Aww now I'm curiousDon‘t ask how someome born and raised in NYC watches this. Or went to the show in 2014. Haha
You Australians are crazy too. I was at the venue hours before the doors opened and ther only people already there were Australians. HahaAww now I'm curious
Year | Host City | Artist | Title | Country | Language | Final | Points | Semi | Points |
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1962 | Luxembourg City | Ronnie Carroll | "Ring-A-Ding Girl" | UK | English | 4 | 10 | | |
1963 | London | Ronnie Carroll | "Say Wonderful Things" | UK | English | 4 | 28 | | |
1969 | Madrid | Muriel Day | "The Wages Of Love" | Ireland | English | 7 | 10 | | |
1970 | Amsterdam | Dana | "All Kinds of Everything" | Ireland | English | 1 | 32 | | |
1971 | Dublin | Clodagh Rodgers | "Jack In The Box" | UK | English | 4 | 98 | | |
1980 | The Hague | Johnny Logan * | "What’s Another Year?" | Ireland | English | 1 | 143 | | |
1981 | Ballsbridge | Sheeba ** | "Horoscopes" | Ireland | English | 5 | 105 | | |
1984 | Luxembourg City | Linda Martin | "Terminal 3" | Ireland | English | 2 | 137 | | |
1986 | Bergen | Luv Bug | "You Can Count On Me" | Ireland | English | 4 | 96 | | |
1987 | Brussels | Johnny Logan | "Hold Me Now" | Ireland | English | 1 | 172 | | |
1992 | Malmö | Linda Martin | "Why Me?" | Ireland | English | 1 | 155 | | |
1995 | Dublin | Eddie Friel | "Dreamin’" | Ireland | English | 14 | 44 | | |
2006 | Athens | Brian Kennedy | "Every Song Is A Cry For Love": Semi; Final | Ireland | English | 10 | 93 | 9 | 79 |
2013 | Malmö | Ryan Dolan | "Only Love Survives": Semi; Final | Ireland | English | 26 | 5 | 8 | 54 |
I think one of the official reasons was that they didn’t want to do remote from the studios contest because certain countries would have better production values than others.I still don't understand why the organisers cancelled the contest completely last year. There was nothing to stop them just playing out the pre-recorded videos of each of the entries in the order they would have been performing, and getting the public to vote as normal on that.
Yes, I know that everybody that was competing last year has been invited back this year. But, this is supposed to be a song contest, rather than a singing contest. So, because the acts are performing different songs, we will undoubtedly get a different result to what we would have got with their original songs.
The only reason I can see for cancelling completely last year was so as to avoid the situation where the country that won in 2019 would miss out their "prize" of hosting the next contest. But, hey, it's not the first time that that scenario has happened.
You know, I think the reasons the EBU cancelled 2020 are all because it was the Netherlands that were the reigning Champions. Firstly, because it was so long since the Dutch entry last won (1975). And secondly because the Netherlands had already not hosted the contest a year that they were reigning Champions (the Dutch entry won in 1959, but the 1960 contest was held in London).
Personally, I am still not convinced that we should be holding a proper contest this year. We should have had 2 years of video tape contests.
But, we are where we are. And we will get a winner this year.
Looking forward to hearing what the songs are like. (I always avoid listening to the songs until they are performed in competition).
CaroLiza_fan
I think one of the official reasons was that they didn’t want to do remote from the studios contest because certain countries would have better production values than others.
Certain countries have advantages in budgets and attention no matter how it is held. Sweden is always going to get hype no matter what they send. And Australia was the shiny new toy for the first few editions too.
Moldova can send Sweden’s entry and still won’t score as well because they aren’t Sweden.
That being said, Euphoria is still the best winner ever.
Yup. Australia lost its 100% record yesterday.My country is the only one that always qualified to final. I guess it's something to be proud of )))
I was there when Rise like a Phoenix won.You've got some good points there. Some of the broadcasters are not as well funded as others and don't have the same quality of production facilities. Hey, you can see that when the Jury votes are being announced in the Grand Final! But you would like to think that the EBU would help those less well funded broadcasters out.
I don't subscribe to the widely held theory that Eurovision is awash with political voting. To me, it makes sense that neighbouring countries are likely to have similar tastes in music and, hence, would like each other's acts. Nothing to do with politics. The only times I can imagine that political voting comes in is if there are countries that have major issues with each other. But, when there are over 40 countries voting, and each country can only give points to 10 countries, then I can't see this having much of an impact on the overall results.
To be fair on Australia, they have had good songs every year since they arrived. So, I don't think them doing well is because of the novelty factor. It's because they deserved it!
Not sure you picked the best example with Moldova, given that they finished 3rd in their Semi / 10th in the Final in 2018, and 2nd in their Semi / 3rd in the Final in 2017. (I should add, I liked the 2017 song, but not the 2018 song). But, I do think you are right. I too get the impression that there is a reputation element to the jury judging.
...just like figure skating, then.
I didn't like "Euphoria" at the time. But, I admit that it has grown on me a bit in the years since then. (Just a bit, though).
For me, "Rise Like A Phoenix" is without doubt the best Eurovision song ever. (Not just the best winner!)
And when the following happened, it put that belief beyond doubt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTJ-q0ke0cE
Anyway, all the best to everybody competing tonight in Semi Final 1.
The action starts in about half an hour from now.
CaroLiza_fan
The Balkan girls they like to party like nobody indeed.