At the age of five, his young voice and exuberance won him a talent contest singing a then-popular song, " Have You Ever Gone Sailing ( Down the River of Memories ).

She won an award for the Van Halen music video of the song " Right Now ", which she produced.

In 1987, Crowded House won the American MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for their song " Don't Dream It's Over ", which was also nominated for three other awards.

* " Euphoria " ( Loreen song ), performed by Swedish singer Loreen, won the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest

At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for " Virtual Insanity " won four awards ; Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video, and the band performed the song at the ceremony.

Hybrid Theory won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance for the song " Crawling " and was nominated for two other Grammy Awards: Best New Artist and Best Rock Album.

The song won the 2002 Grammy for Best Instrumental Rock Performance.

In February 2010, Larrikin Music Publishing won a case against the group arising from the uncredited appropriation of " Kookaburra ", originally written in 1934 by Marion Sinclair and for which they owned the publishing rights, as the flute line in the song " Down Under ".

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

At the 33rd Grammy Awards, Abdul won her first Grammy for Best Music Video for " Opposites Attract ", She was also nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her song " Straight Up " but it lost to Bonnie Raitt's " Nick of Time ".

He began acting and composing for film with Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ), which he starred in and composed the score for ; the song " Forbidden Colours " which he composed for it became a worldwide hit and he won a BAFTA Award for the film's score.

The song won the 1999 Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.

His compositional efforts have included a number of film scores, notably a set of songs written for Warren Beatty's 1990 film version of Dick Tracy ; one song, " Sooner or Later ( I Always Get My Man )" ( as performed by Madonna ), won Sondheim an Academy Award.

The album won a Grammy in 2000 ; as an indicator of how difficult it is to classify Waits's music, he was nominated simultaneously for Best Contemporary Folk Album ( which he won ) and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ( for the song " Hold On "), both different from the genre for which he won his previous Grammy.

The band has won two Grammy Awards, one in 2002 for their song " Boss of Me ", which served as the theme to Malcolm in the Middle.

The song was adopted as the pre-game anthem during the deciding match of the 1990 Five Nations Championship between Scotland and England, which Scotland won 13 – 7 to win the Grand Slam.

* April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me.

The Dixie Chicks ' cover of Nicks's 1975 song " Landslide " also earned her a BMI Songwriters Award in 2003 when it won " Song of the Year " ( the award is given to the songwriter of the track, regardless of the performer ).

Its inclusion helped the song reach number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in 1992 ( it remained in the Hot 100 for over 40 weeks ), and won the band an MTV Award at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.

The stars of the film wrote their own songs ; Keith Carradine won an Academy Award for the song " I'm Easy ".

Henry Mancini, who won an Emmy Award and two Grammys for his soundtrack to Peter Gunn, was the first composer to have a widespread hit with a song from a soundtrack.

During the 2001 / 02 season when Feyenoord won the UEFA Cup a parody was launched of the song " Put your hands up " by Black and White Brothers called " Put your hands up for Pi-Air " as a tribute to Pierre ( Pi-Air ) van Hooijdonk.

They performed the song " Too Hot ta Trot " during the dance contest ; their songs " Brick House " and " Easy " were also played during the movie.

On the 40th anniversary of the July 1969 moon landing — and Bowie's accompanying commercial breakthrough with " Space Oddity "— EMI released the individual tracks from the original eight-track studio recording of the song, in a 2009 contest inviting members of the public to create a remix.

Jones submitted the song as part of a school-wide contest.

Amos first came to local notice by winning a county teen talent contest in 1977, singing a song called " More Than Just a Friend ".

5 and 8 describe the myth of Daphnis in a song contest, 6, the cosmic and mythological song of Silenus, 7, a heated poetic contest, and 10 the sufferings of the contemporary elegiac poet Cornelius Gallus.

All six Eurovision contest song candidates were recorded by Newton-John and included on her Long Live Love album, her first for the EMI Records label.

In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson's " Carolina Shout ", a song he learned from watching a player piano play it.

The contest was won by the Netherlands with the song " Een beetje ", performed by Teddy Scholten.

The contest was won by the Spanish song " La, la, la ", performed by Massiel.

The contest is commemorated in a song by the Drive-by Truckers.

The " Franklin County Song " was selected in a 1929 contest by the county historical association as the song most suitable for public occasions.

The band has participated in a Slovenian contest EMA 2007 for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with a song Kdo hoče plesati z menoj ( Who Wants To Dance With Me ).

Together with 1956, it is the only contest that has not featured a single song in the English language.

The contest was won by France with the song " Tom Pillibi ", performed by Jacqueline Boyer.

The United Kingdom wins the contest for the first time with the Bill Martin / Phil Coulter song " Puppet on a String ", sung by Sandie Shaw.

The contest is won by Dutch singer Corry Brokken with the song Net als toen.

On October 16 it was reported that HammerFall ( along with the band Europe ) would be part of the Eurovision song contest.

The contest was won by Denmark with the song " Dansevise ", performed by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann.

Italy won the contest for their first time scoring 49 points with the song " Non ho l ' età ", performed by Gigliola Cinquetti.

Luxembourg won the contest with the song " Poupée de cire, poupée de son ", performed by France Gall.