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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.
[238] [239] The video for "Occidentali's Karma" by Francesco Gabbani, which placed sixth for Italy in 2017, became the first Eurovision song to reach more than 200 million views on YouTube, [240] while "Soldi" by Mahmood, the Italian runner-up in 2019, was the most-streamed Eurovision song on Spotify until it was overtaken by that year's winner ...
Prior to the 2012 contest, the United Kingdom has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest fifty-four times. [1] Thus far, the United Kingdom has won the contest five times: in 1967 with the song "Puppet on a String" performed by Sandie Shaw, in 1969 with the song "Boom Bang-a-Bang" performed by Lulu, in 1976 with the song "Save Your Kisses for Me" performed by Brotherhood of Man, in 1981 ...
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.
Jedward were previously rumoured to have been internally selected to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. In October 2012, it was reported that the Irish national broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), had internally selected Jedward to represent the country for the second year in a row, after their successful placing in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and the ...