The Eurovision Song Contest

42 candidates, each representing one European country, took part in the Eurovision Song Contest this year. But only 26 made it to the final on May 13th in Kiev, Ukraine.

Getting through to the big final was decided during two semi-finals before the event, with a professional jury and the public voting.

We wondered if searches would reflect each country’s voting patterns. If they did, the map would look like the one below. It shows the 20 countries that would have past the semi-finals in search and the 16 eliminated participants.6 countries, host Ukraine and the 'Big Five', are automatically qualified for the final.

Votes based on search activity 'predicted' 15 out of 20 qualified semi-finalists correctly. Use the switch to toggle the colors between the predicted and the real qualified countries.