your order, not the juries’
Rank Eurovision 1980
The Hague, 19 April 1980, with 19 songs. Put them in your order. We won’t say who won until you have finished.
A fan’s ranking of Eurovision 1980
This is the order they put the songs in. Reckon you can do better?
Make your ownThey start in the order they sang. Drag a song by its dots, tap the arrows, or tap its number to send it straight to a place. It saves as you go. On a keyboard: tab to the list, space picks a song up, the arrows move it, space drops it.
- 1 Austria Blue Danube — “Du bist Musik” new
- 2 Turkey Ajda Pekkan — “Pet'r Oil” new
- 3 Greece Anna Vissi and the Epikouri — “Autostop (Ωτοστόπ)” new
- 4 Luxembourg Sophie and Magaly — “Papa Pingouin” new
- 5 Morocco Samira Bensaïd — “Bitakat Hob (بطاقة حب)” new
- 6 Italy Alan Sorrenti — “Non so che darei” new
- 7 Denmark Bamses Venner — “Tænker altid på dig” new
- 8 Sweden Tomas Ledin — “Just nu” new
- 9 Switzerland Paola — “Cinéma” new
- 10 Finland Vesa-Matti Loiri — “Huilumies” new
- 11 Norway Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta — “Sámiid ædnan” new
- 12 Germany Katja Ebstein — “Theater” new
- 13 United Kingdom Prima Donna — “Love Enough for Two” new
- 14 Portugal José Cid — “Um grande, grande amor” new
- 15 Netherlands Maggie MacNeal — “Amsterdam” new
- 16 France Profil — “Hé, hé m'sieurs dames” new
- 17 Ireland Johnny Logan — “What's Another Year” new
- 18 Spain Trigo Limpio — “Quédate esta noche” new
- 19 Belgium Telex — “Euro-Vision” new
Press space to pick it up, the up and down arrows to move it, space to drop it, or escape to put it back. Page up and page down move it five places, home and end to the top and the bottom. The right arrow reaches its number, where a place can be typed, and its up and down buttons.
Finished? The story of Eurovision 1980 has every score and what went on backstage. Spoilers, obviously.
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Every contest since 1956 is here. Past years tell you how close you came to the real result.