Articles by Emma Coolen (The Netherlands)

If you had a busy day today, and missed the rehearsals of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, team ESC Daily is now offering you some help. We give you a recap of the rehearsals of each day, in our show “Songs in Rewind”, just like [read more…]

If you had a busy day today, and missed the rehearsals of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, team ESC Daily is now offering you some help. We give you a recap of the rehearsals of each day, in our show “Songs in Rewind”, just like [read more…]

In this new rubric at ESC Daily, we will take a look at next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. What can we expect from each participating country? In today’s preview we will feature the plans in Norway.

The twelve possible venues for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest have been revealed. Five of those are in the Austrian capital Vienna. Over the following few days, the Austrian broadcaster will consider each of these venues, and propose the winner to the EBU. Below is an overview [read more…]

Conchita Wurst has won the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest for Austria. After all 37 countries had voted, Wurst had gathered a staggering 290 points, earning the first victory for Austria since Udo Jürgens in 1966. The second and third place were for the Netherlands and [read more…]

And that makes 26! After tonight’s second semi-final we now know the full list of acts to appear during the Grand Final on Saturday. Most notably absent is probably Mei Finegold for Israel, who, to the surprise of many, failed to make the cut. These [read more…]

It’s that time of the year again! You know, that time when over 1,300 Eurovision fans and journalists gather in Amsterdam for the biggest pre-Eurovision event of the season: Eurovision in Concert. For the third time running, the Melkweg was the housing venue.

SVT, the Swedish broadcaster has announced that Melodifestivalen 2011 ,which will take place in February next year, will be hosted by  Marie Serneholt and Rickard Olsson. The new hosts will follow in the footsteps of Måns Zelmerlöw, Christine Meltzer and Dolph Lundgren. Marie Serneholt has already been [read more…]