The chart + streaming success Bangaranga has had would suggest this is exactly the winner Eurovision needed to attract younger viewers to the contest. The contest canât just survive on the aging die-hard fans.
But those sorts of fans can lose interest fast. Theyâre not guaranteed to turn young fans into long time fans.
If you piss off the die-hard fans and lose them, then you risk killing the whole thing.
Completely agree.
I think they were already attracting younger fans naturally, but now theyâre pushing it too far.
Putting Eurovision To The Test: Repeated Voting At The Grand Final
Given that we were aware of how the esc.vote website operated, I was better prepared on this occasion with the details in order to type details such as email addresses, which were now pre-prepared to enter, however all elements were still physically entered into the text boxes. The one main change made for this test was that, unlike the Semi Final where votes were cast for two entries, all the votes were chosen to be limited to one.
On this occasion, we successfully cast 80 votes for this entry in ten minutes.
Beyond the fact that the per payment method allowance is in play, which in turn legitimises oneâs ability to actually cast multiple votes, the integrity has to be called into question, how and why it is allowed with no visible detection or security to prevent someone from voting multiple times on the same device, same number, same IP address, etc., for the same entry.
I think the voting issue is very easy to resolve without needing to sacrifice the interactivity of the contest.
They can keep the 10 votes but cap how many times each person can vote for a country (e.g. max 3 votes per country with the votes). That letâs people weigh some votes on a few faves (which is a part of the fun of Eurovision) without allowing countries lihe Israel to get these dumped 10 votes.
It definitely will reduce the Israel impact on the public vote.
Thatâs something Iâve suggested, or I do like the other option of putting forward your top 10 forcing bots to at least distribute points elsewhere
1 vote per country is even better.
All these ideas seem like they would be easy work for the Israeli bots to get around, and would detract from the experience for everyone else. Just ban Israel.
Obviously thatâs the best thing to do, but we all know the EBU is not gonna do anything.
Agree. All of these proposed solutions will be easy for the Israel bots to counter.
The 2026 Eurovision Song Contest was watched by 131 million viewers, organisers said Friday, down 35 million on the year before after five countries boycotted over Israelâs participation.
The ratings need to drop further - the EBU needs to be panicking, and then maybe, just maybe we will finally get a general assembly vote on banning Israel. Shoehorning in Canada isnât going to stop the likes of Belgium from leaving, and the brave 5 from staying out.
Agree 
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They need to act and do whatâs necessary to restore credibility to the competition. And that means getting rid of Israel and their voting bots once and for all.
So letâs take a look at the full list of Eurovision 2026 songs ranked by number of YouTube views (as of 20 June 2026).
7News Melbourne reporter Blake Johnson did a re-creation of Eclipse performance using the street bollards. And Delta loved it!
I think the clip was taken when Blake was in Toulouse, France last week, to cover Qantasâ announcement of the nonstop route between Sydney and London.
Canada may participate in Eurovision (without invitation) - reports they will in 2027.
Mmm, Iâm not really sure why they would bother. Iâm still a bit cynical at the moment after this year.
Itâs as if the EBU will do anything but ban Israel at the General Assembly