What is the Eurovision Song Contest? | The Ultimate Guide

The Eurovision Song Contest is a spectacle of music and culture that is held annually in May. This explainer video will tell you everything you need to know - and more - about the world's biggest non-sporting event.
"Ooh Aah...Just A Little Bit" by Gina G was the UK's entry for the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest. It finished in 8th place.
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Narration by James Martin
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Video Credits:
British Pathé
EBU
The Guide Liverpool
KZbin - ESC Stuff
KZbin - Eurovision OLD
KZbin - OkraJoe
Music Credits (from Pixabay):
Maksym Dudchyk
Piano Amor
Oleksii Kalyna
Oleksii Holubiev
0:00 Intro
1:38 History
2:16 The EBU
2:50 Format & Rules
4:14 The Music
7:30 Commercial Success
7:54 Voting
8:37 Hosting
9:32 The Fans

[@ESCHayden]

Have more questions about the Eurovision Song Contest? Ask away...

[@Olivier-GM]

When will France (and Spain) win again ?!?!

[@ESCHayden]

@@Olivier-GM soon i think

[@jita26televisi]

​@@Olivier-GM France might be a favourite with the juries. It sure is a favourite to me! 😁

[@Nask.technolgy]

To submit a song do you need to be very known artist with a label or independent artist can submit their music as well?

[@ESCHayden]

Ultimately it's up to the broadcaster. Sometimes it might be an independent artist, say someone who's competed on The Voice. But broadcasters usually prefer artists with label backing as they can help fund the participation and promote the song.

[@lucasspace22]

So well edited! Thank you for all of the effort put into making the video :)

[@Eurovision-OLD]

Great video, loved it! And thanks for the credit ;)

[@JamieJooESC]

Wow man. Thanks for the mention. Look forward to the video

[@ArianesDrawingPH]

As an Asian, thanks for uploading this explaination video. Now, I would can explain to my classmates and my teachers also. Also, that narrator is too professional for this video.

[@ESCHayden]

Glad you found it useful ☺

[@patrickh3385]

Great video - nice and succinct but sufficiently detailed. I'm glad you chose Bucks Fizz as the UK winner to include and the others were well selected too - was it difficult to pick a sample?

[@ESCHayden]

Thanks! 💙 And yeah, it was hard to pick the songs. I originally had a shortlist of over 20, which I reduced to a dozen. 20 was too many for 2 reasons, it would have been too long and there would be a greater chance of copyright issues. I could have just used shorter clips like I do usually, but I figured that if people are hearing these songs for the first time, they'll want more than just 7s of a song.

[@ZakonnicaSpodPrysznica]

Amazing video ❤ wish I sent a video too but I always struggle to express my thoughts with words, so I probably wouldn't know what to say even though Eurovision is a huge part of my life and I would be completely different person without it

[@manuu-f]

Make a video about Junior Eurovision as well

[@ESCHayden]

I'll see how this one performs and if it does well consider it for next JESC season.

[@tahneether6010]

I love Eurovision! Americans also say swearing fyi.

[@BettyG196]

4:30 was SR the former name of SVT or was it another Swedish broadcaster that no longer participate in the contest?

[@ESCHayden]

I wondered that but apparently SVT is Sveriges Television and SR is Sveriges Radio.