EUROVISION SONG CONTEST WINNERS

This page lists all the 'winners of the Eurovision Song Contest', an annual competition organised by member countries of the European Broadcasting Union. The Contest, which has been broadcast every year since its debut in 1956, is one of the longest-running television programmes in the world. The Contest's winner has been determined using numerous voting techniques throughout its history; centre to this has been the awarding of points to countries by juries or televoters, with the country awarded the most points being declared the winner.^[1]
The Contest has produced fifty-five winners in fifty-two Contests: one every year except the tied 1969 Contest, which had four winners. Twenty-four different countries have won the Contest, the most recent addition to this list being Serbia, which won the Contest on its debut appearance in 2007.^[2] The country with the highest number of wins is Ireland, with seven. Portugal is the country with the longest history in the Contest without a win; it made its fortieth appearance at the 2007 Contest. The only person to have won more than once is Johnny Logan, who won the Contest three times for Ireland; once as a singer, in 1980; once as a singer-songwriter, in 1987; and once as a songwriter for Linda Martin, in 1992.

Contents

Winners

By country

By language

Footnotes

References

Winners

Year	Country	Song	Performer	Points	Margin	Second place	Date	Host city
1956		"Refrain"	Lys Assia	N/A[3]			24 May 1956	Lugano
1957		"Net Als Toen"	Corry Brokken	31	14	France	3 March 1957	Frankfurt am Main
1958	France	"Dors, Mon Amour"	André Claveau	27	3	Switzerland	12 March 1958	Hilversum
1959	Netherlands	"Een Beetje"	Teddy Scholten	21	5	United Kingdom	11 March 1959	Cannes
1960	France	"Tom Pillibi"	Jacqueline Boyer	32	7	United Kingdom	25 March 1960	London
1961		"Nous les amoureux"	Jean-Claude Pascal	31	6	United Kingdom	18 March 1961	Cannes
1962	France	"Un premier amour"	Isabelle Aubret	26	13	Monaco	18 March 1962	Luxembourg
1963		"Dansevise"	Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann	42	2	Switzerland	23 March 1963	London

