With such acts as Carola, Abba and loads more...Sweden hardly ever fail to make the top 10 of the Eurovision, infact they've come 5th in 4 of the last 6 contests (Friends, Fame, Lena Philipsson, Carola)

 

Abba is the most successful winning act of all time and its a rare year when they bring anything worse than an excellent europop song...

 

Apart from The UK and Ireland, surely this is the biggest ever country in the contest, and it certainly holds up well...All the other countries nowadays seem to be one year wonders...if Finland, Russia or Bosnia come in the top 5 next year I'll be surprised...but I'm sure that Sweden will be in the top 10 with an excellent pop song :cheer: :wub:

Ireland is a 'non-big 4' country and of course russia is quite a large country if you are just going by land mass :lol:

Ireland were big with the wins but how often did they come in the top 5 when they didn't win?

Swedish Eurovision voters certainly find the songs that represents the nation perfectly. I think Sweden has gained trademark for pure pop heaven over the years they have participated in Eurovision. Of course they have made some mistakes, like last year, when Nanne Grönwall and Håll om mig could have made it to the very top.

 

As a finnish person, i`d love Finland to find the similar enthusiam toward Eurovision Song Contest. This year`s win was purely coincidental, just right time and right place. Finnish people are dark and gloomy, so Lordi represents us very well. It will be nice to see if we establish the similar kind of rock pop next year a la Rasmus, Nightwish, Apocalyptica, HIM and others.

Oh Rasmus :-0 I forgot about them

 

I was trying to think of crossover Finnish acts and I came up with

 

Him

Darude

Lordi

Bomfunk MC's

Of course they have made some mistakes, like last year, when Nanne Grönwall and Håll om mig could have made it to the very top.

 

God, I ADORE that song :wub: With the exception of last year, Sweden are usually brilliant entries as they really put a lot of work into picking the songs :cheer:

 

Swedish Eurovision voters certainly find the songs that represents the nation perfectly.

 

is that miserable, depressed and grim :lol: :lol:

 

next years Sweden eurovision entry is here:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/The_Seventh_Seal_poster.png

Wasn't it great she got no 12's and still did so well :cheer:

I know I was shocked she only got seven from Finland though! She got a few 12s in the semi though I think didn't she?

 

My fave Eurovision song this year though :wub:

Ireland were big with the wins but how often did they come in the top 5 when they didn't win?

Quite a few...

 

 

COUNTRY 1ST PLACE 2ND PLACE 3RD PLACE 4TH PLACE 5TH PLACE TOTAL

United Kingdom 5 15 2 6 - 268 points

France 5 4 6 6 2 202 points

Ireland 7 4 1 3 3 171 points

Germany 1 4 5 3 3 131 points

Sweden 4 1 4 2 4 128 points

Switzerland 2 3 3 5 2 125 points

Luxembourg 5 - 2 5 1 117 points

Italy 2 1 4 2 3 98 points

Spain 2 4 1 2 1 92 points

Israel 3 2 1 2 2 90 points

Denmark 2 1 3 1 3 83 points

The Netherlands 4 - 1 2 2 82 points

Monaco 1 1 2 4 2 78 points

Norway 2 1 1 2 2 68 points

Belgium 1 2 - 2 2 58 points

Austria 1 - - 1 4 43 points

Malta - 2 2 - 1 42 points

Greece 1 - 2 - 2 40 points

Estonia 1 - 1 1 1 33 points

Yugoslavia 1 - - 3 - 33 points

Russia - 2 1 - - 28 points

Turkey 1 - 1 1 - 27 points

Latvia 1 - 1 - 1 26 points

Croatia - - - 2 1 20 points

Cyprus - - - - 3 18 points

Iceland - 1 - 1 - 17 points

Romania - - 1 1 - 15 points

Ukraine 1 - - - - 12 points

Finland 1 - - - - 12 points

Poland - 1 - - - 10 points

Serbia & Mont - 1 - - - 10 points

Bosnia and Herz - - 1 - - 8 points

Hungary - - - 1 - 7 points

Oh God I hope you aren't doing every one seperately :lol: it doesn't matter if it's taking too long!

Oh God I hope you aren't doing every one seperately :lol: it doesn't matter if it's taking too long!

Took a while but it's done. One problem it the original wasn't formatted.

Took a while but it's done. One problem it the original wasn't formatted.

Thanks a bunch Ricky ;) :cheer:

That table shows how much the contest has changed now...UK, France and Germany in the top 4 of all time and where now-nowhere...