Eurovision Song Contest

Running since 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest (in French: Concours Eurovision de la Chanson) is an annual televised song contest with participants from numerous countries whose national television broadcasters are members of the European Broadcasting Union. The contest is broadcast on television and also radio throughout Europe. More recently, the contest has also been televised in other parts of the world and broadcast on the internet.

Debut of Nations

• 1956 - Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland
• 1957 - Austria, Denmark, United Kingdom
• 1958 - Sweden
• 1959 - Monaco
• 1960 - Norway
• 1961 - Finland, Spain, Yugoslavia
• 1964 - Portugal
• 1965 - Ireland
• 1971 - Malta
• 1973 - Israel
• 1974 - Greece
• 1975 - Turkey
• 1980 - Morocco
• 1981 - Cyprus
• 1986 - Iceland
• 1992 - Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now Serbia and Montenegro), was suspended 1993-2003
• 1993 - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia
• 1994 - Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia
• 1998 - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• 2000 - Latvia
• 2003 - Ukraine
• 2004 - Albania, Andorra, Belarus
• 2005 - Bulgaria, Moldova