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Cast your 12 points

Give science a hand.

12 Points is your companion app for the world's biggest song

competition — an unofficial, fan-made citizen science project

from researchers at the University of Southern Denmark and

NYU Abu Dhabi

Rate every entry from every competing country,

build your personal scoreboard, compare your taste with friends,

and (if you choose) help advance real academic research on

musical taste and how groups make decisions together.

Free

No ads from us

No paid tier

Geeky, and a little bit glittery.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

- Rate every entry from the semifinals to the grand final, on

a 10-star scale

Vocals, staging, songwriting, pure camp —

your ballot, your rules.

- Browse all competing countries on an interactive map and

dive into each entry's video and community discussion.

- Build a personal scorecard and share it with your group chat,

your followers, or anyone who needs to know your verdict.

- Compare side-by-side with friends — see who really has taste

and who just has loud opinions.

- Change your mind as often as you want

Songs grow on people.

- Once you've rated every entry in a contest, unlock a rich

statistics dashboard: see how different countries and

demographics voted, compare your ballot against the community

and the official juries, and find out who would have won

under alternative voting systems like ranked-choice, approval,

or Borda count

A fan dashboard and a working introduction

to the mathematics of collective choice.

- Join the forum and argue (politely) about staging choices.

A FAN APP THAT'S ALSO A LABORATORY

Every year, ESC brings together one of

the most enthusiastic, cross-cultural audiences on the planet.

That's a once-a-year window into how millions of people from

dozens of countries evaluate the same set of songs — a goldmine

for researchers studying musical taste, cultural difference, and

collective choice.

If you opt in, your anonymised ratings help our team study:

- How musical taste varies across cultures, countries, and

generations.

- How recommendation algorithms could get better at matching

songs to listeners.

- How groups can make fairer, better collective decisions.

Opting in is entirely your choice

If you don't, your ratings

stay on your device — you still get the full app experience,

analytics included.

PRIVACY BY CONSTRUCTION

- Research participation is opt-in and explicit.

- Anonymised data only

Your identity is separated from your

ratings before any researcher ever sees them.

- Nothing is sold

Nothing is tied to advertising.

- Reviewed under University of Southern Denmark research

ethics guidelines.

OPEN SCIENCE

Findings, aggregated results, and documentation will be

published openly so other researchers — and curious fans —

can build on the work.

WHO'S BEHIND IT

12 Points is led by researchers at the University of

Southern Denmark, in collaboration with NYU Abu

Dhabi

The project is supported through 2028 by a Digital

Infrastructure grant from the Carlsberg Foundation.

NOT THE OFFICIAL APP

12 Points is an independent, unofficial, fan-made companion.

It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the

Eurovision Song Contest, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU),

or any participating broadcaster

All trademarks belong to

their respective owners.

Learn more at 12points.science