I was looking through the results for the first semi final in 2019 and I saw that Montenegro is just missing??? The points that Montenegro gave to other countries are there but any points that Montenegro received are just missing for some reason. Does anyone know a) why this is happening and b) how to get it fixed?
De Martino interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68xwpJVsfuI
What he says sintetically:
First two night: all the songs will be performed
Third night: Cover night
Fourth night: Performance Night, songs will be performed with staging, the winner of the night will go to Esc
Fifth night: Grand Final
Original article
https://www.adnkronos.com/spettacoli/sanremo-stefano-de-martino-maneskin_1FGtkDZahzokeyQCALwiYX
ARTICLE TRANSLATION
The host: "The idea is to bring Europe and the world even closer to Sanremo."
Preparations for Sanremo "are going well, because thanks to Carlo Conti, who invested in me so early, I was able to start working very early . We've already started grinding away at building the entire chassis of this machine, and so we've been up and running since the festival ended." Speaking to journalists is Stefano De Martino, the next host of the Sanremo Festival and currently among the stars of the Rai schedule presented in Ancona. This year's festival will be more international, explains the host: "The idea is to bring Europe and the world even closer to Sanremo. Because studying the Festival itself, I realized, along with everyone else, that it's the only music event in existence with such a strong presence. For five nights, a country stops to listen to songs. Because that's what Sanremo is: I find it incredibly romantic and speaks highly of Italian culture. The idea is to further expand the scope so that everyone realizes that Sanremo exists and has always been a model. Also because Eurovision, as you know, was born precisely by imitating the Festival."
This will actually happen "even simply in the staging," reveals De Martino, who, without giving too much away, explains a little about the rules of the five evenings: " On Tuesday and Wednesday, all the competing singers will perform with their songs . On Thursday there will be the cover night, which we are all fond of, and then on Friday there will be this performance night, which will then determine who will represent us at Eurovision , where the artists will have the opportunity to perform according to their creative idea. Their performance is related to their competing song. This is because, wandering around the stages, I realized that there are artists, so many, more and more, who, when you then go and see them live, give a lot back to the audience with their ideas, with their world of aesthetic references, and so it was right, in my opinion, to bring part of that world." That evening, the artists "will really lay themselves bare and will have the entire Ariston team at their disposal to put their ideas into practice. I believe this is already a small boost towards the internationality of the Festival."
And regarding a hypothetical Maneskin reunion, which has been discussed in recent weeks, the host jokes : "I don't know if they'll have the reunion, but they told me they have a meeting to hold in Sanremo, and it could very likely happen during the week of the Festival. I don't know." The Neapolitan host can't say much about the festival's rules, but he does reveal that the intention is to reduce the number of songs, "precisely to give the performances some breathing room, to give the festival's narrative a bit of space, and above all to focus more on how all the artists will be treated."
De Martino then spoke a few words about Amadeus , whose baton he took over at 'Affari Tuoi' and who has now said goodbye to Discovery, while today Rai CEO Rossi opened up about his possible return to the company. "I believe that Amadeus, after the five glorious festivals he's hosted, will now have a queue named after him at the Ariston. It's me who's in a foreign land. I believe what Giampaolo Rossi said is true, that Rai by definition is not a closed company, and as part of this team of talent, I can only be happy if this team grows stronger.
At his side for Sanremo is a team that helps him: "To choose, to listen to the songs," he reveals. "What all the artistic directors who have put on Sanremo and what they all tell you in the end is that 'Baudo docet': choose with your head because the face, not to mention any other part of the body, is yours. So it's right, in my opinion, that the artistic director then takes the responsibility of saying yes and no, but certainly, in the end, they are shared listening."
The host of the 2027 festival makes it clear that his ideas are clear, starting with the method of choosing the songs : "I listen to the song in three ways," he explains. "The first time with headphones, a clean listen. The second time in the car while I'm driving. And the third time while I'm running. If it survives these three listens, it means that something is already there. And I'm also borrowing a bit from something De Gregori said, that is, that music should sometimes be listened to like this, a little distractedly. And so that's what I do at the moment." For the results, tune in in February 2027.
This is a series of posts where I discuss each entry of this year and just give my personal thoughts on each song throughout the season, thoughts on the result, thoughts some friends who don’t really follow the contest besides what I show them had on the entries and some random facts and thoughts related in any way to the entry.
This post will cover the countries in pot 2, the nords and the kangaroo: Australia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
To maintain anonymity but to also keep consistency in my friend’s takes I just refer to them as Friend A, B, C and D.
