Every song in the 2026 Eurovision competition has been released, and one country has emerged as the frontrunner among the 35 entries. This year, the 70th edition of the popular Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Vienna, Austria at the Wiener Stadthalle stadium, which hosted the competition in 2015. The first semi-final will take…
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Banished from Eurovision, Russia will launch the final of its own international song contest at President Vladimir Putin’s behest on Saturday, with a Soviet-era name and acts intended to promote “traditional family values”. Singers at “Intervision” will hail from 23 countries accounting for more than half the world’s population,…
In a season when couture has sometimes taken a dystopian turn, leave it to Kevin Germanier to restore a sense of childlike wonder. Guests arriving at his show in a basement bunker at IRCAM, a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, were greeted by an installation of inflatables glowing iridescent in…
The UK has entered the Eurovision Song Contest every year since 1959, but its success at the event has been very mixed over the decades. This year’s contest in Basel, Switzerland is the 69th edition of the annual competition, and comes after Swiss singer Nemo won the event last year with ‘The Code’. READ MORE: The…