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This is an instalment of the A Song for Everyone series.

In our most recent post, we got to see the most popular and least popular Eurovision entries as indicated by fans. But with the large amount of data we have, the project does not stop there.

Here’s a reminder of the format of the project:

We launched A Song for Everyone, a project in which we aimed to find out whether every single Eurovision entry in history has its fans. To achieve this, we opened a form that listed every single Eurovision entry (including entries from 1993, 1996, and 2020 that never saw the ESC stage). Respondents were asked to select each entry that they liked. Unlike other projects that aim to measure the popularity of entries, a points system was not in place and respondents were free to select as many entries as they wanted.

Below, we will look at what the most-liked songs from each year are, as voted by the 56 participants in the project.

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Last month, we launched A Song for Everyone, a project in which we aimed to find out whether every single Eurovision entry in history has its fans. To achieve this, we opened a form that listed every single Eurovision entry (including entries from 1993, 1996, and 2020 that never saw the ESC stage). Respondents were asked to select each entry that they liked. Unlike other projects that aim to measure the popularity of entries, a points system was not in place and respondents were free to select as many entries as they wanted.

By the time the form closed on December 12th, we received 56 respondents. In the weeks that passed, we took the time to look at the data. We will share our findings over the course of a few articles, since there is so much data. Consider this the first article of the series.

After 56 respondents, we have found a fan for every single Eurovision entry… except for two. We also found that some entries get much more love than others, and we will look at that below.

Anyway, here are the results.

Continue reading “A Song for Everyone: Which songs have the most fans? Which songs have no fans?”

Recently, I saw someone ask whether there was a Eurovision entry that is genuinely disliked by everyone within the Eurovision community. Some people put forth suggestions, but others came out to say that they, in fact, liked those entries.

When you think of it, in order to make it to the contest in the first place, a broadcaster needs to approve of the song before giving it the ticket. That is the bare minimum, particularly in the case of an internal selection. When a national final is held, the national final organisers need to approve of the song, and then voters decide that it is qualified. Thus, it might be hard to imagine that such a song exists.

Yet at the same time, there are many songs that don’t seem to get much love within ESC fan circles. They are hardly ever talked about, and often fail to score any votes in the annual ESC250 countdown.

So here’s a project that asks an inverse question: Is every Eurovision entry liked by at least one person?

Continue reading “Is there a Eurovision song that no one likes? Introducing: A Song for Everyone”