Switzerland Wins Eurovision 2024!

/ Sekhmet Morgan

Malmö – After an exciting voting sequence, the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 came to a conclusion. Congratulations to Switzerland, who wins their first trophy since 1988 and their thrid overall: “The Code”, by Nemo !

The hosts were Petra Mede and Malin Åkerman;  the show took place at the  Malmö Arena, Malmö (Sweden). This was tonight’s running-order (except the Netherlands who were disqualified):

The voting saw a twist in the final, being opened as soon as the first song started and will be opened throughout the evening. Last year’s new vote made of 100% televote from “the Rest of the World” remained. At first, only juries results were announced first, with only the 12pts revealed by the spokeperson. Switzerland won in a massive manner, beating even Loreen’s score by 25pts! Far behind, France was 2nd, Croatia was 3rd, Italy 4th and Ireland 5th.

Then they revealed how many each song got in televote, starting at whoever is ranked 25th by juries all the way to the juries’ winner! It’s an epic result, that will go down in the history books as 5 songs got more than 220pts: Israel, Croatia, Ukraine,  France and Switzerland! it makes sense, therefore, that it’s the final Top 5 in this order:

Born in 1999 in Biel, a small bilingual town in Switzerland, Nemo has been playing the violin, piano and drums since they were a small child.

In 2016, Nemo became famous overnight through an appearance at SRF Virus (#Cypher), which went viral on social media. Afterwards they released two EPs – through which 7 songs made it directly onto the official Swiss Singles Chart.

2020 marked the beginning of a period of change for Nemo, when they started writing and producing for other artists, and also started releasing songs in English.

In their music, Nemo deals with themes such as gender identity, mental health and finding one‘s place in this world.

Congratulations to everyone! Congratulations to all delegations who made Eurovision 2024 possible! Ready for Fridas?

637 thoughts on “Switzerland Wins Eurovision 2024!”

    • Is why I miss the orchestra, real backing singers and instruments played live sometimes, everything seemed so much more authentic related to a ‘song’ contest, more song and less visuals/memes/social media trolls etc!!? perfect for French song this year in fact!

  11. Let’s get the summer started!

    First with a dance remix of Serotoniin. It’s fast and furious and fantastic!

    And as I predicted, here come the We Will Rave remixes:

  13. Eurovision songs charting in the Europe Official Top 100:

    #16 Europapa (#1 in the Netherlands and Belgium, #2 in Finland, #4 in Sweden, #5 in Austria)

    #39 Mon Amour (#2 in France, #3 in Switzerland)

    #47 The Code (#1 in Switzerland, #2 in Austria, #7 in Finland)

    #91 Rim Tim Tagi Dim (#10 in Finland)

    #95 La Noia

    • With the exception of the DQed entry that probably charts due to the unusual circumstances surrounding it, once again the jury vote is much more representative of what is popular compared to televote. That says a lot.

      • What is clear is that this year the musical impact of the contest was very low (as opposed to the TV ratings and social media impact) and any muaical content was completely overshadowed by controversies and competing agendas.

        It was only 3 years ago that the contest launched an internationally successful act and those days seem long past. That’s what they should be focusing on as the crop this year seemed particularly weak despite greater musical diversity in term of different genres.

        • To me it is clear the contest took a step forward in terms of musical credibility regardless of controversies etc mainly thanks to the juries – once again. Not every year will be the same. The winning song has set a proper framework for more contemporary and experimental credible music to be attracted to the contest imo.

