For Ukraine it’s the 11th participation this year, and the country can already look back on quite a successful history in the Contest, with Ruslana’s win in 2004 (Wild Dances), two second places (Ani Lorak, Verka Serduchka) and three more top ten placings (Tina Karol, Alyosha and Mika Newton). Now …

Our showcase of the 39 entries to the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest starts off with Estonia this year. As usual, the order of presentation was determined by a random draw (except for the host country Sweden). When 24-year-old singer Birgit Õigemeel won the Estonian national final ‘Eesti Laul’ on 2nd …

This coming weekend, Saturday 13 April, the biggest Eurovision preview event ‘Eurovision in Concert’ will take place for the fifth time in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It’s a unique opportunity to see most of the participants of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest perform their entries live on stage. Presently, 26 acts have …

Last week, on occasion of the German national final for Eurovision Malmö 2013, we had the opportunity to meet up with the 2012 Contest winner Loreen from Sweden to hand over the ESC Radio Award trophies. In the listeners’ poll, held last June after the Contest in Baku, Sweden’s Eurovision …

All across Europe the national selections for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest are well underway. Switzerland started the season in October, Lithuania, Albania, Belarus, Ukraine and Belgium followed. Meanwhile most other countries are busy preparing for the big event in Malmö, Sweden, in May. As usual at this time of …

After an enthralling countdown which had started in the morning at 11:00 CET, the winner was announced during the last half hour of the year. For the first time ever, the present Eurovision Song Contest winner went straight to the top of the list: Sweden’s Loreen, who won the 2012 …