Top 10 Best Eurovision Performances 

RIP WATCHMOJO

unknown person yes and they don't even know how to say the singers names

Are you fucking kidding me???? No mention of Riverdance a show that has made billions of dollars. That has visited over 450 venues worldwide and been seen by over 25 million people, making it one of the most successful dance productions of all time. Ya of course 6 dancing grannies is better than that. Watchmojo you need to get your shit together.

Kim Robin Rand really? surprised? anyone?

Denmark 2009. Highest number of votes. How did u miss that one

I absolute Love these comments.

Lmao, the Canadians are back at it again

😂😂

Finland sending another 'violent pop' song 😂😂

*me someone who is not European but loves metal* Me: why the fuck wouldn’t they choose those guys. They have amazing on stage presence, they have incredible Special FX makeup, they sound amazing. I am not surprised at all.

well im european and im still confused about this crap ;)

it's not crap... it's a contest which spreads peace equality, versatility something no other contest does

Svele Grobar qüf

I´d love to give your comment a like, but it´s at 420 so I rather not ruin this

This is our substitute for imperialism and world wars. Don't take it away from us!

Olivia Newton John too!

@@garrywallace1007 Wasn't Olivia already famous when she joined Eurovision in '74?

Hold up...you haven't seen it? It's a must-watch for all Eurovision fans!!!

It's actually a good movie for a Will Ferrell movie. Yes it's chaotic......but the music is actually very good and you could put most of the songs on the Eurovision stage and they'd fit right in.

Wait how was Celine dion in Eurovision? She's Canadian.

That is because they live under rocks

They were all in Starbucks drinking pumpkin spice lattes.

You've limited yourself thinking America.....the world is watching.

@Piper .Sparling well then I'm just as rude they're taught my favorite as well as the performances

Piper .Sparling - hell no, so do I, hahaha! I do love Verka and Netta though, they’re my level of bonkers fun.

Go metal or ...just don't fucking go

They shouldn't be surprised about anything that is sent to the contest. There was one year where Finland sent a band full of retarded men with a song that just barely met the minimum time requirement.

Finland don't give a damn anymore, who ever we send there with amazing song they won't get qualified because only other northern countries vote for Finland.

I'm Australian and even I know that

At least you've won the contest, unlike my country (Bulgaria)

Hard rock

Its not surprise

Bwoah

Not really but its hard rock

Well Americans don't really understand either Europe or Eurovision :D

Lmao true

Every 3rd person is in some metal band.😂

I think it's Sweden

Every findlansia and there dads are in a rock band

Here we come!!

@@mistercarter6904 Just telling, watch 2021 Eurovision! Some national finals songs are up, already.

@@mistercarter6904 leave✨

Actually No😒 ••• don’t generalize some of us have been watching this since the 70’s

This is written by a European (at least this episode) they just use an American voice actress for every single episode.

Yea same with satelite

@@stianlygre838 Satelite was maybe a good song, but a terrible live performance.

@@stianlygre838 Satellite is a shame manga should had won.

Watchmojo clearly didn't go by best songs, and I wouldn't even say best performance, but wackiest performance. Alexander Rybak and fairytale should be top of every sane persons list. You listen to the new Eurovision songs, and every year you listen to Alex, atleast I do, Alex is the Eurovision Goat in my eye, he will never be topped. It's the perfect song and performance.

@@mules8662 perfomance is rreally good

indeed ))))

Beating out even Sweden and Norway, who both already have a metric SHITTON metal bands per capita

gwar copy cat lolol

@@jacques4446 Lordi were a well established metal band in europe long before their part taking in the ESC, founded in 92 and playing headlining gigs at many european metal festival. I knew them long before I ever heard of Gwar (which has more to do with Gwar being virtually unknown in Europe).

They still rarely send Heavy Metal Acts to Eurovision which is a shame because it would liven up the competition and represent Finnish musical identity well.

And political situations often

As an Australian we know, hence why our outfits are pretty epic when we turn up!

@Central Intelligence Agency No, it's a music celebration held in the country who won the year before. Each country sends a song, mainly Europeans, but Australia and Israel do participate too. It's beautiful. Let me know if you have more questions.

@@David28082010 celine dion won 🏆

And bribes, political bullcrap. etc etc etc etc etc.

thank you so much 🥰 lots of love from Turkey❤️❤️

@MuslimRoaster Unite we will see who is gonna be history😘

@MuslimRoaster Unite LMAOOO nothing can make Turks history. Stop envying us, hater.🤣

Loves from Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷❤️🇷🇺

Right honey 😊 hi from Turkey

Derpo McRandom Sunstroke project is the best.

