This year at wiwibloggs, we are celebrating the festive season with a series of different polls. For the next few days, we’re going to stuff your stockings with a selection of end-of-decade Eurovision votes. Consider this a unique riff on the classic “Twelve Days of Christmas” carol.
Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, you can join us and let us know your thoughts for each and every poll.
Eurovision televote winners: 2010 to 2019
The scoring system has changed over the 60-year history of the contest. From pure juries to pure televote to a mixture of both. While the 2010s saw many minor tweaks to the system, it was the first decade in which a 50/50 system was maintained consistently.
We’ll take a look at the favourite entry of the public from each year. At the beginning of the decade there was juries and televoters were typically in agreement. However, there have been years in which the opinions diverged and the public’s favourite didn’t go on to win the contest.
Watch the ten televote winners of the 2010s below and decide which is your favourite. You can vote for as many songs as you like, but you can only vote once — so make it count!
Eurovision 2010: Germany’s Lena with “Satelite”
The lightheartedness of Germany’s Lena impressed both juries and viewers at home. An undisputed victory with both groups meant the contest would come back to Germany for the first time since 1983. Lena’s victory in the televote was quite comfortable with a margin of over 60 points ahead of runner-up Turkey.
Eurovision 2011: Azerbaijan’s Ell & Nikki with “Running Scared”
The land of fire delivered a touching performance. And, of course, lots of pyros. But Azerbaijan’s first win wasn’t as comfortable as Lena’s the previous year. Ell & Nikki’s emotional duet achieved an impressive 223 televote points, just two ahead of Sweden’s Eric Saade. However, this score was crucial to their overall victory as Italy was the jury favourite.
Eurovision 2012: Sweden’s Loreen with “Euphoria”
Besides bringing snow to the land of fire, Loreen was the first Swedish victory of this decade. Her mesmerising performance of an upbeat-hit found praise with both juries and televoters. Viewers were sent in an alternative universe by her physical and mysterious performance. All in all, she became one of the most iconic winners of all time.
Eurovision 2013: Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest with “Only Teardrops”
The distance between Malmö and Copenhagen, the host cities of 2013 and 2014, is closer than the televote result of the 2013 edition. Emmelie de Forest won the contest with an upbeat-ethno pop song, complete with drums and a flute. The EBU may have never published the split result, but the average televote result was a 4.97. This indicates a clear win and Emmelie managed to top the jury vote as well.
Eurovision 2014: Austria’s Conchita Wurst with “Rise Like A Phoenix”
Conchita Wurst’s victory in 2014 was a victory for social progress in troubled times. Her message of unity and respect went far beyond European borders. The rest of the field couldn’t come close to the televoting score for “Rise Like a Phoenix”. Austria topped the televote (as well as the jury vote) with almost 90 points more than second place.
Eurovision 2015: Italy’s Il Volo with “Grande Amore”
Eurovision 2015 was a year of firsts for the contest. Australia competed for the first time and for the first time ever the televote favourite didn’t win the contest. Italy’s operatic pop trio Il Volo delivered a multitude of goosebumps moments. But the massive televote score (80 more than Russia, 87 more than Sweden) wasn’t enough to make up for their jury result.
Eurovision 2016: Russia’s Sergey Lazarev with “You Are The Only One”
Eurovision 2016, the second hosted in Sweden this decade, saw a similar result to Vienna. This time the public’s favourite was Russia’s Sergey Lazarev. But he also failed to secure victory. His performance combined his endless talent with exceptional technology that made him a part of the stage. Thanks to the revised voting system, he was, at least, announced as the televote winner during the show.
Eurovision 2017: Portugal’s Salvador Sobral with “Amar Pelos Dois”
Similar to his song, Salvador Sobral’s victory was simpler and without discussions. An almost 40 points lead with the televote formed the foundation for Portugal’s first-ever victory. In times in which everyone raised their voice, Salvador’s soft and silent song made everyone listen to him. His intimate performance is one of the standout moments of the 2010s.
