The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la chanson) is an annual song competition held among many of the active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and radio and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition. The contest has been broadcast every year since its inauguration in 1956 and is one of the longest-running television programmes in the world. It is also one of the most watched non-sporting events in the world,with audience figures having been quoted in recent years as anything between 100 million and 600 million internationally. Eurovision has also been broadcast outside Europe to such places as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt, India, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela despite the fact that they do not compete.Since 2000, the contest has also been broadcast over the Internet, with more than 74,000 people in almost 140 countries having watched the 2006 edition online.[9]
Artists whose international careers were directly launched into the spotlight following their participation at Eurovision include Domenico Modugno, who came third with the song "Nel blu dipinto di blu" in 1958, ABBA, who won the contest for Sweden in 1974 with "Waterloo", Céline Dion, who won for Switzerland in 1988 with "Ne partez pas sans moi",[10][11]the Spaniard Julio Iglesias, who has sold over 300 million records worldwide, and Bucks Fizz, who won in 1981 for the UK with "Making Your Mind Up".
| Eurovision Song Contest | |
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Eurovision Song Contest logo since 2004
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| Genre | Song contest |
| Created by | Marcel Bezençon |
| Presented by | List of presenters |
| Theme music composer | Marc-Antoine Charpentier |
| Opening theme | Te Deum (Prelude (Marche en rondeau)) |
| Country of origin | List of countries |
| Original language(s) | English and French |
| No. of episodes | 58 contests |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | List of host cities |
| Running time | 2 hours (semi-final) 3 hours, 30 minutes (final) |
| Productioncompany(s) | European Broadcasting Union |
| Distributor | Eurovision |
| Broadcast | |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) (1956–present) 1080i (HDTV) (2007–present) |
| Original run | 24 May 1956 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Eurovision Young Musicians (1983–) Eurovision Young Dancers (1985–) Junior Eurovision Song Contest(2003–) Eurovision Dance Contest (2007–2008) |
In my opinion, Eurovision is nice to know more about different tipes of music, coutries... and we shouldn`t always be watching and supporting sports, because music it's important enought to dedicate more time but sometimes it's just because the political, comertial and economic interest so it loses the beauty !
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