Eurovision is heading to the third decade of the 21st century and it has clearly changed not only in comparison with the past, but also with the recent years. In this article we investigate how countries scored during the first 2 years of the 20s, as well as their average score.
As you can see below, we cannot identify a group of 5-6 performing performing always well, as it used to happen the last years. Only a few countries are consistently doing well, despite the fact that the scores studied are only of the last 2 years. Tougher competition, the success of the contest on social media (TikTok had a business partnership with the contest this year featuring exclusive clips of the first rehearsals on the platform), as well as the high interest by record labels are only some of the reasons why it is harder to perform consistently well, since entries are of higher lever than the past.
Lets see in detail the average score of the countries during this decade:
Country 2022 2021 Average
- Ukraine 1 5 3
- Italy 6 1 3,5
- Greece 8 10 9
- Sweden 4 14 9
- Russia – 9 9
- Switzerland 17 3 10
- Moldova 7 13 10
- Serbia 5 15 10
- Portugal 9 12 10.5
- Lithuania 14 8 11
- France 24 2 13
- Spain 3 24 13.5
- Iceland 23 4 13.5
- Finland 21 6 13.5
- United Kingdom 2 26 14
- Norway 10 18 14
- The Netherlands 11 23 17
- Azerbaijan 16 20 18
- Belgium 19 19 19
- Armenia 20 – 20
- Malta 35 7 21
- Estonia 13 31 22
- Poland 12 33 22.5
- Cyprus 29 16 22.5
- Romania 18 28 23
- Israel 30 17 23.5
- Albania 28 21 24.5
- Australia 15 34 24.5
- Bulgaria 38 11 24.5
- Germany 25 25 25
- Croatia 26 27 26.5
- St. Marino 33 22 27.5
- Czech Republic 22 36 29
- Denmark 31 29 30
- North Macedonia 27 35 31
- Austria 36 30 33
- Ireland 34 37 35.5
- Latvia 32 39 35.5
- Slovenia 40 32 36
- Montenegro 37 – 37
- Georgia 39 38 38.5
As you can see in the table above, there are very few countries where the average of their positions in these two years is below 10. This proves how difficult it has become to be in the top ten. It is even more difficult to have continuous results within top 10, since only three countries have achieved this, Ukraine, Italy and Greece!
It is evident that Italy and Ukraine are the two powerhouses of the competition for this decade (so far). Sweden remains high on the list, but far from the first place it was in the last decade. Greece is recovering dynamically since it is in third place, when in the previous decade it was out of the 20s. Cyprus gets lower scores year by year, unfortunately making us believe that 2018 was just a coincidence and is currently in 24th place!
Regardless of personal taste and opinions, the numbers speak themselves and is clear that Ukraine, Italy and Greece are doing great during this decade. The new strategy of the management of ERT to chose the artist and the song internally, is proven to be successful, after years of bad results and 2 NQ (2016,2018).
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