BBC Radio 2 announces the ESC Top 50 winner
UK DJ Ken Bruce has today announced the winner of this year’s BBC Radio 2 ESC Top 50 vote as Abba with the song Waterloo.
As we announced last month, the BBC have been holding a competition to find the Top 50 Eurovision songs of all time.
The Top 20 are:
- ABBA – Waterloo (Sweden, 1974)
- Bucks Fizz – Making Your Mind Up (United Kingdom, 1981)
- Katrina and the Waves – Love Shine a Light (United Kingdom, 1997)
- Brotherhood of Man – Save Your Kisses for Me (United Kingdom, 1976)
- Sandie Shaw – Puppet on a String (United Kingdom, 1967)
- Loreen – Euphoria (Sweden, 2012)
- Conchita Wurst – Rise Like a Phoenix (Austria, 2014)
- Johnny Logan – What’s Another Year (Ireland, 1980)
- Måns Zelmerlöw – Heroes (Sweden, 2015)
- Gina G – Ooh Aah… Just a Little Bit (United Kingdom, 1996)
- Alexander Rybak – Fairytale (Norway, 2009)
- Cliff Richard – Congratulations (United Kingdom, 1968)
- Dana – All Kinds of Everything (Ireland, 1970)
- Lulu – Boom Bang-a-Bang (United Kingdom, 1969)
- Johnny Logan – Hold Me Now (Ireland, 1987)
- Michael Ball – One Step Out of Time (United Kingdom, 1992)
- Lordi – Hard Rock Hallelujah (Finland, 2006)
- Nicole – Ein bißchen Frieden (Germany, 1982)
- Dana International – Diva (Israel, 1998)
- The New Seekers – Beg, Steal or Borrow (United Kingdom, 1972)
You can see Abba’s performance at the 1974 Eurovision below:
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