Introduction

Ah, you thought I was done writing blog posts about Eurovision, didn’t you? Well, not quite—I’ve been meaning to make a follow-up to this post which listed my favorite entry of each country in 1956 to 1998. And now I am doing this!

One thing that’s helped me determine my favorite of each country is that I put together a Spotify playlist for the first time about a week ago. The way I react to a song coming up on my playlist helps me learn how much my heart loves it, as does whether I want to put it on my playlist to begin with. The playlist has some Eurovision songs, some others by Eurovision artists, some by bands I’ve grown up with my whole life, and quite a few songs that family or friends introduced me to.

My all-time favorite entry from a country will be colored green. My favorite from only 1999 onwards is cyan, and my favorite only from 1956-1998 is red (if it’s different from what I had initially chosen). I will include all countries that have ever participated in Eurovision in this list, except Morocco because they’ve only sent one entry, and Yugoslavia because they broke up before 1999. Once again, I’ll get some help from the recap videos by SchlagerLucas, who I actually became friends with thanks to meeting him in Malmö.