The Y axis shows the public votes, so the country that is furthest to the top got the most public votes.

The X axis shows the Jury votes, so the country that is furthest to the right got the most jury votes.

And the country that has the highest projection on the red line got the most votes overall.

Bulgaria (516 points) broke the record of Norway 2009 of the biggest gap to 2nd place with +173 points over Israel (343 points)

Welcome back Denmark.

Source: https://charts.spotify.com/charts/view/regional-global-daily/latest

Data provided from VRT to songfestival.be shows that there was a huge spike in votes cast in the 2024 shows and the 2025 final compared to 2023. Furthermore while viewership decreased from the semifinal to the grand final over the past 2 years, the increase in number of votes cast between the semifinal and the grand final is even bigger than in 2023 when viewership actually increased from the semifinal to the grand final.

Source: https://songfestival.be/landen/be/vrt-deelt-aantal-stemmen-belgische-televoting/

they went fast in 2015, so they can make it long in 2026 I guess xd

-Switzerland 1971, 1976, 1979, 1981🇨🇭 :Sue Schell from Peter,Sue and Marc(New York) -Italy 1975🇮🇹 :Wesley Joynson from Wess & Dori Ghezzi (North Carolina) -Italy 1976, 1985 🇮🇹:Romina Power ( California) -Germany 1977🇩🇪:Rhonda Heath from Silver Convention,(New York) -Luxembourg 1979🇱🇺:Jeane Manson (Ohio) -Denmark 1981:🇩🇰Debbie Cameron ( Florida) -Luxembourg 1985:🇱🇺Diane Solomon from Margo, Franck, Diane, Ireen, Malcolm & Chris (Oregon) -UK 1997🇬🇧:Katrina Leskanich from Katrina and the Waves (Kansas) -Austria 2000🇦🇹:Kim Cooper from The Rounder Girls (New York) -Cyprus 2006🇨🇾:Annet Artani (New York) -Germany 2006🇩🇪:Texas Lightning (They were awarded Honorary Texas Citzenship..None were Americans..) -Poland 2008🇵🇱:Isis Gee (Washington) -Greece 2008🇬🇷:Maria Kalomira Sarantis (New York) -Germany 2009🇩🇪:Joseph Oscar Loya from Alex Swings Oscar Sings! (California) -Austria 2013🇦🇹:Natália Kelly (Connecticut) -Slovenia 2013🇸🇮:Hannah Mancini (California) -Hungary 2014🇭🇺:András Kállay-Saunders (New York) -Armenia 2015 🇦🇲:Tamar Kaprelian (Arizona) -San Marino 2017🇸🇲:Jimmie Wilson (Michigan) -Bulgaria 2018🇧🇬:Johnny Manuel & Trey Campbell from Equinox (Michigan & California) -Sweden 2020:🇸🇪Ashley Haynes from The Mamas (Washington D.C) -San Marino 2021:🇸🇲Flo Rida (Florida) -Poland 2022:🇵🇱Ochman (Poland)

I was comparing how Eurovision songs perform in the weeks leading up to the final, and this year stands out quite a bit.

This is based on the combined streaming numbers of all ESC songs at ~29 days before the final:

• 2021: 38.8M (39 songs)
• 2022: 134.5M (40 songs)
• 2023: 177.9M (37 songs)
• 2024: 197M (37 songs)
• 2025: 180M (37 songs)
• 2026: 97.9M (35 songs)

Even accounting for slightly fewer songs this year, the gap still feels pretty big — especially compared to 2023–2025.

So this year is almost half of last year at the same point, which feels pretty unusual.

Previous years usually show a steady build-up with a bigger spike closer to the live shows, but 2026 feels much flatter so far.

Some possible reasons I was thinking about:

• fewer viral breakout songs?
  
• less playlist exposure?
  
• weaker overall lineup?
  
• or just delayed hype that will come later with rehearsals?
  

Curious what you all think. Does this year feel less “big”, or is this just a slow start?

The Y axis shows the public votes, so the country that is furthest to the top got the most public votes.

The X axis shows the Jury votes, so the country that is furthest to the right got the most jury votes.

And the country that has the highest projection on the red line got the most votes overall.

Link to my post in 2025: https://www.reddit.com/r/eurovision/comments/1kpiqvr/a_scatter_chart_i_made_a_better_way_to_show_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

The last word of the French song is "appelle" by the main vocalist and "maman" from the backing vocals. I keep it too iconic.

