There is nothing left for the Eurovision final. On Saturday this week, representatives from selected European countries will compete on a micro-competition for recognition at the popular festival which is about to reach its 67th edition.
Although it is difficult to predict the results of the voting, artificial intelligence (AI) allows us to get an idea of which country in principle and by song won the last edition. more likely to succeed Eurovision in 2023.
grace noteNielsen’s analytical tool, which focuses on the study of all types of performances, has analyzed songs from all previous editions of the Eurovision Song Contest winners to discover which musical attributes were most successful among voters.
The investigation, which was shared with ABC, revealed that, since 1998, the trend has been for winning songs to transmit more energy than the music show’s 42 previous winners. That is, a passionate character wins at Eurovision. What can we expect from Blanca Paloma, the Spanish representative in this edition, and her song ‘Eaea’? The truth is that Nielsen’s AI doesn’t count him among the top favourites.
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According to Gracenote, Austria, Iceland, Israel, Malta, Moldova, Poland and favourite, Sweden, has a theme with the characteristics most valued by Eurovision followers. So, according to the AI, they start as the favourites.
These countries performed “energetic” songs, referring to the 2018 (Israel), 2012 (Sweden) and 1978 (Israel) winners. According to Gracenote’s analysis, ‘Tattoo’, the song performed by Loreen Sweden this year, has exactly the same characteristics (energetic -> catchy rhythm -> milling machine) with the song ‘Euphoria’, whose participant won the festival in 2012.
The theme is “interesting” and “alive”.
Azerbaijan, Cyprus, France, Greece, Netherlands and Ukraine contest with “exhilarating” songs to see if they have the same luck as the top seven winners with songs of these characters: Luxembourg (1972), West Germany (1982), Luxembourg (1983), Switzerland (1988), Ireland ( 1992), Ireland (1993) and Russia (2008). Songs with a “stimulating” character have not been very popular in recent years, as none of them have reached the top five in the last seven Eurovision Song Contests. Last year there was only one “exhilarating” song at the festival (Albania), but it failed to qualify for the final.
Meanwhile, Estonia, Italy, Lithuania and Switzerland They will perform “nostalgia” songs, a character they have won on six previous occasions, most recently in 2019 with the Netherlands. In the top spot in recent years, “nostalgic” songs contrast with the most energetic festivals. At least one “nostalgic” song has broken into the top five at the last four festivals, including runner-up Sam Ryder for England last year. “Nostalgica” was a Tier 1 main character out of eight top 20 finalists in the last four editions of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Denmark, Ireland and Portugal they will perform “upbeat” songs. Yugoslavia (1989), Ukraine (2004), Greece (2005) and Sweden (2015) won with songs of this character, although John Lundvik’s ‘Shum de Go A’ (fifth in 2021) and ‘Too Late For Love’ (fifth in 2019) is the only top 10-ranked song at this status since 2018. Two entrants with “bouncy” songs from last year, from Georgia and Ireland, failed to make it to the semifinals.
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