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Eleven Eurovision winners (alongside three non-winners) were featured at the special concert Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005, in which ABBA's "Waterloo" was voted the most popular song of the contest's first fifty years. [85] Ireland and Sweden have won seven times, more than any other country. Ireland also won ...
The discography of the Eurovision Song Contest winners includes all the winning singles of the annual competition held since 1956. As of 2024 [update] , 71 songs have won the competition, including four entries which were declared joint winners in 1969 .
The EBU has held several events to mark selected anniversaries in the contest's history: Songs of Europe, held in 1981 to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary, had live performances and video recordings of all Eurovision Song Contest winners up to 1981; [401] [402] Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest was organised in 2005 ...
A new landmark was achieved at this contest with the performance of the 1,000th song in Eurovision history, when Ireland's Brian Kennedy performed "Every Song Is a Cry for Love" in the semi-final. [176] 45 years after first entering the contest, Finland secured its first win, represented by Lordi and "Hard Rock Hallelujah". [91] [238]
The following tables list the entries which have been performed at the contest between 1956 and 2003. Entries are listed by order of their first performance in the contest; entry numbers provide a cumulative total of all songs performed at the contest throughout its history, and a second cumulative total outlines the total entries for each country.
Pages in category "Eurovision Song Contest–winning songs" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Graham Norton and Petra Mede, the presenters of Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits. In 2015, London hosted Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits, an event to commemorate the 60th anniversary, which was recorded for television on 31 March 2015 and was shown in 26 countries, starting with the UK and Ireland on 3 April 2015. [57]
Each country's number of Eurovision wins as of 2024 Line graph showing the number of countries participating in each Eurovision Song Contest.. Broadcasters from fifty-two countries have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest since it started in 1956, with winning songs coming from twenty-seven of those countries.