Last placed songs at the Eurovision Song Contest (1981-2009)

[Tyler11266]

Last year when Finland finished last I lost all hope in ESC.

[kenny2789]

1999 Spain was unfair such a good song....even better than Take Me To Your Heaven

[CreativeDuoo]

i think finland 2009 was very good ^^

[RedheadDane]

Just a question... from 04 and up wouldn't the songs which didn't even make it to the final (IE last place in the semi final(s)) be considered more last place than the last place in the final?

[aric2007]

UK is last this year.

2010: United Kingdom | Josh Dubovie - That Sounds Good to Me

[pointlessnostalgic78]

Seeing such a great trad band like Dervish (2007) finishing last is just a shame!!!!

[Blodpuddingsuger]

UK came last this year, right? LOL

Oh, Norway. WTF?

[Escfin]

Hehhehehe.. Kojo - Nuku Pommiin.. Our country.

And 1990 Beat - Fri..

And 1992 Pave Maijanen - Yamma, Yamma

And 1996 Jasmine - Niin kaunis on taivas

And 2009 Waldo's people - Lose control (That was really good song)

[Fabian81]

2000 - Boring ... 2001 - Iceland indiferent and Norway undeserved ...2002 - Terrible! 2003 - LOOOOL DESERVED UK NEEDED A LESSON - 2004 - Undeserved ... 2005 - Dreadful ... 2006 - I hate this kind of music on ESC ... too gay clubish ... 2007 - Not adequate for the type of contest today - 2008 UK BINGOOOO YEAH - 2009 - The club days of ESC seem to be coming to an end ...

[Fabian81]

1991 Not deserved at all ... Yogoslavia was way worse! 1992 - Kinda passed me by by it catchy in parts 1993 - THE BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER totally underserved ... 1994 - Well eastern countries ... what else! 1995 like the song but she was not on her best 1995 like this song ... it was not deserved ... 1997 -. Norway was cool ... Portugal well ... have no idea LOL 1998 - Undeserved 1999 - Boring!

[Fabian81]

1981 Nor - boring! 1982 Finland - what a joke! 1983 - Turkey - too bizarre to be considered here! 1984 - typical german schlager lol but not the worst that night 1985 -. boring like hell indead! 1986 - totally unfair! 1987 - indiferent to me! 1988 - so well deserved it was a complete mess! 1989 - Not deserved 1990 Loved Norway it was not fair ... Finland didnt mean anything to me ...

[gemerique]

Thomas Forstner's entry in that year deserved another top10 at the very least.. most underrated Eurovision contestants ever!?

[MuzikaMak]

1997 NOR - OK song 1997 POR - Boring 1998 - OK song 1999 - Not bad 2000 - More JESC than ESC 2001 ICE - Nice melody 2001 NOR - Boring 2002 - Cheesy 2003 - Trash 2004 - Not so bad for last place 2005 - Awful voice 2006 - Kitchy 2007 - One of my faves that year 2008 - OK song 2009 - Not the best but deserved a higher place

[MuzikaMak]

1981 - More JESC than ESC 1982 - Ancient version of Lordi 1983 TUR - Not so bad. Sounds catchy 1983 SPA - Incompatible with 1983 tastes 1984 - Mediocre 1985 - Boring 1986 - Not bad 1987 - Nothing special 1988 - Boring 1989 - Not bad 1990 ICE - Likeable 1990 NOR - Likeable 1990 FIN - cheesy 1991 - Mediocre 1992 - Catchy chorus 1993 - Cute 1994 - Emotional ballad. Undeserved last place 1995 - The songs is not for last place, but it was performed bad live. 1996 - Likeable

[mihai1103]

in 2009 the last place is Czech republic with 0 points......

[RichieRegehr49]

fabrizio faniello 2006 was pretty good...

[1990JonasPoulsen]

Norway are pretty good at coming last :)

[Robban144]

Malta 2006 sounds really like Sweden 2003. Like they copy the song.

[tigrakos123]

My top 5 most undeserved last placed songs:

Finland 1982

Spain 1983

Cyprus 1986

Turkey 1987

And Malta 2006

[TheDRMISTERY]

I actually like Spain 1983, Cyprus 1986, Turkey 1987, both Finland and Norway 1990 (!), Austria 1991, Finland 1992, Belgium 1993 (!), Portugal 1997 (!), Belgium 2000, Norway 2004, Malta 2006 (!) and UK 2008 very much. Great, underrated entries.

[BluebirdintheSky]

The UK coming last in 2008 was ridiculous. I'm not surprised Terry Wogan had a rant and immediately retired from Eurovision after that stupid result. It was a very good song and Andy Abraham is a great singer and performer.