- Australia:
It is nice to see Australia break their nq streak and succeed in Eurovision again although for me personally I liked the songs they NQ’ed with in the last 2 years more than this one. This song is super bleh for me and was one of my least favorite songs of the year before the contest but Delta Goodrem’s incredible live vocals got her into the 15-20 range for me. She was incredible live and even more impressive considering she had to relearn how to speak again after surgery due to a nerve issue in her tongue. It was also surprising to see it place the best of all the pre contest week favorites considering it was considered very jury heavy and very televote weak. It did much worse in the jury than I expected (I thought she could get 300) but it also did better in the televote than what most (including myself) expected, hell some people thought Australia would get in the televote what France got this year but this song did much better with casuals eurofans than expected.
Regarding friends only A and B watched the live performance and both were very impressed with her vocals but were meh or negative with the song and neither ranked it very high. Even my mom who I thought would like the song because of Delta’s vocals was whelmed. So overall it did not do well with the people around me unlike in the contest.
- Denmark:
Finally Denmark felt like they were back with this entry. I really enjoyed Soren’s national final performance, it was one of my favorites to the year and to me it felt like a winning performance before the contest. This ended up being wrong but they should still be very happy with the seventh place finish (I do believe being first in the running order helped general fans accept the result and the Danes were going to be happy with this result considering their recent history). Comparing the Eurovision performance to the national final one, people will remember the national final one as better, my personal opinion is the presentation in Eurovision was better but it really missed the backing vocals from the national final, the EBU restrictions around backing vocals and autotune hurt Denmark the most with this rule but still both performances were fantastic.
Since this was one of my favorites I showed it to all my friends but all of them were pretty meh on the song, none were really blown away and this was more of an entry that only I really liked. I think maybe this was an example of this being more of a eurofan song (although I personally don’t like the songs that get classified like that most of the time). One funny fact was that with the other friends I had a small game where they tried to guess one song that wasn’t one of my favorites that was one of Friend B’s favorites and they all guessed this one which annoyed Friend B and I feel made him dislike the song (i’ll reveal the specific correct answer for that song when I cover it in a future part).
- Estonia:
Like many people in this sub I was very disappointed with the winner of Estii Laul this year. Before the national final Estii Laul’s lineup was the one that made me the most excited because of two songs: Slave (first song I heard from this season) and Jolly Roger. I thought both were really good songs that would easily qualify for the grand final and thought it was a crime that one of them wasn’t going to go to Eurovision only for us to get neither. Before the national final happened I thought the odds would be wrong and that Jolly Roger would win because I thought it would connect with the Estonian audience the way (nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi did in 2024 but it clearly didn’t and their staging was a huge letdown especially considering how good the music video was. On the night Ollie should have won (which is a very common opinion on this sub) but that night the Estonian public very clearly proved they don’t want to send him and I feel that at this point he should either stop trying or just go do what Medina does in Melodifestivalen. (compete with no intention of winning but go to promote and market your song which I find to be a perfectly fine reason to do these competitions and I support artist using what they have available to get attention)
Now regarding the actual winner: song sucks imo. I really like Vanilla Ninja’s entry in 2005 but this one no, don’t like it at all. It’s not surprising it nq’ed and like Croatia last year it was not surprising they went from top 3 to NQ. It is interesting to see that it would have qualified in a televote only semifinal and that it got the 12 points from Finland instead of Sweden. Personally, even though I don’t like the song I would have loved to see the world where this was a televote only semifinal and it and Montenegro qualified over Sweden and Belgium even though Sweden had a better song than Estonia because:
o Chaos. The sub and the fanbase would have exploded.
o Montenegro would have broken their NQ streak.
o The ESC Gabe crashout would have been legendary.
In this scenario all it would have done in the Grand Final was take Belgium’s role as the Israeli ally that is fine performing after them so it would have performed fourth and it probably would have placed 20th-22nd but unlike Belgium it wouldn’t have gotten 0 points and it would have gotten most of its points from the televote with atleast 10 televote points from Finland.
I didn’t really show this song to friends but those who did see it didn’t like it either. Only memorable comment was from Friend B who after seeing it and seeing Slave asked me: do you want me to be pissed about how these countries keep making the wrong choice? (I had showed him another national final loser beforehand he really liked that I will discuss in a future part).
