Have Iceland Won The Eurovision Song Contest
More people watched the Eurovision song contest Grand Final in Iceland per capita than in any other country this year according to official viewing figures.
Have iceland won the eurovision song contest. Icelands Daði Gagnamagnið. Emma Kelly Wednesday 18 Mar 2020 235 pm. Iceland were clear favourites Picture.
Icelands Eurovision Entrant Wont Perform After Positive COVID-19 Test Dadi Freyr lead singer for Icelandic band Dadi og Gagnamagnid said group members have all been extremely careful the whole trip so this comes as a huge surprise. But who really brought their A-game on the costume front. Iceland are on that list of countries who have come close to the crown on several occasions but have yet to actually score a Eurovision win although Dadi.
Some songs have been translated into Icelandic and people might not even know that their origin is from Eurovision such as the winning song from 1964 Non Ho LEta which is now a classic song in Icelandic translated as Heyr mína bæn and sung by one of Icelands most renowned singers Ellý. All pointing to the fact that Iceland could well have won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2020. The contest is incredibly popular in Iceland regularly being one of the most watched programmes of the year.
Who knows the contest may well have been coming to you from Reykjavik rather than Rotterdam this year. Iceland is the only Nordic nation to have never won the contest so far. The Story of Fire Saga is set in Iceland and the movies success inspired the town of Húsavík the main setting of the story to open a Eurovision museum.
Italy France and Malta would all appear to be in with a chance of winning the thing outright according to the bookies but Iceland isnt far behind them either. Lets just say Iceland won Eurovision 2020. Icelands 2019 entry Hatari impressed in the competition finishing 10th on 232 points.
And tonight in the conclusion of Sveriges 12a thats Swedens 12 Points the public and a jury of music professionals named their Eurovision winner. The bands song Hatrio mun sigra went on to reach No85 in the UK download chart. After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic last year Eurovision is back with a bang and looks set to be a classic year.