Momentum is building behind Salvador Sobral of Portugal as he tops Google search results across the continent.
On Wednesday we first reported that Google Trends had created a tool that transformed Google Search results into Eurovision results. At the time France was favourite to win scoring 266 points, however since then we’ve had the second semi-final and it is all chance. Portugal now appears to be capturing the public across Europe.
Google has also converted each of the countries searches into points, checkout who gets the 12 points from each country today compared to Wednesday (Wednesdays results are in the brackets):
- Albania – Greece (Sweden)
- Armenia – Cyprus (France)
- Australia – Denmark (Denmark)
- Austria – Portugal (Germany)
- Azerbaijan – Portugal (France)
- Belgium – Netherlands (France)
- Belarus – Sweden (Sweden)
- Bulgaria – Portugal (France)
- Croatia – Portugal (Italy)
- Cyprus – Greece (Greece)
- Czech Republic – Portugal (Australia)
- Denmark – Australia (Portugal)
- Estonia – Portugal (Portugal)
- Finland – Portugal (Portugal)
- France – Portugal (Belgium)
- Georgia – Portugal (Azerbaijan)
- Germany – Portugal (Italy)
- Greece – Cyprus (Bulgaria)
- Hungary – Portugal (France)
- Iceland – Portugal (Australia)
- Ireland – United Kingdom (United Kingdom)
- Israel – France (France)
- Italy – Israel (France)
- Latvia – Portugal (Portugal)
- Lithuania – Portugal (Belgium)
- Macedonia – Bulgaria (Germany)
- Malta – Portugal (Italy)
- Moldova – Portugal (France)
- Montenegro – Portugal (Portugal)
- Netherlands – Belgium (Belgium)
- Norway – Australia (Australia)
- Poland – Portugal (Belgium)
- Portugal – Italy (Spain)
- Romania – Hungary (Bulgaria)
- San Marino – Italy (France)
- Serbia – Portugal (Italy)
- Slovenia – Portugal (Italy)
- Spain – Portugal (Portugal)
- Sweden – Australia (Australia)
- Switzerland – Portugal (France)
- Ukraine – Moldova (Australia)
- United Kingdom – Portugal (Australia)
If Google Search results were used to calculate the results then the following countries are set for 12 points on Saturday:
- Portugal – 23 sets of 12 points
- Australia – 3 sets of 12 points
- Cyprus – 2 sets of 12 points
- Greece – 2 sets of 12 points
- Italy – 2 set of 12 points
- Belgium – 1 set of 12 points
- Bulgaria – 1 set of 12 points
- Denmark – 1 set of 12 points
- France – 1 set of 12 points
- Hungary – 1 set of 12 points
- Israel – 1 set of 12 points
- Moldova – 1 set of 12 points
- Netherlands – 1 set of 12 points
- Sweden – 1 set of 12 points
- United Kingdom – 1 set of 12 points
This leaves the top ten as:
- Portugal – 428 points
- Australia – 298 points
- Belgium – 240 points
- Bulgaria – 227 points
- Sweden – 198 points
- France – 182 points
- Italy – 159 points
- Israel – 157 points
- Israel – 107 points
- Moldova – 97 points
If Portugal managed to score 428 points on the public vote Saturday night it would score the highest televote in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. Can Salvador Sobral bring Portugal to their first victory, tell us what you think in the comments below.
Source: Google Trends
People were just curious if something was wrong with Portugal’s representative due to the obscure way he was singing.