• aussievision
    • Jan 1, 2018
    • 2 min read

Euphoria wins ESC250 for sixth year running

Each year fans around the world vote on the Top 250 Eurovision songs of all time. The results came in over night and for the sixth year running Euphoria was the winner! The top 20 below:

1. Loreen - Euphoria (Sweden) 2. Salvador Sobral - Amar Pelos Dois (Portugal) 3. 1944 - Jamala (Ukraine) 4. Grande Amore - Il Volo (Italy) 5. City Lights - Blanche (Belgium) 6. Everyway That I Can - Sertab Erener (Turkey) 7. Heroes - Mans Zelmerlow (Sweden) 8. Quedate conmigo - Pastora Soler (Spain) 9. Occidentali's Karma - Francesco Gabbani (Italy) 10. Rhythm Inside - Loic Nottet (Belgium) 11. You Are the Only One - Sergey Lazarev (Russia) 12. Calm After the Storm - The Common Linnets (Netherlands) 13. Rise Like a Phoenix - Conchita Wurst (Austria) 14. Molitva - Marija Serifovic (Serbia) 15. Fairtyale - Alexander Rybak (Norway) 16. We Could Be the Same - maNga (Turkey) 17. If Love Was a Crime - Poli Genova (Bulgaria) 18. Goodbye to Yesterday - Elina Born and Stig Rasta (Estonia) 19. Waterloo - ABBA (Sweden) 20. My Number One - Helen Paparizou (Greece)

Dami Im with 'Sound of Silence' came in at 30, 'Tonight Again' 178, 'Ooh aah.. Just a Litte Bit' 182 but 'Don't Come Easy' failed to make the list.

See the full top 250 here

We can also look at some interesting breakdowns....

Most Successful Nations

(Australia not to scale!)

Italy was the nation with the most amount of songs on 14, closely followed by Sweden with 13 and Israel on 12.

  • Italy -14

  • Sweden -13

  • Israel - 12

  • Spain - 10

  • Turkey - 9

  • Azerbaijan - 8

  • Belgium - 8

  • Netherlands - 8

  • Norway - 8

  • France - 7

  • Germany - 7

  • Greece - 7

  • Iceland -7

  • Poland - 7

  • UK - 7

  • Estonia - 6

  • Finland - 6

  • Portugal - 6

  • Serbia - 6

  • Ukraine - 6

  • Armenia - 5

  • Hungary - 5

  • Russia - 5

  • Croatia - 4

  • Denmark - 4

  • Ireland - 4

  • Latvia - 4

  • Luxembourg - 4

  • FYR Macedonia - 4

  • Romania - 4

  • Slovenia - 4

  • Switzerland - 4

  • Albania - 3

  • Austria - 3

  • Bosnia - 3

  • Georgia - 3

  • Australia - 2

  • Belarus - 2

  • Bulgaria - 2

  • Cyprus - 2

  • Malta - 2

  • Moldova - 2

  • Monaco - 2

  • Montenegro - 2

  • Slovakia - 2

  • Yugoslavia - 2

  • Czech Republic - 1

  • Lithuania - 1

  • Serbian & Montenegro - 1

  • San Marino - 1

Most Successful Years

ESC250 does advantage recent years but we can still pull out some interesting data.

From the 2010s the most number of songs were:

  • 2017 - 28

  • 2016 - 26

  • 2015 - 20

  • 2013 - 16

  • 2012 - 12

  • 2014 - 11

  • 2011 - 11

  • 2010 - 10

In the 2000s

  • 2008 - 11

  • 2010 - 10

  • 2009 - 8

  • 2006 - 8

  • 2007 - 6

  • 2005 - 5

  • 2003 - 4

  • 2004 - 3

  • 2000 - 3

  • 2001 - 2

  • 2002 - 0

Best of the Rest

The best in each decade were:

  • 1996 - 8

  • 1987 - 6

  • 1975 - 5

  • 1969 - 2