Does anyone know if the music played as a bed when they announced the winner (and throughout the contest, such as the host's entrances to the semis) is available anywhere?
The composer is Adam Norden and the music is available to download from his Soundcloud account.
Adam Norden also wrote the theme and incidental music for the first 13 part series of the TV4 (Swedish) Wallander series starring Krister Henriksson, as well as a lot of other stuff.
1998: 9.68 million
1999: 8.91 million
2000: 6.54 million
2001: 6.98 million
2002: 7.81 million
2003: 7.94 million
2004: 8.38 million
2005: 7.97 million
2006: 8.33 million
2007: 8.77 million
2008: 7.15 million
2009: 7.91 million
2010: 5.59 million
2011: 9.68 million
2012: 7.59 million
2013: 7.83 million
2014: 8.94 million
2015: 6.78 million
2016: 7.33 million
It seems to have nicely kept its core audience of 7 million or so right since the millennium, with a few peaks (2011 - Blue and Jedward competing) and lows (2010 - Josh "Who?"bovie) along the way. Ratings before '98 hovered around 9-10 million in the late 80s and 90s, and then obviously 20 million+ in its 1960s/70s heyday.
:-(
A former member
Here is the problem, those only count to the per TVs , You have to remember people have EU parties and watch in big groups. So the numbers could be higher. Also the iplayer are those numbers also included because I know of people who watched it LIVE on iplayer.
Here is the problem, those only count to the per TVs , You have to remember people have EU parties and watch in big groups. So the numbers could be higher. Also the iplayer are those numbers also included because I know of people who watched it LIVE on iplayer.
No - those figures aren't 'per TV' - they are based on the number of people watching in each household surveyed (family members are recorded separately - though not sure how guests are handled). BARB ratings include demographics, so every viewer in a given house is counted as a separate viewer.
By the way - if anyone sees the reports of 205m people watching - that's reach not volume - so not directly comparable with the figures we quote in the UK. (Reach is the total number of people who saw the show for a given duration, not the average number of people watching across the whole duration)
You may find these interesting. As you know Eurovision takes over the arena around six weeks in advance of the contest. It takes around three weeks to build the stage. Before the participants and delegations arrived SVT perfected the individual performances by working with stand-in performers. These were students from local performing arts schools. The performances were then shared with each of the delegations as a guide for their performances ahead of the first rehearsals. What is fascinating about these videos is how little actually changed from these pre-rehearsals through to the television broadcasts. It also demonstrates how little room for adjustment there was once the performers arrived.
Here is Isabelle Larm, standing-in for Sandhja from Finland:
Here is Sofie Brehnfors, standing in for Nina Kraljic from Croatia:
Interesting the act that had greatest problems from the start was Greta Salome from Iceland. Here routine from the Icelandic national final simply did not translate well to the Globen stage and SVT definitely ‘meddled’ in the routine. In Iceland it was pretty much a static shot of the projections but at Eurovision SVT made it a more dynamic performance. The upshot was that she failed to qualify from the semi final despite being a huge fan favourite and high in the betting.
The only major change that happened in rehearsals was Zoe from Austria losing her treadmill and that definitely enhanced her routine.
Here is the problem, those only count to the per TVs , You have to remember people have EU parties and watch in big groups. So the numbers could be higher. Also the iplayer are those numbers also included because I know of people who watched it LIVE on iplayer.
No - those figures aren't 'per TV' - they are based on the number of people watching in each household surveyed (family members are recorded separately - though not sure how guests are handled). BARB ratings include demographics, so every viewer in a given house is counted as a separate viewer.
So if there can't count the guests its possible these numbers or under est the overall number of viewers?
No, because unless it's changed, the way it used to work is the survey participants were assigned a number in each household (I.e 1 for Mum, 3 for eldest child ect) and when they watched anything, they had to press 'their number' into the box that BARB supplied.
So, you can't count guests watching as they weren't allocated a number on the BARB box.
They may be scooped up in the back-up paper diary, but I'd doubt it. That could be open to all sorts of bogus stats, and manipulation.
No, because unless it's changed, the way it used to work is the survey participants were assigned a number in each household (I.e 1 for Mum, 3 for eldest child ect) and when they watched anything, they had to press 'their number' into the box that BARB supplied.
So, you can't count guests watching as they weren't allocated a number on the BARB box.
They may be scooped up in the back-up paper diary, but I'd doubt it. That could be open to all sorts of bogus stats, and manipulation.
My parents had a BARB Box years ago and we were labelled as A, B and C...
You may find these interesting. As you know Eurovision takes over the arena around six weeks in advance of the contest. It takes around three weeks to build the stage. Before the participants and delegations arrived SVT perfected the individual performances by working with stand-in performers. These were students from local performing arts schools. The performances were then shared with each of the delegations as a guide for their performances ahead of the first rehearsals. What is fascinating about these videos is how little actually changed from these pre-rehearsals through to the television broadcasts. It also demonstrates how little room for adjustment there was once the performers arrived.
Here is Isabelle Larm, standing-in for Sandhja from Finland:
Interesting the act that had greatest problems from the start was Greta Salome from Iceland. Here routine from the Icelandic national final simply did not translate well to the Globen stage and SVT definitely ‘meddled’ in the routine. In Iceland it was pretty much a static shot of the projections but at Eurovision SVT made it a more dynamic performance. The upshot was that she failed to qualify from the semi final despite being a huge fan favourite and high in the betting.
The only major change that happened in rehearsals was Zoe from Austria losing her treadmill and that definitely enhanced her routine.
I tweeted the Finnish one on my ESC Twitter yesterday, she's much much better than Sanjha!