Eurovision History 1956 -2008
Eurovision Song Contest in the '50s
| Nr. crt. | Country | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Netherlands | De Vogels Van Holland | Jetty Paerl |
| 2 | Switzerland | Das Alte Karusel | Lys Assia |
| 3 | Belgium | Messieurs les noyés de la Seine | Fud Leclerc |
| 4 | Germany | Im Wartesaal zum grossen Glück | Walter Andreas Schwarz |
| 5 | France | Le temps perdu | Mathé Altéry |
| 6 | Luxembourg | Ne crois pas | Michèle Arnaud |
| 7 | Italy | Aprite le finestre | Franca Raimondi |
| 8 | The Netherlands | Voorgoed Voorbij | Corry Brokken |
| 9 | Switzerland |
Refrain |
Lys Assia |
| 10 | Belgium | Le plus beau jour de ma vie | Mony Marc |
| 11 | Germany | So geht das jede Nacht | Freddy Quinn |
| 12 | France | Il est là | Dany Dauberson |
| 13 | Luxembourg | Les amants de minuit | Michèle Arnaud |
| 14 | Italy | Amami se vuoi | Tonina Torielli |
Nr. crt. = Songs in performance order
The second contest saw the remaining founding countries entering for the first time, taking the total number of participants to 10. Voting was made public for the first time with each country having a jury of 10 members each giving a point to their favourite entry without voting for their own country. The shortest ever ESC performance was in 1957 when Patricia Bredin sang the first United Kingdom entry for a measly 1 minute 52 seconds. She was followed on stage by the longest ever ESC performance when Nunzio Gallo spent over 5 minutes performing the Italian entry.
| Results | Country | Song | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. (6) / 31 points | the Netherlands | Net Als Toen | Corry Brokken |
| 2. (8) / 17 points | France | La belle amour | Paule Desjardins |
| 3. (9) / 10 points | Denmark | Skibet skal sejle i nat | Birthe Wilke & Gustav Winckler |
| 4. (7) / 08 points | Germany | Telefon, Telefon | Margot Hielscher |
| _. (2) / 08 points | Luxembourg | Tant de peine | Danièle Dupré |
| 6. (4) 07 points | Italy | Corde della mia chitarra | Nunzio Gallo |
| 7. (3) 06 points | United Kingdom | All | Patricia Bredin |
| 8. (1) 05 points | Belgium | Straatdeuntje | Bobbejaan Schoepen |
| _. (10) 5 points | Switzerland | L'enfant que j'étais | Lys Assia |
| 10. (5) 03 points | Austria | Wohin, kleines Pony | Bob Martin |
Results = Position (brackets is the position they sung) / points
The 3rd Eurovision Song Contest was the first one to be held by the winning nation from the previous year. It was also the 2nd and last contest without a song sung in English with the United Kingdom not taking part. The most famous and successful ESC entry ever came 3rd in the 1958 contest. Better known as Volare the Italian entry became a huge Worldwide hit and won the inaugural Grammy for "Best Song". The Eurovision juries thought differently.
RESULTS
1.(3) 27 points France - Dors, mon amour - André Claveau
2.(10) 24 points Switzerland - Giorgio - Lys Assia
3.(1) 13 points Italy - Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare) - Domenico Modugno
4.(5) 10 points Sweden - Lilla stjärna - Alice Babs
5.(7) 08 points Belgium - Ma petite chatte - Fud Leclerc
(9) 08 points Austria - Die ganze Welt braucht Liebe - Liane Augustin
7.(8 ) 05 points Germany - Für zwei Groschen Musik - Margot Hielscher
8.(6) 03 points Denmark - Jeg rev et blad ud af min dagbog - Raquel Rastenni
9.(2) 01 point Netherlands - Heel de Wereld - Corry Brokken
(4) 01 point Luxembourg - Un grand amour - Solange Berry
France played host for the first time in the last contest of the 1950s. The United Kingdom returned after a one year break, but Luxembourg missed the contest. Monaco made a disastrous debut finishing last. Again the biggest hit from the contest was not the winning entry and came from the same source as the previous year. Domenico Modugno returned for Italy singing Piove which went on to be a huge international hit under the name "Ciao, Ciao Bambina".
RESULTS
1.(5) 21 points - Netherlands - Een Beetje - Teddy Scholten
2.(10) 16 points - United Kingdom - Sing Little Birdie - Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson
3.(1) 15 points - France - Oui, Oui, Oui, Oui - Jean Philippe
4.(8 ) 14 points - Switzerland - Irgendwoher - Christa Williams
5.(2) 12 points - Denmark - Uh, jeg ville ønske, jeg var dig - Birthe Wilke
6.(3) 09 points - Italy - Piove (Ciao, Ciao Bambina) - Domenico Modugno
(11) 09 points - Belgium - Hou toch van mij - Bob Benny
8.(6) 05 points - Germany - Heute Abend wollen wir tanzen geh'n - Alice & Ellen Kessler
9.(7) 04 points - Sweden - Augustin - Brita Borg
(9) 04 points - Austria - Der K und K Kalypso aus Wien - Ferry Graf
11.(4) 01 point - Monaco - Mon ami pierrot - Jacques Pils
Eurovision Song Contest in the '60s
The 5th Eurovision Song Contest was the first to be hosted by the BBC and the first to be hosted by Katie Boyle, who went on to host the contest 3 further times. In the largest contest ever, Norway became the latest country to join the contest. A respectable start for the Norwegians would show no sign of what would happen to them in the future. The winning song was sung by the daughter of Jacques Pils who had finished last the previous year representing Monaco.
RESULTS
1.(13) 32 points France - Tom Pillibi - Jacqueline Boyer
2.(1) 25 points United Kingdom - Looking High, High, High - Bryan Johnson
3.(8 ) 15 points Monaco - Ce Soir-là - François Deguelt
4.(6) 11 points Norway - Voi, Voi - Nora Brockstedt
(11) 11 points Germany - Bonne nuit, ma cherie - Wyn Hoop
6.(5) 09 points Belgium - Mon amour pour toi - Fud Leclerc
7.(7) 06 points Austria - Du hast mich so fasziniert - Harry Winter
8.(9) 05 points Switzerland - Cielo e terra - Anita Traversi
(12) 05 points Italy - Romantica - Renato Rascel
10.(2) 04 points Sweden - Alla andra får varann - Siw Malmqvist
(4) 04 points Denmark - Det var en yndig tid - Katy Bødtger
12.(10) 02 points Netherlands - Wat Een Geluk - Rudi Carrell
13.(3) 01 point Luxembourg - So laan we's du do bast - Camillo Felgen
With the venue and host the same as the 1959 contest there was an air of familiarity about the 1961 contest. However it was the largest contest to date with 3 new countries taking the total number of participants to 16. With world music embracing change and rock n' roll being prevalent, the Eurovision Song Contest was won by a typical French style ballad (allbeit for Luxembourg) more suited to the 40s and 50s than the blossoming decade.
RESULTS
1.(14) 31 points Luxembourg - Nous les amoureux - Jean-Claude Pascal
2.(15) 24 points United Kingdom - Are You Sure? - The Allisons
3.(10) 16 points Switzerland - Nous aurons demain - Franca di Rienzo
4.(9) 13 points France - Printemps, avril carillonne - Jean-Paul Mauric
5.(13) 12 points Denmark - Angelique - Dario Campeotto
(16) 12 points Italy - Al di là - Betty Curtis
7.(12) 10 points Norway - Sommer i Palma - Nora Brockstedt
8.(5) 9 points Yugoslavia - Neke davne zvezde - Ljiljana Petrovi?
9.(1) 8 points Spain - Estando Contigo - Conchita Bautista
10.(2) 6 points Monaco - Allons, les enfants - Colette Dereal
(4) 6 points Finland - Valoa ikkunassa - Laila Kinnunen
(6) 6 points Netherlands - Wat een dag - Greetje Kauffeld
13.(8 ) 3 points Germany - Einmal sehen wir uns wieder - Lale Anderson
14.(7) 2 points Sweden - April, April - Lil Babs
15.(3) 1 points Austria - Sehnsucht - Jimmy Makulis
(11) 1 point Belgium - September, gouden roos - Bob Benny
The 7th Eurovision Song Contest was held in the smallest venue to date following Luxembourg's win the previous year. For the first time since it's inception there were no new countries joining the contest so the number remained at 16. France continued to dominate the contest securing their third win in the last 5 contests. The voting was changed slightly with the juries awarding 3, 2 and 1 point to their favourite 3 songs. With so few points available it was perhaps inevitable that some songs would not receive any points at all. As it turned out 4 songs ended up with 0 points at all. For the record the first of those to perform was Belgium making them the first country to score 0 points at the ESC.
RESULTS
1.(9) 26 points France - Un premier amour - Isabelle Aubret
2.(16) 13 points Monaco - Dis rien - François Deguelt
3.(14) 11 points Luxembourg - Petit bonhomme - Camillo Felgen
4.(12) 10 points Yugoslavia - Ne pali svetla u sumrak - Lola Novakovic
(13) 10 points United Kingdom - Ring-A-Ding Girl - Ronnie Carroll
6.(7) 09 points Germany - Zwei kleiner Italiener - Conny Froboess
7.(1) 04 points Finland - Tipi-Tii - Marion Rung
(6) 04 points Sweden - Sol och vår - Inger Berggren
9.(15) 03 points Italy - Addio, Addio - Claudio Villa
10.(5) 02 points Denmark - Vuggevise - Ellen Winther
(10) 02 points Norway - Kom sol, kom regn - Inger Jacobsen
(11) 02 points Switzerland - Le retour - Jean Phillipe
13.(2) 00 points Belgium - Ton nom - Fud Leclerc
(3) 00 points Spain - Llámame - Victor Balaguer
(4) 00 points Austria - Nur in der Wiener Luft - Eleanore Schwarz
(8 ) 00 points Netherlands - Katinka - De Spelbrekers
France declined to host the contest again having hosted twice in recent years. The ever keen BBC took the reins and the contest returned to London with Katie Boyle once again presiding over matters. Again there were no new countries but the contest itself was the most controversial yet. The voting system changed again with a jury of 20 from each country giving 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point to their favourite entries. This was the easy part. During the voting procedure everything was going smoothly until the Norwegian votes. Everyone apart from Katie Boyle heard the Norwegian votes clearly. However Katie declared she had not heard them and would return to the Norwegian spokesperson at the end. When they returned the Norwegian votes had changed giving victory to their neighbours Denmark at the expense of Switzerland who would have won if Norway's original votes had stood. Who says neighbourly voting is a new thing.
