Which country won eurovision 2017
Image source, AFP. Lucie celebrated getting 12 points from Australia. Portugal will now host the contest next year. Image source, EBU. Portugal and Bulgaria were way ahead of third-placed Moldova. View from Kiev. Image source, Getty Images. Job done, sir. Published 14 May Published 12 May For health reasons, he had missed part of the rehearsal schedule: Sobral, who is awaiting a heart transplant, cannot travel for more than two weeks' time without his medical team.
In over six decades of the Eurovision Song Contest, this is Portugal's first win. Sobral's points were a clear lead over the of Bulgaria, followed in a considerable margin by Moldova points , Belgium , Sweden and - the clear favorite in the weeks before - Italy points.
The songs exhibited a range of styles. Bulgaria's entry was an absolutely poised year-old Kristian Kostov with a very mature voice. Moldova's SunStroke Project delivered a fun dance number that generated smiles and dancing, while Belgium's Blanche sang a minimalist song laced with melancholy.
Sweden's Robin Bengtsson showed a bit too much polish in his smooth dance number, and the ostensibly unconquerable Italy, which might have won any other year, faced too much stiff competition in As in previous years, there was much regional voting, with countries frequently awarding their points to neighboring lands. Yet across the continent, many juries awarded their top points to Portugal. Sobral established a lead from the beginning, and was never challenged as the votes came in - first, country by country in the jury voting, and later, when the combined television votes were announced.
Notable in the evening was the disturbance created by a streaker, apparently wearing only an Australian flag and momentarily seen on television disturbing the performance of Ukrainian singer Jamala while the vote tallies were awaited. With six points, Germany finished second-to-last, followed only by Spain. Levina's performance was solid, yet unemotional, and her song all-too-safe and so calculated to win, that the result was the opposite.
Altogether, 42 nations vied this time for top honors at the grand final of the world's biggest entertainment show, broadcast to an estimated television audience of million. Hosted by three young men - Oleksandr Skichko, Timur Miroshnychenko and Volodymyr Ostapchuk - in the kind of English that can be understood across the continent, the show was bare-bones, despite ongoing controversy in Ukraine over the cost of the event.
The effects in the musical productions were of typically high standard, however: a gigantic LED screen creating spellbinding visual spaces, showers of sparks falling from the heights and pyrotechnic columns surging from below. This year's contest, held in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, marks the first time that a host state has banned another country's entrant. Ukrainian security services denied entry to year-old, wheelchair-bound Yulia Samoylova of Russia after reports surfaced that she toured Crimea after Russia annexed it in In response, Russia's state-owned broadcaster Channel One will not air the contest.
It's the first win for Portugal who have been competing since Luisa Sobral, Salvador's sister. Luisa joined her brother for a reprise of the winning song on stage. Complete database with all the votings, points, songs and lyrics from Eurovision Song Contest history:. Like 44K Follow. Found an error in the text? Please notify us. Did you know Ireland holds the record of most victories in Eurovision Song Contest: Seven victories!
The six of these victories was in the 80s and 90s: , , , , , and Russia's entry "A Million Voices" from became the first non-winning Eurovision song to score over points. Eurovision Semi-finals were introduced in Follow Eurovisionworld. Eurovisionworld on Facebook. Live animals are banned from stage at Eurovision.