The Eurovision Song Contest Thread (722 views)

[Alex61]

Pictured: Loreen, 2023's winner
Eurovision Song Contest
Vocal Range: E2 – F6

Significant High Notes:
F6 ("1944" live GF ESC 2016)
E6 ("Queen of Kings")
D6 (Hannah Waddingham Sings A Cappella live SF1 ESC 2023*)
C♯6 ("Zero Gravity")
C6 ("Technicolour")
B5 ("Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)", "D.G.T. (Off and On)", "We Got Love")
B♭5 ("Zero Gravity")
G♯5 ("Stay", "Under the Ladder" live GF ESC 2018)
G5 ("Sound of Silence" live GF ESC 2016, "Technicolour")
F♯5 ("Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)", "Gravity", "Mountain" live GF ESC 2023*, "Tick-Tock", "Who the Hell Is Edgar?", "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" live GF ESC 2023*)
F5 ("1944", "Angel", "Be My Guest", "Blood & Glitter", "Break a Broken Heart", "Don't Break Me", "Eaea", "Music Unites Generations" live SF2 ESC 2023*, "Under the Ladder")
E5 ("D.G.T. (Off and On)", "Gravity", "I Wrote a Song", "Mayak" live SF1 ESC 2023*, "Music Unites Generations" live SF2 ESC 2023*, "Queen of Kings", "Shum", "Solovey", "Sound of Silence", "We Got Love", "Wild Dances")
E♭5 ("Be My Guest", "Because of You", "Don't Break Me", "Echo", "Ordinary World" live SF1 ESC 2023*, "Power", "Rita Ora Medley" live SF1 ESC 2023*, "Tattoo" live WP ESC 2023, "Tonight Again")
D5 ("Bitaqat Hub", "Breaking My Heart", "Burning Daylight", "Carpe Diem", "Due vite", "Future Lover", "Show Me Your Love", "Shum", "Sound of Silence", "Sweet People", "Who the Hell Is Edgar?")
C♯5 ("Ai coração", "Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)", "Mountain" live GF ESC 2023*, "Shady Lady", "Solovey", "Tattoo", "Tell Me More", "Tick-Tock", "Time", "Unicorn")
C5 ("Aijā", "Because of You", "Bridges", "Duje", "Future Lover", "I Wrote a Song", "Like an Animal", "My Sister's Crown", "Rita Ora Medley" live SF1 ESC 2023*, "Show Me Your Love", "Sweet People", "Wild Dances")
B4 ("Breaking My Heart", "Carpe Diem", "Don't Come Easy", "Due vite", "Évidemment", "I Turn to You" live GF ESC 2023*, Julia Sanina Sings A Cappella live SF1 ESC 2023*, "Mayak" live SF1 ESC 2023*, "My Sister's Crown", "Ordinary World" live SF1 ESC 2023*, "Promise", "Stay")
B♭4 ("Break a Broken Heart", "Bridges", "Burning Daylight", "Not the Same", "Promise", "Tonight Again")
A4 ("Aijā", "Dancing Lasha Tumbai", "Don't Come Easy", "Hasta la vista", "Mama ŠČ!", "Razom nas bahato", "Stefania")
G♯4 ("Imagine" live GF ESC 2023*, "Time", "Under the Ladder", "Watergun")
G4 ("Cha Cha Cha", "D.G.T. (Off and On)", "Mama ŠČ!", "Soarele și luna", "Tell Me More", "What They Say")

