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Throwback

the contest before this one

Eurovision history, revisited. Legendary entries, forgotten disasters, and the results that still decide arguments decades later.

Rooftops of central Madrid, the 1969 host city Throwback Fact-checked

1969: the year Eurovision had four winners

Four countries, 18 points each, no tie-break rule, and a row in the archive that still refuses to add up.

Måneskin, winners of Eurovision 2021 Fact-checked

Every Eurovision winner of the 2020s so far

One contest that never happened, then six winners in six years, the last of them Bulgaria.

The Rila Monastery Fact-checked

Bulgaria at Eurovision: from eleven failures to hosting

Bulgaria missed the final in its first eleven attempts. Then it finished second, and then it won.

ABBA's Waterloo trade advert in Cash Box magazine, 1974 Fact-checked

Waterloo, 1974: the three minutes that changed Eurovision

ABBA won in Brighton, and every entry since has been quietly measured against what happened next.