The Eurovision Song Contest ( The Eurovision Song Contest is a singing competition organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and has been held since 1956, making it the largest known singing competition in the world. Sphere Stadium in Stockholm.

In the Eurovision Song Contest, each country sends a singer or an orchestra to perform a song of their choice, after which the audience votes for their favorite singer via phone, SMS or internet, and the winner is indirectly selected by counting the votes from each country. The country represented by the winner is automatically the host of the next year's competition.

In the 1950s, in the midst of Europe's post-war reconstruction, the European Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), located in Switzerland, was the first to be established. Reconstruction, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), located in Switzerland, set up a special committee to discuss an event that would bring the EBU member states together and be "relaxed and entertaining". At a meeting of the committee in Moscow in January 1955, Marcel Bezençon, Director General of Swiss Television Broadcasting and Chairman of the committee, came up with the idea of broadcasting an international singing competition in the form of a television program with the participation of all the member countries of the Union. The competition was based on the Sanremo Festival, which had been held in Italy, and was considered an experiment in technological innovation for live TV programming: at the time, it was an ambitious project to bring together many countries in a wide international network, at a time when satellite TV did not exist.

The first competition was held on May 24, 1956 in the city of Lugano, Switzerland, with seven countries participating, each submitting two songs, for a total of 14 songs. This was the only competition where each country performed more than one song: since 1957 only one song per country has been allowed. 1956 was won by Switzerland, the host country.

This project is known as the "Grand Prix of Eurovision" ("Grand Prix"). The name "Grand Prix" was not adopted by the French-speaking countries, where the competition was instead called "Le Grand-Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne". The "Grand-Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne". The "Grand Prix" began to be replaced by the "Concours" (contest competition) in these countries. The Eurovision network has been used to broadcast international news and sports programs. There were also other special events initiated by the EBU. However, in the minds of the public, "Eurovision" is most easily associated with singing competitions.