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How Important Is The Eurovision Semi Final Draw For The Winner?
Semi Final Draw for Basel 2025 and the Eurovision Song Contest (image: EBU / esc.tv)

Does the Semi Final Draw help or hinder the eventual winner of the Eurovision Song Contest? Ewan Spence looks at the relationship between the draw and the victor.

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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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