Eurovision Fans and Youtube followers: Language factor to find a clue for voters’ election.

Presented as a Babel Tower, the European song contest has been during 57 years a showcase for the music in Europe. With an exploratory analysis we found that since 1999, –when the contest changed the rules and allowed after 22 years to participate again with lyrics in any language –, 92.3% of the winning songs included English lyrics, and only 2 songs in other languages appealed enough to the juries and the audience, to achieve the highest position in the final chart. The aim of the research project is related with the meaning of the contest to its audience, and to understand it, we are following the listeners of Eurovision winner songs published in Youtube, with the purpose to define the main factors of their success and understand which elements unify Eurovision fans and voters, that allow us to approach to voter’s taste and resolve if the winning factor is English language or music language.

Keywords: Eurovision song contest, voters, Youtube, winning song, language, music

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Eurovision Fans and Youtube followers: Language factor to find a clue for voters’ election. by Laura Rojas de Francisco & Carlos Sanandrés Martínez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Here you have the selection of songs we used for voting!