Eurovision is a contest known all over the world. It is the brightest event in the spring. The participating countries begin preparations for it in advance: some organize competitions among performers within their country, others are guided by the popularity of artists.
The choice of some participants is sometimes frightening, and sometimes makes them depressed, in anticipation, in the opinion of many, of the collapse of morality on Earth. For example, in 2014 the list of Eurovision winners was replenished with the name of Conchita Wurst...
Eurovision yesterday, today, tomorrow. Competition transformation
In the first year of its existence, Eurovision was of a unifying and entertaining nature. Tired of wartime, people wanted to take a break from the vanity of everyday life.
Now Eurovision is a rather outrageous contest, which is often accused of bias, politicization, and sometimes immorality. However, despite the change in direction, Eurovision is becoming brighter and better every year. It is important to note that the competition has outgrown the previously designated framework - singing competitions among representatives of the adult contingent. This is evidenced by the list of Eurovision winners throughout history.
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest has been held since 2003. It is an analogue of an adult with the only difference: the age limit is up to 15 years. The list of winners of the Junior Eurovision has already included 12 names. Its main difference from the adult counterpart is the presence of an annually changing slogan (the only year in which it was absent was 2010).
Eurovision winners of all years. List of first 10 years of existence
In 2016, the Eurovision Song Contest turns 60 years old, so it will not be superfluous to at least briefly trace its history. First of all, the winners of the Eurovision Song Contest of all years should be inscribed in his chronicle. The list will include the nominees who took the Grand Prix:
- 1956th. Country in which the competition was held: Switzerland, the city of Lugano. Winner: Lis Assia. Composition: Refrain. Winning country: Switzerland.
- 1957th. Country in which the competition was held: Germany, the city of Frankfurt am Main. Winner: Corrie Brocken. Composition: Net Als Toen. Country: Netherlands.
- 1958. Venue: Hilversum. Winner: André Clavet Composition: Dors Mon Amour. France.
- 1959th. France, city of Cannes. Winner: Teddy Scholten. Composition: Een Beetje. Country: Netherlands.
- 1960s. Venue: UK. Winner: Jacqueline Boyer Composition: Tom Pillibi. France.
- 1961st. France, city of Cannes. Winner: Jean-Claude Pascal. Composition: Nous les amoureux. Country: Luxembourg.
- 1962. Venue: Luxembourg. Winner: Isabelle Aubre. Composition: Un premier amour. France.
- 1963. Great Britain. Winner: Greta and Jürgen Ingmann. Composition: Dansevise. Country: Denmark.
- 1964th. Venue: Denmark, Copenhagen. Winner: Gigliola Cinquetti. Composition: Non ho l'eta. Italy.
- 1965th. Italy, city of Naples. Winner: France Gall with Poupée de cire, poupée de son. Country: Luxembourg.
The second decade of the existence of Eurovision. Winners
- 1966. Venue: Luxembourg. Winner: Udo Jurgens. Composition: Merci Cheri. Country: Austria.
- 1967th. Austria, city of Vienna. Winner: Sandy Shaw. Composition: Puppet On A String. Country: UK.
- 1968th. Venue: UK, London. Winner: Massiel. Composition: La La La. Spain.
- 1969th. Venue: Spain, city of Madrid. For the first time in the history of Eurovision, the Grand Prix was awarded to four nominees at once:
- Artist: Lenny Kuhr. Composition: De troubadour. Country: Netherlands.
- Artist: Frida Boccara. Composition: Un Jour, Un Enfant. Country: France.
- Artist: Lulu. Composition: Boom bang a bang. Country: UK.
- Artist: Salome (Maria Rosa Marco). Composition: Vivo cantando. Country: Spain. - 1970s. The Netherlands, the city of Amsterdam (determined by lottery). Winner: Dana Composition: All kinds of everything. Country: Ireland.
- 1971st. Venue: Ireland, Dublin. Winner: Severin Composition: Un banc, un arbre, une rue. Monaco.
- 1972. Scotland, city of Edinburgh. Winner: Vicki Leandros. Composition: Apres toi. Country: Luxembourg.
- 1973. Venue: Luxembourg. Winner: Anna-Maria David. Composition: Tu te reconnaitras. Luxembourg.
- 1974th. UK, city of Brighton. Winner: Abba Group. Composition: Waterloo. Country: Sweden.
- 1975th. Venue: Sweden, Stockholm city. Winner: Teach-In Group. Composition: Ding-A-Dong. Netherlands.
The third decade of the existence of Eurovision
- 1976th. Venue: The Netherlands, The Hague. Winner: Brotherhood Of Men with Save Your Kisses For Me. Country: UK.
