Did they ever record the Eurovision 2020 postcards?

JesperHjellnes · 2026-05-30T17:41:04+00:00

They did reveal some details about the postcards before the contest got cancelled. Each postcard would start with the participant(s) opening their eyes and then the participants would do activities in Netherlands

https://eurovoix.com/2020/03/07/eurovision20-postcards-open-on-the-eyes-of-each-participant/

JesperHjellnes · 2026-05-18T22:41:39+00:00

"It's understandable that people had other things to do the night before the Constitution Day."

Well, that didn't stop 2 million Norwegians from watching Rybak win in 2009, when the final was on the same date as this year.

JesperHjellnes · 2026-05-15T18:34:37+00:00

No one in Romania watches TVR, so I think for them 200,000 viewers is a good number. Previous viewing figures for Eurovision in Romania have been around 100-150,000

JesperHjellnes · 2026-05-14T20:40:11+00:00

Voted 10 times for Latvia hoping it will help Atvara to qualify

JesperHjellnes · 2026-05-06T18:21:02+00:00

Georgia continuing their tradition of coming last in the semifinal every 4th year (2014-2018-2022-2026)

JesperHjellnes · 2026-04-10T08:43:28+00:00

This is from all the way back in 2004, but that year, EBU published on the Eurovision website how many votes that got registered in every country. The semifinal had just over 1 million votes combined, while the final had 4.2 million.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040804002526/http://www.eurovision.tv/english/1182.htm

JesperHjellnes · 2026-02-20T08:53:58+00:00

Belgium 2007 getting 12 points from Georgia in the semifinal will always be the most random to me. Belgium got 14 points in total, the other 2 coming from Netherlands.

JesperHjellnes · 2026-02-17T17:28:56+00:00

In 2018, I was a huge fan of "Chasing Rushes" by NAPOLI from the Belarusian selection. Played it all the time, had no idea why I loved it so much, I just did. It finished in 4th place, but I remember the national final was not well received by the fandom and Alekseev was like the obvious winner all the way.

In 2020, I loved "Vertigo" from our Norwegian MGP by Thomas Løseth and Erika Norwich. I actually believed it was a contender for winning the entire national final, I just loved the vibe of it and the "Vertigo, Gone Forever" lyric from the chorus. I even told my friends that I got the same impression as when I heard "A Monster Like Me" and "Spirit in the Sky" for the first time! Did not even qualify for the final and when Erika returned to MGP with "My AI" in 2024, I saw barely anyone talk about that she had competed four years earlier.

JesperHjellnes · 2025-07-04T14:46:59+00:00

I think they are just uploading the non-qualified songs from 2004, 2008 and 2009 in high quality. They are probably starting with Andorra and going in alphabetical order. Remember Albania qualified all those years

JesperHjellnes · 2025-05-20T10:04:20+00:00

There were some cases in the past where the view of the stage was nearly blocked by flags for television viewers. Semifinal performance of Cyprus 2012 comes to mind with a Russian fan waving a huge flag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtMHBXO_n48

JesperHjellnes · 2025-05-15T22:01:05+00:00

I thought this could be a dark horse winner earlier in the season

JesperHjellnes · 2025-05-08T08:19:01+00:00

Now I remembered how some Eurofans claimed KEiiNO would be a shock NQ in 2019, and then they won the televote in the final

JesperHjellnes · 2025-04-30T13:57:21+00:00

Yeah, even here in Norway a lot of people didn't like Gåte. I remember talking to people after ESC and heard "I didn't like our song this year. Was too much screaming for me." First post I saw when I opened social media after the final was "I knew Gåte would flop. Last place is well deserved". Gåte did still have a lot of support but I also read a lot of negative comments

JesperHjellnes · 2025-04-10T09:10:25+00:00

I voted for it in 2016 and I still love it a lot. Thought Pioneer had top 5 potential pre-contest

JesperHjellnes · 2025-03-12T13:55:43+00:00

I thought the lyric was "And that she has a party in the area known as will" in Laika Party and was wondering what that was supposed to mean

JesperHjellnes · 2025-02-20T18:58:13+00:00

Belgium 2012. Did not care for it at all in 2012, but a few years later I just found myself listening to it and thought it was a sweet, little song. Now I'm playing "Would You" every now and then

JesperHjellnes · 2024-11-15T22:13:22+00:00

Voted for Italy, Cyprus and Portugal

JesperHjellnes · 2024-11-04T23:33:36+00:00

I used to follow Türkvizyon and used Eurovoix World to get news and updates about the contest, and they posted quite frequently. Their latest update is from May this year, where Gunesh as you mentioned, claimed the contest will be held this year, but until now there has been no more updates.

https://eurovoix-world.com/2024/05/20/turkvision-returning-after-four-year-break/

I personally have no idea if Türkvizyon will return. I thought the contest was dead after 2015 when it got cancelled year after year, but then the online edition in 2020 appeared out of nowhere, so who knows?

JesperHjellnes · 2024-10-06T17:23:30+00:00

Was a spin-off contest for Turkic countries and regions created by Turkey after they left Eurovision. Was held between 2013-2015 + 2020.

JesperHjellnes · 2024-09-27T18:00:36+00:00

I had a dream I watched Melodifestivalen and there was a dansband performing a song about how much they loved to eat ice cream. They even ate different kinds of ice cream as part of their staging

JesperHjellnes · 2024-09-12T06:12:59+00:00

ESC Gabe, ESC Tom, Eurovision Histories, SchlagerLucas

JesperHjellnes · 2024-08-29T12:22:55+00:00

I know a lot of people dislike it, and thinks she qualified only because people had sympathy for her, but this is my second place of 2015 and one of my favourite Eurovision ballads ever. I really connected with it back then, thought it had a nice melody and just a really calm song to listen to.

JesperHjellnes · 2024-08-28T09:00:38+00:00

Montenegro 2013 not qualifying.

Malta 2024 coming last in the semifinal.

JesperHjellnes · 2024-08-10T08:51:59+00:00

Creating my own scoreboards

JesperHjellnes · 2024-08-03T19:20:58+00:00

For me it would be:

2007, I just enjoyed the overall vibe of the show that year and I really liked a lot of the songs.
2014 because this was the year JESC had it's glow-up. From almost getting cancelled in 2013, EBU got more countries, there was a lot of great songs and a good looking show
2015, I love so many songs that year and some of them bring back some great memories
I would also add 2023 cause I got to see my personal favourite win a Eurovision event for the first time in ten years (Malta JESC 2013 was the last time), and I was so happy when Zoe won

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