Eurovision from A to Z

Hello guys and welcome back! After an absence which we explained on social media. Didrik and Javier with the presence of our guests Lukas and Robert will talk about the Eurovision 2026 edition held in Vienna. Nevertheless this is not the habitual analysis of an ESC festival. Not this year. We will talk about the songs, but perhaps this is not the most important thing now. Throughout this episode w...

Official Statement from Eurovision from A to Z defending our position towards the withdrawal of RTVE, AVROTROS and other public television as well as criticising the position of other broadcasters and the EBU

Welcome back after a long time! This episode was wished to be uploaded earlier but unfortunately, as Javier says in the disclaimer, duties and every day issues can overcome you. Nevertheless this episode is a good way to check what we expected before national finals season began with all the turmoil happened with five countries withdrawing. Didrik, Javier and Robert talk about these facts in a dis...

Welcome back to Eurovision from A to Z! Summer is usually a period of holidays, also for Eurovision, but music never has a rest. For this episode, we count again with our friend Lukas from Austria, who talked about the pros and cons of the cities candidates to host the festival in 2026 (which finally was Vienna). Also, we talk about rumours and recent news like M. Österdahl's end of contract with...

Hello everyone and welcome to our analysis of the Eurovision Week! Enough time has passed to analyse calmly Eurovision 2025 in its musical aspects and beyond, including of course JJ's victory and almost all happened at Basel. This time we count with the presence of our Austrian friend Lukas. He will give us his personal point of view as a fan who lives in the winning country and valuable informati...

Hello and welcome back! As every year, we bring our special series of the current edition of Eurovision Song Contest, Basel 2025. Didrik and Javier count with two of our habitual guests, Joy Robert, to talk about the songs and many moe things. This time we bring you a compressed format, where we make our predictions about the songs. who will get final?, who won't? who are the dark horses? Will we...

Welcome back to Eurovision A to Z! We begin a new season with new look, new logo and a new jingle! Many thanks to Marco for creating this great jingle, thanks to Didrik for the design of the new logo, and also many thanks to Joy for designing the blog for this podcast. This episode is about 1970 edition, but there are a lot of news about the festival. At the moment of the recording, we have the fi...

Hello dear listeners! We're happy to be back with a new episode of Eurovision from A to Z. Holidays are coming to their end, and an new year is about to begin, so Eurovision New Year! We conclude our second season with a visit to Teatro Real in Madrid. This is the only festival held in Javier's country, Spain, so it is a festival full of siginificances, not only in the personal matter. The dictato...

Hello dear listeners! We're glad to be back with a new episode of Eurovision from A to Z. Holidays are here and Eurovision New Year hasn't begun yet, so it's time for few news about the festival or the national finals. This time we travel to the Royal Albert Hall in London, to the first festival held under the current name Eurovision Song Contest and the first one produced in colour. Also, it is a...

Welcome to our show again! This is our final chapter of The 2024 Series where we analyse the recently finished Eurovision 2024 edition. Believe us, there has been a lot to analyse. It's been intense, stressing and exhausting. You will listen our opinions about this year, which are not the best or the worst but ir's our personal and own opinions. Didrik and Javier plus Lukas and Joy are here again...

Hello and welcome back to a new episode of these special series about Eurovision 2024! After ranking our the songs competing at Malmö 2024 with our friends, now it's time for Didrik and Javier to make our predictions and other issues about this edition. At the time of the recording, we had only pictures and one-camera shoot snippets of the first rehearsals excluding Big 5 and Sweden. Who will get...

Hello and welcome to our third episode of The 2024 Series! Together with Joy and Lukas, we keep on ranking the songs of this edition held at the Swedish city of Malmö. Now it's time to analyse the entries from Big 5 and the host country: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. As usual, there will be time for analysis, debate and laughs, but at the same time there is time for oth...

Hello again and welcome to our second episode of The 2024 Series! Together with Joy and Lukas, we keep on ranking the songs of this edition held at the Swedish city of Malmö. In episode, it's time to analyse the entries of the Second Semifinal of Eurovision 2024: Malta, Albania, Greece, Switzerland, Czechia, Austria, Denmark, Armenia, Latvia, San Marino, Georgia, Belgium, Estonia, Israel, Norway a...

