Introduction

I’ve wanted to do this post for quite a while after finishing my 2024 review, and it finally occurrent to me to do so on a Tuesday where I woke up much too early. Please enjoy this list of the most horrific song from every country in Eurovision! Most countries have sent at least one song that I hate so much, listening to them makes me want to murder someone. OK, maybe not that far, but punch a wall, throw my computer out the window, destructive stuff like that. I don’t know why these songs make me so angry to listen to, but they do. Some countries have sent multiple rage-inducing entries, so it’ll be a real challenge to find the worst entry from some of them. This post also serves as an excuse to tear into songs which I previously didn’t give the scalding rant they deserved. I won’t include Morocco because they only sent one entry, or Serbia + Montenegro because they only sent two.

See also my two posts about the best song per Eurovision country: 1956-1998, and 1999-2024 (plus overall).

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.

Introduction

For quite a while, I wanted to do a special bonus post once I reached a cutoff point in my Eurovision blog post series. That is to choose my favorite entry from every participating country so far. I’d say there is no better cutoff point than 1998, since that was the year after which two rules were abolished: the orchestra and the language rule. It’s where I mentally draw the line between classic Eurovision and modern Eurovision.

Quick disclaimer: I’ll only choose favorite entries from countries that competed with at least three songs from 1956 to 1998. That means I won’t include Morocco, Lithuania, Romania, or North Macedonia. I’ll go through all these countries in alphabetical order and I’ll list my favorite entry of theirs in bold. Since I obviously can’t remember how all 1,600+ songs in Eurovision history sound, for countries where my favorite isn’t immediately obvious, I’ll consult the wonderful recap videos by SchlagerLucas to refresh my memory.

There’s no particular reason I wanted to publish this post on Christmas, other than that I don’t have much to do today. I went to see family yesterday and I’ll see more of them tomorrow, but I’m not doing much on the day itself.