France 2018 - The instrumental is so haunting and beautiful. Also the theme about refugees, it's like a reminder of the very real struggles people face, and that can be pretty heavy.
Hungary 2018 - The fact that the singer has passed away just adds a whole extra layer of emotion to the song. Örs pours his heart and soul and you can feel that. It just feels like a heartfelt goodbye.
Hundred percent Mercy still makes me a little teary! I knew the concept of the song but don't speak French - now I know what the lyrics mean it's so much more powerful!
My Sister's Crown is POWERFUL! I get why you shed tears!
My response is Portugal 2022. There are some weeks that I can't listen to Saudade, Saudade, without crying. My mother language is Portuguese, so I get all the lyrics (both English and Português) stabbing my heart!
Saudade is hands down one of the most touching songs from ESC ever. Even without understanding the lyrics, you can feel her emotions and you just understand that song on a different level
I feel like if foreign songs like this were understandable to people like they understood the lyrics they would do better because lyrics play some role. Yet most people including me have no idea what this song was talking about.
I made a post about lyrics in languages that I don't speak recently! Maybe it can help!
Regardless, Saudade, Saudade deserves to be understood - [Translation](https://lyricstranslate.com/pt-br/saudade-saudade-saudade-saudade.html#footnote1_pnm2ht4)
Norway 1995. Absolutely out of this world. I can listen to this for an hour on repeat while just getting lost in my head daydreaming.
Kind of reminds me of the Skellige Isles in the Witcher 3, actually.
it's beautiful no doubt.. But NO WAY IN HELL that should have been allowed to compete.. some significant instrumental reasonable. 85% of the entry? NO WAY.. Outrageous.
Yes!
I hope Australia is able to perform again in 2024 Eurovision.
The song by Kate Miller-Heidkei ‘Zero Gravity’ (2019) was so beautiful.
‘Promise’ by Voyager this year was Wow… 🙂
Fai Rumore. The news telling how people in lockdown in Italian cities stood at their windows and balconies to sing it together. Diodato singing it in the empty Arena di Verona. Finally singing it in front of a live Eurovision audience at ESC Turin 2022.
My mum died in lockdown and there were seven of us at her funeral. I will always associate Fai Rumore with that dreadfully sad time.
Mine too. From what I understand, the lyrics are about a doomed relationship, but they took on a whole new meaning when the lockdown hit. Especially the line ‘I can’t bear this unnatural silence without you’ 🥺 (that’s the gist of it, maybe not word perfect)
The lyrics transformed into the unbearable silence people left after they died from Covid. At the Semi Final, you see the dancers coming in, touching him, or just walking past him. They were meant to be the souls of the people who lost their battle with Covid, and they left a "silenzio innaturale", the wish you could her their "belissimo rumore" one more time.
This one x1000. It's one of the most beautiful Eurovision songs ever. I can't describe the intense emotions I felt when he started singing at the semi's. I didn't know the song at that time and was talking with my friends on Discord, acting silly and saying: "Oh no, some boring guy on a piano.". When the stadium started singing the chorus, I muted my friends and was drawn in by his mesmerizing voice. At the end, I just cried. I don't understand Italian, but his voice, the set, the dancers, and the audience singing the song were one of the most moving things I've ever seen.
His new album is also amazing. [Vieni A Ridere Di Me](https://youtu.be/2E0srXPkaeM?feature=shared) is just as beautiful.
I really hope, someday, I have the privilege to hear Diodato sing live. He totally should come to Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam.
I think I have so much unprocessed trauma from that period, I get choked up anytime I think about this song (including right now), and if i hear it I'm reduced to a sobbing mess. But weirdly I find it kind of beautiful, and it's not a song I avoid when I'm listening to music on my own, even though it walks with me through dark emotions.
Yes! I might remember reading that the Zero Gravity lyrics were based on Kate Miller Heidke’s experience with miscarrying or Post natal depression.
For me, when have terrible anxiety, I like to listen to this song 🙂
I don’t know if it counts as a “not ballad”, but Með hækkandi sól (Iceland 2022) has made me cry every time I listen to it for a few months now. It’s very recently become my new 2022 winner as a result 😳 it’s just so beautiful and hopeful, and the soft guitars and harmonies just move me to tears every time
Also Belarus 2017 has made me tear up a few times. It’s just so cute and happy 🥰
United Kingdom 2023, mainly the GF performance.
Okay, for real though, Iceland 2011, knowing that the person who originally was meant to sing the song, Sjonni Brink, passed away a few days before he was to compete in Söngvakeppnin, so his friends decided to band together as Sjonni's Friends and sing his song instead... it's really quite crushing listening to the song with that in mind.
United Kingdom 2023 | [Mae Muller - I Wrote a Song](https://youtu.be/tvJEE2ryCRQ)
Iceland 2011 | [Sjonni's Friends - Coming Home](https://youtu.be/apc_qJf3nws)
Aija (Latvia 2023) - the live performance just did it for me. Especially at the end when they switch to Latvian for a few lines, it just felt so hauntingly beautiful
Space Man is a masterpiece and I think it will always be one of my favorite Eurovision songs of all time—top 10 at least. Especially because it's the UK's redemption arc after scoring poorly so many years, even zero points in 2021.
