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The Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final becomes the UK’s most-watched TV programme of the year so far 🙌
An average 9.3 million people saw BBC One’s coverage from Turin.
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We did it lads! I think we finally turned the corner 🇬🇧 🥹
For the first time in 71 years of the Official Chart (and in the Eurovision Song Contest's 67-year history), this week sees four tracks from ESC simultaneously in the Top 10 of the UK Official Singles Chart 🙏🏼
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I have my own Eurovision trophy which arrived in the post today 🥹. Thank you
@Eurovision
♥️
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…and SPACE MAN was released on 22/2/22
SPACE MAN will be song
#22
at the
#Eurovision
Grand Final!🇬🇧
Let’s go
#teamSPACEMAN
👩🚀
@SamRyderMusic
#SPACEMAN
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We didn’t know if we would even be able to perform tonight so just getting on stage was a win. I could not be more proud. Freya has been the perfect ambassador, even when things were not looking good she never gave up - so for me she won before she even stepped on stage
#JESC22
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Sometimes dreams do come true 🙏🏼
Head of Show 😱🙃🥳
The BBC has announced the team in charge of delivering
#Eurovision
2023 in Liverpool 💫
They’ll ensure next year’s show will be the most exciting, creative and innovative Eurovision ever!
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Goodbye 2022. Finally a successful year for UK at
#Eurovision
🙏🏼 . A jury winner in ESC and a public vote winner in JESC. Now just need to work out how to do both at the same time 😂🙃. Here’s to 2023 - a big year ahead, the first BBC/UK hosted Eurovision in 25 years 🥳
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Thank you for everyone’s lovely comments on Eurovision tonight. I’ll be honest - I’m used to the hate rather than the love so appreciate that we could all ‘come together’ tonight to celebrate the event we love so much. Here’s to 2021.....in Rotterdam
#eurovision
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22 years ago today since I attended my first live Eurovision 😍 🇬🇧
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Just in the car on the way back from Strictly…what a night! Thanks for all the lovely comments and messages. It’s so ❤️ to see everyone’s excitement - I’m excited too 😱 Olly is incredible and will be a brilliant Eurovision ambassador for us - 100% committed. Here’s to 2024 🥂
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Our new Eurovision King 👑
UK hun? Olly Alexander will represent the United Kingdom at Eurovision! 🇬🇧
#Eurovision2024
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Heads of Delegation meeting in Liverpool telling everyone what’s in the three lives shows 🤫
#eurovision
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UK live on tape for Eurovision done ✔️
Sam was OUT OF THIS WORLD each and every take. Insane vocals 🇬🇧 🤞 🏆
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Meet the King and Queen Consort and reveal the Eurovision stage. An average Wednesday. (She loved Serbia’s prop)
Lights, camera, action! 🤩
The
#Eurovision2023
arena lights are up and running in Liverpool - thanks to Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort
@RoyalFamily
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Reunited. Same green room gang from Turin 2022, to this afternoon rehearsing in Liverpool 2023
#eurovision
♥️
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👏 🇬🇧 next stop Rotterdam 🇳🇱
The staging will be done by Jerry Reeve and Tom Denning who have created and choreographed for John Legend, Jonas Brothers and Taylor Swift - so we’re in safe hands guys. Can’t wait for everyone to see it. It’s going to look 👌🏼
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It didn’t leak 🙏🏼 It’s a miracle
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SO proud of this comeback! Really wanted to keep up momentum and make sure we sent a brilliant pop song and incredible artist. Really hoping we have turned a corner now and UK can once again achieve great results at junior and adult Eurovision. Looking forward to Armenia 🙌
Freya Skye will sing her uptempo smash Lose My Head for the United Kingdom in Yerevan 🇬🇧
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What a joy. What an honour 🥹
✨ The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 Grand Final scores douze points for the BBC as it becomes the most watched Grand Final ever!
The final saw a 5 minute peak of 11 million, average of 9.9 million and share of 63%.
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Eurovision won two awards today at the BBC Awards - Outstanding Achievement and People’s Choice 👏 🏆
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Goodbye Eurovision 2023 💛 Happy New Year - here’s to 2024 🥂
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🚀- and followed straight after by Het Grote Songfestivalfeest 💃🏻
A date for your diaries. Graham Norton will chat to the UK’s Eurovision 2024 act Olly Alexander in a one-off special on Friday 1 March on BBC One at 10.40pm. There’ll also be a play of Olly’s video for his Eurovision song ‘Dizzy’.
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12 shows over 6 days - let the Eurovision Song Contest…begin! 🥳
✨ 8 hours of live TV
✨ 50 live feeds
✨ 150 microphones
✨ Over 1,200 individual streams of audio
✨ 160 million+ viewers worldwide
Let the
#Eurovision
Song Contest 2023 begin...
Read more ➡️
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Love this design from Julio. Definitely one of the perks of the job getting to work on this year’s stage ✨
Surprise surprise! ✨
Here's your very first look at the
#Eurovision2023
stage!
⭐️ More details (and photos!) right here:
#100DaysToEurovision
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😱 🥹
And the winner of Best Music Programme is
@bbceurovision
Song Contest 2023,
@BBCStudios
for
@BBC
.
#BroadcastAwards
#BA2024
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She is going to be 👌🏼 at Eurovision. Can’t wait
i wish i had the longer clip, but hannah waddingham taking over as this morning host when? imagine her and alison hammond working together on the regular
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Finally setting it free 🥹 🇬🇧 😵💫
oh i’m so 🌀dizzy🌀 with excitement !! i can’t believe it’s finally here - my new single Dizzy is out at midnight gmt, and the official video drops at 8am gmt tomorrow!!
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Interested to hear what everyone thinks we’ve done… 🤔
BIG NEWS! 🚨
The
#Eurovision2023
Semi-Final running orders will be revealed tomorrow at 19:00 CET 🏃
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Let’s go one better in 2023! 🥇 🇬🇧
📢 Good morning Europe, United Kingdom calling. The BBC has confirmed selection plans for the UK’s song and act for the 67th
#Eurovision
Song Contest 🎤
Get all the info ➡️
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Please let this happen 🙏🏼 🎁
🎅 Sam Ryder coming in hot for his first Number 1 single 🎅
#ChartFact
@SamRyderMusic
is just 42 (!!) units behind WHAM! in the race for
#XmasNo1
👉
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✨ 👏- and breathe…can finally talk about them 😅
Introducing Liverpool’s new Fab Four 🥳 Your
#Eurovision2023
hosts are:
⭐️ Graham Norton
⭐️ Hannah Waddingham
⭐️ Julia Sanina
⭐️ Alesha Dixon
Read all about them here:
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👏 🙌
The production management team at
@bbcstudios
win the Production Management award for their work on the
@Eurovision
Song Contest 2023. Jurors said the “team successfully delivered on a scale not seen in the UK since 1998”
#RTSAwards
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BAFTA nominated 🥹
And we’re live! 🔴 The Live Event Coverage nominees are…
THE CORONATION CONCERT
EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2023
ROYAL BRITISH LEGION FESTIVAL OF REMEMBRANCE
#BAFTATVAwards
with
@pandocruises
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So excited that we’ve been able to make this change and looking forward to working with BMG. Collaborating with a label from the beginning of the process who have access to world class writers and artists is essential for the UK to achieve great results again.
#nextchapter
🙏🏽
🇬🇧🇳🇱
@BBC
confirms UK participation in
#Eurovision
2020 in Rotterdam, and a new partnership between
@BBCStudios
and
@bmguk
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For anyone that’s interested in coming along ✌🏼
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Genuinely this is my most important job tonight - to remember to bring pole grip to stage 😅
#eurovision
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This is the script from my first ever TV work experience job. March 1998 - and look at the signature on the back ♥️. She was previewing ‘Where Are You?’ on the show and I told her I was a huge ESC fan. 25 years later…I could not have dreamed what came next ✨
#eurovision
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Liverpool 🙌- the real star of this year’s Eurovision. What a brilliant city 💛
Our friends at
@lpoolcouncil
have been looking into the economic and social impact of hosting the Eurovision Song Contest ✨
Read more 👇
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🥰 this was VERY kind in her own moment. A star, an icon. Hannah truly deserved this award.
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Tonight it’s the 64th Eurovision Song Contest and I’ve loved every minute. Win or lose it doesn’t matter. We’re representing our country and there is no greater honour. Thank you to every one who has supported the team and even those who haven’t. Tonight let’s enjoy it together.
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Sam Ryder 😍 🙌
Join this star-studded line-up for an unforgettable night, celebrating some of the most significant moments from The Queen’s seven decade reign.
Watch the Platinum Party at the Palace from Saturday 4th June at 7.30pm on BBC One and
@BBCiPlayer
👑
#PlatinumPartyAtThePalace
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She was a ⭐️ from the minute we met her. So pleased these gigantic things are happening for Freya in the US
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Definitely the best delegation manager I’ve ever seen
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First two UK Eurovision songs in the can. Can't obviously say anything about them other than they are EPIC.
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Found a letter that I wrote to a TV magazine when I was 16, complaining about the TV show Man O Man.
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Sam Ryder & Hannah Waddingham singing together last night ♥️ 🤩
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Praying to the gods 🙏🏼
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So excited to have made this 💃🏻
The wonderful
@kylieminogue
wil spend a Secret Night with Channel 4 this December, in a 90-minute special hosted by
@AlanCarr
.
