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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 .
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.
Duncan Laurence's "Arcade", winner of the 2019 contest for the Netherlands, became the first Eurovision song of the 21st century to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100. The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 was the sixty-fourth edition of the contest, organised by the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC) and held on 14, 16 and 18 May 2019 at ...
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A "Eurovision Street" was established on Friisgatan , stretching from Triangeln station to the Eurovision Village in Folkets Park. [6] [9] Planned street music performances were affected by the withdrawal of several artists due to Israel's participation in the contest and were ultimately transferred to the Eurovision Village for security reasons.
Ireland's Johnny Logan has won the contest three times as a performer and composer, and was the first performer to win multiple contests.. Since the Eurovision Song Contest began in 1956 and until semi-finals were introduced in 2004, a total of 917 entries were submitted, comprising songs and artists which represented thirty-eight countries. [1]
"We Are the Winners" was one of the few Eurovision songs to get booed. [2] As Lithuania had not qualified for the final at the 2005 contest , the song was first performed in the semi-final. In the semi-final, it was performed 18th, following the Netherlands ' Treble with " Amambanda " and preceding Portugal 's Nonstop with " Coisas de nada ".