ETSC ~ TOP 10
ETSC 1
July 2014
Venue: Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France
Host: Marianne James
Participants: 28
- Vocals: 5F / 5M
- First edition, so first Top 10 for both countries and HoDs
ETSC 2
August 2014
Venue: Palais des Sports, Paris, France
Host: Cyril Féraud
Participants: 37
- Vocals: 7F / 3M
- Only three countries return to the Top 10: France, UK and Iceland
- On the other hand, 6 HoD return to the Top 10 and only 4 join the club
ETSC 3
July 2015
Venue: La Rochelle’s harbour, La Rochelle, France
Host: Cyril Hanouna
Participants: 41 (+1DQ)
- Vocals: 6F / 4M
- The only three countries with 3 appearances in the Top 10, France, UK and Iceland, are the Top 3! 4 more countries get a second Top 10 result and 3 are newcomers
- 6 HoD get their first Top 10 results!
ETSC 4
August 2015
Venue: Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, United-Kingdom
Hosts: Simon Amstell & Jessie Cav
Participants: 44 (+1DQ)
- Vocals: 5F / 5M (first male vocals to win)
- Francce is now the last country with Top 10 results each time, Israel gets a third one in a row… Albania, FYR Macedonia and Romania join Belgium as the four new comers!
- Half of the Top 10 HoD get their third Top 10 results in four editions! Daniel and Razvan get one on their first participation though and Bay on his second!
ETSC 5
July 2016
Venue: Salzburgarena, Salzburg, Austria
Hosts: Elyas M’Barek & Conchita Wurst
Participants: 45
- Vocals: 6F / 4M
- Israel is putting up a fight to France with this win and a 4th Top 10 in a row, beaten only by France 5! United-Kingdom returns so it’s 4 for them too! Sweden gets a third as Azerbaijan, Tunisia and Croatia get their first!
- Elmar, Ovidarch and Tecku get their first Top 10! and with 4 more only getting their second, it’s the majority of the Top 10 that’s rather new to it!
ETSC 6
August 2016
Venue: Al-Hakawati Theater, Jerusalem, Israel
Host: Ari Folman’s animated work
Participants: 44 (+1DQ)
- Vocals: 5F / 5M
- The usual gang of France, Israel and the United-Kingdom are there again! Spain and Estonia get their first Top 10! Denmark, Finland, Germany and Bosnia their 3rd!
- Oasisoffear and Pablo break into the Top 10! Dimitris has now 5 Top 10 in a row!
ETSC 7
July 2017
Venue: Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
Host: Pilou Asbæk
Participants: 42
- Vocals: 6F / 4M
- France and Israel still going strong! Only Serbia is new to the Top 10 but Italy and Norway are only getting their second! Denmark’s gotten 4 Top 10 at this point and 2 were in Faroese!
- No less than 4 new HoD in the Top 10 with PJ, Paschalis, Hjallis and Martin!
ETSC 8
August 2017
Venue: Palais des Sports, Paris, France
Host: Nagui
Participants: 42
- Vocals: 5,5F / 4,5M
- It has finally happened with France leaving the Top 10 for the first time after 7 Top 3 in a row! Meaning that Israel, with its 7th Top 10 in a row can tie! Not far behind, United-Kingdom has 6 and Finland has 5! On the other hand, this is an edition of newbies and returns: Australia and Poland join for the first time, with Greece and Turkey getting only their second after being in the Top 10 in 2014 only! Iceland, likewise, was in the first three Top 10 but none since and until this one!
- No less than 4 new HoD in the Top 10, including the Top 2, with Oxi, David, Michos and Kostas! Three Greeks among them, with Donnie and Dimitris both getting their 6th Top 10 out of 8 editions and the country winning the contest! PJ gets two Top 3 in the same summer: a new power HoD?
- Notice how the first half of the draw completely crashed the second half in this one!
ETSC 9
July 2018
Venue: Megaron, Thessaloniki, Greece
Hosts: Katia Zygouli, Nikos Kouris & Avgoustos Kortó
Participants: 41
- Vocals: 5F / 5M
- France returns to the Top 3 for the 8th time, so it can tie Israel’s 8 as well, and all 8 in a row! Switzerland becomes the first country since the first edition (for obvious reasons) to win without ever having been in the Top 10 before! Lebanon also joins the club and Poland gets a second 9th place in a row! For all their predicted strong results, Norway and Greece only get their third whereas often overlooked Finland manages to tie the United-Kingdom with 6!
- 3 new HoD taste their first Top 10 with Jerry, newcomer Dominik, and never-missing-an-edition Patrick P! Michos gets a second one in a row while Dimitris secures second place with no less than 7 out of 9 editions!
ETSC 10
August 2018
Venue: Tonhalle, St Gallen, Switzerland
Hosts: Lauriane Gilliéron, Peter Stamm & James Gruntz
Participants: 39 (+1DQ)
- Vocals: 3.5F / 6.5M
- Some fun facts, the winners of both ETSC 9 and 10 have 166pts; in both editions song #36 finished 7th! Finland was 6th both editions as well!
