Italy won the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Portugal in 12th place

“Rock and roll never dies“or” Rock and roll will never die. “This was the message that the Italian band glam rock Myaneskin on stage reacted to Saturday’s victory. When conquering televoting noisy “Shut up and okay“denied the favoritism of the professional jury of works from Switzerland and France.

In addition, for the first time since 2010, the country “big five“The festival wins in a closed and exciting final, where the final classification must be determined until the last moment.

Before today’s victory, Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964 and 1990. The country took first place this Saturday with a total of 524 points. In recent days, bookmakers have already put Italian music among the favorites to win.

Immediately after that, France came in second with the topic “Voila“as interpreted by Barbara Pravy (499 points), a theme that was also noted as one of the favorites this year. Switzerland came in third with the theme”The whole universe”, Scored 432 points.

Dai og Gagnamagnið from Iceland took 4th place with song “10 years“(378 points) and Ukraine took 5th place, with”more“, from Go_A (364 points). Finland ranked 6th in music”Dark side”, From“ Blind Channels ”(301 points).

“I’m breaking down”played by Destiny Malta finished 7th with 255 points, followed by “Disco”from the group The Roop, representing Lithuania (8th place with 220 points).

Russia, with music “Russian woman”from Manizhi took 9th place (204 points), and Greece received 170 points with “The last dance”, by Stefania. Bulgaria ranked 11th in topic “Growing up means getting old”performed by Victoria.

Portuguese group The Black Mamba took 12th place. place with the theme “Love is on my side“. For the first time, Portugal performed a song entirely sung in English. The song was written by Tatanka, the vocalist of this group, formed in 2010.

12º – Portugal – “Love is on my side” (Black Mamba)

The result achieved this Saturday was one of the best in the history of Portugal’s participation, with a total of 153 points.

Last Thursday, The Black Mamba secured a spot in the finals, making it to the top 10 most played songs in the second semi-final.

While Portugal’s song is nowhere near the top favorite to win, it caught the attention of Europe, finishing in 8th place at bookmakers after Thursday’s performance.

Even in 12th place, the Black Mamba got the second best result in the history of Portugal, surpassing the points achieved by Lucia Moniz in 1996 for the theme “My heart has no color” (96 points).

Pandemic Eurovision

Due to the pandemic, all 39 countries that participated in the semi-finals and finals have recorded their performances to guarantee participation in the event in case there was no opportunity to go on stage or travel to Rotterdam during the festival.

The first semi-final was attended by Australia, which has participated in the festival since 2015 and as a result did not make it to the final, presenting a pre-recorded performance, since the delegation was unable to travel to the Netherlands.

In the second semi-final, Daði og Gagnamagnið from Iceland did not present their music live, as one of the band members tested positive for Covid-19, but was still able to qualify and took part in this final also through recording. repetition.

Who also tested positive for Covid-19 was Duncan Lawrence from the Netherlands. Winner of the previous Eurovision festival in 2019 with the theme “Arcade“, Was not physically at the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam to give testimony to this year’s winners.

It should be recalled that in 2020, for the first time since the creation of the Eurovision Song Contest, in 1964, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) canceled the competition, which was supposed to take place in May last year, given that all conditions were not met. met in connection with the pandemic situation.

This year, despite the pandemic, viewers could watch live for the two semifinals, as well as for the final: 3,500 tickets were sold for each show.