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Interesting Facts about Eurovision Song Contest

Julio Iglesias denies that he ever participated in Eurovision. As a matter of fact he did in 1970 with a song that we had hoped to have erased from our collective memory by now. (Its called Gwendolyne, and he didn't win.) 

In the 1999 Eurovision, Croatia's song was reduced by 33% by the EBU because the male back-up voices were not on stage, but the sound synthesized. The song was "Maria Magdalena.

The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the most-watched single events in the world.  For the 2001 contest, about  95 percent of the Danish viewing public tuned in to watch - making it the highest percentage in Europe. There are no figures for the total viewing audience in the early years, but during the last few years, the total world viewing ratings are estimated by the EBU as being between 400 and 600 million. The largest single audience with 75 million tuning in was in the former Soviet Union











Every day until May 8 I will be posting a music video of each one of the semi-finalists of the Eurovision Song Contest. On May 9, I will post the last three (my top favorites). Enjoy the videos!