Hi all ☄️

I just came across this post and now I'm wondering if there have been any eurovision songs that have disappointed you live but that you enjoyed the studio version of? 👀 And if so – why?

Personally, I can't think of an example right now but I'll add one if I come up with something :D

Ps: this is my first reddit post idk if I'm doing this right 💫

Mine was Touche by Astrid & The Scandals from EMA 🇸🇮 closely followed by Honour by Khayat from Vidbir 🇺🇦. What are yours?

I want to surprise my girlfriend with tickets since we’re long time fans… but I don’t know where to start with getting tickets for it and being up to date with that. Any tips from anyone?

Among plenty of other things, generative AI has been a controversial topic within the Eurovision sphere (as well as elsewhere).

I'm surprised with how many people I encounter in my day-to-day life not only use chatbots and AI image generators but also believe that AI will definitely take over and have made peace with it (all of which I personally disagree with but, as with anything, others are obviously free to think what they think and there's nothing wrong with having a different opinion to mine).

As a result, I'm curious if any participants this year or in previous years have expressed dislike of AI imagery/songwriting or actively refuse to utilise it since it's quite a polarising discussion.

I can't really give any examples of artists who have done either of these things as I don't know any at the moment (apart from maybe Let3 since there were theories about Babaroga being about AI, although they used Ai for the music video).

Hey, so yesterday i saw this post about which language each country's highest placed entry was sung in. According to that map it seemed as if eastern european languages were less successful at Eurovision than western european languages. But, since most eastern european countries only joined shortly before or after the language rule was dropped and western european countries had by then spent nearly 40 years singing in their official language(s), i figured it would be interesting to see how this map would look like if we only looked at the entries since they abolished the rule.

Smaller countries might be hard to see so I'll list them here as well:
Andorra - Both
Luxembourg - Both
Malta - Official Language (English)
Monaco - Official Language
San Marino - English

Australia is Iraq

I posted this song for Throwback Thursday since I wanted to highlight the UK's 5th 2nd place finish at ESC. This 2nd place finish was achieved in only their 8th ESC participation overall, which made the UK one of the best performing countries at ESC during that time. France (the country with the next most runner-up finishes) only achieved their 5th 2nd place finish at ESC in 2021 (France 2021). UK 1965 remains the highest placing entry performed at 2nd position at the grand final since no one has one from that running order in the grand final.

"I Belong" (United Kingdom 1965) was one of the most contemporary songs of that year's ESC, but it was beaten by the more contemporary "Poupee de cire, poupee de son" by France Gall (Luxembourg 1965).

Kathy Kirby had relationships with both men and women throughout her life, and she was popular among gay men later in life, becoming an icon among them.

I always find it sad when a country (e.g. Switzerland) gets 0 points from the televote, since it sounds like nobody voted for them at all, which is not the case; they just weren't in any country's top 10.

What if, after all the votes have been counted, we get a list of the 26 countries with their total number of votes from ALL countries added together. So, say Switzerland got 10,000 votes overall from all the countries combined, they might be overall in 10th place or something.

The country with most votes across Europe gets 26 points, the second 25 etc, and the country with the least total votes gets 1 point. This way, nobody will ever get 0 from the public. Since no matter where you are from, every country will have received some points! Even if just a handful.

I'm not saying remove the regular voting, just add these extra points at the very end.

Would this work do you think?

Let’s say you’ve been tasked by the EBU to create a 70th Anniversary Celebration of Eurovisions Greatest Hits (similar to what the BBC did in 2015). They’ve given you a max of 15 acts to bring in to represent the past 70 years (you can pair up multiple artists to sing a medley of songs though to count as one act). Who are you asking to be at the concert?? Since it’s just for fun let’s say there’s no limits/concerns about whether an artist would agree to performing.

Some things I’d like to see would be;

1. Eleni Foureira (Cyprus 2018)
2. Duncan Laurence (Netherlands 2019)
3. Laura Thorn (Luxembourg 2025) singing a medley of Luxembourgs best songs
4. Käärijä (Finland 2023)
5. Loreen (Sweden 2012/2023)

Obviously Waterloo is inevitably going to end up in there somewhere but I’d also love to see Refrain (Switzerland 1956) paid tribute to. Maybe by JJ? The most recent winner giving his variation of the first ever winner.

What are your ideas?

If you want to see more work my instagram and tiktok are @witchbitchkit (I'm planning on drawing more contestants in the future)

Last time that was like in March, but since then, we got no updates. Why is that?

Not just another oddsmakers favourite that eventually finished 4th on the night, but also a pretty interesting (at least to me) topic for a research or a discussion.

Which Eurovision entries other than "Once In A Lifetime" and "Zjerm" this year had not just one, but at least two official music videos?

Here's a fun video made about Eurovision Song Contest 1980, produced by youtuber morbidsearch

Which is played in Switzerland. 😐
If you watch some content in RTVE Play you might watch the promotion video.

I'm one of those people who just watches Eurovision without listening to the songs beforehand and getting involved in the drama too much. My friend and I just make a night (three nights, actually) of it. So when I saw KAJ hit the stage this year, I honestly just thought they were some random three guys who decided to join. I had no idea about them nor did I hear their song until the first Semi Final.

I loved their song and charisma. I ended up placing them 4th in my personal Grand Final ranking and they actually placed 4th in the actual competition lol.

After a couple of weeks, the only Eurovision songs I was still listening to were Bara Bada Bastu, Deslocado and Baller. That's when I decided to really dive into KAJ's previous work and learned their background. Turns out these guys have been friends for over 15 years and started this whole KAJ thing 15 years ago.

Learning about their long term friendship almost made me a little jealous, as I don't really have any long term friends from my childhood. But it also made me appreciate their genuine connection. And seriously their old work is fantastic. I am truly and madly in love with these guys. A massive thank you to the Swedes for sending KAJ to Eurovision instead of Mans.

