Articles by Dennis Van Ee (The Netherlands)

In the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, Russia finished in third place with ‘You are the only one‘ by Sergey Lazarev. The singer took part in 2019 again, and finished in third place again. A disappointment for the superstar.

After Duncan Laurence won the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 on behalf of The Netherlands, the first steps towards hosting the contest in The Netherlands in 2020 have already been taken. The host city will be announced in August.

One of the biggest surprises of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 is arguably the televote victory of KEiiNO from Norway. The 291 points from the viewers at home gave them a top-10 spot after all. Something the jury was not willing to give Norway.

The last year we saw North Macedonia (back then: Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia) in the Eurovision final was in 2012. Seven years later, the nation not only finally reached the final again, they also got their best result ever: 7th.

In their first six years at the Eurovision Song Contest, Azerbaijan always made it to the Top 10 of the final. But, between 2013 and 2018, the country disappeared from the left side of the table. Until Chingiz came around.

Michael Rice finished in last place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. Another sad tale for the BBC and the United Kingdom in the contest. When will the nation change their gameplan?

It has been a month since Duncan Laurence won the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, giving The Netherlands their first victory in the contest since 1975. We already looked ahead to 2020, but in the upcoming weeks, ESCDaily will look at the aftermath of the 2019 [read more…]

The EBU has announced that there has been a mistake in the presentation of the jury vote. This results in a new final ranking of the nations in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.