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Loreen wins Eurovision for Sweden! Written by on May 26, 2012 | 11 Comments

Sweden has won the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Best guess is we’re all off to the Globen and Stockholm for May 18th 2013. We’ll see you there!

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British Academy (BAFTA) nominated broadcaster and writer Ewan Spence is the voice behind The Unofficial Eurovision Song Contest Podcast and one of the driving forces behind ESC Insight. Having had an online presence since 1994, he is a noted commentator around the intersection of the media, internet, technology, mobility and how it affects us all. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, his work has appeared on the BBC, The Stage, STV, and The Times. You can follow Ewan on Twitter (@ewan) and Facebook (facebook.com/ewanspence).

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11 responses to “Loreen wins Eurovision for Sweden!”

  1. Seán says:
    May 26, 2012 at 23:35

    Thanks for all the coverage to the whole team. I’m looking forward to Eurovision 2013 and possibly the return of Lynda Woofruff.

  2. Henning says:
    May 27, 2012 at 00:10

    It was a very good year. And you guys made even more fun, thank you.

  3. Seattlesque says:
    May 27, 2012 at 01:17

    Great job, thanks, people! You and the ESCxtra team were a fantastic double act. Have safe flights home.

  4. Michael says:
    May 27, 2012 at 01:59

    Probably the new arena, Swedbank, rather than Globen. See https://www.escdaily.com/sweden-new-venue-for-melodifestivalen-2013-final/, where ESCToday reports that SVT will be holding next year’s Melodifestivalen final there.

    I hope to see you i Sverige, Ewan!

  5. Peter says:
    May 27, 2012 at 05:43

    Glad Sweden won, can’t wait to see how good a show they put on next year.

    Thanks for all the hard work to the ESC Insight team – you’ve made following this contest fun!

  6. Hans says:
    May 27, 2012 at 11:15

    Congrats to Sweden, a most deserved winner. And congrats to German vote giver Anke Engelke for her little dig at Azerbaijani civil rights, or lack thereof. But what exactly happened to the often (falsely) claimed Scandinavian block voting? Yes, we vote for one another … When we have a good song. Denmark and Norway didn’t really last night and suffered the consequences, including much to the Danish announcer’s utter disgust the nul points from Sweden to Denmark. That would never ever have happened between, say, Rumania and Moldova, or Serbia and Fyrom, now would it?

  7. Chad says:
    May 27, 2012 at 11:36

    The voting was particularly political last night amongst the Eastern Europeans (it can be denied all they want but we know its true) but I’m delighted that Sweden trounced everyone else and won!! By a landslide!! She was amazing and the song is the strongest out of what has been a rather weak sort of year. Euphoria could stand the test of time. Hope its a smash hit all across Europe and can’t wait to see ESC 2013 Live from Sweden!! If I remember the Swedish always put on a great show and at least we don’t have to worry about their lack of human rights!! For the first time I many years, I 100% agree that the right person won.

  8. Eric Graf says:
    May 27, 2012 at 18:53

    A great final, and THANK YOU to the escinsight team for your coverage. It was much appreciated and enjoyed here in No-Eurovision-Land, CA.

    OK, so who’s going to do the Swedish Chef version of “Euphoria”?

    Eurphoeüria, veer schfeedy bork bork bork bork de bork bork bork bork!

  9. Eddie Slater says:
    May 27, 2012 at 22:42

    My attempt to watch the contest on the SVT player after I’d finished work at Ullevi last night didn’t quite work out (see my post re. Terry Vision and Nina Zilli) but we had the contest on in the press room and one or two photo desks may have had to wait longer than usual for their speedway pics. The Speedway Grand Prix also resulted in a Swedish victory (Freddie Lindgren) and as the strains of the national anthem died away guess what the Gothenburg crowd started singing (quite badly)… It was frankly a “Euphoric” night for Sweden all round and it gave me my first ever valid opportunity to mention Eurovision in a photo report about a speedway meeting… Can’t help feeling disappointed about Jonsi and Greta’s result though. Iceland deserved better. Note to British newspaper editors – Aftonbladet had 12 pages of ESC coverage today, Expressen had 11. If the Hump had won…no. Exactly.

  10. David Mann says:
    May 28, 2012 at 20:45

    ‘Linda Woodruffe’ and Terry Vision for hosts next year I think ladies and gentlemen! Thanks for all the coverage, articles and podcasts and especially for the often hilarious ‘Terry Vision Meets …’ videos. Some artists were a little unsure I thought, but some just took to Terry right away. And what some of us wouldn’t give to rub … noses with Tooji! 🙂

  11. Ewan Spence says:
    May 28, 2012 at 20:52

    Thanks for the thoughts David. We’ll need to sit down in the office and think what Terry can do between Contests!

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