Eurovision Song Contest

1981

Winner

136 pts

Scoreboard

Final

#	Country	Song	Points
1	🇬🇧 United Kingdom Making Your Mind Up	“Making Your Mind Up” Bucks Fizz	136
2	🇩🇪 Germany Johnny Blue	“Johnny Blue” Lena Valaitis	132
3	🇫🇷 France Humanahum	“Humanahum” Jean Gabilou	125
4	🇨🇭 Switzerland Io senza te	“Io senza te” Peter, Sue and Marc	121
5	🇮🇪 Ireland Horoscopes	“Horoscopes” Sheeba	105
6	🇨🇾 Cyprus Monika	“Monika” Island	69
7	🇮🇱 Israel Halayla	“Halayla” Habibi	56
8	🇬🇷 Greece Feggari kalokerino	“Feggari kalokerino” Yiannis Dimitras	55
9	🇳🇱 Netherlands Het is een wonder	“Het is een wonder” Linda Williams	51
10	🇸🇪 Sweden Fångad i en dröm	“Fångad i en dröm” Björn Skifs	50
11	🇱🇺 Luxembourg C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique	“C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique” Jean-Claude Pascal	41
11	🇩🇰 Denmark Krøller eller ej	“Krøller eller ej” Tommy Seebach and Debbie Cameron	41
13	🇧🇪 Belgium Samson	“Samson” Emly Starr	40
14	🇪🇸 Spain Y sólo tú	“Y sólo tú” Bacchelli	38
15	Yugoslavia Lejla	“Lejla” Seid Memić Vajta	35
16	🇫🇮 Finland Reggae O.K.	“Reggae O.K.” Riki Sorsa	27
17	🇦🇹 Austria Wenn du da bist	“Wenn du da bist” Marty Brem	20
18	🇹🇷 Turkey Dönme Dolap	“Dönme Dolap” Modern Folk Trio and Ayşegül	9
18	🇵🇹 Portugal Playback	“Playback” Carlos Paião	9
20	🇳🇴 Norway Aldri i livet	“Aldri i livet” Finn Kalvik	0

20 songs

Final

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Dublin

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Nerd corner

20entries

15languages sung

1debut

1nul points

+ 7 more

First time: 🇨🇾 Cyprus

Back again: 🇮🇱 Israel (last in 1979), Yugoslavia (last in 1976)

Sat this one out: 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇲🇦 Morocco

🇳🇴 Norway: “Aldri i livet” by Finn Kalvik. We still love you.

Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs