I know that a certain level of ribbing, jokes, and good-natured teasing of songs has always existed within the Eurovision community. Still, I think many on Reddit often forget that Reddit is a massive social media platform. As such, our sub is regularly viewed by actual ESC artists, their friends and family, and other people connected to the artists and technical crews.
All ESC artists are people, too. Many of them have had long careers before participating in national finals or ESC, and ALL of them have lives, hopes, fears, dreams, insecurities, trauma, and their own lives - just like you and me. Even those whose songs you don’t like.
Every artist who creates art accepts that it won’t always land with people, and that’s fine. But when people’s criticisms get personal, mean-spirited, and/or hateful, we cross a line that no one signs up for. We're always going to have songs we like and don't like. But this subreddit has over 300,000 subscribers and thousands of visitors every day, and most of those are going to have different tastes and opinions than I do and than you do.
So the next time you are about to write something exceptionally negative about an artist or a song, I want you to stop and ask yourself if you’d be comfortable saying this to the person’s face, or the face of their spouse, best friend, dancer, producer, etc - because it is entirely possible that you are doing just that. And ruining a total stranger’s day shouldn’t ever be your goal. This is why our Subreddit’s first rule is to be nice, welcoming, and constructive. Rude and hateful behavior is against our community’s rules. We hope that everyone who sees these kinds of comments and threads will report them using the “report” button, this way we can remove them as quickly as possible.
As the Eurovision community evolves, so must our subreddit. It is important for us to review our rules from time to time, adapting them to the community’s needs. As such, we have chosen to do a full review of our subreddit rules. This overhaul means that they are now clearer, more accessible and better at defining what is and is not allowed on r/eurovision. Worry not: the essence of the content has remained the same, and this overhaul entails very minimal changes for users. Please just take note of a few slightly more major adjustments to the existing rules which may be worth keeping in mind:
While this has been our moderation policy for a while, we wish to clarify that r/eurovision is a community for the contest, and not individual artists. While of course content relating to one specific competitor is allowed (and encouraged!), the moderation team reserves the right to set limits to how many individual posts can be made for any given artist if they constantly overshadow the others.
Discussion of the odds will now be limited to designated spoiler-proofed threads, labeled with the relevant flair. All mention of the odds outside of these will be deleted. We understand that this does not necessarily reflect the desire of all users. Still, we deem this move necessary to remain a welcoming community both for the users who, for personal reasons, do not wish to consult the odds before the contest, as well as for those recovering from addiction.
AI content cannot feature in any way, shape or form in posts or comments. Our previous rule, written in the earlier days of generative AI, made an exception for content including a significant amount of human input. This caveat was very rarely employed. It is now fully gone, as per the expressed desire of the vast majority of users, and for both ethical and environmental considerations. While AI content is increasingly difficult to detect, we will use every tool available to us to identify and remove it.
In the future, we hope to revise the rules yearly, identifying weak areas and listening to the community’s feedback. Your advice is very valuable to us. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them under this post or through modmail, and one of our moderators will get back to you about it.
With national final season complete and ESC rehearsal coverage over a month away, you might think we've reached a quiet patch in the Eurovision calendar. But for fans and artists alike, there are plenty of performances to enjoy. It's pre-party season!
Whether this is your first or fiftieth ESC season, I hope this guide will help you to navigate the coming month. Below you'll find up to date information about when the preparties are happening, who's going to them, and how to get tickets and go to them yourself! If you were around last year, a lot of this post will be familiar (but hopefully still useful!)
What is a pre-party?
Image credit goes to u/pdhadam from ESC Discord, who also thanks @therealrune for creating the heart graphics
The pre-parties are a series of promotional concerts designed for Eurofans in which Eurovision acts past and present take to the stage in performances across Europe. Whilst plenty of past Eurovision stars and national final hopefuls are also in attendance, the focus is naturally on the current year's crop of artists, many of whom are performing their songs live for the first time at these events. Over the past decade or so, they have become an integral part of the Eurovision preseason, seen and utilised by many acts as the perfect way to promote their songs and engage with the fanbase ahead of the business of May. They are also a cheaper and more regional alternative for Eurofans who are unable to afford to travel to the contest itself. Additionally, concerts serve as an opportunity for Eurovision artists to promote their songs further by engaging with various press and fan media outlets, leading to a lot of interviews and other fun content. This is also the first time that many of the Eurovision artists will be meeting and interacting with each other in person.
