who has won the eurovision song contest the most times
Ireland's Johnny Logan Ireland
title: Eurovision Song Contest text: implementation of the semi-finals system in 2004: Australia and Ukraine. , holds the record for the highest number of wins, having won the contest seven times. is second with six wins. , and the are joint third with five wins each. The and both hold four victories. and have both won thrice, six countries have won twice, 12 countries have won once, and 24 countries have participated but never won. The United Kingdom holds the record for the highest number of runner-up placings, coming in second on no less than 15 occasions . Germany, Russia, France, Spain and Ireland have title: Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 text: since the 2013 Contest. Prior to the 2018 Contest, Ireland had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 50 times since its first entry in . Ireland has won the contest a record seven times in total. The country's first win came in 1970, with then-18-year-old Dana winning with "All Kinds of Everything". Ireland holds the record for being the only country to win the contest three times in a row (in 1992, 1993 and 1994), as well as having the only three-time winner (Johnny Logan, who won in 1980 as a singer, 1987 as a singer-songwriter, and again in 1992 title: Eurovision Song Contest text: States, Canada, New Zealand, and China. Since 2000, it has been broadcast online via the Eurovision website. The contest has been described as having kitsch appeal. Ireland holds the record for most victories, with seven wins, including four times in five years in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1996. Under the current voting system, in place since 2016, the highest-scoring winner is Salvador Sobral of Portugal who won the 2017 contest in Kiev, Ukraine, with 758 points; under the previous system, the highest-scoring winner was Alexander Rybak of Norway with 387 points in 2009. As a war-torn Europe was rebuilding itself title: Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest text: contest) had collaborated on the 2009 entry for Denmark. RTÉ presenter Marty Whelan has been the national commentator since 2000. Ireland holds the record for the greatest number of victories: seven wins including three consecutive wins. The country has also achieved second place four times and third once. Ireland is one of the few countries to have achieved consecutive wins (along with Spain, Luxembourg and Israel) and the only country to win consecutively three times, and the nation won again in 1996, meaning four victories were achieved in five years. Ireland is the only country to host the Contest consecutively title: Eurovision Song Contest text: won twice for Ireland, with "What's Another Year" in 1980 and "Hold Me Now" in 1987). Several other winners were well-known artists who won the contest mid-career after they had already established themselves, including Katrina and the Waves, winners in 1997 with "Love Shine a Light", Lulu, winner in 1969 with "Boom Bang-a-Bang", and Sandie Shaw, winner in 1967 with "Puppet on a String". Women have dominated the contest since its inception, either performing solo or as a member of a group on 50 of the 67 winning entries . The 2017 winner was a solo male performance by Salvador