- 1977th. Great Britain, London. Winner: Marie Miriam. Composition: L'oiseau et l'enfant. Country: France.
- 1978th. Venue: France, Paris. Winner: Izrah Cohen and Alphabeta Group. Composition: A-Ba-Ni-Bi. Israel.
- 1979th. Israel, city of Jerusalem. Winner: Gali Atari and Milk & Honey. Composition: Hallelujah. Country: Israel.
- 1980s. Venue: The Netherlands, The Hague. Winner: Johnny Logan. Composition: What's Another Year. Ireland.
- 1981. Ireland, city of Dublin. Winner: Bucks Fizz. Song: Making Your Mind Up Country: UK.
- 1982. Venue: UK, city of Harrogate. Winner: Nicole and her melodic Ein Bißchen Frieden. Germany
- 1983. Germany, city of Munich. Winner: Corinne Erme. Composition: Si la vie est cadeau. Country: Luxembourg.
- 1984th. Venue: Luxembourg. Winner: Herrey's. Composition: Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Lee. Sweden.
- 1985th. Sweden, city of Gothenburg. Winner: Bobbysocks for La det swinge. Country: Norway. Broadcasting of the air occurs exclusively thanks to satellites.
Fourth decade of Eurovision
- 1986. Venue: Norway, Bergen. Sandra Kim won with J'Aime La Vie. Country: Belgium.
- 1987. Belgium, city of Brussels. Johnny Logan joined the list of Eurovision winners for the second time with Hold Me Now. Country: Ireland.
- 1988th. Venue: Ireland, Dublin. Won with Ne partez pas sans moi. Switzerland.
- 1989. Switzerland, city of Lausanne. Winner: Riva Composition: Rock me. Country: Yugoslavia.
- 1990th. Venue: Yugoslavia, city of Zagreb. Winner: Toto Cutugno. Composition: Insieme: 1992. Country: Italy.
- 1991. Venue: Italy, Rome. Winner: Karola Composition: Fangad av en stormvind. Country: Sweden.
- 1992 Venue: Sweden, Malmö. Winner: Linda Martin. Johnny Logan song: Why me? (Ireland).
- 1993. Ireland, city of Millstreet. Winner: Niamh Kavanagh. Composition: In your eyes. Country: Ireland.
- 1994. Venue: Ireland, Dublin. Winner: Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan. Composition: Rock'n roll kids. Ireland.
- 1995th. Ireland, Dublin. Grand Prix: Garden. Song: Nocturne
Fifth decade of Eurovision
- 1996. Venue: Norway, Oslo. Grand Prix: Ymer Quinn. Song: The Voice Country: Ireland.
- 1997. Ireland, Dublin. Grand Prix: Katrina and The Waves. Song: Love shine a light. Country: UK.
- 1998th. Venue: UK, Birmingham. Grand Prix: Dana International. Song: Diva Israel.
- 1999th. Israel, Jerusalem. Grand Prix: Charlotte Neilson. Song: Take me to your heaven. Country: Sweden.
- 2000th. Venue: Sweden, Stockholm. Grand Prix: Olsen brothers. Song: Fly on the wings of love. Denmark.
- 2001. Denmark, Copenhagen. Grand Prix: Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL. Composition: Everyone. Country: Estonia.
- 2002. Venue: Estonia, Tallinn. Grand Prix: Marie N. Song: I wanna. Latvia.
- 2003. Latvia, Riga. Grand Prix: Sertab Erner. Composition: Every Way That I Can. Country: Türkiye.
- 2004. Venue: Turkey, Istanbul city. Grand Prix: Ruslana. Composition: Wild Dances. Ukraine
- 2005. Ukraine, Kyiv. Winner: Helena Paparizou. Composition: My Number One. Country: Greece.
Sixth decade of Eurovision
- 2006. Venue: Greece, Athens. Grand Prix: rock band Lordi. Hard Rock Hallelujah. Country: Finland.
- 2007. Finland, Helsinki. Winner: Maria Sherifimovich. Song: "Prayer" Country: Serbia.
- 2008. Venue: Serbia, Belgrade. Winner: Composition: Believe. Russia.
- 2009th. Russia capital Moscow. Winner: Alexander Rybak. Composition: Fairytale. Country: Norway.
- 2010th. Venue: Norway. Winner of the 55th Music Competition: Song: Satellite. Germany.
- 2011. Venue: Düsseldorf, Germany. Winner: Ell & Nikki. Composition: Running Scared. Azerbaijan.
- 2012. Venue: Winner: Lauryn. Composition: Euphoria. Country: Sweden.
