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2018

The 2018 Eurovision Song Contest was the 63rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place for the first time in Lisbon, Portugal, following the country’s first victory at the 2017 contest in Kiev, with the song “Amar pelos dois”, performed by Salvador Sobral.

The contest comprised two semi-finals on 8 and 10 May, and a final on 12 May 2018 in the Altice Arena, Lisbon.
The winner of the 2018 Eurovision
The winner was Netta with ‘Toy’ representing Israel, who as she picked up her award, declare ‘Next year in Jerusalem.’ That prompted various outcries and a few suggestions of boycott, plus general talk of how it’s going to be a security nightmare and such.

See the full results from the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest

Romania

Romania – Selecția Națională 2018 – Semi-final 4 results

The fourth Romanian Eurovision semi-final took place yesterday evening, in Turda. Twelve songs were in the running, with three spots in the final on...

Shufflepop is dead – long live….. Vikings?

So, after a billion years of me moaning that the Danes have entered the same song, but only sung by someone different (for which'...

Meta and Moro take Sanremo crown

In the very small hours, another edition of the Sanremo festival ended with Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro winning the Italian spot at the...

Markus Riva failed to qualify in Latvia – so who did?

Yes, it comes to something when the major news from the Supernova second semi final is that Riga Beaver, the panto beaver that fills...
Ukraine - Arms

Ukraine tries a semi approach – Miklos is the highlight? –...

As has become tradition Ukraine gets to present the earliest national final in terms of time known to man! - a 1700 GMT start...
Eesti Laul

Estonia’s first Semi Final – Five songs are through to the...

After what is, as usual, a decent semi-final from Estonia we have our first 5 qualifiers for EestiLaul 2018.   Four of which were done...

Icelandic Semi Final 1 Result

Song Performer(s) Heim Ari Ólafsson Q Aldrei gefast upp Fókus Hópurinn Q Ég mun skína Þórunn Antonía Litir Guðmundur Þórarinsson Ég og þú Tómas Helgi Wehmeier & Sólborg Guðbrandsdóttir Kúst og fæjó Heimilistónar Q

Danish Final 2018 – DMGP results are now in. Rasmussen...

We've finally got the results of the Danish national final, Melodi Grand Prix 2018.  The result is shown below.  Remember there were two rounds...

My joy is building mello bricks of music……

So, the second heat of "Mello" 2018 takes place on the 10th Feb at the Scandinavian in Gothenberg, home of the scientifically proven best...

Here are the Slovenian EMA Eurovision songs

It's been drip-drip-drip over in Slovenia as RTVSLO revealed four songs every few days, teasing us Eurofans ahead of their national final, the 2018...