Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

After all those zeros in previous posts let's have a look at the highest scores over the years in Eurovision song contest televoting .For obvious reasons they are all from the past years.  Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra is a runaway winner in this chart followed by Norway's Alexander Rybak with a tiny difference to Portugal's Salvador Sobral. With the same amount of points but fewer countries to colect them is the first non-winning entry, Finland's Käärijä followed by another non winner, Russia's Sergey Lazarev, followed by yet another non-winning entry Italy's Il Volo. Loreen's first win follows and then this year's Croatia before Bulgaria's runner up, Russia's runner up, this year's Israel before yet another Ukrainian winner by Jamala. Kalush Orchestra - Stefania  439 (Ukraine 2022/winner) Alexander Rybak - Fairytale 378 (Norway 2009/winner) Käärijä - Cha cha cha  376 (Finland 2023/2nd) Salvador Sobral - Amar pelos dos  376 (Portugal 2017/w...

Israel's internally selected entry Hurricane finally was approved by EBU March 7, 2024 and published three days later after several re-writes after its original lyrics and title October rain. The song and its music video refers to Re'im Music Festival Massacre on October 7, 2023 when Hamas did a surprise attack killing 384 and taking at least 40 hostages, many of them still missing.  Eden Golan (20) is Israeli-Russian singer. She was born in Israel but moved to Moscow when she was six for 12 years. She started her singing career taking part in the Russian selection for Junior Eurovision in 2015 and later Russian The Voice Kids. Back in Israel she found fame winning The Rising Star that was used to select the Eurovision artist. She won both the jury and the public vote. She has released recently four singles before Hurricane, and already one in Russia in 2015: Schastye. So, what do I think? Putting everything else side and concentrating only solemnly on this entry it's one o...