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Eurovision’s Tension Between Competition And Entertainment
Eurovision 2019 rehearsals (photo: Ewan Spence)

Eurovision is a contest. Eurovision is a TV show. Yet Malmo 2024 showcased the complicated balancing act between those worlds. Fin Ross Russell looks at both sides of the Song Contest's life.

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How To Get 11,006 People On Stage: Eurovision’s Party For Participation
Kaarija, Liverpool, Finalnd 2023 (image: EBU / eurovision.tv)

From an invitation-only audience with a strict dress code, to the wild rumpus of flags, outfits, facepaints and singing aloud, the Eurovision Song Contest has been on a long journey to embrace the audience. Martin Bishop looks at how the Song Contest became our Song Contest.

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Merry FiKmas Everyone!
Festivali i Kenges, Fest 63 (image RTSH)

Albanians worldwide are preparing to enjoy this year's Festivali i Kenges. So is the Eurovision Song Contest community. Martin Bishop looks at one of Eurovision's Christmas traditions.

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The Audacity Of United By Music
The stage for the 68th Eurovision Song Contest (photo: ESC.tv / Peppe Andersson)

Liverpool's Eurovision Song Contest brought us "United By Music." Following its success, the EBU adopted it as the Contest slogan into the future. Ahead of a potential secondary slogan from Basel, Erik Nelson thinks about the impact of our forever slogan.

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A Guide To Your Internal Selection Announcement
Olly Alexander, UK 2024 (EBU / Corinne Cumming)

Let’s start on the dancefloor. My relationship with Strictly Come Dancing (the UK’s version of Dancing With The Stars) is temperamental at best. Dance isn’t my area of expertise; I can’t tell the difference between an American Smooth and a Tango even if my life depended upon it. Anyway, the final episodes of Strictly 2023 […]

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