RESULTS
1.(8 ) 42 points - Denmark - Dansevise - Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann
2.(10) 40 points - Switzerland - T'en va pas - Esther Ofarim
3.(6) 37 points - Italy - Uno per tutte - Emilio Pericoli
4.(1) 28 points - United Kingdom - Say Wonderful Things - Ronnie Carroll
5.(11) 25 points - France - Elle était si jolie - Alain Barrière
(15) 25 points - Monaco - L'amour s'en va - Françoise Hardy
7.(4) 16 points - Austria - Vielleicht geschiedt ein Wunder - Carmela Corren
8.(16) 13 points - Luxembourg - A force de prier - Nana Mouskouri
9.(3) 05 points - Germany - Marcel - Heidi Brühl
10.(14) 04 points - Belgium - Waarom - Jacques Raymond
11.(9) 03 points - Yugoslavia - Brodovi - Vice Vukov
12.(12) 02 points - Spain - Algo prodigioso - José Guardiola
13.(2) 00 points - Netherlands - Een speeldoos - Annie Palmen
(5) 00 points - Norway - Solhverv - Anita Thallaug
(7) 00 points - Finland - Muistojeni laulu - Laila Halme
(13) 00 points - Sweden - En gång i Stockholm - Monica Zetterlund
The 9th Eurovision song contest produced one of the hugest victories recorded. After years of producing big hits and not winning the contest Italy finally emerged victorious finishing an astonishing 32 points ahead of the runners up (United Kingdom). The voting changed again due to the controvesy of the previous year. This year the juries once again voted for their top 3 but this time giving 5, 3 and 1 points to those top 3. The margin of victory was so huge that it would not have made any difference what system was used the winner would have remained the same. Portugal made the most disastrous start to their Eurovision careers finishing with 0 points, a distinction they would hold alone for 30 years until Lithuania did the same.
RESULTS
1.(12) 49 points - Italy - No ho l'età - Gigliola Cinquetti
2.(8 ) 17 points - United Kingdom - I Love The Little Things - Matt Monro
3.(10) 15 points - Monaco - Où sont-elles passées - Romauld
4.(1) 14 points - Luxembourg - Dès que le printemps revient - Hughes Aufray
(7) 14 points - France - Le chant de Mallory - Rachel
6.(6) 11 points - Austria - Warum, nur warum - Udo Jürgens
7.(5) 09 points - Finland - Laiskotellen - Lasse Mårtenson
8.(3) 06 points - Norway - Spiral - Arne Bendiksen
9.(4) 04 points - Denmark - Sangen Om Dig - Bjørn Tidmand
10.(2) 02 points - Netherlands - Jij bent mijn leven - Anneke Grönloh
(15) 02 points - Belgium - Près de ma rivière - Robert Cogoi
12.(16) 01 point - Spain - Caracola - Los TNT
13.(9) 00 points - Germany - Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne - Nora Nova
(11) 00 points - Portugal - Oração - António Calvário
(13) 00 points - Yugoslavia - Život je sklopio krug - Sabahudin Kurt
(14) 00 points - Switzerland - I miei pensieri - Anita Traversi
The 10th Eurovision Song Contest took place in Naples and was the biggest contest to date with Ireland making their debut and Sweden returning after missing the 1964 contest. A total of 18 countries took part in the contest. For the 4th year running 4 countries ended the contest on 0 points. The voting system was changed slightly again. Juries were again asked to rank 3 songs with 5, 3 and 1 points but if they only wanted to vote for 1 song they would give it 9 points, if they wanted to vote for just 2 songs they would give them 6 and 3 points. Belgium were the only country not to vote for 3 songs giving 6 to the United Kingdom and 3 to Italy. The winning Luxembourg entry was written by the legendary Serge Gainsbourg - the first and most successful of his 3 entries
RESULTS
1.(15) 32 points Luxembourg - Poupée de cire, poupée de son - France Gall
2.(2) 26 points United Kingdom - I Belong - Kathy Kirby
3.(11) 22 points France - N'avoue jamais - Guy Mardel
4.(6) 16 points Austria - Sag ihr, ich lass sie grüßen - Udo Jürgens
5.(13) 15 points Italy - Se piangi, se ridi - Bobby Solo
6.(4) 11 points Ireland - I'm Walking The Streets In The Rain - Butch Moore
7.(14) 10 points Denmark - For din skyld - Birgit Brüel
8.(18 ) 08 points Switzerland - Non - à jamais sans toi - Yovanna
9.(9) 07 points Monaco - Va dire à l'amour - Marjorie Noël
10.(10) 06 points Sweden - Absent Friends - Ingvar Wixell
11.(1) 05 points Netherlands - 'T is genoeg - Conny can den Bos
12.(17) 02 points Yugoslavia - ?ežnja - Vice Vukov
13.(7) 01 point Norway - Karusell - Kirsti Sparboe
(12) 01 point Portugal - Sol de inverno - Simone de Oliviera
15.(3) 00 points Spain - ¡Qué bueno, qué bueno! - Conchita Bautista
(5) 00 points Germany - Paradies, wo bist du? - Ulla Wiesner
(8 ) 00 points Belgium - Als het weer lente is - Lize Marke
(16) 00 points Finland - Aurinko laskee länteen - Viktor Klimenko
The 11th Eurovision Song Contest produced a number of firsts and lasts. All in all the results were plain weird. The top 5 (Austria, Sweden, Norway, Belgium & Ireland) all achieved their highest positions to date. The United Kingdom achieved their lowest position to date (9th). Portugal finished 13th for the 3rd consecutive year. Denmark finished outside the top 10 for the first time and didn't return for 13 years. France, who had never been out of the top 5 before this year, finished 16th. Monaco and Italy had been in the top 10 each year both finished with 0 points. Udo Jürgens was making his 3rd consecutive appearance. Raphael was making the first of 2 consecutive appearances for Spain. Michele Torr, the Luxembourg entrant, returned 11 years later for Monaco. Lill Lindfors and Ase Klevelund would return to present the show in 1985 and 1986 respectively. The Dutch entrant, Milly Scott, became the first black entrant. We would have to wait 35 years before the first black winner when Dave Benton won in 2001.
RESULTS
1.(9) 31 points Austria - Merci Cherie - Udo Jürgens
2.(10) 16 points Sweden - Nygammal Vals - Lill Lindfors & Svante Thuresson
3.(6) 15 points Norway - Intet er nytt under solen - Ase Klevelund
4.(3) 14 points Belgium - Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel - Tonia
(17) 14 points Ireland - Come Back To Stay - Dickie Rock
6.(12) 12 points Switzerland - Ne vois-tu pas? - Madeleine Pascal
7.(5) 09 points Yugoslavia - Brez Besed - Berta Ambroz
(11) 09 points Spain - Yo soy aquel - Raphael
9.(18 ) 08 points United Kingdom - A Man Without Love - Kenneth McKellar
10.(1) 07 points Germany - Die Zieger der Uhr - Margot Eskens
(4) 07 points Luxembourg - Ce soir je t'attendais - Michèle Torr
(7) 07 points Finland - Playboy - Ann Christine Nyström
13.(8 ) 06 points Portugal - Ele E Ela - Madalena Iglesias
14.(2) 04 points Denmark - Stop, Ja Stop, mens legen er go - Ulla Pia
15.(16) 02 points Netherlands - Fernando en Filipo - Milly Scott
16.(15) 01 point France - Chez nous - Dominique Walter
17.(13) 00 points Monaco - Bien plus fort - Tereza
(14) 00 points Italy - Dio, come te amo - Domenico Modugno
After being runners up 5 times in the previous 8 contests the United Kingdom finally struck lucky and walked away with the prize. Singing barefoot, and singing a song she has constantly claimed she detests, Sandie Shaw finished miles ahead of the opposition. Luxembourg's 4th place song went on to be a huge international hit in an instrumental version by Paul Mauriat. Serge Gainsbourg tried again to win the contest writing the entry for Monaco. It was the first time that the top 2 songs were sung in English.
RESULTS
1.(11) 47 points - United Kingdom - Puppet On A String - Sandie Shaw
2.(17) 22 points - Ireland - If I Could Choose - Sean Dunphy
3.(4) 20 points - France - Il doit faire beau là-bas - Noëlle Cordier
4.(2) 17 points - Luxembourg - L'amour est bleu - Vicky Leandros
5.(14) 10 points - Monaco - Boum Badaboum - Minouche Barelli
6.(12) 09 points - Spain - Hablemos del amour - Raphael
7.(10) 08 points - Belgium - Ik heb zorgen - Louis Neefs
8. (7) 07 points - Sweden - Som en dröm - Östen Warnerbring
(9) 07 points - Germany - Anouschka - Inge Brück
(15) 07 points - Yugoslavia - Vse rože sveta - Lado Laskovar
11.(16) 04 points - Italy - Non andare più lontano - Claudio Villa
12.(5) 03 points - Portugal - O vendo muduo - Eduardo Nascimento
(8 ) 03 points - Finland - Varjoon-suojaan - Fredi
14.(1) 02 points - Netherlands - Ring-dinge-ding - Thérèze Steinmetz
(3) 02 points - Austria - Warum es 100.000 Sterne gibt - Peter Horten
(13) 02 points - Norway - Dukkeman - Kirsti Sparboe
17.(6) 00 points - Switzerland - Quel coeur vas-tu briser? - Géraldine
All the talk before the contest was about who would be runners-up. The home entry was a huge hit all over Europe before the contest. It was written by the same team that wrote the previous years winner. It was being performed by the biggest star in Europe. It couldn't fail surely. The juries begged to differ as Spain pulled of an unlikely victory by 1 point despite a last minute change to the performer as the original performer wanted to perform in Catalan and the Spanish delegation refused. Ironically, the Norwegian entry had to be changed as their original choice sounded very like "Summer Holiday" a hit for the UK's entrant. Eurovision's most prolific presenter, Katie Boyle, was presenting her 3rd contest.
