IN NUMBERS: The Eurovision Song Contest

As the campest night in pop gets under way in Lisbon (8pm, BBC1), we look at some facts and figures about the much-loved, long-running Eurovision Song Contest…

1957 The year the UK first took part, a year after Eurovision was founded, placing seventh out of ten. Since then, the UK has won five times – first in 1967, with Sandie

Shaw (centre) and Puppet On A String – with Sweden on six wins and Ireland a record seven. 15 The number of commentators there have been for BBC TV. Although Terry Wogan (1980-2008) and Graham Norton (2009-present) are the best-known, others have included Michael Aspel, David Jacobs and David Vine. 1 The number of host countries to receive ‘nul points’ overall: step forward Austria, in 2015, with I Am Yours. Austria didn’t come last on the leaderboard – that ‘honour’ went to Germany, who also scored zero with Black Smoke. A new voting system introduced in 2016 makes ‘nul points’ less likely. 0 The number of points the UK awarded to Sweden’s song in the 1974 contest. Their act went on to win, despite being also snubbed by Greece, Monaco, Belgium and Italy. Whatever happened to Agnetha (right) and the rest of Abba? 2 The number of Eurovisions the UK’s 2018 entrant, SuRie, has already taken part in – she was a backing singer and dancer for Belgium’s entrant in 2015, and was the musical director for Belgium again last year.