Entries by Apostolis Matamis

Australia: The first country to use Online Voting for Eurovision!

Australia will become the first country in the Eurovision Song Contest to use online voting to determine the outcome of the televoting! This automatically means that Australian fans will not vote for their favorite entry in the traditional way of using phone or SMS. The country’s broadcaster, SBS, reports: Digame, the official voting partner of […]

Moldova: Zdob Zi Zdub are the only artists to have qualified from three semifinals!

Apart from Ukraine, which remains the only country in the competition that has never been eliminated in the semifinals, another interesting statistic from yesterday is coming from the representatives of Moldova, Zdob Zi Zdub. They are the only artists in the history of the institution who have managed to qualify from the semifinal to the […]

Spain: Eurovision 2022 Participation Costing Over €600,000!

Based on budget data from RTVE, ESCPlus reports that Spain’s Eurovision participation cost more than €600,000. According to the RTVE Transparency portal, the total cost of the participation is €637,984.18. ESCPlus adds that almost half of the budget consists of broadcasting fees, but other costs are related to artistic expenses, rental of items and costumes, […]

Iceland: Sweden with Cornelia Jakobs Wins Alla leið 2022!

The Icelandic Eurovision preview show Alla leið, with overall victory going to Cornelia Jakobs from Sweden. The Icelandic Eurovision preview show came to its conclusion last night with four jurors reviewing the songs from the Big Five competing in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. The winner of last nights show was Mahmood & Blanco from […]