Now Contest

With the 67th contest taking place in the UK in May, Eurovision fever is about to hit!!! – NOW That’s What I Call Eurovision Song Contest presents the ultimate collection of winners, memorable and enduring classics, and fan favourites. Celebrate the legacy with 84 songs across 4 CDs.

Compilation with all 40 participating songs: The Eurovision Song Contest enters the 66th round. This year Ukraine is the clear favorite, which is not surprising due to the current situation.

Most of Johannes Sebastian Bachs secular cantatas were written for specific political, academic or private festive occasions. In the case of Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde, BWV 201, however, it may well be that Bach composed it for his own sake: the message conveyed in the work can be interpreted as a defence of Bachs own artistry and musical attitudes against the trend of the time towards easier fare. Subtitling the cantata dramma per musica, Bach sets an episode from Greek mythology in which Phoebus (Apollo) and Pan enter into a musical contest.

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad" - newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. Six years later, the spectre of a revanchist Russia returned when Putin's forces invaded and annexed the Crimean peninsula, once part of Russia but an internationally recognized part of Ukraine since the Soviet collapse. Crimea's annexation and follow on conflict in eastern Ukraine have generated the greatest geopolitical crisis on the European continent since the end of the Cold War.