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Lots of brilliant and super talented friends/colleagues joining the Eurovision 2023 team 💛Nikki, Richard, Ollie, Dan, Kojo, Tim, Robert, Julio and new Ukrainian colleagues Oksana, German and Tetiana. ✨
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May still means
#Eurovision
! With programmes across TV, Radio and a special night of
@Eurovision
on May 16th.
📺 Eurovision: Come Together - 6.30pm
@BBCOne
📺 Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light - 8pm
@BBCOne
📺 The A-Z of Eurovision - 10pm
@BBCTwo
👉
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@SteveHReports
Love this. Did I tell you that when our prop went to Turin it all arrived at the venue and then a couple of days later half of it ‘went missing’ for a while and then it was found…..in Rome 🤪 (it had accidentally been put on a truck there!)
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#100DaysToEurovision
Your 🇬🇧Top 10?
96 Ooh..Aah..Just A Little Bit
98 Where Are You?
94 We Will Be Free(Lonely Symphony)
99 Say It Again
91 A Message To Your Heart
92 One Step Out Of Time
83 I’m Never Giving Up
82 One Step Further
72 Beg, Steal or Borrow
95 Love City Groove
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Who’s going? 🇸🇪 🗓
Welcome back to Malmö! 🇸🇪
Malmö will host
#Eurovision
for the third time on 7, 9, and 11 May 2024 🥳
All the details here ➡️
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Listening to Kylie from A to Z on
@BBCRadio2
and thankful I got to work with Kylie on a show all last Summer. She’s a total joy *gives me an excuse to post this pic 😛 Loving this show
@malprin
well done 👏
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Here we go! 👏 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
The host city of the
@BBCEurovision
Song Contest 2023, on behalf of Ukraine, will be announced on
@BBCTheOneShow
tonight!
Tune in at 7pm on
@BBCOne
&
@BBCiPlayer
to find out if it's
#Glasgow
or
#Liverpool
!
#Eurovision
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7 years ago today 😍
#melfest
Who’s going to win tonight? Have a feeling Eric will win jury, Tusse public vote and Eric wins overall...
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Congrats to our Lighting, Camera and Production Management teams for their RTS Craft & Design nominations for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest 🙌
🏆 We are pleased to announce the nominations for the RTS Craft and Design Awards 2023, sponsored by
@AppleTV
! 🏆
The awards celebrate excellence in broadcast television and the broad range of skills and processes involved in programme making:
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@gjkooijman
🫶🏼- made with love ♥️ and loads more little surprises along the way for us Eurofans 👏
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🎆 so deserved for the nicest guy on the 🌍
🚀 He's searched around the universe and been down some black holes... and now
#Eurovision
star Sam Ryder's rounding off his incredible 2022 by rocking into the New Year on
@BBCOne
and
@BBCiPlayer
in Sam Ryder’s All Star New Year’s Eve!
Read more ➡️
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If I wasn’t going to Rotterdam I would be watching/listening to ALL this stuff 🥳 👏 🇬🇧
May means it's
#Eurovision
month on the
@BBC
! 🥳
📺 Semi Finals | BBC Four | 18th & 20th May
📺
@Eurovision
Grand Final |
@BBCOne
| 22nd May
🔥 Plus so much more across
@BBCRadio2
,
@BBCSounds
&
@BBCiPlayer
to LIGHT UP THE ROOM 👉
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🚨 A new UK government and this deluxe edition just dropped out of nowhere with a brand new song. Happy Friday🚨
#thingscanonlygetbetter
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Something joyous in these miserable days. This is from the Eurovision HoD dinner a few weeks ago. Some classic Dutch entries; when there was still a glimmer of hope for this year’s contest. Until 2021...
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He's up in space, man! 🚀
Sam Ryder (
@SamRyderMusic
) rockets to Number 1 with his debut album 🏆
Join Sam on
@BBCTheOneShow
from 7pm tonight for a ✨very✨ special surprise 👀
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@EdwardafSillen
Don’t worry - you’ve still got it. Remember Måns ‘the wore pants so tight you could see if the kingdom was united or not’ - one of your best.
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I do get a lovely holiday out of it though...
If you're a producer on
#TheJump
, be ashamed. You've brought a new low to British Television and dumbed an alpine culture.
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Congrats
@JJClarkeMusic
- ‘Freaks’ has now overtaken ‘Love Shine A Light’ and is the most streamed UK Eurovision song on Spotify since ‘Ooh...Aah...Just A Little Bit’ - beating everything we actually sent to Eurovision since 1996 (I’m no Voderman - happy to be fact checked 🤪)
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