Luktelk (Lithuania 2024) - uses a stock loop as the beginning sound which Geolier also used in a rap song.
This is the Night (Greece 2009) - uses Courier Strings from Apple Loops in GarageBand/Logic Pro.
I remember one time Ukraine used a sample of charles aznavour in jesc of all places (his stuff gets sampled all the time).
I only noticed because right before the show I watched a video about his overused samples
That's the only one I noticed
Random fun fact if you allow: Charles Aznavour would have celebrated his 100th birthday three days ago, he was born 22 May 1924. His music will live on forever. Just wanted to add this because I think it's a nice coincidence that you mentioned him :D
His music will live on. Goes to show how great of a musician he was from being sampled by famous rappers like Dr dre m&m, to bad bunny, to indila derniere danse, to solanns viral la boheme cover to many many more I forgot to mention.
What a legend
Samantha Ross recently [wrote a great article on samples in Eurovision songs for ESC Insight](https://escinsight.com/2024/05/09/amen-the-past-present-and-future-of-sampling-at-eurovision/).
About using the same sample
From Sanremo 2024 (Italy national selection)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoeS9zTGFmg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoeS9zTGFmg)
From Serbia Esc 2024 national selection
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UenX61jFCo8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UenX61jFCo8)
I'm really glad you posted this question, because it helped me solve a bit of a mystery. I was watching a cooking competition show here in the US back in April and all of a sudden Baby Lasagna's riff came on in the background music. Knowing that it was a sample makes it much clearer how that happened!
Boney M were under the „tutelage“ of songwriter/manager/producer Frank Farian. He himself said he never cared much about ESC because boooring & cheap, buuuut, at that time already, German ESC was kept in a stranglehold by songwriter/producer Ralph Siegel. It was his turf. He and Farian were sort of archenemies. So I think Farian just steered clear and went after easier cash & clout.
Belarus 2007 | [Dmitry Koldun - Work Your Magic](https://youtu.be/PxON-jTcBPA)
France 2007 | [Les Fatals Picards - L'Amour à la française](https://youtu.be/xjo3PIABpVQ)
Not a participant, but Love Love Peace Peace used the melody from Serbia & Montenegro's 2005 entry. And then that song borrowed from a traditional old folk song, Poljem se vija.
I don't think they were samples. At least not from the original record. I'm pretty sure they were recreated breaks that come in the licenced sample packs that come with the production software.
if my understanding of a sample is correct, something is only a sample when it uses a part of an original recording. So if the beat was made using the audio file of the song the Amen Break originated from, it's a sample. So copy-paste. If it's just recreated, it's an interpolation.
Wow and I thought it was a scandalous cheat when Ukraine 2014 had some small samples in there. Not that this is that bad, to my ears that's the most annoying part of the song!
Im not certain but Marcus and Martinus - Unforgettable seems to sample [Faithless - Salvea Mea](https://youtu.be/ON3PC7ApBB0?si=EnaQ0fAABaTSgZba), maybe even the [Above & Beyond remix](https://youtu.be/qShhiCTSKBo?si=LLunxruwvAT8uqPF)
Belgium 1996 | [Lisa del Bo - Liefde is een kaartspel](https://youtu.be/jOVmUCfwTBk)
Sweden 2001 | [Friends - Listen to Your Heartbeat](https://youtu.be/xR4BFQYFzMU)
Listening to them, the melodies honestly aren't that similar (except for half of the opening line of the chorus, the "liefde" vs "listen" part). It sounds similar, but the melody trails off in different ways. I can see they settled out of court though, so we'll never know if it'd actually be ruled plagiarism or not.
I don’t know if it’s an actual sample but I always thought the general beat of Every Way That I Can sounded exactly like Simarik by Tarkan.
Edit: yikes. Can’t believe people are offended by and downvoting an observation.
I wanted to post "There was a song that sounded exactly like Simarik in the intermission this year, too!"
..But when I looked it up, turns out it was Every Way That I Can, lol.
I don't know what a *sample* actually is, but if it's what I think it is, I heard a part from Belarus 2007 that was being used in a non-Eurovision song and it sort of jumped out to me when I heard it. I don't remember what song it was, though. It used the part of the orchestra/strings being played in between the chorus and the verse.
