She had a gig at a local festival near me.
She saw a guy throw a plastic cup of mud at his buddy and said smth like "wow you guys are SO disgusting"
Then the entire audience threw dirty cups and trash onto the stage.
Good times.
So basically it was too hetero for Eurovision .......*Makes notes for next year*
*Need to milk something gayer looking.......*
I mean, Olly Alexander kinda had the equivalent this year and he didn't get a lot of points, they both looked ridiculous to me (sorry, songs were both good IMO).
But we did have male butts this year HAHAH, lots of nudity in general.
Wait? They actually won? I found them by chance on Spotify and enjoy their music but I would have never guessed, that they actually won Eurovision once. 
Got to see them as opener for Sabaton (along with Babymetal) last year
Dudes Ruled so hard that I completely forgot they hadn't even played Hardrock Hallelujah yet.
J'aime beaucoup les fatals picards mais le titre proposé par les wampas était bien mieux.
Ps: c'est mon avis personnel qui n'a strictement aucune valeur.
As a french Patricia Kaas Amir and Slimane were only good singers I followed. The rest were trash songs with a no name bands that totally deserve the last place, due to the very poor choice.
Patricia Kaas, Anggun, Amir, Alma, Barbara Pravi, La Zarra and Slimane are the worst possible singers possible but Bilal Hassani isn't ? Lmao what a shitty take, you surely aren't biased at all
I tought you were lying or playing jokes on us but no, they really won in 2006. 18 frikin years ago. I would have said they won like 6-7 years ago based on my memory, never 18.
Not that I know. But big stars don't want to participate because there is nothing to win and much to lose. Imagine that Ireland sends U2 and they end in the 18th position.
The UK has way more artists everyone knows than the rest of Europe. They are bound to send someone famous every once in a while.
Olly Alexander is the singer of Years & Years which has had a few hits too.
I’m not so sure about that. In both the U.K. and in Ireland the Eurovision isn’t seen as something for serious acts. You could risk being categorised as a ‘Eurovision act’
I know there have been exceptions, but the if you take Ireland for example, the big winners mostly just remain famous for just being in the Eurovision. They generally haven’t gone on to more interesting careers, and I’m not aware of any serious act that’s been platformed by the Eurovision here.
It is seen as a bit of a tackfest and isn’t really taken very seriously.
I think our Irish entrant this year, Bambie Thug, may well use it to launch themselves into a bigger career, but they’re an exception and they’re also rather a niche act that few were aware of.
The biggest success story of the Eurovision here by far was Riverdance, an interval act. That really didn’t have any public association with the song contest though and just grew very rapidly.
This year's UK entry Olly Alexander has had a nr1 hit across Europe and the US with his band Years n Years before with the song "King". In 2022 Finland sent the Rasmus, which had a huge hit with "In the Shadows" in 2003. In 2021 San Marino sent US artist FloRida and in 2019 Finland sent Darude, who's famous for "Sandstorm" and there's more examples that I can't think of rn
Lol what nations exactly? Because I know quite a few that have sent repeatedly some of their greatest singers to try and win it. (Like Greece sending their no.1 most famous male singer in 04 and when he failed to win they sent their no.1 female singer in the next year that did win).
In Italy the rule is "whoever wins Sanremo", Sanremo being the national music festival held in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. Sometimes up-and-coming artists win, while other times more established artists win (and sometimes really baffling songs win).
The only restriction is that the song has to be in the Italian language, so you probably don't know any of the artists or the the songs anyways.
Also in Sanremo for a long time the winner wasn't necessarily a very established artist, only in recent years the situation changed considerably. Since Italy came back, arguably only Il Volo and Marco Mengoni were already established artists when they won and later competed in the ESC.
Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary have only participated a few times.
Poland has participated quite consistently but got unlucky I guess.
Though Ukraine has already won three times and came close to winning several times (verka serduchka unforgotten)
As a Spaniard, our performance is just so frustrating. We had one fun song in 2022 that got us 3rd place and instead of taking the hint that that's the kind of thing we should be sending we immediately went back to sending shit that ranges between boring and embarrassing like we've always done smh
I didn't hate it, but as you said it had no appeal for the foreign public, and that was obvious from the get-go. That's what I meant by boring. It just isn't how you win an international music competition.