The list of winners of the first Eurovision semi-final was topped by an interesting group from Russia, Buranovskiye Babushki, with the song Party for Everybody. - 2013th. Venue: Sweden, Malmö. The list of Eurovision winners has been expanded by Emmy de Forest. Song: Only Teardrops Denmark.
- 2014. Location: Denmark. Winner: Conchita Wurst. Composition: Rise Like A Phoenix. Austria.
- 2015. Country hosting the 60th Anniversary International Competition: Austria. Winner: Mons Zelmerlev. Composition: Heroes. Country: Sweden.
Ireland - the country-record holder for the number of victories
Researchers of the competition note that Ireland is more often on the list of Eurovision winners. The country has already hosted performers on its territory 7 times.
- 1970s. The victory went to the Irish singer Dana, who performed the song All kinds of everything. It was the first, but not the last Irish singers to win the Grand Prix at the Eurovision Song Contest.
- 1980s. Johnny Logan won with What's Another Year.
- 1987. The victory went to Johnny Logan, who performed the song Hold Me Now. Johnny became the first person to complete the list of Eurovision winners twice. Few people have been honored with this honor throughout history.
- 1992. The victory went to the performer Linda Martin, who performed with the composition of Johnny Logan "Why me?". In addition to Linda's victory, Ireland became the first country to have an artist who has won the Eurovision Grand Prix three times.
- 1993. Niamh Kavan won the Grand Prix with the song In your eyes.
- 1994 became significant for Ireland. Thanks to Paul Harrington and Charlie McGattigan with the song Rock'n roll kids, Ireland hosted Eurovision contestants for three years in a row.
- 1996- the seventh and so far the last time Ireland and its nominees took the Grand Prix at Eurovision. The record was set by Imen Quinn, who performed The voice.
So the grand finale of Eurovision 2017 has ended. The 26 best participants of this year have made every effort with dreams of becoming the one who won the Eurovision. But, according to the rules of the contest, there is only one winner of Eurovision 2017. Read about the winner of the competition in our material.
The whole year lasted preparations for Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv after. And, judging by the reviews on the Web, many people were impressed by the competition in Ukraine. What are the stellar performances worth: people cannot recover after, and Ruslana's brightest performance. Now the one who won the Eurovision 2017, namely the winning country, will again think about how to conquer the audience of the competition, but next year. In the meantime, everyone is honoring the winner of Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv.
We note right away that all participants in the final performed very worthily, but the Eurovision winners are usually those who enlisted the greatest support and love from the audience. Watch online at WANT.ua. And from this evening, May 13 in Kyiv, for the one who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, a new life and era in creativity will begin.
Undoubtedly, now Eurovision is almost the No. 1 topic for discussion, therefore the victory at Eurovision 2017, along with political events in the world and scandals over the type of relationship between the President of France and his wife. Recall that the bookmakers predicted. Therefore, we look forward to the fact that the Eurovision final, in which Salvador Sobral won according to the audience voting table, will be in the TOP of discussions and debriefing how everything was organized and carried out for a few more days.
We are pleased to announce that Portugal won Eurovision 2017. Salvador Sobral became the winner of Eurovision 2017 in Ukraine, congratulations!
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Watch online performance Eurovision 2017 winner: Salvador Sobral - Amar Pelos Dois
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We also publish the places and the table of the winners of Eurovision 2017, where you can see who and how voted from the countries.
Table of voting results of countries at Eurovision 2017
Now the song of Eurovision winner - Portugal will definitely sound for a long time on the radio and on TV. We congratulate the winner of Eurovision 2017 Salvador Sobral on this achievement. Follow our updates on the competition in the special section "".
Eurovision is the oldest annual international television competition, the participants of which are, first of all, members of the European Broadcasting Union. The competition was organized and shown to the world on the basis of the San Remo Music Festival (Italy). All the winners of the main music scene in Europe - in the material LIGA.net.
It all started modestly - back in the days of black and white television. The first winner of the competition was the Swiss singer Liz Assia. At the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, she performed with two songs at once - the rules of the competition also changed several times - and the composition "Refrain" won. However, then Asia did not have too much competition - only seven countries took part in the competition - Switzerland, Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
The following year, Austria, Denmark and Britain joined the competition, while the Netherlands took over as the Eurovision winner thanks to Corrie Brocken and her song "Net Als Toen". In 1958, Sweden joined the competition family, and the French actor and singer André Claveau won the prize, captivating the jury and the audience with the love song "Dors, Mon Amour".