  14. They’ve said that Eurovision is just politics nowadays, so why can’t it just be the other way as well, that politics nowadays is just Eurovision? For the upcoming EU Parliament Election, all Swedish candidates had to pick their favourite Eurovision song. Winning entry by party (don’t know if that says anything):

    Left Party: “Satellite”
    Social Democrats: “Cha cha cha”
    Environment Party: “Hold me now”
    Centre Party: “Fairytale”
    Liberals: “Rise like a phoenix”
    Christian Democrats: “Waterloo” (cheating, can’t vote for your own country!)
    Moderates: “Fly on the wings of love”
    Sweden Democrats: “Hard rock hallelujah”

    As for individuals, we got a few interesting pics. The most interesting one was probably Jonas Sjöstedt, former leader of the Left Party and their EU top candidate. He picked “Tu te reconnaîtras” out of all the choices.

    https://www.altinget.se/artikel/lordi-ar-eu-kandidaternas-favorit-efter-stodroster-fraan-sd

    • That’s what the article says. Specifically, they claim that Netanyahu called “several people in leading EBU positions” threatening to support the sponsor money from MorocconOil. Then they also just write about all the people who protested Israel’s participation. The article claims they’ve contacted the EBU without any success, and that SVT says the EBU makes the decisions regarding these things (who participates, who sponsors), not the host broadcaster. No source is cited on how the article knows the information regarding Netanyahu’s comments to the EBU.

      • Thanks for your input. So it’s just retelling what many people argue could have happened with the sponsor but without really much anything to back it up. It’s a very logical explanation to why the EBU was so quick to throw Russia out and not Israel, but it’s not proven.

        • Exactly. I think it’s also fair to point out that the article uses language that clearly puts a bias against Israel. Regardless of what one thinks of the situation, I think it’s good to know what angle the news is being reported from.

  16. https://x.com/dolphin_dane/status/1798343383326527774?s=46

    So Emma Muscat chose “I Am What I Am” over “Sand” to replace “Out of Sight”. The first two were both boring basic NQs and the same fate would have happened with Emma’s winner at Malta ESC.

    It’s good to see that the public rejects these basic pop songs that are written for no one in particular and passed around until someone accepts it. Music should be/seem authentic to the artist, not factory made.

    • I think this is a conditional withdrawal unless the EBU takes the mentioned action (which it won’t). A pity to see a founding nation withdrawing under these circumstances.

      • I can’t really say anything about this. I know I wouldn’t like to be in the EBU’S place having to decide between 2 extremely difficult options. I guess even 10 years ago their decision may have been different but nowdays they had no other option.

        • This is not just about Netanyahu and his government. It is thanks to the occupation of Palestinian territories, which predates Netanyahu and was not caused by him. He does nothing to help the situation (and does make it worse), but this happened before Netanyahu was a factor and will continue to happen after he is gone as well unless the international community does something about it. Things will not improve until the occupation ends, that is what we should be encouraging.

          And of course it is not the hostages’ fault, but when you celebrate their rescue without mourning the many more Palestinian lives that were lost during that exact operation, it suggests that one group is more important to you than the other.

  22. Macron has just announced that, after the Far right being at 31% here in France at the European elections, he has called for an urgent general election to renew the entire National Assembly (to be held on June 30th). Oh boy, will be some fun Olympics :p

    • A bizarre choice. Schröder had done the same thing, calling for fresh elections after disastrous election losses. Of course he already had a job from Putin, I assume Macron is set for Goldman Sachs.

      • Macron wont quit though, as presidents are above all, and will preside the country for 3 years still but he will likely lose the majority in Parliament so will have to find a new majority for government, which migjhe bt refrshing after 7 years (incl Covid) of pure Centrist governments that lead to this current situation

        • It’s a mess here as well. Scholz is completely collapsing the SocDem. I wasn’t sure he was still alive until he showed up in Normandy where as usual Macron had to drag him to Zelenskyy. It’s pathetic.

    • Well, Macron is a leader and i was expecting he will want to define the agenda and call for elections. I don’t live in France but i have a feeling part of the electorate behave like spoiled brats.
      Here it’s disheartening the quality of the MP’s we will be sending to Brussels-and Strasbourg.
      Ex models, among them a homophobic idiot, tv hosts and journalists,ex athletes etc. The scientists, the people who are at the forefront working for causes like the climate protection. human rights, people who have studied the EU and could potentianally work to improve its function were ALL left behind. I HATE how people here vote.