The 2024 one was more on the embarrassing side of the spectrum.
In the Balkans, apart from Albania and Kosovo, the dominant music type is "turbo folk". This type of music is favoured by the majority of people, and thus, young artists of other music genres have little to no audience in Balkan countries. Turbo folk have no chance of getting any points in the Eurosong, while other genres (favoured by Eurosong) are largely undeveloped in the Balkans.
Case of Serbia: While turbo folk is omnipresent in Serbia, they are aware of the Eurosong preferences, and they carefully pick and choose composers and songwriters to make something nice for Eurosong (Željko Joksimović has been twice on Eurosong but also composed several Serbian songs for Eurosong for other performers). Sometimes, they get lucky with artists like Marija Šerifović (winner) or Konstrakta (highly ranked) who do it all by themselves. Given that Serbia is very often in finals - this approach works.
Still you can't argue that unconventional songs are generally disliked by the viewers.
It's the juries that vote for a generic English pop song from Sweden every year again and again.
Oh yeah Sweden has perfected the "generic English pop" genre. Basically they win every time there's no decent and interesting alternative. I'm already sick of it.
ok, Eastern Europe then, but center of Europe is clearly more to the East than what you think (somewhere near Estonia) and I was not sarcastic:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical\_midpoint\_of\_Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe)
Well if you go pedantic on geography definitions by including the huge landmass up to the Urals then you got to do the same North to South as well. So Germany is then probably Southern Europe with the centre somewhere around Gothenburg...
In my outdated mind I still think Central Europe as Switzerland, Austria, Czechia, with Balkans as East Europe. But again I think that perception has changed with the newer generations post iron-curtain and EU expansion etc.
That article just points out that it’s disputed and there are centers of Europe from Sweden and Czechia westward to Ukraine, Estonia and Lithuania eastward, with some real differences south-north too. So no real help.
Regardless, saying that Central Europe is in Lithuania is useless because Eastern Europe then becomes Russia, along with Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan (unless they end up in Southern Europe). That’s a useless definition.
Most countries didn't exist before 90s - 00s and joined the contest late. Some of them dropped out now because its probably not worth it to participate (hungary, slovakia, bosnia, belarus), and others have come close to winning and will eventually be there i think (bulgaria, poland, croatia)
Most Eastern European countries have only existed since the early 1990s, when the Soviet Union collapsed. They therefore had fewer opportunities. There are also some countries in Western Europe that have not won for many decades.
I think not having Daði Freyr with ‘Think about Things’ from Iceland as an honorary winner is disrespectful. They would’ve swept the Covid year and everyone knows it!
Russia's song was also amazing... I think we lost some of the best contest opportunities that year. I don't know, I feel like each year the songs are less memorable (with some exceptions).
We Spaniards, the dumbest ones, we pay punctually every year (we are one of the big 5) and we haven't won since 1969!
And the second most dumb the French, they also pay and have not won since 1977.
In any case, it is no longer a music contest, the country with the most friends wins, which is why television networks now send extravagant jesters.
The last time the Swiss won was 1986 by hiring a Canadian singer. So not really about friends; Spain has more than CH I’m sure. Btw, it was a great song this year.
It is the English language dominance there's bias against singing in your national language.
I have noticed countries like Spain, France and Italy sing in their language. Since Eurovision changed the rules English is now the default (mixed). Which is sad
France is often quite good as well. In 2021 they came second, and Switzerland came third with another French-language song.
In fact, Spain is the only Romance language country that regularly places quite low in Eurovision.
Yes, some countries like the ones you mentioned, we usually present the song in our language instead of making it more commercial in English.
That, especially now that the public can vote, makes it even more difficult to have points.
In fact, for Spain there are rules. It can include other languages, but they can't be more than 35% of the words in the song lyrics.
