What has changed about the Eurovision Song Contest since 2013 is that the song selected to sing last has been decided by the producers. It is though a relatively modern trend that has experienced this stigma that last place in the running order has been a poor slot.
There may be a slight advantage but that only works if you convince viewers to vote for you. One can over analyse this to suggest that the running order position last is a high-risk, high-reward running order position. Some quick statistics show that 10 of these 24 songs placed in the top one third of placings, with 7 out of 24 placing in the middle and bottom sections respectively.
A small but notable nod in the correct direction. If I take a televote only look at the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Finals from 1998 to today ( see footnote 1), the average position of the song drawn last is 11.8, which is better than the average around 12.5. Voices in the community have been abound that the show is too long and that by song 26 those viewers who are looking to vote have already started making their minds up.Įvidence for that is patchy at best. Spain was also 22nd (jury 25th/televote 14th) in 2019. San Marino was 22nd (jury 18th/televote 21st) with Senhit and Flo Rida. Other show closers in recent times have an equally less impressive record. In fact, Stefan didn’t particularly come close, finishing tenth with televoting and 15th with juries to end up in 13th, and those Spanish viewers ranked Stefan 15th in the public vote. Viewing figures in Spain during the 2022 Eurovision Grand Final Hopeīut Estonia didn’t win the Eurovision Song Contest last year. Data from the 2022 contest shows that viewing figures in Spain peaked for Estonia’s show closer, a good 80% more than saw the Czechia’s opener. The idea is that songs at the end of the show are more likely to be remembered and also more likely to have people watching them. This running order slot has got the British Eurovision community significantly excited that a victory might actually be possible, or at least more likely. Ukraine draw out slot 19 and the United Kingdom’s uptempo crowd pleaser ‘ I Wrote A Song‘ will compete in position 26 ( you can watch the draw here). It so happens that both of them have received great running order draws according to common theory. This year each delegation drew the running order position of their co-production competitor. This year the co-production from the BBC and Suspilne means both the United Kingdom and Ukraine see their running order slots randomly drawn.
However one of the quirks of this event is that it is here where the host nation sees their start order revealed for the Grand Final. This is the time when the boss of each country’s delegation has to formally submit all their broadcasters’ plans for how they want to stage their three minutes on stage and of course the all important song. The Heads of Delegation meeting is taking place in Liverpool before this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.
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