This week, four Eurovision Song Contest songs entered the top 10 in the UK. Never before has a Eurovision Song Contest year produced so many UK top 10 hits.

Obviously this year’s Eurovision Song Contest took place in the UK and it was very lively there. Entries from Sweden, Finland and Norway all debuted in the UK top 10. Loreen came in at number 2 with her winning song Tattoo. This broke his personal record, as his previous entry Euphoria ended at number 3 in 2012. A song Unfortunately, there is no 1 hit yet. It is occupied by Miracle by Calvis Harris & Ellie Goulding.

Runner-up Käärijä is at number 6 with Cha Cha Cha and Alessandra debuts at number 10 with Queen Of Kings. In our country, these two songs are included in Tipparade. The UK entry I Wrote A Song by Mae Muller is already on the list and this week – despite coming in penultimate at Liverpool – rises to number 9.

Below you’ll find all the Eurovision hits that made the UK top 100 this year. Their odds for the week are displayed ahead. At the back you will find their final ranking at the Eurovision Song Contest:

• #2 Loreen – Tattoo (Sweden, 1st Place)
• #6 Käärijä – Cha Cha Cha (Finland, 2nd place)
• #9 Mae Muller – I Write Songs (UK, 25th)
• #10 Alessandra – Queen Of Kings (Norway, 5th place)
• #45 Noa Kirel – Unicorn (Israel, 3rd place)
• #48 Teya & Salena – Who Is Edgar (Austria, 15th)
• #56 Blanka – Solo (Poland, 19th place)
• #63 Gustaph – Because of You (Belgium, 7th place)
• #79 Voyager – Promise (Australia, 9th place)
• #92 Andrew Lambrou – Heartbreak (Cyprus, 12th)
• #94 La Zarra – Evidemment (France, 16th)
• #95 Tvorchi – Heart Of Steel (Ukraine, 6th place)

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This is the first time in the history of the UK charts that four Eurovision songs have entered the top 10. Until this week, the record was held by the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, when the festival was also held in the UK. That year, ABBA’s Waterloo was a number 1 hit. Numbers 2 and 3 that year, Gigliola Cinquetti’s Sí and Mouth & MacNeal’s I See A Star both reached number 8 in the UK charts. There were almost four Eurovision top 10 songs that year, but Olivia Newton-John’s Long Live Love, despite placing 4th in the Eurovision Song Contest, did not go beyond number 11 in the charts.

In 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1982, the Eurovision Song Contest produced two UK top 10 songs. 1982 was the last year a Eurovision song reached number 1. That honor then went to 17-year-old Nicole, who won the festival on German behalf with Ein Bißchen Frieden and scored a hit with the English version of A Little Love.

In our country, 1972, 1973 and 1976 produced the 10 most popular songs. In those years, three Eurovision Song Contest songs entered the top 5 of the Dutch Top 40.

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This week we found another 8 Eurovision songs on the UK list (see overview above). So there are a total of 12 entries in the list. This equaled the record of 2014. That year also saw 12 Eurovision Song Contest songs enter the UK top 100. However, only one song entered the top 10. It’s Calm After The Storm by our very own Common Linnets. The song reached number 9.

A total of four Dutch Eurovision entries have been on the UK hit list. Apart from I See A Star and Calm After The Storm, the last two winners from the Netherlands are. Teach In’s Ding-A-Dong reached number 13 in 1975 and Duncan Laurence’s Arcade reached number 67 in 2019. But Arcade became a hit again in 2021 thanks to TikTok and thanks to this rematch, Arcade still reached number 29 .

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Since the first British Eurovision hit in 1958, a total of 144 Eurovision songs have entered the top 100. Nearly half (62) were British participants. Of the remaining 82 participants, most were from Sweden. The country was good for 10 Eurovision hits between 1974 and 2023. Ireland (8 hits) and Norway (6 hits) also performed well in that regard. Ireland and Israel both performed 5 Eurovision hits, followed by Finland, France and the Netherlands with 4 hits.

This year the flag may be flown for the first time in Australia and Poland. Thanks to metal group Voyager and singer Blanka, their country’s Eurovision entry is now in the UK charts for the first time.

_{(Photo: YouTube | Eurovision Song Contest)}

(20/05/2023)