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:

  1. ABBA – Waterloo (Sweden, 1974)
  2. Bucks Fizz – Making Your Mind Up (United Kingdom, 1981)
  3. Katrina and the Waves – Love Shine a Light (United Kingdom, 1997)
  4. Brotherhood of Man – Save Your Kisses for Me (United Kingdom, 1976)
  5. Sandie Shaw – Puppet on a String (United Kingdom, 1967)
  6. Loreen – Euphoria (Sweden, 2012)
  7. Conchita Wurst – Rise Like a Phoenix (Austria, 2014)
  8. Johnny Logan – What’s Another Year (Ireland, 1980)
  9. Måns Zelmerlöw – Heroes (Sweden, 2015)
  10. Gina G – Ooh Aah… Just a Little Bit (United Kingdom, 1996)
  11. Alexander Rybak – Fairytale (Norway, 2009)
  12. Cliff Richard – Congratulations (United Kingdom, 1968)
  13. Dana – All Kinds of Everything (Ireland, 1970)
  14. Lulu – Boom Bang-a-Bang (United Kingdom, 1969)
  15. Johnny Logan – Hold Me Now (Ireland, 1987)
  16. Michael Ball – One Step Out of Time (United Kingdom, 1992)
  17. Lordi – Hard Rock Hallelujah (Finland, 2006)
  18. Nicole – Ein bißchen Frieden (Germany, 1982)
  19. Dana International – Diva (Israel, 1998)
  20. 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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