Show #215

He survived his time under the ladder and is now back with new music, former Eurovision star Mélovin pops in to chat with us this week. Meanwhile, we’re getting down and groovy with your chosen fan favourite and have a truly bella triple play lined up for you too. Plus all the latest stories from the Eurovision News…

This Weeks Highlights

Mélovin

Special Guest

Kostyantyn Mykolayovych Bocharov, better known by his stage name Mélovin, is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter. He first came to prominence after winning season six of X-Factor Ukraine. 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.

Love City Groove

Fan Favourite

Love City Groove were a musical group who represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995, with their self-titled song after being the winner in a public vote. The song finished tenth with 76 points; and peaked at No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart.

Italy has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 48 times since making its debut in 1956, which took inspiration from the Sanremo Music Festival. Italy competed at the contest without interruption until 1980, discontinuing its participation on a number of occasions during the 1980s and 1990s. After a 13-year absence starting in 1998, the country returned to the contest in 2011. Italy has won the contest three times, along with an additional 16 top-five finishes. Italy hosted the contest in Naples (1965), Rome (1991) and Turin (2022).

Marco Mengoni is an Italian singer-songwriter who rose to fame in 2009, after winning the third season of Italian talent show X Factor. Since that he has sold over 2.8 million records in Italy, peaking in the Italian albums chart seven consecutive times and entering the Top 10 Italian Singles Chart fifteen times.

He won the Sanremo Music Festival in 2013 and again in 2023, therefore representing Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest in both years, respectively.

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