Forty songs have won the North Vision Song Contest, a competition organized by members of the North Broadcasting Union. The contest has been held once in about one or two months since its debut in April 2013. The contest's winner has been determined using a basic voting method; awarding points to countries by juries and/or televoters. The country awarded the most points is declared the winner.
There have been forty contests. Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland have won the event three times while Austria, Israel, Italy and Ukraine have won the contest twice. The other seventeen countries have won once. Iceland won the first contest, held in Hungary. Apart from Iceland, Lebanon is the only country to win at its debut.
The winners of the contest have mostly been female solo performers apart from the winners of the second, fourth, tenth, eleventh, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, twenty-third, twenty-fifth, twenty-seventh, thirtieth, thirty-third and thirty-fifth editions. In the tenth edition, a duet won for the first time. In the twenty-fifth edition, a male-only act won for the first time. Amaranthe became the first artist to win the contest twice.
Nicole Saba's "Hafdal Ahlam" became the first winning song to be entirely in a language other than English, followed by Ani and Grigory's "Zerkala" which was sung in Russian, Ronela Hajati's "A do si kjo" which was sung in Albanian, Dara's "K'vo ne chu" which was sung in Bulgarian, Riya's "Polyusy" which was sung in Ukrainian, Gåte's "Bannlyst" which was sung in Norwegian, Fulminacci's "Canguro" which was sung in Italian, Belén Aguilera's "Vértigo which was sung in Spanish, Die Arkitekt and Lena Platonos's "Julian" which was sung in Greek, Yukno's "Böse Geister" which was sung in German, and Ana Moura's "Arraial Triste" which was sung in Portuguese.
List[]
By country[]
| Wins | Country | Editions |
|---|---|---|
| 4 |  Sweden
|
#03, #22, #29, #36 |
| 3 |  Denmark
|
#04, #11, #14 |
 Norway
|
#08, #09, #30 | |
 Switzerland
|
#02, #16, #27 | |
| 2 |  Austria
|
#23, #40 |
 Israel
|
#12, #15 | |
 Italy
|
#18, #35 | |
 Ukraine
|
#10, #26 | |
 United Kingdom
|
#06, #37 | |
| 1 |  Albania
|
#19 |
 Andorra
|
#38 | |
 Belgium
|
#17 | |
 Bosnia & Herzegovina
|
#07 | |
 Bulgaria
|
#21 | |
 Czechia
|
#20 | |
 Georgia
|
#32 | |
 Greece
|
#39 | |
 Iceland
|
#01 | |
 Ireland
|
#28 | |
 Kazakhstan
|
#13 | |
 Lebanon
|
#05 | |
 Luxembourg
|
#31 | |
 Morocco
|
#24 | |
 Netherlands
|
#25 | |
 Portugal
|
#41 | |
 Russia
|
#34 | |
 Slovakia
|
#33 |
By language[]
| Wins | Language | Editions |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | English | #01, #02, #03, #04, #06, #07, #08, #09, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #20, #22, #23, #24, #25, #27, #28, #29, #31, #33, #36, #37 |
| 3 | Russian | #10, #32, #34 |
| 1 | Albanian | #19[1] |
| Arabic | #05 | |
| Bulgarian | #21 | |
| German | #40 | |
| Greek | #39 | |
| Italian | #35 | |
| Norwegian | #30 | |
| Portuguese | #41 | |
| Spanish | #38 | |
| Ukrainian | #26 |
Notes[]
- ^ Contained some phrases in English.
See also[]
- List of countries in the North Vision Song Contest
- List of host cities of the North Vision Song Contest
- List of languages in the North Vision Song Contest
- List of North Vision Song Contest presenters
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