A week ago today saw our family's first virtual Eurovision party, with Chris and Sophia in Horsham, Jo in Lancaster and Steph in Canada. It was fun sharing opinions over a WhatsApp group and we'd already decided the UK entry was one of the best for years. Good to see it get some jury votes, but as ever, the European public saw fit to punish us with nil points. Goodness knows what poor Iceland had done to offend them though - it defo deserved way more.The keen-eyed among you will wonder where part 1 is - it was actually posted a couple of years ago - you can check it out here. But because I use these posts to search for stuff, I'm gonna do the most recent ones first from 1990-2025 and the next post will do 1956-1989. So here they are:
| Year | Country | Song | Performer |
| 1990 | Italy | "Insieme: 1992" | Toto Cutugno |
| 1991 | Sweden | "Fångad av en stormvind" | Carola |
| 1992 | Ireland | "Why Me?" | Linda Martin |
| 1993 | Ireland | "In Your Eyes" | Niamh Kavanagh |
| 1994 | Ireland | "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" | Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan |
| 1995 | Norway | "Nocturne" | Secret Garden |
| 1996 | Ireland | "The Voice" | Eimear Quinn |
| 1997 | United Kingdom | "Love Shine a Light" | Katrina and the Waves |
| 1998 | Israel | "Diva" | Dana International |
| 1999 | Sweden | "Take Me to Your Heaven" | Charlotte Nilsson |
| 2000 | Denmark | "Fly on the Wings of Love" | Olsen Brothers |
| 2001 | Estonia | "Everybody" | Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL |
| 2002 | Latvia | "I Wanna" | Marie N |
| 2003 | Turkey | "Everyway That I Can" | Sertab Erener |
| 2004 | Ukraine | "Wild Dances" | Ruslana |
| 2005 | Greece | "My Number One" | Helena Paparizou |
| 2006 | Finland | "Hard Rock Hallelujah" | Lordi |
| 2007 | Serbia | "Molitva" | Marija Šerifović |
| 2008 | Russia | "Believe" | Dima Bilan |
| 2009 | Norway | "Fairytale" | Alexander Rybak |
| 2010 | Germany | "Satellite" | Lena |
| 2011 | Azerbaijan | "Running Scared" | Ell and Nikki |
| 2012 | Sweden | "Euphoria" | Loreen |
| 2013 | Denmark | "Only Teardrops" | Emmelie de Forest |
| 2014 | Austria | "Rise Like a Phoenix" | Conchita Wurst |
| 2015 | Sweden | "Heroes" | Måns Zelmerlöw |
| 2016 | Ukraine | "1944" | Jamala |
| 2017 | Portugal | "Amar pelos dois" | Salvador Sobral |
| 2018 | Israel | "Toy" | Netta |
| 2019 | Netherlands | "Arcade" | Duncan Laurence |
| 2020 | Contest cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | ||
| 2021 | Italy | "Zitti e buoni" | Måneskin |
| 2022 | Ukraine | "Stefania" | Kalush Orchestra |
| 2023 | Sweden | "Tattoo" | Loreen |
| 2024 | Switzerland | "The Code" | Nemo |
| 2025 | Austria | "Wasted Love" | JJ |
A few fun facts and figures:
Relatively few winners of the Eurovision Song Contest have gone on to achieve major success in the music industry. The most notable winners who have gone on to become international stars are ABBA, who won the contest for Sweden in 1974 with their song "Waterloo", and Céline Dion, who won for Switzerland in 1988 with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi". More recently, Duncan Laurence, who won for the Netherlands in 2019 with "Arcade", experienced worldwide streaming success with the song as a sleeper hit throughout 2020 and 2021, with the song becoming the most streamed Eurovision song on Spotify. While Måneskin, winners for Italy in 2021 with "Zitti e buoni", subsequently achieved worldwide popularity in the months following their victory.
Changes to the voting system, including a steady growth in the number of countries participating and voting, means that the points earned are not comparable across the decades. "Amar pelos dois" by Salvador Sobral holds the record of the highest number of points in the contest's history, earning 758 points in 2017. "Fairytale" by Alexander Rybak holds the largest margin of victory in absolute points, a 169-point cushion over second place in 2009. "Non ho l'età" by Gigliola Cinquetti holds the record for largest victory by percentage, scoring almost three times as many as second place (49 points compared with 17 by the runner-up) in the 1964 contest. The lowest winning score is the 18 points (of the 160 total votes cast by 16 countries) scored by each of the four winning countries in 1969.
Under the voting system used from 1975 until 2015, in which each country gives maximum points to its first place choice, "Euphoria" by Loreen won the 2012 contest with the most ever first place votes earned, receiving first place votes from 18 of 41 countries (excluding themselves). The 1976 winner, "Save Your Kisses for Me" by Brotherhood of Man, holds the record of the highest average score per participating country, with an average of 9.65 points received per country. The 2011 winner, "Running Scared" by Ell and Nikki, holds the lowest average score for a winning song under that system, receiving 5.14 points per country.
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