i don't actually believe in block voting at Eurovision. countries vote for their neighbours because they know the artist/song and have the same musical tastes. This is not meant to cause any offense or to be negative cos most of the songs got points from all over Europe and deserved to however i thought it would be fun to do a compilation of how much certain countries do stay within their own region

When Greece and cyprus, and baltic countries give 12 points to each other Audience: Booooo And when scandinavian countries give 12 points to each other: Audience: Woooooow 👏

oh yes denmark and ireland, historic neighbours

“ThIs Is ThE rEaSoN wHy We DoN’t GeT aNy PoInTs In EuRoViSiOn. It’S aLl PoLiTiCs” -Every British local

It's funny people calling out block voting, except when it comes to Scandinavians. Nobody boos or roll their eyes there.

Scandinavian block , Balkan block, Eastern European block, Baltic block, Western European block , and Czech Republic

It's not really political voting when the country is already in the top 3 or even in first. :/

Not enough Cyprus-Greece

As a Greek I remember when in 2015 I think, we didn't exchange 12 points with Cyprus and everyone was shocked, including us 😂

Tbh the balkan friendship society (ex yugo countries) is one of the funniest things in Eurovision! I love it because they always support their underrated neighbors :)

France, Germany, and the Netherlands didn't vote for Belgium in 2015 because they're neighbours, Loïc Nottet is just a legend!!🖤💛❤

Mothers and Daughters Greece - Cyprus Turkey - Azerbaijan Serbia - Montenegro Romania - Moldova Finland - Estonia Sweden - Norway Denmark - Iceland UK - Australia

How can you say united kingdom voting greece was a predictable neighbour voting when they're so far ?!

Thanks for the video :) Some of those really don't deserve to be called "block/neighbour/predictable voting" tho, for example the ones who actually won the contest. Marija Serifovic from Serbia won, so obviously she's going to get lots of points from the former Yugoslav countries, there's nothing wrong with that. Or Lena from Germany got loads of 12p from all around Europe, in fact Germany has 9 neighbours but only 2 neighbours gave Lena 12p, so it's kinda unfair to label the one time Switzerland didn't give its 12p to Serbia/Albania/Turkey as "block/neighbour/predictable voting" for Germany here :D And the one time Denmark didn't vote for Sweden/Norway/Finland/Iceland... Same goes for Alexander Rybak, Mans Zelmerlöw, Loreen and Emmelie de Forest. They WON, so of course the Nordic countries gave a lot of points to the winner in that year. Nothing wrong with that. Or when Germany gave 12p to Nadine Beiler from Austria, which was actually the first 12p from Germany to Austria in like 50 years or something :D Wasn't predictable at all, actually. It was only possible because Turkey wasn't in the final that year. The only predictable thing about that year was the 10p to Greece. And literally the same applies to Germany's 12p to Tom Dice from Belgium. Wasn't predictable at all. The predictable things here were, again, the high points to Turkey and Greece. Also Maja Keuc, Jelena Tomasevic etc were amazing and deserved those points :) And how does Netherlands and France voting for Denmark belong into this video? Or Denmark voting for Ireland? Am I missing some secret connection between those countries? :D

2:57 I think it's one of the rare cases San Marino gave us a twelve

I don't think cases like Sweden voting for Norway in 2009 are that serious, as there were several other countries voting for Norway that year. You should concentrate on cases where a participating country got its votes mainly from it's voting block. Perhaps you should exclude top five songs of each year throughout, as they probably get relatively high points from everywhere.

Ex Yugoslav countries form 2016 onwards are definitely not like this anymore while Nordics are still giving themselves maximum score.

Wow, in one year Moldova didn't give 12 points to Romania, only gave 10

Not enoigh netherlands - belgium

Denmark always give sweden but they never give back lol

Denmark and Ireland was just a coincidence xD

Scandinavian countries voting for turkey isn’t predictable

Most of votes are political, that's why Poland never gets 12 points

When everyone says that Eastern Europe is voting for Poland. Last 12 points for Poland: 2003

Without actually hearing the songs in question, nor seeing the voting patterns of the other juries for these same songs, it's hard to say with any certainty that these votes were CAUSED by the countries being neighbors/within a block.

this is not explained by politics. but just the neighboring people have a similar folklore and food and art. They understand the language and traditions and songs of each other. this is beyond any doubt sympathy sincere!

Belgian commentators always complained about bloc voting but were expecting high points from France and the Netherlands...

Azerbaijan Turkey

I didn‘t know Austria and Serbia are neighbors😂

Netherlands to Denmark isn't predictable at all

2007 our (Serbian) song got 12 points from many other contries not only neighbors.. And our song was amazing -.-

Send good song to Eurovision and try to win this contest 🚫 Separate yourself to 2 countries and vote for each other ✅

They may have the same taste of music hahaha, and they can understand language :P

4:19 is it really block voting when germany won and everyone seemed to enjoy. same with 2007 with serbia. is that block voting too. and in 2009, with norway or sweden, and 2012

to be fair molitva was easily the best song that year

Neighbour votes are not so exepcted. But, in my memory, in ESC '98 "douze points" from North Macedonia (F. Y. R. Macedonia in that year) to Croatia were shocking and unexpected, which had given win to Israel

I hate when people in the audience say , booooooooo’

Best neighbors Germany and Turkey

You forgot 2014 Lithuania gave 12 to Armenia, lots of Latvia to Lithuania and Estonia to Finland and shit like that

6:08-6:32 the best part.

