{"id":3363,"date":"2026-07-01T12:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:05:48","slug":"canada-officially-joins-eurovision-song-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"Canada Officially Joins Eurovision Song Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tC\u2019est officiel: Canada is joining the Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLast week, the North American country became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which owns and runs the contest, after they were voted in at the EBU\u2019s general assembly in Prague.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3361\">Paramount Set to Exit Universal Joint Venture as Condition for EU Approval of Mega-Merger With Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe move makes them eligible to participate in the annual singing competition and today it was confirmed the country intends to take part next year.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney reportedly raised the idea of joining Eurovision in his 2025 budget. It is unknown if Carney, who spent a number of years living in the U.K. when he was governor of the Bank of England, is a Eurovision fan but he is apparently looking to build closer economic and political ties with Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe country more generally is crazy for the contest. Despite not being able to participate in this year\u2019s competition in Vienna, Canada turned out to be one of the most enthusiastic voting blocs, coming in the top 3 countries in the \u201crest of the world\u201d vote, while Canadians were also among the largest group of ticket-buyers outside of Europe for the semi-final and grand final in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd despite not being eligible to participate until now, the country has fielded a number of contestants over Eurovision\u2019s seven decades. Most famously C\u00e9line Dion won one of the tightest races in Eurovision history \u2014 beating out the U.K. by a single point \u2014 when she represented Switzerland in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe first Canadian ever to participate in the contest was Sherisse Laurence, who appeared for Luxembourg two years earlier in 1986 and came in third place.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3360\">John Malone, Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, Take-Two\u2019s Strauss Zelnick Among Speakers Set for Paley Center for Media\u2019s International Council Summit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe country will reveal how it plans to select its first official contestant later this year. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tCanada is not the first non-European country to join the contest; Australia and Israel are both regular participants, with the former joining in 2015 and the latter in 1973. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tBoth came close to winning the top spot this year before losing out to Bulgaria\u2019s entry Dara: Israel\u2019s Noam Bettan finished in second place while Australia\u2019s Delta Goodrem came in fourth. (Italy rounded out the top five with contestant Sal Da Vinci.) Five countries pulled out of last year\u2019s competition in protest at Israel\u2019s participation: Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland and Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEurovision celebrated its 70th anniversary last year having first launched in 1956. The singing contest, which this year reached 131 million people across 35 TV markets, has embarked on a period of expansion over the past few years. Although an American version on NBC failed to take off in 2022, an Asian spin-off set to take place in Thailand in November.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA Broadway show based on Will Ferrell\u2019s 2020 movie \u201cEurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire\u201d is also in the works.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=3358\">Victor Willis, Village People Founding Lead Singer and \u2018YMCA\u2019 Co-Writer, Dies at 74<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada officially joins the Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[2770,2771],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv","tag-european-broadcasting-union","tag-eurovision-song-contest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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