RESULTS
1.(15) 29 points - Spain - La, La, La - Massiel
2.(12) 28 points - United Kingdom - Congratulations - Cliff Richard
3.(10) 20 points - France - La source - Isabelle Aubret
4.(14) 18 points - Ireland - Chance Of A Lifetime - Pat McGeegan
5.(8 ) 15 points - Sweden - Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mej - Claes-Göran Hederström
6.(16) 11 points - Germany - Ein Hoch der Liebe - Wencke Myhre
7.(3) 08 points - Belgium - Quand tu reviendras - Claude Lombard
(7) 08 points - Monaco - A chacun sa chanson - Line & Willy
(17) 08 points - Yugoslavia - Jedan dan - Dubrovacki Trubaduri
10.(11) 07 points - Italy - Marianne - Sergio Endrigo
11.(1) 05 points - Portugal - Verão - Carlos Mendes
(5) 05 points - Luxembourg - Nous vivrons d'amour - Chris Baldo & Sophie Garel
13.(4) 02 points - Austria - Tausend Fenster - Karel Gott
(6) 02 points - Switzerland - Guardando il sole - Gianni Mascolo
(13) 02 points - Norway - Stress - Odd Børre
16.(2) 01 point - Netherlands - Morgen - Ronnie Tober
(9) 01 point - Finland - Kun kello käy - Kristina Hautala
The last contest of the 1960s decended into farce when four songs finished the contest on 18 points. With no precautions in place in case of a tied result, the scrutineer had no choice but to declare the contest a four way tie. The host was so incredulous she had to ask 3 times if that was the official decision. It was and the ridiculous result still stands. It was this result that caused the EBU to look at the voting system and to realise it was seriously flawed. It was another 6 years before a reliable system was found. Spain became the first country to successfully defend the title (albeit in a 4 way tie)
RESULTS
1.(3) 18 points - Spain - Vivo cantando - Salomé
(7) 18 points - United Kingdom - Boom-Bang-A-Bang - Lulu
(8 ) 18 points - Netherlands - De Troubadour - Lennie Kuhr
(14) 18 points - France - Un jour, un enfant - Frida Bocarra
5.(11) 13 points - Switzerland - Bounjour, bonjour - Paola del Medico
6.(4) 11 points - Monaco - Maman, maman - Jean Jacques
7.(5) 10 points - Ireland - Wages Of Love - Muriel Day & The Lindsays
(10) 10 points - Belgium - Jennifer Jennings - Louis Neefs
9.(9) 08 points - Sweden - Judy min vän - Tommy Körberg
(13) 08 points - Germany - Primaballerina - Siw Malmkvist
11.(2) 07 points - Luxembourg - Cathérine - Romuald
12.(16) 06 points - Finland - Kuin silloin ennen - Jarkko & Laura
13.(1) 05 points - Yugoslavia - Pozdrav svijetu - Ivan
(6) 05 points - Italy - Due grosse lachrime bianche - Iva Zanicchi
15.(15) 04 points - Portugal - Desfolhada Portuguesa - Simone de Oliveira
16.(12) 01 points - Norway - Oj, oj, oj, så glad jeg skal bli - Kirstie Sparboe
Eurovision Song Contest in the '70s
After the farcical result the year before the Nordic block decided to boycott the contest. Austria, having refused to take part in Franco's Spain the year before, were again missing. Portugal were also missing, but not until they'd selected a song. The contest was in crisis and needed a song to revive it. It got it as well. Ireland scored their first victory. The Spanish entrant was a former football goalkeeper turned singer who would go on to be Spain's biggest selling singer. The German entrant was Katja Ebstein, making the first of her 3 appearances all of which ended with a top 3 finish making her the only artist with 3 top 3 finishes as an artist.
RESULTS
1.(12) 32 points - Ireland - All Kinds Of Everything - Dana
2.(7) 26 points - United Kingdom - Knock, Knock, Who's There - Mary Hopkin
3.(11) 12 points - Germany - Wunder gibt es immer wieder - Katja Ebstein
4.(2) 08 points - Switzerland - Retour - Henri Dès
(6) 08 points - France - Marie-Blanche - Guy Bonnet
(9) 08 points - Spain - Gwendolyne - Julio Iglesias
7.(1) 07 points - Netherlands - Waterman - Patricia & The Hearts of Soul
8.(3) 05 points - Italy - Occhi di ragazza - Gianni Morandi
(5) 05 points - Belgium - Viens l'oublier - Jean Vallée
(10) 05 points - Monaco - Marlène - Dominique Dussault
11.(4) 04 points - Yugoslavia - Pridi, dala ti bom cvet - Eva Sršen
12.(8 ) 00 points - Luxembourg - Je suis tombé du ciel - David Alexandre Winter
After the success of the 1970 winner the Nordic block returned as did Austria and Portugal. Malta made a rather unsuccessful debut finishing last. The major change was in the voting system. For reasons best known to themselves the EBU decided that the voting should be more "interactive". Each country was to provide 2 jurors - 1 under 25 and 1 over 25. Each juror was to give a mark between 1 and 5 for each entry. This of course meant that scores would be higher than ever before. It also meant that no song would finish with 0 points. It was lucky for the EBU that the winners in 1971 and 1972 were clear. The flaws in this system would be exposed in 1973, but more of that later.
RESULTS
1.(3) 128 points - Monaco - Un banc, un arbre, une rue - Severine
2.(6) 116 points - Spain - En un mondo nuevo - Karina
3.(5) 100 points - Germany - Diese Welt - Katja Ebstein
4.(9) 098 points - United Kingdom - Jack In The Box - Clodagh Rogers
5.(11) 091 points - Italy - L'amore e un attimo - Massimo Ranieri
6.(12) 085 points - Sweden - Vita vidder - Family Four
(14) 085 points - Netherlands - De Tijd - Saskia & Serge
8.(17) 084 points - Finland - Tie uuteen päivään - Markku Aro & Koivisto Sisters
9.(15) 083 points - Portugal - Menina - Tonicha
10.(7) 082 points - France - Un jardin sur la terre - Serge Lama
11.(13) 079 points - Ireland - One Day Love - Angela Farrell
12.(4) 078 points - Switzerland - Les illusions de nos vingt ans - Peter, Sue & Marc
13.(8 ) 070 points - Luxembourg - Pomme. pomme, pomme - Monique Melsen
14.(10) 068 points - Belgium - Goeie morgen, morgen - Lily Castel & Jacques Raymond
(16) 068 points - Yugoslavia - Tvoj djecak je tužan - Kruno Slabinac
16.(1) 056 points - Austria - Musik - Marianne Mendt
17.(18) 053 points - Norway - Lykken Er - Hanne Krogh
18.(2) 052 points - Malta - Marija L-Maltija - Joe Grech
Monaco were unable to host the contest after their victory in 1971 so the contest returned to the United Kingdom, but for the first time it wasn't held in London, rather the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh. For the one and only time in their history Ireland sang in Gaelic. With Malta singing in Maltese (and coming last again) it meant that the UK entry was the only entry in English (the last time this happened and the first time since 1964). Vicky Leandros returned 5 years after coming 4th to claim victory. Germany's Mary Roos would return 12 years later. Sandra from the Netherlands would return twice more under different names in the next 7 years. Carlos Mendes returned for Portugal to give them their best result ever, a distinction he'd hold for 24 years.
RESULTS
1.(17) 128 points - Luxembourg - Après toi - Vicky Leandros
2.(5) 114 points - United Kingdom - Beg Steal Or Borrow - The New Seekers
3.(1) 107 points - Gemany - Nur die Liebe läßt uns leben - Mary Roos
4.(18 ) 106 points - Netherlands - Als 't om de liefde gaat - Sandra & Andres
5.(11) 100 points - Austria - Falter im Wind - The Milestones
6.(12) 092 points - Italy - I giorni dell'arcobaleno - Nicola di Bari
7.(7) 090 points - Portugal - A festa da vida - Carlos Mendes
8.(8 ) 088 points - Switzerland - C'est la chanson de mon amour - Véronique Müller
9.(13) 087 points - Yugoslavia - Muzika i ti - Tereza
10.(4) 083 points - Spain - Amanece - Jaime Morey
11.(2) 081 points - France - Comé comédie - Betty Mars
12.(10) 078 points - Finland - Muistathan - Päivi Paunu & Kim Floor
13.(14) 075 points - Sweden - Härliga sommardag - Family Four
14.(6) 073 points - Norway - Småting - Grethe Kausland & Benny Borg
15.(3) 072 points - Ireland - Ceol an ghrá - Sandie Jones
16.(16) 065 points - Monaco - Comme on s'aime - Anne-Marie Godart & Peter MacLane
17.(15) 055 points - Belgium - A la folie ou pas du tout - Serge & Christine Ghisoland
18.(9) 048 points - Malta - L'imhabba - Helen & Joseph
An historic ESC in many ways. The first country not geographically in Europe, Israel, took part for the first time. A female conductor was seen for the first (and second) time when Monica Dominique was the conductor for the Swedish entry (Nurit Hirsch became the second female conductor 5 songs later when conducting the Israeli entry). The rule stating each country must sing in a language native to that country was relaxed for the first time. Sweden and Norway were the only ones to take advantage of this rule, with Sweden singing in English and Norway singing in numerous languages (although predominantly in English & French). The Swedish entry had some of the most controversial lyrics ever seen at ESC. The lyrics "your breasts are like swallows in nesting" were considered offensive by some and hilarious by others. The voting systems flaws were seriously exposed this year when only 6 points separated the top 3 entries. How much was to do with the performance of one of the Swiss juror's overacting is unknown but it was clear the system needed to be changed. Luxembourg became the first country to successfully defend their title without sharing it. Finland's Marion Rung returned after 11 years to better her country's highest finish by 1 place. She would be their most successful entrant for 33 years. The Belgian entrants were due to sing at the 1971 contest in Dublin but were forced to withdraw due to illness. They did go on to represent their country but perhaps shouldn't have bothered coming a convincing last.
RESULTS
1.(11) 129 points - Luxembourg - Tu te reconnaîtras - Anne-Marie David
2.(7) 125 points - Spain - Eres tu - Mocedades
3.(15) 123 points - United Kingdom - Power To All Our Friends - Cliff Richard
4.(17) 097 points - Israel - Ey-sham - Ilanit
5.(12) 094 points - Sweden - You're Summer - Nova & The Dolls
6.(1) 093 points - Finland - Tom, Tom, Tom - Marion Rung
7.(6) 089 points - Norway - It's Just A Game - The Bendik Singers
8.(4) 085 points - Germany - Junger Tag - Gitte
(5) 085 points - Monaco - Un train qui part - Marie
10.(3) 080 points - Portugal - Tourada - Fernando Torro
(14) 080 points - Ireland - Do I Dream? - Maxi
12.(8 ) 079 points - Switzerland - Je vais marier. Marie - Patrick Juvet
13.(10) 074 points - Italy - Chi sarà - Massimo Ranieri
14.(13) 069 points - Netherlands - De oude muzikant - Ben Cramer
15.(9) 065 points - Yugoslavia - Gori Vatra - Zdravko ?oli?
(16) 065 points - France - Sans Toi - Martine Clemenceau
17.(2) 058 points - Belgium - Baby Baby - Nicole & Hugo
A brief return to the old scoring system of 10 jurors each giving 1 point to their favourite entry produced one of the contest's hugest winners, not in terms of points scored or the margin of victory but by the sheer magnitude of what the winning artists went on to achieve. Having tried unsuccessfully to represent their country in 1973 (and changing their name as well) Abba took Eurovision to a new level (which was never really achieved again). After 3 years where the winner was a French chanson (albeit for Monaco and Luxembourg) which showed the contest was still dated it was a bold move by the Swedes to chose a modern song. Gigliola Cinquetti returned again 10 years after her victory to claim 2nd place. 1974 also saw the first of 18 entries written by Eurovision's most prolific composer, Ralph Siegel, he wrote the Luxembourg entry. Greece entered the contest for the first time. France withdrew from the contest a couple of days before it due to the death of President Pompidou. The Portuguese entry was used as an anthem for an uprising in Portugal that would ultimately overthrow the government.
