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Introduction to the 2021 Edition
What a relief! The Eurovision Song Contest returned after being cancelled in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and it was wonderful to see it back and in front of fans.
The Netherlands were due to host the 65th Contest in 2020 following Duncan Laurence’s win with “Arcade” and so it was staged this year in Rotterdam’s Ahoy Arena with 3500 fans attending, still limited due to social distancing but a welcome sight nonetheless and the fans generated plenty of noise! It was the Netherlands’ 5th time hosting the event, the last being in 1980. Sadly Duncan was unable to take part in the show on the night, having tested positive for Covid-19, as did a band member from Iceland’s entry which prevented the group from performing live. Despite having to rely on a rehearsal video, Iceland finished an impressive 4th in the Final.
Thirty-nine countries participated, two fewer than in 2019, Bulgaria and Ukraine returned but we lost Hungary, Montenegro, Armenia and Belarus. Armenia withdrew because of continuing unrest following the 2020 war with Azerbaijan and Belarus’s original song was deemed to be too political, supporting the government’s stance over the recent protests in Belarus and even a second attempt breached the rules, so Belarus was disqualified. It wouldn't be Eurovision without a bizarre qualification drama.
Congratulations to rock group Måneskin and to Italy who won Eurovision for the first time since 1990 with “Zitti e buoni”, although it was absent from the contest from 1998 until 2010. This was Italy’s third win overall. It goes to show there’s no predicting what type of song will win.
The “Big 5”’s performance was completely polarised this year. On one hand we had Italy and France finishing in the top two places but Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom finished in the bottom three. None of the bottom three received a single point from the public and nor did hosts Netherlands who finished fourth last. The United Kingdom managed to receive no points from either juries or the public, a feat which was expected to be almost impossible, but at least it was entertainingly awful!
The 2021 Edition of the Complete & Independent Guide is the 13th edition of the book and as usual it’s packed with details of every Contest since 1956 along with plenty of analysis, in 332 pages. We’ve included a section on the cancelled 2020 contest as well, the qualification process and details of all the songs selected for that show but not used.
A few changes this year, the complete voting history now shows just the points awarded by each country and the individual scoreboards for the jury and public voting will now only be included for the current year. The book is expanding by at least 12 pages every year and with these changes we can continue to keep the price at a low level.
Over the last couple of years we have also taken the opportunity to revise our early editions and now we have available second editions of the Guides for 2008, 2009 and 2010, all in gorgeous hardcover as well as paperback. We have been able to include in these updated editions a lot of the analysis we’ve developed in recent years.
Contents
Eurovision Winners since 1956
Section One: The Cancelled 2020 Contest
Qualification for the 2020 Contest
2020 Contest performers, song details
Section Two: Qualification for the 2021 Contest
Section Three: Contest Details & Votes
Contest performers and voting tables: 1950's
Contest performers and voting tables: 1960's
Contest performers and voting tables: 1970's
Contest performers and voting tables: 1980's
Contest performers and voting tables: 1990's
Contest performers and voting tables: 2000's
Contest performers and voting tables : 2010's
2021 First Semi-Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2021 Second Semi-Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2021 Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2021 Final: Voting Order & Spokespersons
Round by Round voting & changes to scoreboard: Jury Voting
Round by Round voting & changes to scoreboard: Public Televoting & combined results
Country-by-Country History
Section Four: Statistics & Analysis
Predicting the Winners, the history of votes for the best song
12 points: comparing Juries with the Public since 2016
Zero points: comparing Juries with the Public since 2016
Jury analysis: how many favoured the winner?
Marcel Bezençon Awards
OGAE poll result
Artist selection basis & which countries kept the same entrant from 2020
Winners' Ages & Genders since 1956
This year's Contestants profile - singers & backing performers
Language history by country
Previous voting sytem: Final results
Population weighted voting
Most Successful Countries League Table
Least Successful Countries League Table
Most Finishes in Top 3
Most Finishes in Bottom 3
Best & worst at qualifying from the semi-finals
Best semi-final to compete in
Most consecutive semi-final failures
Unluckiest semi-finals for each country
When voters change their minds: Semi-final voting compared to Final voting
Performance of the "Big 5"
Winners & losers position in the order of performance since 1975
Running Order analysis, where is best to perform? Previous voting system
Running Order analysis, where is best to perform? New voting System
Double Douze!
Are You Sure? When Juries and the Public Disagree
Highest number of 12's received by one country
Lowest number of 12's received by a winning country
12 Points Go To… maximum points given by Juries since 2016
12 Points Go To… maximum points given by the Public since 2016
Sharing The Love: the concentration of points awarded
The host country's performance since 1975
Nil Points!
Highest scores in finals
Largest & smallest winning margins in Finals
Performance of debutant countries since 1956
League Table of Appearances
Closest voting relationships
Each Country's Best Friends & their 10 year voting history
The most one-sided voting - who doesn't reciprocate?
And countries whose Public have never voted for another since 2016
Jury/Public split of points in finals since 2016
Most Points Received since 1975
East v West - the impact of geographical voting
Bloc voting by juries and the public in the 2021 Final
Complete country-by-country voting analysis since 1975 - who votes for who?
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