As we all know , Austria won the 2025 edition of the Eurovision Song contest in Basel, with JJ and “Wasted Love”. and we will be travelling to Austria’s capital city, Vienna , for the 2026 edition of our beloved contest. JJ’s victory in Basel was the third victory for Austria at the contest , with previous wins being in 1966, with Udo Jurgens and “Mercie Cherie “and again in 2014 when Conchita Wurst took victory for the nation with “Rise like a Phoenix ” in Copenhagen, Denmark.

With this in mind, we at Eurovision Ireland, decided it would be interesting to create a series , looking back over the years at previous Austrian acts and how they fared in the contest , in the years that Austria have taken part . Today, in Part 18 of our series, we will look at the years 2019,2020,2021.2022

2019-Paenda -“No Limits”

Paenda was internally selected by the Austrian broadcaster ORF to represent the nation at the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv in 2019, with her self-penned song “Limits”.She was drawn to perform in the Second Semi Final .Unfortunately, Paenda did not qualify for the Grand Final, finishing 17th out of the eighteen countries competing in that semi final.

2020 -Vincent Bueno “Alive “

Vincent Bueno is an Austrian citizen of Filipino descent, rather like this year’s winner for Austria , JJ .He was internally selected by ORF to represent Austria at the 2020 contest , due to take place in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in May , 2020. Unfortunately, Vincent never got to perform Alive as the contest was cancelled due to the Covid -19 pandemic, which was affecting the whole world.

2021 -Vincent Bueno -“Amen”

As was the case with many of the 2020 artists, Vincent was invited by ORF to compete in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest , in Rotterdam. He performed in the second semi final singing “Amen”. Unfortunately , he didn’t make it out of the semi final , finishing in 12th place.

2022- Lum!x Featuring Pia Maria–“Halo”

Lumix is an Austrian DJ and he was joined on stage at the 2022 ESC , held in Turin, Italy, by singer Pia Maria. They were selected internally by the Austrian broadcaster ORF. Despite being highly regarded and tipped to do well, they failed to make the Grand Final in Turin, finishing 15th in their semi final with 42 points.

And that concludes our look back at 2019, 2020, 2021,2022.

In part 19 of our series on past Austrian participants, we will finally reach the most recent three years and therefore the end of this series . 2023, 2024, 2025.

You can see Part 1, covering the years 1957,1958 and 1959 HERE , Part 2 covering the years 1960.1961 and 1962 HERE ,Part 3 covering the years 1963, 1964,1965HERE .Part 4 , covering the years 1966, 1967 and 1968 HERE .Part 5 covering 1971,1972 and 1976,HERE . Part 6 covering the years 1977,1978 and 1979 HERE .Part 7 covering 1980, 1981 and 1982 HERE Part 8 covering 1983, 1984 and 1985 HERE Part 9 covering 1986 , 1987 and 1988 HERE Part 10 1989.1990.1991 HERE Part 11 1992.1993,1994 HERE Part 12 1995.1996, 1997 HERE Part 13 1999, 2000,2002 HERE Part 14 HERE Part 15 HERE PART 16 HERE Part 17 HERE

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Author : Sarah Rudman

Source; ORF Eurovision.TV