Quote Originally Posted by WhiteKnight View Post
As I know one of the most remarkable Sweden win in Eurovision is when ABBA sang a song "Waterloo" in English they won with outstanding breakaway, that wasn't surpassed so far. But obviously ABBA was a culture phenomenon and modern participants can not be rivals.
That's a good observation. Yes, maybe it all started with them.
I can only remember it from the 1980s and onwards, but back then, most of the singing was not in English.

Quote Originally Posted by Marcus View Post
I don't even understand what Eurovision is for.
It's a tradition. All my life, for example, it's been there. Eurovision is not just the singing competition though, it's the old organisation that all the state TV channels had (have?), for broadcasting big European events together. Back when most countries had only a couple of channels or so. I don't think Russia was in the competition prior to 1990s, so it might not be a tradition for you, so much. I watched it absolutely every year with my friends and family in my childhood.
Also, earlier, each country made a presentation about their own country before their song. That was part of the show, and could be quite interesting, and the voting itself was a bit of a spectacle too.

Eurovision's traditional melody and logo. You sometimes hear it before sports events and other events: