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The Eurovision Song Contest 2012 was the 57th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, following the country's victory at the 2011 contest with the song "Running Scared" by Ell and Nikki. It was the first time Azerbaijan hosted the contest – only four years after the country made its debut.
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 winner of a tie is the country that received more 12 points, then 10 points. If the tie cannot be broken in this way, all tied countries are winners. [27] 2001–2002: To determine the winner and the qualifiers for the following year. The winner of a tie is the country that received more 12 points, then 10 points, all the way down to 1.
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 .
Their version, rendered as a pop ballad, became a success in Iceland in July 2012, simultaneously with Loreen's original version. Both versions simultaneously charted on Tónlist, the official Icelandic Singles Chart. Bergmann and Gunnar's version entered the Tónlist chart 27/2012 at number 16, [113] rising to number 5 in chart 28/2012. [114]
Russia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Russian entry was selected through a national final, organised by the Russian broadcaster RTR . Buranovskiye Babushki represented Russia with the song " Party for Everybody ", which qualified from the first semi-final and went on to place 2nd in the final, scoring ...
The Huffington Post crunched the stats on every Oscar nominee of the past 30 years to produce a scientific metric for predicting the winners at the 2013 Academy Awards. Follow the Oscars with live updates here.
Prior to the 2012 contest, Iceland had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twenty-four times since its first entry in 1986. [1] Iceland's best placing in the contest to this point was second, which it achieved on two occasions: in 1999 with the song "All Out of Luck" performed by Selma and in 2009 with the song "Is It True?" performed by Yohanna.