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Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your numero uno is a real classic “Domenico Modungo – Nel blu dipinto di blu” and comes from a country that currently doesn’t (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
No big surprise: Your silver medal goes to the legendary ABBA! The 19th Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton became legendary because of four young Swedes, that were already quite popular in Scandinavia, but almost completely unknown in the rest of Europe: (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
We’re entering the Top 3 now! and your bronze medal goes to Marija Serifovic and Molitva (Prayer). (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 4 goes to Marie Myriam with L’oiseau et l’enfant (The bird and the child). After the years before happy pop songs won the competition the juries seemed to yearn for a old fashioned chanson… and they got it! L’oiseau et l’enfant is a powerful and melodic song with (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 5 goes to Spain. In 1973 Mocedades came (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 6 goes to this year’s winner: Lena! It’s not really a surprise that the winner of 2010 is so high in our ranking. Recent winners are always privileged in Eurovision rankings. Nevertheless, the song and the performance were great and (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 7 goes to Zeljko Joksimovic and Lane moje. In 2007 Serbia-Montenegro made its debut at the Eurovision Song Contest. The country had been banned from the EBU due to political reasons. As a part of Yugoslavia, the country had participated many times until 1989 and thus had some experience with the contest. Their 2nd place was a big success especially because the song was completely in (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place number 8 is arguably one of the most underrated songs ever: Joy Fleming – Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein. Her 17th place was the worst result for Germany until then. Her dress was just a little too green (she wanted to wear jeans, but the officials told her a woman in jeans couldn’t represent Germany) and her style was at least 10 years too earlier. Her soulful, danceable song with the politically (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place number 9 is Fairytale by Alexander Rybak. This third song from 2009 makes that year the most successful in this vote! The package seemed unbeatable: A cute, talented guy from Norway (Viking bloc) with Belarussian roots (Eastern bloc) with a fiddle and a great pop song. (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
We enter the Top 10 with your place 10 , which goes to Sertab Erener and Every way that I can! For the first time since their debut in 1975 Turkey could win the contest. In a very exciting and tight race with Belgium and Russia (at the end only 3 points separated the first three places) (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 12 goes to Urban Symphony with Rändajad. Many fans were sure: The 2009 Song Contest was the best in years! Not only the perfect organization in Moscow, but also the musical quality exceeded other years. This is the second song (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 12 goes to Brotherhood of man and Save your kisses for me from 1976. It was the third win for the United Kingdom and (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 13 goes to a real diva! La Kaas participated for France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 and was arguably the biggest star in the competition that year. Her song and performance were simple, classy and effective. For the first time in her career Patricia Kaas performed on the day her mother died. For her home France she achieved the best position in years: (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 14 goes to the Norwegian winners Secret Garden with their song Nocturne. The 90s were the Irish decade at the Eurovision Song Contest. After three Irish victories Norway broke the Green Island’s winning streak.. kind of… (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision songs. Over the next weeks we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 15 goes to France Gall and “Poupée de cire, poupée de son” from 1965. The song was a sensation that year! For the first time a song won, that people actually wanted to buy and that radios actually wanted to play. Poupée de cire, poupée de son, written by Serge Gainsbourg, thus became an international hit. (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision song. Over the next days we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 16 goes to Helena Paparizou and her song “My number one”. Paparizou is of Greek descent but was raised in Sweden. There she began her career there in 1999 as a member of the duo Antique while she also worked briefly as a model for a Swedish-Greek brand. (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision song. Over the next days we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 17 goes to Vânia Fernandes – Senhora do mar. In 2008 in Belgrade Portugal’s hopes were very high. Vânia Fernands had made it to the final and fans and journalists were very optimistic about her chances to score the first Top 5 placing for Portugal. Known for her powerful stage presence, as well as her prominent and versatile voice, Fernandes has participated in several singing contests and performed in public in both her home island of Madeira and on the mainland of Portugal since 1997. In 2007 she had won a Portuguese talent show in the Eurovision final she only came 13th but is still a fan favourite! (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision song. Over the next days we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 18 goes to Sandra Kim from Belgium. In 1986 she won for Belgium for the first and till now only time. She was born in Montegnée, near Liège, and started singing when she was seven. During the Eurovision Song Contest she was only 13 years old. She is thus the youngest winner ever and will most certainly hold this record forever as the EBU has since then changed the rules. Now you (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision song. Over the next days we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 19 goes to Denmark. In 2000 the Olsen Brothers achieved the second win for Denmark after 37 years of waiting. The Olsens are the brothers Jorgen and Niels. They founded their first band in 1967. As the Olsen Brothers they have released albums in English, Danish and German. This year they released a Eurovision cover album including a duet with German Eurovision winner Nicole. (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision song. Over the next days we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 20 goes to Italy. It is actually the last Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest: Jalisse with Fiume Di Parole. Jalisse is the duo Alessandra Drusian and Fabio Ricci, who have been performing together for 14 years, and are still active. They applied to represent San Marino in 2008 but were not chosen. (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision song. Over the next days we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 21 goes to a Finnish band: Lordi and their rock song “Hard Rock Hallelujah”. Lordi made history in 2006 becoming the first Finnish band to win the contest. Finland had unsuccessfully participated since 1961 never even making it into the Top5.. Untill that (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs: Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision song. Over the next days we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
On place 22 we have a woman, who after her Eurovision win in 1988 would go on to become one of the most popular singers on the planet: Céline Dion. The Canadian star entered the contest for Switzerland in her native language French with the song “Ne partez pas sans moi” (Don’t go without me). In a breathtaking voting Switzerland (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision song. Over the next days we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 23 goes to Niamh Kavanagh, who achieved Ireland’s 5th win in 1993 and the second win in a row. Since her Eurovision win she has given numerous televised performances on the Irish “Late Late Show”. Kavanagh is highly regarded among fans for her distinctive voice and her way of interacting with fans. She tried to find success in the US when she recorded an album there after her Eurovision win. Furthermore, Niamh tried to win the contest again in 2010 with a new power ballad, but this time she only achieved a place in the Bottom 5. (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs - Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision song. Over the next days we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
Your place 24 goes to Maggie McNeal and her anthem for the Dutch capital Amsterdam in 1980. The contest that year was actually held in the Netherlands. Not in Amsterdam tough, but in Den Haag. Nevertheless Maggie McNeal came 5th with her powerful declaration of love for Amsterdam. (more…)
Best Eurovision Songs: Over the last 2 months over 50 people have voted for their favourite Eurovision song. Over the next days we will reveal your “Top 25 Best Eurovision Songs Ever!”.
We start our ranking today with Mr. Eurovision: Johnny Logan. In 1987 he wrote Eurovision history, becoming the only artist to win 2 Eurovision Song Contests with “Hold me now”. He had previously won the contest in 1980 with the song “What’s another year”. Later he would win again as a composer with the song “Why me?” During the reprise (more…)
Keep voting! – Vote now for your favourite Eurovision entry ever. Just leave a comment at the end of this post with your 5 (or less) favourite Eurovision entries or National Final songs. All songs that competed in a Eurovision Song Contest or a National Final from 1955 till 2010 are allowed. The ranking will be presented bit by bit from place 20 to the best entry ever. You may of course vote for songs from your own country and for several songs from the same country. (more…)