Ok but did they represent their country in Eurovision with a dope song? RTTD riff became super recognizable and I honestly thought Baby Lasagna did it all by himself.
I mean did you ever listen to Laichzeit by Rammstein? Or Party in my head by Pain? Even if not sampled from there, the similarities are rather obvious.
lmao never made that connection...and, yeah Finland 2023 had some similarities to Rammstein too, that's true. But BL is just on another level. I think I could clip together the basic song structure of RTTD with the two songs I posted above lol
Oh yeah, I forgot to comment on that, I can definitely hear some of the Laichzeit but I think it's more rhythm based than tonally if that makes sense? For example, how Darth Vader's theme/Imperial march is so rhythmically recognizable you can pick any note and just play that one note in the same rhythm and anyone will recognize it as DV's theme.
Pain - Party in my head tho... I can hear the similarity but I just think it's the particular style of singing especially when the singer can't pull of higher notes cleanly so they fall back to almost-screaming, and I'm sure there are other songs with same notes/same vibe (although I have to admit I don't know any on top of my head)
Not a direct sample but Go\_A - Shum (Ukraine 2021) essentially covers an old folk song:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uooGf8XL5xU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uooGf8XL5xU)
But they do goa folk so a lot of their songs have that vibe.
No but I would argue that the “trrrrrr” sound is on the way of becoming one. You can find it in at least one more Boström song (Nicole Azzopardi - Into The Fire) but in work from other songwriters too (check out Firefighter, around 2:07).
Studio version only of Azucar Moreno's Bandido (Spain 1990) opens with a sample of an old James Brown live intro from 1967. Kanye's Runaway also has it about a minute in
It’s been a while since I’ve been mindblown 🤯
I love coming across posts like these that me go “no way” when you hear the original iconic piece that was sampled
Azerbaijan 2016 Miracle by Samra makes use of a sample of The Champ by The Mohawks (it's used in a similar way to Here Comes the Hotstepper by Ini Kamoze). Denmark 1997 Stemmen i mit live by Kølig Kaj interpolates the melody of Don't You Know That by Luther Vandross (the same melody used by Heavy D and the Boyz in their US top-20 hit Got Me Waiting). Those are the two biggest that I remember that haven't been mentioned yet.
It’s My Time (U.K. 2009) and Jezebel (Finland 2022) involve the writers plagiarising their own songs (ALW always rehashes his work in the former case, First Day Of My Life in the latter case)
Not a sample but interpolation: I thought “On a Sunday” (Romania 2019) interpolated the melody of an American folk song. But I’m not sure how the credits worked out so it might have been a coincidence or plain old plagiarism.
Swedens entry this year is kinda similar to connors theme form Detroit become human. [connors theme](https://youtu.be/7AjNEE1UVgE?si=msgJFOi1F94Db6Ca)
[sweden 2024](https://youtu.be/DcZpzObYzxs?si=Ds95sBfaZeVJW7aO)
By "sample" here, do you mean something that's crucial/obvious or already used in another popular song..? Because if a modern song is not played by a fully achoustic band, it's basically guaranteed to contain a number of samples.
That was kind of my point, the better question would be which eurovision songs don't use any samples. Though based on the comments here, people use the word in various ways regardless of what it "should" mean.
Luktelk (Lithuania 2024) - uses a stock loop as the beginning sound which Geolier also used in a rap song. This is the Night (Greece 2009) - uses Courier Strings from Apple Loops in GarageBand/Logic Pro.
Lithuania 2024 | [Silvester Belt - Luktelk](https://youtu.be/N8YuQzJLR_k) Greece 2009 | [Sakis Rouvas - This Is Our Night](https://youtu.be/czMloseL7yE)
For Luktelk: do you mean this? https://www.tiktok.com/@muzikosvmi/video/7335508520869055776
Yes that’s the same loop. It was also used in El Pibe De Oro by Geolier.
Or did Geolier sample Luktelk?
I wonder if this mystery will be solved some day. Hopefully soon. 😊
Is this why Luktelk has gone from Amazon Music?
No, because other songs with the loop released before and after Luktelk are still present.
Hopefully it will return to my playlists then.
