Espression Macchiato is clearly a novelty song. We know it's novelty as a fact, because it sounds like a lot of Iz's entries to BJSC. It was a huge hit with voters, being the REAL telvote winner (probably so without the Israeli vote campgin, too). Is it possible it could have won the whole competition without the Israeli manipulation of the vote? Maybe! Perhaps likely... It is also one of the most successful third entries in the song's history, and, if it had gone second, it would literally have been the biggest second in the running order song OF ALL TIME in Eurovision.

Would you say it is the biggest ever Eurovision novelty song/ most successful early running order song? I would say yes. I can't think of any that ever did as well as Espresso Macchiato. Ironically, bada Bada Bastu, another novelty song, was the bookies' favourite tis year, too, but ended up being overshadowed by ANOTHER, overlooked novelty bop. That to me is classic novelty chaos!

“Hard Rock Hallelujah” is surely the biggest and best remembered, in the context of the competition anyway.

I would say Dancing Lasha Tumbai was bigger

8 hours ago, May Day Pole Dancer said:

We know it's novelty as a fact, because it sounds like a lot of Iz's entries to BJSC.

Not withstanding my recent slight lean towards humorous songs in BJSC, it was one of my least favourites this year. Explain that.

also no, 'Dancing Lasha Tumbai' is the most classic one, Lordi if you count that but the song itself is just power metal, and it's only the costumes that are humorous.

Babushki, Verka are bigger (and better).

11 hours ago, pavi said:

Babushki, Verka are bigger (and better).

True, but it didn't come as close to winning.

Lordi is a good shout, but that's more gimmick than novelty.

Verka charted higher (even in the pre-Spotify and early-ish download days of 2007) and seems widely remembered by both fans and casuals alike almost 20 years later, so nah, I’d say Verka was bigger than Tommy.

Verka definitly in my opinion made far more of a splash and was a hugely talked about entry.

This was legit one of my top 10 of the night, what's with all the hate on here? You all need to destresso x

21 hours ago, May Day Pole Dancer said:

True, but it didn't come as close to winning.

Lordi is a good shout, but that's more gimmick than novelty.

Both literally finished second, a whole place closer to winning than Cash did

LT United - 'We Are The Winners of Eurovision' was talked about a lot at the time too I remember!

3 hours ago, Silas said:

Both literally finished second, a whole place closer to winning than Cash did

Well, it was only a POINT off, and that's with it being a TOTALLY illegitimate vote anyway. It really finished second. Besides, without the Israeli campaign, there's a strong argument that Espresso would have won the entire competition. So it came much closer really. Those other two simply missed out. Espresso might have had the win stolen by politics.