Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest is the official YouTube channel of the contest of the same name. It is a channel where official Eurovision material is posted, including official music videos of the songs as well as non-music videos featuring artists performing at the contest. It's run by the EBU (European Broadcasting Union).
==History ==
The Eurovision Song Contest is a contest held in countries of the EBU. The first Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland, in 1956, and since then, the contest has been held annually every spring (mostly in May, although historically the contest was also held in March or April). The host country is traditionally the winner of the previous song contest, although there have been a few exceptions. Each contest has one winner, except the 1969 contest, which had four winners due to the lack of a rule for what to do when there is a tie for first place.
In 2020, the Eurovision Song Contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the planned date of the Grand Final, an event called Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light was held instead, featuring short clips of each of the 41 planned entries, as well as many guest appearances.
===Winners===
*Compilation of all winners until 2024 by SchlagerLucas
*1956: Switzerland
*1957: Netherlands
*1958: France
*1959: Netherlands
*1960: France
*1961: Luxembourg
*1962: France
*1963: Denmark
*1964: Italy
*1965: Luxembourg
*1966: Austria
*1967: United Kingdom
*1968: Spain
*1969: Netherlands
*1969: Spain
*1969: United Kingdom
*1969: France
*1970: Ireland
*1971: Monaco
*1972: Luxembourg
*1973: Luxembourg
*1974: Sweden
*1975: Netherlands
*1976: United Kingdom
*1977: France
*1978: Israel
*1979: Israel
*1980: Ireland
*1981: United Kingdom
*1982: Germany
*1983: Luxembourg
*1984: Sweden
*1985: Norway
*1986: Belgium
*1987: Ireland
*1988: Switzerland
*1989: Yugoslavia
*1990: Italy
*1991: Sweden
*1992: Ireland
*1993: Ireland
*1994: Ireland
*1995: Norway
*1996: Ireland
*1997: United Kingdom
*1998: Israel
*1999: Sweden
*2000: Denmark
*2001: Estonia
*2002: Latvia
*2003: Turkey
*2004: Ukraine
*2005: Greece
*2006: Finland
*2007: Serbia
*2008: Russia
*2009: Norway
*2010: Germany
*2011: Azerbaijan
*2012: Sweden
*2013: Denmark
*2014: Austria
*2015: Sweden
*2016: Ukraine
*2017: Portugal
*2018: Israel
*2019: Netherlands
*2020: No winner (cancelled)
*2021: Italy
*2022: Ukraine
*2023: Sweden
*2024: Switzerland
==YouTube Channel ==
The Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel was created on March 5, 2006, and since 2007, it has been a source of Eurovision Song Contest material. Performances from the contest are uploaded to the channel.
==Subscriber Milestones==
==Trivia ==
*The channel has a spike in subscribers and views every May as that is the month when the Eurovision Song Contest is held every year.
**There is also a smaller spike in March, when the official music videos for Eurovision songs are released.
*You have to be over 16 years old on the day of the final in order to participate.
**Sandra Kim won the contest in 1986 at the age of only 13, before the rule regarding the participants' age was set in place in 1990. She had lied about her age in her song. The Swiss delegation petitioned for Belgium to be disqualified prior to the contest, a move which was denied.
*The 2016 voting results have more dislikes than likes due to some people disagreeing with the results.
*Israel is the only country to win an edition of Eurovision and then not participate the following year. Israel won in 1979, but withdrew from the 1980 contest due to financial reasons.
* Johnny Logan and Loreen are the only people to even win Eurovision twice as singers. Johnny Logan in 1980 with What's Another Year and Hold Me Now in 1987, both times representing Ireland. And Loreen won in 2012 with Euphoria and Tattoo in 2023, both representing Sweden.
*Ireland and Sweden are tied for the record for most Eurovision wins, 7. Ireland is also the only country to ever win the contest 3 times in a row, in 1992, '93 and '94.
*The Epic Sax Guy meme originates from Moldova's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, Run Away by Sunstroke Project feat. Olia Tira. It is the second meme from Moldovan music, with the first being Dragostea Din Teihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnopHCL1Jk8
*The rockefeller street meme originates from Estonia's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 Rockefeller street by Getter Jaani.
*1980 marks the only year Morocco has competed in Eurovision, they finished 18th out of 19 countries. They withdrew in 1981 due to their poor result.
**Tunisia and Lebanon both planned to enter, but withdrew due to the participation of Israel. Tunisia tried to participate 1977, however, due to the fact that Israel participated, the decided to withdraw. Lebanon tried to participated in 2005, but decided against a participation because of the law in the country that forbids Israeli content on the national Lebanese television. If Lebanon were to compete, the Israeli entry would've been cut out of their broadcast. As this is against the rules of the ESC, Lebanon had to withdraw. 
* Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Egypt and Libya are all eligible to compete in Eurovision.
*Jordan's national broadcaster broadcasted the 1978 contest, but when it became clear that Israel would win, the broadcast was cut short and the national tv shortly after announced that Belgium (which placed second) had won. This confused a lot of Israeli viewers that had watched the contest via the Jordanian channel.
*In 2009, Azerbaijan scrambled its transmission during the performance of the Armenian song, and blurred the voting number for Armenia. Subsequently after the show, Azerbaijani authorities questioned several people that had voted for Armenia in the contest's final.
*Serbia is the only country to win with its debut entry in 2007.
*Australia was invited to compete in 2015 to celebrate Eurovision's 60th edition, due to it having the biggest audience of Eurovision outside of the competing countries up until that point. It was meant to be a one time participation, but Australia has received an invite every year since.
*Eurovision 2020 is the only contest to have been cancelled so far, due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic. 2021 contest is rescheduled to take place in the same city and venue as 2020, Ahoy Area in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
*Russia's entry for the 2020 contest, Uno by the group Little Big, is the most watched video on the channel.
*The controversial Belarusian song "Ya Nauchu Tebya" (which can be considered a diss track on the Belarus Protests) originally would have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.
*Despite not being the country with the most victories, the United Kingdom has hosted the contest more times than any other country. In addition to the four times they hosted following victories, they also hosted the contest in 1960, 1963, 1972, 1974 and 2023, due to the previous winners being unable or unwilling to host.
*Hungary's 2010 entry was the most played song in Hungary in the 2010s decade.
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