History YMMV / EurovisionSongContest

* CoveredUp: The Olsen Brothers won for Denmark in 2000 with song called "Fly On The Wings Of Love". Not many people remember that version. What they do remember is the cover version by XTC in 2003, which was a huge dance and club hit, especially in the UK and Ireland.

** The Netherlands had a pretty big one from the 2005 to 2012 period in which the country scored a total of '''0''' qualifications for the final. Fortunately, the non-qualification streak came to an end in 2013 in which the country finished 9th overall and since then, they only failed to qualify to final once in 2015, and even managed to get their first win in the contest since 1975 in 2019.

*** Whilst this song was made before the 2023-24 Israel Gaza war (the submission window was closed in September, 3 weeks before the war began), it was impossible to view Murad participating in Iceland's Songvakeppnin selection Process with his songs Wild West (produced by Hatari with the own language version also written by them) without this spectrum, particularly with nationalistic motifs in the staging and music video, and given there had been further boycott calls from musicians and unions against the island's participation against Israel during this war over the preceding weeks, And their broadcaster RUV ultimately said that their act could veto their participation if they wanted to (acts in Norway and Finland also aimed to do that but failed to be selected). However, he lost the final runoff to Hera Bjork, far from the most firebrand act to ever represent the country, and who would represent Iceland as normal. Ironically, Hera's win over Bashar was exactly 5 years to the day after she lost the Songvakeppnin Hatari won for 2019 (though Fridrik Omar was their runoff opponent that year, not Hera).

** Israel's participation during the alienating and debilitating 2023-24 Israel-Gaza war was incredibly divisive, particularly in the Nordic Countries (for example Iceland, where there had been plenty of boycott calls in 2018 and during this campaign, was expected to send a controversial Palestinian outsider artist whose connections to the island were almost entirely dated back to Hatari's 2019 incident, but he lost a dramatic runoff in their selection with a song that had itself elicited a very love-or-hate reaction, losing to something far less outre) . The song, which had to undergo publicised lyric changes to prevent being seen as obvious and unsubtle was received in a similarly mixed manner, with some fans refusing to rank it, or seeing it as manufactured, but others praising it as a tear jerker. The EBU had to issue a statement telling fans not to abuse each other or the acts closer to the song contest.

*** The Icelanders chose anti-capitalist bondage punk act Hatari, who have joked about wrestling matches with the PM,as their entry for this iteration, and it instantly became a meme. They also have open and frank left wing stances, and went to the Palestinian Authority during their 2.5 weeks in Israel for the contest, and were deadpan when announced as qualifiers, and waved a pro-Palestinian scarf when told they got 160 televoting points, to climb into the top 10, the first in a decade.

** Romania initially was one of the worst performing countries in the contest, finishing in the bottom 5 in 1994 and 1998[[note]]relegated in '95, '97, '99 and '01 and not selected for 1996[[/note]] and 17th in 2000. They were finally lifted in 2002 with their first top-10 finish, and became a major contender, finishing 3rd twice. However, in 2018, their long qualification streak came to an end and they failed again in 2019 and 2021, but they qualified again in 2022. They then would finish second bottom with nil points in 2023 - a fate that also befell San Marino that year. (Romania only finished second-bottom because the tie-break rules prefer the song performed earlier.)

** Andrea Koevska, the North Macedonian entrant in 2022. When she had to throw a Macedonian flag so she could pose for a photo, the broadcaster was, to put it lightly, outraged and threatened to withdraw Andrea.[[note]] They also claimed to have taken "disciplinary action" against the delegation, and conducted an internal review, but did indeed withdraw from the 2023 contest, not due to this incident, but due to the general economic issues worldwide in 2022 such as rising inflation, energy costs, post-covid aftereffects and costs of travel, particularly to host country The UK, as well as participation in general being more expensive with Russia no longer able to pay The EBU meaning other nations were asked to pay it more- North Macedonia promised to return for 2024, and the broadcaster would indeed confirm that they had the money with which to return, and still continued to participate in its junior counterpart, which is much cheaper.[[/note]] Her song was largely ignored by the fandom, and when the results of the second semi-final came, she was eliminated. However, it was revealed she [[EnsembleDarkHorse finished one place off qualifying]], beating fan favorites Cyprus, Israel, San Marino and Ireland, landing in the top 10 of the jury vote, with 12 points from Germany.

** Russia was banned from participating in the 2022 contest because of the invasion of Ukraine, except not really. The invasion only played a part in the banishment. When Ukraine's broadcaster UA:PBC appealed EBU to remove Russia from the contest on the same day of the invasion's start, EBU did not consider banning Russia because of the contest's non-political nature. Following this, multiple other broadcasters urged EBU to reconsider the decision with some like Yle (Finland) and ERR (Estonia) stating that they would withdraw from the contest if Russia was allowed to be a part. One day later, EBU announced that Russia would not be participating, and the Russian broadcaster left EBU.

* MemeticBadass: Valentina Monetta, Serhat and Senhit, three singers who all have represented San Marino separately and more than once, have all gotten this status thanks to their good songs ([[SoBadItsGood though they may be more mixed in that]], at least for Serhat and some of Valentina's songs), the fact that all three have represented the smallest country in the show's history, and also succeeding in getting San Marino to the final. Between 2011 and 2021, San Marino has almost always been represented by one of these three (except in 2015 and 2018). There are jokes that San Marino would have a guaranteed victory if the three collaborated and represented the nation together and that it would take place in Valentina's backyard, since Valentina is the only one of the three who actually comes from San Marino (Senhit is Italian, Serhat is Turkish).

** Finland 2023 gave us Käärijä and his very catchy song Cha Cha Cha. How much of a beloved national meme is he in Finland? [[https://twitter.com/LeenaMalkki/status/1657008983943663616?t=7lJgRrGXA6uQQ5Vm_muDdQ&s=19 This much]], ranging from rewriting the lyrics to quoting his ''very'' quotable {{Catchphrase}} "It's crazy, it's party".

* MemeticBadass: Valentina Monetta, Serhat and Senhit, three singers who all has represented San Marino, have all gotten this status thanks to their good songs ([[SoBadItsGood though they may be more mixed in that]], at least for Serhat and some of Valentina's songs), the fact that they're representing the smallest country in the show's history, and also succeeding in getting San Marino to the final. There are jokes that San Marino would have a guaranteed victory if the three collaborated and represented the nation together and that it would take place in Valentina's backyard.

* MemeticBadass: Valentina Monetta, Serhat and Senhit, three singers who all has represented San Marino, have all gotten this status thanks to their good songs ([[SoBadItsGood though Serhat may be more mixed in that]]), the fact that they're representing the smallest country in the show's history, and also succeeding in getting San Marino to the final. There are jokes that San Marino would have a guaranteed victory if the three collaborated and represented the nation together and that it would take place in Valentina's backyard.

* {{Narm}} / NarmCharm: A good few acts know that the show doesn't take itself seriously anyway so they try to have as much fun entertaining the crowd as possible and making their acts memorable.