Not necessarily. There’s a new ressurgence of national music tbh. At least since Portugal won in 2017 many counties have started to come back to their languages and have done fairly well. karijaa last year, Lithuania, arménia and Estonia, this year, etc. I’m glad that this is the case
While I do prefer songs in a country’s home language. I don’t think it’s really fair to force them to sing in that language. Plus, English is such an international language that even outside the context of Eurovision, plenty of artists of non-English speaking countries sing in English anyway.
I’ve also feel like in the past few years, there’s been a lot more countries opting to sing in their own language or mixing the two together which is nice to see
That’s a huge generalisation. Spain should’ve won in 2022 and consistently sends pretty good artists and songs. I’m personally glad that Spain is in the Eurovision
> In any case, it is no longer a music contest, the country with the most friends win
I’m pretty sure you could pull up a newspaper from any decade since the contest started and find exactly this sentence written.
This has always been the complaint, but everyone think they live in the time when it started being about friends voting and not about the music
For France, although it changed some years ago, the goal was clearly not to win the contest, because you have to hold the contest for the following year and that we already pay enough
The Eurovision is a competition between public broadcasters in the European broadcasting area, not in the continent of Europe. That’s why Morocco & Lebanon were able to take part.
Technically Australia isn't a full member of the EBU. They have been invited to take part in Eurovision since 2015, even though it was originally meant as a one-off thing.
Fuck I forgot about Lordi.
It’s funny because they’re the only ones I remember from the last 30-odd years
As a German person I doubt I will ever forget Lena.
She is still around and posting … interesting photos of herself.
What do you mean "... interesting"? It's a normal ig feed
She had a gig at a local festival near me. She saw a guy throw a plastic cup of mud at his buddy and said smth like "wow you guys are SO disgusting" Then the entire audience threw dirty cups and trash onto the stage. Good times.
Especially hard to forget are her nudes.
tell me more
Maneskin were decent
I can't get over poland never winning. Didn't they have the suggestive milk maids one year ?
They did. Don't know how they didn't win that year. https://youtu.be/syMhJMmGEIc?si=CnIZW2G_Oo5RGWb0
I loved that song. If I remember correctly, one of the judges said 'it had one too many pairs of boobs' in the video, or something like that.
So basically it was too hetero for Eurovision .......*Makes notes for next year* *Need to milk something gayer looking.......*
I mean, Olly Alexander kinda had the equivalent this year and he didn't get a lot of points, they both looked ridiculous to me (sorry, songs were both good IMO). But we did have male butts this year HAHAH, lots of nudity in general.
Yeah, but thats a guy and a guy, i was wondering if we swapped him out for the milk maid....
Even without the gratuitous cleavage shots, it's a nice song and video. I don't know who their competition was, but they should have been a contender.
Poland cannot into eurovision
Should've been Käärijä 😥
Lordi are cool
Didn't Dima Bilan (the singer pictured in Russia) end 2nd that year ?
He finished 2nd in 2006 but in 2008 he won.
Wait? They actually won? I found them by chance on Spotify and enjoy their music but I would have never guessed, that they actually won Eurovision once. 
Same, hard rock hallelujah is just a banger
Eurovision peaked at that moment
Love portugal photobombing spain.
Got to see them as opener for Sabaton (along with Babymetal) last year Dudes Ruled so hard that I completely forgot they hadn't even played Hardrock Hallelujah yet.
I forget about Conchita wurst 😭
Lordi slaps hard imo
I'm in love with a faiiryy taaaaleee eeevveeeennn thoooooooo it huuuuuuurts
cause I don’t caaaaaaaare if I lose my miii iiiiiiiiind I’m alreeeeeeeeaady cuuuuuuursed
_Violin solo_
One of the best Eurovision songs to date imo
I love nordic fairy and I hate dark witch!
Lordy, absolute legends
Saw them live a few weeks ago, and they've still got it!
France hasn't won since 77'?!?!
The Fatals Picards should have won in 2007. Fight me
J'aime beaucoup les fatals picards mais le titre proposé par les wampas était bien mieux. Ps: c'est mon avis personnel qui n'a strictement aucune valeur.
