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  • May 14, 2025

Richard West-Soley

Richard’s ESC history began way back in 1992, when he discovered the contest could fuel his passion for music and languages. Since then, it’s been there at every corner for him in some way or another. He joined the esctoday.com team back in 2006, and quickly developed a love for writing about the contest. In his other life, he heads the development team at the learning resources company Linguascope, and writes about all aspects of language learning on the site Polyglossic.com.

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French song facing rewrite

Virginie Pouchin, who won the French selection earlier this week and will represent France at the Eurovision Song Contest in

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RTS make proposal to EBU

On the website of Serbian broadcaster RTS today, it was confirmed that the director of the station, Aleksander Tijanić, has

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Arsenium and Natalia Gordienko for Moldova!

For the second time this year, Moldovan TV viewers sat down to watch their national selection for the Eurovision Song

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Virginie Pouchin to represent France in Athens!

Some 5,000 hopefuls applied to take part. Hundreds were auditioned. And just 21 made it through to the final of

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Everything for Greece

After an evening of four possible entries for the Eurovision Song Contest, Greece has selected the song Everything by a

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OGAE Turkey promotes entry

OGAE Turkey has just launched a brand new site dedicated to the Turkish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006

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Monaco entry broadcast today

Monaco's entry to the 51st Eurovision Song Contest in Athens will have its first public broadcast tonight on the Diggil-ej

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Sweden prepares for showdown

The running order has been drawn and the ten qualifying acts have entered the final week leading up to the

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Scandal marrs Bulgarian selection

Only hours after Mariana Popova won the second ever Bulgarian Eurovision Song Contest selection with the song Let me cry,

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Magnus and Rednex to Swedish final

Magnus Bäcklund and Rednex have topped the second chance round of Melodifestivalen 2006 to fill the remaining two slots in

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Tina Karol to Athens for Ukraine!

Tina Karol has won the final of Ty-zirka with the uptempo song I am your queen and, with it, the

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Tonight: Ukraine selects for Athens

Tonight it will be decided who shall represent Ukraine in Athens this May, as the TV talent show Ty-zirka (You're

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Tonight: Finland picks for Athens

After four semi finals reducing twenty-four songs down to twelve, tonight Finland finally gets to choose the one which will

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Eurovision spin hits Helsinki theatre

Three stars from Finland's Eurovision Song Contest past are due to cause a stir on the Helsinki theatre scene when