Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la Chanson) is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition. Each country participates via one of their national EBU-member television stations, whose task it is to select a singer and a song to represent their country in the international competition. The Contest has been broadcast every year since its inauguration in 1956 and is one of the longest-running television programmes in the world. It is also one of the most-watched non-sporting events in the world, with audience figures having been quoted in recent years as anything between 100 million and 600 million internationally. Eurovision has also been broadcast outside Europe to such places as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, India, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Uruguay despite the fact that they do not compete. Since 2000, the Contest has also been broadcast over the Internet, with more than 74,000 people in almost 140 countries having watched the 2006 edition online.

CONTRY MAKING ITS DÉBUT ENTRY
1956	1956	1956	1956	1956	1956	1956	1957	1957
1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1961	1961	1964	1965
1971	1973	1974	1975	1980	1981	1986	1993	1993
1993	1994	1994	1994	1994	1994	1994	1994	1998
2000	2003	2004	2004	2004	2004	2005	2005	2006
2007	2007	2007	2007	2008	2008