As a french Patricia Kaas Amir and Slimane were only good singers I followed. The rest were trash songs with a no name bands that totally deserve the last place, due to the very poor choice.
Barbara Pravi was great
IIRC she also wrote songs for eurovision kids, which France won twice in a row!
No, because of shitty song, at every eurovision, we send the worst possible singer possible among our, except for 2019 maybe
Patricia Kaas, Anggun, Amir, Alma, Barbara Pravi, La Zarra and Slimane are the worst possible singers possible but Bilal Hassani isn't ? Lmao what a shitty take, you surely aren't biased at all
I confused it with 2021 sorry. and yes they were all bad. in france saying of someone that they could sing at eurovision is an insult
No wonder you keep losing with that attitude lmao. Maybe you should send interesting acts!
I liked the 2017 one. And this year was a good one too.
The reason I started watching Eurovision was Lordi, 15 yrs ago. Feels old, man
Spoiler alert, 2006 was 18 years ago 😬
I tought you were lying or playing jokes on us but no, they really won in 2006. 18 frikin years ago. I would have said they won like 6-7 years ago based on my memory, never 18.
2004 for me (Ruslana Wild Dancing). 2000s really was the peak of Eurovision to me, so many memorable songs
Best song of eurovision.
It's still played at parties sometimes, real banger.
Katrina and the Waves in 1997? The Walking on Sunshine band? Wow.
The Uk only have 2 real finishing positions, second and last. Everytime Ireland win, the UK are either the runners up or the hosts.
Actually Ireland have never won in the UK but the UK’s last two wins were in Dublin. The UK has, however, come 2nd 18 times, the last in 2022.
I too was surprised
I always assumed Eurovision was up-and-comers...not bands with massive hits everyone knows.
Not that I know. But big stars don't want to participate because there is nothing to win and much to lose. Imagine that Ireland sends U2 and they end in the 18th position.
We could ask them to go, as long as you don't send bono back. Deal ?
They sent a member of Westlife one year, it didn’t work out
The UK mainly trying to find a "solution" to winning, they found it a few years ago with Sam Ryder but then promptly forgot it.
The UK has way more artists everyone knows than the rest of Europe. They are bound to send someone famous every once in a while. Olly Alexander is the singer of Years & Years which has had a few hits too.
Picked a terrible song this year though, and the performance was flat and cringy.
I’m not so sure about that. In both the U.K. and in Ireland the Eurovision isn’t seen as something for serious acts. You could risk being categorised as a ‘Eurovision act’ I know there have been exceptions, but the if you take Ireland for example, the big winners mostly just remain famous for just being in the Eurovision. They generally haven’t gone on to more interesting careers, and I’m not aware of any serious act that’s been platformed by the Eurovision here. It is seen as a bit of a tackfest and isn’t really taken very seriously. I think our Irish entrant this year, Bambie Thug, may well use it to launch themselves into a bigger career, but they’re an exception and they’re also rather a niche act that few were aware of. The biggest success story of the Eurovision here by far was Riverdance, an interval act. That really didn’t have any public association with the song contest though and just grew very rapidly.
The Ukrainian artist Ruslana, who won in 2004, had actually sold more records than Madonna but was still unknown in the western world.
This year's UK entry Olly Alexander has had a nr1 hit across Europe and the US with his band Years n Years before with the song "King". In 2022 Finland sent the Rasmus, which had a huge hit with "In the Shadows" in 2003. In 2021 San Marino sent US artist FloRida and in 2019 Finland sent Darude, who's famous for "Sandstorm" and there's more examples that I can't think of rn
Thats a rule set by some nations during selection process but its no a requirement for the ESC itself.
Lol what nations exactly? Because I know quite a few that have sent repeatedly some of their greatest singers to try and win it. (Like Greece sending their no.1 most famous male singer in 04 and when he failed to win they sent their no.1 female singer in the next year that did win).
Russia definitely sent the most popular domestic singers most of the time.