Eurovision 2018: Israel’s Netta with “Toy”
The 2018 televote winner was again the overall winner. Netta was declared as favourite early on and managed to take the trophy home to Israel. Her duel with Eleni Fouerra was iconic. However, her televote victory turned out pretty comfortable with a lead of over 60 points. Her totally crazy performance fitted perfectly with her quirky song.
Eurovision 2019: Norway’s KEiiNO “Spirit in the Sky”
Up to 2019, the televote winner had always finished inside the top three on the scoreboard. And then there was KEiiNO. The Norwegian power-group sang and joiked their way all the way to the first place in the televoting, but were let down by the juries. In the end, the Nordic trio finished in sixth place.
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Now are Il Volo in the lead….
EUPHORIA!! Only
It’s Loreen for me!
Sobral and KEiiNO were some of the worst televote winners… Even worse than Ell & Nikki, lol
KEiiNO are corny as F$CK
Since not long ago we had posts reviewing the top 3 from each of the last 10 years, let me take the opportunity to say how happy I was with KEiiNO’s performance in Tel Aviv. I always thought it was a charming, fun and unpretentious song, even if I was rooting for Morland to represent Norway again. “Spirit in the Sky” has been called a fanwank, many people said it would flop, but it was clear to me there was an audience for that. It was just the matter of building up the chemistry between those 3 very interesting people.… Read more »
and BTW, thanks for the juries…some acts just didn’t deserve to win
That´s right !
after all these years I still cannot get how come Azerbaijan won with that song….
2011 was not a very strong year to begin with. Only a few songs were really good, but were mostly either too outside a box for juries or not big televote magnets. Azerbaijan nailed the staging and the song sounded pleasant and cozy. Was it a winning song? Not really. However, there were many, many weaker options in the slot.
That’s one theory. I have another.
Euphoria!! In a league of its own!
Today is the 30th birthday of Portugal´s winner in Kyiv. Happy birthday, dear Salvador !
Dear Salvador. In your performances you are pretending to be sensitive and vulnerable while in your interviews you are an ass#ole that doesn’t think twise before trashing fellow musicians. What’s your secret?
Euphoria, Grande Amore, Spirit in the Sky – Sounds just about right. 🙂
None of these songs are sub-par, though. I don’t think all of them were in my top 10, but all of them were in my upper half of their respective year. Mostly in top 15 at least.
Grande Amore was my 2nd in especially great 2015.
Spirit in the Sky was my 5th last year.
Euphoria was my 5th in 2012.
Yeah, these 3 are phenomenal. 🙂
I hate to sound like a smart-arse here but in Dusseldorf 2011, Eric Saade technically won televoting if you subtract San Marino’s jury points which were also counted on the split televote results.
1) Sweden – 215 pts
2) Azerbaijan – 213 pts
3=) Greece & Ukraine – 168 pts
5) UK – 164 pts
I Think also albania did have a jury in the final
To be honest: It´s not very difficult to predict the results correctly of a poll like this: First Loreen and last Ell & Nikki are not a big surprise….
Grande Amore non fu una meteora. Con oltre 160 milioni di visualizzazioni, risuona ancora in tutto il mondo. Ottenne iil maggior numero di voti dal televoto popolare con grande distacco dalla seconda.
stai zitto, puttana
All of them but Portugal and Israel. But my top ones are Loreen, Lena and Il Volo, they are the best of this decade.
Running Scared last? What a shock.
I didn’t even liked my whole top 10 from 2011. It was a bad year and a bad winner.
For me the worst year in the whole decade was 2014, followed by 2016.
Agreed. Such a shame the entries in 2011 were meh, cause the production was pretty great.
This is off topic but will S!sters not produce any more music together
What a shocker XD
Not dissing, I think they are talented artists.
Euphoria and Amar Pelos Dois hands down. Two amazing songs and performances, probably my all time favourite top 2.
