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The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the fifty-first edition of the contest, organised by the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) and held on 18 and 20 May 2006 at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece.
Switzerland's Lys Assia (pictured in 1957) was the first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, and would represent her country in the contest again in 1957 and 1958. The contest was held on 24 May 1956, beginning at 21:00 with an approximate duration of 1 hour 40 minutes. [3] [4] The event was hosted in Italian by Lohengrin Filipello. [3]
Eurovision has been held annually since 1956 ... Lys Assia, the winner of the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, performing at the 1958 contest.
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual international song competition held by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956. This page is a list of cities and venues that have hosted the contest one or more times. The contest has frequently been held in a capital city.
Participants in the Eurovision Song Contest, coloured by decade of debut. The table lists the participating countries in each decade since the first Eurovision Song Contest was held in 1956. Seven countries participated in the first contest. Since then, the number of entries has increased steadily.
The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la Chanson) [7] is an annual international song competition that was first held in Lugano, Switzerland, on 24 May 1956. Seven countries participated – each submitting two songs, for a total of 14.
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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 ...