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 information about the organisation and the possible host cities of Eurovision 2026. As every year, we analyse...
May 31, 2025•1 hr 38 min
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 have shocking moments? And of course we have made our ranking! We will reveal our top list of the so...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 30 min
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 first selected artist like Theo Evan and some entries like Albania or Montenegro got the ticket to Bas...
Feb 05, 2025•2 hr•Season 3Ep. 1
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 dictatorship took Eurovision as an opportunity to show a modern and attractive country as well as to appeat...
Aug 31, 2024•1 hr 58 min•Season 2Ep. 8
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 festival full of significance for Didrik and Javier, the hosts of this podcast. It is the first vic...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 55 min•Season 2Ep. 9
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 to talk about everything or almost everything that happened at Malmö. We express our happyness for N...
May 17, 2024•2 hr 28 min
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 the ticket to the final? What will be their positions? Can we expect shocking qualifiers as well as ...
May 02, 2024•1 hr 45 min
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 other issues. Also, this is the time where Didrik and Javier will introuduce thier own country's and th...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 17 min
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 and The Netherlands. As usual, There will be time for analysis, debate and laughs, but at the same ti...
Apr 16, 2024•1 hr 49 min
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, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Australia, Portugal and Luxembourg. Also, Didrik and Javier will talk about the...
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 47 min
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 Cyprus. This time we go to Vienna's Hofburg to enjoy the 1967 edition, a year where the European Union ...
Jan 28, 2024•2 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 8
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 forthcoming interview with its author Luis Miguel Sargento. This time we analyse 1966 edition, celeb...
Jul 31, 2023•2 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 7
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, Loreen, wins twice Eurovision! Is it a good winner? Were there other entries which deserved the crystal m...
May 19, 2023•48 min
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?
May 19, 2023•1 hr 32 min
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 others have been surprises. What can they do to improve their results?
May 17, 2023•1 hr 4 min
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 was recorded just when the rehearsals began, so we did not have any clue about how the vocals or the ...
May 02, 2023•1 hr 40 min
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 the studio versions and only watching the national finals, before preparties began. There will be sur...
Apr 29, 2023•1 hr 7 min
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, Joker Out, Teya and Salena or the rock band Voyager.
Apr 21, 2023•56 min
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?
Apr 14, 2023•51 min
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?
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 5 min
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. Are you ready? LET THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2023 BEGIN
Mar 31, 2023•56 min
Hello again to all our listeners! Thank you very much for your fidelity! Some Eurovision 2023 songs have been selected, so it's time to analyse them. The National Finals have begun so we will talk a bit about Spain, Albania or France among many others. Our journey through Eurovision history continues in Naples 1965, a cornerstone in Eurovision history. France Gall and her 'Poupée de cire, poupée de son' meant the entrance of pop music in the festival. Discover this and other details in this epis...
Jan 30, 2023•2 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Welcome to a new episode of Eurovision from A to Z! We go back with lots of news about the festival but also in the meantime many things have happened in the world, something which we must be worried. We are going to deal with one of the most remembered editions of ESC, the festival held at Copenhaguen in 1964, for many reasons. This is the year where one of the icons of Eurovision, Gigliolla Cinquetti, won a sweeping victory with Non ho létà. You will also see 1964 is an edition full of landmar...
Dec 05, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Happy New Eurovision Year! Let's begin the new year with a new episode just after knowing that United Kingdom will organise the 2023 edition. This is a great chance to revisit London 1963, organised in similar circumstances after the winner declined to do so. This is a great festival which set the milestone of what we know now as the great TV show Eurovision is, full of innovations, great songs and great performances, with stars like Françoise Hardy or Nana Mouskouri. Join to the analysis of 196...
Sep 01, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 4
After celebrating Torino, our travel continues in Villa Louvigny in Luxembourg. But before taking the flight, Didrik and Javier will talk about the recent news concernig Eurovision 2023 (at the time of the recording the host country had not been announced yet). Didrik will also talk about the poll he has organised. What is the best Ukrainian song? After that, we will analise 1962 edition, where you can enjoy the songs of references of Eurovision and European music like Ronnie Carroll and Isabell...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Here comes our review and our opinions of what has been for us Eurovision 2022 celebrated in Torino. We review Ukraine's victory with Stefania with the implications and analyses it has. Also we will dedicate special attention to our countries, Spain and Sweden, which complete the Top 3 of this edition. As we did last year, we make our comments about the rest of the entries which reached the grand final, some mentions to those who did not qualify, and an overall impression of the shows. And also,...
May 16, 2022•2 hr 17 min
Welcome to this special episode of Eurovision from A to Z in the middle of the Eurovision season. The Preparties season and our cohost Javier will make a chronicle of the Madrid Preparty, the biggest of all these events. 50 acts took place for two nights, 30 of them from Eurovision 2022 on Saturday night. After that, we will debate about our impressions of ESC 2022 songs and artist and our predictions before watching the rehearsals. Also, we will have room for discussing about other topics like ...
May 03, 2022•1 hr 22 min
Our voyage continues travelling again to Cannes in the Festival held in 1961. In this time we are glad to host this episode with our first guest, our friend Joy from Netherlands. We analyse the festival with the highest number of entries until that moment, with the debut of classics like Spain, Finland and late Yugoslavia. After a brief analysis of the tumultous affairs about Eurovision, you will enjoy of good music and a piece of the history of music of the European continent, with classics lik...
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome again to Eurovision from A to Z! After a while we begin a new season with the interesting decade of the 1960s. Our journey will continue in the Royal Festival Hall of London, where the festival took place in 1960. As usual, we begin with our analysis of the current news concerning Eurovision: National finals, the released songs and a special attention to Melfest and the newcomer and successful Benidorm Festival. After this, we will analyse in detail the 1960 edition of Eurovision Song Co...
Feb 27, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Season 2Ep. 1
We close the first season with the las festival held in the 1950s. In this occasion we travel to Cannes, to enjoy the firs Eurovision festival held in France. After talking about the recent news, we will analyse the songs of this edition, including classics like Piove or the debut of one of the classic contendants, the Principality of Monaco. And as you know, we will determine our winner of 1959 contest, with and incredible ending.
Oct 17, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 4