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| 1964 || || "Non ho l'età (per amarti)" || Gigliola Cinquetti || 49 ||32||United Kingdom||21 March 1964||Copenhagen
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| 1965 || Luxembourg || "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" || France Gall || 32 ||6||United Kingdom||20 March 1965|| Naples
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| 1966 || || "Merci Chérie" || Udo Jürgens || 31 ||15||Sweden||5 March 1966|| Luxembourg
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| 1967 || United Kingdom || "Puppet on a String" || Sandie Shaw || 42 ||25||Ireland||8 April 1967|| Vienna
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| 1968 || Spain || "La, la, la" || Massiel || 29 ||1||United Kingdom||6 April 1968|| London
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| rowspan="4"| 1969 || Spain || "Vivo Cantando" || Salomé || rowspan="4"| 18 ||rowspan="4"|N/A || rowspan="4"|N/A|| rowspan="4"| 29 March 1969|| rowspan="4"|Madrid
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| United Kingdom || "Boom Bang-a-Bang" || Lulu
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| Netherlands || "De Troubadour" || Lennie Kuhr
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| France || "Un jour, un enfant" || Frida Boccara
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| 1970 || || "All Kinds of Everything" || Dana || 32 ||6||United Kingdom||21 March 1970|| Amsterdam
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| 1971 || Monaco || "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" || Séverine || 128 ||12||Spain|| 3 April 1971||Dublin
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| 1972 || Luxembourg || "Après Toi" || Vicky Leandros || 128 ||14||United Kingdom||25 March 1972|| Edinburgh
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| 1973 || Luxembourg || "Tu Te Reconnaîtras" || Anne-Marie David || 129 ||4||Spain||7 April 1973|| Luxembourg
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| 1974 || Sweden || "Waterloo" || ABBA || 24 ||6||Italy||6 April 1974|| Brighton
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| 1975 || Netherlands || "Ding-A-Dong" || Teach-In || 152 ||14||United Kingdom||22 March 1975|| Stockholm
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| 1976 || United Kingdom || "Save Your Kisses for Me" || Brotherhood of Man || 164 ||17||France||3 April 1976|| The Hague
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| 1977 || France || "L'Oiseau Et L'Enfant" || Marie Myriam || 136 ||15||United Kingdom||7 May
1977|| London
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| 1978 || || "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" || Izhar Cohen & Alphabeta || 157 ||32||Belgium||22 April 1978|| Paris
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| 1979 || Israel || "Hallelujah" || Gali Atari & Milk and Honey || 125 || 9||Spain||31 March 1979|| Jerusalem
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| 1980 || Ireland || "What's Another Year?" || Johnny Logan || 143 ||15||Germany||19 April 1980|| The Hague
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| 1981 || United Kingdom || "Making Your Mind Up" || Bucks Fizz || 136 || 4||Germany||4 April 1981|| Dublin
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| 1982 || || "Ein Bisschen Frieden" || Nicole || 161 ||61||Israel||24 April 1982|| Harrogate
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| 1983 || Luxembourg || "Si la vie est cadeau" || Corinne Hermès || 142 ||6||Israel||23 April 1983|| Munich
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| 1984 || Sweden || "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" || Herreys || 145 ||8||Ireland||5 May
1984|| Luxembourg
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| 1985 || || "La det swinge" || Bobbysocks || 123 ||18||Germany||4 May
1985|| Gothenburg
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| 1986 || Belgium || "J'aime la vie" || Sandra Kim || 176 ||31||Luxembourg||3 May
1986|| Bergen
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| 1987 || Ireland || "Hold Me Now" || Johnny Logan || 172 ||31||Germany||9 May
1987|| Brussels
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| 1988 || Switzerland || "Ne partez pas sans moi" || Céline Dion ||137 ||1||United Kingdom|| 30 April 1988|| Dublin
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| 1989 || || "Rock Me" || Riva || 137 ||7||United Kingdom||6 May
1989|| Lausanne
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| 1990 || Italy || "" || Toto Cutugno || 149 ||17||Ireland, France^[4]||5 May
1990 ||Zagreb
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| 1991 || Sweden || "Fångad av en stormvind" || Carola || 146 ||0^[5]||France||4 May
1991||Rome
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| 1992 || Ireland || "Why Me" || Linda Martin || 155 ||16||United Kingdom||9 May
1992|| Malmö
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| 1993 || Ireland || "In Your Eyes" || Niamh Kavanagh || 187 ||23||United Kingdom||15 May 1993|| Millstreet
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| 1994 || Ireland || "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" || Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan || 226 ||60||Poland||30 April 1994|| Dublin
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| 1995 || Norway || "Nocturne" || Secret Garden || 148 ||29||Spain||13 May 1995|| Dublin
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| 1996 || Ireland || "The Voice" || Eimear Quinn || 162 ||48||Norway||18 May 1996|| Oslo
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| 1997 || United Kingdom || "Love Shine a Light" || Katrina and the Waves || 227 ||70||Ireland||3 May
1997|| Dublin
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| 1998 || Israel || "Diva" || Dana International || 173 ||7||United Kingdom||9 May
1998|| Birmingham
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| 1999 || Sweden || "Take Me to Your Heaven" || Charlotte Nilsson || 163 ||17||Iceland||29 May 1999|| Jerusalem
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| 2000 || Denmark || "Fly on the Wings of Love" || Olsen Brothers || 195 ||40||Russia||13 May 2000|| Stockholm
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| 2001 || || "Everybody" || Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL || 198 ||21||Denmark||12 May 2001|| Copenhagen
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| 2002 || || "I Wanna" || Marie N || 176 ||12||Malta|| 25 May 2002|| Tallinn
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| 2003 || || "Everyway That I Can" || Sertab Erener || 167 ||2||Belgium||24 May 2003||Riga
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| 2004 || || "Wild Dances" || Ruslana || 280 ||17||Serbia & Montenegro||15 May 2004^[6]|| Istanbul
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| 2005 || || "My Number One" || Helena Paparizou || 230 ||38||Malta||21 May 2005|| Kiev
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| 2006 || || "Hard Rock Hallelujah" || Lordi || 292 ||44|| Russia ||20 May 2006|| Athens
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| 2007 || ||"Molitva" || Marija Šerifović || 268 ||33||Ukraine||12 May 2007|| Helsinki
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| 2008|| || || || || || || 24 May 2008^[7]|| Belgrade^[8]
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Eleven Eurovision winners featured at the ''Congratulations'' concert in 2005, in which ABBA's "Waterloo" was voted the most popular song of the Contest's first fifty years.^[9] The most successful countries never to have won the Contest are Malta and Russia, having both finished second twice and third twice. The highest number of points scored by a winning country at Eurovision was the 292 points achieved by Finland's Lordi at the 2006 Contest. The lowest total is the eighteen points scored by the four winning countries in 1969. The largest margin of victory was that of Katrina and The Waves in 1997, who won by 70 points.
The United Kingdom has finished second fifteen times at Eurovision, more than any other country. Since the introduction of the current voting system in 1975, the winner of the Contest has been decided by the final voting nation on eleven occasions.^[10]

