Eurovision Stats

70 contests, 37 winning countries (counting one shared 1969 first place across four). Ireland and Sweden lead with 7 Eurovision wins each. Below them: the UK, France, Netherlands and Luxembourg all on 5. The full all-time medal table for gold, silver and bronze placements.

DARA's Bangaranga delivered Bulgaria's first Eurovision win on 516 points — 173 clear of Israel's 343. That broke Ukraine 2022's 165-point modern record and Alexander Rybak's 169-point Moscow 2009 absolute mark. The full ranking of every winning margin from the 50/50 era.

A single hub for every individual Eurovision Song Contest record. From Lys Assia's 1956 win to Bulgaria's 173-point margin in Vienna 2026 and Nunzio Gallo's 5:09 marathon song — every all-time record with a quotable hero stat and a link to the full page.

Portugal's first-ever Eurovision win in 2017 came with the highest winning point total in the contest's history: 758 points, beating second-placed Bulgaria's Kristian Kostov by 143. Sobral remains the only winner to clear the 700-point threshold in the 50/50 era. The full top-10 highest winning totals.

At the second-ever Eurovision Song Contest in Frankfurt on 3 March 1957, Italy's Nunzio Gallo performed Corde della mia chitarra for 5 minutes and 9 seconds — the longest song ever entered. By the following year, the EBU had introduced the 3-minute maximum length that has remained unchanged for 68 years.

5miinust and Puuluup's collaboration entry for Estonia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö carried the longest title in the contest's 70-year history: (nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi — 55 characters including punctuation. Translated: "We know nothing about (these) drugs". It finished 20th in the Grand Final.

Two months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Kalush Orchestra's Stefania collected 439 points from the public televote at the Eurovision 2022 Grand Final — the highest single-entry televote score ever recorded in the 50/50 era. The top-10 biggest televotes of all time.

Finland's punk-rock entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna ran for exactly 1 minute and 27 seconds — barely half the modern 3-minute cap. It remains the shortest song ever performed in a Eurovision competitive round. Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät were the first ever band of musicians with learning disabilities to compete at Eurovision.

Seven countries gathered at the Teatro Kursaal in Lugano, Switzerland on 24 May 1956 for the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest. Each country sent two songs. The winning entry — Refrain, sung by Swiss singer Lys Assia — became the first ever Eurovision Song Contest winner. The full result has never been published; only the winner is known.

Nathalie Pâque — a Belgian-born child singer representing France — was 11 years old when she performed J'ai volé la vie at the Eurovision Song Contest in Lausanne, Switzerland on 6 May 1989. She finished 8th of 22. Her appearance, together with Eurovision 1986 winner Sandra Kim (13), is the reason the EBU now requires all Grand Final performers to be at least 16 years old.

Sandra Kim was 13 years and 305 days old when she sang J'aime la vie at the Eurovision Song Contest in Bergen, Norway. Belgium's only Eurovision win to date — and the trigger for the EBU's minimum-age-16 rule that took effect from Eurovision 1990 onwards. The top-10 youngest Eurovision winners.

Across 70 contests from 1956 to 2026, Norway has finished last on a record 12 occasions — including the only country to score nul points four separate times. Finland and Germany follow on nine, Switzerland on nine and Belgium and Austria on eight. The full table of bottom-of-the-table finishes by country, plus the famous nul-points club and the Big-5's surprisingly bottom-heavy modern record.

Some countries are Eurovision regulars at the top of the scoreboard — Sweden, Italy and Ukraine have built whole careers in the top 10. Others swing violently between trophy and trough, with Israel and Ireland the classic boom-bust profiles. And a handful — Andorra, San Marino, North Macedonia, Montenegro — have barely registered above the qualifying line. This is the per-country distribution of Grand Final finishing positions, from 1956 to Vienna 2026.

Since the semi-final round was introduced in 2004, every non-Big-5, non-host country has had to earn its place in the Grand Final. Twenty-three contests later, Ukraine alone has a perfect 100% record (20/20). At the bottom: Andorra, Monaco and Slovakia have never qualified — combined record 0/13. The full ranking after Vienna 2026's semi-finals.

Since the first contest in Lugano in 1956, only Germany has come within a single missed year of a perfect attendance record. France and the United Kingdom share second place on 68 entries, ahead of Belgium (67), Switzerland (66), and the Netherlands and Sweden tied on 65. Here is the all-time appearance table, with founders' status, modern boycotters and the impact of the 2026 Vienna line-up factored in.

Across 70 contests since 1956, the UK has been runner-up sixteen times — more silver medals than its five wins and three bronzes combined. France is a distant second on six silvers, with Germany on five and four-way tie at four (Russia, Italy, Spain, Israel, Ireland). Israel's 2nd place at Vienna 2026 took it level with the rest of that chasing pack.

70 contests, 26 host countries. The United Kingdom leads the all-time hosting table with 9 stagings — but the UK has only won Eurovision 5 times. The gap is explained by the BBC's role as the EBU's emergency backup host: London, Edinburgh, Brighton, and Liverpool have all hosted contests won by other countries. Ireland and Sweden share second place on 7 hostings each, with the Netherlands and Luxembourg next.

Fifty-two countries have ever competed at the Eurovision Song Contest across its 70-year history. The field grew from 7 founding nations at Lugano 1956 to a record 43 at Belgrade 2008, Düsseldorf 2011 and Lisbon 2018. Vienna 2026's 35-country line-up is the smallest in five years, with Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Iceland and Slovenia boycotting over Israel's participation.