[mrkawakubo]

last year finland, deserved the last place...pooooooooooooooor song!!!!

[ALLNAMESAREALLREADYT]

oh no.... Norway...not again...

yamma..yamma...roflmao

and Spain from 1999 was last coz of dress...

[rainboworbit]

it doesn't seem fair to call the last few "last place", when so many scored worse in semi finals... czech republic for example was truly last place with a 1 pt (?) in semi final.

Besides... Waldo's people charted in both UK and Australia with "Lose Control", so that's a pretty good last place. Not too many of the songs that beat it charted!

Malta's entry was disappointing last, but he did not sing well that night.

[chileepengwin]

Switzerland 1998 derserved some points.

[j0wled]

Germany 2005 sounds like a cat being strangled, but I almost like it, despite that.

[olsern]

Finn Kalvik ser ut som en pedofil barnetv-vert, men søt sang :)

[predatorperko]

omg SPAIN 83 !!!???

[avshalom999]

some of my favorite songs are here....

[juksori1]

1986 Cyprus was awesome

2001 Iceland was good

2002 Denmark, the song is good, I like it.

2006 Malta, I like the song, still =D

2009 Finland, I like this one personally. It wasn't last though, it made it to the finals unlike 10 + other songs

[tigrakos123]

And Cyprus 1986 deserved more!

These are my opinions!!!!!!!!!!

[tigrakos123]

Turkey 1987 deserved a better place!

[HennesXXIIV]

Horrible

[Blodpuddingsuger]

Germany '05

... WTF O_o

[AYUNA91]

Norway rules!!!

[doogielukey]

germany 2005 OUCH!!!

[SuperKevc]

I predict united kingdom last in 2010!! AWFUL song!!! :(

[rainboworbit]

@SuperKevc : FYROM for last...before we even get to the final!

[JescGirl]

I like Norway 81, Iceland 01 <3 and Malta 06 :)

[zerhoassoluto]

Spain 83 and Germany 2005 were misunderstood. I love Cyprus 86, Finland 96 and Spain 99. But the best was Portugal 97. I don't see anything wrong with Norway 2004 and 1991, UK 2008 and Ireland 2007.

[wenger1972]

1989 Iceland - that got nul points? Come on, it wasnt that bad surely.

[blackicerose]

I absolutly love Norway's 2004 song and also Malta's 2006 entry, neither deserved to come last!

Finland 2009 wasn't that bad either!

[febbecool]

2:05, Eleine from seinfeldt?

[IdelinZu]

Cyprus 1986 - so damn best!

Finland 1982 - What a **** were we thinking when we sent that song to ESC?

Germany 2005 and Spain 1983 - I don't understand them.

Norway 2001 - So full of feelings that it almost makes me laugh.

All the other songs were pretty good! I show my full respect for them!

[Norway4Me]

PS! Keep on mocking Norway, what would you heat your houses and food with if not Norwegian Gas and Oil? Don't bite that hand that feeds you :))) Now go get busy being bankrupt... hehe. I'm SO damn happy we're not a member of the EU... a collection of bankrupt countries! LOL! Ah! It feels sooooo good to live in Parad... eh... sorry.. Norway!

[erlik15]

Norwegians and Swedes are a band of pu**ies that can't wage war. No offense : )

[Norway4Me]

I find the Spanish song both fascinating and of quality. It shouldn't be mocked like this!

[miranda8484]

@Norway4Me well, i´m spaniard. i say to you that spanish song (83) it´s one of the best flamenco song ever. The first flamenco song fusion...but for this contest i understand that people don´t understand it...

[Furienna]

Spain 1983, Austria 1984, Austria 1988, Iceland 1989, Belgium 1993, Finland 1996, Norway 1997, Malta 2006 and Finland 2009 were all underrated.

[mannomorth]

Are you seriously joking?

Then you have the worst music taste in europe, since if you havent noticed, all of these sings came last, mostly with 0 points...

.

[mannomorth]

Spain 1983, wtf? worthless? she sounds like she just chocked on something!

Austria 1984, a really, really boring song

Austria 1988, even more boring?

Finland 1996, why does the finish ppl send that?

Norway 1997 Danseband? Danceband, no... not cool!

Malta 2006, first time ever Malta didnt have a obese chick singing ballads, did it go well, no its sound like a kid on LSD...

Finland 2009, if they could find ppl that actually could sing, that song wouldnt suck..

