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List of Eurovision Song Contest winning songwriters


Sixty-four songs written by one-hundred and nineteen songwriters have won the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual competition organised by member countries of the European Broadcasting Union. 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 have been determined using numerous voting techniques throughout its history; centre to these have been the awarding of points to countries by juries or televoters. The country with the song that was awarded the most points is declared the winner. The songwriters of the winning song have often been the first people to be called up on stage to receive their trophy before the performers perform the winning reprise.

There have been 60 contests, with one winning country each year except the tied 1969 contest, which had four.

The following songwriters have all had more than one winning song. The remaining songwriters from the table above have only had one win.

Émile Gardaz, winner of the 1956 contest for Switzerland.

Nicola Salerno, winner of the 1964 contest for Italy.

Serge Gainsbourg, winner of the 1965 contest for Luxembourg.

Udo Jürgens, winner of the 1966 contest for Austria.

Manuel de la Calva and Ramón Arcusa (known as Dúo Dinámico), winners of the 1968 contest for Spain.

Benny Andersson, winner of the 1974 contest for Sweden.


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