Estonia's entry to Eurovision 2024 in Malmö — a collaboration between Estonian hip-hop group 5miinust and traditional-music duo Puuluup — carried the longest title in Eurovision Song Contest history. Written as (nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi, the title runs 55 characters including the parenthetical brackets, spaces and accented vowels. Translated from Estonian: "We know nothing about (these) drugs".
The translation. The parentheticals are not decorative; they're grammatically necessary in Estonian. The deepest reading of the full title is roughly: "about (those) drugs (in question) — we (certainly) know nothing." The song is a satirical track about the gap between official anti-drug messaging and how young Estonians actually talk about narcotics. The composition pairs 5miinust's rap delivery with Puuluup's traditional Estonian Hiiu kannel (a small lyre-like string instrument).
How the EBU registry handles long titles. Eurovision uses a single canonical title per entry on its official registry. The Estonia 2024 entry's registered title is the full 55-character version with parentheses. On-screen graphics at the Malmö Arena rendered the title across two lines. The title's length pushed the EBU's overlay graphics design system to its 60-character limit — by 2025 the EBU had increased the on-screen title cap to 80 characters specifically because of the Estonia 2024 precedent.
The short-title cluster. The shortest competitive Eurovision titles are clustered around single-word entries: Tattoo (Sweden 2023, 6), Refrain (Switzerland 1956, 7), Waterloo (Sweden 1974, 8), Toy (Israel 2018, 3), Hard Rock Hallelujah (Finland 2006, 19 including space). The 3-character record (Toy) was held until 2022 when nobody surpassed it. As of Vienna 2026, no entry has gone below 3 characters.
Vienna 2026 title lengths. The 25 Grand Final entries averaged 12 characters in length. Bulgaria's winning Bangaranga ran 10 characters; the longest 2026 entry was Romania's Choke Me (8) — actually below average. The Estonia 2024 record is comfortably safe through Sofia 2027 unless a parenthetical entry is submitted again.