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Introduction to the 2015 Edition
Austria hosted Eurovision this year with the organisers staging the 60th Contest in the Wiener Stadthalle, in front of an audience of over 16,000 and an estimated record-breaking 197 million television viewers. Broadcaster ORF chose Mirjam Weichselbraun, Alice Tumler and Arabella Kiebauer to present the shows, while last year’s winner Conchita Wurst mingled in the green room. It was the first time Austria had hosted the contest since 1967.
Forty countries participated, three more than last year, with Australia making a guest appearance to celebrate the 60th anniversary, qualifying directly for the Final and voting in both semi-finals. We welcomed back Cyprus and Serbia after a short break and the Czech Republic, after missing the previous five Contests. Sadly we lost Ukraine, an ever-present in the Final since their first entry in 2003, who withdrew due to financial and political reasons around the Ukrainian crisis.
Congratulations to Måns Zelmerlöw and to Sweden who won Eurovision for the second time in three years. This win moves Sweden into clear second place in the list of most successful Eurovision participants, with six victories, all the more impressive considering two have been this century and under the current voting system. “Heroes” gained 14 out a possible 20 twelve points in the semi-final. Indeed, Sweden has by far the highest number of 12 points in Finals, being given 111 maximums since 1975. Russia were runners-up but have the honour of receiving the highest score without winning the final and the first to score over 300 points without winning.
2015 was notable in that it was the first time that the winners of the public vote did not finish first. Without the jury’s influence, Italy would have won the Contest and Sweden would have finished only third. Despite putting on a spectacular show, Austria failed to gain a single point, the first time a host has suffered the dreaded “nul points”. Still, Germany also scored zero, and thanks to the tie-breaker rules, Austria managed to avoid finishing last. And a special mention for Greece and Cyprus who startled everyone watching the voting process by not giving each other 12 points. The meagre eight points Cyprus awarded Greece in the Final was the first time they failed to give 12 to Greece since 1996.
Yet again, there were abject performances this year from most of the Big 5, with Italy excepted. The UK, France, Germany and Spain averaged just 6 points each this year, more dismal even than last year. Italy’s third place was the best by one of the Big 5 (or previously the Big 4), since automatically qualification started in 2004.
Contents
Eurovision Winners since 1956
Section One: Qualifying for the 2015 Contest
Section Two: 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
2015 First Semi-Final performers and results
2015 Second Semi-Final performers and results
2015 Final performers and results
2015 Final: Voting Order and Spokespersons
Public/jury split votes comparison
Round by Round voting and changes to scoreboard
Country-by-Country History
Section Three: Statistics & Analysis
Predicting the Winners, the history of votes for the best song
Predicting the Winners, who gives the most 12's and who gives nothing
Winners' Ages & Genders since 1956
2015 Contestants profile - singers & backing performers
5 Year Language history by country
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
Performance of debutant countries since 1956
Running Order analysis, where is best to perform?
Winners & losers position in the order of performance since 1975
12 Points Go To… a 10 year history by country
Highest number of 12's received by one country
Lowest number of 12's received by a winning country
Nil Points
Performance of the "Big 5"
The host country's performance since 1975
Highest scores in finals
Nul Points!
Largest and smallest winning margins
Average points scored, the difference to the final table
Closest voting relationships
The most one-sided voting - who doesn't reciprocate?
And countries who have never voted for another
The least friendly pairs of countries
Complete country-by-country voting analysis since 1975 - who votes for who?
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