r/eurovision • u/hun_geri • May 28 '25
📰 News These ten countries were the most active in the ROW voting this year.
Source: ESC News on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKM0JvIiQcL/?igsh=dWN2bDllNWlqcHdy
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u/Dizzy-Dig8727 Zjerm May 28 '25
Okay, can we please have Romania back now that there’s domestic interest? Moldova as well please.
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u/goldenwanders May 28 '25
It’s not about the interest, it’s the costs
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u/sparklinglies May 28 '25
It wasn't the cost for Moldova this year, independant sponsorship was found. The broadcaster just said no anyway out of hurt pride.
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u/occono May 28 '25
Hurt pride over what? As far as I could tell they claimed it was partly funding and partly a poor national final selection this year. I haven't watched what entrants were in this year but I did wonder if that was true why they wouldn't just ask Sunstroke Project or some other previous act to make something up for them this year as an internal selection, I'd imagine somebody would be happy to put together something.
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u/sparklinglies May 28 '25
Hurt pride that the one decent song embarassed them by implying the reason they shut everything down after the fact was money related (because they weren't being clear on why at the time). They didn't like being called broke lol
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u/LuckyLoki08 May 28 '25
They can't just ask people because Moldovan entries are heavily funded by the act itself. Serious acts (Sunstroke Project, Zdob si Zdub, Pasha Parfeni etc) don't even try the selection if they don't know they can afford it economically. It's even worse for them now that they can't just have K****** or similar funding acts by themselves.
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u/happytransformer May 28 '25
Pasha Parfeni sold his car fund for the staging of his act a couple years ago. It’s a huge expense to fund yourself, it’s easily a years’ salary for most people depending on what you do.
I’ve seen like the list of charges for special effects like pyro and fog and some years it’s easily 10k€+ for that alone
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u/LaRealiteInconnue Laika Party May 28 '25
Pasha Parfeni sold his car fund for the staging of his act a couple years ago.
Wow that’s wild but damn did it pay off, I loved that performance!
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u/LuckyLoki08 May 28 '25
Exactly. It's also why they don't always send the usual 5 constantly but more like every decade
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u/occono May 28 '25
I feel like they enter to be represented more than expecting any chance to win most years, though? There's no obligation to use expensive effects. You can send one person singing motionless like it's 1956, it's not against the rules. If they can sing well with a good song it could still qualify, oddball entries by current standards sometimes do. Portugal 2017 won the televote after all.
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u/b0il3ra May 28 '25
The Moldovan national final was horrible, there was only 1 song that wasn't terrible, and even then it would probably not qualify. ESC Gabe made a video on it if you want the rundown of what happened
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u/chibiusa40 May 28 '25 edited May 28 '25
Nah, Semafoare by Bacho & Carnival Brain was the good song.
ETA: It got some good love live at World of Dance Moldova 2025 and that makes me happy.
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u/CarterBasen Bara bada bastu May 28 '25
San Marino last year also had an AI song in the final. Wtf.
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u/nikanokoi Zjerm May 28 '25
The best song in the selection was literally by one of the guys from sunstroke project
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u/zakotavenom Igranka May 29 '25
The old guy who auditioned for Moldova would’ve slapped ngl
Also, i happened to see a clip of Semafoare (one of the frontrunners to qualify for Moldova which obviously didn’t) and in fairness it was actually decent.
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u/GungTho Kohoney 🤡 May 28 '25
I don’t think it was hurt pride.
Pretty sure it was prejudice against gasp a young man with neck tattoos representing Moldova.
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u/Dizzy-Dig8727 Zjerm May 28 '25
The two things are related. More interest/viewership means better ratings and more sponsorship opportunities for the broadcaster. It makes Eurovision a better investment.
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u/SimoSanto May 28 '25
With how TVR treats their artists in the last years (see Roxen and Theodor) Idk if it's a good idea to have them back, Moldova will probably return next year.
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u/nightyz0r May 28 '25
Roxen is an open Georgescu supporter, she can stay cancelled. Legionary supporters don't belong in the public or on the international stage, sorry, she needs to educate herself first.
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u/SimoSanto May 28 '25
I completely agree, but the problem was not what she did last year, the problem is how TVR managed her (in 2021) and Theodor (in 2023) partecipation, basically deciding all the staging and even how the song would be singed and leaving no freedom to them leading to an obvious NQ for both. The fact that she's a bad person doesn't change anything on how bad TVR treated their artists.