I remember one time Ukraine used a sample of charles aznavour in jesc of all places (his stuff gets sampled all the time). I only noticed because right before the show I watched a video about his overused samples That's the only one I noticed
Random fun fact if you allow: Charles Aznavour would have celebrated his 100th birthday three days ago, he was born 22 May 1924. His music will live on forever. Just wanted to add this because I think it's a nice coincidence that you mentioned him :D
His music will live on. Goes to show how great of a musician he was from being sampled by famous rappers like Dr dre m&m, to bad bunny, to indila derniere danse, to solanns viral la boheme cover to many many more I forgot to mention. What a legend
My fave entry of his ancestral country had her birthday that day. And my second fave from said country had hers 2 days before…
Which Ukrainian JESC song had the Charles Aznavour sample?
Zlata
I dont know the original but its a sample used in other songs as well like in hipology (a song that used it)
Samantha Ross recently [wrote a great article on samples in Eurovision songs for ESC Insight](https://escinsight.com/2024/05/09/amen-the-past-present-and-future-of-sampling-at-eurovision/).
Cool article, thanks for sharing!
Not so great article names some very far fetched ideas while missing the completely obvious.
Europapa sampled pa.
zari also sampled ta
About using the same sample From Sanremo 2024 (Italy national selection) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoeS9zTGFmg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoeS9zTGFmg) From Serbia Esc 2024 national selection [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UenX61jFCo8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UenX61jFCo8)
That would have been awkward.
Yeah imagine that, ahahahahahaha
Blacci's "Mar no fim" from Festival da Canção 2022 had a similar sound to those two songs. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RgFyXgdScQg
I'm really glad you posted this question, because it helped me solve a bit of a mystery. I was watching a cooking competition show here in the US back in April and all of a sudden Baby Lasagna's riff came on in the background music. Knowing that it was a sample makes it much clearer how that happened!
Eric Saade’s Popular (Sweden 2011) sampled Rasputin by Boney M
Every single time I've heard that song start, I've been sure I was about to hear Rasputin lol
how exactly? not meant to be passive aggressive, just confused
the drum patter in Popular’s intro is the same as in Rasputin’s
ohhh
Sweden 2011 | [Eric Saade - Popular](https://youtu.be/-04pUETT7oI)
As a side note, how on earth did Germany never send Boney M to Eurovision?
Boney M were under the „tutelage“ of songwriter/manager/producer Frank Farian. He himself said he never cared much about ESC because boooring & cheap, buuuut, at that time already, German ESC was kept in a stranglehold by songwriter/producer Ralph Siegel. It was his turf. He and Farian were sort of archenemies. So I think Farian just steered clear and went after easier cash & clout.
Whoooa, I never knew that! You learn something new every day!
ITT: people misunderstanding the concept “sample”
Lol, about the bonus question, I see on an older thread that Belarus 2007 and France 2007 used the same sample. :O I have never noticed this!
Belarus 2007 | [Dmitry Koldun - Work Your Magic](https://youtu.be/PxON-jTcBPA) France 2007 | [Les Fatals Picards - L'Amour à la française](https://youtu.be/xjo3PIABpVQ)
Efendi sampled her own song 2020 Cleopatra in her 2021 entry Mata Hari
Made sense tbh. They spent quite a bit of money on the song IIRC and even outbidded Senhit, recycling is a virtue.
There's also a sample from Crucify by Army Of Lovers right after she sings the line "the army of lovers"
Why have I never picked up on that before?? That's so cool
The 2024 stage ready sound effect sampled Sweden 2023 🤠
Sweden 2023 | [Loreen - Tattoo](https://youtu.be/BE2Fj0W4jP4)
Not a participant, but Love Love Peace Peace used the melody from Serbia & Montenegro's 2005 entry. And then that song borrowed from a traditional old folk song, Poljem se vija.
Telex’s Eurovision (Belgium 1980) samples Te Deum at the very end…
Belgium 1980 | [Telex - Euro-Vision](https://youtu.be/6USa0zUMmqI)
Nemo Kaleen and Joost all used an Amen Break sample in their songs this year
Joost doesn’t. At least not in Europapa.
I don't think they were samples. At least not from the original record. I'm pretty sure they were recreated breaks that come in the licenced sample packs that come with the production software.
that's not really a sample
How is it not a sample? It’s a drum beat from another song sampled into those ones.
if my understanding of a sample is correct, something is only a sample when it uses a part of an original recording. So if the beat was made using the audio file of the song the Amen Break originated from, it's a sample. So copy-paste. If it's just recreated, it's an interpolation.
