Genre: Eurovision Song Contest
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About Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held by the European Broadcasting Union since 1956. It is the most-viewed and longest-running televised musical event in the world, attracting millions of viewers a year and having a running streak only broken in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eurovision entries in recent years tend to be associated with radio-friendly pop songs - moving from the French chanson style in the early years of the Contest to a polished europop and ethnopop-oriented sound in the current millennium. Read more on Last.fm.
Eurovision entries in recent years tend to be associated with radio-friendly pop songs - moving from the French chanson style in the early years of the Contest to a polished europop and ethnopop-oriented sound in the current millennium. Read more on Last.fm.
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The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held by the European Broadcasting Union since 1956. It is the most-viewed and longest-running televised musical event in the world, attracting millions of viewers a year and having a running streak only broken in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eurovision entries in recent years tend to be associated with radio-friendly pop songs - moving from the French chanson style in the early years of the Contest to a polished europop and ethnopop-oriented sound in the current millennium. The range of genres and languages remains wide, including Finnish heavy metal (Hard Rock Hallelujah, 2006), Corsican popera (Sognu, 2011), Portuguese jazz waltz (Amar Pelos Dois, 2017), Russian feminist artpop (Russian Woman, 2021) and Lithuanian post-punk (Tavo Akys, 2025) among many others.
This contest often serves as a springboard for the competing artists' careers. Contestants which rose to international stardom following their participation at Eurovision include ABBA (Sweden 1974), Celine Dion (Switzerland 1988) and Måneskin (Italy 2021). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Eurovision entries in recent years tend to be associated with radio-friendly pop songs - moving from the French chanson style in the early years of the Contest to a polished europop and ethnopop-oriented sound in the current millennium. The range of genres and languages remains wide, including Finnish heavy metal (Hard Rock Hallelujah, 2006), Corsican popera (Sognu, 2011), Portuguese jazz waltz (Amar Pelos Dois, 2017), Russian feminist artpop (Russian Woman, 2021) and Lithuanian post-punk (Tavo Akys, 2025) among many others.
This contest often serves as a springboard for the competing artists' careers. Contestants which rose to international stardom following their participation at Eurovision include ABBA (Sweden 1974), Celine Dion (Switzerland 1988) and Måneskin (Italy 2021). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.