RESULTS
1.(8 ) 24 points - Sweden - Waterloo - Abba
2.(17) 18 points - Italy - Si - Gigliola Cinquetti
3.(12) 15 points - Netherlands - I See A Star - Mouth & MacNeal
4.(2) 14 points - United Kingdom - Long Live Love - Olivia Newton-John
(9) 14 points - Luxembourg - Bye, Bye I Love You - Ireen Sheer
(10) 14 points - Monaco - Celui qui reste et celui qui s'en va - Romuald
7.(6) 11 points - Israel - Natati la khaiai - Poogy
(13) 11 points - Ireland - Cross My Heart - Tina Reynolds
9.(3) 10 points - Spain - Canta y se feliz - Peret
(11) 10 points - Belgium - Fleur de liberté - Jacques Hustin
11.(5) 07 points - Greece - Krassi thalassa ke t'agori mou - Marinella
12.(7) 06 points - Yugoslavia - Generacija 42 - Korni
13.(1) 04 points - Finland - Keep Me Warm - Carita
14.(4) 03 points - Norway - The First Day Of Love - Anne Karine Strøm
(14) 03 points - Germany - Die Sommermelodie - Cindy & Bert
(15) 03 points - Switzerland - Mein Ruf nach dir - Piera Martell
(16) 03 points - Portugal - E depois do adeus - Paulo de Calvalho
The major talking point of the 1975 contest was the new voting system, which is still in use today. A jury of 10 members were required to give votes to their 10 favourite songs, giving 12 to their favourite, 10 to their 2nd favourite then 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 to their remaining 8 favourites. For the record the first country to receive 12 points were Luxembourg. As for the songs there really isn't much to note really. The winner remains the highest scoring entry for the Netherlands. Malta returned for a last go before disappearing for 16 years. Turkey made an inauspicious debut finishing last. The UK finished 2nd despite Bruce Welch forgetting the second line of the song and stating "I knew it!". Ellen Nikolaysen was performing for Norway for the 3rd consecutive year (albeit the 2 previous years as a member of The Bendik Singers).
RESULTS
1.(1) 152 points - Netherlands - Ding-a-dong - Teach-In
2.(9) 138 points - United Kingdom - Let Me Be The One - The Shadows
3.(19) 115 points - Italy - Era - Wess & Dori Ghezzi
4.(3) 91 points - France - Et bonjour à toi l'artiste - Nicole Rieu
5.(5) 84 points - Luxembourg - Toi - Geraldine
6.(7) 77 points - Switzerland - Mikado - Simone Drexel
7.(15) 74 points - Finland - Old Man Fiddle - Pihasoittajat
8.(17) 72 points - Sweden - Jennie, Jennie - Lars Berghagen
9.(2) 68 points - Ireland - That's What Friends Are For - The Swarbriggs
10.(15) 53 points - Spain - Tú volverás - Sergio & Estibaliz
11.(12) 40 points - Israel - At van'ai - Shlomo Artzi
12.(10) 32 points - Malta - Singing This Song - Renato
13.(8 ) 22 points - Yugoslavia - Dan ljubezni - Pepel In Kri
(14) 22 points - Monaco - Une chanson c'est une lettre - Sophie
15.(11) 17 points - Belgium - Gelukkig zijn - Ann Christy
16.(16) 16 points - Portugal - Madrugada - Duarte Mendes
17.(4) 15 points - Germany - Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein - Joy Fleming
18.(6) 11 points - Norway - Touch My Life (With Summer) - Ellen Nikolaysen
19.(13) 3 points - Turkey - Seninle bir dakika - Semhia Yanki
The biggest selling Eurovision song of all time won the 1976 contest. Singing first with a quirky song and an equally quirky dance routine the UK entry was never challenged for the title. The winning song went on to sell millions all over the world and has been declared as Eurovision's biggest selling single - beating Waterloo and Volare. Peter, Sue & Marc returned for Switzerland singing in English (the 2nd of 4 entries in 4 different languages for the group). Sandra returned for the home country having ditched Andres from 1972 and singing on her own. Spain finished outside the top 10 for the first time since 1966. They remain one of only 2 countries to have finished in the top 10 for 10 consecutive years (the other being the United Kingdom's long run of top 10 finishes (1959-1977 inclusive)).
RESULTS
1.(1) 164 points - United Kingdom - Save Your Kisses For Me - Brotherhood Of Man
2.(17) 147 points - France - Un, deux, trois - Catherine Ferry
3.(16) 93 points - Monaco - Toi. la musique et moi - Mary Christy
4.(2) 91 points - Switzerland - Djambo, Djambo - Peter, Sue & Marc
5.(14) 80 points - Austria - My Little World - Waterloo & Robinson
6.(4) 77 points - Israel - Emor shalom - Chocolate Menta Mastik
7.(13) 69 points - Italy - We'll Live It All Again - Al Bano & Romina Power
8.(6) 68 points - Belgium - Judy et cie - Pierre Rapsat
9.(8 ) 56 points - Netherlands - The Party's Over - Sandra Reemer
10.(7) 54 points - Ireland - When - Red Hurley
11.(11) 44 points - Finland - Pump, pump - Fredi & Friends
12.(15) 24 points - Portugal - Uma flor de verde pinho - Carlos do Carmo
13.(10) 20 points - Greece - Panayia mu, Panayia mu - Mariza Koch
14.(5) 17 points - Luxembourg - Chansons pour ceux qui s'aiment - Jürgen Marcus
15.(3) 12 points - Germany - Sing, Sang, Song - Les Humphries Singers
16.(12) 11 points - Spain - Sobran las palabras - Braulio
17.(18) 10 points - Yugoslavia - Ne mogu skriti svoj bol - Ambasadori
18.(9) 07 points - Norway - Mata Hari - Anne Karine Strøm
For the fourth time the contest was held in London. The contest marked the last time to date that France has won the contest. The Swarbriggs returned (Plus Two) for Ireland two years after their first appearance. Michèle Torr returned this time for Monaco 11 years after she represented Luxembourg. Anita Skorgan made the first of her 4 appearances (once in duet with Jahn Teigen once as an uncredited backing vocalist for Teigen). Ilanit returned for Israel, Mia Martini made her first appearance for Italy returning 15 years later, Monica Aspelund represented Finland 6 years later her sister followed. The main talking point was the language rule which was reinstated shortly before the contest. However as both Belgium and Germany had already chosen their entries they were allowed to stay in English. It would not be for another 22 years that the language rule once again disappeared.
RESULTS
1.(18 ) 136 points - France - L'oiseau et l'enfant - Marie Myriam
2.(9) 121 points - United Kingdom - Rock Bottom - Lynsey de Paul & Mike Moran
3.(1) 119 points - Ireland - It's Nice To Be In Love Again - The Swarbriggs plus Two
4.(2) 96 points - Monaco - Une petite Française - Michèle Torr
5.(10) 92 points - Greece - Mathema Solfege - Pascalis, Marianna, Robert & Bessy
6.(12) 71 points - Switzerland - Swiss Lady - Pepe Leinhard Band
7.(17) 69 points - Belgium - A Million In One, Two, Three - Dream Express
8.(6) 55 points - Germany - Telegram - Silver Convention
9.(14) 52 points - Spain - Enséñame a cantar - Micky
10.(16) 50 points - Finland - Lapponia - Monica Aspelund
11.(11) 49 points - Israel - Ahava hi shir lishnayim - Ilanit
12.(3) 35 points - Netherlands - De mallemolen - Heddy Lester
13.(16) 33 points - Italy - Libera - Mia Martini
14.(5) 18 points - Norway - Casanova - Anita Skorgan
(8 ) 18 points - Portugal - Portugal no coração - Os Amigos
16.(7) 17 points - Luxembourg - Frère Jacques - Anne-Marie B
17.(4) 11 points - Austria - Boom Boom Boomerang - Schmetterlinge
18.(13) 2 points - Sweden - Beatles - Forbes
The 1978 contest was the largest to date with 20 entries and produced one of the most controversial winners ever. The Israeli delegation threatened to pull the song from the contest citing it as "a ridiculous children's song". The legitmacy of Israel participating in the event had often been discussed, as geographically it is not in Europe, although it met all the criteria for participating. Whatever the arguments the Israeli entry romped to victory beating the returning Jean Vallée into 2nd place (which was Belgium's best placing to date). Luxembourg decided to ask Spanish superstars Baccara to sing their entry (in heavily accented French it failed to impress). Ireen Sheer returned to the contest this time for Germany. Denmark returned to the contest after 13 years away. The United Kingdom finished outside the top 10 for the first time ever. However the most famous and talked about moments in the contest was the 0 points "scored" by Norway's Jahn Teigen. Thanks to Teigen (and subsequently Finn Kalvik) Norway became synonymous with 0 points.
RESULTS
1.(18 ) 157 points - Israel - A-Ba-Ni-Bi - Izhar Cohen and the Alpha Beta
2.(10) 125 points - Belgium - L'amour ça fait chanter la vie - Jean Vallée
3.(6) 119 points - France - Il y aura toujours des violons - Joël Prevost
4.(14) 107 points - Monaco - Les jardins de Monaco - Caline & Olivier Toussaint
5.(1) 86 points - Ireland - Born To Sing - Colm T Wilkinson
6.(13) 84 points - Germany - Feuer - Ireen Sheer
7.(17) 73 points - Luxembourg - Parlez-vouz Français? - Baccara
8.(15) 66 points - Greece - Charlie Chaplin - Tania Tsanaklidou
9.(7) 65 points - Spain - Bailemos un vals - José Vélez
(9) 65 points - Switzerland - Vivre - Carole Vinci
11.(8 ) 61 points - United Kingdom - The Bad Old Days - Co-co
12.(3) 53 points - Italy - Questo Amore - Ricchi e Poveri
13.(11) 37 points - Netherlands - 't Is OK - Harmony
14.(20) 26 points - Sweden - Det blir alltid värre framåt natten - Björn Skiffs
15.(19) 14 points - Austria - Mrs Caroline Robinson - Springtime
16.(16) 13 points - Denmark - Boom Boom - Mabel
17.(5) 5 points - Portugal - Dai Li Dou - Gemini
18.(4) 2 points - Finland - Anna rakkaudelle tilaisuus - Seija Simola
(12) 2 points - Turkey - Sevince - Nilüfer & Nazar
20. (2) 0 points - Norway - Mil Etter Mil - Jahn Teigen
The 1979 contest was the first to be held somewhere considered to be outside of Europe. It produced one of the closest contests since the 4 way tie of 1969. With 2 voters left Israel were on 107 points and Spain were on 106 points, however with the Spanish still to vote a lot would ride on the votes of the Austrian jury. When they awarded 8 to Israel and 10 to Spain the Spaniard's took the lead - it would all rest on their own votes. Rumours have been rife ever since that the Spanish jury changed their votes at the last minute to ensure that they didn't win due to the costs of holding the contest. This has never been substantiated though and remains a rumour. Israel became the 3rd country to retain the title and the first not to defend it withdrawing from the 1980 contest. Anne-Marie David returned to the contest 6 years after winning this time representing her home country, France. Tommy Seebach made the first of his 3 appearances for Denmark, Katri Helena her first of 2 for Finland. Peter, Sue & Marc were back again this time in German and with Pfuri, Gorps & Kniri and assorted kitchen and garden items. Sandra Reemer was back for her 3rd and final attempt for the Netherlands, this time called Xandra. Monaco made their last appearance for a quarter of a century eventually returning in the 2004 Semi-Final.
