Friday 25 April 2014

Eurovision Song Contest



Eurovision Song Contest is an annual song competition between the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union since 1956.

European Broadcasting Union is the principal world alliance of public media services, compraising more than 140 members between the acitves and the associates ones in almost all continents of the world.

Each member country chooses a song to be performed by an artist on live television and radio. Then, after all the actions, the countries vote to decide which song is the best.

Some artists who have participated in Eurovision have become very famous and popular, such as ABBA (1974), Julio Iglesias (1970), Céline Dion (1988)...

Ireland is the country which has won the contest more times, seven times to be more exact. France, Luxembourg, UK and Sweden have won the contest five times each other and the Netherlands has won it four times.
The country that has participated the longest without any winner is Portugal, which it debut in 1964 and has never finished in the top five.


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