And that was your National Final season. It’s all over, we have our song, now it’s a matter of getting everything ready for two weeks in May, and then making sure it’s all right on the night. Still, what just happened?

With today’s Heads of Delegation meeting, we have our thirty-nine songs, and the fan community can start the discussions, debates, and diatribes before Europe selects a winning song on May 18th. But before you label this the ‘worst Eurovision ever’, I want you to look in the mirror and say after me… “Don’t be that fan.”

News from the National Finals, songs and artists being changed, and the last weekend to select the songs for Eurovision 2013. With music from Christina V and The Glam Girls, and coming to you from Austin, Texas, it’s Ewan Spence (and the guitars)

Last week’s announcement of Bonnie Tyler as the singer for the United Kingdom in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest has got John Kennedy O’Connor thinking about the historical precedent behind the selection, and wonders aloud about the similarities between this ‘Believe in Me’ and ‘Love Shine A Light’.

With the spotlight now on some subtle, but significant, changes to the way the televote and jury vote will be combined in Malmo, there’s a fair bit of confusion. Guest writer and statistics extraordinnaire John Egan gives us the lowdown on what has changed and what the implications are for our favourite contest results in 2013.

The deadline to submit the Eurovision 2013 songs to the EBU is just over a week away, so a few loose ends and National Finals to mark off this week.