Results
1.(10) 125 points - Israel - Hallelujah - Milk & Honey featuring Gali Atari
2.(19) 116 points - Spain - Su canción - Betty Missiego
3.(11) 106 points - France - Je suis l'enfant soleil - Anne-Marie David
4.(9) 86 points - Germany - Dschingis Khan - Dschingis Khan
5.(4) 80 points - Ireland - Happy Man - Cathal Dunne
6.(3) 76 points - Denmark - Disco Tango - Tommy Seebach
7.(17) 73 points - United Kingdom - Mary Ann - Black Lace
8.(7) 69 points - Greece - Sokrati - Elpida
9.(1) 64 points - Portugal - Sobe, sobe, balão sobe - Manuela Bravo
10.(8 ) 60 points - Switzerland - Trödler & co. - Peter, Sue & Marc + Pfuri, Gorps & Kniri
11.(16) 57 points - Norway - Oliver - Anita Skorgan
12.(14) 51 points - Netherlands - Colorado - Xandra
13.(13) 44 points - Luxembourg - J'ai déjà vu ça dans tes yeux - Jeanne Manson
14.(5) 38 points - Finland - Katson sineen taivaan - Katri Helena
15.(2) 27 points - Italy - Raggio da luna - Mattia Bazar
16.(6) 12 points - Monaco - Notre vie c'est la musique - Jean Baudlot
17.(15) 8 points - Sweden - Sattelit - Ted Gärdestad
18.(12) 5 points - Belgium - Hey Nana - Micha Marah
(18 ) 5 points - Austria - Heute in Jerusalem - Christina Simon
Eurovision Song Contest in the '80s
The 25th Eurovision song contest was an historical contest for many reasons. Israel withdrew from the contest because it was scheduled for a holy day. It's the only time that the defending champions have not defended their title. Their place was taken by Morocco - so far the only African nation to take part. Their debut was not a good one with only Italy giving them any points at all. It was also the first contest in which Greece and Turkey took part together. Eurovision's two most successful artists took part and finished 1st and 2nd. For Johnny Logan it was the first of 2 victories as an artist. For Katja Ebstein it was her 3rd participation and her 3rd top 3 finish. There were a couple of returning artists. Paolo del Medico returned 11 years after her debut and improved her position to 4th. Maggie MacNeal had lost the Mouth from 1974 and finished 2 places lower than in 1974 in 5th. Anna Vissi made her first appearance for Greece 26 years before her 2nd appearance for Greece (she appeared for Cyprus in 1982 as well). Norway and Belgium battled it out for the weirdest entry of the year. The Norwegian entry was a homage to Lapland and started quite sensibly until a bizarrely dressed man appeared singing "hey noni" or something like that. The Belgian entry was a homage to Eurovision itself. Both were bizarre and both failed miserably. Luxembourg had the most ridiculous entry however and a performance which included a man (Ralph Siegel no less) in a penguin suit.
Results
1.(17) 143 points - Ireland - What's Another Year? - Johnny Logan
2.(12) 128 points - Germany - Theater - Katja Ebstein
3.(13) 106 points - United Kingdom - Love Enough For Two - Prima Donna
4.(9) 104 points - Switzerland - Cinéma - Paola
5.(15) 93 points - Netherlands - Amsterdam - Maggie MacNeal
6.(6) 87 points - Italy - Non so che darei - Alan Sorrenti
7.(14) 71 points - Portugal - Um grande, grande amor - José Cid
8.(1) 64 points - Austria - Du bist Musik - Blue Danube
9.(4) 56 points - Luxembourg - Le papa pingouin - Sophie & Magaly
10.(8 ) 47 points - Sweden - Just Nu - Tomas Ledin
11.(16) 45 points - France - Hé hé m'sieurs dames - Profil
12.(18 ) 38 points - Spain - Quedate esta noche - Trigo Limpio
13.(3) 30 points - Greece - Autostop - Anna Vissi & The Epikouri
14.(7) 25 points - Denmark - Tænker altid på dig - Bamses Venner
15.(2) 23 points - Turkey - Pet'r Oil - Ajda Pekkan
16.(11) 15 points - Norway - Sámiid Ædnan - Sverre Kjelsberg & Mattis Hætta
17.(19) 14 points - Belgium - Eurovision - Telex
18.(7) 7 points - Morocco - Bitakat Hob - Samira Bensaid
19.(10) 6 points - Finland - Huilumies - Vesa-Matti Liori
The 1981 contest was the 2nd to be held in Dublin. Austria opened the contest for the second consecutive year represented by Marty Brem who had been part of the Austrian group the previous year. They were once again followed on stage by Turkey. Singing 4th was former winner Jean-Claude Pascal returning 20 years after his victory. His song was more suited to 1961 than 1981 but he finished a respectable 11th. Israel returned to the contest having missed 1980 and we welcomed Cyprus to the contest. Amongst the other returning contestants was Cheryl Baker who had been part of Coco in 1978 which was the UK's worst place song to date. She more than made up for that disappointment. Also returning, for the 4th time and in their 4th language, were Peter, Sue & Marc. Björn Skifs was making his 2nd appearance for Sweden. Tommy Seebach was making the 2nd of his 3 appearances for Denmark. The 4 countries who had scored 100+ points in 1980 all did so again and were joined by France. Norway scored 0 points again. Italy were absent from the contest. The voting produced one of the funniest and most famous moments in ESC history when host Doireamm Mo Bhriain called for the Yugoslav jury's votes. There was complete silence. She kept trying and trying to reach them. Eventually contact was made and Doireann asked for the scores to which the Yugoslav spokesperson snapped "I don't have them!". The audience erupted into laughter. The voting was close all the way through. With only 2 countries left to vote The UK, Germany and Switzerland were all tied on 120 points and France were a further 17 points behind. It was looking unlikely that the Swiss would win as they were one of the countries left to vote. The Swiss jury gave nothing to Germany, 8 to the UK and 12 to France to leave the scores as UK 128, Germany 120, Switzerland 120, France 115. It was down to the Swedish votes. Switzerland were out of the running straight away getting only 1 point. The votes proceeded until 8 without any of the other challengers getting anything. When the Swedish gave 8 points to the UK victory was theirs, despite 10 for France and 12 for Germany.
Results
1.(14) 136 points - United Kingdom - Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz
2.(3) 132 points - Germany - Johnny Blue - Lena Valaitis
3.(9) 125 points - France - Humanahum - Jean Gabilou
4.(19) 121 points - Switzerland - Io senza te - Peter, Sue & Marc
5.(12) 105 points - Ireland - Horoscopes - Sheeba
6.(18 ) 69 points - Cyprus - Monika - Island
7.(5) 56 points - Israel - Halayla - Hakol Over Habibi
8.(17) 55 points - Greece - Fengari Kalokerino - Yiannis Dimitras
9.(11) 51 points - Netherlands - Het is een wonder - Linda Williams
10.(20) 50 points - Sweden - Fångad i en dröm - Björn Skifs
11.(4) 41 points - Luxembourg - C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique - Jean-Claude Pascal
(6) 41 points - Denmark - Krøller eller ej - Tommy Seebach & Debbie Cameron
13.(16) 40 points - Belgium - Samson - Emly Starr
14.(10) 38 points - Spain - Y sólo tú - Bacchelli
15.(7) 35 points - Yugoslavia - Lejla - Seid-Memi? Vajta
16.(8 ) 27 points - Finland - Reggae OK - Riki Sorsa
17.(1) 20 points - Austria - Wenn du da bist - Marty Brem
18.(2) 9 points - Turkey - Dönme Dolap - Modern Folk Üçlüsü & Aysegül Aldinç
(15) 9 points - Portugal - Play-Back - Carlos Paião
20.(13) 0 points - Norway - Aldri i livet - Finn Kalvik
For reasons best known only to themselves the BBC chose the small town of Harrogate as the venue for the 1982 contest. Trailers before the contest were asking the question "Where is Harrogate?" - the same question that must have crossed the minds of most people watching the contest. It certainly must have crossed the minds of the French authorities who withdrew from the contest calling it "A monument to drivel". The most noticable thing about the contest was short titles and artists names. 13 of the artists had only 1 name, 5 songs had only 1 word titles and a further 2 had 2 word titles which were 1 word repeated. Perseverance finally paid off for Ralph Seigel & Germany. Having written the German entries from 1976, 1979, 1980 and 1981 as well as the Luxembourg entries from 1974 and 1980 he finally got his victory. Jahn Teigen returned to the contest 4 years after his humiliating 0 points in Paris and teamed up with 2 time former contestant Anita Skorgan. The female half of the British duo, Bardo, was a member of Prima Donna 2 years previously. Anna Vissi appeared for her native Cyprus 2 years after and 24 years before appearing for Greece. Finland ended with 0 points despite the positive message of the song. The voting was one sided right from the very beginning as the German song held the lead right from the first votes except for the 2nd set of votes in which Luxembourg ignored the German entry completely (the only country to do so) and by giving 10 to Israel briefly gave them the lead. The winning margin of 61 points was absolutely huge and remained the largest points victory for 15 years.
