does anyone not european know about eurovision?

Question

me neither its just that my british pal got really obsessed with it and i was wondering if i was the only one who diesnt know anything

Answer 1

Sorry but it is not only the Eurovision song contest, that you do not hear anything about, if outside of Europe: do you know anything about:
Film festival Cannes
Film festival Venice
Film festival Berlin
and many more.
Your governments are not interested of informing you about events in Europe.
But they never forget to show you a Palestinian kid throwing stones........

Answer 2

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held between active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), in which participating countries each submit a song to be performed on live television; then proceed to cast votes for the other countries' songs, in order to find the most popular song in the competition. Each country participates via one of their national EBU-member television stations, whose task it is to select a singer and a song to go forward to represent the country in the international competition.

The Contest has been broadcast every year since its inauguration in 1956, and is one of the longest-running television programmes in the world. It is also one of the most-watched non-sporting events in the world,[1] with audience figures having been quoted in recent years as anything between 100 million and 600 million internationally.[2][3] It has been broadcast around the globe — beyond Europe — to such places as Australia, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Hong Kong, India, Korea, New Zealand and the USA; even though these countries do not participate.[4] Since the year 2000, the Contest has also been broadcast over the Internet;[5] with more than 74,000 people in almost 140 countries having watched the 2006 edition online.[6]

The Contest is historically known for being mainly a bastion of formulaic, orchestrated pop music. However it has featured a vast, diverse array of songs, including such musical genres as Arab, Balkan, Celtic music, Dance, Folk, Israeli, Greek, Latin, Metal, Nordic, Pop-rap, Rock, and Turkish.
Over the years, the Song Contest has grown from a mere televisual experiment into an international institution of mammoth proportions. Most countries in Europe have taken part at least once during the Contest's history, and such is the magnitude and scale of the Contest that the word "Eurovision" is one of the few household names to be recognised across an entire continent.

Answer 3

I know about it, but I do because I lived in Spain 7 years. The Eurovision Song Contest is kinda lame, and the music most of the times is terrible, although the winners last year were nice: a Finnish metal band called Lordi. If you don't know about it, don't worry, you're not missing anything.

Answer 4

I'm American but I know of this trashy European contest...(lived in Europe...) best winner was the transvesite from Israel

Answer 5

I'm American and I've heard of it but I've not experienced it.

Answer 6

never heard of it