Introduction

Before I get down to reviewing Eurovision 2024, the most recent edition of the contest as of this writing and the most controversial in a long time, I’d like to do something silly for a change. I’m going rank every Eurovision year solely by how good their postcards are. In case you didn’t know, the postcards are the little short films that play before each song starts. They’re meant to introduce the next country and contestant, or just show some nice scenery for the viewer to watch, as the commentator tells us about the next song. Some of them succeed in this purpose, some are really dull, and some are just baffling. They were introduced in 1970 because the show needed to fill time due to so many countries skipping, and they’ve been done most years since. If a year post-1970 has no postcards, it automatically goes into the bottom of this list, or I guess the top since I’ll list them worst to best.

I will include every Eurovision contest starting from 1970 in this list, even if it had only haphazard substitutes for postcards. The only year I won’t include is 2020 because it was canceled of course. Now let’s begin!