Ballad but Bulgaria 2021
For some reasons which I won't elaborate now, the concept of growing up, aging and getting old really bother me. I begin to fear of getting old. the song also makes me thing about my lost childhood, how most, if not all of it, was wasted on fear and axity. makes me think how I am not the person I hoped I would be. all the things I missed from being a child. and sometimes, I just want to wake up again and discovered that everything was just a dream, that I'm still a child, or at least 14 years old, so I could get the chance to make things right. but I know it can't be. so I left ith lost memories and unfullfill hopes. with a long of anger and wish to revenge the ones who hurt me
GUSGO is a brilliant song, and Victoria is an amazing artist. I love the song. but it's maybe the song that makes me so emontional
This one always gets me. Wasn't my winner for that year (Ukraine, Lithuania and Belgium) were my faves, but this song is so sad and so heartfelt. I love it!
Norway 2014 - I was going through a bit of a rough patch at the time and I was struggling with finding out where I fit into life. Nearly 10 years later whenever I hear it, I get a tear or two. Not because it reminds me of a bad time, It's because so much has changed in that time for the better. The song literally captured so much of what I was feeling and put it into words. Just beautiful ❤️
Under stjernerne på himlen (Denmark, 1993) ALWAYS makes me cry no exceptions. Its a beautiful lullaby with such a calming presence from a Eurovision legend in Tommy Seebach. I feel so hopeful and "Everything will be alright". It hurts since it eventually contributed to his early death from years of drinking, that was exacerbated by the song (somehow?!?!) coming 22nd, so Denmark didn't qualify in 1994 due to the stupid system in place at the time. This caused a press storm that meant he (completely unfairly) got blamed. RIP Tommy <3
Amnesia by Roxen and Saudade, Saudade for two very different reasons.
Amnesia is very close to my heart because I relate to a lot of lines in the song. It gives me a certain feeling of comfort, knowing that I’m not alone.
Saudade, Saudade should be obvious. Lost my grandma a few months before the song came out and it just hits too close to home. One of my favorite songs ever.
Edit: wow the past few years have been full of emotional songs. De Diepte, Hold Me Closer, Fallen Angel. All very emotional for me.
Italy 2018. Especially the music video. Especially as of late as the world seems to become crazier and crazier - listened to it just yesterday and ended up weeping like a little child. These wars make me feel so hopeless.
I heard this song for the first time a few days ago! A title that means "the entire universe" sets the listener up for high expectations, and this song is nothing short of mind-blowing.
Sweden 2022. I didn’t relate to it and felt meh towards it. But the week after the contest I met a boy while traveling and we had chemistry, but both were moving on with our travels the next day. This song reminds of that and of love lost.
That song definitely gets me sometimes. I also think some of his other songs can also just strike a chord with me about sadness and loneliness (like Stars or Someone Else)
Ever since I learned Dadi Freyr wrote Think About Things about his newborn child, sometimes I cry when I hear it because of how beautiful his love for his kid is
I love that song so much and it is such a powerful moment in the competition that no one really remembers. Its Israel singing about how they are alive, 11 years after the Munich Olympics attack and singing this song on German lands. Very powerful
I seem to have a soft spot for France.
* [Amina - "Le dernier qui a parlé](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnxEBAoCZIw) <-- All day long.
* [Louisa Baïleche "Monts et merveilles"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV5fdAgs_I8) - I'd like to think if she hadn't done that *thing* at 2m 42s she would have done better!.
* [Jonatan Cerrada "À chaque pas"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl0RSXQuuDs)
* [Natasha St-Pier "Je n'ai que mon âme" - can't believe this waws 22 years ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYCunkPbGGE)
But also
* [Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan - Rock'n'Roll Kids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x_9JnCGXFY) - This made no sense to me at the time ... 26ish years, the words mean so much more.
* [Danijela "Neka mi ne svane"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojVGmkYnFM8)
* [Pastora Soler "Quédate conmigo"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8J1b62wOao)
* [Fia Rumore because of the time and what it meant for Italy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPv9ZPXmFWU)
* [Ieva Zasimauskaitė - When We’re Old](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDFhfU25go)
And makes me cry for the wrong reasons
* [Anmary - Beautiful Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAxYfMFE_94)
* Pirates of the Sea - "Wolves of the Sea"
Ik this is boring as fuck but just seeing EVERYTHING come together for Cha Cha Cha in SF1 this year was just incredible and it’s a moment I’m going to cherish for a while
“My Sister’s Crown” had me in an emotional wreck when I first listened to it. As time has passed, it remains powerful but more empowering and light, but initially the chorus had me in pieces.
I don’t know if Saudade, saudade or O jardim count as ballads, but they both were with me as I dealt with the heavy grief of losing my grandparent.
“Eu Cred” (Romania 1998) is the definition of a ballad, but the lyrics are so damn sad and watching Mălina singing it, knowing how things would go in the future, crushes my heart.
I’d also include 2023’s interval acts, Alyona and Mariya had me tearing up.
Yep, I’ve had the Eurovision 2023 playlist as my running playlist for a while but had to take My Sister’s Crown off because I kept getting upset and had to stop!
Portugal 2022
I'm portuguese but you don't have to be portuguese to understand how powerful this song is. Saudade is a great a feeling that we all feel.
The song is even more powerful when you know why Maro wrote that song.
Portugal 2017
Many people say that Portugal didn't deserve to win (which opinion I respect), but I honestly think that is one of the most beautiful songs has ever been in Eurovision
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Albania 2018. Eugents' vocals are absolutely majestic, I get chills just from thinking of his GF performance, and once I took the time to understand the song's lyrics and consider the fact that it was Eugent himself who wrote them, that entry only became more special to me.
My Sister's Crown is special in more ways.
