The 7th annual edition. Details of all the Contests from 1956 to 2014, the performers, composers & writers. Full details of the national qualifying competitions, voting histories for each country, analysis of best and worst countries, who favours who and who doesn't, the best position in the running order to perform and lots more. The expanded Guide this year includes even more pages of facts, statistics and records, including a detailed round-by-round analysis of the votes to show how each country moved up and down the scoreboard during the voting. Also included are: Average age and gender of previous winners back to 1956, Seven year history of the language each country has performed their songs in, Analysis of the type of entry from each country this year, Worst semi-final runs since last qualifying for the Final, Analysis of the best and worst semi-finals to compete in, national spokespersons & order of announcing the votes. Every fact and statistic for devoted fans of Eurovision!

The 7th annual edition. Details of all the Contests from 1956 to 2014, the performers, composers & writers. Full details of the national qualifying competitions, voting histories for each country, analysis of best and worst countries, who favours who and who doesn't, the best position in the running order to perform and lots more. The expanded Guide this year includes even more pages of facts, statistics and records, including a detailed round-by-round analysis of the votes to show how each country moved up and down the scoreboard during the voting. Also included are: Average age and gender of previous winners back to 1956, Seven year history of the language each country has performed their songs in, Analysis of the type of entry from each country this year, Worst semi-final runs since last qualifying for the Final, Analysis of the best and worst semi-finals to compete in, national spokespersons & order of announcing the votes. Every fact and statistic for devoted fans of Eurovision!

Details of all the Contests from 1956 to 2011, the performers, composers & writers. Full details of voting histories for each country, analysis of best and worst countries, who favours who and who doesn't, the best position in the final to perform and lots more. Includes details of the qualification process for each nation's entry and lots more.

The 2019 Edition of the Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest is the 12th edition of this book and as usual it is packed with statistical details of every Contest since 1956 along with plenty of analysis, over 348 pages, our biggest edition ever. The book looks at the national qualification competitions for 2019 and has an in-depth section on the entire voting history of each country, along with dozens of facts and statistics on this year's Contest in Tel Aviv and historical trends, including jury/public differences, bloc voting and analysis of where best to perform in the running order.

Salvador Sobral won the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev for Portugal, his country's first win after 53 years of trying and in doing so smashed all the points records. The 2017 Edition of the Complete & Independent Guide is the 10th edition of this book and as usual it's packed with statistical details of every Contest since 1956 along with plenty of new analysis, over 326 pages, our biggest edition ever. The book looks at the national qualification competitions for 2017 and has an in-depth section on the entire voting history of each country, along with new sections for this year, including which semi-final is the kiss of death for certain countries, the biggest disagreements between juries and the their public, how some countries receive overwhelmingly more points from juries than the public & vice versa.

The 2019 Edition of the Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest is the 12th edition of this book and as usual it is packed with statistical details of every Contest since 1956 along with plenty of analysis, over 348 pages, our biggest edition ever. The book looks at the national qualification competitions for 2019 and has an in-depth section on the entire voting history of each country, along with dozens of facts and statistics on this year's Contest and historical trends, including jury/public differences, bloc voting and analysis of where best to perform in the running order.

Måns Zelmerlöw won a thrilling 2015 Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden. "Heroes" gained 14 12 points in the semi-final. Runners-up Russia were the first to score over 300 points and not win. Without the juries though, Italy would have won the Contest, Sweden would have finished 3rd. Hosts Austria suffered the dreaded "nul points" but Germany also scored 0 & thanks to the tie-breaker rules, Austria avoided last place. Cyprus startled everyone by not giving Greece 12 points. The 2015 Edition of the Complete & Independent Guide is the 8th edition of the book & as usual it's packed with details of every Contest since 1956. We've expanded the Guide again this year to include extra facts, statistics & records, including the full jury & public vote split rankings for the Final, analysis of how countries have voted for the eventual winners, how debutant countries have fared following Australia's success & how the final table would look if it was based on average points received & lots more!