Results
1.(18 ) 161 points - Germany - Ein bißchen Frieden - Nicole
2.(15) 100 points - Israel - Hora - Avi Toledano
3.(7) 97 points - Switzerland - Amour on t'aime - Arlette Zola
4.(11) 96 points - Belgium - Si tu aimes ma musique - Stella
5.(8 ) 85 points - Cyprus - Mono i agapi - Anna Vissi
6.(2) 78 points - Luxembourg - Cours après le temps - Svetlana
7.(4) 76 points - United Kingdom - One Step Further - Bardo
8.(9) 67 points - Sweden - Dag efter dag - Chips
9.(10) 57 points - Austria - Sonntag - Mess
10.(12) 52 points - Spain - Él - Lucia
11.(17) 49 points - Ireland - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow - The Duskeys
12.(3) 40 points - Norway - Adieu - Jahn Teigen & Anita Skorgan
13.(1) 32 points - Portugal - Bem Bom - Doce
14.(14) 21 points - Yugoslavia - Halo, Halo - Aska
15.(5) 20 points - Turkey - Hani? - Neco
16.(16) 8 points - Netherlands - Jij en ik - Bill van Dijk
17.(13) 5 points - Denmark - Video, video - Brixx
18.(6) 0 points - Finland - Nuku pommiin - Kojo
The 1983 contest started with the longest introduction on record being conducted in 3 languages. Staged in what looked like a giant barn the contest itself was fairly forgettable. The winning song was the first winner since the Spanish, Dutch and French winners from 1969 not to hit the chart in the UK. Israel came 2nd for the 2nd consecutive year represented by one of Eurovision's most successful artists, Ofra Haza. Carola represented Sweden for the first of 3 times. Jahn Teigen returned for the 3rd time and finally finished in the top 10. Ami Aspelund represented Finland 6 years after her sister. Guy Bonnet returned for France 13 years after his first appearance. Mariella Farre made the first of her 2 appearances for Switzerland. For the first time since 1966 2 songs finished on 0 points. The Turkish entry was quite frankly bizarre starting as a ballad, changing into a Dixieland number, before going operatic and finishing in a dramatic climax. It was doomed to failure. Following the Turkish entry on stage was a brave entry from Spain. Totally ethnic and sung by a lady wearing a blanket it was equally doomed to fail.
Results
1.(20) 142 points - Luxembourg - Si la vie est cadeau - Corinne Hermès
2.(16) 136 points - Israel - Khay - Ofra Haza
3.(4) 126 points - Sweden - Främling - Carola
4.(12) 125 points - Yugoslavia - Džuli - Danijel
5.(14) 94 points - Germany - Rücksicht - Hoffmann & Hoffmann
6.(3) 79 points - United Kingdom - I'm Never Giving Up - Sweet Dreams
7.(11) 66 points - Netherlands - Sing Me A Song - Bernadette
8.(1) 56 points - France - Vivre - Guy Bonnet
9.(2) 53 points - Norway - Do Re Mi - Jahn Teigen
(18 ) 53 points - Austria - Hurricane - Westend
11.(5) 41 points - Italy - Per Lucia - Riccardo Fogli
(9) 41 points - Finland - Fantasiaa - Ami Aspelund
13.(17) 33 points - Portugal - Esta balada que te dou - Armando Gama
14.(10) 32 points - Greece - Mou Les - Christie Stassinopolou
15.(8 ) 28 points - Switzerland - Io cosi non ci sto - Mariella Farré
16.(13) 26 points - Cyprus - I agapi akoma zi - Stavros & Constantina
17.(15) 16 points - Denmark - Gloden drejer - Gry
18.(19) 13 points - Belgium - Rendez-vous - Pas de Deux
19.(6) 0 points - Turkey - Opera - Cetin Alp & The Short Wave
(7) 0 points - Spain - Quien maneja mi barca - Remedios Amaya
For the 4th and final time the small state of Luxembourg held the contest. The host Desirée Nosbusch was only 19 and remains the youngest host ever. Sweden opened the contest with a very slick performance of a very ordinary song, but swept to victory. With the 1983 winner being performed last and the 1984 winner being performed last it was the 2nd time (after 1969 when the UK and Dutch entries were performed consecutively) that winning songs had been performed consecutively albeit 12 months apart Smiley. This years UK entry was booed by the crowd due to English football fans running riot in Luxembourg the previous autumn. Mary Roos returned for Germany 12 years after finishing 3rd. The Irish entry was written by 1980 winner Johnny Logan and sung by Linda Martin who would return 8 years later to win with another Logan written song. Hot Eyes made the first of 3 appearances for Denmark. Turkey managed their best finish to date finishing 12th. The voting was quite close. With Portugal the final country to vote, Sweden lead Ireland by 6 points. The tension didn't last long as Portugal only awarded Ireland 2 points and Sweden's second victory was assured.
Results
1.(1) 145 points - Sweden - Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley - The Herreys
2.(9) 137 points - Ireland - Terminal Three - Linda Martin
3.(4) 106 points - Spain - Lady, lady - Bravo
4.(10) 101 points - Denmark - Det lige det - Hot Eyes
5.(8 ) 70 points - Belgium - Avanti la vie - Jacques Zegers
(18 ) 70 points - Italy - I treni di Tozeur - Alice & Franco Battiato
7.(6) 63 points - United Kingdom - Love Games - Belle & The Devotions
8.(3) 61 points - France - Autant d'amoureux que d'étoiles - Annick Thomazeau
9.(16) 46 points - Finland - Hengaillaan - Kirka
10.(2) 39 points - Luxembourg - 100% d'amour - Sophie Carle
11.(19) 38 points - Portugal - Silencio e tanta gente - Maria Guinot
12.(15) 37 points - Turkey - Halay - Bes Yil Önce, On Yil Sonra
13.(11) 34 points - Netherlands - Ik hou van jou - Maribelle
(14) 34 points - Germany - Aufrecht geh'n - Mary Roos
15.(7) 31 points - Cyprus - Anna Maria Elena - Andy Paul
16.(17) 30 points - Switzerland - Welche Farbe hat der Sonnenschein? - Rainy Day
17.(5) 29 points - Norway - Lenge Leve Livet - Dollie de Luxe
18.(12) 26 points - Yugoslavia - Ciao amore - Vlado & Isolda
19.(13) 5 points - Austria - Einfach Weg - Anita
Sweden held the contest 10 for the 2nd time 10 years after they first hosted it. Former contestant Lill Lindfors presented the show and provided the most memorable moment in the show as well. When coming onto the stage to present the votes she "caught" her dress on something and the skirt ripped away from the top leaving her showing off her shapely legs. She looked embarrassed but proceeded to unravel her top to reveal a long white gown. Lill was not the only person to return to the contest. The winning song was performed by Bobbysocks who were made up of Hanne Krogh, who had represented Norway in 1971, and Elisabeth Andreassen, who had been half of the duo Chips who represented Sweden in 1982. The other half of Chips was Kikki Danielsson who represented Sweden as a solo artist in 1985. Wind represented Germany for the first of 3 appearances. Izhar Cohen returned 7 years after his victory. Al Bano & Romina Power returned for Italy after a 9 year gap and once again finished 7th. Gary Lux made the first of 2 consecutive appearances for Austria. Hot Eyes were back for Denmark, and Mariella Farre returned for Switzerland this time accompanied by Pino Gasparini. Ireen Sheer came back for a third time and was joined by 5 others to form the internationals. MFO appeared for the first of their 2 entries for Turkey. Lia Vissi represented Cyprus as her sister Anna had 3 years previously.
Results
1.(13) 123 points - Norway - La det swinge - Bobbysocks
2.(10) 105 points - Germany - Für alle - Wind
3.(16) 103 points - Sweden - Bra vibrationer - Kikki Danielsson
4.(14) 100 points - United Kingdom - Love Is... - Vikki
5.(11) 93 points - Israel - Olé, olé - Izhar Cohen
6.(1) 91 points - Ireland - Wait Until The Weekend Comes - Maria Christian
7.(12) 78 points - Italy - Magic Oh Magic - Al Bano & Romina Power
8.(17) 60 points - Austria - Kinder dieser Welt - Gary Lux
9.(2) 58 points - Finland - Eläköön elämä - Sonja Lumme
10.(5) 56 points - France - Femme dans ses rêves aussi - Roger Bens
11.(4) 41 points - Denmark - Sku' du spørg' fra no'en? - Hot Eyes
12.(15) 39 points - Switzerland - Piano, Piano - Mariella Farre & Pino Gasparini
13.(18 ) 37 points - Luxembourg - Children, Kinder, Enfants - Margo, Franck Oliver, Chris Roberts, Malcolm Roberts, Ireen Sheer & Diane Solomon
14.(6) 36 points - Spain - La fiesta termino - Paloma san Basilio
(7) 36 points - Turkey - Didai, didai, dai - MFÖ
16.(3) 15 points - Cyprus - To katalava arga - Lia Vissi
(19) 15 points - Greece - Miazoume - Takis Binaris
18.(9) 9 points - Portugal - Penso em ti, eu sei - Adelaide
19.(8 ) 7 points - Belgium - Laat me nu gaan - Linda Lepomme
The most northerly contest to date saw the introduction of Europe's most northerly country as Iceland joined for the first time. Former contestant Ase Klevelund returned, via politics, to host the contest following from fellow 1966 contestant Lill Lindfors who'd hosted the previous contest. As for the contestants themselves ther was only 1 of them returning for a second go. Elpida had represented Greece in 1979, when she finished 8th. In 1986 with a weaker song (so weak in fact that she was refusing to sing it almost until the moment she was due on stage), and no Greece to give them points she finished last. Although she was the only returnee there were others making their first appearances. Yugoslavia's Doris Dragovic would return 13 years later once the country had separated and represent her native Croatia. Ketil Stokkan represented the home country to a respectable 12 and would return 4 years later to come last. Dora appeared for the first of her 2 appearances for Portugal also doing much better first time round than she did on her return 2 years later. A member of the Icelandic group ICY was Eiríkur Hauksson who returned 5 years later as a member of Just4Fun representing Norway and a further 16 years after that he was back representing Iceland as a soloist. Half of the Swedish duo, Lasse Holm had composed the 1982, 1983 and 1985 Swedish entries but had not been an artist previously. Israel had their worst result to date. Turkey finished in the top 10 for the first time 11 years after their debut - they would wait another 11 years before they returned to the top 10. Belgium were the only members of the original 7 contestants not to have won the contest. This was rectified this year with a resounding victory with the highest score to date. Despite saying in the lyrics of the song that she was 15, Belgian singer Sandra Kim was actually only 13. She is (and will always remain due to age restrictions implemented after the 1989 contest) the youngest ESC winner.
Results
1.(13) 176 points - Belgium - J'aime la vie - Sandra Kim
2.(10) 140 points - Switzerland - Pas pour moi - Daniela Simons
3.(1) 117 points - Luxembourg - L'amour de ma vie - Sherisse Laurence
4.(12) 96 points - Ireland - You Can Count On Me - Luv Bug
5.(17) 78 points - Sweden - E' de' det här du kallar kärlek? - Monica Törnell & Lasse Holm
6.(18 ) 77 points - Denmark - Du er fuld af løgn - Trax
7.(5) 72 points - United Kingdom - Runner In The Night - Ryder
8.(14) 62 points - Germany - Über die Brücke geh'n - Ingrid Peters
9.(8 ) 53 points - Turkey - Halley - Klips ve Onlar
10.(9) 51 points - Spain - Valentino - Cadillac
11.(2) 49 points - Yugoslavia - Željo Moja - Doris Dragovi?
