diff --git a/homeassistant/components/recorder/migration.py b/homeassistant/components/recorder/migration.py
index 24220a27eee..74d95bb6c9c 100644
--- a/homeassistant/components/recorder/migration.py
+++ b/homeassistant/components/recorder/migration.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """Schema migration helpers."""
+import contextlib
 from datetime import timedelta
 import logging
 
@@ -509,15 +510,14 @@ def _apply_update(engine, session, new_version, old_version):  # noqa: C901
         )
         # Try to change the character set of the statistic_meta table
         if engine.dialect.name == "mysql":
-            try:
-                connection.execute(
-                    text(
-                        "ALTER TABLE statistics_meta CONVERT TO "
-                        "CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci"
+            for table in ("events", "states", "statistics_meta"):
+                with contextlib.suppress(SQLAlchemyError):
+                    connection.execute(
+                        text(
+                            f"ALTER TABLE {table} CONVERT TO "
+                            "CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci"
+                        )
                     )
-                )
-            except SQLAlchemyError:
-                pass
     else:
         raise ValueError(f"No schema migration defined for version {new_version}")