There are plenty of statistics, and tidbits of knowledge floating around on this year’s countries, singers, and national selections, and Samantha Ross has curated a list of some of this year’s factoids. Who makes up the Class of 2016, and how did they get here?

Welcome to Stockholm! The ESC Insight team has arrived in Sweden ahead of the first rehearsals in the Globen. Ewan and the team sit down to look back over the National Final season, and discuss our hopes and dreams for the next two weeks.

The ESC Insight team are in Globen and rehearsals are set to begin, have a last minute catch up on the last minute news and drama in land Eurovision with our Newsletter. This week’s column looks at the big hole the EBU have created for themselves with their draft flag policy.

With 204 names known for the Eurovision Song Contest jury list, Ben Robertson looks through the information released by the EBU in detail. Who will be casting our votes this year, and should they all be allowed to vote?

It’s time for the final Juke Box Jury of the season, and a welcome return to the microphone for both Danny Lynch and Elaine Dove. Ewan Spence hopes to hold it all together as Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Australia, and Sweden, all look for hits, will take a maybe, and try to avoid any misses.

Norway’s Agnete isn’t the first indigenous person to compete in the Eurovision. In this article John Egan looks at the sometimes awkward history of first peoples’ representation in the world’s favourite song contest.