Which Eurovision country are you?
Eurovision is part music contest, part geopolitics, part annual costume drama. Some countries are perennial winners, some are loyal nul-points connoisseurs, some auto-qualify by paying the bill. Take ten quick questions about your taste and voting style and we will match you to a real country whose Eurovision personality fits yours, with the contest history to back it up.
When and where is Eurovision 2026?
Eurovision 2026 is being held in Vienna, Austria, with the Grand Final on Saturday 16 May 2026. Austria is hosting because Austrian artist JJ won the 2025 contest in Basel, Switzerland with the song "Wasted Love." The semi-finals run on the Tuesday and Thursday before the Grand Final. Around 37 countries are expected to participate, with the Big Five (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy) plus host Austria automatically qualifying for the final.
Which country has won Eurovision the most?
Ireland and Sweden are tied on seven wins each. Ireland won in 1970, 1980, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1996, including an extraordinary three-in-a-row stretch in the mid-1990s. Sweden won in 1974 with ABBA's "Waterloo," then again in 1984, 1991, 1999, 2012, 2015, and 2023, when Loreen became the first artist to win the contest twice. The United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands are tied on five wins each. Israel has four wins, the most recent in 2018.
How does Eurovision voting work?
Since 2016 the result is split 50/50 between national juries and the public televote. Each participating country's national jury, made up of five music industry professionals, ranks the entries and awards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 12 points to its top ten. The public in each country does the same through televoting. The two sets of points are added together to produce the final scoreboard. Countries cannot vote for themselves, and rest-of-the-world voting was added for non-participating countries during the public televote in 2023.
Who are the Big Five at Eurovision?
The Big Five are the five countries that contribute the most financially to the European Broadcasting Union: the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. Because of their financial contribution, the Big Five plus the host country automatically qualify for the Grand Final each year, bypassing the semi-finals. Italy left the contest in 1997 and rejoined in 2011, and the Big Four became the Big Five from that point. Auto-qualification is controversial because it means the Big Five appear in the final regardless of recent form, including in years when they would not have qualified through a semi-final on merit.
What is "nul points"?
Nul points is the term for finishing the contest with zero points. Pre-2016, this meant scoring zero from every participating country combined. Since 2016, with juries and televotes counted separately, it is technically possible to score zero from one of the two halves and still finish well. Norway holds the record for the most nul-points finishes in pre-2016 voting (1963, 1978, 1981, 1997). The United Kingdom received nul points in 2003 with Jemini's "Cry Baby" and again in 2021 with James Newman's "Embers." Germany, Austria, and Spain have all also received nul points multiple times. Despite the symbolism, nul points has not stopped countries from going on to win in later years: Norway has three Eurovision wins.
Frequently asked questions
The Eurovision 2026 Grand Final takes place on Saturday 16 May 2026 in Vienna, Austria. The two semi-finals are held on the Tuesday and Thursday of the same week. Forty-plus countries enter, around 26 perform on Saturday, and the show typically runs from 20:00 to past midnight Central European Time, broadcast live across the EBU network and streamed worldwide.
Eurovision is hosted by the country that won the previous year's contest. Austria's JJ won in 2025 with the song "Wasted Love," giving Austrian broadcaster ORF the right to host the 2026 contest. Austria last hosted in 2015 in Vienna, after Conchita Wurst's win in 2014. Vienna's Wiener Stadthalle is again the venue.
Ireland and Sweden are tied for the most wins with seven each. Ireland's wins are concentrated in the 1980s and 1990s, while Sweden's are spread across the entire history of the contest from ABBA's 1974 victory to Loreen's record-breaking second win in 2023. The United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands are tied on five wins each, and Israel sits on four. Switzerland, where the very first contest was held in 1956, won most recently in 2024 with Nemo's "The Code."
Plenty. Norway holds the record for most nul-points finishes in the pre-2016 voting system, with four (1963, 1978, 1981, 1997). The United Kingdom famously scored nul points in 2003 with Jemini and again in 2021 with James Newman. Germany scored nul points in 1964, 1965, and 2015. Austria scored zero in 1962, 1988, 1991, and 2015. Spain has done it three times. Since the rule change in 2016 separating jury and televote, scoring zero overall is much rarer because either half can rescue an entry.
The quiz on this page asks ten questions about your musical taste, voting habits, preferred era, and competitive instinct. Each answer is tagged to one or more real Eurovision countries based on that country's contest history. The country with the highest weighted score across your ten answers is your match, with a one-line summary of that country's Eurovision DNA. It is a personality quiz, not a prediction of how you would actually perform on stage.
The Big Five are the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. They are the five countries that contribute the most financially to the European Broadcasting Union and, because of that, automatically qualify for the Grand Final without competing in a semi-final. The host country also automatically qualifies. Italy rejoined Eurovision in 2011 after a 14-year absence, turning the Big Four into the Big Five.
No. Eurovision is run by the European Broadcasting Union and entry is restricted to active EBU members, which is mostly European broadcasters plus a few associated countries. Australia has competed since 2015 because Australian broadcaster SBS is an associated EBU member and the contest has a huge Australian fan base. There is a separate American Song Contest, which was a one-off US format in 2022 inspired by Eurovision but is not part of the Eurovision family.
- European Broadcasting Union. Eurovision Song Contest official results 1956 to 2025. https://eurovision.tv/
- Wikipedia. List of Eurovision Song Contest winners; Big Five (Eurovision); Eurovision Song Contest entries with no points.