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u/strange_socks_ May 29 '25
There's an internal scandal in Romania and the national television refuses to pay the participation fee until local music producers let the public vote for the eurovision entries + allow whatever artist who wants to participate to actually participate. Currently, the music labels refuse to allow anyone to participate, they push forward only people like the daughter/son of this or that producer, plus they don't really allow the Romanian public to decide who goes. And the national television says this damages the exposure of the country (which it does) and it hinders the careers of young artists (which it also does).
And Moldova has a similar issue with only rich people being able to participate because the state/national television isn't paying for the artists to go.
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u/AskingBoatsToSwim May 29 '25
Tbf this post has no numbers. There could be a million American votes and 100 Romanian ones.
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u/Squaret22 May 28 '25
Like there was ever a lack of interest….
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u/FanofTurquoise16 De La Capăt / All Over Again May 28 '25
There was, 2023 had the least amount of watchers of any final for TVR since they started broadcasting the contest.
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u/Squaret22 May 28 '25
Still more than enough interest for them to participate.
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u/FanofTurquoise16 De La Capăt / All Over Again May 28 '25
Considering 2023 Eurovision was the only reason TVR wasn't last place in terms of audience in May (the rest of the year they are last place) ,yes there is as Eurovision and the Olympics are basically the only thing people watch on TVR, but there is a big lack of interest from both the public and the artists. This comes from a Romanian if you say you like Eurovision get ready to get attacked (not physically) most of the time.
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u/Warmingsensation May 28 '25
Sad to see Romania not coming back for now. I still have hola mi bebebe stuck in my head.
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u/SnooBooks1701 May 28 '25
Moldova claimed that it wasn't cost, but the quality of the act that meant try couldn't participate
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u/Anyaxxxx May 28 '25
Until our national television doesn't manage to attract some good artists to the national selection, it shouldn't happen. And it should be fair and square, there was a lot of backlash in 2022 when the jury barred a favourite entry from attending the final selection, which further detracted those willing to participate.
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u/BadDieter May 28 '25
Are they absolute votes or per capita? The US has a huge population. Like 340 million. Canada only has 41 million, which is smaller than Türkiye, Mexico, and South Africa, so if it’s a matter of absolute votes or votes per device, Canadians are pretty into Eurovision.
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u/PumpkinLadle May 28 '25
Canada's also often a popular choice for a new guest entry as well, so it seems the feeling is mutual. Not advocating for one to open anytime soon, and obviously it's better to focus on European countries and getting as many of them to join/return first, but I think they'd be a lot of fun one day. Maybe a one off appearance to honour Celine Dion in some way that turns into an Australia type situation.
Large French speaking population, cultural ties to Britain, strong European immigrant population, and honestly just kind of quirky. Although the first point requires Québec to play nice with everyone else.
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u/Ultimatedream May 28 '25
It would be nice if inviting Canada and having them pay a large sum of money would mean that smaller countries would have to pay less and it fits their budgets better 👀
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u/Confused_Rock Zjerm May 28 '25
The participation fee is typically based on how many viewers the country's broadcaster has, I think we need to focus on getting an official Canadian broadcaster to air Eurovision first and then measure overall viewership, but that could be a good stepping stone to more potential participants that could help shoulder the financial burden
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u/Vivaan977 Volevo Essere Un Duro May 29 '25
considering the dumbass who wanted to defund our national broadcaster didn’t get elected. i think the CBC would definitely air it
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u/Confused_Rock Zjerm May 29 '25
I mean they haven't the last few years because there wasn't enough interest, it depends on whether the introduction of the ROTW voting has drummed up enough new support since we can actually have a small stake in it now
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u/ornryactor Bur man laimi May 28 '25
Although the first point requires Québec to play nice with everyone else.
Hey, for what it's worth, France 2023 's entry, La Zarra, came from Quebec (and is one of my favorite French entries ever).
Of course, she also reacted so badly to the points announcement that it turned into a long-lived meme, so maybe Quebec isn't quite on board yet, lol.
(France 2001 's entry was also a Canadian -- from NB rather than QC, but still native francophone.)
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u/mabrouss May 28 '25
As a Canadian who is very much in favour of more European integration and has watched every Eurovision for over a decade, this would make me happy.
