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The 1976 winner for the United Kingdom, Brotherhood of Man, holds the record of the highest average score per participating country, with an average of 9.65 points received per country. 2011 Azerbaijani winners Ell and Nikki hold the lowest average score for a winning song under that system, receiving 5.14 points per country.
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 song eventually sold six million copies worldwide and is still the highest selling Eurovision winning single ever. [19] In the UK, it stayed at No.1 for six weeks and earned them a platinum disc. [20] It ended up the top selling single of the year and is still one of the few UK singles to sell a million. [21] [22]
Dami Im (/ ˌ d ɑː m i ˈ ɪ m / DAH-mee IM; [4] Korean: 임다미; RR: Im Dami; IPA: [im dami]; born 17 October 1988) is an Australian singer and songwriter.She represented Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 held in Stockholm, Sweden with the song "Sound of Silence", placing second and achieving the highest Eurovision Song Contest score for Australia.
[54] [240] A record 42 countries competed in the contest, which saw the debut entries from the Czech Republic, Georgia, Montenegro and Serbia, the latter two as independent countries for the first time. 28 countries competed in the single semi-final, the biggest number of participants ever seen in a Eurovision show. [241]
The first zero points in Eurovision were scored in 1962, under a new voting system. When a country finishes with a score of zero, it is often referred to in English-language media as nul points / ˌ nj uː l ˈ p w æ̃ / [32] or nil points / ˌ n ɪ l ˈ p ɔɪ n t s /, albeit incorrectly.
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In May 2022, the British news publication The Independent named the song as the twentieth best Eurovision-winning song and opined that its "melancholic" approach "works perfectly". [3] As well, in 2023, The Guardian ranked the song as the third best Eurovision winner in history. [4] An official music video was released on 21 September 2016. [5]