Bear with us everyone, this was the busiest week of the year: three internally selected acts finally released their songs, and the national final season came to a close during a Super Saturday that gave us another three competitors.

We enjoyed the lyrical prowess from Austria, the 007-inspired melodies from Czechia, and the West End mash-up from the UK. We also saw an ode to sauna emerge victorious in Sweden, an Italian patriotic chant from San Marino, and a saudade-filled ballad from Portugal. Do we complain? Well, only a little.

Our guest host this week, Jose, also helped us revive a Season One classic, songs that give us life, and you know how much we love any excuse to dive into the archives. It got nostalgic, it got celebratory, and it got political: if that ain’t what makes Eurovision, I don’t know what is.