In the 1980s and 1990s (up until the language rule was changed to allow countries to compete in any language), Ireland won the Eurovision Song Contest 6 times and managed to finish in the top three places a further three

The Marcel Bezençon Awards, named after the EBU director who in 1955 conceived the idea of the Eurovision Song Contest, have been given out since 2002 in three categories with one more being added this year. The Composer's Award winner

Finland was living a real Eurovision mania last year but this year things have calmed down back to normal. Some hype was created after Tuesday's semi final where Finland surprisingly qualified for the final. By Saturday the media was speculating

Hi guys and thank you for your time today. Can you tell me about your feelings about not qualifying form the semi final last Thursday. 'Today is not difficult anymore, yesterday was very difficult for us, particularly as it was

Andrei Tudor is one of the best composers in Romania. He comes from a family of musicians. His father is also a composer and he participated in the Eurovision 2002 with the song "tell me why" performed by Monica Anghel

The show was especially popular among the younger viewers where the market share accounted for 33.9 %, which is more than the final of the latest season of " German Idol" scored one week ago. However, 6.38 million viewers mean

As the firework residue is cleared from the streets of Belgrade, and the Eurovision flags are lowered and packed away, esctoday.com would like to thank our readers, our hosts in Serbia, RTS and the EBU for what we believe was

BILD, always eager reporting about the Eurovision Song Contest, last year complained about the "East mafia" in the contest, claimed "obvious cheating" and stated that "Germany should withdraw". In 2005, a columnist stated that it was "unfair" that Germany got

The viewing figures are one of the highest for a television show in Norway and follows the huge success of Maria's song in the national chart. Along with superstar Mira Craig, who wrote the song, the duo managed to create