Four months later, here's my top 41!
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The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 was the 64th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. The contest took place in Tel Aviv, Israel, following Israel's victory at the 2018 contest in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song "Toy", performed by Netta. This was the third time Israel has hosted the contest, having previously hosted in 1979 and 1999. This was also the first time the contest was held outside of Jerusalem when Israel was hosting. The contest was held at Expo Tel Aviv, the city's convention centre; it consisted of two semi-finals on 14 and 16 May, and the final on 18 May 2019.[2] The three live shows were hosted by Erez Tal, Bar Refaeli, Assi Azar and Lucy Ayoub. The event was organised by the European Broadcasting Union and hosted by the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.

Forty-one countries took part in the contest, with Bulgaria and Ukraine absent. Bulgaria withdrew due to members of the delegation being moved to other projects, while Ukraine had originally planned to participate in the contest but withdrew due to the controversy that surrounded their national final.

The winner was the Netherlands with the song "Arcade", performed by Duncan Laurence and written by Laurence, Joel Sjöö, Wouter Hardy and Will Knox. This was the Netherlands' fifth victory in the contest, following their wins in 1957, 1959, 1969 and 1975; Italy, Russia, Switzerland and Sweden rounded out the top five. Further down the table, North Macedonia and San Marino achieved their best results to date, finishing seventh and nineteenth, respectively. This was North Macedonia's first Top 10 finish since joining the competition in 1998. Israel finished in 23rd place in the final, making it the fourth time since 2015 that the host country ranked in the bottom five.

There was an error in the voting at the contest: a wrongful counting of the jury votes by the Belarusian delegation caused the televised results to be amended three days later. The discrepancy was not large enough to change the order of the originally announced top 4 in the final result, which combines the jury voting and televoting by the public,[3] but this update saw North Macedonia as the new jury winner instead of Sweden as shown on TV, and there were also minor changes in lower positions.

01 Malta Michela "Chameleon" English 14 107
02 Albania Jonida Maliqi "Ktheju tokës" Albanian 17 90
03 Czech Republic Lake Malawi "Friend of a Friend" English 11 157
04 Germany S!sters "Sister" English 25 24
05 Russia Sergey Lazarev "Scream" English 3 370
06 Denmark Leonora "Love Is Forever" English, French[f] 12 120
07 San Marino Serhat "Say Na Na Na" English[e] 19 77
08 North Macedonia Tamara Todevska "Proud" English 7 305
09 Sweden John Lundvik "Too Late for Love" English 5 334
10 Slovenia Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl "Sebi" Slovene 15 105
11 Cyprus Tamta "Replay" English 13 109
12 Netherlands Duncan Laurence "Arcade" English 1 498
13 Greece Katerine Duska "Better Love" English 21 74
14 Israel Kobi Marimi "Home" English 23 35
15 Norway KEiiNO "Spirit in the Sky" English[g] 6 331
16 United Kingdom Michael Rice "Bigger than Us" English 26 11
17 Iceland Hatari "Hatrið mun sigra" Icelandic 10 232
18 Estonia Victor Crone "Storm" English 20 76
19 Belarus ZENA "Like It" English 24 31
20 Azerbaijan Chingiz "Truth" English 8 302
21 France Bilal Hassani "Roi" French, English 16 105
22 Italy Mahmood "Soldi" Italian[h] 2 472
23 Serbia Nevena Božović "Kruna" (Круна) Serbian[c] 18 89
24 Switzerland Luca Hänni "She Got Me" English 4 364
25 Australia Kate Miller-Heidke "Zero Gravity" English 9 284
26 Spain Miki "La Venda" Spanish 22 54

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