History Recap / EurovisionSongContest

-->Hilversum 1958 introduced the convention of last year's winning country hosting the current edition. Italy's third-placing "Nel blu dipinto di blu" ("In the Blue Painted Blue", but [[RefrainFromAssuming better known by the first word of the refrain, "Volare", meaning "To Fly"]]) by Domenico Modugno became a global hit after the contest, peaking at #1 on Billboard and winning the two big Grammys (the only Eurovision song to do so) in 1959.[[note]]The song was later [[TranslatedCoverVersion covered in at least seven languages]], the most famous cover being Music/DeanMartin's version in which only half the lyrics were translated into English and the rest were kept in Modugno's original Italian.[[/note]] This was the second Contest not to have any songs in English (1956 being the first time), and it would be the last time.

* '''2023''' -- TBA, United Kingdom

'''Dates:''' TBA\\

'''Venue:''' TBA\\

--> After Ukraine's victory at the 2022 contest, the EBU initiated talks with UA:PBC about hosting the event in Ukraine, but eventually denied the possibility due to security concerns linked to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. It was later announced in July 2022 that incumbent runner-up and repeated substitute host broadcaster the BBC would stage the contest in the United Kingdom in collaboration with their Ukrainian counterparts. As a celebration and show of solidarity to Ukraine, the live shows and logo will feature Ukrainian elements, and the country will be pre-qualified for the Grand Final along with the Big 5. This will be the record ninth time that the UK hosts the contest (last time being in 1998), the seventh time that a country hosts on behalf of another country (last happening in 1980) and the fifth time that the BBC does it (last happening in 1974).

-->'''Slogan:''' TBA\\

-->The first edition broadcast on HD. Debutant Serbia took Helsinki 2007 by storm by becoming the first ex-Yugoslav nation to win the trophy, much to some consternation from Western European media. This is the first year where the winner was given a promotional tour across Europe. The UK was allowed by the EBU to choose their entry after the deadline. Following on from Lordi, many entries were performed in a rock style, a trend which continued into 2009.

'''Winner:''' TBA

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* '''2022''' -- Turin, Italy