Let's face it. Most of us literally only know about sunstroke project because of the gandalf head bobbing meme. Otherwise, you literally never would have heard of that song xD Besides, the eurovision performance itself for "Run Away" was mediocre at best. The background dancers were not performing anything really complicated, and the singing was ok, but definitely nothing to write home about. And the song itself, while we have a lot of nostalgic meme feelings attached to it, if it weren't for the meme, the song itself is OK for a pop song, but the lyrics are just once again, MEDIOCRE. There was literally ONLY ONE VERSE AND ONE INTERLUDE! ONLY ONE VERSE, WTF?!?!?!?! THAT'S PATHETIC! It's clear that the artists literally had trouble coming up with lyrics, because like 50% of the song was just repeating the same 2-sentence chorus over and over, became monotonous and boring. And the interlude was boring too. Once again still, repeating the same sentence twice, with that sentence being convoluted and nonsensical. If it weren't for the sick beat and the skillfull violin as well as epic sax guy, it's safe the say the whole song would have fallen flat on its head. Do you even know what placement they got in eurovision 2010? 22ND PLACE. 22ND PLACE! THAT IS NOT IMPRESSIVE AT ALL! Needless to say, I am definitely not the only one in this world who thought the song wasn't that great. It's a good song as a song in itself if you like that genre, but it is definitely not any contest-winning material. TOo simplistic, too short, too monotonous and repetitive. I am not saying this to be an asshole. I am saying this to open all of youyr guys' eyes to reality from your memestic blinders' nostalgia. Someone like me MUST give a non-biased critical analysis of the song to give it an accurate and FAIR score. So no, were it not for the gandalf meme, Epic Sax guy definitely would not make it even to the bottom of this top ten list, let alone be known by ANYONE in america. We need to stop deluding ourselves in favor of memes and biased preferences, and truly rate performances and songs accurately and fairly by their technical merit.

I live in Moldova

Omg yesss

AHAHAA

Actually a couple of the songs were too american for the contest. Like the Sweden entry in the movie

PeterAParker 😂😭😭

@@mkitten13 Ok no, that song was very much in keeping with a Swedish entry. You do know most of the song writers for the movie were Swedish? /A Swede

​@@EterPuralis I'm Norwegian, so yes

To be honest, the performances in the movie were a little tame for eurovision in my opinion

So you didn’t click on a commentary channel to listen to commentary... ok

@@scribble5105 You could at least have breaks, let them sing longer

Tbf that’s a good reason why they give the name, artist, country, and year Which is much appreciated

No euphoria...

Johannes Pölkki fairytale wasn’t even mentioned. It played for 2 seconds

No golden boy

Fairytale was in it at the start, but not in the list

I agree

its not really heavy metal, its rock

Abe Benton its like saying "we were surpised to see austria played classical music" or "we were surpised that ireland did a jig"

Yes Lordi is heavy metal

The Yigo I'm sorry, but it is Heavy Metal :)

The Yigo Listen to music

abi tabi ki Türkiyedeki herkesin odur da ben Alexander abimizin Fairytale'ini de çok beğenmiştim

@@allonsopia Bence Undo hepsinden iyiydi burda göstermediler ikinci olarak Fairytale Manga bok gibiydi hepsinin yanında

@@allonsopia Evet ya şey de çok güzeldi "my number one"

of course again turkish people invading comments because they can't accept they lost. Manga was just another rock songs tbh

@@itsad7194 bruh, im from Norway 😒

Yuqiiiiii

@@slvfarvet2626 eveeeettt

@@belllrain63 ihihihihihhihi

Robot kadın>Lena

Ferman'ın saçını savuruşu>lena

Samuli Sironen and or norway

Jep oot iha oikeed

SUAMI PERKELE

I'm waiting for Impaled Nazarene to go to Eurovision

Or Iceland

Most of Europe wishes it weren't... Only Iceland seems genuinely into it :)

same

@@alandrahartmann6437 lol. West coast Canada. 😅

Oh yeah its real and more crazy than you can imagine.. I didn't know who Rachel mcadams was before the film (which is more like a documentary actually..) And.. I'm like the few who hate the Eurovision ..but still have to watch it bc otherwise you won't have a clue what ppl are talking about 24/7 ..

Frederic Spitz then why almost 200 million people watch it?

I was expecting that at no 1

yeah you just ruined my day

C'mon, Eurovision isn't all about Euphoria. Tho it could have been mentioned, indeed

Never got hype about it either...

@@MrKiltak But it should be mentioned regardless as it is, to this day, the second most beloved Eurovision winner, behind Abba only

Exactly 😂😂😂

It was very Finland 😁

I am smoking unicorn shit

I dont think that they know anything about finland

@@reimssi Quite. Anyone who who had done 10 seconds research on 'music popular in Finland' would have discovered that metal is huge there.

Finland should send rock bands every year... Sweden as well to be honest :D

They should do it more often, I almost drowned in pop-ballad songs this year. We had one rock song only.....

SUOAMI FINLAND PERKELE

anyone else here is from finland?

