As 2025 draws to a close, @ewanspence.co.uk settles back into a high wingbacked chair, pours out a toast to the New Year, and takes his own look back at the shadow cast over the #Eurovision Song Contest in 2025.

This week on Eurovision Uncovered, James Stephenson analyses ⤵️ 💝 How Eurovision's values have evolved 👥 How important those values are to its fanbase ⛓️‍💥 And what happens when those fans begin to feel disconnected from what the Song Contest stands for escinsight.com/2025/12/23/e...

"There are challenges in almost every act." 😱 Christer Björkman runs the team that stages each Eurovision Song Contest entry - and whether it's people flying or a simple microphone, every detail has to be perfect ✨ Listen to our full Christer Björkman on the latest episode of Eurovision Uncovered!

"In the old days, it would have been beneficial to go in the second half." 🪩 But Christer Björkman told me he thinks the #Eurovision running order works differently now we can vote during the show 📊 🎧 Listen in full to learn how the running order really gets put together.

Eurovision 2025 Head of Contest Christer Björkman opens up on producing the world’s biggest music show. He reveals on a Eurovision Uncovered special ⤵️ ✅ The process of staging an act ✅ How he puts the running order together ✅ What Eurovision's next spin-off could be escinsight.com/2025/12/15/c...

Saturday saw France’s Lou Deleuze win Junior Eurovision 2025 with the song ‘Ce monde’. @bensvision.bsky.social does a deep dive into the voting from Junior's 23rd edition to find the stories hidden within the statistics (and a surprising moment between Azerbaijan and Armenia!)

No countries north of Poland are taking part in Junior Eurovision, despite the popularity of Eurovision in those countries. @bensvision.bsky.social watches the National equivalents in Sweden and Denmark to work out what they do differently, and what Junior Eurovision should learn from them?

I wrote this here thing for @escinsight.com on the dilemmas facing fans in the current #Eurovision crisis. ( @danietreg.bsky.social Eurovision Hub gets a shout-out in the article.) escinsight.com/2025/12/12/s...

@philjdore.bsky.social considers the options for those appalled by the recent EBU decisions regarding the Eurovision Song Contest: whether to boycott, not boycott, partially boycott, or explore alternatives.

Get ready for all the songs, all the numbers, the history, and more from Tbilisi. Download your guide to 2025's Junior Eurovision Song Contest from ESC Insight.

Following last week's EBU vote, @frossrussell.bsky.social is bringing his journey with the Eurovision Song Contest to an end. Today, he writes about his emotions around the vote, the disappointment at the route the Song Contest is taking, and why he has to walk away from the Contest.

A decisive vote in Geneva has set the new rules in place for Eurovision 2026 and prompted four broadcasters to step back from the Contest. @bensvision.bsky.social reports on one of the most monumental days in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. escinsight.com/2025/12/06/t...

The #Eurovision Song Contest needs voting reform. But the voting reform that the Song Contest is undergoing before the 2026 edition does not go far enough. Here is a manifesto for the substantial change that the Contest's voting needs. escinsight.com/2025/12/04/w...

We now know the 30 acts taking part in SVT's @melodifestivalen.se for 2026 and @bensvision.bsky.social has spoken to all of them. This is his preview to whet your appetite on arguably Eurovision’s biggest National Final. escinsight.com/2025/12/03/t...

And finally, the one in charge of it all, Karin Gunnarsson who was on the four person @melodifestivalen jury that selected the final entrants This year is more party, and Karin thinks the 2026 artist cohort are going to be a barrel of laughs all the way to Strawberry Arena in Solna!

Heat 5 #melfest Bladë Who You Are Back at Melfest after a rebrand from Isa, Bladë is bringing a never seen before vibe to the Melfest stage

Heat 5 #melfest Sanna Nielsen Waste Your Love Former Melfest winner and Hall of Fame member Sanna is back not as ballad Sanna - she is back with a banger!