* Recap/EurovisionEuropeShineALight

'''Participating Countries:''' 41 -- Armenia and Montenegro return\\

'''Presenters:''' Laura Pausini, Alessandro Cattelan and Music/{{Mika}}\\

-->First edition hosted in Israel outside Jerusalem, and given the host country, perhaps the most politically-charged throughout the 2010s. While on paper the EBU insists the choice of Tel Aviv over Jerusalem, which had already hosted three previous editions, is a compromise to religious groups who might object to hosting such a liberal, LGBTQ-friendly event as Eurovision in the latter, a holy city for Jews, Muslims and Christians, as well as claims of better facilities in the former, unofficially it is interpreted as a coy acknowledgment of Jerusalem's delicate geopolitical status. The runoff, too, saw the Russia-Ukraine rivalry rear its head anew, resulting in the latter being forced to withdraw due to protests by their entrant, Anna "MARUV" Korsun, an east Ukrainian with a Russian music label, and her fellow national-selection finalists over being used as political tools by Kiev. Starting this year, the ascending order of presenting televote scores has been changed from that of the total scores to one based on the jury rankings. Five years after coming really close with The Common Linnets, the Netherlands finally wins their first trophy since Teach-In at Stockholm 1975 (after a 44-year wait), courtesy of a subdued, haunting ballad by high favourite Music/DuncanLaurence, himself a protegé of Ilse [=DeLange=], one half of The Common Linnets, in the 2014 season of ''Series/TheVoice of Holland''. Just like Stockholm 2016, however, Laurence won neither jury nor audience votes, being respectively won by Tamara Todevska of North Macedonia and [=KEiiNO=] of Norway; nevertheless, Laurence held a respectable third with juries and second with televoters, while Todevska and [=KEiiNO=] respectively slipped to seventh and sixth overall due to relatively poor showing on the other voting bloc (ninth with televoters and eighteenth with juries, respectively; Norway only had an advantage due to a comparative higher score in their dominant bloc, while North Macedonia could take solace in having earned its best finish ''so far''). Italian-Egyptian Music/{{Mahmood}} earned Big Five nation Italy second, tying Raphael Gualazzi's best-throughout-the-decade finish in Düsseldorf 2011, and returning 2016 third-placer Music/SergeyLazarev of Russia finished third again, followed closely by Music/LucaHanni (who not only became Switzerland's second-ever finalist in the 2010s, but also, at fourth-place, scored its best finish since Annie Cotton's third at Millstreet 1993) and Sweden's John Lundvik to round out the Top Five. Laurence's song was co-written by a Swede, Joel Sjöö, [=KEiiNO's=] Fred-René Buljo became the first contestant to sing in Sami, and Lundvik the first singer-songwriter to have two songs for two different countries in a single edition, having also wrote for the UK's Michael Rice, which unfortunately tanked ''hard'' and bottomed out at the standings, with the rest of the Big Five (save Italy) faring barely any better (France's Bilal Hassani and Spain's Miki hovered at the lower half of the scoreboard, while the UK's last place helped Germany's [=S!sters=] narrowly escape yet another total humiliation). Other notables include Australia's Music/KateMillerHeidke performing with two other women on bendy poles, Moldova featuring Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova performing behind Anna Odobescu, Azerbaijan's Chingiz Mustafayev accompanied by two robotic arms, San Marino's Ahmet Serhat Hacıpaşalıoğlu the first ethnic Turk in the grand final since Turkey took an indefinite leave starting Malmö 2013, and Denmark's Leonora Colmor Jepsen singing from a giant blue chair, with an end in four languages, including the first use of Danish since 1998, and of German since 2012 (which had been in a regional form for a song seen as offensive, meaning Denmark were the first to use the language seriously since 2007). On other notes, the interval acts featured 1998 winner Music/DanaInternational, the first LGBTQ winner of Eurovision, performing a cover of Music/BrunoMars' "Just the Way You Are" in celebration of love amid a background of a kiss-cam featuring heterosexual and gay couples alike in the first semis, the performance of Shalva, a music band composed of eight people with physical and/or mental disabilities, at the second semis, and a cross-performance medley of past Eurovision hits by 2014 winner Music/ConchitaWurst of Austria, 2015 winner Music/MansZelmerlow of Sweden, 2018 runner-up Music/EleniFoureira of Cyprus, 2007 runner-up Creator/VerkaSerduchka of Ukraine, and 1979 winner Gali Atari of Israel. On the other hand, Music/{{Madonna}}'s guest performance at the grand final raised some eyebrows as one of her backing dancers was caught holding a Palestinian flag, as did Iceland's BDSM-clad dark techno group Music/HatariBand. In addition, the Belarusian jury was dismissed by the EBU from the grand final for revealing their results from the first semis (in violation of EBU rules that states semis results can only be revealed after the grand final); moreover, their stated jury scores for the grand final, based on an aggregate result approved by the EBU, turned out to have been allocated in ''reverse'' order, leading to a post-show shakeup of the final results (as seen above; in the older ordering, Sweden and Norway would've exchanged places, as do North Macedonia and now eighth-placing Azerbaijan).