I'm from Scotland

Fairytale is my fav too!

Me too But i am bangali🇧🇩

I’m waiting for CBC to start broadcasting the contest in Canada

This is SO wonderful! I wish it was broadcast here, we are just learning about it. Now I can try to find to find the old shows to watch. Thank you Europe!!

It was broadcast in the U.S. from 2016-2018 and then 2019 was on Netflix for a year then removed leading up to the movie release. Though I vastly preferred SVT's (Sweden) online broadcast.

We should start a song along for our music shows ,

I wish it was a big deal here! I found out about eurovision back in 2010 when Lena won with Satellite... one of my favorite songs now!

Megan Smetzer Telliano Check out the official Eurovision Song Contest channel, they have the full shows.

Not gonna lie....I was pretty blown away. Lol

Please don't include Australians. We have loved it since the 1970's that's why we are in it

@@niss2car you are part of Europe in our heart, love love peace peace,❤️

@@niss2car Love love peace peace.

I’m from Argentina and I have known of the existance of Eurovision for years. I love it.

Don’t Need one, ok fair enough. Those were good times.

We got idol, the voice, got talent and all that jazz in Europe to. Eurovision is all your national pride sent into 3 minutes, and 3 hours of every feeling you know of. And you watch it with all friends and family or at your local pub. The nation freeze and evolves to a nation wide mega party afterwards. Eurovision was created to unify a post WW2 continent who had turned to gravel. It was a way to keep the peace and rebuild our bonds. It represent equality, togetherness and love. For everyone. ESC is not like American idol.

Eurovision is unique for all Europeans. It’s something from our past, from our childhood..

I know about Eurovision since my birth. My whole family was gathering to watch competition. First, We were sending 2 sms for Azerbaijan, which is our brother country, then 1 sms for the country, who had the best song 😂🤣. But since 2012, my country, Turkey doesn't join the Eurovision. So now, we just watch its videos, and follow the competition from youtube. Not being able to eat something you like the taste of is worse than not being able to eat something you don't know the taste of. I wish I were American 😅 By the way, the real winner of 2010 is Manga. Never forget it.

​@@gyghfhyh7439 That is excatly what is wrong with the Eurovision. Voting for a country just because its your neighbor or just because the country has a good relationship with your country. Everybody should just vote for who they think is best that year.

Her performance is almost hypnotizing, goddamn.

lol

Wurst is not a god damn woman. It's a man in drag.

@@Nerdcrusher OMG I thought Wurst was trans. I just looked into it more and yeah, Wurst is a drag queen, not trans. My mistake.

@@Nerdcrusher literally not the point of the comment but of course it's the most important thing what gender anyone is nowdays. Get over it.

Jaden Shreeve same

You MUST PLAY IT

YESH IT WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH!

No one wants the eurovision song, you are very right 😂

That's the best song

Ja Ja Ding Dong*

Dima 0012 Moldova :))))

He is back this year :D

YES.

he's back this year

Dima 0012 He wasn't even a Honourable mention! So sad :-(

Tomis Topillo 007 EXACTLYYYYYY

YES

Tomis Topillo 007 moldova?

Master Dan9 ye

Tomis Topillo 007 TRUE

Yes, it was a great performance, but her singing was bad.

@@dariaestermann2418 I don’t think so

ŞAN-I ŞER yeah👌🏻

Personal THANK YOU

Tbh, i think that Fairytale should've been like 1st or 2nd or smth...

Donald Sexist Trump we know.. its was before the list started...

IK! Its stupid!

Fairytale by Alexander Rybak has and will always be my favorite on #ESC!

No, they need to. It's fucking hillarius. XDXDXD

Darque Chocolate mans zelmmerlow

Maans Zhelmemrrlöww

Petra mieedeeee

Stop being so fucking sensitive about the littlest things. Fuck sake.

Lol! Just saw that movie last night.

Same😂

Yo fr i just watched the movie and was shocked that it's a real thing

I cant believe it that gay looking jesus is a real person. From fire saga 😅

Lol dude you did not miss much. 🙂

If Conchita Wurst wasn’t a bearded lady that performance would definitely be regarded as “too static”

Concita hm I thought she was a joke till she sang😜

@@amyclarke41 I think I honestly speak for everybody when I say: We thought it was a joke too, no wonder it won, she took us all by surprise in more ways than one

fre sha voca do yes ı remember ıt was awesome song

yeah it was perfect.

Look up Ireland in 2008 it was then taking the piss out of Eurovision aswell

sam mcvay tought the same

That song is my favorite

Julia Johansson me too. because the winning song this year is a trash.. can't wait for russia to join again.

