One important thing to remember is that its a SONG CONTEST, not a SINGING CONTEST.

The Eurovision actually started as a way to unite Europe through music after WWII...

You can`t vote for your own country.

It wasn't mentioned in this video, but the original reason for the ESC was togetherness not competitiveness. The European powers wanted a fun way to get people to like each other again after WW2. That's part of why this is such a spectacle with so little lasting controversy. It's not really about whether or not your country wins, it's about all these groups touring Europe and doing a big show together.

There’s a hilarious episode of Father Ted which is loosely based on Ireland’s attempt to lose Eurovision so they wouldn’t have to host it next year!

You can’t have a go at someone for singing in their own language. English isn’t the only language in the world. You can’t vote for your own country

This video is a bit out of date: Sweden won in 2023 with Loreen's song Tattoo, making Sweden and Ireland tied for most number of wins in ESC and Loreen the second person to ever win ESC twice, as she won in 2012 with the song Euphoria as well.

'' My Lovely Horse '' by Father Ted Crilly and Father Dougal Maguire is the BEST euro-song ever.

Eurovision is really camp and great fun. Many people in the UK and across Europe and even Australia will hold Eurovision parties to watch together and of course, it's an excuse to dress up and drink a little too much!

The Máneskin song was brilliant and they have become world wide famous since the competition.

Olivia Newton-John was born and lived her very early life in Cambridge, UK.

Please stop all the slaps.

"Hard Rock Hallelujah" was and is the best ever winning Eurovision song in my opinion. Such epic winners 🤘🤘🤘

Of course the USA would do the American Song Contest just having people from the USA. Do one for the Americas involving Canada, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, etc etc...

Please stop the slaps etc.

Johnny Logan is no longer the only person to have won Eurovision twice… Loreen from Sweden has matched his feat

No more Slap.

You definitely don't need the slaps and graphics

Eurovision is a Friendly "contest" Not competitive at all. It's one big family and everybody is enjoying the music and party that comes with it. It started to unite Europe again after the War.

JJ I'm BEGGING you to stop the annoying slaps.

Why have you started with all theses ‘Slaps’ ?

Last year it was was filmed right outside my house so it was impossible to watch it live on tv because the seven second delay made me feel dizzy hearing it come through the window then on the telly 😆

One thing you need to know, Germany almost always is in the last place. Doesn’t matter what group/singer/ song gets send there. Greetings from Germany 😂😂😂

UKposts has an official Eurovision Song Contest channel with official music videos of the entries.

Contrary to popular belief, the Eurovision Song Contest is NOT just for Europe. It gets its name from Eurovision, the television company that created it in the 1950s. Entry to the contest is for any FULL member of the European Broadcasting Union and ASSOCiATE members thereof. This means that apart from European countries, it is ALSO open to ALL African countries along the Mediterranean coast (and much of the rest of Africa,) much of Asia (including China and Japan,) New Zealand and Australia, much of South America and even Canada and the US. Basically, almost 2/3 of the countries in the world COULD take part if they so chose to do - most do not because of the cost of entering and the cost of hosting should they win.

I really enjoy your video reactions. Your voice is like honey to me… there I’ve said it. However, these recent videos with the slaps and on screen pop ups, is… well… I guess rather annoying. Just honest straightforward talking is enough for me. Please stop with all these ‘tacky’ additions. Thanks 🙏

god dam it the slaps and other shit still there huh

Another thing that you have probably heard of that became internationally famous is 'Riverdance', which was the interval entertainment in 1994; it turned Irish dancing into a mainstream global phenomenon, along with one of its stars Michael Flatley, who created 'Lord of the Dance'. I vividly remember watching it as a child, it was truly impactful and impressive - bearing in mind that most of us had never seen anything quite like it before.

Olivia Newton-John was born in England, her parents emigrated to Australia when she was five.

Olivia Newton-John was born in the UK and is described as a "British and Australian singer and actress". Countries are not allowed to vote for themselves. 😉

Old Info - Sweden won 2023, so now there is a tie between Ireland and Sweden, both co untries have seven wins, of which two of the winning songs sung by the same artist (Ireland: Johnny Logan) (Sweden: Loreen)

“Rock songs rarely make an appearance in the competition?” That’s not true!