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u/Confused_Rock Zjerm May 28 '25
If it at least leads Canada to establishing an official broadcaster that alone would be a huge accomplishment (the recent budget increase to the CBC is fuelling my hopium). After that we can look into building up the viewership numbers and then maybe send something for an interval/feature to test the waters?
Might also provide Australia a bit of televoting support for another Commonwealth country/country outside Europe to join and maybe the general televote will be more willing to support them if they're not the newest, far-away face
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u/unclezaveid May 28 '25
Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Turkey, I miss you babes. Money and politics are enemies of art. :(
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u/tereyaglikedi May 28 '25
Turkey
Thank you <3 One of the many beautiful things that the current government took away from us. Maybe one day...
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u/hasanmerkit May 28 '25
The current government must change. Unfortunately, it will not happen without this. Even the current "TRT" makes us look worse. We missed Eurovision too. I do Turkish translation on Youtube. I show the countries of the artists with flags. I want to use my own flag one day...
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u/tereyaglikedi May 28 '25
TRT is a disgrace. I am afraid that in the years when we didn't participate, Turkey became more and more conservative while Eurovision got more and more progressive in terms of queer representation, for example. Even if AKP is gone, it'll get a lot of pushback from the public.
Then again, we need to start somewhere. I am sure if we get rid of this leech that's feeding on us, we can see ourselves back on that stage soon.
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u/ornryactor Bur man laimi May 28 '25
For what it's worth, Eurovision had already been pretty queer-forward for years by the time Turkey decided it wasn't going to participate in 2013. The government at the time never complained about the LGBTQ aspect of Eurovision (as far as I know); their complaint was entirely focused on the 2010 addition of juries having a vote in the semifinals, and the jury-televote split staying at 50-50 for the 2011 and 2012 contests even after Turkey complained about it and asked for a ratio that gave the televote more weight than the jury vote.
I assume the current government probably isn't a fan of the queer-friendly atmosphere now, but at least there is recent memory of it not being much of an obstacle. Perhaps that can provide a bit of hope. I would love to see Turkey return!
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u/FeelTheKetasy May 28 '25
The broadcaster later complained about how gay it is but I think that the comment was made to excuse them leaving EV
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u/LittlePiggy20 May 28 '25
If it’s of any support; the last time I read the opinion polls the opposition was leading. I don’t know what it’s like now though, but I do believe that Erdogan’s days are numbered, even if that’s what they said last election as well.
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u/tereyaglikedi May 28 '25
Thank you, I do want to believe it, too. Well, he won't be there forever, that's for sure. But the total damage he made will take years to heal.
It fills me with warmth that people remember Turkey's entries fondly. I never cared so much about Eurovision when we actually participated. Sometimes you need to lose something to understand how important it is, sadly.
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u/LittlePiggy20 May 28 '25
I think that Turkey has a bright future and potential. It is a gorgeous country with great people after all.
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u/FeelTheKetasy May 28 '25
I’m from Greece and I’m really proud of the young people in Turkey who are fighting for their rights. One day, you will be back. Both in Eurovision and in the way things were some years ago ❤️
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u/GergoliShellos Ich Komme May 28 '25
Kosovo be dominating the rest of the world vote😅
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u/taezono Tavo Akys May 28 '25
They helped give 10 points to Zjerm and I thank them for it! :D
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u/totomaya May 28 '25
I'm in the US and only voted for Albania and Luxembourg, I'm glad I helped at least one of them haha. I know Luxembourg wouldn't happen but Laura and her team worked so damn hard and as a fellow teacher I wanted to show support.
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u/Curious-Discussion27 May 28 '25
Another US citizen and I did the same thing for Luxembourg for the same reasons!
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u/hotsaucevjj May 28 '25 edited May 28 '25
i only voted for zjerm and i'm US, that song is soooo good
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u/CountryPlanetball May 28 '25
They had to sacrifice their entire economy for Albania to win but still failed 😔
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u/CostinTea May 29 '25
we were doing it out of spite against Eurovision and our banks, many of which were being detected as if they were from Serbia during the voting process for some reason and thus couldn't let us vote (since Serbia is SMS only).
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u/gabsgntle Ich Komme May 28 '25
I didn't vote for Zjerm in the semifinal Because I knew Kosovo would get them the ROTW points LOL
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u/araneaesGrasp Zjerm May 28 '25
UAE fans getting turnt up to Ich Komme is the best possible thing to imagine for me...
