The Eurovision Song Contest has come a long way since its inception in the mid 1950s as a method of promoting harmony across a continent still living in the shadow of war. Equally reviled and adored for its high camp, cheesy euro pop and nakedly political voting, there are nonetheless few cultural institutions- and certainly no music contests- quite like it. This countdown concentrates exclusively on those acts who have triumphed at Eurovision; so no Cliff, Jedward, Verka or Gina G (who everyone thinks won but actually came nowhere near). This results in a list low on outright gimmickry (with a couple of notable exceptions) and surprisingly high in actual quality. Eurovision may operate under different definitions of ‘good’ to most mainstream music but, from passionate chansons to club anthems, the songs gathered here are uniformly strong examples of song craft and pop nouse. There have been 67 winners of Eurovision to date (there would have been 68 by now if it weren’t for that pe