Eurovision Song Contest 2017

It is a big day for European music lovers. Today, we have the Eurovision Song Contest final which is being held in Kiev, Ukraine. 26 songs qualified in the final.

History

The first contest took place in May 1956 in Lugano, Switzerland, with seven nations participating to the competition. The idea of this contest belongs to Sergio Pugliese, of Italian television RAI.

Official Eurovision logo for 2017

Rules

Each song must have a maximum 3 minutes in length. Due to the short break between the songs, there is not enough time to wire the instruments, hence they are allowed to have a backing tape with no voice on it. The singing must be done live.

The winner is selected by a positional voting system. Currently, each country awards two sets of points to their 10 favorite songs: one from their professional jury and one from televoting. The notes are from 12, 10, 8-1 points. One important aspect is that they cannot vote for their own country.

Each year, the competition is held in the country that one the previous edition of Eurovision.

Here are the 2017 finalists and the running order:

• Israel
  

• Poland
  

Belarus

Austria

Armenia

The Netherlands

Moldova

Hungary

Italy

Denmark

Portugal

Azerbaijan

Croatia

Australia

Greece

Spain

Norway

United Kingdom

Cyprus

Romania

Germany

Ukraine

Belgium

Sweden

Bulgaria

France

My top three: Greece, Denmark and Israel

Which one is your favorite?

Thanks for reading! May the best performance win!

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