We mark the halfway point of Eurovision Selection Season with the third Super Saturday in a row.

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Keep up with Eurovision selection season on our Basel 2025 page! We have a calendar with links to livestreams, details about entries as their selected, plus our Spotify playlists with every song we can find that is trying to get the Eurovision stage.

If you would like to help financially support the show, we are hosting the EuroWhat AV Club over on Patreon! We have a slew of bonus episodes with deep dives on Eurovision-adjacent topics.

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• I Love Horses best of all the animals🐎 - theme song - YouTube

It's the biggest weekend of Eurovision 2025 so far with Ireland, Ukraine, Finland, Latvia, and Malta making picks while several other countries' processes continued. Do-re-mi-fa-serving exhausted, but we shall persevere!

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Comments, questions, and episode topic suggestions are always welcome. You can shoot us an email or reach out on Bluesky @eurowhat.bsky.social.

Keep up with Eurovision selection season on our Basel 2025 page! We have a calendar with links to livestreams, details about entries as their selected, plus our Spotify playlists with every song we can find that is trying to get the Eurovision stage.

If you would like to help financially support the show, we are hosting the EuroWhat AV Club over on Patreon! We have a slew of bonus episodes with deep dives on Eurovision-adjacent topics.

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Eurovision started to get structure this week thanks to the semi-final allocation draw, the first wave of ticket sales, and selections from Greece, Slovenia, Belgium, and Spain. Sweden kicked off Melfest, Lithuania got competitive, and Latvia picked finalists. This was the easy Super Saturday...

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Comments, questions, and episode topic suggestions are always welcome. You can shoot us an email or reach out on Bluesky @eurowhat.bsky.social.

Keep up with Eurovision selection season on our Basel 2025 page! We have a calendar with links to livestreams, details about entries as their selected, plus our Spotify playlists with every song we can find that is trying to get the Eurovision stage.

If you would like to help financially support the show, we are hosting the EuroWhat AV Club over on Patreon! We have a slew of bonus episodes with deep dives on Eurovision-adjacent topics.

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• Recreating ALL Eurovision Winners (2000-2025) | The Ultimate Eurovision Challenge by Klemen Slakonja - YouTube

Luxembourg selected their Eurovision representative at the end of a surprisingly busy week. Moldova has withdrawn, several countries released potential songs, and Finland's UMK faces a significant shakeup.

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Comments, questions, and episode topic suggestions are always welcome. You can shoot us an email or reach out on Bluesky @eurowhat.bsky.social.

Keep up with Eurovision selection season on our Basel 2025 page! We have a calendar with links to livestreams, details about entries as their selected, plus our Spotify playlists with every song we can find that is trying to get the Eurovision stage.

If you would like to help financially support the show, we are hosting the EuroWhat AV Club over on Patreon! We have a slew of bonus episodes with deep dives on Eurovision-adjacent topics.

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• One Morning Left has been expelled from UMK due to breach of contract – the band is disbanding | Culture | Yle
• The Republic of Moldova will not participate in Eurovision 2025
• Eurosong 2025 - 🇧🇪 Belgium's National Final - Livestream | #Eurovision2025 - YouTube
• EMA 2025 | RTV 365
• Eurovision Song Contest 2025: The Semi-Final Draw | #Eurovision2025 - YouTube

It's another hopping Eurovision 2025 setup week with another wave of potential songs, information about Basel, the ESC hosts, ticket sales, plus auditions and previews from Moldova and Belgium.

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Comments, questions, and episode topic suggestions are always welcome. You can shoot us an email or reach out on Bluesky @eurowhat.bsky.social.

Keep up with Eurovision selection season on our Basel 2025 page! We have a calendar with links to livestreams, details about entries as their selected, plus our Spotify playlists with every song we can find that is trying to get the Eurovision stage.

If you would like to help financially support the show, we are hosting the EuroWhat AV Club over on Patreon! We have a slew of bonus episodes with deep dives on Eurovision-adjacent topics.