[Furienna]

Spain 1983: What you don't seem to understand, and what the juries back then didn't understand either, is that it's flamenco, a traditional Spanish music form. It's not supposed to be a "beautiful" song in a conventional sense. But it has a big fan following among ESC fans today.

Austria 1984: I like this much more than many other entries that year, including the overrated runner-up from Ireland.

Austria 1988: They might not have chosen the best singer, but it still was a sweet song.

[Furienna]

Finland 1996: A very nice song with ethno influences. It sure deserved a better placing.

Norway 1997: People seem to either hate this song or adore it. But I like it very much, even if it got 0 points.

Malta 2006: Malta has had success with other artists than Chiara (Mary Spiteri and Ira Losco come to mind). The song is better in the studio version than in this live version, but still, it deserved a better placing.

Finland 2009: Waldo's people can sing and the song does NOT suck.

[mannomorth]

Well these are you opinions, and i support your right to express them even though i totally do not agree with you.

Finland 2009, the girl that sings, has a very very flat voice, makes the song very... in lack of better words, boring!

I think that many of these songs as you mention is not at all ESC material, but they are okey, but im seeing through the ESC glasses, and they are not approved when i look through them!

Cheers

[grande1899]

Actually Malta came second place a few years before that with Ira Losco, and she definately isn't obese lol.

[Furienna]

What's wrong with you? Am I not allowed to have an opinion? Just because a song came last, even with 0 points, it doesn't mean, that everybody has to hate it.

[dubpsychosis88]

iceland 01, norway 04 and germany 05 really didnt deserve to come last! but the way i see it is, the ones that come last arent the hated ones- they're the ones that wasn't good enough for anyone to vote for.

[GreeceCyprus12points]

you are so right about what you said i agree 100%!I just want to say that i also liked i do

[trisssy1]

finland shoudn't of come last in 2009, they were sooooo good

[rainboworbit]

@trisssy1 if u look at the semi final voting, finland actually did not even come 10th... montenegro did (and this year they refused to come... wonder why?) jury voted finland into final instead of montenegro... so voters were not going for it!

[trisssy1]

@rainboworbit i know, i was just saying they didn't desrve to be last, that's all, i know that they were voted by the jury, i just thought it was real good song

[simonstallion]

Belgium in 1993 deserved a better ranking was unfair because very beautiful song

[kruu2002]

@simonstallion I so do agree with you. I thought back then and still do, that it is really beautiful song

[BluebirdintheSky]

@simonstallion I agree. I think the same of Slovenia the following year.

[etherdelmar12]

No sean gachos!! la ultima version de los finlandeses en el 2009 fue verdaderamenete buena que la del pais vecino,,, y pues lamentablemente no le dieron puntos ,,, no sean " culeros europeos " y a con lo que comento este pendejo acerca de las culturas y religiones hasta donde yo se europa es casi layco! no seas racista mystiffdawn...

[irjajit]

the worst (of the worst) was Spain's Remedios Amaya with ¿Quién Maneja Mi Barca?

[MystiffDawn]

Turkey songs will never appeal to the European public. They are.... different in culture, religion, totally different.

[TheTurkishboy90]

come onn!! our culture is a mixture of west and east..turkey is one of the strongest countries in eurovision now.

[MystiffDawn]

I always found this Eurovision Show a contest of lame, talentless, hopeless losers where the worst songs seems to win. I never watch this crap.

[rainboworbit]

@MystiffDawn are you sure? you seem to have watched through 9 minutes of it to comment on it

[doxash]

Finland was last many times...

[MrFelis1]

Das einzig peinliche und hässliche im Jahr 1988 war Celine Dion. Schande. Gruss aus der Schweiz.

[needsumluv]

A lot of these were better than the winners...altogether  now Yamma yamma yamma yamma yamma yamma ....classic

[ed69netherlands]

i liked the finnish song of last year. The worst entrie for me was germany in 2005 and spain in 1999.

[IdelinZu]

This year we are going to have something TOTALLY differend than last five years!

[jellabieken22]

2007 & 2009 were totally wrong !!! the should have ended way higher

[McFLYDK]

Germany 2005 was really, really bad!! O.o

[Referral123]

over the 00's last place is always a western country usually with no/little disapora..

I think when Ireland came last in 2007 was the worst Eurovision moment its a beautiful song I think.. pity it scored poorly :s

[PopUnlimited2010]

Iceland and Norway 2001 were great! Shame..

[ellibod1]

Warning at 7:44 to 8:03

for your own safety, please mute

[IdelinZu]

ROFLMAO

[IdelinZu]

@ellibod1 , I know! It's really, REALLY horrible!!

[19Iggy96]

@ellibod1 Good point... :S

our worst entry.....