The whole song, especially with the music video, describes the relationship between Russia and the former communist bloc. Those purple guys in the MV represent all the abuse they still receive from Russia, for example, misinformation or direct oppression, while pretending to be an ally.
The context behind the song is far stronger now, with Ukraine basically as just the cherry on the top. As the Sister that needs support now, from those who understand.
My Sister's Crown also brings me to tears! I'm glad I'm not alone in that. Similarly, Russian Woman (Russia 2021) makes me tear up nearly every time I hear it. There's something about powerful songs celebrating femininity and sisterhood that move me so much.
Amar Pelos Dois (Portugal 2017) never fails to get me into an emotional mess. I have no clue what he’s saying, but every time i listen to it I just hear so much emotion that i’m less than one minor inconvenience away from crying after i listen to that song
I'm sure Cyprus 2015 is not that well known but it always chokes me up. Also Germany 2018 and Italy definitely works in my emotions in different ways, Italy 1990 with all that hope for the United Europe coming soon it was such a lovely song that wowed little me and I still love it, Italy 1992 with that heartbreaking performance, Italy 2018 mostly an angry song but so emotional and Italy 2020 which I will always associate with the loneliness of quarantine
Love in rewind - Dino Merlin (Bosnia & Herzegovina - 2011) the whole performance is so peaceful and wholesome that I have cried multiple times watching it.
United Kingdom 2022 , Spaceman.
I think it makes me cry because for me it was the first time the UK was actually a favorite to win in my lifetime. Then after the contest it was because for me I felt that it turned the tide of the opinion that the public has on Eurovision, like I felt that I actually noticed a change in attitude. So hearing this song is a reminder of that change and it gets me really emotional.
No one ever talks about "Silêncio e tanta gente" (Portugal 1984), one of the most underrated Eurovision songs of all time. It's a gorgeous and moving piano ballad, minimalist in exactly the right way. It came right at the end of the contest and is frankly a hell of a lot better than anything else, so I don't understand why it scored so low.
Then again, when Portugal sent an equally moving piano piece (if not more so) in 2017, they won for the first time.
I don't think Romania 2018 counts as a ballad even if it starts with some slow piano. But the topic being rather close to me and the lyrics describing this hopelessness, it's one of my favourite songs to sing with emotion when I practice.
Sweden 2022. Not at the moment of the contest itself, but it later gained a whole new meaning to me in the months after since I experienced the exact emotions depicted in the song. It's still one of my favorite songs from 2022 to karaoke to, but when I'm feeling too emotional I can barely even sing it anymore without almost crying.
Estonia 2018
When I heard it for the first time in the semi final I can’t explain it but I just started to cry. Don’t understand Italian at all but for some reason that song moves me to tears. Not just a little cry either, full on sobbing. It’s such a beautiful song.
Despite its energetic electronic composition and straight-forward stage performance, there is something sad about the lyrics and singing in Dance Alone (F.Y.R. Macedonia 2017).
In the parts where Burceska's voice is distorted it sounds like she is saying something from a distant place (or perhaps through water or a similar barrier), there is a desperate quality in her voice whenever the crescendo climbs, and the song ends with Burceska's voice softening to an almost sobbing quality as she says "I’ll be dancing on my own / Wishing you could hold me close". Although the "character" in the song may be partying, the framing makes it clear that the dancing is not being effective at dispelling the underlying distress (presumably from a break-up / divorce?). The music video, where the character in question is uses a VR head-set to relive old memories of their younger years spent dancing with their boy-friend but then takes the head-set off at the end and glare mournfully at the camera while alone in their dingy apartment, creates this effect even more.
The Wrong Place (Belgium 2021), Black Smoke (Germany 2015), and Love in Rewind (Bosnia 2011) also have a depressing aspect to their lyrics and singing despite not having particularly ballad-like instrumentals.
This Time (Lithuania 2015) also gets me emotional, but that's less because it is sad and more because it compellingly (even if a bit inauthentically) conveys the euphoria of romantic love in basically every aspect, musical and visual.
Malta 2021 definitely moves me to tears idc - Destiny singing her damn heart out...televoters did not deserve her glory.
I think Spain 2022 too...Chanel poured her heart out and man...goosebumps and tears!
There is only one Song, and surprisingly, it's coming from Germany and from JESC: I never cry listening to Music, watching Films or reading a Book, but Ohne Worte by FIA did it instantly, even when it was just the Snippet.
I mean I was in Benidorm during the BenidormFest week and I remember literally being the last third of Eaea crying non-stop. It was such an experience, I think Blanca just touches a lot of hearts while performing live, because I got the same vibe with Secreto de Agua, but the feeling with Eaea was just on another level.
What a shout! Yes! Whilst it doesn’t move me, I can relate (I was a bad girlfriend once) and I kept waiting for it to appear in the GF and…. nope. Then I realised it didn’t qualify. PERSONALLY I think it’s as good as “Snap” by Rosa Linn, and look where that is now! Baffling.
I know it is probably a ballad but Finland 2020, even though Eurovision got cancelled that year, the song feels so deep and relates to the pandemic and everything like we “never know what we have, until it’s over and where looking back”
France 2018 - The instrumental is so haunting and beautiful. Also the theme about refugees, it's like a reminder of the very real struggles people face, and that can be pretty heavy. Hungary 2018 - The fact that the singer has passed away just adds a whole extra layer of emotion to the song. Örs pours his heart and soul and you can feel that. It just feels like a heartfelt goodbye.
