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No Longer With Us. As of 2012, 51 countries have taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest since it started in 1956, of which 25 have won. We have divided all countries into the following categories:. The “Big Five”. 8211; Automatic finalists. 8211; Founding fathers of the Contest. 8211; The post-1992 debutants. No Longer With Us. 8211; Countries no longer taking part. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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Israel | ESC Pulse
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No Longer With Us. Current Broadcaster –. Best Result –. Winner (1978, 1979, 1998). Highest Score –. Worst Result –. 24th in Semi-final (2007 – 17 points). Israel became the first non-European nation to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973, and have won it three times. They are allowed to participate due to their broadcaster IBA being an EBU member via the country being within the European Broadcasting Area, despite them not being a geographically European nation. The early 80’s saw I...
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Italy | ESC Pulse
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No Longer With Us. Current Broadcaster –. National Final –. Best Result –. Winner (1964, 1990). Highest Score –. Worst Result –. 17th, last (1966 – 0 points). Italy are one of the founding nations from the inaugural 1956 Contest. Since then, the country has competed on and off throughout the years with absences in 1981-82, 1986, 1994-1996, and 1998-2010. They have won Eurovision twice and hosted it twice. The following year they finished 3rd with the song “Era” (performed by Wess and Dori Ghe...1981 saw ...
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Cyprus | ESC Pulse
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No Longer With Us. Current Broadcaster –. Best Result –. 5th (1982, 1997, 2004). Highest Score –. 18th in Semi-final (2011 – 16 points). Cyprus made their Eurovision debut in 1981, and have participated almost every year with exceptions in 1988 (due to their selected song being ineligible), 2001 (due to relegation), and 2014 (due to financial issues). The result of the decade however saw a poor run of results, the low point being in 1986 when they came last with only 4 points. Cyprus did however scor...
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United Kingdom | ESC Pulse
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No Longer With Us. Current Broadcaster –. Best Result –. Winner (1967, 1969*, 1976, 1981, 1997) *Joint winner. Highest Score –. Worst Result –. 26th, last (2003 – 0 points). They intended to take part in the inaugural 1956 Contest but didn’t submit their application to the EBU in time, and since their debut have participated almost every year apart from one occasion in 1958. The UK is also one of the Big Five nations in Eurovision, meaning that they have an automatic place in the Final every year. The 19...
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Luxembourg | ESC Pulse
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No Longer With Us. Best Result –. Winner (1961, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1983). Highest Score –. Worst Result –. 21st (1987 – 4 points). Despite it’s tiny size, Luxembourg are one of the most successful Eurovision nations with five wins in total. They also hosted it four times, only declining to host the 1974 Contest due to being unable to afford hosting a second consecutive contest (the BBC hosted it in Brighton instead). 1950’s and 1960’s. Thankfully for Luxembourg, the ’80s did not start with another l...
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The Old Guard | ESC Pulse
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No Longer With Us. These are the countries that have been around the longest, or more specifically, the countries that have been taking part before the 1992 expansion to the East. Unsurprisingly, they’re mostly Western nations. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. May 13th, 2017.
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Spain | ESC Pulse
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No Longer With Us. Current Broadcaster –. Best Result –. Winner (1968, 1969*) *Joint winner. Highest Score –. Worst Result –. 23rd, last (1999 – 1 point). SSpain have competed in the Eurovision Song Contest every year since their debut in 1961. They have won Eurovision twice and hosted it once in 1969. They traditionally send their Eurovision entries in Spanish, although there have been a couple of occasions in the 2000’s where they sent bilingual Spanish/English songs. In 1969, they were one of the four...
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Finland | ESC Pulse
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No Longer With Us. Current Broadcaster –. National Final –. Best Result –. Highest Score –. 18th in Semi-final (2005 – 50 points). Finland first participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1961, and have taken part almost every year since with the exceptions of 1970 (due to a Nordic boycott of the Contest), 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003 (all due to relegation). They have won the Contest once, but have also come last nine times (three of which scored ‘nul points’). Finland had a mainly middling set o...
