History Heartwarming / EurovisionSongContest

* The 1997 winner from the UK, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZtZkPN2mI8 "Love Shine a Light"]] by Katrina and the Waves. Aside from the song being a triumphant message of hope, on a meta level, it was a rise back to relevance by a band that hadn't had a major hit for twelve years. Having nothing to lose, Katrina Leskanich put all her in energy in selling the song, and her efforts won Eurovision for the UK (and, twenty years later, it remains their most recent win).

** The grand finale was a medley of classic songs, capped off by Conchita Wurst and Dana International singing the first verse of Music/{{ABBA}}'s "Waterloo". This was already sweet as a way to ShoutOut the major LGBT fanbase Eurovision has (two winners, one openly gay and the other transgender, performing a song by a group with its own major LGBT fanbase). Then they were joined by all the night's performers (except, ironically enough, the Swedish Loreen) - even rockers Lordi and [[TheVoiceless the members of Riverdance]] - to finish the song. The diorama of different performers, from all over the country (and, in Israel's case, the world), all different kinds of music, united together to celebrate music and how it brings people together - it's a good summation of why Eurovision is still beloved today. They're like a big, very silly but ultimately lovable family. A continent brought together by a common desire to laugh and sing. Who says Europe's divided?

** 2023s' interval act, "The Liverpool Songbook," saw various Eurovision alumni performing songs significant to the host city. This ended with Duncan Laurence singing "You'll Never Walk Alone."[[note]]Originally from {{Theatre/Carousel}}, popularized by local group Gerry and the Pacemakers and [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Liverpool FC]][[/note]] He was soon joined onstage by the other guest performers and hosts - and then remotely by Ruslana and a group of children in Kyiv.

** In 1999, ''after'' the winners' reprise, all contestants and delegations got on stage to perform 'Hallelujah' as a tribute to the victims of the ongoing Balkan Wars.
** 2023s' interval act, "The Liverpool Songbook," saw various Eurovision alumni performing songs significant to the host city. This ended with Duncan Laurence singing "You'll Never Walk Alone." He was soon joined onstage by the other guest performers and hosts - and then remotely by Ruslana and a group of children in Kyiv.

** After it became clear that thanks to the ongoing war in Ukraine, it wouldn't be able to host the 2023 Contest, the second-placed United Kingdom (whose entry, "Space Man" by Sam Ryder, was considered one of the favourites to win, although the Brits have made it clear they're more than good sports about Ukraine beating them) stepped up as hosts and promised to celebrate Ukraine, essentially hosting it as if it was in Ukraine.

* When Italy's Music/{{Maneskin}} and Finland's Blind Channel both qualified for the 2021 final[[note]]Italy were automatic qualifiers as members of the Big 5; Finland qualified through the second semi-final[[/note]] some commenters tried to pit the rock bands against each other. Instead of seeing themselves as rivals the bands were full of praise for each other and were happy that the genre (which is usually rare in the contest) was getting such attention. After Måneskin won, Blind Channel posted a video of themselves rocking out during the reprise.

* One of the performers during the ''Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light'' special in 2020 was Diodato, performing in an empty Verona Arena. Having not been chosen for 2021 - RAI instead, of course, chose Music/{{Maneskin}} - he must have thought he wouldn't get the chance to perform on the Eurovision stage. He eventually would get his chance in 2022, where he was one of the interval acts in the first semifinal, performing what would have been Italy's entry in 2020, "Fai rumore", with the crowd accompanying him.

** After it became clear that thanks to the ongoing war in Ukraine, it wouldn't be able to host the 2023 Contest, the second-placed United Kingdom (whose entry, "Space Man" by Sam Ryder, was considered one of the favourites to win) stepped up as hosts and promised to celebrate Ukraine, essentially hosting it as if it was in Ukraine.

** After it became clear that thanks to the ongoing war in Ukraine, it wouldn't be able to host the 2023 Contest, the second-placed United Kingdom (whose entry, 'Spaceman' by Sam Ryder, was considered one of the favourites to win - and in any other year, probably would have) stepped up as hosts and promised to celebrate Ukraine, essentially hosting it as if it was in Ukraine.