--> After the 2020 contest meant for Rotterdam was cancelled due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic in Europe, the EBU announced towards the end of the "Europe Shine A Light" special that the city would host anew this year's edition, carrying over the same host venue, presenters, slogan, and stage, while allowing all would-be participants from last year to send anew their prospective singers, albeit with new songs, which 26 countries did. Amidst the preparations, however, Armenia was forced to withdraw over increasing tensions with neighbouring Azerbaijan over the hotly-contested [[UsefulNotes/RepublicOfArtsakh Artsakh]][=/=]Nagorno-Karabakh region, while Belarus was disqualified over what has been perceived as the government's meddling in the country's choice of artists (after 2020 entrants VAL were banned from returning over their support for protests against allegations of fraud surrounding the reelection of long-time strongman Alexander Lukashenko in the hotly-contested August 2020 elections, their replacements, Galasy [=ZMesta=], came under fire for their two entries perceived to mock the protesters and homosexuals, as well as their notoriously pro-government stance). This is also the first contest under the new executive supervisor, Swedish author and producer Martin Österdahl, who also oversaw Malmö 2013 and Stockholm 2016. As precaution against COVID-19, the capacity of Rotterdam Ahoy was reduced to 20% (roughly 3,500 seats), with the floor area entirely taken up by the Green Room, and to reduce the need for nations to have to pay for backing vocalists and avoid having too many people backstage, pre-recorded backing vocals were officially allowed as a one-time trial. After a decade of ups and downs book-ended with runner-up finishes, Italy finally wins their first trophy in 31 years thanks to a fiery rock and roll performance by Music/{{Maneskin}}, 2017 runners-up at ''Series/TheXFactor Italia'', which also makes them the first winning rock act since Finland's Music/{{Lordi}} in Athens 2006, well as the first winning "Big" nation since Germany in Oslo 2010, and the first ''X Factor'' alumni to win the contest. Italy was largely buoyed by televoters, followed by electro-folk band Go_A of Ukraine and chanteuse Barbara Pravi of France, even as the juries favoured balladeer Gjon's Tears of Switzerland, Pravi, and 2015 juniors winner Music/DestinyChukunyere of Malta. Nevertheless, Måneskin scored an impressive fourth from the juries, whilst Gjon's Tears was dragged down to third with a joint sixth (alongside eventual eighth-placers Music/TheRoop of Lithuania) from televoters, with Pravi being stable enough to hold on to second, with the Top Five closed out by viral sensation and 2020 high favourite Music/DadiFreyr of Iceland and Go_A, as well as the aforementioned Chukunyere dropping to eighth overall with a rather poor televote showing. Shockingly, the United Kingdom's James Newman had the dishonour of earning his country's second-ever ''nul points'' since Jemini back in Riga 2003, as well as the first complete ''nul points'' from both juries ''and'' televoters in the split-results era; no less shocking than that was that Jendrik Sigwart of Germany, Blas Canto of Spain, and Jeangu Macrooy of host Netherlands also scored ''nul points'' from the televoters. Other notables include post-hardcore band Blind Channel finishing sixth for Finland's best finish since Lordi won Athens 2006, green-screen dancing from tenth-placed, Dutch-born Stefania Liberakakis of Greece, thirteenth-placing Natalia Gordieko of Moldova belting out a very long note, seventeenth-placing Eden Alene of Israel setting a record for the contest's highest note at B6, San Marino's Music/{{Senhit}} featuring a verse from American rapper Music/FloRida (and flopping at twenty-second), and Australia's first-ever elimination from the semifinals. The Grand Final's interval acts feature an augmented-reality dance number starring world-renowned DJ Afrojack, as well as a medley of rooftop performances from past Eurovision winners (Music/MansZelmerlow of Sweden [Vienna 2015], Teach-In of the Netherlands [Stockholm 1975], Sandra Kim of Belgium [Bergen 1986], Lenny Kuhr of the Netherlands [co-winner, Madrid 1969], Music/ElenaPaparizou of Greece [Kyiv 2005], and Music/{{Lordi}} of Finland [Athens 2006]).

'''Presenters:''' TBA\\

-->For this edition, the slogan not only reflects the contest's vision of bringing nations together through music, but also alludes to host Portugal's long, proud history of maritime exploration. Also, the manner of calculating each nation's jury votes has been changed from a "linear" to "exponential" model so as to reduce the risk of any one member of each nation's five-man jury dragging down entries which might have otherwise fared better with the other jurors. This edition also saw the first-ever semifinals eliminations of Azerbaijan (and with Armenia and Georgia also out of the running, makes the final the first without any of the South Caucasian states on stage since Kiev 2005), Romania and Russia (which was hyped up for fielding anew Julia Samoylova, their intended act last year before having to sit out due to political troubles with neighbouring hosts Ukraine). Israel's new national broadcaster, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC, also known by its nickname "KAN" [Hebrew for "here"]), debuts in style by winning the country's fourth overall trophy after twenty years (and forty after their very first win, no less), as well as their first-ever English-language winner, with a positively silly female empowerment ethno-electric track by Music/{{Netta}}, after a wildly unpredictable voting phase which saw her edge out fellow high favourite Music/EleniFoureira of Cyprus (who nevertheless earned her country's best placing so far), both of whom were buoyed by televoters even as the juries favoured Cesár Sampson of Austria and Music/BenjaminIngrosso of Sweden. Nevertheless, Israel and Cyprus scored a decent third and fifth with the juries, respectively, while Austria, though dragged down by being thirteenth-place with televoters, still holds on to third overall, its best non-winning finish (and best in recent years since Music/ConchitaWurst won Copenhagen 2014), whereas Sweden fared worse at ''twenty-third'', causing it to slip down to seventh overall, its first finish outside the Top Five since Malmö 2013. As for the Big Five, Michael Schulte's heartfelt family ballad helped redeem Germany after three years at the bottom, being buoyed to fourth-place by both the juries and audiences, followed closely by Italy's Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro to close out the Top Five, with France's Madame Monsieur edging into the top half of the scoreboard and Spain's Amaia & Music/{{Alfred|Garcia}} and UK's Music/SuRie sitting near the very bottom, only above Finland's Music/SaaraAalto and host Portugal's Cláudia Pascoal (it also didn't help that Spain was placed at the dreaded #2 spot in the grand final's running order, which notoriously never had any winner, whilst UK was interrupted by a stage invasion). Other notables include Music/MikolasJosef rapping his way to sixth-place, the Czech Republic's best finish so far in only its second-ever finals appearance, Creator/JessicaMauboy of Australia returned after peforming as an interval act in 2014 (and sadly flopping with televoters), Estonia's Elina Nechayeva singing an operatic solo wearing a projection-lit gown, a silly doppelganger routine from Moldova's [=DoReDos=] (which earned them tenth, and thus their second consecutive top-ten finish), and returning 2009 winner Music/AlexanderRybak's "That's How You Write a Song" for Norway becoming the 1,500th song in the contest's history (and finishing a relatively lowly fifteenth). On the other hand, this edition also saw China's national broadcaster Mango TV being stripped of broadcasting rights ''after the first semifinal alone'' for censoring the rainbow flag, Ireland's entry featuring two gay men dancing together behind vocalist Music/RyanOShaughnessy, and Albania for the tattoos on vocalist Eugent Bushpepa.