1959 was another successful year for the Netherlands - singer Teddy Scholten won with the song "Een Beetje". The tradition of inviting new countries to participate has not changed - this year a participant from Monaco entered the competition stage. 1960 - the winner again France - Jacqueline Boyer with the song "Tom Pillibi", and debuted at Eurovision Norway. The Netherlands refused to hold the contest, so the UK took over the Eurovision Song Contest.
In 1961, in the broadcast of the Eurovision on television, footage with the audience already appeared, without which it is difficult to imagine the competition today. Finland, Spain and Yugoslavia joined, and French singer Jean-Claude Pascal, who represented Luxembourg with the song "Nous les amoureux", won.
In 1962, the French contestant Isabelle Aubret won with her song "Un premier amour". However, France refused to hold the contest at home and the UK again came to the rescue - Eurovision 1963 was held at the new BBC television center in Sheppard's Bush. Denmark won the eighth contest with the song "Dansevise" performed by Greta and Jürgen Ingmann. The Netherlands then for the first time in the history of the competition for the second year in a row did not receive a single point.
Portugal joined Eurovision in 1964. The stage of the competition took on the shape familiar to the modern audience, but the musical accompaniment was still performed by a live orchestra. Gigliola Cinquetti from Italy won with the song "Non ho l'eta".
In 1965, Ireland made its debut on the stage of the competition. The USSR and other Eastern European countries broadcast Eurovision. The TV audience exceeded 150 million people. Luxembourg won the Eurovision Song Contest for the second time, represented by France Gall with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son".
Austria won the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 with the song "Merci Chérie" performed by Udo Jürgens. And the following year in Vienna, the United Kingdom, which was represented by Sandy Shaw with the song "Puppet On a String", was able to bring home the competition, this time deserving. In 1968, the Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast in color for the first time, and Spain became the winner with the song "La, la, la ..." performed by Massiel.
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The following year, in Madrid, for the first time in the history of the competition, four countries became winners at once - the host of the 1969 competition, Spain, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Austria refused to participate in the contest due to Franco's dictatorship in Spain. In 1970, the Netherlands accepted the Eurovision Song Contest, which, after their past victories at the contest, then refused to host it. In Amsterdam, Ireland won, represented by Dana with the song "All Kinds of Everything".
Monaco won the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Un banc, un arbre, une rue", performed by singer Severin. For the next two consecutive years, Luxembourg won, represented by Vicky Leandros with the song "Après toi" and Anna-Maria David with the song "Tu te reconnaîtras". Israel joined the competition in 1973.
In 1974, in the British city of Brighton (Luxembourg could not hold the competition for the second time for financial reasons), the legendary Swedish group "ABBA" became the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo". This year, for the first time, viewers were able to watch the video preceding each performance, telling about the performer and his country.
Eurovision-1975 was replenished with a new participant - Turkey, and the victory, for the fourth time, was won by the Netherlands with the group "Teach-In" and the song "Ding-a-dong".
In 1976, the competition was held in The Hague and was won by the Eurovision record holder - Great Britain, which was represented by "Brotherhood of Man" with the song "Save Your Kisses for Me".
The next year in London, the title of winner was received by another record holder of the competition - France. In 1977 she was represented by Marie Miriam, who performed "L'oiseau et l'enfant". Then, in Paris, Israel won for the first time, and twice in a row - Izhar Cohen & Alphabeta sang "A-ba'ni-bi", and the next year in Jerusalem, the song "Hallelujah" was performed by Gali Atari & Milk and Honey.
In 1980, Israel did not hold the contest for the second time and Eurovision was again hosted by the Dutch Hague. This time the winner was Johnny Logan from Ireland with the song "What's Another Year", and the stage of the competition has already taken on a shape even more familiar to modern Eurovision fans. Although, surprisingly, the live orchestra still remained. This year, Morocco joined the competition.
In 1981, the bright and positive "Bucks Fizz" representing Great Britain won, and the competition was replenished with one more participant - Cyprus. By this time, 20 countries had already taken part in Eurovision.
The following year, in British Harrogate, Germany won for the first time, which until then had repeatedly remained one step away from the coveted title and took second place. German singer Nicole performed the song "Ein bisschen Frieden".
In 1982, Luxembourg won in Munich - it was represented by Corine Erme with the song "Si la vie est cadeau", and the following year Sweden became the winner for the second time in the history of the competition. The group "Herreys" with the song "Diggi-loo-diggi-ley" then scored 145 points.
The winner in Swedish Gothenburg at the 30th Eurovision Song Contest was the brilliant and positive "Bobbysocks" from Norway with the song "La det swinge".
In 1986, Sandra Kim from Belgium scored the highest score with "J'aime la vie". The following year Irishman Johnny Logan won in Brussels with "Hold Me Now". This competition also has a new participant - Iceland.