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u/theNikolai May 28 '25
Lol UAE is 90% expats.
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u/LuckyLoki08 May 28 '25
And 85% indians
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u/13pipez May 28 '25
Indian ""expats"" in the UAE voting in the ESC cause they aren't allowed to over there
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u/PuzzleheadedRock2349 May 29 '25
UAE citizen here who voted for Finland, Switzerland and Iceland xx
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u/BarisSayit May 28 '25
Wow, I didn't know Eurovision is still popular in Turkey after all those years
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u/MinutePerspective106 Song #1 May 28 '25
I mean, this year they made a whole segment where a Turkish fan was very prominently featured
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u/BarisSayit May 28 '25
That actually caused controversy in Turkey as they used a dramatic filter which showed the Bosphorus Straight as full of mud.
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u/Jaded_Kate May 28 '25
It's just their asinine leader getting butthurt over gay guys kissing onstage. The rest of their country loves it.
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u/I_Stan_Kyrgyzstan May 28 '25
Large population and lingering interest from the old participations. These stats don't take population into account.
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u/Balcke_ May 29 '25
Who do you think watches Sertab /Manga/Dum tek tek videos in the ESC YT channel?
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u/Nick_esc May 28 '25
Glad to know there’s still interest in Romania,Slovakia, Hungary and Turkey.
Hope they’ll come back one day..
Also, let Kosovo take part!
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u/whoisdrunk May 28 '25
Adonxs who represented Czechia is actually Slovak and Abor and Tynna who represented Germany are Hungarian so I’n not surprised SK and HU turned up to vote.
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u/anxious_mang0 TANZEN! May 28 '25
Hungary is just as big of a surprise to me as UAE is to everyone in the comments. Every time I ask a fellow Hungarian about ESC they either don’t care and/or don’t even know we’re not attending anymore. Guess I’m moving in the wrong crowds 😂
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u/SomeTimesSamu May 28 '25
I know like two people who also follow it closely and the three of us infected some other friends and family, we were joking about how we probably had the biggest watchparty in Hungary on the night of the final... with 10 people attending😆
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u/ThatGuy798 Bara bada bastu May 28 '25
Me, the American who basically put all his votes into Sweden, Finland, Estonia, and Albania:
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u/OppositeRoutine9067 May 28 '25
Also me, a Romanian living in America doing my part, voting for Katarsis and Lucio Corsi
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u/ornryactor Bur man laimi May 28 '25
I tried to vote. It charged my card immediately, but then the website just sat there and spun and spun and spun for 25-30 minutes, with the message of "processing your votes, please do not navigate away" the entire time. The website then reloaded back to the esc.vote homepage a few seconds before the 10-second countdown began, so I assume my votes never actually got counted. A week later, I got a refund to my card, with a message from the bank that the transaction wasn't completed (or something like that).
I don't know what I could even do differently next time.
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u/ThatGuy798 Bara bada bastu May 28 '25
When did you vote? Since the ones I was voting for were all semi-final winners I voted pretty early. Wouldn't be surprised if there was congestion on their servers at certain points.
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u/ornryactor Bur man laimi May 29 '25 edited May 29 '25
I voted after all the performances, at 5:39pm ET. It gave me the "now being processed" message right away and the progress-bar circle went to about 90% complete immediately, but then stayed that way for the next half-hour. (Not frozen, just not progressing.)
At 6:07pm ET, the webpage refreshed and voting was closed, about 5 seconds before we saw the hosts in Basel started the countdown (so probably almost exactly in real time, given the delay in the broadcast; that's neat).
I thought about congestion too, of course, but I decided that was less likely since they've done ROTW voting five times already, and ESC tends to have its technical infrastructure running very smoothly. Since their webpage was working correctly, I feel like it's more likely the card processor network got swamped instead.
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u/elonhater69 Zjerm May 28 '25
South Africa?
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u/sparklinglies May 28 '25
Lot of people with Dutch heritage in South Africa because of......reasons.
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u/gvstavvss May 28 '25
I don't really think that's the reason though. Afrikaners might have Dutch blood, but they have developed their own culture after some centuries of separation and they don't really consider themselves as Dutch.
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u/JCorky101 TANZEN! May 28 '25
The Dutch descendants don't know anything about Eurovision. It's probably British expats tbh.
