EUROVISION'S 150 MOST INFLUENTIAL SONGS. This post: 1991. More: tomorrow.

EUROVISION

1956-2022

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SONGS

(in chronological order)

 

This year’s Contest will see the 70^th song declared a winner. Caffè Lattè lists all of the past winning entries and other songs that have had a lasting impact on the Eurovision Song Contest.

1991

The 1991 ESC clashed with Remembrance Day in The Netherlands so that country withdrew, which allowed the return of Malta which had been absent since 1975. Initially, the Contest was to be held in San Remo but instability in the Balkans led to it being moved to Rome instead. After the 22 entries were presented, the scoreboard revealed that the 2 leading songs finished with the identical score. Eurovision avoided the same fate as had befallen it back in 1969 with its recently implemented rule to determine a winner.

 

FÅNGAD AV EN STORMVIND

Carola

Sweden

 

Both Sweden and France ended the night with the same amount of points: 146. The new rules in the event of a tie required a count of which country had achieved the most 12 points (the maximum score). This still did not determine a winner as both countries had received the same number of douze points: 4. The rules then required a check of which country received the most 10 points: Sweden had 5 and France managed only 2. This resulted in a third Eurovision victory for Sweden.

1991 was Carola’s second appearance at the Contest. She had represented Sweden in 1983 and finished in third place with “Framling”. Carola would return again in 2006 and finish fifth with the Swedish entry “Invincible”. The 1991 winning song’s title means “Captured By A Stormwind”.

 

 C’EST LE DERNIER QUI A PARLÉ

QUI A RAISON

Amina

France

 

For the second consecutive year, France finished in second place. Algerian actress Amina (Annabi) performed the French entry with a title that translates as “The Last To Have Spoken”. After the votes were announced, both France and Sweden had accumulated the same number of points. The tie-break rule determined that the sole winner was Sweden. Had it gone the other way, it would have given France a record-breaking sixth Eurovision win. It was still- with Luxembourg- one of the 2 nations with the most wins. To date, neither country has had another win.