: SVT reveals jury voting results
Swedish broadcaster SVT has revealed how their jury voted in Eurovision this year. The jury consisted of Ralf Gyllenhammar, Erik Rapp, Daniel Breitholtz, Karin Gunnarsson and Monika Starck. Below you find the results of jury voting […]
New voting system confuses
The way how the jury votes and televotes are combined changed a little bit this year. Unlike in previous years, this time the juries ranked all the songs instead of […]
Viewing figures from around Europe
How many people tuned in to watch the final of Eurovision Song Contest 2013? Stats from broadcasters will be gathered below as soon as available. EBU will announce combined viewing […]
EBU investigates: Did Azerbaijan buy votes?
A Lithuanian news site 15min.lt discovered how some Russian speaking men tried to offer money and SIM cards for students to make sure they would vote for Azerbaijan at Eurovision […]
Emmelie wins also in Australia
Australia has voted! The Saturday’s Grand Final was shown on SBS this afternoon European time and the local viewers could vote for their favorites online. Each user was able to […]
A record-breaking number of viewers in Netherlands
Thanks to Anouk, some five million people tuned in to watch the final of Eurovision Song Contest in Netherlands last night. Average of 4,8 million viewers followed the show with […]
Finland: Submission period for UMK 2014 already open
We have barely survived the 2013 season when the first country already announces its plans for 2014. The Finnish broadcasting company Yle has opened the submission period for Uuden Musiikin […]
DR pleased to get to host Eurovision Song Contest 2014
We have hardly finished the 2013 season but the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest news keep coming already now. The Danish broadcaster DR is very pleased to get to host next […]
Semi-Final results revealed!
Right after the Eurovision 2013 final the European Broadcasting Union revealed the exact results of the two semi-finals, held on Tuesday and Thursday. As always, so far we only knew […]
Denmark wins Eurovision Song Contest 2013!
The 58th Eurovision Song Contest culminated tonight in Malmö, Sweden where 26 finalists competed for the victory. But because there can only be one (or once four) winners, this year […]
Greece gets the Australian 12 points in second semi-final
Yesterday, on Friday the Australian broadcaster SBS aired the first semi-final on its channel. Today it was time for second semi-final and the Australians could vote for their favorites online […]
Jury votes are in – voting order determined
National juries in 39 participating countries have now voted for their favorites after seeing last night’s dress rehearsal. The order in which each country will announce their points was made […]
Eurovision Song Contest 2013 culminates in Malmö!
The 2013 Eurovision season comes to an end late tonight when Malmö Arena hosts the big final featuring 26 songs. Over 60 million people are watching Sweden tonight and after […]
Grand Final interval act leaves no one cold
The music event of the year will take place tonight and SVT has prepared a real show for over 60 million people watching the contest worldwide. Everything between dancing meatballs, […]
Print out your scorecard for the grand final!
Now that we know all the 26 finalists and their running order, we have prepared a scorecard for Saturday’s show. You can give points from 1 to 10 (or whatever you […]
Australia votes: Denmark wins SF 1 followed by Montenegro and Ireland!
The Australians get to enjoy all the Eurovision shows as the local broadcaster SBS has broadcasted the show already for 30 years now! This weekend, both semi-finals and the final […]
Running order for the final determined!
The producers of this year’s song contest have determined the running order for the final, just a few hours after last night’s second semi-final. The order was approved by the […]
Grand Final halves are clear
The qualified artists had a press conference right after the show. The artists were drawn into the first or second half of Saturday’s final. The exact running order will be […]
We have the finalists!
Another night full of Eurovision cliches that we all love is over. 17 countries competed for the very last ten spots left in the final. As usual, the qualifiers were […]
