How the numbers have grown over half a
century. In the entrants section the left column contains
the number of finalists, the right column contains the total
number of entrants in a semi/pre-qualifier process for the year.
| Year |
Entrants |
Songs
So Far* |
|
Debut by |
| 1956 |
7 |
|
14 |
|
Belgium,
France, Germany, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Switzerland |
| 1957 |
10 |
|
24 |
|
Austria, Denmark, United
Kingdom |
| 1958 |
10 |
|
34 |
|
Sweden |
| 1959 |
11 |
|
45 |
|
Monaco |
| 1960 |
13 |
|
58 |
|
Norway |
| 1961 |
16 |
|
74 |
|
Finland, Spain, Yugoslavia |
| 1962 |
16 |
|
90 |
|
- |
| 1963 |
16 |
|
106 |
|
- |
| 1964 |
16 |
|
122 |
|
Portugal |
| 1965 |
18 |
|
140 |
|
Ireland |
| 1966 |
18 |
|
158 |
|
- |
| 1967 |
17 |
|
175 |
|
- |
| 1968 |
17 |
|
192 |
|
- |
| 1969 |
16 |
|
208 |
|
- |
| 1970 |
12 |
|
220 |
|
- |
| 1971 |
18 |
|
238 |
|
Malta |
| 1972 |
18 |
|
256 |
|
- |
| 1973 |
17 |
|
273 |
|
Israel |
| 1974 |
17 |
|
290 |
|
Greece |
| 1975 |
19 |
|
309 |
|
Turkey |
| 1976 |
18 |
|
327 |
|
- |
| 1977 |
18 |
|
345 |
|
- |
| 1978 |
20 |
|
365 |
|
- |
| 1979 |
19 |
|
384 |
|
- |
| 1980 |
19 |
|
403 |
|
Morocco |
| 1981 |
20 |
|
423 |
|
Cyprus |
| 1982 |
18 |
|
441 |
|
- |
| 1983 |
20 |
|
461 |
|
- |
| 1984 |
19 |
|
480 |
|
- |
| 1985 |
19 |
|
499 |
|
- |
| 1986 |
20 |
|
519 |
|
Iceland |
| 1987 |
22 |
|
541 |
|
- |
| 1988 |
21 |
|
562 |
|
- |
| 1989 |
22 |
|
584 |
|
- |
| 1990 |
22 |
|
606 |
|
- |
| 1991 |
22 |
|
628 |
|
- |
| 1992 |
23 |
|
651 |
|
- |
| 1993 |
25 |
29 |
676 |
|
Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia |
| 1994 |
25 |
|
701 |
|
Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia |
| 1995 |
23 |
|
724 |
|
- |
| 1996 |
23 |
30 |
747 |
|
- |
| 1997 |
25 |
|
772 |
|
- |
| 1998 |
25 |
|
797 |
|
FYR
Macedonia |
| 1999 |
23 |
|
820 |
|
- |
| 2000 |
24 |
|
844 |
|
Latvia |
| 2001 |
23 |
|
867 |
|
- |
| 2002 |
24 |
|
891 |
|
- |
| 2003 |
26 |
|
917 |
|
Ukraine |
|
2004 |
24 |
36 |
941 |
|
Albania, Serbia & Montenegro |
| 2005 |
24 |
39 |
965 |
|
Moldova |
| 2006 |
24 |
37 |
989 |
|
Armenia |
| 2007 |
24 |
42 |
1013 |
|
Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Serbia |
| 2008 |
25 |
43 |
1038 |
|
Azerbaijan |
| 2009 |
25 |
42 |
1063 |
|
- |
| 2010 |
25 |
39 |
1088 |
|
- |
| 2011 |
25 |
43 |
1113 |
|
- |
| 2012 |
26 |
42 |
1139 |
|
- |
| 2013 |
26 |
39 |
1165 |
|
- |
| 2014 |
26 |
37 |
1191 |
|
Montenegro, San Marino |
| 2015 |
27 |
40 |
1218 |
|
Australia |
Participants yet to make a Eurovision final:
| Country |
DNQ Years |
| Andorra |
2004-2009 |
| Czech Republic |
2007-2009, 2015 |
* The "total songs so far"
figure denotes how many songs have been sung in the contest
final. The EBU would have you believe that the 1,000th
song was performed in the 2006 "semi-final". However they
have ignored the unsuccessful songs in the 1993 and 1996
qualifiers that were equally as valid as the "semi" losers in
2004-2010. Our ethos has always been to regard all
pre-qualifiers with the same status.
The 500th song to be performed was "L'amour De Ma Vie" by
Sherisse Lawrence for Luxemburg in 1986, which finished third.
The 1000th song to be performed was "Visionary Dream" by
Sopho Khalvashi for Georgia in 2007, which finished 12th.
                      
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