- Finland:
Finland this year and last year have had very similar trajectories for me where I found them to be good songs but not close to my favorites. Both entries are incredibly well produced, i am very impressed when watching them but afterward I feel no desire to watch them again and neither was one of the songs I think about when the contests are over as one of the best which just feels wrong to say considering they were both considered favorites to win by eurofans. I’ve been wondering what my issue with both songs was and the answer I came up with is that they feel designed to be successful in Eurovision. They feel made to appeal exactly to the people who are very passionate about the contest and do well with those fan groups and the nords but fail to connect with a casual audience. This is why I feel both entries ended up placing 5 spots below where they were expected to be and why both never truly connected with me.
This is meant to be about their entry this year but the stories of both are so connected with my overall opinion I needed to say this. Liekinheitin is a great song, it is better than Ich Komme in my opinion but it still ends up falling into the same issues I had with the latter. I see people describing the song as being horny and about a breakup or abusive relationship but being honest I don’t get any of that from the performance and the performance or music video doesn’t leave me wanting to find out. This can be seen as wilfull ignorance from my part but I believe if a song has a message it should either be able to express this message in the performance or make you want to look it up but it doesn’t do it for me and it just makes me focus on the spectacle and not on the meaning.
With friends they all were impressed with the vocals and thought it was a good song (which was not the case at all last year) but none of them mentioned it as one of their favorites and those who ranked the songs had it in the 16-20 range which would be slightly worse than me (it’s like 13th for me).
For upcoming years I am just going to believe my opinion on a finnish song more than the eurofan reception or just consider that it will finish 5 spots below what eurofans are expecting it to. If we were all honest there is a very big Nordic bias among eurofans: they get more hype because their events have more funs invested to host it, there are a lot of Nordic fans involved which influences alongside their love and success in the contest and if you look at the fan rankings it felt like there was a desire for this year to be 2023 again (and for some it seems like they want that to be every year) where the nords where the top 3 in the televote. Among them I would say Finland feels like the golden boy of the fandom and honestly of the contest based on their consistently great running order spots. To make it clear: I don’t have any animosity towards Finland just from now on im going to value my opinion of it more and not go with the common opinion I have seen every year of UMK was the best event and they are winning this year because both these takes are going to be heard a lot in March next year.
- Norway:
The hated child amongst the nords the last two years. There is something deeply ironic that since 2024 each year Norway’s national final has been hated more every year yet they keep having better results in the contest. I didn’t listen to their national final last year and I will say I did not like the MGP lineup this year and I have liked their entries less and less each year since 2024. I cared so little about the MGP lineup that if I was asked who I wanted to win I would have said Rybak because even though his song was terrible, the reaction and hatred directed towards him I found absurd that even the Mans hate last year felt more tame and subdued in comparison and this made me curious to see how the sub and fandom would burn if Rybak won but the best song on that night won instead. Jonas knows how to perform his song well but its a song I don’t care for, happy for him but its not something I would listen to on my own.
One fun stat is that this entry is the first time we get jury Norway since 2017. Norway has had a reputation in recent years that juries hate them because they always do bad especially compared to the televote but in the early 2010’s they had a period where their entries would do really well in the jury and very poorly in the televote and all of those songs finished in the top 10 (2014, 2015, 2017).
With friends none of them care for it except friend A who liked it. He told me it was really working for him at the start but kinda lost him in the middle but that it would still be in his top 5 of this year.
Also while Rybak was stopped in MGP, we still got Rybak in Vienna thanks to Erica Vikman’s nostalgia performance with all the nostalgia acts that were supposed to be on the tour and got a paycheck in Vienna instead.
- Sweden:
For the first time in 16 years Sweden truly bombed in Eurovision and I feel horrible that it happened to someone making the comeback story that Felicia had. Thankfully the swedes seems surprisingly fine with the result from what I have seen and it doesn’t seem that it will hurt her career but at the same time it does makes me concerned for Sweden’s future success to have this level of apathy for this failure and that the immediate thought was Melfest is what really matters. I would be concerned of having a mediocre result next year with someone like Grezcula, everything may not be just fine. I hope they really consider making changes to Melfest. If it was a jury only semifinal they definitely would have gone scorched earth with melfest next year.
This result made one fact very obvious that explains why Red Sebastian bombed last year: the casual Eurovision viewer does not care for EDM at all. They would rather vote for Malta than an EDM song. Juries saved it in the semifinal but the final showed they didn’t love it, they just really didn’t like 7 of the songs in semifinal 1.