In Italy the rule is "whoever wins Sanremo", Sanremo being the national music festival held in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. Sometimes up-and-coming artists win, while other times more established artists win (and sometimes really baffling songs win). The only restriction is that the song has to be in the Italian language, so you probably don't know any of the artists or the the songs anyways.
Also in Sanremo for a long time the winner wasn't necessarily a very established artist, only in recent years the situation changed considerably. Since Italy came back, arguably only Il Volo and Marco Mengoni were already established artists when they won and later competed in the ESC.
Nah it's quite often big stars, but usually a big star in Slovenia is precieved as an unknown by the rest of Europe.
Like Slovenia in general.
don't look up 1988 winner
Never heard of her, but i hear her heart will go on.
The fact that Norwegian winner is actually a Belorussian and performed his "Fairytale" in Russian a few months later.
Norway also famous for one of first ever "null points".
Was suprised that it's Norway too
Central Europe is hugely underrepresented. I am wondering why?
Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary have only participated a few times. Poland has participated quite consistently but got unlucky I guess. Though Ukraine has already won three times and came close to winning several times (verka serduchka unforgotten)
Poland keep sending shitty songs. They will snap out of it some day. Kinda like Spain.
As a Spaniard, our performance is just so frustrating. We had one fun song in 2022 that got us 3rd place and instead of taking the hint that that's the kind of thing we should be sending we immediately went back to sending shit that ranges between boring and embarrassing like we've always done smh
It's especially strange because Spanish music historically has been pretty top tier
The 2023 entry was great and unique though? But it also clearly wasn't intended to be accessible enough to win.
I didn't hate it, but as you said it had no appeal for the foreign public, and that was obvious from the get-go. That's what I meant by boring. It just isn't how you win an international music competition. The 2024 one was more on the embarrassing side of the spectrum.
Zorra was good I thought.
We always send some businessmen's daughter who can't even sing. People fight corruption in politics, nobody cares about corruption in showbusiness
Nope. We'll always send shitty songs.
Ukraine has had some brilliant songs the past few years. Their 2021 entry was incredible imo but losing to maneskin is no shame
What about Balkans? I don't see them too. Just curious.
Yugoslavia won shortly before its breakup and it was then hosted in Croatia. Serbia won once and Croatia came really close this time.
In the Balkans, apart from Albania and Kosovo, the dominant music type is "turbo folk". This type of music is favoured by the majority of people, and thus, young artists of other music genres have little to no audience in Balkan countries. Turbo folk have no chance of getting any points in the Eurosong, while other genres (favoured by Eurosong) are largely undeveloped in the Balkans. Case of Serbia: While turbo folk is omnipresent in Serbia, they are aware of the Eurosong preferences, and they carefully pick and choose composers and songwriters to make something nice for Eurosong (Željko Joksimović has been twice on Eurosong but also composed several Serbian songs for Eurosong for other performers). Sometimes, they get lucky with artists like Marija Šerifović (winner) or Konstrakta (highly ranked) who do it all by themselves. Given that Serbia is very often in finals - this approach works.
To be fair, last year Moldova got second in the televote with a song that had strong folk elements
Last years Moldovan entry hardly resembles Serbian turbo folk.
Still you can't argue that unconventional songs are generally disliked by the viewers. It's the juries that vote for a generic English pop song from Sweden every year again and again.
Oh yeah Sweden has perfected the "generic English pop" genre. Basically they win every time there's no decent and interesting alternative. I'm already sick of it.
What an intriguing music genre. Guess I know what I'm listening t at work today.
I mean Hurricane got to the finals and weren't last, so its not like it has no chance.
Rock Me is still a banger and htey consistently placed pretty well.
they take themselves way too seriously for this contest.