Significant Low Notes:
A3 ("Be My Guest", "Future Lover", "Gravity", "Sound of Silence", "Technicolour", "Who the Hell Is Edgar?", "Wild Dances")
G♯3 ("Évidemment", "Ordinary World" live SF1 ESC 2023*)
G3 ("Angel", "Because of You", "Bitaqat Hub", "Bridges", "I Wrote a Song", "Solo", "We Got Love")
F♯3 ("Ai coração", "Carpe Diem", "Shady Lady", "Solovey", "Stay", "Tattoo", "Tick-Tock", "Unicorn")
F3 ("1944", "Don't Break Me")
E3 ("Aijā", "Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)", "My Sister's Crown", "Queen of Kings", "Razom nas bahato", "Sweet People")
E♭3 ("Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)", "I Turn to You" live GF ESC 2023*, "Music Unites Generations" live SF2 ESC 2023*, "Under the Ladder")
D3 ("Cha Cha Cha", ""Don't Come Easy", Duje", "Like an Animal", "Music Unites Generations" live SF2 ESC 2023*, "Promise", "Samo mi se spava", "Stefania", "We Are One")
C♯3 ("Break a Broken Heart", "Heart of Steel", "Imagine" live GF ESC 2023*, "Not the Same", "Time")
C3 ("Dance (Our Own Party)", "Tonight Again")
B2 ("Dancing Lasha Tumbai")
B♭2 ("Burning Daylight", "Under the Ladder", "You'll Never Walk Alone" live GF ESC 2023*)
A2 ("D.G.T. (Off and On)", "Due vite", "Duje", "Tell Me More")
G♯2 ("Heart of Steel", "Watergun")
G2 ("Aijā", "Blood & Glitter", "Mama ŠČ!", "Promise", "Soarele și luna", "What They Say")
F♯2 ("Samo mi se spava")
F2 ("Whole Again" live GF ESC 2023*)
E2 ("Cha Cha Cha", "D.G.T. (Off and On)")
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• Blue marks high falsetto or whistle register notes.
• Bold marks notes or passages that are particularly outstanding (relative to the singer).
• Italics mark non-melodic notes.
• Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.

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{Abbreviations}
ESC: Eurovision Song Contest
SF1: Semi-Final 1
SF2: Semi-Final 2
GF: Grand Final
WP: Winner's Performance
An asterisk (*): Opening or interval performance
[Finland]: There are multiple songs with the same title, this title refers to the entry by Finland

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{Questionable Notes}
B5 ("Dancing Lasha Tumbai"^[1][2], "Unicorn"^[1], "Who the Hell Is Edgar?"^[2])
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1. Questionable exclamations.
2. Questionable identity.
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Questionable notes are any notes of questionable significance. In short, this spoiler acknowledges notes that I am aware exist, but do not want to contribute to the singer's range. These involve (but are not limited to) notes of questionable identity, notes of questionable legitimacy and notes of significantly poor quality.

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{Statistics}
Largest-Ranged Country: Ukraine (B♭2 – F6)
Smallest-Ranged Country: Morocco (G3 – D5)
Largest-Ranged Entry: "D.G.T. (Off and On)", Romania 2023 (E2 – B5)
Smallest-Ranged Entry: "Hasta la vista", Ukraine 2003 (C♯4 – A4)

