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2018

The 2018 Eurovision Song Contest was the 63rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place for the first time in Lisbon, Portugal, following the country’s first victory at the 2017 contest in Kiev, with the song “Amar pelos dois”, performed by Salvador Sobral.

The contest comprised two semi-finals on 8 and 10 May, and a final on 12 May 2018 in the Altice Arena, Lisbon.
The winner of the 2018 Eurovision
The winner was Netta with ‘Toy’ representing Israel, who as she picked up her award, declare ‘Next year in Jerusalem.’ That prompted various outcries and a few suggestions of boycott, plus general talk of how it’s going to be a security nightmare and such.

See the full results from the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest

Sony reveals Australian Eurovision hand to ‘tragic’ fans

Sony Music has named the song that will represent Australia at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, as Jessica Mauboy brands Eurovision fans 'tragic'. The global...
Rice rice baby

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Latvia

'Funny Girl' sounds like one of those duff tracks from a rubbish musical with input from Richard Stilgoe. If you're a fan of Eastenders...
Melovin

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Ukraine

Flat is my chosen word to describe Melovin's performance. Style-wise he looks to have tumbled through an 80s new romantic time warp and landed...
Greece

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 18 – GREECE

Oneiro Mou by Yianna Terzi Well, this is very Greek. Perhaps surprisingly so, given their last very Greek entry broke their until then perfect qualification...
Gromee featuring Lukas Meijer

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 34 – Poland

Poland usually picks something eclectic for this contest. In recent years, we've had milkmaids and a long haired man that hoovered up televotes, but...

Iceland’s sweet saccharin sugar rush

Ari - from your real land of icebergs - next up and he’s joined by five backing singers and no piano or instruments, despite...

Austria – ain’t nobody but Cesar

It’s Austria now, time to have a good old ogle at lovely Cesar Sampson. Steady myself! It’s not even midday yet, and I’m all...

Eurovision semi-final 1 gets the Hacksaw treatment

So we know what the great and good of the Eurovision press corps thinks about all the songs. But what of the thoughts of...

Latvia: funny girl, scarlet woman

I’m just nonplussed by everything about this one. It’s not a style of music I enjoy, so it’s one that’s kind of passed me...

Swiss siblings

Switzerland up next, and another one that has their show sorted. Coco has her blocking sorted and now throws herself with gusto into this....