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Did You Know? | August 2023
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1 August[edit]In 2015, the Eurovision Song Contest was recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the Longest Running Annual TV Music Competition.[DYK 1] 5 August[edit]
6 August[edit]Since Eurovision 2016 the winner of a tie is the country that received more points from the televoting, then the country that received points from more countries in the televoting, then the country that received more 12 points in the televoting, then 10 points, all the way down to 1. If the tie cannot be broken in this way, the country that performed earlier wins the tie.
Used most recently in 2023, as both Romania 8 August[edit]Over 1,500 songs have taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest (not including the 7 songs that didn’t make it in the 1996 pre-qualification round). In 2006, Ireland’s Brian Kennedy delivered the 1,000th entry to the contest, appropriately titled Every Song is a Cry for Love. If you would listen to all the songs without a break, you would be sitting up for nearly 72 hours.[DYK 4] 10 August[edit]
12 August[edit]The 37 entries of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 were streamed a total of 808 million times, as of 24 June 2023. Five of them ( Sweden , Finland , Israel , Norway and Italy ) managed to enter, between May 12 and 18, the Billboard Global Charts of the United States.[DYK 6] 15 August[edit]Natalia Gordienko, who represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, holds the record for the longest continuous note in Eurovision at 17 seconds.[DYK 7] 16 August[edit]The largest number of nations to take part was 43 in 2008, 2011 and 2018[DYK 8] 17 August[edit]
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