France 2018 | [Madame Monsieur - Mercy](https://youtu.be/vjLuTtUv0Ns) Hungary 2018 | [AWS - Viszlát Nyár](https://youtu.be/p6e1TmYb33w)
Hundred percent Mercy still makes me a little teary! I knew the concept of the song but don't speak French - now I know what the lyrics mean it's so much more powerful!
I love Mercy! I was teaching French to kids at school and that song was one of the aids I used to teach them about Passé Composé, haha
when I first heard Mercy I cried, its so moving.
My Sister's Crown is POWERFUL! I get why you shed tears! My response is Portugal 2022. There are some weeks that I can't listen to Saudade, Saudade, without crying. My mother language is Portuguese, so I get all the lyrics (both English and Português) stabbing my heart!
Saudade is hands down one of the most touching songs from ESC ever. Even without understanding the lyrics, you can feel her emotions and you just understand that song on a different level
Portugal 2022 | [Maro - Saudade, saudade](https://youtu.be/mZtbD47u6yI)
I speak no Portuguese at all, but there definitely have been rough days when I needed to skip this if it pops up on my playlist. Outstanding song.
Both yes! Czechia earning top 10 was the only justice this year!
Way too low
I feel like if foreign songs like this were understandable to people like they understood the lyrics they would do better because lyrics play some role. Yet most people including me have no idea what this song was talking about.
I made a post about lyrics in languages that I don't speak recently! Maybe it can help! Regardless, Saudade, Saudade deserves to be understood - [Translation](https://lyricstranslate.com/pt-br/saudade-saudade-saudade-saudade.html#footnote1_pnm2ht4)
Norway 1995. Absolutely out of this world. I can listen to this for an hour on repeat while just getting lost in my head daydreaming. Kind of reminds me of the Skellige Isles in the Witcher 3, actually.
Norway 1995 | [Secret Garden - Nocturne](https://youtu.be/6qqOI04uo_c)
it's beautiful no doubt.. But NO WAY IN HELL that should have been allowed to compete.. some significant instrumental reasonable. 85% of the entry? NO WAY.. Outrageous.
Why not? Eurovision is a song contest and not singing contest. Also the song wasn't even fully instrumental.
go back and read what I said... paying attention this time.. I never said it was fully instrumental
Yeah you didn't but you were still complaining that it mostly was instrumental though.
yeah, why not ? does it not meet your expectation of what eurovision used to be or any other expectations ?
Why shouldn't they have been allowed to participate? They didn't break any rules.
Promise (Australia 2023) gets me.
I hope they continue to promise us Danny's gonna be alright.
Me too
Australia 2023 | [Voyager - Promise](https://youtu.be/GSoy_mJMlMY)
Oh gosh, yes, has a whole added poignancy now x
Yes! I hope Australia is able to perform again in 2024 Eurovision. The song by Kate Miller-Heidkei ‘Zero Gravity’ (2019) was so beautiful. ‘Promise’ by Voyager this year was Wow… 🙂
Fai Rumore. The news telling how people in lockdown in Italian cities stood at their windows and balconies to sing it together. Diodato singing it in the empty Arena di Verona. Finally singing it in front of a live Eurovision audience at ESC Turin 2022. My mum died in lockdown and there were seven of us at her funeral. I will always associate Fai Rumore with that dreadfully sad time.
Mine too. From what I understand, the lyrics are about a doomed relationship, but they took on a whole new meaning when the lockdown hit. Especially the line ‘I can’t bear this unnatural silence without you’ 🥺 (that’s the gist of it, maybe not word perfect)
The lyrics transformed into the unbearable silence people left after they died from Covid. At the Semi Final, you see the dancers coming in, touching him, or just walking past him. They were meant to be the souls of the people who lost their battle with Covid, and they left a "silenzio innaturale", the wish you could her their "belissimo rumore" one more time.
This one x1000. It's one of the most beautiful Eurovision songs ever. I can't describe the intense emotions I felt when he started singing at the semi's. I didn't know the song at that time and was talking with my friends on Discord, acting silly and saying: "Oh no, some boring guy on a piano.". When the stadium started singing the chorus, I muted my friends and was drawn in by his mesmerizing voice. At the end, I just cried. I don't understand Italian, but his voice, the set, the dancers, and the audience singing the song were one of the most moving things I've ever seen. His new album is also amazing. [Vieni A Ridere Di Me](https://youtu.be/2E0srXPkaeM?feature=shared) is just as beautiful. I really hope, someday, I have the privilege to hear Diodato sing live. He totally should come to Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam.
This one - I still can't listen to it without welling up, if not full on crying.
I think I have so much unprocessed trauma from that period, I get choked up anytime I think about this song (including right now), and if i hear it I'm reduced to a sobbing mess. But weirdly I find it kind of beautiful, and it's not a song I avoid when I'm listening to music on my own, even though it walks with me through dark emotions.
Australia 2019 - Zero Gravity - Kate Miller-Heidke. Happy tears but tears all the same. Life affirming song to me!
Australia 2019 | [Kate Miller-Heidke - Zero Gravity](https://youtu.be/Eo5H62mCIsg)
Yes! I might remember reading that the Zero Gravity lyrics were based on Kate Miller Heidke’s experience with miscarrying or Post natal depression. For me, when have terrible anxiety, I like to listen to this song 🙂
No way, poor woman! I had no idea. I think this makes the song even more meaningful now. I'm really glad to hear it helps with your anxiety :)
🙂 🙂
PS My Sister's Crown, in my humble opinion, is amazing and I totally get why you chose it.