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{Range Breakdown}

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{By Year}

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{2023}

Pictured: Loreen, 2023's winner
2023
Vocal Range: E2 – E6

Significant High Notes:
E6 ("Queen of Kings")
D6 (Hannah Waddingham Sings A Cappella live SF1 ESC 2023*)
B5 ("D.G.T. (Off and On)")
G♯5 ("Stay")
F♯5 ("Mountain" live GF ESC 2023*, "Who the Hell Is Edgar?", "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" live GF ESC 2023*)
F5 ("Blood & Glitter", "Break a Broken Heart", "Eaea", "Music Unites Generations" live SF2 ESC 2023*)
E5 ("D.G.T. (Off and On)", "Mayak" live SF1 ESC 2023*, "Music Unites Generations" live SF2 ESC 2023*, "Queen of Kings", "I Wrote a Song")
E♭5 ("Because of You", "Echo", "Ordinary World" live SF1 ESC 2023*, "Power", "Rita Ora Medley" live SF1 ESC 2023*, "Tattoo" live WP ESC 2023)
D5 ("Breaking My Heart", "Burning Daylight", "Carpe Diem", "Due vite", "Future Lover", "Who the Hell Is Edgar?")
C♯5 ("Ai coração", "Mountain" live GF ESC 2023*, "Tattoo", "Tell Me More", "Unicorn")
C5 ("Aijā", "Because of You", "Bridges", "Duje", "Future Lover", "I Wrote a Song", "Like an Animal", "My Sister's Crown", "Rita Ora Medley" live SF1 ESC 2023*)
B4 ("Breaking My Heart", "Carpe Diem", "Due vite", "Évidemment", "I Turn to You" live GF ESC 2023*, Julia Sanina Sings A Cappella live SF1 ESC 2023*, "Mayak" live SF1 ESC 2023*, "My Sister's Crown", "Ordinary World" live SF1 ESC 2023*, "Promise", "Stay")
B♭4 ("Break a Broken Heart", "Bridges", "Burning Daylight", "Promise")
A4 ("Aijā", "Mama ŠČ!")
G♯4 ("Imagine" live GF ESC 2023*, "Watergun")
G4 ("Cha Cha Cha", "D.G.T. (Off and On)", "Mama ŠČ!", "Soarele și luna", "Tell Me More", "What They Say")

Significant Low Notes:
A3 ("Future Lover", "Who the Hell Is Edgar?")
G♯3 ("Évidemment", "Ordinary World" live SF1 ESC 2023*)
G3 ("Because of You", "Bridges", "I Wrote a Song", "Solo")
F♯3 ("Ai coração", "Carpe Diem", "Stay", "Tattoo", "Unicorn")
E3 ("Aijā", "My Sister's Crown", "Queen of Kings")
E♭3 ("I Turn to You" live GF ESC 2023*, "Music Unites Generations" live SF2 ESC 2023*)
D3 ("Cha Cha Cha", "Duje", "Like an Animal", "Music Unites Generations" live SF2 ESC 2023*, "Promise", "Samo mi se spava", "We Are One")
C♯3 ("Break a Broken Heart", "Heart of Steel", "Imagine" live GF ESC 2023*)
C3 ("Dance (Our Own Party)")
B♭2 ("Burning Daylight", "You'll Never Walk Alone" live GF ESC 2023*)
A2 ("D.G.T. (Off and On)", "Due vite", "Duje", "Tell Me More")
G♯2 ("Heart of Steel", "Watergun")
G2 ("Aijā", "Blood & Glitter", "Mama ŠČ!", "Promise", "Soarele și luna", "What They Say")
F♯2 ("Samo mi se spava")
F2 ("Whole Again" live GF ESC 2023*)
E2 ("Cha Cha Cha", "D.G.T. (Off and On)")
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• Blue marks high falsetto or whistle register notes.
• Bold marks notes or passages that are particularly outstanding (relative to the singer).
• Italics mark non-melodic notes.
• Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.

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{Questionable Notes}
B5 ("Unicorn"^[1], "Who the Hell Is Edgar?"^[2])
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1. Questionable exclamations.
2. Questionable identity.
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Questionable notes are any notes of questionable significance. In short, this spoiler acknowledges notes that I am aware exist, but do not want to contribute to the singer's range. These involve (but are not limited to) notes of questionable identity, notes of questionable legitimacy and notes of significantly poor quality.

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{Statistics}
Largest Ranged Entry: "D.G.T. (Off and On)", Romania (E2 – B5)
Smallest Ranged Entry: "Solo", Poland (G3 – F♯4)

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{By Country}

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{Australia}

Pictured: Dami Im, 2016's runner-up
Australia
Vocal Range: G2 – C♯6

Significant High Notes:
C♯6 ("Zero Gravity")
C6 ("Technicolour")
B5 ("We Got Love")
B♭5 ("Zero Gravity")
G5 ("Sound of Silence" live GF ESC 2016, "Technicolour")
F5 ("Don't Break Me")
E5 ("Sound of Silence", "We Got Love")
E♭5 ("Don't Break Me", "Tonight Again")
D5 ("Sound of Silence")
B4 ("Don't Come Easy", "Promise")
B♭4 ("Not the Same", "Promise", "Tonight Again")
A4 ("Don't Come Easy")

Significant Low Notes:
A3 ("Sound of Silence", "Technicolour")
G3 ("We Got Love")
F3 ("Don't Break Me")
D3 ("Don't Come Easy", "Promise")
C♯3 ("Not the Same")
C3 ("Tonight Again")
G2 ("Promise")
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• Blue marks high falsetto or whistle register notes.
• Bold marks notes or passages that are particularly outstanding (relative to the singer).
• Italics mark non-melodic notes.
• Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.