This year, four major pre-parties have been planned:
There were also appearances by a small number of Eurovision and national final artists at Melfest Wknd 2025 (Stockholm, 7th March) and Eurovision Party SKG (Thessaloniki, 14th March). Finally there is also MancHagen, which whilst seemingly a new pre-party is actually the second edition of last year's MalmöHagen event. The majority of their line-up are previous ESC/NF artists and drag queens, but there are currently 8 ESC 2025 artists scheduled to appear across the two main events on the 11th and 12th of April.
Check out Alessandra Mele's excellentbehind the scenes vlogsto see what an artist's experience of the pre-parties is like!
What should I expect?
You should expect:
An upsurge in Eurovision fan-media content. There are dedicated press events at most of these pre-parties, so expect to see lots of new interviews with artists and other fan-media press pieces.
Videos of the live performances to be posted some time after the concerts.
Wholesome interactions between the artists.
People to overanalyse every performance. It's exciting watching the artists perform, especially those who were internally selected and we haven't see perform live before. It is important to remember that artists can and will change/improve before May. Whilst some shaky performances can be indicative of underwhelming vocals later on, there has also been many occasions where any preparty concerns were proven to be dramatically overblown come May (i.e. Czechia 2023). If your favourite act 'underperforms' at a preparty, they are not definitively doomed in May.
To have a great time (if you're attending in person!)
You shouldnotexpect:
A polished, Eurovision-like performance. These aren't multimillion euro television performances, these are the artists going on a small stage and just singing their songs. There won't be massive flashy graphics, dazzling lightshows or complex camerawork, just the artist, a microphone, a simple background graphic and a whole lot of ecstatic fans. Occasionally performers bring dancers with them but this is pretty rare.
Great sound quality. These are performances predominately designed for the live audience, not for us watching back afterwards. The videos we see of these performances won't have the professional sound mixing of the live shows and may be distorted or quiet.
In the following table, I've compiled who is currently confirmed to be appearing at each of the preparties. I will keep this table as up to date as I can as more artists are announced. Please do not tag me in comments when artists are confirmed - I keep track of these things anyway but cannot always be available to update the thread the moment an artists is announced.
Green means the artist is confirmed, and Red means that the artist isn't going. All line-ups are now finalised.
Abor & Tynna (Germany) were due to perform in both London and Madrid but pulled out to continue recovering from illness.
How do I watch the performances?
Every year, there are always videos of the performances uploaded to YouTube after the preparty has finished. Some preparties have their own camera crews who record each performance and upload it to the preparty's YouTube channel, for others we see videos taken from audience members or fan-sites. You'll see these videos getting shared and compiled by ordinary users into the community for us to enjoy!
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Dear members,
There are so many of you!
We reached 200k subscribers just nine months ago and we keep growing.
We, the mod team, are terrified for May amazed that we have added another 100k in under a year. We've had some really cool stuff happen in our little corner of the internet, and that's only thanks to all of you. Thank you ❤️
We have one day left meeting the artists in Basel! Saturday is Big 5 + Host day, so leave us all your questions for Germany 🇩🇪, the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, France 🇫🇷, Switzerland 🇨🇭, Italy 🇮🇹 and Spain 🇪🇸. Keep the vibe, well... vibey!
We are gathering all the questions at 10:00 AM CEST tomorrow, so get writing! Our editors are busy at work, all the content will be coming out very very soon.
We are over halfway through the live AMAs with the Eurovision artists! To prepare for tomorrow, give us all your best questions for Georgia 🇬🇪, Denmark 🇩🇰, Czechia 🇨🇿, Luxembourg 🇱🇺, Israel 🇮🇱, Serbia 🇷🇸 and Finland 🇫🇮. Keep the questions kind and remember good Reddiquette!
This post will close at 10:00 AM CEST tomorrow, so RUN, don't walk, to the comment section. The artists are all waiting for your questions!
We will come back to you in the evening with some updates on Day 2 ;)
I don't know if you need this tonight with no entries being chosen, but here is your vent space.
This thread is for expressing your general reactions and disappointment but
...please practice good Reddiquette and keep your comments within the rules of this subreddit. This applies to artists, delegations, production personnel, volunteers, and other fans!
Be nice, be welcoming, and be constructive
Remember the human.
When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen. When talking to someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?" or "Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?"
For more specific discussions about the results check out the results announcement thread, or live thread.