12.(4) 44 points - Norway - Romeo - Ketil Stokkan
13.(7) 40 points - Netherlands - Alles heeft ritme - Frizzle Sizzle
14.(20) 28 points - Portugal - Não sejas mau para mim - Dora
15.(19) 22 points - Finland - Never The End - Kari
16.(6) 19 points - Iceland - Gleidibankinn - ICY
17.(3) 13 points - France - Européennes - Cocktail Chic
18.(16) 12 points - Austria - Die Zeit ist einsam - Timna Brauer
19.(11) 7 points - Israel - Yavo Yom - Moti Giladi & Sarai Tzuriel
20.(15) 4 points - Cyprus - Tora Zo - Elpida
The only contest to be held in Belgium was historic for quite a few reasons. Johnny Logan returned to the contest 7 years after his victory in The Hague and did exactly the same thing again....scored a victory with Germany in 2nd place. The 2nd place was historic in itself with Wind returning 2 years after coming 2nd in Gothenburg, albeit with some personnel changes. It was the first (and to date only) time that the top 2 places were taken by 2 artists who had previously finished in the same position. The only other returning artist was Austria's Gary Lux who fared a lot worse than he had done 2 year's previously. The United Kingdom finished outside of the top 10 for only the 2nd time and had it's lowest position to date. 70's punk star Plastic Bertrand tried to resurrect his career by representing Luxembourg and failed miserably. Turkey scored their 2nd 0 points in 4 years. Sweden had to change the title of their song as the original title had "Coca-Cola" in it and the EBU did not approve.
Results
1.(20) 172 points - Ireland - Hold Me Now - Johnny Logan
2.(16) 141 points - Germany - Lass die Sonne in dein Herz - Wind
3.(7) 103 points - Italy - Gente di mare - Umberto Tozzi & Raf
4.(21) 92 points - Yugoslavia - Ja sam za ples - Novi Fosili
5.(12) 83 points - Netherlands - Rechtop in de Wind - Marcha
(19) 83 points - Denmark - En lille melodi - Anne-Cathrine Herdorf & Bandjo
7.(17) 80 points - Cyprus - Aspro mavro - Alexia
8.(2) 73 points - Israel - Shir ha'batlanim - Lazy Bums
9.(1) 65 points - Norway - Mitt Liv - Kate
10.(11) 64 points - Greece - Stop![/b] - Bang
11.(5) 56 points - Belgium - Soldiers Of Love - Lilianne St Pierre
12.(6) 50 points - Sweden - Boogaloo - Lotta Engberg
13.(14) 47 points - United Kingdom - Only The Light - Rikki
14.(15) 44 points - France - Les mots d'amour n'ont pas de dimanche - Christine Minier
15.(18 ) 32 points - Finland - Sata salamaa - Vicky Rosti
16.(4) 28 points - Iceland - Hægt og hljótt - Halla Margret
17.(22) 26 points - Switzerland - Moitié-moitié - Carol Rich
18.(8 ) 15 points - Portugal - Neste barco a velo - Nevada
19.(9) 10 points - Spain - Ne estas solo - Patricia Kraus
20.(3) 8 points - Austria - Nur noch Gefühl - Gary Lux
21.(13) 4 points - Luxembourg - Amour, amour - Plastic Bertrand
22.(10) 0 points - Turkey - Sarkim sevgi üstüne - Seyyal Taner & Grup Lokomotif
The 1988 contest was the 3rd to be held in Dublin and produced one of the most successful winning artists ever, although it was not her winning that catapulted her to stardom. There were a host of returning stars in this contest. Yardena Arazi became the first person to be a contestant (as part of Chocolate Menta Mastik in 1976), then a host (in 1979) and then a contestant again. She only agreed to take part after visiting a clairvoyant who told her that the song drawn 9th would win the contest. Israel had been drawn 9th so Yardena was convinced she would win. However Cyprus (who'd been drawn 2nd) withdrew when it became evident that their entry was a reworking of a song from their 1984 national final. The clairvoyant was proved correct as with Cyprus' withdrawal Switzerland were moved up to 9th in the draw. Also returning for another go were Hot Eyes, with a heavily pregnant Kirsten, for Denmark. Their 3rd and final attempt finished 3rd. Tommy Körberg returned after 19 years. MFÖ returned 3 years after their 1st appearance. Dora returned for Portugal and faired worse than she had done 2 years previously in Bergen. Iceland finished 16th for the 3rd consecutive year. Austria finished with 0 points for their first time in 26 years. The voting was close throughout, but it was clear it was a 2 horse race very early on. With only the votes of the Yugoslav jury to come the United Kingdom was 5 points ahead of Switzerland. When Yugoslavia gave 6 to Switzerland it put them 1 point ahead. They then proceeded to give 7 to the Netherlands, 8 to Germany & 10 to Norway. It was down to the final vote - if Yugoslavia gave the UK 12 it would be a British victory, if they didn't the Swiss would win. When the 12 points went to France the Swiss began to celebrate.
Results
1.(9) 137 points - Switzerland - Ne partez pas sans moi - Celine Dion
2.(4) 136 points - United Kingdom - Go - Scott Fitzgerald
3.(13) 92 points - Denmark - Ka du se hva' jeg sa' - Hot Eyes
4.(17) 90 points - Luxembourg - Croire - Lara Fabian
5.(15) 88 points - Norway - For vår jord - Karoline Krüger
6.(21) 87 points - Yugoslavia - Mangup - Srebrna Krila
7.(8 ) 85 points - Israel - Ben Adam - Yardena Arazi
8.(10) 79 points - Ireland - Take Him Home - Jump The Gun
9.(7) 70 points - Netherlands - Shangri-La - Gerard Joling
10.(19) 64 points - France - Chanteur de charme - Gerard Lenorman
11.(6) 58 points - Spain - La chica que yo quiero (Made In Spain) - La Decada Prodigioso
12.(2) 52 points - Sweden - Stad i ljus - Tommy Körberg
(18 ) 52 points - Italy - Ti scrivo - Luca Barbarossa
14.(11) 48 points - Germany - Lied für einen Freund - Maxi & Chris Garden
15.(5) 37 points - Turkey - Sufi - MFÖ
16.(1) 20 points - Iceland - Sokrates - Beathoven
17.(14) 10 points - Greece - Clown - Afrodite Fryda
18.(16) 5 points - Belgium - Laissez briller le soleil - Reynaert
(20) 5 points - Portugal - Voltarei - Dora
20.(3) 3 points - Finland - Nauravat silmät muistetaan - Boulevard
21.(12) 0 points - Austria - Lisa, Mona Lisa - Wilfried
Eurovision returned "home" for the first time since the inaugral contest. Celine Dion broke the mould by not only reprising her winner but also her new single at the start of the show. The contest itself did not have a single returning artist in it but there were 2 artists making their first of 2 appearances. Thomas Forstner equalled Austria's best finish since their victory finishing 5th, he would fare a lot less well on his return 2 years later. Mariana Efstratiou had been a backing singer for Greece in 1987 but this was her first appearance as a soloist. She also fared less well on her return 7 years later. The main talking point of the contest was the age of the contestants. Half of the Israeli duo was 12 years old, as was the French contestant. In subsequent years the EBU enforced an age limit on contestants stating that they had to be 16 or over. The voting was completely one-sided. Despite getting 0 from the Italians who voted first, Yugoslavia took the lead after the 3rd set of votes and was never challenged after that. Iceland finally moved from the 16th place they'd occupied since their debut - finishing last with 0 points.
Results
1.(22) 137 points - Yugoslavia - Rock Me - Riva
2.(7) 130 points - United Kingdom - Why Do I Always Get It Wrong? - Live Report
3.(12) 111 points - Denmark - Vi maler byen rød - Birthe Kjær
4.(10) 110 points - Sweden - En dag - Tommy Nilsson
5.(13) 97 points - Austria - Nur ein Lied - Thomas Forstner
6.(16) 88 points - Spain - Nacida para amar - Nina
7.(14) 76 points - Finland - La dolce vita - Anneli Saaristo
8.(15) 60 points - France - J'ai volé la vie - Nathalie Pâque
9.(1) 56 points - Italy - Avrei voluto - Anna Oxa & Fausto Leali
(19) 56 points - Greece - To diko sou asteri - Mariana
11.(17) 51 points - Cyprus - Apopse as vrethoume - Fani Polymeri & Yiannis Savvidakis
12.(2) 50 points - Israel - Derekh Hamelekh - Gili & Galit
13.(18 ) 47 points - Switzerland - Viver senza tei - Furbaz
14.(21) 46 points - Germany - Flieger - Nino de Angelo
15.(4) 45 points - Netherlands - Blijf zoals je bent - Justine Pelmelay
16.(9) 39 points - Portugal - Conquistador - Da Vinci
17.(8 ) 30 points - Norway - Venners nærhet - Britt Synnøve
18.(3) 21 points - Ireland - The Real Me - Kiev Connolly and the Missing Passengers
19.(6) 13 points - Belgium - Door de wind - Ingeborg
20.(11) 8 points - Luxembourg - Monsieur - Park Café
21.(5) 5 points - Turkey - Bana Bana - Grup Pan
22.(20) 0 points - Iceland - Pao sem enginn ser - Daniel
Eurovision Song Contest in the '90s
With the country in turmoil and on the brink of war a lot of countries seized the opportunity to send songs with messages of unity, peace and understanding. The success of these messages covered the entire scoreboard from 1st to last. The contest got off to a false start as the singers for the Spanish entry walked off stage because they couldn't hear the backing track. In a clever move considering the location the Italian entry used former Yugoslav entrants Pepel in Kri (1975) as his backing group. Ketil Stokkan returned for Norway 4 years after coming 12th he fared a lot less well this time around finishing equal last. Icelandic duo Stjornin returned a couple of years later as members of Heart2Heart. The female half, Sigga, returned again a further 2 years later as a solo artist. Serge Gainsbourg was back for a final attempt to win again as a composer this time as composer of the French entry. The voting was uneventful with Italy taking the lead with the first set of votes. They relinquished for a while to Ireland after the Icelandic votes only to regain it after the Irish failed to help their own cause by awarding Italy their 12 points. Italy were more helpful to their own cause by completely ignoring both the Irish and French entries.