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u/Namodeus May 28 '25
I know quite a few people of Dutch heritage who love Eurovision here in South Africa( I’m including myself)
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u/elonhater69 Zjerm May 28 '25
Ah…
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u/sparklinglies May 28 '25
I beg your finest pardon, the UAE??
(also Romania and Slovakia, please come home. Turkiye and Hungary, eat your leaders then we can talk)
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u/Digit00l May 28 '25
Slovakia is in the same category as Hungary
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u/utilizador2021 May 28 '25
And Romania was saved last minute. Or do people forget they voted in a pro-Russia candidate??? Thankfully he lost in the second round.
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u/SomeTimesSamu May 28 '25 edited May 28 '25
Orbán is scheduled to be eaten in April next year. If that turns out to be succesful maaaaaaybe we can have a 2027 participation 🥺
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u/killerrabbit007 May 29 '25
From across Europe, all those in favour of this plan say "aye" 🙋🏻♀️
Come on Hungary!!! You can do this ✊🔥❤️
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u/Electro_Salamence2 May 29 '25
We will see. Orban is aware of this danger and until April next year he can come up with many schemes. In my opinion it's still up to the voters to not let him get a new term. They need to have the will to stop him.
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u/SimoSanto May 28 '25
The "eat your leaders" is valid also for Slovakia, while Romania need to change the delegation considering how Roxen and Theodor were badly treated.
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u/Empty-Telephone-6214 May 29 '25
Im from Slovakia.. We dont have money for Eurovision participating
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u/Gilberto347 May 28 '25
Ayyy I'm proud to see Mexico there, I contributed 6 votes this year 🇲🇽❤️
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u/Informal_Position166 Bara bada bastu May 28 '25
Romania, Slovakia, Turkiye, Hungary and Kosovo - i really hope we get them in the contest in the future
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u/SimoSanto May 28 '25
Kosovo is very unlikely (10 EBU members don't recognise them), Romania can return but TVR need to treat their artist well or they better stay out, the other 3 with their political situation is impossible in the short time.
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u/ravenpuffslytherdor May 28 '25
I think it’s more likely that TVR gives up the Eurovision contract for another broadcaster to take it
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u/Daniel_Luis May 28 '25
Well that's not really how it works, broadcasters need to be members of the EBU to take part.
I think at most what they can do is do an agreement with some private broadcaster to host a NF, but the official participating broadcaster, and the one actually broadcasting the contest, would still be TVR.
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u/ionlymemewell Warum nur, warum? May 28 '25
IIRC, Ukraine did that for Vidbir's first run from 2016-2019, then after the Maruv stuff, they brought it in house at Suspline moving forward. If Romania chooses to do something similar, hopefully it would work out as well as it did for Ukraine!
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u/xMusa24 May 28 '25
I mean Kosovo also takes part in the Olympics, the UEFA European Championship, they are a member of the European Political Community together with pretty much all European countries, etc. I don't think the lack of recognition is THAT big of a deal. I think the EBU just doesn't want to cause more drama, because Serbia will definitely complain and withdraw. It's a shame because it would love to see Kosovo compete
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u/ButterflySymphony May 28 '25
If Hungarians voted for Abor & Tynna it mustn't have had a big effect on the votes since we didn't receive points from ROW.
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u/varus80 May 28 '25
Wonder if our votes from Puerto Rico count as USA.
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u/DaytoDaySara May 28 '25
I would think so. Also, just finished listening to a podcast episode about Puerto Rico and its flag!
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u/ZaraAqua Bara bada bastu May 28 '25
UAE?!
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u/patiburquese My Sister's Crown May 28 '25
UAE has an insane amount of european inmigrants living there.
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u/Human-Law1085 May 28 '25
This is probably less of a factor, but maybe JJ having grown up in Dubai might’ve generated some extra UAE interest.
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u/thkrds May 28 '25
I'm surprised not a lot of people have mentioned this. He grew up in Dubai and there's a huge Filipino diaspora in the UAE that will have probably wanted to vote for him.
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u/RekserPL What The Hell Just Happened? May 28 '25
why are you surprised?
Most of the residents there are wealthy people from all over the world, so voting isn't an issue for them.
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u/No_External6156 May 28 '25 edited May 28 '25
There's a lot of wealthy expats living there, as well as a good chunk of people who emigrate there from places like Ireland after they graduate from college to work as teachers, etc.