The 2003 uk entry, the woman had a red dress and the guy had a white shirt and spiky hair, the reason why they sounded bad is they had earpiece & microphone issues and couldn't hear properly and so had sounding issues, it wasn't cause they couldn't sing, as i heard them in semi finals to pick the song that they sang and they sounded good vocally. I watched that year like i've done every year since i was 5 and now i'm 47.

Love you, hate the slaps etc, it's like having too many adverts during your tv programmes over there.

Lol how the hell do Americans have no idea about this???? Even Australia has sent their own contestants! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The first English language winner was Sandie Shaw representing the UK won in 1967 with “Puppet On A String”.

7:22 That's not how the Olympics works 😂

Anakin Skywalker reacting to Eurovision was not on my bingo card, but alas the surprise is a welcome one. Cheers from Croatia!

Should check out the 1994 Dublin Eurovision Song Contest interval show called Riverdance. Is very good.

only a couple months till the next one hosted from Sweden... cant wait :(

Olivia Newton-John was was borne in Cambridge, England and grew up in Australia and so had an Australian accent and duel nationality, she was very well known in Britain before Grease.

It's such a fun event. Hope you get to react to the actual event. Most of us in the UK have get-togethers and mock everything we see (Including our own acts most of the time). It can be a really funny and chaotic viewing.

for every video from now on with get a thumps down from me that has slaps or reveres slaps untill it stops

Well JJ, I have enjoyed your reactions for a while. But the slaps, reverse slaps, prizes, voice effects and silly spelling has lost me. Let me know if you revert to just reacting and I'll watch again. Thanks for the fun along the way

I'd bet a lot of people completely ignore everything about it, including semi-finals and final, until the last 20 minutes or so and then they look at the voting, maybe listen to the winner, then turn it off and forget about it for another year.

conchita wurst won austria's first win after participating for almost 4-5 decades

You can actually look at this years Eurovision songs!! They’re all on UKposts and today we are getting the host country’s song

Stop the sllapp or else i slap the subscribed (to unsubscribe)

Please just stop with the slap and other shit now!!

Twin Twin was brilliant, i love the Moustache song. Verka Serduchka is my fave 😀

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual song contest organized by the European Broadcasting Union EBU. In which all EBU members can participate. The Israeli public broadcasting company is a full member of the EBU, which gives it the right to participate in the competition. Associate members of the EBU are e.g. Australia, China, India, USA and Canada. I don't know why out of the associate members only Australia participates in the competitions.

You are not allowed to vote for your own country. Mostly the country that wins host next years contest unless they choose not to if they for example can't affort it(Israel won 2 years in a row in 1978 and 1979 but couldn't affort to host in 1980 so The Netherlands did instead) and if the EBU decide like with Ukraine in 2023 where for safety reasons because of the war the 2nd place from 2022 The UK held the contest but chose to co-host with Ukraine in Liverpool, so it was both english and ukrainian hosts and both english and ukrainian interval acts(acts performing when the voting takes place/the voting is counted). The countries to win the most is sweden(won their 7th time in 2023)and ireland who have also won 7 times, and the 2nd place joined is UK, The Netherlands, France and Luxembourg I think with 5 wins, 3rd Israel with 4 wins, and 4th is Norway, Italy, Ukraine, and my country Denmark to have won 3 times.

Please stop doing the slap thing - its so annoying when you are a great reactor and do not need to do that

Will Ferrell has a Swedish wife, that's how he was introduced to the phenomenon and made the movie

You should do a follow up this week watching some of the 2024 entries!

USA! USA! USA! SSLAP! ...I get it, gimmicks to stand you out. But honestly...stop it! I'm not anti USA...IRELAND! IRELAND! IRELAND! ...is equally as annoying. I really like your reactions and you come across very well and intelligently, but gimmicks eegh🥴. I don't mean to be mean so sorry but I just had to say it....SSLAP! 🤦🏻‍♂️

We always have a party on eurovision night :)

Hey btw, you can also vote for the songs in eurovision and will be placed in a rest of the world vote which gets counted equal to one country’s televotes

On BBC iplayer, they have subtitles for songs not in English and they're hysterical

BTW...you can't vote for your own country in Eurovision. However, if your had a televised show to select the song that represents the your country, then you probably already did.

for anyone interested this years dates are Tues, 7 May 2024 - Sat, 11 May.