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{Questionable Notes}
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Questionable notes are any notes of questionable significance. In short, this spoiler acknowledges notes that I am aware exist, but do not want to contribute to the singer's range. These involve (but are not limited to) notes of questionable identity, notes of questionable legitimacy and notes of significantly poor quality.

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{Entries}
2015: Guy Sebastian (C3 – E♭5)
2016: Dami Im (A3 – E5)
2017: Isaiah (D3 – A4)
2018: Jessica Mauboy (G3 – B5)
2019: Kate Miller-Heidke (B♭3 – C♯6)
2020: Montaigne (F3 – F5)
2021: Montaigne (A3 – C6)
2022: Sheldon Riley (C♯3 – B♭4)
2023: Voyager (G2 – B4)

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{Statistics}
Largest Ranged Entry: "Promise", 2023 (G2 – B4) / "We Got Love", 2018 (G3 – B5)
Smallest Ranged Entry: "Sound of Silence", 2016 (A3 – E5)

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{Morocco}

Pictured: Samira Bensaïd, 1980's 18th place
Vocal Range: G3 – D5

Significant High Notes:
D5 ("Bitaqat Hub")

Significant Low Notes:
G3 ("Bitaqat Hub")
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• Bold marks notes or passages that are particularly outstanding (relative to the singer).
• Italics mark non-melodic notes.
• Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.

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{Questionable Notes}
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Questionable notes are any notes of questionable significance. In short, this spoiler acknowledges notes that I am aware exist, but do not want to contribute to the singer's range. These involve (but are not limited to) notes of questionable identity, notes of questionable legitimacy and notes of significantly poor quality.

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{Entries}
1980: Samira Bensaïd (G3 – D5)

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{Statistics}
Largest Ranged Entry: "Bitaqat Hub", 1980 (G3 – D5)
Smallest Ranged Entry: "Bitaqat Hub", 1980 (G3 – D5)

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{Ukraine}

Pictured: Kalush Orchestra, 2022's winner
Ukraine
Vocal Range: G♯2 – F6

Significant High Notes:
F6 ("1944" live GF ESC 2016)
B♭5 ("Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)")
G♯5 ("Under the Ladder" live Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final 2018)
F♯5 ("Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)", "Gravity", "Tick-Tock")
F5 ("1944", "Angel", "Be My Guest", "Under the Ladder")
E5 ("Gravity", "Shum", "Solovey", "Wild Dances")
E♭5 ("Be My Guest")
D5 ("Show Me Your Love", "Shum", "Sweet People")
C♯5 ("Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)", "Shady Lady", "Solovey", "Tick-Tock", "Time")
C5 ("Show Me Your Love", "Sweet People", "Wild Dances)
A4 ("Dancing Lasha Tumbai", "Hasta la vista", "Razom nas bahato", "Stefania")
G♯4 ("Time", "Under the Ladder")

Significant Low Notes:
A3 ("Be My Guest", "Gravity", "Wild Dances")
G3 ("1944", "Angel")
F♯3 ("Shady Lady", "Solovey", "Tick-Tock")
F3 ("1944")
E3 ("Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)", "Razom nas bahato", "Sweet People")
E♭3 ("Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)", "Under the Ladder")
D3 ("Stefania")
C♯3 ("Heart of Steel", "Time")
B2 ("Dancing Lasha Tumbai")
B♭2 ("Under the Ladder")
G♯2 ("Heart of Steel")
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• Blue marks high falsetto or whistle register notes.
• Bold marks notes or passages that are particularly outstanding (relative to the singer).
• Italics mark non-melodic notes.
• Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.

