In recent years, performing at the Eurovision Song Contest has made artists less of a novelty, and instead become a springboard for hugely successful careers. Led principally by 2021 winners Måneskin, currently on a worldwide arena tour, new acts from across the continent have followed their appearance on the world famous show with albums, tours and beyond.
There’s a reason why Sam Ryder avoided the dreaded ‘nil points’ at Eurovision last year, and has used it to begin an already fruitful period. The perpetually grinning, bearded singer won hearts and minds with his Eurovision single Space Man, and served up more of the same flamboyant, accessible pop on debut album There’s Nothing But Space, Man! at the end of the year.