Amar Pelos Dois is a joke. should never had won in my opinion. same for Satellite, but Satellite is ok
i voted for 2013, 2016, 2019 cause they were real bops
Amar Pelos Dois wouldn’t bother me if Salvador didn’t had this weird way of presentation where he has all of those ticks and weird movements like he’s mimicking an autistic person. Like, what is this sh!t show? Can’t you just stand still and sing? Why you need that cheap acting as if you’re “so sensitive and vulnerable”. Where was this sensitivity when you held the trophy and told all of your colleagues in their face that their music is trash?
I loved Satellite but Amar Pelos Dois is the most boring piece of sh*t ever, the worst winner of all time and the worst song in 2017. It won only because it was different.
Those portugese people on Wiwibloggs should stop voting for their own country in polls (this the only reason it’s now 4th in this poll)
Very primitive posting…. For me is THE BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a joke…. I´m not Portuguese and I also voted for it in this poll and at midnight I will raise my glass for Salvador´s 30th birthday. Your opinion isn´t really important.
You don’t get 758 points just because your entry is ‘different’. Don’t state your personal opinion like it’s a fact.
Running Scared as 2011 televote winner is a joke
There were no good songs that year. The winner and the runner up are jokes that reflect the general quality. Poor Germans put so much effort in that production just to end up hosting the weakest edition of the decade.
I know, the production was amaziing.
Wow, there are *so* many good picks here.
I feel really sorry for Il Volo, Sergey and KEiiNO, they have missed their place in the pantheon of winners of this great contest.
I feel the same. All 3 deserved it
Il Volo winning televoting in Greece, Russia or Iceland was huge.
Same for Keiino by winning it in Germany over Luca.
And Sergey was voted by every single country as well.
Winning Televoting is not easy at all
Definitely Lena, Loreen, Emmelie, Netta and KEIINO from me
1. Grande Amore 2. Euphoria 3. You Are The Only One. Worst one is Toy.
Yeah, Toy is worse than Running Scared. That’s why it charted in the US and went viral even before the contest.
Yeah, because only good songs have good promotion. Without “#metoo message” and tons of cash behind it, noone outside of Europe would’ve even hear about it.
Many countries put an effort and money to promote their songs for ESC. Cyprus’s video of 2018 probably cost at least twice as the one of “Toy” (the whole thing was planned in 4 days and shot in one single set). Yet when Fuego came out people were like “oh, cool”, but went nuts when they saw Toy. So don’t talk about how it was “promoted” as if only Israel promoted its entry that year. What a joke
And about the #metoo message. Clearly if you put a song like “you’re the only one” in your top 3 you are not a person who cares much about lyrics. Toy with all of its odd lyrics at least did have a message more than “love me, love you, you’re my love, big big love, huge ass love”.
I didn´t like the childish behaviour of Netta.
My ranking order is as follows:
1. Salvador 2. Conchita 3. Loreen 4. Emmelie 5. Lena 6. Il Volo 7. KEIINO 8. Sergey 9. Netta 10. Ell &Nikki
Share your moment and feel your heartbeat pump when you light your fire, you know we are one so join us and build bridges and come together to celebrate diversity on this happy ship, All aboard to dare to dream and open up to the future!
1. Euphoria 10/10
2. Amar pelos dois 10/10
3. Rise Like a Phoenix 9/10
4. Toy 8/10
5. Grande amore 8/10
6. Only Teardrops 7/10
7. Running Scared 7/10
8. Satellite 7/10
9. You Are The Only One 5/10
10. Spirit In The Sky 5/10
I gave Running Scared a pity vote because I don’t think it’s as bad as people say, yet it’s nowhere near being one of my favourites. Other than that, I’d have to give this ranking:
1: Salvador Sobral (voted)
2: Netta (voted)
3: Conchita Wurst (voted)
4: Il Volo (voted)
5: Sergey Lazarev
6: Lena
7: Ell & Nikki (voted)
8: Loreen
9: KEiiNO
10: Enmelie
Il Volo and Keiino hands down. A shame the juries harmed them so freaking much
satellite, it was a weak winner points wise, but it was a massive commercial success – the second biggest of the decade after euphoria!
1.2015
2.2014
3.2016
How are people not over Euphoria yet?!