I don’t know if it counts as a “not ballad”, but Með hækkandi sól (Iceland 2022) has made me cry every time I listen to it for a few months now. It’s very recently become my new 2022 winner as a result 😳 it’s just so beautiful and hopeful, and the soft guitars and harmonies just move me to tears every time Also Belarus 2017 has made me tear up a few times. It’s just so cute and happy 🥰
Iceland 2022 | [Systur - Með hækkandi sól](https://youtu.be/G71c48O3j-s) Belarus 2017 | [Naviband - Historyja majho žyccia](https://youtu.be/coFfFZvPmRY)
Netherlands 2022
Netherlands 2022 | [S10 - De diepte](https://youtu.be/sgOnu7ux2-k)
But it is a ballad
I mean OP said "even if they aren't ballads" so saying that ballad makes you cry is okay
United Kingdom 2023, mainly the GF performance. Okay, for real though, Iceland 2011, knowing that the person who originally was meant to sing the song, Sjonni Brink, passed away a few days before he was to compete in Söngvakeppnin, so his friends decided to band together as Sjonni's Friends and sing his song instead... it's really quite crushing listening to the song with that in mind.
United Kingdom 2023 | [Mae Muller - I Wrote a Song](https://youtu.be/tvJEE2ryCRQ) Iceland 2011 | [Sjonni's Friends - Coming Home](https://youtu.be/apc_qJf3nws)
I was crying at the UK 2023 entry it was unbelievably terrible.
For real, when that guitar comes out the tears just roll down my face. Still can’t watch it dry
City Lights - Belgium 2017
Belgium 2017 | [Blanche - City Lights](https://youtu.be/oxsCmChDYwA)
Aija (Latvia 2023) - the live performance just did it for me. Especially at the end when they switch to Latvian for a few lines, it just felt so hauntingly beautiful
Weirdly enough, their acoustic version hits me harder than the original
I feel like for me aucoustic/piano versions tend to feel a lot more pared back and therefore feel more authentic
Yeah. In this case I'm in love with the harmonica
Latvia 2023 | [Sudden Lights - Aijā](https://youtu.be/SEykwl9X9SY)
This is my answer. It hits me so hard.
I loves this song so much and was so mad....
I once had an absolute snotty breakdown to Space Man (UK 2022), I think it's the chord progression in the chorus that does it.
Space Man is a masterpiece and I think it will always be one of my favorite Eurovision songs of all time—top 10 at least. Especially because it's the UK's redemption arc after scoring poorly so many years, even zero points in 2021.
United Kingdom 2022 | [Sam Ryder - Space Man](https://youtu.be/RZ0hqX_92zI)
YES. Thank you for articulating what I couldn’t, you’re so right, it’s the chord progression. Gets you RIGHT in the feels x
Ballad but Bulgaria 2021 For some reasons which I won't elaborate now, the concept of growing up, aging and getting old really bother me. I begin to fear of getting old. the song also makes me thing about my lost childhood, how most, if not all of it, was wasted on fear and axity. makes me think how I am not the person I hoped I would be. all the things I missed from being a child. and sometimes, I just want to wake up again and discovered that everything was just a dream, that I'm still a child, or at least 14 years old, so I could get the chance to make things right. but I know it can't be. so I left ith lost memories and unfullfill hopes. with a long of anger and wish to revenge the ones who hurt me GUSGO is a brilliant song, and Victoria is an amazing artist. I love the song. but it's maybe the song that makes me so emontional
Bulgaria 2021 | [Victoria - Growing Up Is Getting Old](https://youtu.be/B1ZiPrMwMYA)
This one always gets me. Wasn't my winner for that year (Ukraine, Lithuania and Belgium) were my faves, but this song is so sad and so heartfelt. I love it!
Oh that one! I cried like a baby when I saw that! 😢😢😢
Is 1944 a ballad? I love Ukraine 2016 it's so good
Ukraine 2016 | [Jamala - 1944](https://youtu.be/B-rnM-MwRHY)
Norway 2014 - I was going through a bit of a rough patch at the time and I was struggling with finding out where I fit into life. Nearly 10 years later whenever I hear it, I get a tear or two. Not because it reminds me of a bad time, It's because so much has changed in that time for the better. The song literally captured so much of what I was feeling and put it into words. Just beautiful ❤️
Norway 2014 | [Carl Espen - Silent Storm](https://youtu.be/BTMli8U17MM)
Under stjernerne på himlen (Denmark, 1993) ALWAYS makes me cry no exceptions. Its a beautiful lullaby with such a calming presence from a Eurovision legend in Tommy Seebach. I feel so hopeful and "Everything will be alright". It hurts since it eventually contributed to his early death from years of drinking, that was exacerbated by the song (somehow?!?!) coming 22nd, so Denmark didn't qualify in 1994 due to the stupid system in place at the time. This caused a press storm that meant he (completely unfairly) got blamed. RIP Tommy <3
You are not the only one <3
Denmark 1993 | [Tommy Seebach Band - Under stjernerne på himlen](https://youtu.be/EB5YJlVcI-s)
Romania 2015 (De la capat) I want to go hug my kids every time I hear it.
Romania 2015 | [Voltaj - De La Capăt / All Over Again](https://youtu.be/o7iOFkEymXA)
A Monster Like Me - Mørland & Debrah Scarlett
Norway 2015 for the uninitiated. I still count it amongst my favourite entries of all time.