The best thing about Eurovision is the gentle mocking of each countries songs, and or intro videos by our UK host on VO. It used to be the late, great broadcaster Terry Wogan (Irish) and now we have Graham Norton, also Irish, who is a perfect successor, also gently mocking of any entries that deserve a light mockery. Nothing offensive, just calling out weirdness, like "this man seems to be stuck in a spiders web, seems like a very unfortunate situation to be in, but what do I know". But he gives credit where it's due for a good song/staging/performance.

12:05 the songs are released as music videos way ahead of the competition, and are generally performed live at national nominating competitions.

Finally, what took you so long. This is what you want to see

Some Eurovision related videos you could watch Eurovision flashmob (interval act 2010) Eurovision Love Love peace Peace Eurovision Winners 1956-2023 Eurovision Runners Up 1957-2023 [Country of your choice] at Eurovision.

I remember seeing Lordi a couple of years ago in Brighton and they are absolutely hilarious live

Ireland has never won Eurovision singing their native language - therefore ABBA is not the first representative to not sing in their own language. Ireland never has sang in their native language. Irish is still spoken to this day and there are even some ppl in Ireland who only know how to speak Irish. And yes Ireland has had Irish songs up for application to the contest.

Olivia Newton-John was born in England and her family emigrated to Australia when she was a child.

Eurovision is one of the most watched shows in the world. If beating Super bowl for example..its crazy Americans did not hear about it

Olivia Newton John born 26 September 1948, Cambridge, England

Lithuania Luktelk Silvester Belt (English Translation) Genius English Translations [Verse 1] The day has passed and another one It's like the time has stopped here I'm going here, I'm going there And when the sun goes down and it's all over again [Pre-Chorus] Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow I promise to love you tomorrow In the good, in the good, in the good You'll find me in the good night [Chorus] Am I still alive? Do you still recognize me? The sun doesn't rise Tell me, will you stay close? [Post-Chorus] Wait a bit, wait a bit One more minute, wait a bit Wait a bit, wait a bit One more minute, hold on [Verse 2] The night has passеd, another night Like always, I'm repеating it again [Pre-Chorus] Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow I promise to love you tomorrow [Chorus] Am I still alive? Do you still recognize me? The sun doesn't rise Tell me, will you stay close? [Post-Chorus] Wait a bit, wait a bit One more minute, wait a bit Wait a bit, wait a bit One more minute, hold on [Bridge] We're standing in the silence of a radio playing I no longer want to dance, I no longer want to dance We're standing in the silence of a radio playing I no longer want to dance, but I need to dance [Instrumental Break] [Chorus] Am I still alive? Do you still recognize me? Sun doesn't rise Tell me, will you stay close? [Post-Chorus] Wait a bit, wait a bit One more minute, wait a bit Wait a bit, wait a bit One more minute, hold on

Yes my friends it’s real….and it’s physically impossible not to watch it every single year 😂

eurovision i think keeps europe somewhat united even though there is politics between countries it’s nice that everyone comes together and supports each other once a year.

The reason you have the intro videos is because all of the acts are performing on the same stage so they need a few minutes to clear out the previous act and set up for the next act, I think you would love Eurovision if you watched it live, it's crazy

Eurovision is happening in May you should watch this year song when they fully out around end of march

For god sake please stop with the childish editing, you're a grown man.

Fun fact: Have you ever heard of Riverdance? An Irish dance troupe that was a huge, world-wide success in the late 1990s and early 2000s. They had their big break in 1994, when Ireland hosted Eurovision AGAIN in Dublin. They gave a 7-minute performance during the interval, after all the songs had been performed and voting was going on. Nobody really remembers the winning song or artist, but Riverdance was an absolute sensation!

