Format. The American Song Contest put artists head-to-head against other representatives in a series of qualifying rounds, leading to the semi-finals and a prime time final in a "March Madness" style. The winning act earns the title of Best Original Song.

How can I watch? Eurovision is being shown by national broadcasters that belong to the European Broadcasting Union, including the BBC in Britain, and on the Eurovision YouTube channel. In the United States, it's being shown on NBC's Peacock streaming service.

Eurovision is bigger than the Super Bowl, but marketers are only now realizing.

Australia's invitation to participate in 2015 was intended as a one-off, in recognition of how popular the contest was in Australia, said Dr. Carniel. “At that time, Australia probably constituted one of largest non-European audiences,” she said.

The premier failed to hit home with audience, picking up low viewing figures that continued to decline week by week. Critics doubted the American Song Contest too. Commercially, none of the 56 entries by AleXa's “Wonderland” made it to the Billboard charts, with most collecting only a dozen thousands of streams.

Oklahoma AleXa Wins American Song Contest and Brings Trophy Home to Oklahoma – Billboard.

🇺🇸 United States - Peacock.

Format. Original songs representing participating countries are performed in a live television programme broadcast via the Eurovision and Euroradio networks simultaneously to all countries.

Which Championship Is More Popular – Super Bowl, or World Cup? The World Cup may have a bigger audience, but that may be because it only takes place once every four years and the participants (and thus the audience) are international.

Eurovision ranks among the world's most watched non-sporting events every year, with hundreds of millions of viewers globally.

The Eurovision Song Contest has been broadcast in the America since 1971 and there are a lot of fans across the pond, but they have never participated in the yearly event. The obvious answer is that America isn't in Europe. But many nations outside of the continent take part.

Did you know? Over 1,500 songs have taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest since it first started in 1956! Each of the 26 competing countries has a jury whose members rank all of the countries' performances. They then give out points to their favourite top 10 countries.