TKR – The Past, The Present…and the FUTURE

So over the past several months, I’ve been really thinking about what I have always wanted my music site to be, and over the last couple of weeks, I’ve sat down and made some notes about things I want to change, things I want to upgrade, things I want to introduce and more. And I thought I’d talk a little bit about it with you. First off, I will be cleaning up the charts area of the site. I was recently looking at things, and as cool as it is to finally have (almost) all my years of personal charts

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American Song Contest – Week Five

The qualifiers on the American Song Contest conclude tonight! WOO HOO! The US’ officially licensed Eurovision spinoff continues with the final eleven performances tonight, and you can bet we’ll be there watching! We’re getting closer and closer to the semi-finals, and the suspense is growing for those songs that didn’t make it through – who will end up being the wild cards? Week five songs have been released – here’s the playlist! Don’t forget, TKR will be presenting a YouTube livestream show, “The Kirkham Report Guide to American Song Contest – After The Songs!” every week directly following each East

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Countdown to Eurovision 2022: #35 – Bulgaria

#35 – Bulgaria “Intention” Intelligent Music Project Songwriters: Milen Vrabevski The Kirkham Report welcomes you to my coverage of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest!  From April 3 to the end of the contest on May 14, I’ll be here with all the latest ESC news and info, and of course, that means I’m also bringing you all the info on each song this year ranked in order of my personal preference from bottom to top. I’ll give the reasons for my personal rankings, and some background info on the song, artist, songwriters, and such.  Again, these are MY opinions, and I

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Countdown to Eurovision 2022: #36 – Czech Republic

#36 – Czech Republic “Lights Off” We Are Domi Songwriters: Einar Eriksen Kvaløy, Abigail Frances Jones, Dominika Hasek, Casper Hatlestad, Benjamin Rekstad The Kirkham Report welcomes you to my coverage of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest!  From April 3 to the end of the contest on May 14, I’ll be here with all the latest ESC news and info, and of course, that means I’m also bringing you all the info on each song this year ranked in order of my personal preference from bottom to top. I’ll give the reasons for my personal rankings, and some background info on the

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Countdown to Eurovision 2022: #37 – Ukraine

#37 – Ukraine “Stefania” Kalush Orchestra Songwriters: Ivan Klimenko, Oleh Psiuk, Tymofii Muzychuk, Vitaii Duzhyk, Ihor Didenchuk The Kirkham Report welcomes you to my coverage of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest!  From April 3 to the end of the contest on May 14, I’ll be here with all the latest ESC news and info, and of course, that means I’m also bringing you all the info on each song this year ranked in order of my personal preference from bottom to top. I’ll give the reasons for my personal rankings, and some background info on the song, artist, songwriters, and such. 

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Countdown to Eurovision 2022: #40 – Portugal

#40 Portugal “Saudade, saudade” Maro Songwriters: Mariana Secca, John Blanda The Kirkham Report welcomes you to my coverage of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest!  From April 3 to the end of the contest on May 14, I’ll be here with all the latest ESC news and info, and of course, that means I’m also bringing you all the info on each song this year ranked in order of my personal preference from bottom to top. I’ll give the reasons for my personal rankings, and some background info on the song, artist, songwriters, and such.  Again, these are MY opinions, and I

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Countdown to Eurovision 2022: The Basics!

GREETINGS PEOPLES!  It’s that time of year again! The 2022 Eurovision Song Contest Countdown starts NOW! Because I got a little bit later start than usual, I will be scattering some stuff around, doing one song most days but doing two or possibly three songs on other days, just so we get done in time for the semi-finals beginning May 10th! 40 songs to be ranked, 40 artists to spotlight, plus news and other ESC related specials – all coming between now and the official broadcasts beginning with the first semifinal on May 10, followed by the second semifinal on

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American Song Contest – Week Two

The American Song Contest continues tonight! WOO HOO! The US’ officially licensed Eurovision spinoff continues with eleven more performances tonight, and you can bet we’ll be there watching! Week Two’s songs were released last night at midnight – here’s the playlist: Don’t forget, TKR will be presenting a YouTube livestream show, “The Kirkham Report Guide to American Song Contest – After The Songs!” every week directly following each East Coast airing of ASC, starting at 10:10 PM ET/7:10 PM PT – I will be going over my impressions of the songs, performances, staging, and more, and I’ll be doing my

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Out with the old, in with the new…HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Hey all, I’m so sorry things just kinda went dark here in mid-September. I didn’t even do my annual Junior Eurovision coverage because of a bunch of issues in real life, I am so sorry about that. Things are finally settling down, and I’m able to get stock of things. However, it is the end of the year, and I will be starting the new year with a BANG! In addition to a slightly redesigned site logo, which made it’s debut a few weeks ago, I have also added TKR Video Central, the TKR YouTube channel, to the sidebar courtesy

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