Tuesday Top Three – Eurovision 2026

19 05 2026

Similarly to two years ago, much as I enjoyed several this year, there were three that stood apart from the rest for me, unlike 3 years ago, I’m putting this out on a Tuesday rather than trying to say F-three! If that’s not enough for you, I’ll list some honourable mentions underneath.

Absolutely delighted that my top scoring act this year actually won the competition, maybe my taste isn’t that bad? (Not that I believe in bad taste in music, just each to their own!) but anyway, a really joyful result 🙂

In fact, to get it up to another number beginning with T, I’ll do seven a) because that’s how many were in my next grouping, and b) because it gets us to a Tuesday Top 10!

So special mentions to Austria, Malta, Moldova, Finland, Poland, Italy and Australia – enjoy!

And of course, this year’s spreadsheet!


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Friday Five Favourite – Eurovision 2025

23 05 2025

Another year, another Eurovision.

We were treated to an excellent song, teaching us all the things that Switzerland has brought us:

So, to the competition – it was a strong front half of the evening then fizzled a bit, but with one strong one near the end!

Also, need to give a shout out to Ireland who didn’t make the final, but absolutely should have with their song about Laika the space dog!

Of course, I did my annual spreadsheet – please enjoy

And so, here are my top five this year (as highlighted in green above):


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Friday F-three Favourite – Eurovision 2024

17 05 2024

This is normally a five favourite, but this year the standouts for me were only really three acts, so that’s what you’re getting!

Interestingly, of my top three, my second place was the actual competition winner, and my first and third took the bottom two slots on the official leader board, so I’m not sure what that says about my taste…

And my beautiful spreadsheet for this year:


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Friday Five Favourite: Eurovision Songs 2021

28 05 2021

It came back!! After a clip show last year, we got a full song contest again! With traditional takeaway curry and spreadsheet of course. Scoring categories for me were song, voice, choreography, outfit, staging, and of course, novelty value (some years I’ve called this “Eurovisionosity”!), and as every, categories get weighted differently! Here are my top five this year, and below are my detailed scores!

Germany

Iceland

Greece

Malta

Russia


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Friday Five Favourite: Eurovision Songs 2020

22 05 2020

So it wasn’t a Eurovision Song Contest this year, but on Saturday night, Rotterdam still hosted a 2 hour show with clips of all 41 songs that would have competed had the contest been able to go ahead.
There was a load of filler too, some better than others! Favouites included a message from Bjorn, a song from Netta, and buildings of Europe lit up while the Rotterdam Philharmonic plays Love Shine a Light. I’m a bit sad they haven’t put the interview with Graham Norton up – it was completely hilarious but he also got a bit choked up at one point, which was moving.

Because we only got 30 seconds of each song, scoring was a bit hit and miss, and probably didn’t do it as well as other years (even after removing some of my categories to make it easier!), but here are my five favourites from this year.

Iceland

Russia

Sweden

Ireland

Australia


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Friday five favourite: Eurovision 2017

19 05 2017

I had SUCH a good time on Saturday. Takeaway, Eurovision and a spreadsheet! Acts were scored on Song, Voice, Choreography, Costume, Set and Novelty Value – some of those categories were weighted higher than others. This is sort-of my top 5. Mathematically Greece should be in it, but I just didn’t love it like I loved these five… Clearly more work needs to be done on my scoring algorithm for next year.

Moldova

Netherlands

Romania

Croatia

Sweden

For some reason I scored Greece higher than Croatia and Sweden, but it really wasn’t a favourite of mine, so it doesn’t make the top 5 – sorry Greece!
Austria and Italy tied with Sweden, but I just found Sweden far more entertaining!

I have to mention Azerbaijan. It was creepy and horrible, but the insanity meant it did very well in novelty value. Definitely worth a watch….


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