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Did You Know? | August 2023

This page is an archive and should not be edited away from its current state, except to update overall page design. 1 August In 2015, the Eurovision Song Contest was recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the Longest Running Annual TV Music Competition. 5 August The song ‘Corde Della Mia Chitarra’ from Italy in1957, is the longest Eurovision song on record at five minutes and nine seconds, released before the 3 minute rule. 6 August Since Eurovision 2016 the winner of a tie is the country that received more points from the televoting, then the country that received points from more countries in the televoting, then the country that received more 12 points in the televoting, then 10 points, all the way down to 1. If the tie cannot be broken in this way, the country that performed earlier wins the tie. Used most recently in 2023, as both Romania and San Marino scored 0 points in the second semifinal, but Romania is deemed to have placed 15th, as they performed earlier in the running order. 8 August Over 1,500 songs have taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest (not including the 7 songs that didn’t make it in the 1996 pre-qualification round). In 2006, Ireland’s Brian Kennedy delivered the 1,000th entry to the contest, appropriately titled Every Song is a Cry for Love. If you would listen to all the songs without a break, you would be sitting up for nearly 72 hours. 10 August Germany is the only country to have competed in every single Eurovision Song Contest ever held. However, Germany has only won the contest 2 times, in 1982 and 2010. This DYK was incorrect, as the source, www.funfactsabout.com, was later found to have been wrong about this, as Germany did not compete in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest. 12 August The 37 entries of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 were streamed a total of 808 million times, as of 24 June 2023. Five of them ( Sweden , Finland , Israel , Norway and Italy ) managed to enter, between May 12 and 18, the Billboard Global Charts of the United States. 15 August Natalia Gordienko, who represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, holds the record for the longest continuous note in Eurovision at 17 seconds. 16 August The largest number of nations to take part was 43 in 2008, 2011 and 2018 17 August The most covered Eurovision Song Contest song is Domenico Modugno's 'Nel blu, dipinto di blu (song)', also known as 'Volare'. The song has been covered by famous stars such as Dean Martin, Cliff Richard, David Bowie and many more. 18 August Even though the Eurovision Song Contest took place 64 times, it has 67 winners. In the 1969 contest, 4 countries topped the scoreboard with an equal amount of points; the United Kingdom, Spain, Netherlands and France. Lacking rules to resolve tie situations, the EBU had to declare all 4 contestants as the winner. 19 August As Andorra debuted in 2004, it now holds the record for being the only participating country never to have appeared at a Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final. 20 August Gustaph has a Master of Music degree and teaches pop music, including songwriting, technical vocals, and ensemble. 21 August Portugal in 1964 and Lithuania in 1994 are the only countries to score “Nul Points” on their debut. 22 August Marcel Bezencon and Sergio Pugliese developed the idea of Eurovision in an effort to unite European countries through television broadcasts that would be beamed into people’s homes across the continent. The Second World War had ended a decade before, and European unity was increasingly becoming a focus. Eurovision was a chance to bring people together, but it also allowed organisers to put international broadcast technology to the test. References This page was last edited or modified by Gonnym (talk) on 2023-11-26.