- The draw seems divided in 5 first half, 5 second half, but then if we remember Morocco was our original 10th it is a very rare case of the second half dominating the first one. Moreover, all songs between 34th and 37th got Top 10, as well as 4 songs out of the run of 5 between 11th and 15th!
- Like in ETSC 9, no less than 3 new HoD taste their first Top 10 with Coyote, Tehoe and Lars! Dominik, Martin, Pablo and Bay get their second as well! They join the 3 most often Top 10 HoD, who therefore repeat their success here (Morgan has 9, Dimitris 8 and Donnie 7).
- As for countries, 3 newcomers as well with microstate San Marino surprising everyone, Slovenia who missed both 2017 editions finally breaking the curse and esc-power house Russia cracking in as well! Switzerland, Tunisia and Croatia only get their second as well. France finally retakes its lead over Israel (9 vs. 8) as Finland moves above the United-Kingdom and Denmark (7 vs. 6). All of Finland’s Top 10 entries were between 5th and 7th! More impressive, France completes its collection of medals, since this second place means it now stands at 3 golds, 3 silvers and 3 bronzes in 10 editions!
Surprise surprise: only two songs in English in the Top 10, with the two songs in French in the Top 3! German, Italian, Slovenian, Russian, Croatian and Arabic round up the rest!
ETSC 11
July 2019
Venue: Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany
Hosts: Gayle Tufts
Participants: 41
- Vocals: 6F / 4M
- The draw seems divided in 6 first half (with three b-2-b at #7-#9 and then #13, #15 and #17), 4 second half (#26, #28, #36, #38) with the winner going #28 like France when it won the second edition!
- 2 new HoDs taste their first Top 10 with Lina at her first try and Arpatilaos finally breaking it! Jerry, Patrick P, Dino and Hjallis get their second as well while Michos and Bay their third! Blind editions definitely work wonders to stir things up a bit!
- As for countries, no new countries, however unpopular Albania, North Macedonia, Estonia and Poland get only third second or third taste of the top 10 and sometimes tie their best ever or close (Albania’s best was 5th and it’s 6th, North Macedonia ties best at 8th, Estonia beats its best ever at 9th when it only had once a 10th place and Poland had two 9th places before this new 10th place).
- Surprise surprise: songs in English are again in minority in the Top 10!
ETSC 12
August 2019
Venue: Dramaten, Stockholm, Sweden
Host: Joel Kinnaman, Andreas Wilson & Bill Skärsgård
Participants: 42
- Vocals: 5F / 5M
- The big countries of France, Israel and Finland all secure themselves as ETSC powerhouses and so do Sweden and Belgium getting more Top 5 results. Croatia and Slovenia also get strong returns while Cyprus is a new country in the Top 10!
- 3 HoD get their first Top 10 results, Luke gets his second, Pablo and Dino their third…
ETSC 13
July 2020
Venue: Teatro Regio, Torino, Italy
Host: Mariano di Vaio, Miguel Gobbo Diaz & Vanessa Hessler
Participants: 45
- Vocals: 6F / 4M
- The big countries of France, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium are above 5 Top 10 while Germany gets its 5th! The other 5 are less common in our Top 10 with four of them getting their third time: Switzerland, Russia, Ukraine, North Macedonia. Morocco gets its first! Welcome!
- 4 HoD get their first Top 10 results, including two out of three newcomers! A first in ETSC as well for Marko and for Zainab, who got bottom 5 both times last year, while Ren gets a second one in a row! Anders and Hjallis get a third Top 10, Michos a 4th, Razvan a 7th and Morgan sets a new record at 12!
ETSC 14
August 2020
Venue: Göteborgsoperan, Göteborg, Sweden
Host: Alexander Skarsgård & Helena Mattsson
Participants: 48
- Vocals: 3F / 7M: a big turn towards male vocals in this Top 10
- The big countries kept their status: France (13th), Finland (9th), Denmark (8th), Sweden (8th), United-Kingdom (7th) and Belgium (7th), the countries way above 5 Top 10, are all here including Norway that just breaks that record with its 5th! One exception: Israel is still missing and stuck at 10 Top 10 results! However two newer countries in the Top 10, Morocco and North Macedonia, kept their status for a second time in a row after ETSC 13! New powerhouses? North Macedonia has yet to score big (as Bosnia & Herzegovina got 3rd place in ETSC 2) but is now the Balkan country with the most Top 10 finishes. Slovakia gets its first Top 10 result with an astonishing 2nd place (like Spain who also to this date only has one Top 10 and its a Silver medal).
- No HoD get their first Top 10 results this time, but Elmar and David who were two of the four returnees this edition, got their second Top 10 results ever! While PJ, who got two bronze medals his first year and no Top 10 since gets his third with France. Jerry also is at 3 Top 10 results and this was his first medal after a 4th place with Lebanon. While Dino and Hjallis pick up their 4th, the Top 5 has the four most Top 10ers: Sekhmet Morgan (13th), Dimitris (9th), Donnie (9th) and Razvan (8th).
A Medal Table (different from % of success)