With friends they did not like this song at all. The most common reaction was being asked to turn off the song immediately and for some quotes worth mentioning from Friend A. When comparing this song to Estonia’s after I mentioned how Sweden’s song sounded like a 2012 song and Estonia’s like a 2004 one he responded: well I liked 2004 music and hate 2012 music so I don’t want to have to listen to this song. The not liking 2012 music was a very common response amongst my friends so that helps answer the dislike towards My System. Another quote I will mention from Friend A was: man so much EDM Europeans must really like EDM, a take which aged like milk.
There was a recent uproar in the Eurovision world after Martin Green, the director of Eurovision, stated that (after four years of rightly insisting that Russia absolutely couldn't participate), Russia could in principle participate if the broadcaster RTRN proved its independence from the Kremlin.
As a Pole, I believe that, firstly, Russia's participation in this contest should be avoided given what's happening in Ukraine and the country's current provocations, despite its apolitical nature. Secondly, even if Russia miraculously did participate, the results (and songs) would be highly politically charged.
Immediately after this incident, I wondered why the EBU didn't give the Belarusian broadcaster BTRC such a chance. Yes, I know that the broadcaster is currently violating the principle of free media, but firstly, Belarus is not at war (at least not directly), and secondly, the EBU could help a theoretically independent broadcaster from Belarus participate. Thirdly, if Belarus returned, most broadcasters would have little reason to boycott the BTRC, because the evil things Belarus is doing aren't on the scale or politically significant as Russia.
Moreover, the BTRC was removed not because of genocide, but because the broadcaster overstepped its bounds by sending political songs. It's a real shame to think that if the BTRC had sent VAL in 2021, we would still have Belarus at Eurovision today.
You weren't the most powerful country, but every time I heard that Belarus was in the final, I was happy. The songs "Like It" and "Cheesecake" are really good, and they were massively underrated.
I'm secretly hoping and waiting until Belarusians can live a normal life, like other Slavic nations. Belarusians, hang in there, I'm waiting for you at Eurovision!
dude, i feel so sorry for bosnia 🇧🇦 - like, they've said before that they do still want to return to eurovision someday, their head of delegation lejla babović has said so before, but the money just isn't there. i've seen that bhrt's operations have really been hit hard by their financial problems (this article says that their output has been cut down to basically only news stuff) - can any bosnians here maybe shed some more light on the situation?
we miss you, bosnia, nedostajete nam! ♥️
Recently she served blend of NF and ESC versions in Belgrade
Unfortunately, sound and camera stuff are even worse than in Bulgaria. But performance is still enjoyable
i won’t lie here, Jigga Jigga was way better than Can’t Wait Until Tonight, Jigga Jigga suited the energy of ESC, overall a great song, Max didn’t do too bad, it was about time Scooter bought the club energy into Eurovision that year.
Any idea on where they could have finished, and if they had a chance in winning that year.
*ARTICLE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH*
By July 31, it should be clear which city will host Eurovision, after Dara brought victory to our country in May. Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas are in the running. This is outlined in the action plan for the preparation of Eurovision, which was adopted on Wednesday. All tasks in it have specific deadlines.
The show must have an appointed executive producer, creative director and show manager by August 30.
A contract with the hall must be signed by September 10. By September 30, the spaces in and around the selected hall must be allocated: press center, dressing rooms, costume rooms, VIP area, etc. By the same date, the preparation of the technical specifications for public procurement should also begin, market consultations should be launched to determine the current estimated value and schedule of the tenders. And the public procurement itself will start in January.
By October 10, an estimated budget and financing model (state, municipality, ESRT, sponsors, tickets) will be made.
A creative concept and visual identity should be determined by December 15.
At the end of November, the schedule provides for signed contracts with hotels. And a website should be launched in early 2027.
April is the deadline for the transport plan - airport arrivals, shuttles, providing a fleet.
The selection of presenters and a script team starts in November and ends in April.
Ticket sales start from January to May.
Exercises and training simulations will be held from mid-March to the end of April. During this period, the equipment will also be imported and the stage will be installed.
Improvements to the hall will be made in the first 20 days of April.
From April 13 to May 31 is the deadline for the construction of temporary facilities (tents, fences, signage), a plan for Eurovillage.
The dismantling and handover of the hall is from May 18 to May 24.
New Music Friday is our weekly thread dedicated to new music releases by past Eurovision and National Final contestants.
This is a place to share, discuss and celebrate these artists' latest releases following their time in the contest.
Feel free to share singles, albums, collaborations, or covers, as well as any opinions and thoughts you may have about them.
