2026-05-17 · This surge ran for 15 days and has since subsided.
Eurovision Song Contest 2026 saw 43x more Wikipedia readers than usual
Eurovision Song Contest 2026 drew 589,937 views on 2026-05-17, 43x more than the usual 13,596 a day over the previous 60 days.
Eurovision Song Contest 2026
International song competition
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-17 | 589,937 |
| 2026-05-16 | 528,304 |
| 2026-05-15 | 159,761 |
| 2026-05-14 | 190,314 |
| 2026-05-13 | 144,080 |
| 2026-05-12 | 195,847 |
| 2026-05-11 | 63,825 |
| 2026-05-10 | 48,672 |
| 2026-05-09 | 41,391 |
| 2026-05-08 | 28,853 |
| 2026-05-07 | 26,123 |
| 2026-05-06 | 25,419 |
| 2026-05-05 | 22,856 |
| 2026-05-04 | 22,450 |
| 2026-05-03 | 22,075 |
| 2026-05-02 | 21,299 |
| 2026-05-01 | 18,628 |
| 2026-04-30 | 13,488 |
| 2026-04-29 | 13,512 |
| 2026-04-28 | 13,667 |
| 2026-04-27 | 12,519 |
| 2026-04-26 | 13,124 |
| 2026-04-25 | 13,224 |
| 2026-04-24 | 12,386 |
| 2026-04-23 | 11,707 |
| 2026-04-22 | 11,789 |
| 2026-04-21 | 11,671 |
| 2026-04-20 | 11,976 |
| 2026-04-19 | 12,544 |
| 2026-04-18 | 13,524 |
| 2026-04-17 | 10,559 |
| 2026-04-16 | 10,259 |
| 2026-04-15 | 11,315 |
| 2026-04-14 | 11,753 |
| 2026-04-13 | 13,340 |
| 2026-04-12 | 14,424 |
| 2026-04-11 | 14,185 |
| 2026-04-10 | 11,998 |
| 2026-04-09 | 11,999 |
| 2026-04-08 | 12,073 |
| 2026-04-07 | 12,553 |
| 2026-04-06 | 13,876 |
| 2026-04-05 | 14,245 |
| 2026-04-04 | 14,294 |
| 2026-04-03 | 17,612 |
What this article is
The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 was the 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It consisted of two semi-finals on 12 and 14 May and a final on 16 May 2026, held at Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria, and presented by Victoria Swarovski and Michael Ostrowski, with Emily Busvine acting as the green room host. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), which staged the event after winning the 2025 contest for Austria with the song "Wasted Love" by JJ.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 86 edits to this article on 2026-05-17, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Final
- Semi-final 2
- 12 points
- Semi-final 1
- Participants
- Detailed voting results
What changed that day
The article grew by 80,739 characters that day. The largest single addition was 18,644 characters to Final. See everything that changed on 2026-05-17 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.
Rose at the same time
7 other articles that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.
How this was measured
Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.