[marvtu]

@ellibod1

at least to be called strange

[MyFavoriteYTClips]

shouldn't the last placed from 2004-2009 be the ones that came last in the semifinals like switzerland in 2004 and san marino in 2008

[Superhaze]

Lets face it.. The nordic countries, finland, the benelux and austria/germany have a pretty bad track record for this competition.. but we try, and try, and try again.

[TheTurkishboy90]

I LOVE 1983 spain, 1986, 1987, 1999, 2003, 2004

[likeAhero1991]

Finland 1996- I love this song:)

[CJBR1966]

For me the WORST were Lordi and were Winners so....

[FREAKSmoviereviews]

I thought 2005 was pretty good...

[bonzaworld]

Espana 1983 is probably the most unique entry ever sent to ESC.. I think it's a great song!

[leirgauk]

@bonzaworld what's the matter with u people? u all mention 1983 *SPAIN* wtf? that song is freakin HORRIBLE. as for 1983 turkey, on the other hand, that song was AWESOME!!! :D really catchy and uplifting ^^

[sebyoifys]

do you really know spanish folklore to give your opinion about spanish song 1983? In my opinion,turkish song was really awfull

[leirgauk]

what is "spanish folklore"? am i not entitled to my opinion? it's far better than yours, thats for sure.

[juksori1]

1986 Cyprus was awesome

[mazza685]

Turkey would have finished top 5 in 1987 had the conductor not screwed up and put everything out of sync, now you know why we never saw Garo Mafyan at Eurovision ever again!

[falmark187]

When you see some the songs the countries send to Eurovision Song Contest i often think WTH was the songs that lost in the national Contest like. I am from Norway and we have sendt some real crap to the Contest over the years, the ones in this clip i dont think are not the worst ones we have sendt.

[przemo89ant]

spain 1983 was on of THE BEST songs...

[hannesthefreakl]

ich würde zumindest auch die letzten plätze der semis ab 2004 hinzufügen.

2009: finnland, was noch die finalqualifaktion schaffte, war nicht unbedingt weniger erfolgreich als die tschechei (0 punkte im semi).

und ab 2009 würde ich nur die telefonabstimmungsergebnisse berücksichtigen. die schiebejurys verfälschen alles.

sonst gute arbeit!:)

[TumbleTower]

I think the idea is to show which countries came last in the FINALS since 2004, just like in previous years when the Contest was a one-night show.

I see what you mean though, since the introduction of semi-finals in 2004, really all countries that failed to qualify from the semis did worse than the country that finished last in the final.

Traurig ich spreche nicht Deutsch, habe ich einen Internetübersetzer benutzt.

[tsfct]

Ireland 2007 wasn't that bad.

[Hawkwoman246]

I think half of the songs that have come last in the era of televoting (since 1997) have done so because the costumes have been so bad... songs whose last places were a surprise to me are Belgium 93, Germany 95, Denmark 02 and Norway 04.

[codrodcm]

the following didnt deserve the last place position

1986 cyprus

1989 Norway

1991 Austria(

1993 belguim very under rated beautiful song and singer

2002Denmark loved it on the night caudnt believe it came last

2004 what happened when this came last it is a fantastic song such a pity Norway

2007 definitly the most underrated song ever in eurovidsion Ireland had a winner in theis song it was music beautiful song instrumental well done

[sacadura]

Portugal 1997, Denmark 2002, U. K. 2002, Norway 2004, U.K. 2008 didn´t deserved such bad qualifications

[19Iggy96]

Finland 1990

Austria 1991

Belgium 1993

Germany 1995

Finland 1996

Switzerland 1998

Denmark 2002

United Kingdom 2008 (my country)

Were sooooo Underrated

[svipser]

Cyprus 1986, Denmark 2002 and Malta 2006 should NOT have been last...!!!

[ErdalYildizFan]

I`m from Germany and i think we really deserved our last places in 1995 and 2005, the Songs we`re absolutely a disaster! ;-)

I think UK 2003 is a good song, but the Live Performance was bad, on Cd it sounds much better!

[LaUreNPS1]

this is my top ten(the songs i think shouldn't became last or have more points) 1 spain 1983(spain is my country ) 2 spain 1999 3 finland 2009 4 switzerland 1998 5 austria 1984 6 portugal 1997 7 iceland 1989 8 norway 1990 10 iceland 2001 and 12 for... MALTA 2006

[esc4all]

spain 83 is so bad -_-

[romantikscent]

Portugal had never won but at least we only had one last place an the last 28 years :P not bad :)

[MADparatrooper]

All the songs from Norway up too 97 that came last has been great hits here in Norway, lol.