Heat 5 #melfest Alexa Tongue Tied It’s serious, but that’s because AleXa is serious about bringing a jaw-dropping show to Melfest with the same team as American Song Contest winner Wonderland

Heat 5 #melfest JULIETT Långt från alla andra A cold but uptempo number that’s somewhat different from the boy band number one may expect

Heat 5 #melfest Vilhelm Buchaus Hearts Don’t Lie Probably the one I’m most excited to hear. Written with the same team as Hold Me Closer was, these answers are exactly what I would have expected for that greta winner number Humour is intentionally off the scale.

Heat 5 #melfest Lilla Al-Fadji Delulu Yes, we don’t know why the Edward af Sillén/Daniel Réhn written number is not fully on the humour scale either

Heat 4 #melfest Timo Räisänen Ingenting är efter oss Bringing a rousing but different sound than before to Melodifestivalen on his debut

Heat 4 #melfest Felix Manu Hatar att jag älskar dig Slow and intimate but fiery and different., Felix is bringing one of the most intriguing entries to this year’s Melodifestivalen

Heat 4 #melfest Erika Jonsson Från Landet Erika’s giving you the country song from the countryside that you are all expecting given that outfit

Heat 4 #melfest Cimberly Eternity Cimberly’s Melodifestivalen debut promises to be one of the least extreme of this year’s 30 track shortlist

Heat 4 #melfest Meira Omar Dooset Daram With a title in Persian, Meira is bringing another fusion pop track to the viewers of Swedish television

Heat 3 #melfest Medina Viva L’Amor The boys are back with another party for the whole of Sweden…and beyond?

Heat 3 #melfest Eva Jumatate Selfish A serious entry from the 17 year old contestant

Heat 3 #melfest Korslagda King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Turning the heat up on the Melfest stage

Heat 3 #melfest Emilia Pantić Ingenting One of the more intimate and stripped-back entries of this season

Heat 3 #melfest Patrik Jean Dusk Till Dawn Looks like Patrik Jean’s Melfest return is bigger and bolder than his previous entries

Heat 3 #melfest Saga Ludvigsson Ain’t Today Out for revenge with this fiery toe tapper

Heat 2 #melfest Brandsta City Släckers Rakt in i elden Obviously 100 degrees for the firemen, but supposedly the show even more crazy

Heat 2 #melfest Laila Adèle Oxygen This big power ballad is going to shine bright

Heat 2 #melfest FELICIA My System FELICIA, previously the artist from Fröken Snusk’s entry to Melfest, wants to keep the song tempo a secret

Heat 2 #melfest Robin Bengtsson Honey Honey A big show for Robin’s mid tempo entry to Melfest 2026

Heat 2 #melfest Arwin Glitter Probably the act this year who answered most similarly to KAJ did last year

Heat 2 #melfest Klara Almström Där hela världen väntar Warm, serious, but creativity is expected from Klara’s Melfest debut

Heat 1 #melfest Jacqline Woman Jacqline is effortlessly back in Melfest with another uptempo show number

Heat 1 #melfest A*Teens Iconic The most off the scale fire of the day

Heat 1 #melfest Greczula Half of Me A bigger show is promised from last year’s third place

Heat 1 #melfest Junior Lerin Copacabana Boy Junior Lerin thinks this uptempo song is going to be hotter than a Finnish sauna

Heat 1 #melfest noll2 Berusade ord A hot pop song that promises to be something new for the boys and for Melfest

Heat 1 #melfest Indra Beautiful Lie A song that is off the scale for its seriousness, and for being out of the Mello box

The #melfest Press Conference is OVER! We got all 29 acts present! Smash Into Pieces were sadly not present We’ll post each in Heat order coming up!

And finally heat 5 with Sanna Nielsen and AleXa taking part #melfest

Heat 4 in Malmö with Smash Into Pieces, Meira Omar and four debutants #melfest

Heat 3 with Medina and Saga and Patrik Jean returning to #melfest

Heat 2 at #melfest with Robin Bengtsson and a country-pop song, Arwin and the Brandsta City Släckers returning

Your Heat 1 acts for #melfest with Greczula and ATeens