The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Der Eurovision Song Contest (französisch: Concours Eurovision de la chanson) ist ein internationaler Gesangswettbewerb, der jährlich von der Europäischen Rundfunkunion (EBU) organisiert wird und dessen Teilnehmer hauptsächlich europäische Länder vertreten. Jedes teilnehmende Land reicht einen Originalsong ein, der live im Fernsehen und im Radio vorgetragen und über die Eurovisions- und Euroradio-Netze der EBU an die nationalen Rundfunkanstalten übertragen wird. Die teilnehmenden Länder stimmen dann für die Songs der anderen Länder ab, um den Gewinner zu ermitteln.

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest, often shortened to JESC, Junior Eurovision or Junior EuroSong, is a song competition which has been organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) annually since 2003 and is open exclusively to broadcasters that are members of the EBU. It is held in a different European city each year, however the same city can host the contest more than once.

The Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 was the 1st Eurovision Dance Contest a dance entertainment co-production between the EBU and the BBC. The first ever pan-European dance competition was held on 1 September 2007 in London, United Kingdom with the participation of 16 countries. Viewers cast their votes by telephone and SMS text message voting on each couple's two dances – the first being ballroom or Latin with the second being freestyle, with a "national" flavour.

The first ever winner of the contest was Finland who received a total of 132 points. 2nd place went to Ukraine 3rd to Ireland, 4th to Poland and 5th place to Austria.