EUROVISION COUNTRY RECORDS
Countries with the most Eurovision appearances
An all-time ranking by completed Eurovision Song Contest editions in the 1956–2026 archive. Multiple songs in one edition count once, and the cancelled 2020 edition does not count as an appearance.
All-time leaders
France and Germany share the lead with 68 completed Contest appearances in the indexed archive.
Eurovision appearances by country
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How this ranking is counted
An appearance means a country had at least one indexed entry in a completed Eurovision edition. The inaugural 1956 Contest allowed two songs per country, so those two entries still count as one appearance. Eurovision 2020 is preserved in the song database because songs had already been selected, but the Contest was cancelled and therefore adds no appearance here.
Historical country naming is reconciled through Song Contest Radar's canonical country mapping, so archive labels such as Czech Republic/Czechia, Türkiye/Turkey and UK/United Kingdom resolve to the same country profile where appropriate.
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