Who were the winners of Eurovision 2013?

Just because you finish first does not mean you were the actual winner… even at The Eurovision Song Contest:

To decide who was this year’s biggest winner, you have to actually define what it means to ‘win Eurovision’. It’s not as simple as finishing in first place on the Saturday night. While ‘Only Teardrops‘ is going to stay in the Song Contest record books, after the National Final guest appearances with a playback tape, it’s unlikely we’ll hear again from Emmelie de Forest. While you can still hear ‘Euphoria‘ on the beaches of São Paulo, Denmark’s 2013 winner will be cut to shreds for the jingles during the 2014 Contest and then quietly filed alongside ‘Everybody‘.

Looking down the results table from Malmö, you can find many personal success stories: Margaret Berger returned to the public eye with her own choice of musical styles, Bonnie Tyler managed to chart an album for the first in a billion years, Anouk was anointed superhero status just by qualifying for the Saturday night, and Malta saw their best result in recent years (although Gianluca returned to his life as Dr. Bezzina). They are all wonderful stories, but none of them scream ‘winner’ to me.

We need to leave them behind and look deeper.

I’m still not sure just how tongue in cheek the article was, but I definitly had fun writing it. You can (hopefully) enjoy reading the full article over on ESC Insight.