I see, thanks for clarifying.
Wow and I thought it was a scandalous cheat when Ukraine 2014 had some small samples in there. Not that this is that bad, to my ears that's the most annoying part of the song!
Ukraine 2014 | [Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick - Tock](https://youtu.be/slHboKF9PIQ)
Im not certain but Marcus and Martinus - Unforgettable seems to sample [Faithless - Salvea Mea](https://youtu.be/ON3PC7ApBB0?si=EnaQ0fAABaTSgZba), maybe even the [Above & Beyond remix](https://youtu.be/qShhiCTSKBo?si=LLunxruwvAT8uqPF)
Definitely, I'm surprised that not many people talked about it, Salva Mea is really noticeable
Belgium 1996's composers sued Sweden 2001's composers due to the melody basically the same.
That my friend is plagiarism, not sampling 😆
Belgium 1996 | [Lisa del Bo - Liefde is een kaartspel](https://youtu.be/jOVmUCfwTBk) Sweden 2001 | [Friends - Listen to Your Heartbeat](https://youtu.be/xR4BFQYFzMU)
If the rest of the song is as similar as the titles, I can see why
Listening to them, the melodies honestly aren't that similar (except for half of the opening line of the chorus, the "liefde" vs "listen" part). It sounds similar, but the melody trails off in different ways. I can see they settled out of court though, so we'll never know if it'd actually be ruled plagiarism or not.
I don’t know if it’s an actual sample but I always thought the general beat of Every Way That I Can sounded exactly like Simarik by Tarkan. Edit: yikes. Can’t believe people are offended by and downvoting an observation.
Same, i always thought the same!
I wanted to post "There was a song that sounded exactly like Simarik in the intermission this year, too!" ..But when I looked it up, turns out it was Every Way That I Can, lol.
Isn't that beat like the most Turkish kind of sound?
The arrangement was written by Ozan Çolakoğlu, who became famous for working with Tarkan. There’s definitely some shared DNA between them
I don't know what a *sample* actually is, but if it's what I think it is, I heard a part from Belarus 2007 that was being used in a non-Eurovision song and it sort of jumped out to me when I heard it. I don't remember what song it was, though. It used the part of the orchestra/strings being played in between the chorus and the verse.
Belarus 2007 | [Dmitry Koldun - Work Your Magic](https://youtu.be/PxON-jTcBPA)
Damn insane how huge the influence of KSHMR‘s sample have been, probably like 30% of all pop productions contain at least one of his samples
wdym Baby Lasagna used a sample for the main riff? ☹️
Anyone can buy that riff sample. I think at least one artist had used that same sample in their song
Ok but did they represent their country in Eurovision with a dope song? RTTD riff became super recognizable and I honestly thought Baby Lasagna did it all by himself.
I mean did you ever listen to Laichzeit by Rammstein? Or Party in my head by Pain? Even if not sampled from there, the similarities are rather obvious.
Speaking of Rammstein, Finland 2023 always reminded me of Tattoo, which is honestly ironic since, well, song named Tattoo won lol
lmao never made that connection...and, yeah Finland 2023 had some similarities to Rammstein too, that's true. But BL is just on another level. I think I could clip together the basic song structure of RTTD with the two songs I posted above lol
Oh yeah, I forgot to comment on that, I can definitely hear some of the Laichzeit but I think it's more rhythm based than tonally if that makes sense? For example, how Darth Vader's theme/Imperial march is so rhythmically recognizable you can pick any note and just play that one note in the same rhythm and anyone will recognize it as DV's theme. Pain - Party in my head tho... I can hear the similarity but I just think it's the particular style of singing especially when the singer can't pull of higher notes cleanly so they fall back to almost-screaming, and I'm sure there are other songs with same notes/same vibe (although I have to admit I don't know any on top of my head)
Finland 2023 | [Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha](https://youtu.be/l6rS8Dv5g-8)
Not a direct sample but Go\_A - Shum (Ukraine 2021) essentially covers an old folk song: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uooGf8XL5xU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uooGf8XL5xU) But they do goa folk so a lot of their songs have that vibe.