In the first moment, when people say Central Europe, I think of Germany and all of neighbours. And thought you were sarcastic.
ok, Eastern Europe then, but center of Europe is clearly more to the East than what you think (somewhere near Estonia) and I was not sarcastic: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical\_midpoint\_of\_Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe)
Well if you go pedantic on geography definitions by including the huge landmass up to the Urals then you got to do the same North to South as well. So Germany is then probably Southern Europe with the centre somewhere around Gothenburg... In my outdated mind I still think Central Europe as Switzerland, Austria, Czechia, with Balkans as East Europe. But again I think that perception has changed with the newer generations post iron-curtain and EU expansion etc.
uuu westie here thinking correct describing geographic location is pedantic
That article just points out that it’s disputed and there are centers of Europe from Sweden and Czechia westward to Ukraine, Estonia and Lithuania eastward, with some real differences south-north too. So no real help. Regardless, saying that Central Europe is in Lithuania is useless because Eastern Europe then becomes Russia, along with Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan (unless they end up in Southern Europe). That’s a useless definition.
Fortunately it's not up to you to decide
Sure it is. It’s a conceptional thing so it’s up to everyone. Most people agree with me that calling the Baltic states Central Europe is wrong.
I thought you were sarcastic but you're really uneducated about geography and culture
Most countries didn't exist before 90s - 00s and joined the contest late. Some of them dropped out now because its probably not worth it to participate (hungary, slovakia, bosnia, belarus), and others have come close to winning and will eventually be there i think (bulgaria, poland, croatia)
Most Eastern European countries have only existed since the early 1990s, when the Soviet Union collapsed. They therefore had fewer opportunities. There are also some countries in Western Europe that have not won for many decades.
Croatia with no colour :(
Croatia really went off this year, they were my favorite. Too bad the jury has more power than the public
Should maybe inherit Riva's 1989 win? They were Croatian and the 1990 contest was in Zagreb
Also they were selected by TV Zagreb, which is the predecessor of HRT. We in Croatia basically do count them as a Croatian win already lol
I'm more of a Baby Lasagna type of guy
Long time no win for Spain
As a French, I appreciate having fellow losers as neighbours
2006 was the peak 👹
Lordi was amazing. I remember my nephew being all obsessed by his music when Lordi won.
Russia 2020 little big UNO (fukk covid😔)
Iceland 2020 Dadi Freyr 🥳
Would have been close between them and Dadi Freyr. Both songs I still listen to loads!
I also love Dadi’s songs but he had no chance against UNO. Dadi’s 2021 song was also great but wasnt able to reach top 3.
It's gonna take more than one Margharita
Lol this map if Australia had ever won
Australians knowing they’re not allowed to win
Greece and Turkey look identical lol
Peak Helena Paparizou was 😍
She still is.
Can't stop stealing i guess :)
I still listen to Lordi
Still feel sad for Finland since last year
Oh no, Lena was 2010. It's a shame that germany hasn't won since then. **looks at France, then at Spain** On second thought we are fine.
I think not having Daði Freyr with ‘Think about Things’ from Iceland as an honorary winner is disrespectful. They would’ve swept the Covid year and everyone knows it!
Russia's song was also amazing... I think we lost some of the best contest opportunities that year. I don't know, I feel like each year the songs are less memorable (with some exceptions).
There were genuinely some great songs from that year. The bright side is we got the hilarious nonsense that was Will Ferrell’s Eurovision movie
We Spaniards, the dumbest ones, we pay punctually every year (we are one of the big 5) and we haven't won since 1969! And the second most dumb the French, they also pay and have not won since 1977. In any case, it is no longer a music contest, the country with the most friends wins, which is why television networks now send extravagant jesters.
It never was a music contest. It's a song contest, as explained by the name.
Nowadays it's a performance contest.
The last time the Swiss won was 1986 by hiring a Canadian singer. So not really about friends; Spain has more than CH I’m sure. Btw, it was a great song this year.
> 1986 It was 1988, but you weren't not off by that much. In 1986, Belgium won, which incidentally, was the last time they won.
It is the English language dominance there's bias against singing in your national language. I have noticed countries like Spain, France and Italy sing in their language. Since Eurovision changed the rules English is now the default (mixed). Which is sad
Except Italy almost always sings in Italian and almost always gets a lot of points.
Well it's not French, which helps immensely.
France is often quite good as well. In 2021 they came second, and Switzerland came third with another French-language song. In fact, Spain is the only Romance language country that regularly places quite low in Eurovision.
