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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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Luminita says no to Sweden

Luminita Anghel, who achieved Romania's best ever Eurovision Song Contest placing of third in the 2005 contest, was approached by

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'Stations ordered to silence Plan B'

Reports from Slovenia suggest that the song Plan B, which was selected to represent Slovenia in the 2006 Eurovision Song

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Dieter Bohlen for Romania?

The first hints regarding the participants of this year's Romanian selection have started to circulate in the national press. Although

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ESC stars top sales chart

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry published its updated list of the 150 best selling artists of all time

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Christine Guldbrandsen to Athens for Norway

Christine Guldbrandsen has won the 2006 Norwegian final with the song Alvedansen. She becomes Norway's representative at the 2006 Eurovision

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Bulgarian song titles published

The 24 songs to compete in the Bulgarian semifinals have been selected by national TV station BNT. A fifteen-member panel

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Tonight: Norway selects for Athens!

Three semifinals and a second chance round are over; all that remains is the grand final. Only eight of the

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Final two for Norway

The two final artists have been selected for the Norwegian final, to be held on Saturday 4th February. The lucky

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Six seek Saturday success

Six acts will have a second and ultimate chance to impress television viewers in Norway this Friday. The second chance

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And the 2006 winner is…

It's something we all try to do every year. There are polls and surveys galore on the Internet to try

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Eurovision stars in Romanian telethon

Former Romanian participants Luminita Anghel and Nicola were amongst the line-up in a charity telethon organised by the public television

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Bergen celebrates home wins

Bergen celebrates not only staging a successful Norwegian semifinal this evening, but the victory of two of its own stars.

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BBC clarifies Sold on Song role

To clear up confusion over the role of the ten songs in the BBC Radio 2 competition Sold on song,

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Moldovan deadline looms, 15 entries

As the official cut-off point for entries to the 2006 Moldovan selection draws precariously close, Teleradio-Moldova report that so far,