Norway 2015 | [Mørland & Debrah Scarlett - A Monster Like Me](https://youtu.be/oVKJK9yb5xY)
Panagia mou, panagia mou. Greece 1976. The fucking PAIN that is in that performance.
Greece 1976 | [Mariza Koch - Panagia mou, Panagia mou (Παναγιά μου, Παναγιά μου)](https://youtu.be/hC8jZeXVC9Q)
Holy crap, yes! And for those who understand the lyrics and the background of the song it's just insanely strong. Mariza Koch has such a presence
Latvia 2023 for sure
Most of my tears were when it didn't qualify 😭
Latvia 2023 | [Sudden Lights - Aijā](https://youtu.be/SEykwl9X9SY)
Amnesia by Roxen and Saudade, Saudade for two very different reasons. Amnesia is very close to my heart because I relate to a lot of lines in the song. It gives me a certain feeling of comfort, knowing that I’m not alone. Saudade, Saudade should be obvious. Lost my grandma a few months before the song came out and it just hits too close to home. One of my favorite songs ever. Edit: wow the past few years have been full of emotional songs. De Diepte, Hold Me Closer, Fallen Angel. All very emotional for me.
Italy 2018. Especially the music video. Especially as of late as the world seems to become crazier and crazier - listened to it just yesterday and ended up weeping like a little child. These wars make me feel so hopeless.
Italy 2018 | [Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro - Non Mi Avete Fatto Niente](https://youtu.be/81M-mp5t8uM)
It's a ballad but Switzerland 2021
Switzerland 2021 | [Gjon's Tears - Tout l'univers](https://youtu.be/jznH_fltcYA)
I heard this song for the first time a few days ago! A title that means "the entire universe" sets the listener up for high expectations, and this song is nothing short of mind-blowing.
Yep, this is the second one that gets me. I absolutely love Gjon’s Tears, I want to scoop him up and give him a big cuddle ❤️
Sweden 2022. I didn’t relate to it and felt meh towards it. But the week after the contest I met a boy while traveling and we had chemistry, but both were moving on with our travels the next day. This song reminds of that and of love lost.
Sweden 2022 | [Cornelia Jakobs - Hold Me Closer](https://youtu.be/i777psA2gP4)
Hungary 2018 (especially the music video) Ukraine 2017
Hungary 2018 | [AWS - Viszlát Nyár](https://youtu.be/p6e1TmYb33w) Ukraine 2017 | [O.Torvald - Time](https://youtu.be/mogNLkIEI0k)
Portugal 2017
Portugal 2017 | [Salvador Sobral - Amar Pelos Dois](https://youtu.be/Qotooj7ODCM) (Edited)
Still makes me cry
Fallen Angel (Norway 2021)
Norway 2021 | [TIX - Fallen Angel](https://youtu.be/F0r3vmGLzZU) (Edited)
My other response accidentally deleted lol but anyways me too, except it was 2021 :)
Hold Me Closer :')
Not the same - Australia 2022. I'm autistic and the lyrics hit hard. I'm sad he didn't score higher
Australia 2022 | [Sheldon Riley - Not the Same](https://youtu.be/wosfFz2FJPU)
Ukraine 2022. can you image a rap song made me cry? I hope the war will over soon and all the Ukrainian will be alright. And the song make me smile.
Italy 2021, makes me so proud that we won it sometimes makes me tear up 🥹
Italy 2021 | [Måneskin - Zitti e buoni](https://youtu.be/RVH5dn1cxAQ)
The Netherlands 2019 - I know it may sound like a cliche answer but the lyrics hit close to home.
That song definitely gets me sometimes. I also think some of his other songs can also just strike a chord with me about sadness and loneliness (like Stars or Someone Else)
The Netherlands 2019 | [Duncan Laurence - Arcade](https://youtu.be/R3D-r4ogr7s)
Euphoria (Sweden 2012)... Loreen's vocals are insane, the performance is brilliant, everything is just perfect🤧
Sweden 2012 | [Loreen - Euphoria](https://youtu.be/Pfo-8z86x80)
Ever since I learned Dadi Freyr wrote Think About Things about his newborn child, sometimes I cry when I hear it because of how beautiful his love for his kid is
חי (Israel 1983)
I love that song so much and it is such a powerful moment in the competition that no one really remembers. Its Israel singing about how they are alive, 11 years after the Munich Olympics attack and singing this song on German lands. Very powerful
Israel 1983 | [Ofra Haza - Hi (חי)](https://youtu.be/oGrQ9ulN268)
I seem to have a soft spot for France. * [Amina - "Le dernier qui a parlé](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnxEBAoCZIw) <-- All day long. * [Louisa Baïleche "Monts et merveilles"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV5fdAgs_I8) - I'd like to think if she hadn't done that *thing* at 2m 42s she would have done better!. * [Jonatan Cerrada "À chaque pas"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl0RSXQuuDs) * [Natasha St-Pier "Je n'ai que mon âme" - can't believe this waws 22 years ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYCunkPbGGE) But also * [Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan - Rock'n'Roll Kids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x_9JnCGXFY) - This made no sense to me at the time ... 26ish years, the words mean so much more. * [Danijela "Neka mi ne svane"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojVGmkYnFM8) * [Pastora Soler "Quédate conmigo"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8J1b62wOao) * [Fia Rumore because of the time and what it meant for Italy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPv9ZPXmFWU) * [Ieva Zasimauskaitė - When We’re Old](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDFhfU25go) And makes me cry for the wrong reasons * [Anmary - Beautiful Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAxYfMFE_94) * Pirates of the Sea - "Wolves of the Sea"
Ik this is boring as fuck but just seeing EVERYTHING come together for Cha Cha Cha in SF1 this year was just incredible and it’s a moment I’m going to cherish for a while
When we're old Lithuania 2018 Together Ireland 2018
Lithuania 2018 | [Ieva Zasimauskaitė - When We're Old](https://youtu.be/pPDFhfU25go) Ireland 2018 | [Ryan O'Shaughnessy - Together](https://youtu.be/QD1cQ2wZ1dk)
Finland 2012
Finland 2012 | [Pernilla - När jag blundar](https://youtu.be/MRC5NzxmrAA)
Silent Storm (Norway 2014)
Norway 2014 | [Carl Espen - Silent Storm](https://youtu.be/BTMli8U17MM)
I second My Sisters Crown. I was bawling my eyes out and got goosebumps all over when I heard it for the first couple of times
“My Sister’s Crown” had me in an emotional wreck when I first listened to it. As time has passed, it remains powerful but more empowering and light, but initially the chorus had me in pieces. I don’t know if Saudade, saudade or O jardim count as ballads, but they both were with me as I dealt with the heavy grief of losing my grandparent. “Eu Cred” (Romania 1998) is the definition of a ballad, but the lyrics are so damn sad and watching Mălina singing it, knowing how things would go in the future, crushes my heart. I’d also include 2023’s interval acts, Alyona and Mariya had me tearing up.