Julia Johansson vem fan bryr sig

Donald Sexist Trump i did not even mention ukraine... ukraine is shit.. russia was not allowed to join because they cannot enter ukraine. dumbass.. ukraine started the conflict with their 1944 song.. oops wait, they started tge conflict when they atarted to claim Crimea. cheap ass

You so idiot..... Love frome Ukraine...

man as a turk guy i ma waiting since 2012 :'(

and it was created after ww2 to unite europe again and people just liked it so much so they kept doing it every year :)

I totally agree. I might pick other songs, but this video just makes ESC a caricature of what it actually is.

Sertab olmalıydı.

@@erdemuysal4897 ne alaka manganın hakkı yenfi

3:00 Azerbaycan 🇦🇿🇹🇷

OH OH Türkiyem

🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

hell nah

@isimYoK well obviously her performance was better since she won

@isimYoK I watched both, but my honest opinion: Lenas voice catches me more. The MaNga singers voice sounds a bit to flat and the flickering lights and the disgusting robot do not fix it for me.

@@LuManKrix lol. Her lyrics were childish. She looked like she was about to pee during the performance.

@@pnarvars9039 And yet it was still better then that turkey sh.t

Another h-hetalian???

Hetalian!!

That's about the show

Hatari ?

McFlurryFlur fellow Hetalian!!

no , this lists is not for great artists....

i expected him to be number one, but he wasn't even mentioned

This list is about stage shows and presentation and Hadise and Rybak were pretty tame for Eurovision standards.

What makes it worse is that they got the year Alexander Rybak was performing wrong... By 15 years... They wrote 1996, not 2009

Sam Stormy thats the only reason i clicked on this god awful video. What a travesty.

Epic sax guy was just part of a larger performance

And it was a great performance. The violin was also awesome.

memes aren't going to work here kiddo

Yeah i missed him too :(

Ikr!!

Right?!!

Memes are dead memes

Sebastian Krajewski Sooo triggered

He was in the Love Love Peace Peace section.

Sebastian Krajewski because he was singing an anime (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Who is Rybak?

he has the record for the most votes before they change the rule last year. it was year 2009 fairy tales

Ah yes, all the women and gays

handsome devil

Tru

He's so beautiful it is actually sickening

Volcanic protectorrr maaan!!

maNga :'(

Turkey had the best performance that year, i wish they would've won instead of that talentless girl.

nikki as heeshie Lena is alright, but I enjoy the performance by maNga. I love it 💖

eyvallah bro

Lena sux, i would prefer Turkey to win and i say this as a Greek.

Paulina Grabowska actually 2010

lena won 2010

Lissy769 2009

still lena won 2010 and Alexander in 2009

T H A N K Y O U

@@Cia_M1986 I don't know why but I don't like Loreen

Not here

Overrated

Lol

That's me 😁🤣

The question who isn’t?

me

All of us

Me! Omg. I had no idea that it was a real event and there were so many references

Yes ,LOIC NOTTET is unforgettable ! Best performance I've ever seen on ESC. And his concerts on his SELFOCRACYTOUR are the BEST :)

yeah, The Selfocracy Tour is amazing 😍 I saw the show last month in Brussels, and I've never seen a concert like that. He's an incredible young boy !

In the year there were many good performances.

It is my favorite Eurovision performance, amazing song and amazing artist

I loved him!! I still listen to that song regularly

they had lots of Eurovision songs in GTA IV 😂

I always forget it's a Eurovision song it's so good.

THEY HAD EUROVISION SONGS IN GTA 4??

VikingAWarrior yup

ya

Didn't know turkey is a european country

Sertab da olmaliydi

The Kaiser its not

@@xoxo94 A part of Turkey is on the European continent. So it is as much Europe as Russia, and clearly more Europe than Azerbaijan or Australia. Perhaps you are mixing up Europe with the EU.

@@xoxo94 Europe is a Turkish land :)) Your grandparents know well from the ottoman

the controversialist party I'm surprised that they HAVEN'T sent another

We have actually sent another one, we sent Teräsbetoni two years later, in 2008, but in ESC, the same "weird" thing doesn't work that close to each other, and they "failed", came 22nd...

you finnish people are pussys! we estonians drink so mutch more beer and vodka then you and we can stay in a hot sauna longer!

rampage the sneaky lil bitch such a lame troll.

rampage the sneaky lil bitch hahahahahaa what a good joke

Same😂

Same!

Guilty 😂

Worth it

I didn't know this shit is a real competition‼

Ikr

Come on, some of them are indeed.

some are, some definitively aren't. Also there are a lot of underrated songs it's sad!

An american channel made the vid. Says a lot. Alexander Ryback or Kristian Kostov were not even mentioned.

It's am opinion. I like they included Finland 🇫🇮

She looks like a grounder from The 100 xD

Same... absolute favorite and I was so young back then😅

But her voice is very weak. It's all about dancing.

The Commentator is shitty

Zero Like your'e profile picture?

anIme 😎

Yeah maNga is very good From TURKEY 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