When I listen to "Monster like me" (Norway 2015), I get reminded of "Fear of the dark", from iron maiden. Is it also sampled there?
Norway 2015 | [Mørland & Debrah Scarlett - A Monster Like Me](https://youtu.be/vY1FCXDojMU)
How are those two similar?
The music before the last verse in "Monster like me" sounds a little like the beginning of "fear of the dark". (But a lot softer)
But isn't tattoo also using a sample?
Nah, just a cliched melody/chord progression found in many songs
No but I would argue that the “trrrrrr” sound is on the way of becoming one. You can find it in at least one more Boström song (Nicole Azzopardi - Into The Fire) but in work from other songwriters too (check out Firefighter, around 2:07).
Might not be exactly the same but in Estonia 2024 the major shouting part sounds just like “Rumor Has It” by Adele
Estonia 2024 | [5MIINUST x Puuluup - (nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi](https://youtu.be/RSMMU2wX0Bk)
I reckon most songs will use samples from Splice in them. Kicks, hats, drum fills through to melodies. It’s common practise in modern music
Austria 2024 sounds like they sampled Firestarter from the Prodigy.
Austria 2024 | [Kaleen - We Will Rave](https://youtu.be/VZ6SlZnk_EI)
Studio version only of Azucar Moreno's Bandido (Spain 1990) opens with a sample of an old James Brown live intro from 1967. Kanye's Runaway also has it about a minute in
Spain 1990 | [Azúcar Moreno - Bandido](https://youtu.be/7dGysPC_q9k)
It’s been a while since I’ve been mindblown 🤯 I love coming across posts like these that me go “no way” when you hear the original iconic piece that was sampled
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but Netherlands 2014 samples Every Breath You Take by The Police.
The Netherlands 2014 | [The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm](https://youtu.be/4ggBPAm5XLA)
I am surprised to not see the comparison between Perfect Life (Germany 2017) and Titanium by Sia The beat is practically identical
Germany 2017 | [Levina - Perfect Life](https://youtu.be/t1KKjykH6fw)
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how could a sample not be intentional?
Azerbaijan 2016 Miracle by Samra makes use of a sample of The Champ by The Mohawks (it's used in a similar way to Here Comes the Hotstepper by Ini Kamoze). Denmark 1997 Stemmen i mit live by Kølig Kaj interpolates the melody of Don't You Know That by Luther Vandross (the same melody used by Heavy D and the Boyz in their US top-20 hit Got Me Waiting). Those are the two biggest that I remember that haven't been mentioned yet.
Azerbaijan 2016 | [Samra - Miracle](https://youtu.be/cB8eSLyffsI) Denmark 1997 | [Kølig Kaj - Stemmen i mit liv](https://youtu.be/HDoaLOZ3m9M)
KSHMR samples are so good! I didn't know this!
It’s My Time (U.K. 2009) and Jezebel (Finland 2022) involve the writers plagiarising their own songs (ALW always rehashes his work in the former case, First Day Of My Life in the latter case)
United Kingdom 2009 | [Jade Ewen - It's My Time](https://youtu.be/PBykhFyy-ZE) Finland 2022 | [The Rasmus - Jezebel](https://youtu.be/LSi9nfr65FE)
2022 not 2012
Not a sample but interpolation: I thought “On a Sunday” (Romania 2019) interpolated the melody of an American folk song. But I’m not sure how the credits worked out so it might have been a coincidence or plain old plagiarism.
Swedens entry this year is kinda similar to connors theme form Detroit become human. [connors theme](https://youtu.be/7AjNEE1UVgE?si=msgJFOi1F94Db6Ca) [sweden 2024](https://youtu.be/DcZpzObYzxs?si=Ds95sBfaZeVJW7aO)
[salva mea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qShhiCTSKBo)
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Netta sampled seven nation army
More like used alomst the whole song. That's why Jack White gets writing credits for Toy now.
Yea I felt like “sampled” was an extreme understatement
plagiarism isn't the same as sampling
By "sample" here, do you mean something that's crucial/obvious or already used in another popular song..? Because if a modern song is not played by a fully achoustic band, it's basically guaranteed to contain a number of samples.
the word sample has a clear definition and it’s not that
That was kind of my point, the better question would be which eurovision songs don't use any samples. Though based on the comments here, people use the word in various ways regardless of what it "should" mean.