Our 2022 Eurovision Yearbook is now available!

We are pleased to announce that the 2022 edition of our annual Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest is now available! We have squeezed thousands of statistics and records into over 330 pages in both large format paperback and gorgeous hardcover. It will be available to buy on Amazon and other online retailers sites in around a month but the books can be bought at a discount direct from us right now.




So what does the Eurovision Yearbook 2022 contain?

Contents

Eurovision Winners since 1956

Section One: Qualifying for the 2022 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
Contest performers and voting tables : 2020's
2022 First Semi-Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2022 Second Semi-Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2022 Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2022 Final: Voting Order & Spokespersons
Round by Round voting & changes to scoreboard: Jury Voting
Round by Round voting & changes to scoreboard: Public Televoting & combined results
Previous voting sytem: First Semi-Final results
Previous voting sytem: Second Semi-Final results
Previous voting sytem: Final results
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
Marcel Bezençon Awards
OGAE poll result
Internal selection or national competition
Winners' Ages & Genders since 1956
2019 Contestants profile - singers & backing performers
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
Unluckiest semi-finals for each country
Performance of the "Big 5"
Running Order analysis, where is best to perform? Previous voting system
Running Order analysis, where is best to perform? New voting System
Winners & losers position in the order of performance since 1975
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… a 10 year history by country
History of 12 points from juries and 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 and smallest winning margins
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 who have never voted for another
The least friendly pairs of countries: all results since 1975
The least friendly pairs of countries: the effect of the public vote from 2016 onwards
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 2022 Final
Complete country-by-country voting analysis since 1975 - who votes for who?

How can I buy the book?

It's easy! All our Yearbooks since 2008 are available to buy direct from us, and if you do so, you support a small publishing business and help keep the Yearbook going. Each book is available in paperback and hardcover (apart from three of the earlier years which we are still in the process of revising for a new edition) and payment can be made securely through Paypal and by credit/debit card. Alternatively, the books are available on Amazon and other online book stores.

How can I contact you?

If you want to ask us anything or just want to say hi, we don't mind! Leave a comment below or we are on twitter at @silverthornpub and you can email us at silverthorn-publishing@outlook.com.

Welcome to the Eurovision Yearbook. The Complete & Independent Guide to the greatest Song Contest!

Welcome to our redesigned website for our popular annual book analysing the phenomenon that is the Eurovision Song Contest. We wanted to make it easier to see what our Eurovision Yearbook contains each year and to order either paperback or hardcover easily and securely. We have published our Eurovision book each year since 2008, apart from 2020 due to the cancellation of the Contest because of Covid-19.

Our Eurovision book has undergone a small name change in 2022, you can still find it using "The Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest" but the book will now also be known as the easier to remember "Eurovision Yearbook", so that it emphasises the statistical content more clearly.


So what does the Eurovision Yearbook contain?

Every statistic imaginable! Over 330 pages of historical records and analysis of voting, divided into three main sections:

Section One

Qualification for Eurovision for the current year. We look at each country's qualification process, whether by internal selection or by national competition. Where a national broadcaster has held a competition to select their artist and song, we give details of how the competition was organised, the points or voting percentages given to the top 3 and a brief profile of the winning performer.

Section Two

Contest Details and Voting Record. A full record of every Contest since 1956. So for each year we list the artists, the songwriters and composers. Then the points awarded by each country to each performer in table format. We include the semi-final details for each year since they were introduced, and now we have separate points given by each country's jury and public we show separate voting tables for both, and that's for the two semi-finals and the final for the current year. A complete record of every point awarded. We've all experienced the excitement of the announcement of the public voting results since the innovation of the separate points scoring, and next in this section we have a round-by-round record of the scoreboard to show how each country moved up and down the leaderboard as the points are announced. Finally in this section the Yearbook lists every country's Eurovision entry in country alphabetical order so you can look up any artist and see their performance in semi-finals and final.

Section Three

Here's where the data really gets crunched! As well as the simple records such as most successful and least successful countries, whether internally selected artists do better than those who qualify through national competitions, winning margins, how well (and more commonly, how badly) the Big 5 perform, languages songs have been performed in and which type of act generally does best, we do a deep dive into complex statistical analysis and include data on average points received for each position in the running order since 1975, the closest and most one-sided voting relationships, how points awarded by juries differ from those given by the public, geographical and bloc voting, and finally the book contains every country's voting record in every Contest as a percentage of the maximum possible points that could be awarded and the number of times any votes have been given and how many maximum 12 points have been given to all the other countries, both in semi-finals and finals. If you're curious about whether some countries always favour others, this is the section for you!

How can I buy the book?

It's easy! All our Yearbooks since 2008 are available to buy direct from us, and if you do so, you support a small publishing business and help keep the Yearbook going. Each book is available in paperback and hardcover (apart from three of the earlier years which we are still in the process of revising for a new edition) and payment can be made securely through Paypal and by credit/debit card. Alternatively, the books are available on Amazon and other online book stores.

How can I contact you?

If you want to ask us anything or just want to say hi, we don't mind! Leave a comment below or we are on twitter at @silverthornpub and you can email us at silverthorn-publishing@outlook.com.

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