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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

Estonia’s songs have been quietly pushed out

With no warning, our chums at Estonian broadcaster ERR have previewed the semi finalists for this year's Eesti Laul.  We've blatantly lifted them from...

And news from the good old UK of Stuff

The BBC has provided us with the below press release for the UK Final, Eurovision: Your Decision, on 7th February announcing the songs and...

Danish Final 2018 – DMGP results are now in. Rasmussen...

We've finally got the results of the Danish national final, Melodi Grand Prix 2018.  The result is shown below.  Remember there were two rounds...

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...

Mo’s Eurovision Countdown 2018 – Austria

Austria have followed the Bulgarian example and gone knocking on the doors of Symphonix International. And it shows. Last year, the team produced something that...
Albania at Eurovision

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 1 – ALBANIA

Mall by Eugent Bushpepa My fellow OnEuropeans may be well ahead of me in Counting Down this year, but here I am - the original...
Israel at Eurovision

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 22 – ISRAEL

Toy by Netta I last spoke to you about Ireland, a Eurovision nation whose approach seems stuck in the past. In contrast, Israel’s couldn’t be...

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 42 – UKRAINE

Under The Ladder by Mélovin “The project MELOVIN started in Odesa in 2012. The name comes from a combination of the holiday Halloween and the...

Will you still show us Tel Aviv?

Netta brings her Toys (plural) to the stage - two tall cabinets chock full of golden Chinese waving cats to be precise, oh and...

My Irish dream shattered (possibly)

Ooh Ireland! What have you done? My favourite song of the year and you’ve tried to be too ambitious. Ryan starts well enough, looking...