No Czech singer or singer has ever won the international song competition Eurovision. The chance of victory is increased by English pop songs with authentic testimony and preferably about love, in the Czech case accompanied by bagpipes, at least from statistics and opinions across foreign media, which tried to find “instructions” on the winner.
The Eurovision Song Contest has been held for almost seven decades. The competition was helped by the competition organized by the European Broadcasting Union (including Czech Television), ejecting Swedish four ABBA, Finnish metal band Lordi and Canadian singer Céline Dion (but won as a representative of Switzerland and sang in French).
How should future participants increase their chances of success?
Sing for Sweden or Ireland
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It follows from the simple numbers that it is worth being from Sweden – like the biggest star emerging from Eurovision, ABBA – or Ireland. These countries can enjoy seven victories, but while the Swedish are more spread over time, Ireland caught the “green wave” at the end of the 1980s and in the first half of the 1990s, five winners. Since then, silence on the path.
The British daily The Guardian analyzed 1371 to the previous finalists last year, and based on the mix, which was ideal for victory, he concluded that all the conditions were best fulfilled by the song Euphoria, with which the Swedish singer Loreen won in 2012. In 2023, to publishing the article, she won for the second time – which was done in the history of Eurovision only representatives of two countries. The latter is Ireland thanks to Johnny Logan, who won in 1980 Ao seven years later he repeated the victory. In addition, did he compose a competition song of Why Me? For the Irish winner of 1992 Linda Martinová.
Pop with iodine
From the beginning of the millennium to the analysis of 2023, according to The Guardian, only five non -per -sophisticated songs ranked on the first three ranks. All of them have to name Lordi’s Heavymet band from Finland or Italian Måneskin rockers.
But it is good to make Pop special with a reference to the country’s musical tradition, but do not exceed the border between pop and folklore, advises The New York Times. He adds that seven of the winners have pulled a folk musical instrument or at least a traditional melody in the last quarter of a century. The Ukrainian flute Telenka (Kalush Orchestra), Cretan Lyra (Helena Paparizou), Romanian iodine (Ilincca ft. Alex Florea) and Turkish belly dances (Sertab enener) were danced. Also, for example, the Czech participant from 2023, the band Vesna, combines in energetic songs pop, folklore and rap. She managed to reach the audience so much that she advanced to the finals, where she stopped in tenth place.
The reference to the culture of its country, when it is a competition of national songs, is considered to be a good idea of Radio France – which at the same time self -critically states that it does not only mean singing in the national language, which the French refuse to give up.
In English
France has won five times, but last in 1977. At present, English is almost a condition, a rule requiring the contestants to sing in their country’s language has been forgotten since the turn of the millennium.
The dominance of English is clear at first glance: Out of 24 since then, 18 have only been in English, two of them have mixed up to this language, and only four singers held their native speech more consistently. They were interested in Serbian (Marija Sherifovic), Portuguese (Salvador Sobral), Italian (Måneskin) and Ukrainian (Kalush Orchestra).
At the same time, some concentration of non -English songs has been without interest: two of the aforementioned won in the years 2022 and 2023.
Naladit se v moll
The “hop” energetic songs in the major key in competitions are still predominant, but that is changing, says The Guardian. In any case, Moll’s tuning prevails in the overview of the final and winning songs, according to the BBC, the statistics developed by the news agency Press Association shows to 2023.
While the Boston Berklee College of Music musicologist Joe Bennett notes that “minor keys are more of an abbreviation for emotional depth” and it is not true that “the major key is equal to cheerful, the pier tone is sad”.
Prefer a singer than a band
When ABBA won in 1974 with the song Waterloo, it was only for the second time in the history of the competition, when the group reached the first place (after Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann of Denmark in 1963), and the Swedish four not only stimulated the participation of other bands and couples.
However, the last two decades have been promoting solo singers, or singers, who are more contestants (The Guardian writes that from 1956 to 2023 formed solo performers in the finals more than 42 percent compared to thirty percent).
From the late 1950s to 2018, including Eurovision, 38 artists and only eleven artists won, Le Monde calculated. The ratio of men and women has not changed dramatically ever since – after one “comma” they scored both camps, the band won twice, and last year’s Nemo winner describes himself as a non -constant person.
Authentic testimony
Solo production also records more to another observed feature of winning songs, that they communicate some personal experience best telling about the individuality that has been able to stand for itself. Among the most visible examples are the winners of the Austrian Drag Queen Conchita Wurst, which eleven years ago competed with songs with strong messages already in the title: Rise Like and Phoenix (rising like a Phoenix).
For example, there was also a definition of Israeli singer Netty that she was not just a “toy” for men, easy to recognize her composition Toy thanks to the beginning – when Netta mimicled quacing.
In the answers of people from the Austrian music industry, which in 2021 addressed the Der Standard, in addition to the word “authentic”, it is repeated that it is also good to choose polarizing theme. Although such songs do not win in the end, the listeners will probably remember them.
Love wins
And who does not want to go into potentially sharp debates can bet on one of the greatest certainty of Eurovision success – love. Of the twenty songs that won between 2003 and 2023, seventeen dealt with relationships, and thirteen directly said the word “love”, says the article on the Australian platform The Conversation providing space to academics and journalists. The cliché that only songs about love and peace competed in Eurovision, summarized the anecdotic output of the Swedish moderators of the sixty -sixth year. They sang the song called Love Peace Peace outside the competition.
“It is necessary to admit that both of these topics are really common among competitors. Indeed, one of the main reasons why the festival was established in 1956 was the desire to unify European countries through television broadcasts after World War II,” says the official Eurovision website. And as far as love is concerned, he points out that “more often than a love that did not work, there are songs about the ‘return’ and how to continue even stronger than before it.” In short, the competition from all over the world reminds that “love is a truly universal language”.
What the winner of the Eurovision 2025 fulfills from all this will be learned by the audience at the final of May 17th. On Thursday, May 15th, it will be decided if there will be a Czech representative – originally Slovak singer Adam Pavlov’s alias adonxs. His competition song Kiss Kiss Goodbye is to be a metaphor of human failure, emotional injury and fighting with his own imperfection.