[montrealkino]

thx for this...although it's dreadful but still soooo funny in retrospect....

[LunakrisX]

1987?!?!?! :'D

that was something XD

[Talliban69]

ive taped eurovision since 1982,now ive stopped it-UK last year,jade,was awful,worse than any of these songs

[milfordegan123kevin]

where is the first part?

[molitva2007]

Belgium 93 is so beautiful

[dominobeast]

after 2003 it was a big political shit.

[erion777spain]

europolitical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EmoDeathStar121]

FInland and Norway they have great mucic why send all the shit they did

[Embracethedarkness2]

Why the hell did Waldo's People come last?!

[TheLordOfNorway]

Go Norway!

[mycorks]

I liked fri from Finland

[rachelknow]

en eso te ekivocas la canción de españa 83 era una caca no me extraña que recibiese esa puntuación era muy repetitiva

[LunakrisX]

Finland has took last places a lot, and others too XD

[maryjjose]

Si nos les gusta el flamenco que se jodan, pero españa no se merecia perder ese año

[robndave6672]

they were robbed

norway 2004

finland 2009

yugoslavia1990

uk 2003

and the biggest upset

malta 2006(was my favourite to win)

[1981LegendKiller]

some good songs here , can understand how they are last !!

[SaNBeanz]

Malta 2006 DEFINATELY didn't deserve last place at all!!! That was one of the BEST that year! SHOULDN'T BEEN LAST!!!

2008 UK deserved a higher placing too.

2009 Finland is another that DEFINATELY didn't deserve last place!

2003, yes we deserved that one, I'm ashamed of this! and 2007 too, very bad.

[LudoVolkov]

Totally deserved last places: Spain 1983, Norway 1997 and UK 2003.

Totally unfair last places: Iceland 1989, Norway 1990, Belgium 1993, Germany 1995, Finland 1996, Switzerland 2000 and above all IRELAND 2007! Dervish weren't great live, but they were absolutely no last-place material!

[xmengirlys]

To TumbleTower: I could not bee more agree!

And I think it's so scandalous og not fair, that Waldo's People from Finland 2009got the last place in the final. It was one of the best of the best at year!!!!!!!!!!

And also like United Kingdom 2008. It shoulded also have a higher place!!!

[HaberfieldChiro]

@xmengirlys a big hitv in Australia

[TumbleTower]

Malta's song in 2006 was a beautiful ballad which deserved much higher than last place.

[SchatzJaeger333]

1983 (Turkey), 1992, 2003 and 2008

had deserve it.

1982, 1984, 1988, 1990 (Norway), 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2007 and 2009

were not great, but deserved a better place.

1986, 1987 and 2006 were fantastic songs, they had deserved it no way.

[Oxe1988]

I think that the most deserved last places were in 2003 and 2005.

The song by Dervish is great when you hear it playback but live it wasn't good (same with 2005)

I like many of the songs, but I wouldn't say that they deserved a much higher place. These are to me: 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996

Other songs I like didn't deserve to become last place. These are: 1993, 1997, 2000, 2001 (Norway), 2004, 2008, 2009

[xXevelOnXx]

Dervish didn't deserve to become last.. they are such a great band and Cathy is a lovely singer.. their music just isn't made for the ESC...

[tihk89]

Spain 1983 <3

[juancar988]

The winners about the last place it are Finland and Norway.

[andehaj]

What about the last placed songs from 1957 - 1980?

[barbyzupancic]

most scandinavian countries:norway and finnland...and they even didnt have bad songs, so not fair!

[UKLadNathan89]

1983 sounds terrible lmao

[Ichigoli]

2006 and 2009 didn't deserve that bad place :O

heheh so many finnish songs XD

[94ayd]

And absolutely undeservind all of them. :-(

[AegeanSea06]

Well, Nuku Pommiin was too jarring to ever garner votes from jurys. And that suit probably didn't help matters.

[tkrisz]

The last placed songs are not that bad in the recent years, since the worst songs (even good songs!) don't reach the final. (They Can't Stop The Spring is among my favorites from 2007 and I like Lose Control from 2009, too.) I would finish this compilation at the point where qualification was introduced or continue with the last placed songs of the semifinals.

[AegeanSea06]

To tkrisz: Until 2007, the top ten from the previous year were automatic qualifiers, so only from 2008 onward do we really have a weeding-out of bad songs in the semis.

And They Can't Stop The Spring was absolutely horrendous performed live. It says something when the voice sounds more grating than what Jemini did in 2003...

[dominobeast]

a new version this is better.