Eurovision 1988 gave fame to Celine Dion, who represented Switzerland with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi".
The following year, in Lausanne, Yugoslavia won the competition for the first time, from which the group "Riva" performed with the song "Rock Me".
In 1990 the competition was held in Zagreb. The winner of the 35th Eurovision was the Italian Toto Cutugno, performing "Insieme 1992".
In 1991, the Swedish singer Carola won in Rome with the song "Fangad av en stormvind", but she scored an equal number of points with France. The following year, the competition was held in Malmö, Sweden, thanks to "additional indicators" determined by the jury.
Ireland won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992, 1993 and 1994. She was represented by Linda Martin with "Why Me", then by Neve Kavanagh with "In Your Eyes" and finally by Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan with "Rock'n'Roll Kids". In 1993, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia joined the competition. And in 1994, Eurovision immediately replenished with seven participants - after the collapse of the USSR, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia and Slovakia began to perform on the stage of the competition. By the way, Poland in the first year of its participation took second place.
Norway won in 1995. She was represented by the duet "Secret Garden" with the song "Nocturne".
Ireland won again the following year. This time the competition was brought to Dublin by Aimar Quinn and the song "The Voice".
Eurovision-1997 glorified the British pop-rock band 2Katrina and the Waves" and their song "Love Shine a Light". By the way, Ireland did not quite give up their positions and took second place this year.
In 1998 the competition was held in Birmingham and won by Dana International (real name - Sharon Cohen) from Israel with the song "Diva". This was the first time when a "non-traditional" contestant won - the future singer was born a man and 5 years before the victory at Eurovision she changed her gender. In the same year, Macedonia joined the competition.
The following year, Sweden's Charlotte Nielson won in Jerusalem with "Take Me to Your Heaven". In 2000 in Stockholm, the Danish duo "Olsen Brothers" and the song "Fly on the Wings of Love" received the highest number of points in the competition.
In 2001, Estonia finally announced itself in Copenhagen. It was represented by three participants at once - singers Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and the group 2XL.
Ask any music lover in what year Russia won Eurovision, and he will tell you without hesitation the only, and therefore especially memorable, year when, from the second take, Dima Bilan, with the song "Believe", defended the honor of the country at the popular all-European song contest and won 1st place. Thanks to this victory, for the first time in the history of Eurovision, Russia hosted the participants and guests of the next year's contest in Moscow. Unfortunately, neither before nor after Dima Bilan, none of the Russian singers has achieved such success. Let's remember how it was.
Russia's participation in Eurovision
For a long time, Russia as part of the USSR was behind the Iron Curtain separating the Soviet Union from the rest of the world. Therefore, such cultural events as the Eurovision Song Contest did not influence or affect the Russians in any way from the time the song contest was founded in 1956 until 1994, when for the first time Russian Maria Katz performed at the contest and took a high enough place for a debutant country - 9- oh.
Since then, relations between Russia and Eurovision have evolved sometimes dramatically, and sometimes very successfully. The most successful year was 2008, when Russia won Eurovision for the first and only time in the history of its participation in this contest - then it brought victory.
There were then and before that quite successful performances:
- Competitors from Russia took the honorable 2nd place 4 times. Alsu was the first to rise so high, then Dima Bilan consolidated this result, and then the unforgettable ones pulled themselves up, closed this procession.
- 3rd place was awarded to the groups Tatu and Silver, and later became one of the "bronze winners".
How Russia was not allowed to Eurovision because of Alla and Philip
But I must say that not everything went so smoothly at this hyper-popular competition. There were two failed performances - both failures are associated with the performance of the "royal" couple of the Russian stage Philip Kirkorov and Alla Pugacheva. Philip took 17th place, while Alla slightly improved this result and took only 15th place. These events not only showed the failure of the Russian stage and its lack of competitiveness, but did a disservice to the new contenders. Russia was not allowed to participate in the competition in 1998, as there was a shortage of passing points due to the low rating of previous performers. Russia (represented by the leadership of the Ostankino TV and Radio Company) was offended and did not broadcast the competition, for which it lost the right to participate in the next year.
The future of Russia in the next competition
Dreaming, of course, is not harmful. And it's not such an impossible dream. England, Luxembourg and France, for example, have won this competition 5 times. Ireland - 7 times, Sweden - 6 times. As you can see, there is nothing impossible in this.
In 2017, Eurovision takes Kyiv, after last year. I would very much like this to have no effect on Russia's participation in the competition. After all, there should be "flies separately, and cutlets separately." The guns should be silenced when the music is playing, and we hope they will be.
