Eurovision 2026 is in the books, with Vienna rolling out three nights of competing songs and the non-competing show acts that fans love to dissect almost as much as the entries themselves.

This year's host broadcaster ORF served up a mix of returning winners, an anniversary medley, Austrian electro-swing, acrobatics, and a fair dose of host comedy from Victoria Swarovski and Michael Ostrowski.

But which of those moments actually cut through on YouTube? Below, we've ranked every standalone interval and opening performance uploaded to the official Eurovision Song Contest channel - from least-viewed to most-viewed - to see what the audience went back to watch.

Views as of July 18 2026

37,700 views

The Bregenz-based acrobatic dance collective opened the interval slot in the first semi-final with a high-energy, gravity-defying routine. As someone who was in the arena during this performance, I can tell you there was an impressive level of detail that didn't really translate through the lens.

74,300 views

Austria's own Cesár Sampson, who finished third for Austria in 2018 with Nobody but You returned to the Grand Final stage with the tribute piece Vienna. A love letter to the host city, and it was great to see him and his smooth vocals back at the Contest.

83,200 views

The hosting duo's musical-comedy interval in the second semi-final, a cover of the Pointer Sisters classic, leaned into the camp Eurovision tradition of hosts doing a song-and-dance number during the voting break. Fun and frothy.

174,200 views

The hosts kicked off Semi-Final 2 with a self-deprecating parody of JJ's 2025 winning song Wasted Love - reworked as Wasted Boat - poking fun at the chaotically sinking boat staging that defined Austria's 2025 winning performance. I'll admit, this one actually gave me a chuckle.

186,200 views

The first semi-final's headline interval saw the hosts joined by our own Go-Jo - fresh from representing us at Eurovision 2025 with Milkshake Man - for the comedic duet Opposites. This felt like an absolute fever dream for Aussie Eurofans, I couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry at times. To find out more about how it was received at the time, read here.

188,000 views

A genuine Eurovision legend opened the first semi-final. Vicky Leandros represented Luxembourg in 1967 with L'amour est bleu (finishing fourth) before going on to win the whole contest in 1972 with Après toi. Having her reprise the song that became an international instrumental hit ("Love Is Blue") was a classy, nostalgia-soaked opener that actually brought me to tears. Beautiful.

428,000 views

Austrian electro-swing pioneer Parov Stelar brought the Grand Final interval with new single Black Lilies (featuring uncredited vocals from Elena Karafizi and Lee Anduze). Impressively, this was the most-watched standalone Grand Final interval act for 2026 (not including what is coming next on this list, which would have had an additional boost for obvious reasons). On Spotify this has 1.5 million streams, it's lowkey a banger.

592,700 views

JJ's Grand Final opening number was a showpiece: the Queen of the Night aria from The Magic Flute, segueing into new single Unknown, and finishing with a flag-parade rendition of 2025 winner Wasted Love. Bundled into one roughly nine-minute upload, it's the reigning champion's victory lap on home soil and was spine tingling in the arena. The flag parade this year used JJ's performances to weave in with the artists for something a little different!

675,800 views

The champion's other new track got its own moment during the Semi-Final 2 interval, and it's here that JJ premiered Unknown as a standalone performance. Crucially, this is the only place fans could hear the song performed live outside the medley-heavy Grand Final opener.

794,000 views

The runaway winner. To mark the contest's seventieth anniversary, the Grand Final assembled a medley of returning fan-favourites: Erika Vikman, Lordi, Max Mutzke, Alexander Rybak, Kristian Kostov, Verka Serduchka, Miriana Conte and Ruslana - spanning winners, runners-up and cult icons from across the decades.

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This year saw another fun batch of interval acts - perhaps none reached the lofty heights of all-time bests like Riverdance (Dublin 1994), Love Love Peace Peace (Stockholm 2016) and Mika's Medley (Turin 2022) but they've still gone down in the books of Eurovision history.

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