-->'''Slogan:''' TBA\\

'''Venue:''' Pala Alpitour\\

'''Winner:''' \\
--> Most nations who quit the previous year’s iteration returned, although The covid-related withdrawals of Australia and Wales remained, even with 5 others (including reigning regular contest champion Italy, who decided to return after initially ruling it out - the reigning main song contest winner has participated in every JESC since 2016) reversed, Azerbaijan and Bulgaria returning after longer absences, and Armenia sending popular would-have-been 2020 entry Malena anew, after the late cancellation of her participation the prior year owing to the than-ongoing war (whilst it ended just after Armenia withdrew, they went on to withdraw from the main contest a few months later due to its effects, without naming an entry). Belarus’ expulsion from the EBU meant the end of one of two ever-present records and left Netherlands as the sole one. To honour France’s hosting, Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan had lyrics in French (alongside native languages and English) in their entries. Kazakhstan’s selection left 2 singers, one with Phocomeila (improperly formed limbs) - who made headlines earlier in the year for working on a Lego prosthetic with an amputee Andorran Lego designer and prosthetist - and the other able-bodied, in a dead heat, and the pair decided to sing as a duet on a new version of the latter’s song, with the amputee member, based in France, providing a [[AWildRapperAppears rap-of-sorts]] in French.

--> Most nations who quit the previous year’s iteration returned, although The covid-related withdrawals of Australia and Wales remained, even with 5 others (including reigning regular contest champion Italy, who decided to return after initially ruling it out - the reigning main song contest winner has participated in every JESC since 2016) reversed, Azerbaijan and Bulgaria returning after longer absences, and Armenia sending popular would-have-been 2020 entry Malena anew, after the late cancellation of her participation the prior year owing to the than-ongoing war (whilst it ended just after Armenia withdrew, they went on to withdraw from the main contest a few months later due to its effects, without naming an entry). Belarus’ expulsion from the EBU meant the end of one of two ever-present records and left Netherlands as the sole one. To honour France’s hosting, Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan had lyrics in French (alongside native languages and English) in their entries. Kazakhstan’s selection left 2 singers, one with Phocomeila (improperly formed limbs) - who made headlines earlier in the year for working on a Lego prosthetic with an amputee Andorran Lego designer and prosthetist - and the other able-bodied, in a dead heat, and the pair decided to sing as a duet on a new version of the latter’s song.

-->Dublin 1971 saw the voting system hit a big problem, as some judges score less than others.[[note]]Each country had two jurors, each of whom awarded each song between 1 and 5 points. Despite the obvious shortcomings of this system - for example, Spain awarded only 71pts compared to France's 107 - this system was used in 1972 and 1973.[[/note]] This is also Monaco's only win, while the EBU abolished a rule restricting entries to two performers. With UsefulNotes/TheTroubles ongoing, the UK sent Clodagh Rodgers, a Northern Irish singer popular throughout the British Isles, to ease the Dublin audience (she finished fourth). This edition also saw the debut of BBC's Radio/TerryWogan and his penchant for snide remarks.

-->Monaco declined hosting rights due to lack of funds, thus marking the Eurovision's first British foray outside England. Songwriter Yves Dessca became the second to win the tournament twice, the first for two different countries (having also written Monaco's winning entry last year), and the first twice-in-a-row.