8:32 you're not allowed to vote for your own country's entry. Though there is a long history of countries who are particularly close friends voting for each other (e.g. Greece and Cyprus).

And, of course, Lara Fabian who came in 4th place the same year Celine Dion won. Lara Fabian is an underrated and brilliant singer. Sweden also has 7 wins with the same artist winning both 2012 and 2023.

I understand that the name Eurovision is the name of the Swiss broadcaster that televised the first event.

Tell ya what, we'll invite America to the Eurovision when you invite the rest of the world to your, ahem, (not)World Series sporting event. Baseball I believe?

I don't get the 'awards' and 'slaps'. Your channel used to be good.

I get the not wanting arts to be "competitive" but keeping the origins of the Eurovision Song Contest in mind, I think it's a good tradition to have a friendly rivalry about writing and performing songs to remind ourselves what the alternative would be (A Europe at war).

my finger is hovering over the unsubscribe toggle.... Your slaps are now becoming really annoying 😮

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I'm seventy five years old, and this has been going on for most of my life - and I still don't believe it's real!

Try and watch it. Its soooooo much fun. Remember you'll need cocktails 🎉

#Eurovision peaked with Poland in 2014 and that is a hill I will die on in every universe.

Since Loreen won for Sweden in 2023 we are now tied with Ireland on most wins. Loreen is also the second person ever to win the contest twice since she won in 2012 and now 2023.

Well sometimes treasures come out of the ESC regardless of whether they win 1st place or not. Take a listen to Portugal 2017 (that year's winner) and Italy 2015.

You should go to quintessentially British Eurovision party where we REALLY let our hair down! But as a small aside, by the end we're so drunk it doesn't matter who won......we had FUN . Till next year then

This is an old video. Sweden has now passed Irland in most wins. Sweden also won also won last year. So this year the competion is hold in Malmoe, Sweden in mid may

The basis of the Eurovision Song Contest is the European Broadcast Union which is an alliance of public broadcasters in the European Broadcasting Area (which includes non-European areas - like those bordering on the Mediterranean and as far east as Azerbaijan. One of the jobs of the EBU is to provide television feed between countries so for many many years there was a satellite dish on the West Bank which fed Israel and Jordan with television signals even though they were at war the cables were not cut! Eurovision is a style of its own so saying that's very Eurovision puts it in a niche but it has been going for 78 years! It is worth having a look at the compilations of the winners over the years (and the second placed too) They tell you a great deal about a slice of European culture.

Eurovision has become so popular that other version were created. There's one only for dancers, one for musicians and the most popular one is Eurovision junior where the contestants are kids. The age limit is 16 years old. That's also the age limit for Eurovision. I think there was a controversy back in the 80's when a girl won and she was only 13 but I think she lied saying she was older. I think they implemented the age restriction after that. Because if there's a cute kid of course you'll want to vote for them right?

Some acts who didn't win, went on be one hit wonders, because their songs were so unusual. The biggest controversy of the Eurovision Song Contest was Spain under Franco cheating to win, the year Cliff Richard competed with Congratulations. The winning song from Spain was only a minor hit, but Congratulations written by two well known British pop song writers of that era, became such a big international hit, that was so big, those greetings cards with sound chips in play it. One of the years that Ireland hosted the show, after winning the contest the year before, featured the first television appearance of Riverdance, as a showcase act, that is the stage entertainment, but not in the competition.

Dont talk about the American Song Contest again 😳😳😳😳

Down voted for the annoying 'funny' comments throughout. Although it's my own fault for watching, I guess.

Of course, the video needs to be updated. Sweden is now tied to Ireland when it comes to the number of victories (7) and Loreen also won the contest twice.

You need to look into the National Eisteddfod in Wales, its Welsh language contest of poetry, singing and other cultural events that has its roots going back to 1176..... the ritual and ceremonial aspects with the gorsedd of bards are a modern (like 200) years ago addition to the National Eisteddfod.

Just a note. The competing countries aren’t allowed to vote for themselves. Although there is a junior Eurovision now for under 14s and they can. The American Song contest was held over 6 weeks, one show a week, whereas the Eurovision is 2 semi finials and the grand final all held within a week.