** Similarly, the UK's Sonia being very classy when Ireland's Niamh Kavanagh won over her entry in 1993.

* The Junior division of the show provided several of these in 2021, including a singer with congenital deformities, who uses prosthetics and a wheelchair, and an able bodied one sharing a song after their selection process was a tie (it placed in the top 10), and the Azeri singer pictured embracing her Armenian counterpart after the latter's dramatic win, despite the war between the pair the previous year depriving Armenia from participating at this level that year, and in Eurovision proper in 2021. Moreover, the singer that won for Armenia, Malena, who would have been their 2020 entry had this conflict not happened, just a month short of becoming too old for Junior Eurovision, was the only singer unable to sing at a Eurovision contest in 2020 who won it in 2021!

* The Junior division of the show provided several of these in 2021, including a singer with congenital deformities and an able bodied one sharing a song after their selection process was a tie (it placed in the top 10), and the Azeri singer pictured embracing her Armenian counterpart after the latter's dramatic win, despite the war between the pair the previous year depriving Armenia from participating at this level that year, and in Eurovision proper in 2021. Moreover, the singer that won for Armenia, Malena, just a month short of becoming too old for Junior Eurovision, was the only singer unable to sing at a Eurovision contest in 2020 who won it in 2021!

* When Italy's Music/{{Maneskin}} and Finland's Blind Channel both qualified for the 2021 final[[note]]|Italy were automatic qualifiers as members of the Big 5; Finland qualified through the second semi-final[[/note]] some commenters tried to pit the rock bands against each other. Instead of seeing themselves as rivals the bands were full of praise for each other and were happy that the genre (which is usually rare in the contest) was getting such attention. After Måneskin won, Blind Channel posted a video of themselves rocking out during the reprise.
* In the leadup to the contest, Ukraine's lead singer Kateryna Pavlenko from GO_A reported feeling unwell, and had to stay in isolation while waiting for the results of her PCR test to come back (it wound up being negative). This caused her to miss the second rehearsal, forcing Eurovision to call in a Dutch stand-in performer (a student named Emmie van Stijn) to sing the song in Kateryna's place. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v39i-sPHsQ The comments]] of the video are ''filled'' with praise from Ukrainian fans, who said they could barely tell that Emmie wasn't a native speaker (she doesn't speak Ukrainian at all, in fact), and that her performance was amazing, especially since it had to be done on such short notice. Even Daði Freyr (Iceland's contestant) commented on the video to give his praises, and the Ukraine delegation invited Emmie to attend the grand final with them in the green room.

* When Italy's Music/{{Maneskin}} and Finland's Blind Channel both qualified for the 2021 final some commenters tried to pit the rock bands against each other. Instead of seeing themselves as rivals the bands were full of praise for each other and were happy that the genre (which is usually rare in the contest) was getting such attention. After Måneskin won, Blind Channel posted a video of themselves rocking out during the reprise.

* 2021: Despite a weak performance that ended up bottoming out with 0 points from both the jury and televote, the United Kingdom's representative James Newman still got a rousing applause after receiving his country's televote result.

* When Italy's Music/{{Maneskin}} and Finland's Blind Channel both qualified for the 2021 final some commenters tried to pit the rock bands against each other. Instead of seeing themselves as rivals the bands were full of praise for each other and were happy that the genre (which is usually rare in the contest) was getting such attention. After Maneskin won, Blind Channel posted a video of themselves rocking out during the reprise.

* In the leadup to the contest, Ukraine's lead singer Kateryna Pavlenko from GO_A reported feeling unwell, and had to stay in isolation while waiting for the results of her PCR test to come back (it wound up being negative). This caused her to miss the second rehearsal, forcing Eurovision to call in a Dutch stand-in performer (a student named Emmie van Stijn) to sing the song in Kateryna's place. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v39i-sPHsQ The comments]] of the video are ''filled'' with praise from Ukrainian fans, who said they could barely tell that Emmie wasn't a native speaker (she doesn't speak Ukrainian at all, in fact), and that her performance was amazing, especially since it had to be done on such short notice. Even Daði Freyr (Iceland's contestant) commented on the video to give his praises.