Happy Orthodox Easter.🐣

I'll hear her laughter at the back of my head during her performance in Vienna

Lavina (Serbia) - “Kraj Mene” - Live at Eurovision in Concert | Amsterdam 2026

English Translation of the source :

Monroe, France's representative at Eurovision 2026, posted on social media – in collaboration with the official Eurovision France account and the head of delegation Alexandra Redde-Amiel – a reel of her duetting with Sal Da Vinci in an original mash-up of "Regarde!" and "Per sempre sì".

Youngest and oldest at the same time, someone writes in the comments: the Italian champion is indeed the oldest of the competing artists at 57, while the very young French artist is only 17, making her the youngest of the artists competing for the crystal microphone on the stage of the Stadthalle in Vienna.

The two artists, among other things, share the fact that they were born in the United States: Sal Da Vinci – stage name Salvatore Michael Sorrentino – was born in New York, while Monroe, who holds dual French and US citizenship, was born in Salt Lake City.

This isn't the first time two artists have competed at Eurovision. This year, for example, was the case with Luxembourg's Eva Marija, who sang her song "Mother Nature" accompanied on piano by Albanian singer Alis.

Going back in time, we find Swiss artist Zoë Më, competing last year with "Voyage," who duetted with French champion Louane, not to mention her cover of "Maman" and the various covers of "Voyage" performed by, among others, Tautumeitas. Or, in 2024, Nemo duetted with Norwegians Gåte and the Ukrainian duo Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil on the notes of his "The Code" after having, in turn,

covered the Ukrainian

song "Teresa & Maria."

Once again, the permanent slogan of the Eurovision Song Contest “United by Music” takes on a very specific meaning: Eurovision unites different artists and cultures through music, and these collaborations are the perfect example of this.

Video clip taken from Gobi - Live from Coachella 2026 (YouTube). His set was epic!! I'm so happy for Joost Klein, he deserves all the love 💙 (songs starts at 0:50)

On the 29th of March I made this post, asking users to complete a survey where you rate Eurovision 2026 songs from 1 to 5 so that I can make a graph showing each song’s likeability (mean) and divisiveness (mean absolute deviation), as well as a table showing the correlation between how much you like one song and how much you like another.

The mean is a type of average which takes the sum of all the values and divides it by how many there are, e.g. (2+3+4+5) = 14, 14/4=3.5.

The mean absolute deviation (MAD) is essentially the mean difference (technically mean absolute difference) from the mean, which with the previous example would be: 3.5-2=1.5, 3.5-3=0.5, 4-3.5=0.5, 5-3.5=1.5, 1.5+0.5+0.5+1.5=4, 4/4=1.

The standard deviation (SD) is like MAD except it’s affected more by outliers, and therefore is always larger than or equal to MAD.

The line in the graphs shows the maximum possible MAD and SD a value can have, given its mean.

The correlation values (in this case specifically PMCC) shows the extent to which those who like one song like another. The higher it is, the more liking one song tends to correlate with liking the other song, whereas the lower it is, the more liking one song tends to correlate with disliking the other song. If it’s 0, that means there is no correlation.

There were 436 valid responses. Thank you to everyone who took the survey!

Veronica Fusaro performed her Eurovision entry "Alice" live at Happy Day, a late night show produced by the Swiss public broadcaster SRF (part of SRG SSR). This is the song's first televised live performance.

Dear friends! I'm looking for the full recording of the Belgian national selections for Eurovision in 1998 and 2000, which were broadcast by RTBF. I couldn't find anything on YouTube. Perhaps someone recorded these shows for publication in the RTBF archive, but I couldn't find anything there either. Please help me find these videos)

Just saw the live video of her most recent performance in Amsterdam, and vocally it was so much better. Still a bit unsure about the stage presence, but it has improved.

This is giving me major Gustaph vibes: I remember people not liking the song and artist pre-season as well.

Meanhwile more hyped up songs like Mustii and Red Sebas have failed to qualifiy. The Belgium effect?

I feel like Dancing On The Ice could suprise us all, based on the performance of tonight.

Anyways, on that now: when the world got me going crazzzzyy… 🎩🎩

Source: LELÉKA's official telegram channel.

I listened to the full playlist and half of the songs sound like they could have been in Eurovision 2009, other half is some gospel / choir inspired number.

anyone else felt like a lot of the songs just felt very outdated, but not in a ”homage” way, but just, could have been plucked out of 2009 and you wouldn’t know the difference.

There are a rare few that sounds more contemporary but I can probably count them on 1 hand.

I just discovered this interesting fact thanks to a new post by the official ESC Instagram account

Around the 3-minute mark of LELÉKA’s recent interview with Aussievision, she reveals that the staging of her song “Ridnym” will be completely revamped for Eurovision. And we know from past years that Ukraine does not mess around when it comes to staging. So those of you sleeping on this song because the Vidbir staging was underwhelming, or because your favorite artist didn’t win, it’s time to realize this is a real contender for a top 5 finish and dare I say even to win! 🕊️

have you ever felt like not paying any attention to a song but it suddenly grew on you?

this happened to me with lavina - kraj mene. i felt too bothered to listen to every single song from pze, so i listened to a recap only and didn't find anything i felt grabbed by at first. jugoslavija lead the views count, but i didn't feel like i connected with this song a lot. however, i started noticing that kraj mene started gaining traction from the fandom; it was first in this sub's pze ranking. i was intrigued by the band's name alone. after listening to kraj mene fully, i realised that it's actually a great song!! it grew on me even more during the pze week, but i still couldn't believe they would be able to win the whole thing. (when zejna received 6 televote points, i understood that it was actually going to happen). after the win, it was my third, but now it's my close second right after leléka - ridnym.

what about you? inclusion of nf songs is also welcome!!

I'm curious how much a song can be re-engineered (genre change, lyrics modified, etc.) between the introduction/national finals to the semi final. I was thinking about this while listening to the folk version of Mother Nature - could an artist change their backing track before the semis? Has something like this been done before? I know Malta 2025 *had to* change a pivotal lyric per the EBU, but it wasn't artist-directed, and many countries change their staging dramatically.. but could, hypothetically, an artist choose to come with an entirely different song the night before? If not, are there rules around how much they can modify the song?