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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

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 27 – Latvia

The keen-eyed among you will have worked out that this should have been part 26 but hey, that's life! Now if you are named after...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 38 – Serbia

Here we go again – Balkan Ballad mark 2 from everyone’s favourite Balkan county.  I don’t know what it is with these types of...

Lithuania – When on earth …

... did they get very very good. The first thing that we have to say is LOSE THE GRAPHICS. You'll understand when you see this,...

Switzerland – Build them up and watch them fall

Just for context here, I said in my review of this song: "And then the lyric reminds me of words randomly thrown together in a...

Netherlands – Everyone’s got a little WTF in them?

Dear AVROTROS. Waylon had a perfectly serviceable song. He could have sung this on his own in faux cowboy gear and a stetson with...

Ukraine – vampires are alive … again

Ukraine brings the semi finals to a close. And it’s a confusing close. Melovin is lying down, looking like he’s strapped into some contraption...

Portugal – Not Fado but Fad-ish

There are two schools of thought on this. Mine is that this song is a 2:38 moan by one girl about the other girl's dead...

Germany: too much swirl

It’s all go this morning, so I only saw half of Germany, again. It’s too busy for me. They’ve brought their own projection backdrop...

Here are the Slovenian EMA Eurovision songs

It's been drip-drip-drip over in Slovenia as RTVSLO revealed four songs every few days, teasing us Eurofans ahead of their national final, the 2018...

As predicted, It wasn’t the end for Israel

In a move that has stunned absolutely no one that bothers to look at these kind of things, the new Israeli broadcaster KAN *will*...