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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 ...
Lys Assia, the winner of the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, performing at the 1958 contest. The Eurovision Song Contest was developed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) as an experiment in live television broadcasting and a way to produce cheaper programming for national broadcasting organisations.
With its victory, Estonia became the first country from the former Eastern Bloc to win the contest, sparking an eight-year chain of victories for new countries, and Aruba-born Benton became the first black artist to win the contest. [223] The Eurovision Song Contest 2002 was the forty-seventh edition of the contest, organised by Eesti ...
Nemo, 24, is the first nonbinary winner of the contest that has long been embraced as a safe haven by the LGBT community. Switzerland’s Nemo wins 68th Eurovision Song Contest after event roiled ...
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MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) -Switzerland on Saturday won Eurovision 2024 in Swedish host city Malmo, beating runner-up Croatia, after having been among bookmakers' top-three to win the competition.
The discography of the Eurovision Song Contest winners includes all the winning singles of the annual competition held since 1956. As of 2024, 71 songs have won the competition, including four entries which were declared joint winners in 1969.
The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 was the 40th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 13 May 1995 at the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland.Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), and presented by Mary Kennedy, the contest was held in Ireland following the country's victory at the 1994 contest with the song "Rock 'n' Roll ...