Please remember to include the year that the artist participated in ESC and the country they represented.
Happy listening!
This year had some great songs, and i’m happy Bulgaria got its first win(even if it should’ve been in 2017 with beautiful mess) and I like dara as a person, and her song was good
But the other songs this year were great too, but two stood out to me, Moldova and Australia
Moldova’s song was pure fun, I loved its energy, the vocals were great and i vibed to it a lot, Satoshi’s vocals were amazing throughout the song and gave it that extra kick, made me feel like i was actually in moldova
Australia’s song is different, Delta’s vocals on eclipse were honestly the best of 2026’s lineup, she sounds like australian celine dion, the lyrics also are well written imo, and the song reminds me of my gf which gives it bonus points, i also got chills on the high notes too
I would’ve been happy if either of these won, but at least they placed highly
But if one of them did? would you be happy with the result? or would you want someone else to win? Tell me in comments
Basically the title. Like it or not, Canada is debuting at Eurovision next year and it got me thinking: who are they going to send?
I personally think that they are going to go for a more obsecure artist. UK and Australia have a large range of famous artists but most of the time they go for artists that didn't have commercial success. Besides, most famous artists don't really do as well as expected. Canada will probably follow their footsteps.
That said, Canada sending a famous artist is not impossible and in fact would be pretty interesting. My favorite Canadian singer is Tate McRae and as much as I'd love to see her send a song, her live vocals aren't really that good. I think artists like Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen or The Weeknd will appeal to juries and televote, especially supported by fans.
Of course, fans are also thinking about past Canadian contestants like Celine Dion and La Zarra. I highly doubt will do it since she's not really active in making music anymore. La Zarra does not seem impossible yet unlikely.
Overall, it's obviously too early to decide but for now we can make our wishlists and baseless predictions :D. What are your thoughts and who would you like to see?
To celebrate Canada officially joining the Eurovision Song Contest, I thought I'd shout out the most iconic Canadian participant and one of our most famous singers! Céline Dion represented Switzerland after winning the national final at age 20, going on to beat the United Kingdom for the victory by a single vote.
I liked to joke that Canada technically won Eurovision once because of Céline. But that joke doesn't quite work anymore with us officially in. Anyways, I can't wait to see who we send for 2027!
Like the title says, I’m going to be ranking every Eurovision edition since 2000 solely on the quality of the songs, so no stagings or live performances will be taken into account. In order to not make you read the longest Reddit post ever made, I’m splitting it into 3 parts by decade, so this will cover the editions from 2010-2019. Click here for part 1.
In addition to the rankings, I’ll also name my favorite, least favorite, most underrated, and most overrated songs from that year. For the overrated and underrated songs I’ll be factoring in both where it ended in the final standings and also what the general community consensus is.
Please respect that these are just my opinions and are in no means objective. You guys mostly agreed with my 2000s list but I feel like this one will be much more divisive.
#10 - 2011 🇩🇪
Favorite - 🇬🇪 One More Day
Least Favorite - 🇭🇷 Celebrate
Overrated - 🇩🇰 New Tomorrow
Underrated - 🇨🇾 San Aggelos S’agapisa
While not nearly as bad as the worst years from the 2000s, 2011 is definitely the worst edition of the 2010s. A lot of the songs from this year were just very confusing to me and I didn’t really understand the appeal of them, like Boom Boom, I Love Belarus, and Stand By among others. There were some decent songs from this year, but overall it’s a pretty weak year, which was reflected in how widespread the results ended up being.
#9 - 2013 🇸🇪
Favorite - 🇳🇴 I Feed You My Love
Least Favorite - 🇲🇹 Tomorrow
Overrated - 🇦🇿 Hold Me
Underrated - 🇦🇱 Identitet
2013 was just kinda unremarkable for me. The worst songs were bland and the best songs were good but not great. I think it’s because most of the songs were more modern (by 2013 standards) and radio friendly in order to attempt to be more commercially viable like Euphoria was the year prior so they just ended up being not that memorable.
#8 - 2019 🇮🇱
Favorite - 🇦🇿 Truth
Least Favorite - 🇩🇪 Sister
Overrated - 🇷🇺 Scream
Underrated - 🇷🇸 Kruna
This might be a bit controversial but I didn’t like 2019’s selection of songs that much. There was an abnormal amount of nothing burger songs like the Sister by S!sters who weren’t actually sisters, Bigger than us, 22, Heaven, Home, Stay, Limits and I can keep going. I think there’s some good songs here and obviously Arcade was a big hit, but compared to what had come right before and what came after, 2019 doesn’t really hold up.
