OK – eurovision.tv have released information in relation to this year’s contest and if only the votes from just the juries were taken into account the the result of this year’s song contest would’ve been different (for the UK). As you can see, Norway would’ve still won but here are what the professional juries [...]

Norway were the runaway winners of the song contest last night with a record 387 points awarded to Alexander Rybak and his song “Fairytale”. The United Kingdom came 5th and was their biggest win in the history of the contest (with the exception of the 1997 winning song by Katrina & The Waves) based on [...]

So last night in Moscow the 54th annual Eurovision Song Contest took place and the winning country was NORWAY. So next year we’ll be going to Oslo.

Today on the Eurovision website they have posted details of the results from the 2 semi-finals and they are:

Semi-Final 1
1st – Iceland with 174 points

Here is the full running order in which the 25 countries who made it through to the final tomorrow night will perform in.

1st – Lithuania
2nd – Israel
3rd – France
4th – Sweden
5th – Croatia
6th – Portugal
7th – Iceland
8th – Greece
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Last night the 2nd semi-final in this years Eurovision Song Contest took place in the Russin capital Moscow. 19 songs performed in this semi-final with the top 10 advancing through to Saturday’s live final. The contest opened with a band of 4 musicians with Russian stringed instruments playing some of the most famous songs in [...]

We’ve already had the names of the 1st 10 countries to qualify for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest but what about the other 19 songs which will be performing tomorrow night in Moscow? Well the names of the acts and their songs are below. Couple of songs to watch out for are Denmark and Cyprus.

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Last night saw the 1st 18 songs of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest take to the stage to perform in the hope that they would be voted for to appears in Saturday’s final. The show began with a fairytale and it was something to do with a tree, a horse, a dragon and the Fire [...]

Well it’s that time of year again where all of Europe (and other parts of the world) get together to celebrate all things musical. Yes it’s the start of Eurovision Week and tomorrow (12th May 2009) will see the first 18 songs performed in the 1st semi final. previous posts show what the running order [...]