I don’t think 12 points between CH, GER or AT are predictable at all because for some reason they don’t really act like Cyprus-Greece, Romania-Montenegro, NL-Belgium and so forth, so whenever they vote for each other it’s quite a thrill haha

In France we have become the only honest since there is no longer Turkey.

6.38 is not very much politics. It's not that surprising that someone gave 12 pts to Loreen

I dont think when they give points to their neighbours when they are in first it has nothing to do with neighbours

Sir Terry Wogan always got so annoyed 😢

It was really noticeable when Belgian jury gave no points to France this year and for less hard to understand reasons the Maltese one gave no points to Italy their closest neighbours.

15:39 this cannot happen again...

It's always hilarious to watch the block voting, especially when the songs get zero points from everyone else. Never a shock to see Greece and Cyprus at it, always makes me laugh. Some countries fortunately do have the imagination to vote for non neighbours.

In my ideal 2021 voting, I really hate the song from Cyprus. It got 24 points and finished last. All of them are from Greece. And Finland came second last with 40 points, getting some from the Nordics and Estonia. Spain was third last with 48, with half of the points coming from Portugal.

thought it was BLOC voting because of the eastern bloc but please tell me if I'm wrong

See how they always choose the BEST song out of their block? Yes there is bias but a HUGE factor is song quality. No country is ever guaranteed a point if they don't put in the work, even russia or sweden

Fact (just check it if you don't believe me): no 2 other countries have given each other as many points as Greece and Cyprus. Sure, other countries might be guilty of block/neighbour-voting, but Greece-Cyprus win this shameful 'competition' hands down. No other countries even come close! Funny how all Greeks/Cypriots in this thread don't even seem to understand that saying 'but we are the same nation' is not an excuse for voting for each other: it is a SONG contest in which you're supposed to vote for the song you like best - not for the COUNTRY you like best...

I always hate when the French presentator (with the francophone countries too) is the only one to speak French when they give their points...I feel like we are always the only one to not make the effort to speak English ! (I’m French)

ah yes germany and turkey, neighbours.

I mean, of course the Portugal and Spain voting was predictable. We're basically brothers supporting each other.

Not enough Cyprus-Greece or Romania-Moldova.

Yes, Austria and Serbia are the *BEST* neighbors xD

I feel like Denmark is a little bit outsider since they sometimes got 0 point from the other Nordic countries😂😂

there is one country that doesn't do this yes Australia i love you because of that ;)

At least we can always rely on at least 1 of Ireland, Malta or Australia

Is Serbia>

Austria and Serbia aren't neighboring countries, and neither are Germany and Turkey

Sweden giving 12 points to Norway in 2009 probably wasn't based on the brotherhood, since most of Europe gave their twelve points to Norway as well.

You missed Slovenia-Croatia in 1998 and Bosnia & Herzegovina-Croatia in so many years.

ppl from outside Europe should be voting too to give some neutral points

But some countries has deserved the 12 points for example Iceland to Sweden in 2012 or it has a lot of example France to Denmark in 2013 or Spain to Portugal in 2017 it's not all politic but most of it i think is but anyway they have deserved

Austria voting for Serbia, in the year when Serbia won, is meant to be political somehow??

Israel and Armenia? What’s the connection?

0:57? Why?

Azerbaycan Türkiye ❤❤

Eski günler

Ireland and Denmark are not block voting

uh, how are Serbia and Hungary bloc voting for eachother??

block voting

No offense but how is Austria voting for Serbia counted as block voting/neighbour voting? Marija and Serbia is nowhere related to Austria Denmark and France in 2013 is the same case

Portugal actually received more points from France than Spain in it's entire eurovision history. Even these days we score higher in french jury rather than Spanish or Italian xD

Denmark-Ireland, Serbia-Hungary I mean dafuq?

us azeris always gave 12 points to turkey and so did they, but they don't participate now so we give our points to russia :) and they actually were the only ones who gave 12 points to chingiz

Hungary doesn’t have that close of a connection to Serbia, also Albania doesn’t have one with Italy. You should have included more Greece- Cyprus instead ;) and the year when Serbia was a favorite to win, I don’t think that counts.

Yugoslav block

9:41 how’s that predictable?

Nordics are the worst for it, in 2008 Denmark was last to vote and gave their 8 to Norway, 10 to Iceland, and 12 to Sweden, all of whom were on the bottom of the board.

11:10?

I don't understand how Hungary got here tbh. Except for Poland noone really likes us in a way that they would bloc-vote, so...

Cmon how is Austria 12 points to Serbia bloc voting ?

Así no vota a España ni su madre

Turkey, Malta and Greece are neither neighbours of the UK nor are they predictable votes. This video is very confusing.

Not sure what the connection between France and Armenia is

Bri'ish "people" shouldn't complain about Cyprus-Greece voting each other. We would've been a single nation now if it wasn't for them

Esc should nullify block voting

Lithuania does not vote for Russia in buttbuddy ways, we have a much, much smaller Russian population, Latvia and Estonia have over 30%.

Uknis neighbour with turkey?

Lithuania voting for Georgia isn't even remotely political. That's ridiculous.

Former Yugoslav Republics

I often see people like “Not even _Ireland_ gave us any points!” Like they completely forgot 1916 existed.

This must be forbidden

Italy doesn't receive any political points considering that San Marino gave us 12 points only twice, Albania gives us 12 because Sanremo is very popular and in 2019 they don't give top marks to us...

i miss the times when ukraine and russia were best friends and gave points and support to each other, eh :(

no one neighbor romance language country voted for Italy only slavic countries voted for Italy

not enough portugal - spain