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• Eurovision Song Contest 2025: The Semi-Final Draw | #Eurovision2025 - YouTube
• 12 artiști și trupe s-au calificat în finala națională Eurovision 2025
• Eurovision 2025 Selection Season | Spotify

We ease into the waters of the Eurovision TV season, thanks to the first heat of Lithuania's Eurovizija.LT. We also check in on the candidate song drops for the processes happening in Finland, Malta, Croatia, and Greece.

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Comments, questions, and episode topic suggestions are always welcome. You can shoot us an email or reach out on Bluesky @eurowhat.bsky.social.

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• Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Videos - YouTube
• Dora 2025. | Spotovi - YouTube
• Eurovision 2025 - Eθνικός Τελικός: TOP 12 - YouTube

Before 2025 gets into full swing, we catch up on Eurovision news from the end of 2024. We have designs! We have fonts! We have an entry where we're not not saying Tirana 2026! Plus, we go deep on the results from the ESC 250 Countdown.

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• Eurovision 2025: Visuals, stage and ticketing info revealed
• TICKETS: Eurovision Song Contest Pre-Registration
• Hotel Association fights excessive prices during ESC | Basler Zeitung
• Thomas Benstem - TV Performance Showreel (ESC & ESC Elections) - YouTube
• EuroWhat's On Calendar
• ESC 250 2024 Results – Songfestival.be

As we head into 2025, we jump back 25 years to watch the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest. How has the competition, fashion, and pop music changed in the last quarter-century(!)?

The EuroWhat? Podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts. Find your podcast app to subscribe here.

Comments, questions, and episode topic suggestions are always welcome. You can shoot us an email or reach out on Bluesky @eurowhat.bsky.social.

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• Eurovision Song Contest 2000 - FULL SHOW - YouTube
• Stockholm 2000
• Episode 63: Flags on the Play
• Episode 87: AfriMusic, AI, and the Free European Song Contests
• At least 20 killed in huge explosion at Dutch fireworks warehouse | World news | The Guardian

As we rush to get out of 2024 we're getting details from just about every country participating in Eurovision 2025. We recap last month's Montesong from Montenegro, learn a bit about Czechia's artist, and start adding all the dates to our calendar.

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Comments, questions, and episode topic suggestions are always welcome. You can shoot us an email or reach out on Bluesky @eurowhat.bsky.social.

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• Malmö’s hosting of Eurovision evaluated as a big success for the city
• Eurovision Song Contest Introduces Official Code of Conduct
• RTCG issue statement on Vladana’s resignation - ESCXTRA.com
• SUPERSTAR SUPERFINÁLE 2021 | Adam Pavlovčin - Arcade - YouTube
• Danie Tregonning: "🪩 Eurovision Starter Packs 🪩 Welcome, folks! 🦋Doomsday Blue-Sky: go.bsky.app/D9bMpct (pack is full) 🦋Dipinto Di Blu-Sky: go.bsky.app/BkAdhNJ (now open) Use both to follow and share widely! Contact me for additions and/or removals. I’m not responsible for nor endorsing individual’s posts. ❤️" — Bluesky
• SUPERNOVA 2025 - YouTube
• Twin Flame Eurovision songs - YouTube
• EFR12 Radio Eurovision | La radio des stars de l'Eurovision

In 2019 we examined the Big 5—Italy, Spain, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom—and offered suggestions on how they might improve their standing at Eurovision. It's five years later: how are the Big 5 doing now?

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Comments, questions, and episode topic suggestions are always welcome. You can shoot us an email or reach out on Bluesky @eurowhat.bsky.social.

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• Episode 56: The Big 5 Gut Rehab (Italy)
• Episode 57: The Big 5 Gut Rehab (Spain and Germany)
• Episode 58: The Big 5 Gut Rehab (France and United Kingdom)
• Ben Dolic - Violent Thing | LIVE | ESC 2020 - YouTube
• Episode 105: AHHHHHHHH!