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{Questionable Notes}
B5 ("Dancing Lasha Tumbai"^[1][2])
...................................................................
1. Questionable exclamations.
2. Questionable identity.
......................................................................................................................................
Questionable notes are any notes of questionable significance. In short, this spoiler acknowledges notes that I am aware exist, but do not want to contribute to the singer's range. These involve (but are not limited to) notes of questionable identity, notes of questionable legitimacy and notes of significantly poor quality.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Entries}
2003: Olexandr (C♯4 – A4)
2004: Ruslana (A3 – E5)
2005: GreenJolly (E3 – A4)
2006: Tina Karol (D4 – D5)
2007: Verka Serduchka (B2 – A4)
2008: Ani Lorak (F♯3 – C♯5)
2009: Svetlana Loboda (E3 – B5)
2010: Alyosha (E3 – D5)
2011: Mika Newton (G3 – F5)
2012: Gaitana (A3 – F5)
2013: Zlata Ognevich (A3 – F♯5)
2014: Mariya Yaremchuk (F♯3 – F♯5)
2016: Jamala (F3 – F5)
2017: O.Torvald (C♯3 – C♯5)
2018: Mélovin (B♭2 – F5)
2020: Go_A (F♯3 – E5)
2021: Go_A (D4 – E5)
2022: Kalush Orchestra (D3 – A4)
2023: Tvorchi (F♯2 – F♯4)

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{Statistics}
Largest Ranged Entry: "1944", 2016 (F3 – F6)
Smallest Ranged Entry: "Hasta la vista", 2003 (C♯4 – A4)

[Alex61]

Yes hello, I'm not dead! Consider this a return to notewatching form of sorts.

For those of you who have DM'd me, @'d me or posted on my threads please don't think I'm ignoring you - I have a task list I am going to get around to because there's some things I'm horribly behind on (adding the notes from Beyoncé's Renaissance being one of them), I'm just going to be a bit slow for the time being. I have my final assignments due over the next month (one of which is a 6000 word dissertation) and once those have been completed I shall hopefully be back in the full swing of things. I did this literally as a sort of one-off break from my uni exams considering I was already watching/listening to Eurovision this year anyways.

Regarding this thread, I sort of came up with my own criteria which was:

For Song Inclusion
The song must have been performed:
• Competitively or as a winner's performance in the ESC. For convenience's sake, songs listed are the Eurovision-submitted studio versions unless stated otherwise (i.e - other versions of the song that do not fit within the Eurovision rules are not included).
• If not at the actual contest (i.e - 2020's cancelled contest), it must have been entered as the country's representative at least.
• In a competition that decides the country's representative (supposing the song ended up being the representative - for example, Loreen's performance of "Tattoo" at Melodifestivalen 2023.
• As an opening or interval performance in the ESC (these are denoted by an asterisk). Songs that were entered competitively and then performed in subsequent contests as an opening or interval performance were not included unless they had new notes (I haven't yet added the ones from this year's contest).

For Note Inclusion:
Notes are included if:
- Within reason, they are the highest or lowest note of the song, or there is another good reason to include them. As an example, a male singer reaching A3 as the lowest note in his performance would likely not be included but a singer hitting a lead G4, falsetto D5 and backing falsetto E5 might have multiple inclusions for highest notes.
- They are clearly sung by the credited artist and not a backing singer. As an example, "Who the Hell Is Edgar?" has clear harmonised F#5s from the singers credited but there are also backing B5s with unclear identity.

This is in no way complete and is probably unlikely to ever be completed, but I thought it'd be a good bit of fun anyway. I'm also going to try and add a "by country" section when I have a little more data from each country. If you want to post notes by the criteria I listed feel free, but I think because of the number of potential sections it might be easier to add things methodologically for now (by year, etc. etc.).

For what it's worth, I was actually happy Loreen won this year