The Eurovision Song Contest will hit our screens from May 10 to May 14 and as we prepare for the world's biggest celebration of music, here's a look at the Scots who have helped to put their name on the Eurovision map over the years as well as this year's hottest entries.
Last year's Eurovision pulled in around 183 million viewers and this years in Turin is set to be even more of a spectacle now that lockdown rules have relaxed in most countries.
In Scotland, people are still campaigning for us to have our own entry sent to the contest, and we certainly know how to pick a winner at times.
In 1969, Scottish singer Lulu won with the song "Boom Bang-a-Bang" in a four-way tie with France, Spain and the Netherlands.
Lulu grew up in Dennistoun, Glasgow and was only 15 when she released her first single Shout which peaked at number seven in the UK charts.
Following her success at the Eurovision song contest Lulu even recorded the song title for the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974. Over her career, she has released at least 15 studio albums.
Another Scot also made his mark in 1987 when he finished in 13th place - unlucky for some - in Brussels.
Glasgow Taxi driver Richard Peebles, whose stage name is Rikki, performed the song "Only the Light".
He later released an album which failed to reach the UK charts and since then no new material has been released.
In 1972 we even played host to the Eurovision Song Contest in Edinburgh's Usher Hall.
At the tine the host was Moira Shearer with commentary from Tom Fleming.
Luxembourg were the big winners that night with Moira Shearer, the late Scottish dancer, best known for her role in the film The red shoes being a graceful host.
Moira was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and trained at Sadlers Well.
The audience was entertained in the interval with a pre-recording of the 1968 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
Edinburgh has since played host to a mock up of the Eurovision in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.
The film saw Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell, a musical duo from Iceland with dreams of making it big in the world’s biggest musical competition.
This year's entries are sure to get us all dancing around our living rooms as Scots hold special Eurovision parties.
Here's our lowdown on the top ten tracks according to new research by JohnSlots who analysed all 40 Eurovision songs from each country based on how much they had been played on Spotify and YouTube.
Italian entry 'Brividi’ by Mahmood and Blanco is the most popular entry song in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, with more than 77.2 million streams.
Italy has won the annual contest three times, first in 1964 and most recently in 2021 with the song 'Zitti e Buoni' by Maneskin.
Second is Sweden’s entry ‘Hold Me Closer’ by Cornelia Jakobs, with 16.8 million streams.
The country has taken a storming total of six wins in the contest, with its last win in 2015
S10's 'De Diepte' has gained a sum of 14.7 million streams – 2.8 million from YouTube and 11.9 million from Spotify – placing Netherlands third in the ranking.
The Netherlands won the second-ever Eurovision contest and have racked up four more wins since.
Representing Spain, Chanel's single 'SloMo' ranks fourth, with a combined stream count of 10.8 million.
'Stefania' performed by Kalush Orchestra, claims fifth in the ranking for Ukraine, from its total stream count of more than 8.9 million plays.
Norway's entry has gathered 6.8 million via Spotify and 618,000 views on YouTube, totalling 7.4 million in streams; the single 'Give That Wolf a Banana' by Subwoolfer takes sixth place.
Austria's entrance this year with 'Halo' by artists LUM!X and Pia Maria claim seventh place with more than 7.2 million streams.
Representing the United Kingdom, Sam Ryder’s ‘Space Man’ has a sum of 5.8 million plays. Sam was selected from an internal process with TaP Music, which also manages A-list stars such as Dua Lipa and Ellie Goulding.
With a win count of five from the UK, the country hasn’t won for more than two decades.
Malik Harris's 'Rockstars' claims ninth, having accumulated 4.4 million streams. Germany has won twice before in previous years of the contest, the last being 2010 with 'Satellite' by Lena Meyer-Landrut.
Finland follows in tenth, the entry 'Jezebel' by The Rasmus has gained more than four million streams .
The Eurovision semi-finals on May 10 and 12 can both be watched live on BBC Three, with Scott Mills and Rylan Clark commentating.
The Eurovision Grand Final will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer and on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds from 8pm on Saturday, May 14.
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