By country

Map showing each country's number of Eurovision wins:^[11]

Wins	Country	Years
7		1970, 1980, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996
5		1958, 1960, 1962, ''1969'', 1977
		1961, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1983
		1967, ''1969'', 1976, 1981, 1997
4		1974, 1984, 1991, 1999
		1957, 1959, ''1969'', 1975
3		1978, 1979, 1998
2		1963, 2000
		1985, 1995
		1964, 1990
		1956, 1988
		1968, ''1969''
1		1966
		1971
		1982
		1986
		1989
		2001
		2002
		2003
		2004
		2005
		2006
		2007

Years in ''italics'' indicate joint wins.

By language

Between 1966 and 1973, and again between 1977 and 1998, countries were only permitted to perform in their own language; see the main Eurovision Song Contest article.

Marija Šerifović's "Molitva" became the first Serbian-language song to win the Contest, and the first winner since 1989 to be in a language that had never produced a winning song before.

Wins	Language	Years	Countries
22	English	1967, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,[12] 2005, 2006	United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Turkey, Ukraine, Greece, Finland
14	French	1956, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1983, 1986, 1988	Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Monaco, Belgium
3	Dutch	1957, 1959, 1969	Netherlands
	Hebrew	1978, 1979, 1998	Israel
2	Norwegian	1985, 1995	Norway
	Swedish	1984, 1991	Sweden
	Italian	1964, 1990	Italy
	German	1966, 1982	Austria, Germany
	Spanish	1968, 1969	Spain
1	Danish	1963	Denmark
	Serbo-Croatian	1989	Yugoslavia
	Serbian	2007	Serbia

Footnotes

1. Extract from the rules for the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision.tv. Retrieved on 22 August 2007.
2. Serbia were participating for the first time as an independent nation, previously they had competed as part of Serbia and Montenegro and Yugoslavia. Switzerland also won the Contest on their debut—the first Contest, in 1956.
3. The full results of the 1956 Contest were never released; only the winner is known.
4. Ireland and France tied for second place in the 1990 Contest.
5. Sweden won the 1991 Contest following a tie-break.
6. Since 2004 the Contest has included a televised semi-final. In 2004 this was held on the Wednesday before the final, and since 2005 it has been held on the Thursday of "Eurovision Week".
7. Date is provisional. EBU plans for future. Eurovision.tv (9 May 2007). Retrieved on 19 August 2007.
8. Barry Viniker (13 May 2007) The Beogradska Arena. The home of ESC 2008?. ESCtoday.com. Retrieved on 19 August 2007.
9. ABBA win 'Eurovision 50th' vote. BBC News (23 October 2005). Retrieved on 22 August2007.
10. 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2002 and 2003.
11. On this map, Croatia is credited with Yugoslavia's win, as the singer of that entry came from Croatia.
12. This song was partially sung in Ukrainian.

References

★ Eurovision Song Contest history. Eurovision.tv. Retrieved on 19 August 2007.

★ John Kennedy O'Connor (2005). ''The Eurovision Song Contest 50 Years The Official History''. London: Carlton Books Limited. ISBN 1-84442-586-X.

★ History. ESCtoday.com. Retrieved on 19 August 2007.