'''Presenters:''' Rafal (2021 seniors contestant - who would fail to make the final), Ida Nowakowska (for the 2nd year in a row), Małgorzata Tomaszewska\\

'''Presenters:''' Carla (fifth-placer from 2019 whose entry went viral), Elodie Gossuin, Olivier Minne\\

—> Most nations who quit the previous year’s iteration returned, although The covid-related withdrawals of Australia and Wales remained, even with 5 others (including reigning regular contest champion Italy, who decided to return after initially ruling it out - the reigning main song contest winner has participated in every JESC since 2016) reversed, Azerbaijan and Bulgaria returning after longer absences, and Armenia sending popular would-have-been 2020 entry Malena anew, after the late cancellation of her participation the prior year owing to the than-ongoing war (whilst it ended just after Armenia withdrew, they went on to withdraw from the main contest a few months later due to its effects, without naming an entry). Belarus’ expulsion from the EBU meant the end of one of two ever-present records and left Netherlands as the sole one. To honour France’s hosting, Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan had lyrics in French (alongside native languages and English) in their entries. Kazakhstan’s selection left 2 singers, one with Phocomeila (improperly formed limbs) - who made headlines earlier in the year for working on a Lego prosthetic with an amputee Andorran Lego designer and prosthetist - and the other able-bodied, in a dead heat, and the pair decided to sing as a duet on a new version of the latter’s song.

-->With the Covid 19 pandemic that led to the cancellation of the 2020 contest ongoing, this contest would be held remotely in the acts’ respective home countries with work done to ensure all competing broadcasters would have stages as similar as possible to one another. In spite of this, 7 countries still withdrew from the contest due to covid, though Germany arrived at that level for the first time - only for their song to place last both with the jurors and online. This was added to just 3 and a half weeks before the event was to take place, as Armenia, one of the most succesful nations at this level, quit without sending an entry due to the dual effects of the pandemic and a debilitating resurgence of the Nagorno Karabagh conflict with Azerbaijan leading to martial law, ongoing for over 6 weeks (they revealed who it would have been when they announced their withdrawal). France, who had fared well in the previous 2 iterations, won for the first time - they last won Eurovision proper in 1977 - holding off Kazakhstan, Spain and Netherlands (in order 2nd to 4th for the 2nd year in a row) as Poland's hegemony ended with tepid places in both the jury and online votes (of which 4.5 million were cast). Many songs were themed around challenges the pandemic caused, whilst the Dutch act had to lose a member during the selection (held at would be 2020/prospective 2021 venue Rotterdam Ahoy) for testing positive for Covid, though she performed with her bandmates in Junior ESC itself.

'''Participating Countries:''' 19 -- Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Ireland, Italy, North Macedonia and Portugal return; Belarus unable to compete due to no longer having an EBU member station

'''Participating Countries:''' 41 (so far) -- Armenia and Montenegro return\\

'''Participating Countries:''' 33 (so far) -- Montenegro returns\\

'''Venue:''' Pala Alpi[==]Tour\\

'''Participating Countries:''' 32 (so far)\\

Ppresenters: Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley, Jan Smit (planned presenters for last year's canceled edition) and Nikkie De Jager (celebrity makeup artist and host of the Website/YouTube vlog "[=NikkieTutorials=]")\\

'''Planned dates:''' 18 & 20 May (semifinals), 22 May (Final)\\
Planned presenters: Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley, Jan Smit (planned presenters for last year's canceled edition) and Nikkie De Jager (celebrity makeup artist and host of the Website/YouTube vlog "[=NikkieTutorials=]")\\

-->Hilversum 1958 introduced the convention of last year's winning country hosting the current edition. Italy's third-placing "Nel blu dipinto di blu" ("In the Blue Painted Blue", but [[RefrainFromAssuming better known by the first word of the refrain, "Volare"]]) by Domenico Modugno became a global hit after the contest, peaking at #1 on Billboard and winning the two big Grammys (the only Eurovision song to do so) in 1959.[[note]]The song was later [[TranslatedCoverVersion covered in at least seven languages]], the most famous cover being Music/DeanMartin's version in which only half the lyrics were translated into English and the rest were kept in Modugno's original Italian.[[/note]] This was the second Contest not to have any songs in English (1956 being the first time), and it would be the last time.

-->Hilversum 1958 introduced the convention of last year's winning country hosting the current edition. Italy's third-placing "Nel blu dipinto di blu" ("In the Blue Painted Blue") by Domenico Modugno became a global hit after the contest, peaking at #1 on Billboard and winning the two big Grammys (the only Eurovision song to do so) in 1959. This was the second Contest not to have any songs in English (1956 being the first time), and it would be the last time.

'''Participating Countries:''' 15 (confirmed as of August 24) -- Albania, Azerbaijan, Ireland, North Macedonia and Portugal return; Belarus unable to compete due to no longer having an EBU member station

'''Participating Countries:''' 14 (confirmed as of August 16) -- Azerbaijan, Ireland, North Macedonia and Portugal return; Belarus unable to compete due to no longer having an EBU member station

'''Participating Countries:''' 13 (confirmed as of August 2) -- Ireland, North Macedonia and Portugal return; Belarus unable to compete due to no longer having an EBU member station