Eurovision Song Contest launches first-ever Asia edition

BBC News · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · Mar 31, 2026 · 393 words · By Koh Ewe

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Eurovision Song Contest launches first-ever Asia edition Known for its glitzy stage costumes and sometimes outlandish performances, the Eurovision Song Contest is now launching its first ever Asia edition.

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Why it matters

Broadcasters from 10 countries in the region, including South Korea, Bhutan, Thailand and the Philippines have confirmed that they will be taking part.

Common ground

According to the contest's website, which lists the participating countries, there are "more to follow".

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Claim 1: “According to the contest's website, which lists the participating countries, there are 'more to follow'”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Druk Dra (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་སྒྲ།, romanized: 'Brug Sgra, [ʈuk̚˩ ʈ͡ʂa˩˨]), also known as Road to Eurovision Asia, is a Bhutanese contest organised to decide the country's representatives at the Eurovisio…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Eurovision is a pan-European television telecommunications network owned and operated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It was officially founded in 1954 in Geneva, Switzerland, and its first …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_(network)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Eurovision Song Contest Asia is set to be an international song competition modeled after the Eurovision Song Contest, in which countries of the Asia-Pacific region are set to compete in. The inaugura…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_Asia

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Claim 2: “Eurovision Song Contest launches first-ever Asia edition”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (E…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Broadcasters from fifty-two countries have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest since it started in 1956, with winning songs coming from twenty-seven of those countries. The contest, organised …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_in_the_Eurov…

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Claim 3: “Broadcasters from 10 countries in the region, including South Korea, Bhutan, Thailand and the Philippines have confirmed that they will be taking part”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) (abbr. CPB (MLM)) is an underground communist party in Bhutan. It aims to start a New Democratic Revolution and overthrow the Bhutanese monarchy…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Bhutan_(Mar…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Eastern South Asia is a subregion of South Asia. It includes the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India (specifically East India and Northeast India), and Nepal. Geographically, it lies between the Ea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_South_Asia

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Claim 4: “Russia has been banned from entering the contest since 2022, following its invasion of Ukraine. As a result, Moscow relaunched its own international song contest, known as Intervision”

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Claim 5: “The competition has supercharged the careers of some of the world's most famous acts, such as Swedish pop group Abba and Canadian singer Celine Dion, who represented Switzerland in 1988”

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Claim 6: “The Asia edition of the contest is organised by the European Broadcasting Union alongside Los Angeles-based entertainment company Voxovation and the Thailand-based S2O Productions”

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Claim 7: “First held in 1956, Eurovision has grown into the world's longest running international music competition”

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Claim 8: “In a statement published by EBU, Chuwit Sirivajjakul, a senior official at the Thailand Tourism Authority, said he thought the host city of Eurovision Asia should 'of course' be Bangkok”

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Claim 9: “A number of countries are boycotting the contest this year, set to take place in Vienna in May, over Israel's participation”

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Claim 10: “Around 163 million people tuned in to last year's contest”

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Claim 11: “Since the 2000s, there have been multiple attempts to create an Asian version of the iconic contest, but none of those previous efforts bore fruit”

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