This year’s Grand Final of the Eurovision competition drew its largest audience yet.
The European Broadcasting Union published Tuesday that the 2019 Eurovision song contest was watched by a whopping 182 million viewers worldwide in over 40 countries. The Grand Final held in Tel-Aviv on 18 May 2019 achieved an average share of 36.7%, which was one percentage point higher than last year’s contest.
The EBU also confirmed that this year’s audience was younger — 45.3% of viewers were aged 15 to 24-year-olds, which is 2 percentage points higher than in 2018.
The Netherlands’ Duncan Laurence drew the countries largest audience since 2014, taking home the grand prize with the song “Arcade,” the first win for the Netherlands in 44 years. The biggest audience, for the ninth year in a row, was in Germany with 7.6 million viewers.
Israel, which automatically enjoyed hosting rights as the 2018 winner final received a 63.2% viewing share with 1.3M viewers — the biggest audience for the contest in the country since 2003.