      • Excuse me, but if TV celebrities are elected, that’s first and foremost the fault of party leaderships who include them on their lists and not the voters’. Especially New Democracy who recruited the two most high-profile ones in order to stem their waning fortunes, even though they are supposed to be the “serious and responsible” party.

        And of course anyone can have their own “shopping list” but it is a parliament, not an activists’ forum. The main issues in Europe now are desindustrialisation and lack of energy independence (those two are interconnected) as well as common defense (especially vital to Greece given the mutliple security challenges it faces in an unstable region), so I ‘d hope parties sent people who could contribute something to these issues and focus on solving them instead of treating disgruntled voters who have a hard time making it to the end of the month as “spoiled brats”.

    • Hello, Morgan! I wanted to ask you something.
      For the last 3-4 years I have been following very closely and intensively Mr. Raphaël Glucksmann and his work in the EU parliament.
      Not only has he become my favorite French politician, but also my favorite politican overall.

      I have a lot of French colleagues, and whenever I mentioned him, I realized that a lot of French people have no idea who he is.

      And that’s why I’m completely ASTONISHED and THRILLED with his yesterday’s huge success! His list came third, only some points behind Macron’s party.
      I don’t know if his political ambition is only related to the European Parliament, or if he has ambitions in national politics as well.

      I don’t remember ever happening that someone’s political success brought tears to my eyes, as it literally happened today.
      In addition to being an excellent politician, whose views I support 100%, he is also a person with a beautifull compassionate soul. I read his posts a lot.

      I hope that this huge success will be followed by success in the French national elections, and maybe that will encourage him to run for office in 2027 (I don’t even dare to hope).

      What’s your thoughts on him?
      Until today, I believed that he was completely unknown in France!

      • He’s not totally unknown, as anyone who’s a lefty (like me), kinda knows him. But he’s far from a household name because he entered politics in 2019 for the last European elections. In these elections, after Macron’s 2017 win, both historic parties here had no real candidats and were in disarray. So both chose intellectuals leaning towards their ideas but without any political experience: the Cosnervative party chose a philosophy teacher in Versailles (hands down the most conservative town in France, for obvious historical reasons), a very catholic conservative thinker. Back then he got 8.5% which was the first time ever the Conservative party got BELOW 10% (since then the Conservative party got 4.8% in the last presidential and is almost gone… Bellamy got even less this time, 7.2%, which translates to only 6 eurodeputies for the EPP from France). The Socialists chose Glucksmann, and while his 6.5% in 2019 was poor, it was much better than the presidential candidates in both 2017 and 2022 (where Anne Hidalgo, Paris mayor, got less than 2%). In these elections, the four left candidates (Far left, Socialists, Greens, Communists) battled who was going to be the most popular among the left electorate. These can change through the years after the domination of the Communist party (1944-1958) and then the Socialist party (1958-2012), which governed with the Greens and Communists often in the past (1981-1986, 1988-1993, 1997-2002, 2012-2017). But since 2017 it seemed the Far left of J-L Mélenchon dominated the Left as they won most seats in the last National Assembly. But they’re VERY extremists and their European candidate was VERY bad. So they got 9.5% (still up from their 6% in 2019 but way lower than Mélenchon himself who got 21.3% in the 2022 presidential elections) and to everyone’s surprise, the Socialist candidate, Glucksmann, won most votes from the left candidates (with almost 14%, his list ends with 13 European Parliament seats, which is as many as Macron’s centrist party).

        • Thank you for your answer :))
          I know that Melanchon’s party is nominally on the left, and that he relies on left wing voters, but I personally struggle to even include Melanchon or for example Linke in Germany into “left” side.

          Unlike extreme right, I don’t really believe that there is such thing as “extreme left”. Parties who go extremly to the left very often actually become right wing.
          Melanchon and his party, for me personally are dispicable, and I am so glad that left wing voters went for Mr. Glucksmann.

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