Eurovision Infographic III

Here's my third annual Eurovision Song Contest stats map following the win by Denmark, their third,  in the 58th Contest, held in Malmö, Sweden. This is the second time Denmark has won immediately after Sweden!

If you saw my previous two maps for the 2011 ESC and 2012 ESC, you'll see this one looks similar. If you can't be bothered churning through the data, here are three stats of note. The number of countries singing in their native language was 17 (up from 12 last year), good to see; only one country sang in a mix of English and their native language, and only ONE country improved on its previous best result. This was San Marino, who placed 19th in the 2008 semifinal, 14th in last year's semifinal and 11th in this year's semifinal. Keep trying, San Marino. You should have been in the final this year.

Hope you enjoy checking out the map. Good job Sweden on hosting the event (great host too) And as I said after posting last year's Euro map – here's to not using Illustrator for another 12 months!