The following tables list the entries which have been performed at the contest over its history. Entries are listed by order of their first performance in the contest; entry numbers provide a cumulative total of all songs performed at the contest throughout its history, and a second cumulative total outlines the total entries for each country. Songs which were performed multiple times are counted only once in the tables, with entry numbers for the performances of semi-final qualifiers marked in italics in the respective finals.[1] For the purposes of the first contest, where each country was represented by two songs, each song is counted as a distinct entry but both songs are counted as a single entry for that country.
Only songs which have competed in the contest final or in the semi-finals since 2004 are considered contest entries. Songs which failed to qualify from the 1993 qualifying round for new Eastern European countries or the 1996 audio-only pre-qualifying round are subsequently not counted as official entries and are not included in the participation history for each country on the official Eurovision website.[2] Submitted entries for the ultimately cancelled 2020 contest are also excluded from this list for the purposes of calculating cumulative totals for entry numbers and country totals.[3][4]
In line with the official Eurovision Song Contest website, entries which represented the former West Germany prior to German reunification (until 1990) and those from the subsequently unified state Germany (since 1991) are considered to have represented the same country.[3] Also in keeping with the official Eurovision records, the 1992 entry which represented the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, subsequently renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, is listed as having represented Yugoslavia rather than Serbia and Montenegro; Serbia and Montenegro is therefore considered to have made its first appearance in 2004.[5][6]
Table key
1 Winner – Winning entries in each edition of the contest
2 Second place – Entries which came second in each edition of the contest
3 Third place – Entries which came third in each edition of the contest
◁ Last place – Entries which came last in each edition of the contest
† Semi-final qualifier – Entries which qualified for the final by placing within the top 10 in each edition's semi-final(s) (2004–present)
‡ Back-up jury selection – Entries which qualified for the final as the back-up juries' highest-placed country which had failed to place in the top 9 countries (2008–2009)
The Netherlands' Jetty Paerl performed the first ever Eurovision entry in 1956.Lys Assia contributed four Eurovision entries for Switzerland, including the contest's first winning entry.Domenico Modugno performed three different Eurovision entries for Italy in the 1950s and 1960s.
Ireland's Johnny Logan remains the only performer to win multiple contests, and has contributed four contest entries as a performer and songwriter.In 1980 Morocco's Samira Bensaïd performed the first, and as of 2021[update] only, Eurovision entry from an African country.Bobbysocks! were the first Norwegian act to win the contest in 1985.
Carola Häggkvist made three contest appearances for Sweden over three decades.Marija Šerifović became the first Eurovision winning act for Serbia in 2007 on their debut entry.Russia's Dima Bilan came second in 2006 and won the contest in 2008.