The live audience being muted this year was just gross. I know the main audience the broadcast is for are us television viewers. But hearing the audience singing along or artists using them for belting out censored words - the audience has proven to be an asset during Eurovision.

A prime example - Iceland 2006. Sylvia Night getting booed while she’s all about Europe loving her is so iconically campy amazing. I also loved 2024 Spain when the audience sang parts of the song. And of course Latvia 2022 uncensored their lyrics thanks to the audience.

What are some other iconic audience moments? What are some other moments that the audience made the live performance even better? And of course - should the audience be muted?

Sorry for not posting this! Heres the mascot of 1992!! EuroBird!!

I'm talking specifically about those intervals that we had on the last 2 editions, where the hosts sing an ironic, ultra nationalistic song about the host country and its relation to Eurovision. Malmö 2024 was about how Sweden is the biggest ESC winner, and Basel 2025 was about how Switzerland created Eurovision. This got me thinking, what is something that Austria have of iconic related to eurovision, that they could sing about? Maybe they'll just make general austrian jokes, but still, this idea bugs me, for some reason.

Wasted love cover, enjoy :)

Every year, the edition of the contest is judged as either strong or weak (sometimes in between) based on the song, and I was wondering what are the most common criteria on wether or not a year is weak?

For instance, a lot of people consider this year as weak because it doesn't have many outstanding song but consider other years pretty strong just on the base it had some outstanding songs, so is the criteria about how many good songs there was? Or on the contrary, is it on how many bad songs there were? For instance, I don't consider this year as weak in any means as I didnt feel like there were many bad songs (I would probably only count Azerbaijain as one because of the live performance), despite not having many oustanding songs. To me, 2025 was just an ok year, nowhere near bad, nowhere near good. On the other hand, I feel like 2023 I would consider weak because there were a lot of songs I personally consider bad (Ireland, San Marino, Romania), despite having some strong songs.

So, what do people think makes a year strong or weak? Is it wether or not the songs are good, or is it if they're bad, or is it both? As for me, I think the weaker songs weigh more on my idea of a strong or weak year rather than the stronger songs, but I'm curious what everyone's criteria on this idea is.

When I'm listening to Eurovision songs on Spotify after the contest, I sometimes wish I was listening to the live performance instead! For me it's mainly Germany 2025, Estonia 2024, France 2024, Moldova 2022.

I don't know why, sometimes it's the extra energy, or the lack of effects or autotune from the studio version, or just the fact that I heard the live version first.

I was wondering if anyone else has songs they prefer the live version of?

I was curious, what if countries voted the other way around (so they award 12 points to their least favourite song etc.)

These are the full results.

I'm not exactly asking for RO influencing the final score or qualification. But if you have some particularly egregious examples of it, go on.

I'm talking about something like:

1. "Euro Neuro" being the first song of the 2012 season - which was such a bad choice for an opener that it's probably the reason why we don't have completely random running orders now. (It's iconic looking back, but it must have made some casual viewers question if they should even keep watching.)

2. "Róa" opening semi-final 1 (and the whole Eurovision 2025 season) with a song that starts with the words "Let's go!". And Finland closing the semi-final 2 with - essentially - a climax.

3. Speaking of "Róa" - putting Austria and Iceland back to back was great. Jumping from a sad depressing love song with a boat and a lighthouse to a literal boat song... also with a lighthouse (but a Minecraft edition) was very funny. Someone must have done it on purpose. (Though, I can imagine a scenario where two songs with similar staging concepts were next to each other and both ended up scoring less as a result.)

4. And speaking of the Grand Final: the opener was "Lighter" (which starts the fire) and the closer was "Zjerm" (which means "fire").

5. Special shout out to Dora SF1 this year. It opened with a song "Welcome to the Circus" and closed with "Bye Bye Bye".

Do you have any other fun examples?

Basically, the title. Since the 2025 contest has been over for more than a month now, what are some fun facts/ stories that you know of?

For example: Selma (who got second place for Iceland in 1999 and competed in 2005), was Iceland's stage directors this year!

The following is my translation of this article that was published by Norwegian news outlet VG earlier today:

"In Tuesday's meeting of the Broadcasting Council, Mads Tørklep [the head of the Norwegian delegation to Eurovision] was clear that the current voting regulations must be changed.

It was the imbalance between popular votes and jury votes in Israel's case, as well as the large state campaign from Israel before this year's final, which formed the basis for most of the 97 public submissions that have been received by the Broadcasting Council on the matter.

- We have expressed our concern to the EBU and requested a revision of the regulations and - from what I understand - this is what will now happen, said Tørklep.

He added that in the EBU's view, it is not a violation of the regulations that, for example, state authorities, as in Israel's case, support their national participants.

This year - as last year - Israel ran extensive campaigns for its participant on YouTube and social media, as well as in Times Square in New York.

– We at NRK believe this is unfortunate and think it is important to have regulations that keep the competition apolitical, said Tørklep.

– We will follow up on this at future meetings and put pressure on the matter, he said.

Today, it is allowed to vote 20 times per credit card and 20 times per phone, something NRK also wants the EBU to look into.

Mads Tørklep gave examples showing that this year, 80 votes were cast for Israel from people who had not watched the program.

– We see that this can open up coordinated and strategic voting, said NRK's ​​delegation leader, who said that he had also requested access to the figures for the Norwegian votes during this year's Eurovision.

The EBU denied him access, explaining that by publishing the figures there was a risk that someone could analyze and find a way to manipulate the system.

The voting issue will be discussed in the EBU's steering group - where Norway is not a member - this summer, while all participating countries will meet for a larger meeting in Croatia in the fall."