#and the Busker some (almost a decade old) EPs

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While it sucks when songs we love don’t win/do poorly and we’re allowed to be upset about it, remember that Eurovision isn’t “The Winner, and everyone else”. An artist can get a big boost in their career without winning. A song can do really poorly in the competition and still do well outside of it. Especially in modern internet/streaming times, but even back in the 50′s Nel blu dipinto di blu did not win and still went on to be huge. And people who do not win can still become Eurovision royalty. Verka did not win and she is still an Eurovision icon who we  see pop up in the competition more than a decade later. And we can still enjoy the songs even if they didn’t even make it into the final, and we can support the artists we like outside of the competition.