History Recap / EurovisionSongContest

--> Held at the exact same venue as 2013's song contest, this year's included a 360 degree in-the-round stage, the big 5 nations and hosts performing at evenly spaced intervals at every 4 or 5 songs in the semi finals they vote in, and half of the qualifiers drawing a ballot that gave the producers the right to choose any slot for them in the final (with only 6 drawing the usual first half and 6 drawing the usual second half). For the final, the phone lines also opened at the start of the show for the first time since 2011, with a ballot made during the song registrations giving the opening slot to Sweden, the first home entry to open a final since 1970. The Israel-Gaza war and tensions in the Middle East cast a shadow over the contest and Finland, Iceland and Norway all fought against calls to boycott because of Israel being a competitor with one of the trio seeming set to gamble their participation on a Palestinian LGBT outsider artist Bashar Murad (whose ties to Iceland dated back almost entirely to Hatari's 2019 incident) only for him to lose their selection process run off, and the winning act, Hera Bjork, one of the year's oldest, and, as she previously famously represented the island in 2010, one of what would be only two returning artists that year, to participate normally, albeit with their commentator quitting and being replaced for this reason (the other 2 acts from this trio - a bizarre DJ who wears windows 95 logo themed clothing and puts on pyro-emitting daisy duke shorts, and a folk rock band whose song is based off a 19th century folk tale respectively - held week long reviews after winning their selections before participating normally). The Israelis themselves had to change the lyrics of their song, sang by Eden Golan, the second youngest act of the year in order to not be disqualified. In an irony, what would have been the story of the contest were it not for the war, Luxembourg's return after 31 years out, was with an Israeli born singer, Tali, after she won a public selection process. Romania withdrew due to struggling to allocate finances and failing to reach a decisive consensus over how to do so, and no other nations returned outwith the grand Duchy.

'''Participating Countries:''' 7 confirmed as of February 18, 2024

'''Participating Countries:''' 5 confirmed as of February 14, 2024

%%'''Presenters:''' TBA

-->Even before the contest began, Turin 2022 was overshadowed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine which began back in late February, which resulted in the former being disqualified and its national broadcasters expelled from the EBU. Conversely, Ukraine, running on a massive wave of popular sympathy, won the edition with a heartfelt folk-rap song by [[Music/{{Kalush}} Kalush Orchestra]] interpreted to be as much an ode to the Ukrainian motherland as it is to vocalist Oleh Psiuk's mother, in the process winning the televotes with a massive ''439 points'' (out of a possible 468), to date the highest points any nation received from one voting bloc, as well as doing very well with the juries at fourth-place (at 192 points) and surpassing the record set by Sweden's Loreen from Baku 2012 for most ''douze points'' received from a voting bloc at ''28'' (including all the Big Five, Nordic, and Baltic nations). After years of underwhelming finishes (including ''nul points'' last year), the United Kingdom rises to an impressive second-place courtesy of a rock tune from Website/TikTok star Sam Ryder, who led jury votes at 283 points and finished a decent fifth from televoters with 183, followed by another perennial Big Five underperformer, Spain, who this year impressed with a sensuous dance track from Cuban-Spanish Creator/ChanelTerrero, with the rest of the top five filled by a breakup ballad from Cornelia Jakobs of Sweden (who also scored its best non-winning finish since Måns Zelmerlöw won Vienna 2015) and an avant-garde entry from Ana "Konstrakta" Đurić of Serbia (also its best since Željko Joksimović's third in Baku a decade ago). As for the rest of the Big Five, returning Tel Aviv 2019 runner-up Music/{{Mahmood}}, paired with Riccardo "Blanco" Fabbriconi, finished sixth for Italy, the best finish for a host country since Sweden's fifth in Stockholm 2016, while last year's runner-up France suffered a catastrophic fall at 24th, only kept from the bottom by Germany bombing again with 6 points (all from televoters). Other notable entries include Armenia's "Snap" by Roza "Rosa Linn" Kostandyan eventually becoming a viral sensation despite a lowly twentieth-place finish, a couple of {{Anonymous Band}}s in the form of Circus Mirkus of Georgia and Music/{{Subwoolfer}} of Norway[[note]]Revealed roughly a year later to be, respectively, a project of Stockholm 2016 contestant Nika Kocharov and a duo composed of Ben Adams, frontman of British-Norwegian boy band A1, and Gaute Ormåsen, 2003 ''[[Series/AmericanIdol Norwegian Idol]]'' runner-up[[/note]], as well as the third coming of Moldova's memetic Zdob și Zdub (now joined by brothers and folk musicians Vasile and Vitalie Advahov). For the interval acts, Italy brought out its Eurovision alumni: for the first semifinal, "Fai rumore" by Antonio Diodato (from the pandemic-canceled Rotterdam 2020); for the second, "Grande amore" by Il Volo (third, Vienna 2015); and for the final, "Non ho l'età" by Gigliola Cinquetti (Italy's first Eurovision winner from Copenhagen 1964), as well as outgoing winners Music/{{Maneskin}} performing their latest single "Supermodel." On the other hand, jury vote-rigging in the second semifinals between Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, and San Marino forced the EBU to dispense with semifinal juries altogether for next year's edition.

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-->'''Dates:''' May 7 and 9 (semifinals), May 11 (final)
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-->'''Venue:''' Malmö Arena
-->'''Broadcaster:''' Sveriges Television (SVT)\\
'''Participating Countries:''' TBA -- Luxembourg returns

--> Despite a rare male winner being provided last year, this year’s 16 contestants involved 11 girl soloists, 2 girl groups (Armenia and U.K.), one girl duo (Italy), one with a girl singer and two featured boy singers (Georgia) and one boy-girl duet (Netherlands). For the 2nd time in just 5 Junior contests, the host nation won, this time with the disco-pop song Coeur (Heart) by Zoe. She won both sections and became the 4th French entry in a row to win with the jury, holding off the Armenians, Brits and Spanish, the latter of who managed to get 2nd with their multilingual love message despite it performing first. However, the other 2 nations in last year's top 6, Georgia and Ireland, were 2 of the bottom 3 along with the Estonian debutants - The Gaelic entry Jessica Mckean placed last despite her succesful predecessor Sophie Lennon accompanying her on stage at the end of her performance. Germany earned its highest placing at this level to date, whilst Albania earned only their second top half placing in Junior Eurovision. Votes were case from 175 countries, and the contestants accompanied previous French JESC representatives to sing a "We Are The World" cover in tribute to people affected as a result of several than-occuring or recent wars.

'''Winner:''' Armenia -- "Qami Qami"(lit: "Wind, Wind") by Malena\\

'''Winner:''' France -- "Oh, Maman" (lit: Oh, Mother) by Lisandro\\

'''Winner:'''TBC \\
—-> Despite a rare male winner being provided last year, this year’s 16 contestants involved 11 girl soloists, 2 girl groups (Armenia and U.K.), one girl duo (Italy), one with a girl singer and two featured boy singers (Georgia) and one boy-girl duet (Netherlands).

'''Presenters:''' Laura Pausini (award-winning singer and the first Italian woman to win a Grammy Award in 2006), Alessandro Cattelan (TV presenter and former host of ''Series/TheXFactor Italia'' from 2011 to 2020, the 2017 running of which saw the debut and runner-up finish of outgoing Eurovision winners Music/{{Maneskin}}), and Music/{{Mika}} (Lebanese-British singer and current judge/mentor at ''Series/TheXFactor Italia'')\\

'''Presenters:''' TBC\\
'''Venue:''' Palau’s Nikaia\\