Show #208

Our special guest this week graced the Eurovision stage in Liverpool this year aged just 16! He’s here to chat about the experience and brings us new music too. Your chosen fan favourite may involve us getting wet, so bring your finest umbrella, and our triple play is celebrating the good and great of Ukrainian Eurovision. Plus, your usual catch up on the big Eurovision News stories…

This Weeks Highlights

Victor Vernicos

Special Guest

Victor Vernicos Jørgensen is a Greek singer and songwriter. He represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with the song 'What They Say'.

Ruth Lorenzo

Fan Favourite

Ruth Lorenzo Pascual, better known as Ruth Lorenzo, is a Spanish singer, composer and television personality. She represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song 'Dancing In The Rain', finishing in 10th place.

Ukraine has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 18 times since making its debut in 2003. They have won the contest three times: in 2004 with “Wild Dances” by Ruslana, in 2016 with “1944” by Jamala, and in 2022 with “Stefania” by Kalush Orchestra, thus becoming the first country in the 21st century and the first Eastern European country to win the contest three times. The nation hosted the 2005 and 2017 contests in Kyiv. Since the introduction of the semi-final round in 2004, Ukraine is the only country outside of the “Big Five” to have qualified for the final of every contest they have competed in, and has been placed outside the top-ten only six times. Ukraine has a total of eight top-five placements, with Verka Serduchka (2007) and Ani Lorak (2008) both finishing second, Zlata Ognevich third (2013), Mika Newton fourth (2011) and Go_A fifth (2021), in addition to its wins. The only countries with more top-five results in the 21st century are Sweden (12) and Russia (10).

Kostyantyn Mykolayovych Bocharov, better known by his stage name Mélovin (stylised as MÉLOVIN), is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. He first came to prominence after winning season six of X-Factor Ukraine and later won the second season of the Masked Singer Ukraine in December 2021.

He represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song “Under the Ladder”, finishing in seventeenth place, with 130 points.

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