This week we step up a gear and task our Superfans with four of this years contest contenders to disassemble and analyse. We also have plenty of past entries for you too, including in our National Triple play where we head back through the years and pull out some past memories from the Estonian archives. Plus, the biggest stories from this weeks Eurovision News…

This Weeks Highlights

Estonia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 28 times since making its debut in 1994. Its first appearance would have taken place in 1993 but a qualification round was installed for seven former Eastern Bloc countries hoping to make their debut in the contest, with Estonia failing to qualify. Estonia has won the contest once, in 2001.

Estonia’s first participation in 1994 was unsuccessful, finishing 24th (out of 25). Estonia went on to finish in the top eight in six out of seven contests (1996–2002), with Maarja-Liis Ilus and Ivo Linna fifth (1996), Maarja-Liis Ilus returning to finish eighth (1997), Evelin Samuel and Camille sixth (1999) and Ines fourth (2000), before Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL gave Estonia its first victory in 2001. This made Estonia the first former Soviet country to win the contest and the second eastern European country to win, after Yugoslavia in 1989. Sahlene then finished third for the hosts in Tallinn in 2002.

Since the introduction of the semi-final round in 2004, Estonia has failed to reach the final on ten occasions and has reached the top ten five times, with Urban Symphony sixth (2009), Ott Lepland sixth (2012), Elina Born and Stig Rästa seventh (2015), Elina Nechayeva eighth (2018) and Alika eighth (2023). Estonia’s total of eleven top ten results is more than any other Baltic country.

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Victor Fritz-Crone, also known as Victor Crone, is a Swedish singer, guitarist and songwriter. He was born and raised in Österåker, Sweden and started playing guitar and writing songs at the age of 15. When he was 18 he moved to Los Angeles and Nashville to write songs with acclaimed artists such as Diane Warren, Desmond Child and Eric Bazilian.

On 16 February 2019, Victor Crone won the Estonian national selection Eesti Laul with the song “Storm” and he received the right to represent Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, held in Tel Aviv, Israel. On 15 May, he qualified to the final. In the final Victor Crone placed 20th.

Track List

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1	Dance You Off	Benjamin Ingrosso	2018 Sweden
2	Without Your Love	Gary O’Shaughnessy	2001 Ireland
3	Diamond Of Night	Evelin Samuel & Camille	1999 Estonia
4	Partners In Crime	Gerli Padar	2007 Estonia
5	Storm	Victor Crone	2019 Estonia
6	1, 2, 3	Catherine Ferry	1976 France
7	No Rules	Windows95man	2024 Finland
8	La noia	Angelina Mango	2024 Italy
9	Keep Me In Mind	Mike Spiteri	1995 Malta
10	Hollow	Dons	2024 Latvia
11	Always On The Run	Isaak	2024 Germany
12	Sameyach	Ping Pong	2000 Israel
13	I Feed You My Love	Margaret Berger	2013 Norway

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