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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

Meet Eurovision’s most law-abiding outlaw

After performing five songs over recent days, Waylon has confirmed the one he'll take to Lisbon is 'Outlaw in 'em'. Waylon previously represented the Netherlands...

Si, Fuego … those Cypriots are at it again

....no, not remaking the Renault car of the 1980's, but burning us all with the song "Fuego" (it's Spanish for Fire don't you know) The...
Diogo Piçarra

Sounds familiar – not at Eurovision

There are those who suggest you can tell a Eurovision song a mile off. They'd go so far as to suggest they all sound...

Are we dancers? No, we’re humans … if you’re Romanian

So, after FIVE semi finals in various weird and wonderful locations around Romania - including an actual salt mine - a professional jury and...

Sevak Khanagyan bags Armenian Eurovision job

Armenia will send its first entirely non-English entry to the Eurovision Song Contest this year. Sevak Khanagyan was declared the winner of Depi Evratesil 2018 with...

Rice rice baby … Has Latvia sent a tasty dish …...

She seriously can't be called Laura Rizzotto, can she? Apparently that is her real name and she's from that often under-utilised demographic of "Latvian-Brazilian"...

A Dal – From deep in the bowels of hell

As Roy D Hacksaw would say, death to juries, as they nearly didn't get the winner through to the superfinal, where the public voted...

Vidbir 2018 – Ukraine sends Melatonin? – no. Melovin

Well it wasn't like anyone could see this coming - the favourite all along has obliged in Ukraine with Mélovin winning the televote by...

EMA 2018 result… televote winner not winning shocker

Schlagerskandal in EMA 2018, it seems. The televote winner, Boyband BQL, lost out to the jury winner Lea Sirk by ten votes. Death to Juries...

Moldovan Result with full jury and televote scores

After a very early start and a very early and slightly chaotic finish, the result of the Moldovan final is now shown below. DoReDos won...