Another ten years have past, so it's time to take a snapshot of how the various nations did over the course of the 2010s. For the sake of comparison, the top ten places in the final official standings for each contest are assigned 12-10-8 style points. In the case of a tie for place, the nation that received the highest individual score from a single jury takes the place, and if no resolution is forthcoming from this method then the benefit goes to that nation which our own jury scored the higher. Any ties in the final tally are broken by average performance, and where that is the same they are broken by highest annual placing.

Alongside the '10s snapshot, we'll also take a look at the running total since 1957. Change since the '00s tally is given in brackets.

Our highest new entry this decade is San Marino, with an impressive 20 points and a fresh win under their belt. But they're pipped by the re-entry of Italy who take 7th place to San Marino's 8th. Greece take our hotspot for the 2010s thanks to their wins in 2010 and 2013. Our highest climbers are Ireland (thanks to Jedward) and Belgium (thanks to the Belgian renaissance). Europe's highest climber was the ever-bland Netherlands. They were also impressed by the return of Italy, but gave San Marino nothing. Their favourite newcomer was Australia. Sweden was Europe's favourite nation overall, with their wins in 2012 and 2015. We don't see what the fuss is about: Sweden, for years our one point of agreement with Europe, were one of our biggest fallers, making them our biggest discrepancy with Europe overall. Other, more traditional disagreements came in our favouring of Spain and Greece, while they liked Azerbaijan a lot more than we did.

One area where we're more in agreement is the state of the UK. In our chart they took a massive dive from their top-10 placing in the 2000s. Europe were even less impressed with them than we were, placing them plumb last. But their biggest fallers were Finland and Malta, who proved to be utterly uninspiring (they saw a similar drop in our rankings).

The biggest change this decade has, of course, been the resurgence of Old Europe, with only two victories for the ex-Eastern Bloc. The number of East European countries in the Europe top 10 has halved since the 2000s. Is that a consequence of voting reform? Or changing participation (<cough>Turkey and Italy</cough>)? Or, is it just a question of taste? There's a similar resurgence of Old Europe in our own top 10, albeit less marked. We'd've gone east four times this decade to Europe's two.

The all-time top 50 (yes, there's no exactly fifty countries in the list) is starting to become pretty stable. There's no change at the top of either our chart or Europe's, and even the UK's desolate showing this decade can't undo the solid effort of all those second places down the years. In our all-time chart, the highest climber is Georgia, followed closely by Greece who move into the top five. For Europe, the biggest mover is Azerbaijan's massive climb of 11 places.

We may have agreed about the UK in the 2010s, but that's the country we're most at odds about over all (with a massive 160 point difference between our placings and Europe's). Europe continues to misunderstand Finland, though again we've been in more agreement about that topic over the last ten years. To explore our disagreements in more detail, take a look at our new 'Skew' table in our score-cards section.