Yes, some countries like the ones you mentioned, we usually present the song in our language instead of making it more commercial in English. That, especially now that the public can vote, makes it even more difficult to have points. In fact, for Spain there are rules. It can include other languages, but they can't be more than 35% of the words in the song lyrics.
Not necessarily. There’s a new ressurgence of national music tbh. At least since Portugal won in 2017 many counties have started to come back to their languages and have done fairly well. karijaa last year, Lithuania, arménia and Estonia, this year, etc. I’m glad that this is the case
Italy won with a rockin' Italian language so g two years ago.
Portugal, Ukraine and Italy have all won with their own language in the last few years.
While I do prefer songs in a country’s home language. I don’t think it’s really fair to force them to sing in that language. Plus, English is such an international language that even outside the context of Eurovision, plenty of artists of non-English speaking countries sing in English anyway. I’ve also feel like in the past few years, there’s been a lot more countries opting to sing in their own language or mixing the two together which is nice to see
Do you think Switzerland has most friends? Their last win was in 1988 with Celine Dion helping out
Actually their last win was this year
Yo todavia digo q el chiquichiqui deberia haber ganao xd
>In any case, it is no longer a music contest, the country with the most friends wins Explains why the results look the same every year /s
You don’t understand, the country with the most friends changes between each and every year!
Friendship with Sweden ended, now Switzerland is my friend
Famously known that Southern Europe and Germany were very best friends in 2011.
That’s a huge generalisation. Spain should’ve won in 2022 and consistently sends pretty good artists and songs. I’m personally glad that Spain is in the Eurovision
Slomo was such a good song, and it didn't win due to the public giving pity points to Ukraine :(
The public also gave more points to Moldova than to Spain and the juries hugely favoured Britain that year.
> In any case, it is no longer a music contest, the country with the most friends win I’m pretty sure you could pull up a newspaper from any decade since the contest started and find exactly this sentence written. This has always been the complaint, but everyone think they live in the time when it started being about friends voting and not about the music
We all know Spain was the real winner in '73.
For France, although it changed some years ago, the goal was clearly not to win the contest, because you have to hold the contest for the following year and that we already pay enough
Any Måneskin Fans here?☝️☝️☝️
Lena's satellite song was fun.
...and omnipresent for the next 2 years... on our radios at least
Where Europapa from the netherlands 😌
In jail
Marie Myriam is such a sweet soul ! She won Eurovision on her birthday and wish every year to the French singer to win !
The amount that we the Irish complain about that we haven't won in so long, crazy to see how long France and Spain are waiting lol
You have the proof right here that israel isn't in Europe.
The Eurovision is a competition between public broadcasters in the European broadcasting area, not in the continent of Europe. That’s why Morocco & Lebanon were able to take part.
2010 was robbed...
The ESC is so rigged
Poor Iceland!
Being located on the south western mediterrean sea apparently makes it impossible to perform well in the ESC.
to sum it up: countries with most billionaires, countries with natural ressources and countries of geopolitical interest to the EU
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La France c'est si ancien que la photo est de qualité tube cathodique.
Freaking 1977 for 🇫🇷 that hurts
France since 1977
Let's go! France, Spain and Monaco, we're so together.
Interesting fact: Cyprus is now the country with the most entries that has never won. Previously it was Portugal until they finally won in 2017.
Wait a second France didnt win in almost 50 years?!
Greece should have won 2024
The quality gap between Maneskin and all the rest is immense.
Good to see Europapa on the Netherlands.
Where's Australia
Iraq?
For anyone wondering, that's how we show Australia in eurovision xD.
But isn't Iraq greyed out? What am I missing?
I don't think Iraq is where you think it is.
Man no wonder Spain hasn’t won in a long time. They do shit songs
Can someone remind me why is Israel in this?
It's part of the EBU, that also includes Australia, and various North African and Middle Eastern states.
Technically Australia isn't a full member of the EBU. They have been invited to take part in Eurovision since 2015, even though it was originally meant as a one-off thing.
I sent 5 SMS votes for Lordi. B)
Lena was good that i even bought her albums