We're back again! As every year, we make special programs revising the songs of the current edition, and 2024 is not an expception. For this year, we count again with Lukas from Austria and Joy from The Netherlands. In this first episode, we will analyse the entries of the First Semifinal of Eurovision 2024: Cyprus, Serbia, Lithuania, Ireland, Ukraine, Poland, Croatia, Iceland, Slovenia, Finland,...

Hello dear listeners! After a long time we go back with a new episode. Real life issues sometimes surpass you and it's been really difficult to have this episode edited after the recording some months, so apologies to our listeners for not enjoying a fresh episode for such a long time. In fact, when we recorded this episode only we knew Mustii and Silia Kapsis as representatives of Belgium and Cyp...

Hello again, dear listeners! We are back with another episode of Eurovision history. This time we have a special guest, Robert, from Norway, with whom we have had a really great time recording this episode. We give our opinions about Malmö as the host city of Eurovision 2024 and who are the host we would like to see. Javier will talk about "Euroblack" (the first fiction set in Eurovision) and the...

Hello again. Last but not least, the countriesc artists and songs which makes the top ten of this edition: Vesna, Voyager, Alika, Gustaph, Tvorchi, Alessandra, Marco Mengoni, Noa Kirel, Käärijä and, of course the winner Loreen. We will try to deduct if this is a well-deserved top 10 and what are the factors these are the chosen ones. And of course, Sweden's victory and the firs time a woman, Loree...

We continue our analysis of the songs ranked from bottom to position 11. We will try to discern how favourites like United Kingdom finished at bottom or why Germany scores another last position. At the same time we will deal with entries like "Carpe Diem" or "Eaea", songs which were high in the bets and finished lower than expected. Are these positions fair or not?

Hello again and welcome to a new episode! The habitual team of Didrik and Javier plus Joy and Lukas welcomes Josh from Scotland (maybe a future EBU new member? Eurovision 2023 has ended and after the hangover it's time to recover and analyse this edition as we usually do. This first part is dedicated to the countries which did not have succeeded to qualify. Some of them were expectable, but some o...

Hello again! After acting like juries diring the last episodes, now we are going to talk about our predictions for Eurovision Song Contest 2023. Javier, Didrik and Lukas will talk about who can qualify for the finals, who can give the surprise qualifying or not or who will win the semis. And of course, we will try to foretell who is going to win the Crystal Microphone and the top 5. This episode w...

Hello again and welcome to the last episode of our 2023 series. This chapter is dedicated to the countries which are members of the Big 5 (France, Germany, italy, Spain and United Kingdom) and Ukraine, the host country. After the analysis of Didrik, Javier, Joy and Lukas, we have the full rankings and the final classification according to our rankings. This classification was made only listening t...

Hello and welcome back to our 2023 special programe! Didrik, Javier and their special guests Joy and Lukas continue with their analysis and ranking of this interesting 2023 edition of Eurovision Song Contest which takes place in the city of Liverpool. With this episode, we close the analysis of the second semifinal and the semifinals in general. In this half you will find interesting acts like Iru...

We continue with our analysis with the first half of the second semifinal. Here we will analyse and rank the songs from Armenia, Denmark or Greece among others. What we can say is that this semifinal is completely unpredictable and it is really difficult to predict who will qualify. What is your opinion?

Hello again! We continue with our analysis of the second half of the first semifinal. Here we have clear favourites for the victory like Loreen's Tatoo or Käärijä's Cha Cha Cha. Who will win the first semifinal? Who will qualify and who will be eliminated? Listen to our analysis and opinion. What's yours?

Hello again! We are proud of talking about the 2023 edition held at Liverpool. For this occasion we count with two good friends: Lukas from Austria and again Joy from The Netherlands. In this series of five episode we will try to predict the winner of Eurovision 2023 by ranking all the songs from the winner to bottom 37. In this episode we will deal with the songs of the first half of Semifinal 1....