From 7th November to 4th December, Eurovision fans around the globe were invited by Belgian website songfestival.be to vote for their favourite songs from the entire 67 year history of the Contest. The results over the 10,000+ voters aired all day on New Year’s Eve on ESC Radio.
When voting opened in November, a leaked update showed Chanel’s SloMo far in the lead of the early voting. There were also allegations that Spanish fans were spamming the voting platform to give Chanel the victory. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we have a new winner this year.
Loreen’s 2012 hit Euphoria had topped the annual fan vote for the last ten consecutive years. Yet it is SloMo by Chanel that has won the 2022 edition of ESC250!
While the full detailed results are not yet available, in the 2021 vote, Loreen won and scored 17,292 points from fans, whereas runner-up Zitti e buoni (2022) got 14,828 points – a difference of 2,464 points! While we wait for the detailed results, the poll’s organizers have teased some interesting statistics about this year’s results.
This year’s biggest gainer from 2021 to 2022 was The Netherlands’ 1978 entry Harmony – “‘t Is O.K.”. Incredibly, this song had 0 points last year (tied for 1,582nd place) rose 1,332 places to 250th in 2022!
Rounding out the Top 10 were:
10. Barbara Pravi – “Voilà” (France 🇫🇷 2021)
9. Diodato – “Fai rumore” (Italy 🇮🇹 2020)
8. Beth – “Dime” (Spain 🇪🇸 2003)
7. Duncan Laurence – “Arcade” (The Netherlands 🇳🇱 2019)
6. Go_A – “Shum” (Ukraine 🇺🇦 2021)
5. Måneskin – “Zitti e buoni” (Italy 🇮🇹 2021)
4. Eleni Fouiera – “Fuego” (Cyprus 🇨🇾 2018)
3. Cornelia Jakobs – “Hold Me Closer” (Sweden 🇸🇪 2022)
2. Loreen – “Euphoria” (Sweden 🇸🇪 2012)
1. Chanel – “SloMo” (Spain 🇪🇸 2022)
Best Entry Per Country:
Albania – 55th – Ronela Hajati – “Sekret” (2022)
Andorra (No entry)
Armenia – 64th – Rosa Linn – “Snap” (2022)
Australia – 38th – Dami Im – “Sound Of Silence” (2016)
Austria 36th – Conchita Wurst – “Rise Like a Phoenix” (2014)
Azerbaijan – 100th – Efendi – “Mata Hari” (2021)
Belarus – 240th – Angelica Agurbash – “Love Me Tonight” (2005)
Belgium – 23rd – Blanche – “City Lights” (2017)
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 73rd – Hari Mata Hari – “Lejla” (2006)
Bulgaria – 56th – Victoria – “Tears Getting Sober” (2020)
Croatia – 90th – Doris – “Maria Magdalena” (1999)
Cyprus – 4th – Eleni Fouiera – “Fuego” (2018)
Czech Republic – 49th – We Are Domi – “Lights Off” (2022)
Denmark – 43rd – Emmelie De Forest – “Only Teardrops” (2013)
Estonia – 29th – Elina Born and Stig Rästa – “Goodbye to Yesterday” (2015)
Finland – 45th – Blind Channel – “Dark Side” (2021)
France – 10th – Barbara Pravi – “Voilà”
Georgia – 101st – Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz – “Midnight Gold” (2016)
Germany – 60th – Lena – “Satellite” (2010)
Greece – 20th – Helena Paparizou – “My Number One” (2005)
Hungary – 94th – AWS – “Viszlát, nyár!” (2018)
Iceland – 32nd – Hatari – “Hatrið mun sigra” (2019)
Ireland – 116th – Brooke – “That’s Rich” (2022)
Israel – 86th – Netta – “Toy” (2017)
Italy – 5th – Måneskin – “Zitti e buoni” (2021)
Latvia – 48th – Aminata – “Love Injected” (2015)
Lithuania – 41st – Monika Liu – “Sentimentai” (2022)
Luxembourg – 89th – France Gall – “Poupée de cire, poupée de son” (1965)
Malta – 109th – Destiny – “Je me casse” (2021)
Moldova – 110th – Zdob și Zdub & Advahov Brothers – Trenulețul (2022)
Monaco (No entry)
Montenegro – 154th – Knez – “Adio” (2015)
Morocco (No entry)
Netherlands – 7th – Duncan Laurence – “Arcade”
North Macedonia – 151st – Kaliopi – “Crno i belo” (2012)
Norway – 13th – KEiiNO – “Spirit In The Sky” (2019)
Poland – 67th – Ochman – “River” (2022)
Portugal – 29th – Maro – “Saudade, saudade” (2022)
Romania – 66th – WRS – “Llámame” (2022)
Russia – 61st – Sergey Lazarev – “You Are My Only One” (2016)
San Marino – 102nd – Senhit – “Adrenalina” (2021)
Serbia – 12th – Konstrakta – “In corpore sano” (2022)
Serbia and Montenegro – 54th – Željko Joksimović and Ad-Hoc Orchestra – “Lane moje” (2004)
Slovakia – 134th – Kristina – “Horehronie” (2010)
Slovenia – 87th – Zala Kralj and Gašper Šantl – “Sebi” (2019)
Spain – 1st – Chanel – “SloMo” (2022)
Sweden – 2nd – Loreen – “Euphoria” (2012)
Switzerland – 19th – Gjon’s Tears – “Tout l’univers” (2021)
Turkey – 34th – Manga – “We Could Be the Same” (2010)
Ukraine – 6th – Go_A – “Shum” (2021)
United Kingdom – 14th – Sam Ryder – “Space Man” (2022)
Yugoslavia – 119th – Tajci – “Hajde da ludujemo” (1990)
And for even more facts and figures about this year’s ESC Top 250, check out their website.
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