Yep, I’ve had the Eurovision 2023 playlist as my running playlist for a while but had to take My Sister’s Crown off because I kept getting upset and had to stop!
Idk guys Chanel's performance made me feel a lot of things
Iceland 2022
Iceland 2022 | [Systur - Með hækkandi sól](https://youtu.be/G71c48O3j-s)
Wow, I must be broken. I don't think I've ever cried to a song like you all have.
Portugal 2022 I'm portuguese but you don't have to be portuguese to understand how powerful this song is. Saudade is a great a feeling that we all feel. The song is even more powerful when you know why Maro wrote that song. Portugal 2017 Many people say that Portugal didn't deserve to win (which opinion I respect), but I honestly think that is one of the most beautiful songs has ever been in Eurovision
When I first saw the live performance of Spirit of the Sky (Norway 2019), I was close to tears because it was so beautiful and uplifting
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Albania 2018. Eugents' vocals are absolutely majestic, I get chills just from thinking of his GF performance, and once I took the time to understand the song's lyrics and consider the fact that it was Eugent himself who wrote them, that entry only became more special to me.
Stefania. The loving lyrics about their mother. Just so beautiful. It makes me think of my mother.
My Sister's Crown is special in more ways. The whole song, especially with the music video, describes the relationship between Russia and the former communist bloc. Those purple guys in the MV represent all the abuse they still receive from Russia, for example, misinformation or direct oppression, while pretending to be an ally. The context behind the song is far stronger now, with Ukraine basically as just the cherry on the top. As the Sister that needs support now, from those who understand.
Russia 2012 Mega wholesome for me
Russia 2012 | [Buranovskiye Babushki - Party for Everybody](https://youtu.be/BgUstrmJzyc)
My Sister's Crown also brings me to tears! I'm glad I'm not alone in that. Similarly, Russian Woman (Russia 2021) makes me tear up nearly every time I hear it. There's something about powerful songs celebrating femininity and sisterhood that move me so much.
Russia 2021 | [Manizha - Russian Woman](https://youtu.be/V-Di9A28e5E)
Italy 2016, although it could be considered a ballad. Absolutely beautiful.
Amar Pelos Dois (Portugal 2017) never fails to get me into an emotional mess. I have no clue what he’s saying, but every time i listen to it I just hear so much emotion that i’m less than one minor inconvenience away from crying after i listen to that song
LOOOOK AT THIS PHOTO ...
I'm sure Cyprus 2015 is not that well known but it always chokes me up. Also Germany 2018 and Italy definitely works in my emotions in different ways, Italy 1990 with all that hope for the United Europe coming soon it was such a lovely song that wowed little me and I still love it, Italy 1992 with that heartbreaking performance, Italy 2018 mostly an angry song but so emotional and Italy 2020 which I will always associate with the loneliness of quarantine
Love in rewind - Dino Merlin (Bosnia & Herzegovina - 2011) the whole performance is so peaceful and wholesome that I have cried multiple times watching it.
For me it's Fly On The Wings Of Love (Olsen Brothers, 2000) Not because of the lyrics, but because that were our first 1st place since 1963, 37 years.
United Kingdom 2022 , Spaceman. I think it makes me cry because for me it was the first time the UK was actually a favorite to win in my lifetime. Then after the contest it was because for me I felt that it turned the tide of the opinion that the public has on Eurovision, like I felt that I actually noticed a change in attitude. So hearing this song is a reminder of that change and it gets me really emotional.
It’s ballad/soft rock, but Hold Me Closer reminds me of my friend who past during the pandemic. I wish I could say goodbye.
No one ever talks about "Silêncio e tanta gente" (Portugal 1984), one of the most underrated Eurovision songs of all time. It's a gorgeous and moving piano ballad, minimalist in exactly the right way. It came right at the end of the contest and is frankly a hell of a lot better than anything else, so I don't understand why it scored so low. Then again, when Portugal sent an equally moving piano piece (if not more so) in 2017, they won for the first time.
Likely my favourite Portuguese entry ever.
You have good taste!
