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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

Ryan O'Shaughnessy

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 23 – Ireland

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Monty goes to Saara Aalto’s Eurovision Wonderland

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Estonia and Bulgaria to finish us off

Elina and that frock and that voice doing everything you would expect of them with this. Piercingly on point vocals and, for an opera...

UFFFFFF!!

It’s a crusty old ‘bom dia’ today Oneurope as we stagger into the shed by the Tagus on day three with hangovers after a...

Poland: the music lights me up but I’d prefer not to...

Poland is up next. I do like this song, but it’s just not right on stage. They’ve done what they can to take some...

Israel have performed a miracle on that

The Israeli team has literally polished a turd. This really was substandard on Monday, and served to confirm all my conscious bias towards 'Toy'....

Eurovision 2018 – Day seven – highlights and low points

Today was the last 'big day' of rehearsals - tomorrow it's a half day with the Big Five and Portugal. In a week's time,...

Aisel scores a place at Eurovision

The 2018 Eurovision Song Contest is still well over 4000 hours away, but already Azerbaijan have named their singer. 'Sultry' voiced Aisel Mammadova will perform for...

Hungary – Results of Heat One now live

Below are the results of the first A Dal heat of 2018.  The scores were gained by the 4 jurors and the average score...

Eleni Foureira finally reaches Eurovision stage

Everything comes to she who waits. It's especially true for Greek singer Eleni Foureira, who after complaining of being snubbed by her own state...