{"id":35017,"date":"2026-05-08T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/35017\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:13:08","slug":"listen-to-the-ultimate-eurovision-2026-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/35017\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen To The Ultimate Eurovision 2026 Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2026 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest just around the corner, uDiscover has been cooking up the ultimate playlist for fans of the song competition, just in time for its 70th anniversary. Just released on Spotify is the <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/0ZWYUjUMhaq0Rammqq3qu1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Eurovision At 70: 2026 playlist<\/a>, which \u201cspotlights 2026 participants plus winners across the decades of the beloved and spectacularly enduring song contest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The playlist includes a number of this year\u2019s contenders, including Azerbaijan\u2019s Jiva with the track \u201cJust Go,\u201d \u201cRegarde !\u201d by Monroe from France, \u201cPer sempre s\u00ec\u201d by Italy\u2019s Sal Da Vinci, \u201cChoke Me\u201d by Romania\u2019s Alexandra C\u0103pit\u0103nescu, and Look Mum No Computer, who represents the United Kingdom with \u201cEins, Zwei, Drei.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the playlist also delves into the tremendous history of the song competition, highlighting acts from the 70 years that the show has existed. M\u00e5neskin\u2019s 2021 entry \u201cZitti E Buoni\u201d is here, along with Loreen\u2019s \u201cEuphoria\u201d and Celine Dion\u2019s \u201cNe partez pas sans moi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most famous among them is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/artist\/abba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABBA<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWaterloo,\u201d which won the contest in 1974 and changed the course of ABBA\u2019s career, shooting them to decades of international fame. \u201cWhen the royalties came pouring in [from \u2018Waterloo\u2019]\u2026 we could afford to say no to everything else and just concentrate on the writing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/abba-star-bjorn-ulvaeus-waterloo-took-us-from-rat-race-i-wish-that-for-other-songwriters-12297381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus reflected<\/a> in a 2021 interview. \u201cThat\u2019s when you get better at it. And that\u2019s what I wish for most songwriters today.\u201d The playlist also includes \u201cPuppet On A String,\u201d the United Kingdom\u2019s first Eurovision win back in 1967; the track has also had a long life, recently appearing in the film Last Night In Soho.\n<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Eurovision kicks off in earnest on Tuesday, May 12. In the United States, it will be available to stream on Peacock and on YouTube. The competition will be held in Austria this year, after the country won the 2025 edition of the contest with the track \u201cWasted Love\u201d performed by JJ.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/0ZWYUjUMhaq0Rammqq3qu1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Listen to the Eurovision At 70: 2026 playlist.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2026 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest just around the corner, uDiscover has been cooking up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20858],"tags":[22761,20859,20860,23194,23195,18454],"class_list":{"0":"post-35017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eurovision","8":"tag-abba","9":"tag-eurovision","10":"tag-eurovision-song-contest-2026","11":"tag-loreen","12":"tag-playlists","13":"tag-pop"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}