No doubt Salvador for me, one of my favourites of all times. A very heartwarming und beautiful song and performance and a good reason for me to learn Portuguese. Muito obrigado !
There may be people who don’t think the same as me. Apologize to them but i think Turkey deserved 1st place. maNga’s performance was better than Lena.
I wonder if salty soldi stans are still moaning the same way in 10 years.
This would be an amazing band name.
People keep obsessing over this mediocre sh!t a decade later is the biggest mystery ever.
Wiwibloggs should do individual polls to rank the songs that represented each country throughout the decade.
Israel and germany for me. I’m still shocked keiino was the televote winner! Usually i’m good at predicting placings but i guessed they would end up somewhere around 9th to 12th.
After watching SF2, it felt Keiino were a clear Top 5 or Top 3 contender for televoting. The energy was there.
Locals really loved it. Kinda like Moldova 2017. Genuine enjoyment always work.
People loved how corny Spirit In The Sky is. I mean, as a song it’s not good at all. Their voices don’t blend very well, the “yodelling” is stuck in the middle of this outdated dance track like a bone in the throat. Just a trash entry that I’m glad judges killed.
Don’t forget people voted Serhat to be in the top 10 position. ESC fans starting to crave pure trash again, like in the earlier 2000s and it won’t be good if the contest will head this direction.
Yeah, I said they’re black horse and they will slay televote, about 2 weeks before actual contest. And this comment got like -15 points here. So yeah, think for yourself.
YouTube accidentally recommended Euphoria to me and I was immediately impressed after watching Loreen slay the stage in Baku. This opened me to the amazing world of Eurovision when I was still a freshmen college student. Among the televote winners above, her entry for me is the most timeless. I remember a commenter saying that if she entered the contest every year, it would not be a surprise if she also wins Eurovision annually. Some may disagree with these claims but no one can deny the fact that Loreen and Euphoria is clearly a decade-defining duo and will be loved… Read more »
Loreen was in Melodifestivalen 2011 (with a superior song imo) and 2017 and both years she didn’t win the Swedish preselection. In 2011 she only reached Andra Chansen.
I could not agree more. My Heart Is Refusing Me is such a masterpiece and Loreen’s interval performance in 2013 is one of my most favorite follow up winner performances. Here’s to hoping that she will compete in Melodifestivalen in the future and snatch everyone’s wigs again.
2017 too.
The remix of My Heart Is Refusing Me is better than the Melodifestivalen one.
Random thoughts: 2010- I am Turkish, yet I think Germany totally deserved it over Manga (though Manga was close). Lena was phenomenal for me. Great lyrics, catchy melody, relatable singer. Fantastic start to the decade. 2011- While my faves were Bosnia, Slovenia and Denmark, the moment I watched the Azeris, I wrote my German friend “winner”. I think the Azeri win is a bit underrated. It was neither a great song, nor great staging, nor exceptional singers, but as a package, it worked. 2012. Everyone loves it, except me, so I learned to accept it. 2013. My biggest headscratcher of… Read more »
I think Spirit in the Sky was a throwback to the europop that dominated in the 2000s in Eurovision and that’s why they did so well. I was surprised they won the televote but I can see why now. They deserved better than sixth.
Only Teardrops was a safe winner. Plus the popularity it gained before the contest helped. Her song even played in Albania before the contest took place, which almost never happens. Only Greece 2005 and Azerbaijan 2011 had achieved that before.
For the song, Amar pelos Dois. For the performance, Grande Amore.
It’s interesting that I as a vocal televote supporter can’t find all too many televote winners that I personally fancy. Of course, the same goes for jury vote winners. In 2013, I never thought I’d say this in almost 2020, but my general picks are Euphoria and Only Teardrops. Performance-wise, my pick is Grande Amore. And song-wise, ONLY song-wise, my pick would be Rise like a Phoenix. So really, I have no clear overall winner, I only have clear winners for different aspects.
Rise like a Phoenix has by far the best lyrics out of these televote winners, in my opinion. Especially its verses are great.