text: Johnny Logan was the first artist to have won multiple contests as a performer, winning for Ireland in  with "What's Another Year", written by Shay Healy, and in  with the self-penned "Hold Me Now". Logan was also the winning songwriter in  for the Irish winner, "Why Me?" performed by Linda Martin, and has therefore achieved three contest victories as either a performer or writer. Four further songwriters have each written two contest-winning songs: Willy van Hemert, Yves Dessca, Rolf Løvland, and Brendan Graham. Following their introduction in , Alexander Rybak became the first artist to win multiple Eurovision semi-finals, finishing in first at the second semi-finals in  and ; he remains the only entrant to have done so to date.
  Winners
  71 songs from 27 countries have won the Eurovision Song Contest   and  have recorded the most wins with seven each, followed by , , the  and the  with five each. Of the 52 countries to have taken part, 24 have yet to win. Only one contest has featured multiple winners in a single year: in , four countries finished the contest with an equal number of points and were all declared winners due to the lack of tiebreak rules at the time. A majority of winning songs have been performed in English, particularly since the rule requiring native-language songs was abolished in 1999: since then, only seven winning songs have been performed either fully or partially in a language other than English.