2026-05-16 · This surge ran for 17 days and has since subsided.
List of Eurovision Song Contest winners is drawing 105x more Wikipedia traffic than normal
List of Eurovision Song Contest winners drew 122,568 views on 2026-05-16, 105x more than the usual 1,166 a day over the previous 60 days.
List of Eurovision Song Contest winners
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-16 | 122,568 |
| 2026-05-15 | 18,043 |
| 2026-05-14 | 17,806 |
| 2026-05-13 | 9,907 |
| 2026-05-12 | 12,993 |
| 2026-05-11 | 4,726 |
| 2026-05-10 | 3,239 |
| 2026-05-09 | 2,532 |
| 2026-05-08 | 2,062 |
| 2026-05-07 | 1,821 |
| 2026-05-06 | 1,763 |
| 2026-05-05 | 1,703 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1,513 |
| 2026-05-03 | 1,664 |
| 2026-05-02 | 1,607 |
| 2026-05-01 | 1,650 |
| 2026-04-30 | 1,819 |
| 2026-04-29 | 1,157 |
| 2026-04-28 | 1,623 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1,141 |
| 2026-04-26 | 1,065 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1,247 |
| 2026-04-24 | 1,253 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1,121 |
| 2026-04-22 | 1,164 |
| 2026-04-21 | 1,083 |
| 2026-04-20 | 1,076 |
| 2026-04-19 | 1,220 |
| 2026-04-18 | 1,287 |
| 2026-04-17 | 1,194 |
| 2026-04-16 | 1,080 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1,054 |
| 2026-04-14 | 953 |
| 2026-04-13 | 840 |
| 2026-04-12 | 1,095 |
| 2026-04-11 | 1,126 |
| 2026-04-10 | 1,073 |
| 2026-04-09 | 961 |
| 2026-04-08 | 897 |
| 2026-04-07 | 854 |
| 2026-04-06 | 1,092 |
| 2026-04-05 | 1,167 |
| 2026-04-04 | 1,228 |
| 2026-04-03 | 1,353 |
| 2026-04-02 | 1,102 |
What this article is
73 songs written by 154 songwriters have won the Eurovision Song Contest, an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The contest, which has been broadcast every year since its debut in 1956, is one of the longest-running television programmes in the world. The contest's winner has been determined using numerous voting techniques throughout its history; centre to these have been the awarding of points by juries or televoters. The entry awarded the most points is declared the winner. The first contest was not won on points, but by votes, and only the winner was announced.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 11 edits to this article on 2026-05-16, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Discrepancies between the jury and televote
- Winners by country
- Observations
- Performers
- Winners by year
What changed that day
The article grew by 444 characters that day. The largest single addition was 159 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-16 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.