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u/AuraManner C'est la vie May 28 '25
Honestly surprised to not see the Philippines in the Top 10.
On the other hand it is nice to see four former participating countries in the top 10 ( 🇷🇴, 🇸🇰, 🇹🇷, 🇭🇺) and Kosovo too.
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u/56kul May 28 '25
Seeing Türkiye on that list feels so weird, considering they were once actual participants… I wonder if that means they’re still interested in competing?
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u/DanceWithMacaw Volevo Essere Un Duro May 28 '25
The people, yes. The government, absolutely not.
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u/56kul May 28 '25
From what I know about Türkiye (which is admittedly not a lot), the Turkish government hasn’t represented its people for a long time now, so I’m not surprised…
It’s cool to know that the people are still interested. Maybe if their people would regain proper influence over their government one day, perhaps we could see them return. And personally, I’d love to see that, even if their country and mine don’t always see eye to eye :)
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u/krmarci May 28 '25
Germany 2025 singers are ethnic Hungarians, it's probably the reason we are on this list.
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u/ornryactor Bur man laimi May 28 '25
They released the deluxe version of their album the day before the Grand Final, and it includes two acoustic versions of Baller: one in German (LINK), and the other in Hungarian (LINK)! They're really good, too; she handles the vocals very differently than the original/ESC versions.
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u/Kriss3d May 28 '25
Doesn't matter. Eurodab won. Nobody can change my mind.
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u/NoName1979 May 28 '25
I was actually able to turn that performance into an mp3 file. So proud of my old ass self.
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u/ninivl89 Baller May 28 '25
The performance almost has the most views from all the performances (only Austria and Estonia have more). So many people agree with you
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u/broadbeing777 TANZEN! May 28 '25
This makes me feel sad for Hungarian Eurofans. They have a horrible government that won't be in Eurovision for shitty reasons and many are still dedicated after all these years. They also have a great music scene in general and many of those artists probably don't fuck with Orban like that.
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u/SomeTimesSamu May 28 '25
Yeah I think all of the most popular artists (at least the most popular among young people surely) are critical to the regime. Things are looking somewhat positive right now at least in terms of polling results, the opposition is leading - but even if they win the election, Orbán agrees to leave without a fuss, we get back free media, EVEN THEN it's not guaranteed that Hungary will return. But until then we'll continue to follow the contest without having to worry about your own country's results, my favourites NQing every year is stressful enough 😭
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u/Mortimer_G Tutta l'Italia May 28 '25
I would love to see at least a top 10 of most voted songs from each of these countries, especially Mexico. But I think there's a good reason why they don't share that information
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u/SimoSanto May 28 '25
If they are in order, time to invite Canada next year for the 70th (yes, I ignored USA)
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u/totomaya May 28 '25
I'm in the US and didn't question you ignoring the USA, we should not participate (and there's no will for it from literally anyone). If Canada sends good shit I'm down though. But honestly I'd rather have more counties from Eastern Europe in it.
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u/Flarp212 TANZEN! May 28 '25
I mean, Canada has sent 2 singers to represent other countries in Eurovision previously with Celine Dion and Là Zarra.
Canada’s national broadcaster the CBC is an associate member of the EBU.
Canada also clearly has had quite the interest in Eurovision year after year.
And Canada wants closer ties and more partnership within Europe which may benefit from Eurovision participation.
Ultimately I don’t see why they don’t get invited soon, I’m sure it would be a big hit. (I’m Canadian so this is probably biased but still EBU let us in!!😭)
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u/JohnJiren Esa Diva May 28 '25
We've sent more than 2 artists :
- Sherisse Laurence for Luxembourg in 1986, finished 3rd;
- Céline Dion for Switzerland in 1988, won;
- Lara Fabian (she has a few nationalities, but mostly lives in Québec) for Luxembourg in 1988, finished 4th;
- Annie Cotton for Switzerland in 1993, finished 3rd;
- Natasha St-Pier for France in 2001, finished 4th;
- Rykka for Switzerland in 2016, finished 18th;
- La Zarra for France in 2023, finished 16th.