#7 - 2017 🇺🇦
Favorite - 🇮🇹 Occidentali’s Karma
Least Favorite - 🇪🇸 Do it for Your Lover
Overrated - 🇷🇴 Yodel It
Underrated - 🇱🇹 Rain of Revolution
2017 wasn’t a bad year, but there’s a clear reason why people look at it as a weak year. When 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2018 were so strong, 2017 ends up getting largely forgotten about. With that said, there’s some things to like about this year such as Italy’s greatest song since their return (in my opinion) and a lot of songs that stood out with how unique they were in the context of Eurovision like Rain of Revolution and Amar Pelos Dois.
#6 - 2010 🇳🇴
Favorite - 🇹🇷 We Could Be the Same
Least Favorite - 🇨🇾 Life Looks Better in the Spring
Overrated - 🇦🇿 Drip Drop
Underrated - 🇨🇭Il Pleut de l’Or
I actually quite enjoyed 2010, but the mid-to-late 2010s were so strong that it only lands at the bottom half of this list. Yeah you still had some songs that were extremely dated, but this year produced so many classics and birthed so many legends like Hera Bjork, Lena, Sunstroke Project, and Paula Selling & Ovi amongst others.
#5 - 2016 🇸🇪
Favorite - 🇪🇪 Play
Least Favorite - 🇨🇭The Last of our Kind
Overrated - 🇫🇷 J’ai Cherché
Underrated - 🇪🇪 Play
Now this is where things really get good. When I first listened to the 2016 songs I honestly had a hard time figuring out who my winner is cause there’s so many quality songs at the top between Play (ROBBED), LoveWave, You are the Only One, 1944, and Sound of Silence. Overall there was just a lot of songs I look back at fondly which makes 2016 more memorable for me, but it only gets better from here.
#4 - 2015 🇦🇹
Favorite - 🇦🇺 Tonight Again
Least Favorite - 🇭🇺 Wars for Nothing
Overrated - 🇸🇪 Heroes
Underrated - 🇧🇾 Time
This might also be controversial but 2015 was awesome in my opinion. Yeah a lot of the songs feel a bit generic but they really resonated with me anyway. Like Time and Tonight Again aren’t revolutionary songs but they’re absolute bangers. There’s also the total guilty pleasure of I Want Your Love and who can forget the 2 great songs which are both named Warrior.
#3 - 2014 🇩🇰
Favorite - 🇦🇲 Not Alone
Least Favorite - 🇱🇻 Cake to Bake
Overrated - 🇸🇪 Undo
Underrated - 🇮🇱 Same Heart
I think 2014 is iconic for me because it’s when I first heard about Eurovision as my middle school French teacher was teaching us about it and showed us the song Moustache (which is a banger). With that said, this has got to be the most diverse set of music I’ve seen in Eurovision. Just about every genre is covered and there’s a lot of songs that are very unique and we haven’t heard anything like them since. Besides the 2 awful songs that for some reason both have “cake” in their names, I think just about every song has some great or memorable qualities to them.
#2 - 2012 🇦🇿
Favorite - 🇸🇪 Euphoria
Least Favorite - 🇮🇱 Time
Overrated - 🇷🇺 Party for Everybody
Underrated - 🇨🇭Unbreakable
2012 marked a turning point in the contest where the music really started to feel like it had caught up to the greater music scene around the world. Obviously Euphoria was legendary but so many countries sent my favorite entry of all time for them (🇷🇸🇬🇷🇭🇺🇲🇰) and there’s also a ton of* guilty pleasures like Stay, Woki Mit Deim *Popo, *and Beautiful *Song amongst others. Maybe it’s nostalgia for the fact that my music taste is heavily influenced by what I liked to listen to around 2012, but that edition really delivered for me.
#1 - 2018 🇵🇹
Favorite - 🇨🇭Stones
Least Favorite - 🇸🇲 Who We Are
Overrated - 🇫🇷 Merci
Underrated - 🇲🇪 Inje
And finally we got the first ever Eurovision that I watched, which just so happens to be what I consider the best year in Eurovision history (from a purely musical standpoint). You’d have to get into the 30s of my list to find a song that I think is just ok. Almost every country in 2018 locked in and sent certified bangers.
Eurovision was at its best in the late 2010s with insane quality almost every year. Stay tuned for the conclusion of the series with the 2020s.