Blue are an English boy band consisting of members Simon Webbe,Duncan James,Antony Costa and Lee Ryan. The group formed in 2000 and released three studio albums before announcing a hiatus In late 2004. In January 2011,the group reformed and represented the United Kingdom at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf with the song "I Can",coming in 11th place with 100 points. In 2013,it was confirmed that the group would be joining The Big Reunion,in which six groups from the past reform for a one-off gig. On 27 March 2013,the group announced they would embark on their first headlining tour later on in the year,their first tour in nearly ten years.
Eurovision:You Decide is the most recent name of a BBC television programme that was broadcast annually to select the United Kingdom's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. The show had previously gone under several other names,including Festival of British Popular Songs (1957),Eurovision Song Contest British Final (1959–1960),The Great British Song Contest (1996–1999),Eurovision:Making Your Mind Up (2004–2007),Eurovision:Your Decision (2008),and Eurovision:Your Country Needs You (2009–2010),but was known,for most of its history,as A Song for Europe.
Voyager is a progressive metal band from Perth,Western Australia,formed in 1999. The band has released seven full-length albums. Their seventh full-length studio album,Colours in the Sun,was released worldwide on 1 November 2019 on the French American metal record label Season of Mist. They will represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with the song "Promise".
Emmelie Charlotte-Victoria de Forest is a Danish singer and songwriter.
The Barbara Dex Award was a fan-voted accolade awarded annually to the worst-dressed contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest. The award was created by the fansite The House of Eurovision in 1997,which hosted it until the site's closure in 2016. Songfestival.be presented the Barbara Dex Award from 2017 onwards,changing its criterion to the "most striking look" in 2019. Prior to the Eurovision Song Contest 2022,the site announced the award's discontinuation,intending to replace it with a more positively connotated accolade.
Australia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest seven times since its debut in 2015 and has been in the top ten four times. It is the second country outside of the Eurasia region to take part in the contest since Morocco competed in 1980. The country's best result in the contest is a second-place finish for Dami Im in 2016. Australia also finished in the top ten in three of its other appearances in the contest,with Guy Sebastian finishing fifth in 2015,and both Isaiah and Kate Miller-Heidke finishing ninth in 2017 and 2019.
Jessica Alyssa Cerro,who performs as Montaigne,is an Australian art pop musician and Twitch streamer. Her debut album,Glorious Heights,was released on 5 August 2016 and peaked at No. 4 on the ARIA Albums Chart. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2016 she won Breakthrough Artist –Release for the album and was nominated for three other categories. In April 2016 she was a featured vocalist on Hilltop Hoods' track,"1955",which reached No. 2 on the ARIA Singles Chart. She was supposed to represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with her song "Don't Break Me",until the contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead,she represented Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Technicolour",but did not qualify from the semi-final,becoming the first Australian entrant not to qualify to the final since the debut of Australia in 2015.
"Tonight Again" is a song by Australian recording artist Guy Sebastian. The song represented Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. It premiered on 16 March 2015,before the Eurovision entry deadline and it was released as a single on digital platforms on 7 April. The song was co-written and recorded by Sebastian specifically for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in only a week. "Tonight Again" appears as the final track on the European edition of Sebastian's eighth studio album,Madness.
"LoveWave" is a song by Armenian singer Iveta Mukuchyan. Premiered on March 2,2016,it was released as a single on March 30,2016. It represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. "LoveWave" was written by Mukuchyan,Stephanie Crutchfield,Lilith Navasardyan and Levon Navasardyan. To promote the song,an accompanying music video was released and co-stars Mukuchyan and Swedish model Ben Dahlhaus.
Isaiah Firebrace is an Australian singer who won the eighth season of The X Factor Australia in 2016. He then represented Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Don't Come Easy",where he finished 9th.
"Don't Come Easy" is a song performed by Australian recording artist Isaiah Firebrace. The song was released as a digital download on 8 March 2017 through Sony Music Australia. The song represented Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017.
Australia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "We Got Love" written by Anthony Egizii,David Musumeci and Jessica Mauboy. The song was performed by Jessica Mauboy,who was internally selected by the Australian broadcaster Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) to represent that nation at the 2018 contest in Lisbon,Portugal. Mauboy was announced as the Australian representative on 11 December 2017. The song Mauboy performed,"We Got Love",was presented to the public on 8 March 2018.
"On My Way" is a song by Australian indie pop band,Sheppard. The song was released in Australia on 1 February 2019 as one of the ten competing entries in Eurovision - Australia Decides;in an attempt to represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. Eurovision - Australia Decides took place on 9 February 2019 and Sheppard performed the song 7th in the running order and placed third behind "2000 and Whatever" by Electric Fields and the winner "Zero Gravity" by Kate Miller-Heidke.
"Zero Gravity" is a song performed by Australian singer Kate Miller-Heidke. It was released as a single on 25 January 2019,and was Australia's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 after it won the jury and public vote on Eurovision - Australia Decides on 9 February 2019.
The United Kingdom originally planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song "My Last Breath" written by James Newman,Ed Drewett,Adam Argyle and Iain James. The song was performed by James Newman,who was internally selected by the British broadcaster BBC to represent the United Kingdom at the 2020 contest in Rotterdam,Netherlands. Newman and "My Last Breath" was announced as the British entry on 27 February 2020.
The Eurovision Song Contest has had a long-held fan base in the LGBT community,and Eurovision organisers have actively worked to include these fans in the contest since the 1990s.
Sheldon Riley Hernandez is an Australian singer. He represented Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with his song "Not the Same". He first appeared as a contestant on the eighth season of The X Factor Australia. Riley later competed on the seventh season of The Voice Australia,and in 2020,he appeared on America’s Got Talent for its fifteenth season.
Australia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin,Italy. The Australian broadcaster Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) selected Sheldon Riley with "Not the Same" to represent the country,after he won Eurovision –Australia Decides on 26 February 2022.
Andrew Lambrou is an Australian singer. He is scheduled to represent Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.
The You’re A Vision Award is a fan-voted accolade awarded annually to the "most remarkable outfit" in the Eurovision Song Contest. The award was created by the fansite Songfestival.be before the Eurovision Song Contest 2022,after they announced the discontinuation of the Barbara Dex Award created by The House of Eurovision in 1997. This was due to the negative connotation of the award because of its origins of deciding "the worst dressed look" in the contest and wanted to replace it with a more positively connotated accolade.