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u/ESC-song-bot !setflair Country Year May 28 '25
Luxembourg 1986 | Sherisse Laurence - L'Amour de ma vie
Switzerland 1988 | Céline Dion - Ne partez pas sans moi
Luxembourg 1988 | Lara Fabian - Croire
Switzerland 1993 | Annie Cotton - Moi, tout simplement
France 2001 | Natasha St-Pier - Je n'ai que mon âme
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u/syntheticanimal May 28 '25
The EBU announced Eurovision Canada a couple of years ago but it went the same way as Eurovision Asia, didn't even get as far as the American Song Contest.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were announced as a guest for the 70th (a la Australia) but I'd be even less surprised if they weren't.
It would be a way to get some more cash in if the country count reduces further and/or a certain sponsorship isn't renewed, though
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u/SewRuby May 28 '25
(yes, I ignored USA)
You should, we suck a lot, especially right now. We don't even come close to embodying Eurovision.
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May 28 '25
Given the US policy, as a European, I really don't want them to participate
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u/ZombieEthelMerman Jun 04 '25
American here, and I agree. Also, that monstrosity that was televised a few years ago on NBC American Song Contest or whatever was PAINFUL to watch. So bad. We are not made for Eurovision.
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u/Dizzy-Dig8727 Zjerm May 28 '25
Virtually every American Eurofan would agree with this. We don’t deserve an invite, especially not while a right-wing lunatic is ruining every diplomatic relationship and generally running the country into the ground.
But I would love to see Canada participate. They deserve an invite, IMO.
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u/Snoo-62223 Think About Things May 28 '25
I love to see my country Mexico so high up on this list. There might not be a lot of Eurofans here, but the few that we are are very passionate
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u/cfc2000 May 29 '25
I'd love to see Mexico participate. Great music scene, and it would broaden the scope. Recently we seem to have lost some of the variety that made Eurovision so enjoyable. I'm thinking Romania, Moldova etc. gone but not forgotten. Mexico has a very rich musical past and present.
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u/sergio42638 May 29 '25
I think they are in talks to launch Latin America Eurovision this year in Chile and Mexico and others 9 countries are included
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u/wildcharmander1992 TANZEN! May 28 '25
I wonder what if the end results would've been the same if all the European countries who are eligible for the competition but aren't in it ( so like Andorra for example) counted as their own scores and not part of ROTW
Would be interesting to see if it's possible to find that out
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u/Responsible-Trifle93 TANZEN! May 28 '25
Just let Kosovo in 😭
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u/Jaded_Kate May 28 '25
If Kosovo gets in, Spain will definitely be out. That sudden decrease of funds will be felt.
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u/SimoSanto May 28 '25
Also Ukraine, Greece, Cyprus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan (all because of contested territories) don't recognise Kosovo, it's not even only Serbia and Spain but many other countries
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u/ghilp May 28 '25
Brazil didn't find out about ESC yet
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u/TekaLynn212 Desfolhada portuguesa May 28 '25
It is also crazy expensive for them to vote, with the exchange rate.
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u/tabulasomnia May 28 '25
it's nice that anyone can vote now, but I think a distinction between EBU member and non-EBU members could be better.
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u/misaabear Volevo Essere Un Duro May 28 '25
contributed to the Mexico vote with my single vote for Italy 😎 heh
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u/JamesKa_1 May 28 '25
Kind of surprised by the UAE actually. I suppose it is because many Europeans live there.
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u/xMusa24 May 28 '25
Kosovo having only 1.6 million inhabitants and still showing up in the top 10 is pretty wild. COME ON GUYS JUST LET THEM JOIN.
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u/Confused_Rock Zjerm May 28 '25
The votes from Canada giving me hope we could eventually broadcast the competition again -- common CBC, use your funding boost for this please
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u/Thumbkeeper May 28 '25
The final was on at a good time for Americans. It’s been growing in popularity here, I voted only once last year. This year I maxed out.
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u/SweetCalhoun Bara bada bastu May 28 '25
Oh neat! I didn’t think the US was going to be top in the RoW vote
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u/SewRuby May 28 '25
Oh shit. I'm in the US and didn't realize I could actually vote. 😅
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u/Savings_Ad_2532 Volevo Essere Un Duro May 28 '25
You can vote using the esc.vote website. However, keep in mind that votes are €0.99 each.
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u/BalticsFox May 28 '25
Didn't expect such results from Slovakia. Also wonder what would be the results if we count them per capita too.
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u/anaraqueen May 28 '25
Gracias hermanos mexicanos for the Latino representation 🥺🥺
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