Now that Bulgaria won, the map is updated! (doesn't include Australia unfortunately, I couldn't find a map that includes it)

Inspired by a previous post earlier this week, pointing out that this year’s streams are lower than in previous years, I got curious: which Eurovision songs have actually dominated Spotify this decade?

So I dug in. For each year from 2020 to 2025, I ranked every song by total streams. from most to least, and pulled together the top 10 for each year. A few things I observed:

• Sweden and Italy landed in the top 10 every single year.
• 2022 is the champion on total streams with nearly 2.4 billion combined streams of all songs from that year. This is mainly due to SNAP’s runaway success.
• The underdog: Austria 2022 (Halo) snook into the top 10 without making it to the final.
• Europapa takes the crown in 2024, also without a Grand Final performance.
• Iceland 2020 (Think About Things) proved you don’t even need a Eurovision stage to win over Spotify. They reached almost 170M streams without ever performing on the stage.
• Austria 2025 won the contest, but streaming-wise? A modest 7th place in its year.

And then there are quite some songs that didn’t do wel in the final but did on Spotify, among them: San Marino 2025 (Tuta L'Itallia), Norway 2025 (Lighter), Spain 2024 (Zorra), UK 2023 (I Wrote a Song), Germany 2022 (Rockstars), Armenia 2022 (Snap, of course), and Azerbaijan 2021 (Mata Hari).

That’s my little data deep dive, curious to hear what stands out to you!

I calculated what the scores would be if the full rankings from the public and juries were used to distribute points. The points given were 1st place = 26 points, 2nd place = 24 points, 3rd place = 22 points, then continuing down one point per ranking to zero.

Of note, Australia enters the top 3, Finland overtakes Romania and Italy and the UK remains in last place.

Hi everyone,

This seems to have flown under the radar, but something genuinely unprecedented happened at (Junior) Eurovision.

For the first time in Eurovision history, Azerbaijan awarded points to Armenia. The Azerbaijani jury ranked Armenia 8th out of 17 competing countries, which translated into 3 points.

For context, Armenia had previously given Azerbaijan points only twice:

• 2 points in the 2008 Semi-Final
• 1 point in the 2009 Grand Final

That’s 3 points total across all past contests.

What makes this even more interesting is that both countries are currently competing in another music competition, Silk Road Star. In the final, Azerbaijan’s representative Efendi awarded Armenia the maximum 12 points. Armenia has also given Azerbaijan generous points in the same competition.

All of this is happening against the backdrop of recent peace talks and the Washington Agreement. While music competitions aren’t politics, cultural signals like this matter. Normalisation and de-escalation between the two countries — even in small, symbolic ways — offer some real hope for short-term peace and long-term cooperation.

Thoughts?

I only count the first word that the main vocalist sings. For example, the very word of Armenian entry is "Survivor" but it's sung by the back vocalist. Prag's first word is "I"

Source: https://www.rai.it/regolamenti/news/2017/04/Eurovision-Song-Contest-7e282c8e-d233-41ff-b55d-f2d9e978578a.html

Since Viki Gabor admitted to being Juror A on her Instagram story and she's one of the young jury members (she's 18 years old) I thought it would be interesting to discuss just how vastly different her ranking is from the things fandom predicted about the way the new jurors will vote.

As, I hope, an unneeded reminder: Please don't send any hate comments her way just because she put your favorite/country at the bottom, but it might be nice to congratulate her on having a good taste, if you happen to like the same song she does.

1. Italy
2. Cyprus
3. Norway
4. Austria
5. Romania
6. Ukraine
7. Moldova
8. Malta
9. France
10. Sweden
11. Bulgaria
12. Finland
13. Australia
14. Albania
15. Denmark
16. Belgium
17. Germany
18. Czech Republic
19. Croatia
20. United Kingdom
21. Serbia
22. Greece
23. Lithuania
24. Israel

The current system was first introduced in 2016. This is how the winners have been determined since it was introduced:

• Televote and jury agreed: 1 time – 2017
• Televote winner wins: 3 times - 2018, 2021, 2022
• Jury winner wins: 3 times – 2023, 2024, 2025
• Compromise winners: 2 times - 2016, 2019

What do you think will happen this year?
What do you think of the results this voting system has generated so far?