Austrian broadcaster ORF has confirmed today its participation at the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev. Moreover, the corporation has also revealed that they will opt for an internal selection in regards to their artist for Ukraine.
The country will follow 2014’s footsteps with Conchita Wurst, as back then the song and the artist was picked ”under the surface” and resulted in a win after 47 years when Udo Jürgens took the victory for the first time.
In the past few years, Austria has contemplated results at the contest with mixed emotions as they got to be last in 2015 when they hosted in Vienna with The Makemakes and ”I’m Yours”. On the other hand, they reached the final in Stockholm and ranked 12th in the grand final (placing 8th in the televote) which could have made ORF thinking about going once again for the win in Kiev.
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