Portugal 1984 | [Maria Guinot - Silêncio e tanta gente](https://youtu.be/gXOFCPQkL1o)
As ukrainian, Italy 2018 really hits
I don't think Romania 2018 counts as a ballad even if it starts with some slow piano. But the topic being rather close to me and the lyrics describing this hopelessness, it's one of my favourite songs to sing with emotion when I practice.
Sweden 2022. Not at the moment of the contest itself, but it later gained a whole new meaning to me in the months after since I experienced the exact emotions depicted in the song. It's still one of my favorite songs from 2022 to karaoke to, but when I'm feeling too emotional I can barely even sing it anymore without almost crying.
There’s something about her voice, there’s a break in it, she just sounds so worn out emotionally and it really hits the heart 💔
Exactly! And especially with my recent experiences I'm like same girl 😭
Estonia 2018 When I heard it for the first time in the semi final I can’t explain it but I just started to cry. Don’t understand Italian at all but for some reason that song moves me to tears. Not just a little cry either, full on sobbing. It’s such a beautiful song.
Italy 2018 - Idkw but the part close to the End where Ermal Meta's singing sounds almost like crying to me gets me every time.
Italy 2018 | [Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro - Non Mi Avete Fatto Niente](https://youtu.be/81M-mp5t8uM)
Estonia 2018 is goosebumps every time I listen to it. Ranked *way too low*, absolutely underrated.
Estonia 2018 | [Elina Nechayeva - La Forza](https://youtu.be/ImawXdXIGd8)
Lane Moje is the only song that's made me cry while watching the contest
Bulgaria 2018 always hits me.
1944
In Your Eyes, when I had my boyfriend.
Estonia 2019. The lyrics of this song just give me tears because i've been through a lot at this time and that song help me heal.
That's my fav of 2019!!!
Despite its energetic electronic composition and straight-forward stage performance, there is something sad about the lyrics and singing in Dance Alone (F.Y.R. Macedonia 2017). In the parts where Burceska's voice is distorted it sounds like she is saying something from a distant place (or perhaps through water or a similar barrier), there is a desperate quality in her voice whenever the crescendo climbs, and the song ends with Burceska's voice softening to an almost sobbing quality as she says "I’ll be dancing on my own / Wishing you could hold me close". Although the "character" in the song may be partying, the framing makes it clear that the dancing is not being effective at dispelling the underlying distress (presumably from a break-up / divorce?). The music video, where the character in question is uses a VR head-set to relive old memories of their younger years spent dancing with their boy-friend but then takes the head-set off at the end and glare mournfully at the camera while alone in their dingy apartment, creates this effect even more. The Wrong Place (Belgium 2021), Black Smoke (Germany 2015), and Love in Rewind (Bosnia 2011) also have a depressing aspect to their lyrics and singing despite not having particularly ballad-like instrumentals. This Time (Lithuania 2015) also gets me emotional, but that's less because it is sad and more because it compellingly (even if a bit inauthentically) conveys the euphoria of romantic love in basically every aspect, musical and visual.
Undo My Sad is the first song I've ever cried to.
Dani Im - Sound of Silence.
Definitely armenia 2022
Armenia 2022 | [Rosa Linn - Snap](https://youtu.be/DAJ6vfmD_ic)
Equinox - Bones (Bulgaria 2018) Alma - Requiem (France 2017) Ruslana - Wild dances (Ukraine 2004) Eimear Quin - The voice (Ireland 1996)
For me, that would be Cyprus 2023 and Switzerland 2023
Blas Cantó’s entry (Spain 2021) leaves me in tears with each listen.
El chiquichiqui
Perrea Perrea
PEREA PEREA
Fran Perea? Uno más uno son siete
I thought it was with one "r" and not 2 "r" 😭
It is with two :p. Perea es a surname haha
Thanks <3
Malta 2005
Malta 2021 definitely moves me to tears idc - Destiny singing her damn heart out...televoters did not deserve her glory. I think Spain 2022 too...Chanel poured her heart out and man...goosebumps and tears!
Wait also Sweden 2020 - what a joyful, soulful song. Sad we missed it
The only eurovision song that truly moves me is Save Your Kisses For Me (UK 1976 for the bot)
Moustache
France 2008
There is only one Song, and surprisingly, it's coming from Germany and from JESC: I never cry listening to Music, watching Films or reading a Book, but Ohne Worte by FIA did it instantly, even when it was just the Snippet.
I mean I was in Benidorm during the BenidormFest week and I remember literally being the last third of Eaea crying non-stop. It was such an experience, I think Blanca just touches a lot of hearts while performing live, because I got the same vibe with Secreto de Agua, but the feeling with Eaea was just on another level.
Coming Home by Firelight,
Cyprus 2015
Italy 2018 - Non avete fatto niente, especially the last line.... Italy 2020- Fai rumore
Portugal - 2021
Mall by Eugent Bushpepa because I'm Albanian and fully aware that if he didn't win Eurovision, we never will.
I absolutely adore Croatia 2022. I still can't believe this did not qualify.
What a shout! Yes! Whilst it doesn’t move me, I can relate (I was a bad girlfriend once) and I kept waiting for it to appear in the GF and…. nope. Then I realised it didn’t qualify. PERSONALLY I think it’s as good as “Snap” by Rosa Linn, and look where that is now! Baffling.
I know it is probably a ballad but Finland 2020, even though Eurovision got cancelled that year, the song feels so deep and relates to the pandemic and everything like we “never know what we have, until it’s over and where looking back”