Results
1.(19) 149 points - Italy - Insieme:1992 - Toto Cutugno
2.(14) 132 points - France - White & Black Blues - Joëlle Ursull
(17) 132 points - Ireland - Somewhere In Europe - Liam Reilly
4.(8 ) 124 points - Iceland - Eitt lag enn - Stjornin
5.(1) 96 points - Spain - Bandido - Azucar Moreno
6.(7) 87 points - United Kingdom - Give A Little Love Back To The World - Emma
7.(15) 81 points - Yugoslavia - Hadje da ludujemo - Tajci
8.(11) 64 points - Denmark - Hallo, Hallo - Lonnie Devantier
9.(13) 60 points - Germany - Frei zu leben - Chris Kempers & Daniel Kovac
10.(20) 58 points - Austria - Keine Mauern mehr - Simone
11.(12) 51 points - Switzerland - Musik klingt in die Welt hinaus - Egon Egemann
12.(3) 46 points - Belgium - Macédomienne - Phillipe Lafontaine
13.(6) 38 points - Luxembourg - Quand je te rêve - Céline Carzo
14.(21) 36 points - Cyprus - Milas Poli - Haris Anastasiou
15.(5) 25 points - Netherlands - Ik wil alles met je delen - Maywood
16.(18 ) 24 points - Sweden - Som en vind - Edin-Ådahl
17.(4) 21 points - Turkey - Gözlerinin hapsindeyim - Kayahan
18.(10) 16 points - Israel - Shara Barkhovot - Rita
19.(2) 11 points - Greece - Horis Skopo - Christos Callow
20.(16) 9 points - Portugal - Há sempre alguém - Nucha
21.(9) 8 points - Norway -Brandenburger Tor - Ketil Stokkan
(22) 8 points - Finland - Fri? - Beat
Italy's 2 former winners returned to present the show. 1964 winner Gigliola Cinquetti and the previous years winner Toto Cutugno were chosen as the presenters, with varying degrees of success. Gigliola was professional if a little reserved, Toto was a complete shambles prompting UK commentator to comment "it was a black day when he won last year". It was not only Toto who made a mess of things though. The orchestra was causing problems not least for the Greek entry where a saxophone solo appeared to be played by someone who'd never played the instrument before. Carola returned for Sweden hoping to improve on her 3rd place of 8 years earlier. Norwegian group Just4Fun included Hanne Krogh, who'd been a soloist in the 1971 contest and a member of winner Bobbysocks in 1985, and Eirukur Haukson who'd been a member of ICY for Iceland in 1986 and would return as a soloist in 2007 again for Iceland. Malta returned to the contest after a 16 year break. Austria finished on 0 points for the 2nd time in 4 years with Thomas Forstner hoping to repeat or improve his 5th place of 3 years ago failing miserably. The voting was fascinating all the way through. Israel took an early lead until the Austrian votes handed the lead to France. Luxembourg voting next then handed the lead to Spain. It was looking like a close fight between Israel and Spain. However as votes for the Spanish appeared to dwindle and the votes for the Israelis stayed steady the votes for Sweden and France were getting bigger. With only Italy left to vote the scores showed Sweden in the lead with 146, Israel were 2nd with 139 and France were 3rd with 134 points. The Italian votes proceeded nicely getting all the way to 7 with nothing for any of the top 3 songs. 8 points followed for Turkey, followed by 10 for Malta. It all came down to who the Italians gave their 12 to. When the points were revealed to go to France total confusion reigned. Sweden and France were tied on 146 points. Toto started screeching "Mr Naef, Mr Naef" at the scrutineer Frank Naef. The EBU had in place guidlines for such occasions as this. If the result is a tie then the country with the most 12 points would be declared the winner (both Sweden & France had received 4 top marks) if it was still tied the country with the most 10 points would be declared the winner (Sweden had 5 10s to France's 2). With this explained Sweden was declared the winner.
Results
1.(8 ) 146 points - Sweden - Fångad av en stormvind - Carola
2.(9) 146 points - France - C'est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison - Amina
3.(15) 139 points - Israel - Kaan - Duo Datz
4.(19) 119 points - Spain - Bailar pegados - Sergio Dalma
5.(5) 118 points - Switzerland - Canzone per te - Sandra Simo
6.(3) 106 points - Malta - Could It Be - Paul Giordimaina & Georgina
7.(22) 89 points - Italy - Comme è ddoce 'o mare - Peppino di Capri
8.(12) 62 points - Portugal - Lusitana paixão - Dulce
9.(21) 60 points - Cyprus - SOS - Elena Patroclou
10.(11) 47 points - Ireland - Could It Be That I'm In Love - Kim Jackson
(20) 47 points - United Kingdom - A Message To Your Heart - Samantha Janus
12.(10) 44 points - Turkey - Iki dakika - Izel Çeliköz, Reyhan Karaca & Can Ugurluer
13.(4) 36 points - Greece - I anixi - Sofia Vossou
14.(7) 29 points - Luxembourg - Un baiser volé - Sarah Bray
15.(2) 26 points - Iceland - Nina - Stefán & Eyfi
16.(18 ) 23 points - Belgium - Geef het op - Clouseau
17.(14) 14 points - Norway - Mrs. Thompson - Just4Fun
18.(17) 10 points - Germany - Dieser Traum darf niemals sterben - Atlantis 2000
19.(13) 8 points - Denmark - Lige der hvor hjertet slår - Anders Frandsen
20.(16) 6 points - Finland - Hullu yö - Kaija
21.(1) 1 point - Yugoslavia - Brazil - Bebi Doll
22.(6) 0 points - Austria - Venedig im regen - Thomas Forstner
The 3rd contest to be held in Sweden was held in the 3rd different Swedish city. After Stockholm in 1975 and Gothenburg in 1985 it was Malmö's turn in 1992. The contest was yet another historical contest for many reasons not least the last appearance for Yugoslavia (although in some quarters it's considered as the first appearance for Serbia & Montenegro). There were many returning entrants and many making first of many appearances. Most noticable was the winner, Linda Martin, returning 8 years after coming 2nd to take victory. In doing so she handed Johnny Logan another piece of history, having sung a winner written by someone else, sung a winner written by himself, and written a winner sung by someone else. Mia Martini returned for Italy 15 years after her first appearance. Wind returned for the 3rd time for Germany with only 2 of it's original members. Icelandic group Heart2Heart was basically 1990 entrants Stjornin with one extra member. Evridiki appeared for the first of her 3 appearances for Cyprus and Tony Wegas was making the first of 2 consecutive appearances for Austria. Blind singer Serafin Zubiri appeared for the first time for Spain and returned 8 years later. In the voting despite early good showings for Malta and the United Kingdom, Ireland took the lead about half way through and was never really challenged after that. Greece equalled their highest ever position.
Results
1.(17) 155 points - Ireland - Why Me? - Linda Martin
2.(16) 139 points - United Kingdom - One Step Out Of Time - Michael Ball
3.(10) 123 points - Malta - Little Child - Mary Spiteri
4.(19) 111 points - Italy - Rapsodia - Mia Martini
5.(5) 94 points - Greece - Olou tu kosmu i elpida - Cleopatra
6.(3) 85 points - Israel - Ze rak sport - Dafna
7.(11) 80 points - Iceland - Nei eda ja - Heart2Heart
8.(6) 73 points - France - Monté la riviè - Kali
9.(23) 67 points - Netherlands - Wijs me de weg - Humphrey Campbell
10.(15) 63 points - Austria - Zusammen geh'n - Tony Wegas
11.(9) 57 points - Cyprus - Teriazoume - Evridiki
12.(18 ) 47 points - Denmark - Alt det om ingen ser - Kenny Lübcke & Lotte Nilsson
13.(20) 44 points - Yugoslavia - Ljubim te pesmama - Extra Nena
14.(1) 37 points - Spain - Todo esto es la musica - Serafin Zubiri
15.(13) 32 points - Switzerland - Mister Music Man - Daisy Auvray
16.(22) 27 points - Germany - Träume sind für alle da - Wind
17.(17) 26 points - Portugal - Amor d'água fresca - Dina
18.(21) 23 points - Norway - Visjoner - Merethe Trøan
19.(4) 17 points - Turkey - Yaz Bitti - Aylin Vatankos
20.(2) 11 points - Belgium - Nous, on veut de violons - Morgane
21.(14) 10 points - Luxembourg - Sou Fräi - Marion Welter & Kontinent
22.(7) 9 points - Sweden - I morgon är en annan dag - Christer Björkman
23.(12) 4 points - Finland - Yamma-yamma - Pave
The tiny village of Millstreet in County Cork was chosen to host the 1993 contest. 3 new nations were welcomed to the contest after a qualification round containing 7 countries who had wanted to join the contest. The 3 new countries were Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia. Slovakia, Estonia, Romania and Hungary all had to wait another year. It was also announced that the countries finishing in the bottom 7 would miss the following years contest to make way for all the new countries from the former Eastern Bloc who wanted to take part. As it happened only the bottom 6 were relegated along with Italy who withdrew after the 1993 contest. Luxembourg, having finished in the bottom 6, have never returned to the contest. There were 3 returning artists, Finland's Katri-Helena returning 14 years after her debut, Tony Wegas returning for Austria and Tommy Seebach returning for a 3rd and final time for Denmark. The voting was made closer than it should have been. For some reason they were unable to contact the Maltese spokesperson straight away so their votes were held back until last. Ireland had held the lead pretty much since the beginning but with only the delayed Maltese votes to come they held an 11 point lead over the United Kingdom. The votes proceeded with neither country receiving anything. With only their 12 points to reveal neither country had received any points. Malta proceeded to give 12 to Ireland and a 23 point victory was theirs. Ireland became the 4th country after Spain, Luxembourg and Israel to successfully defend the title.
Results
1.(14) 187 points - Ireland - In Your Eyes - Niamh Kavanagh
2.(19) 164 points - United Kingdom - Better The Devil You Know - Sonia
3.(4) 148 points - Switzerland - Moi, tout simplement - Annie Cotton
4.(12) 121 points - France - Mama Corsica - Patrick Fiori
5.(25) 120 points - Norway - Alle mine tankar - Silje Vige
6.(20) 92 points - Netherlands - Vrede - Ruth Jacott
7.(13) 89 points - Sweden - Eloise - Arvingarna
8.(8 ) 69 points - Malta - This Time - William Magnion
9.(6) 64 points - Greece - Elhada hora tu fotos - Keti Garbi
10.(11) 60 points - Portugal - A cidade (até ser dia) - Anabela
11.(22) 58 points - Spain - Hombres - Eva Santamaria
12.(1) 45 points - Italy - Sole d'Europa - Enrico Ruggieri
13.(9) 43 points - Iceland - Pa veistu svario - Inga
14.(10) 32 points - Austria - Maria Magdalena - Tony Wegas
15.(21) 31 points - Croatia - Don't Ever Cry - PUT
16.(18 ) 27 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Sva bol svijeta - Fazla
17.(17) 20 points - Finland - Tule luo - Katri Helena
18.(3) 18 points - Germany - Viel zu weit - Münchener Freiheit
19.(23) 17 points - Cyprus - Mi stamatas - Zymboulaikis & van Beke
20.(15) 11 points - Luxembourg - Donne-moi une chance - Modern Times
21.(2) 10 points - Turkey - Esmer yarim - Burak Aydos
22.(5) 9 points - Denmark - Under stjernerne på himlen - Tommy Seebach Band
(16) 9 points - Slovenia - Tih deževen dan - 1X Band
24.(24) 4 points - Israel - Shiru - Shiru
25.(7) 3 points - Belgium - Iemand als jij - Barbara
For the first time ever the Contest was held in the same country on consecutive years. The contest welcomed 7 new nations, the biggest influx of debut countries since the inaugural event. Having missed out in the qualifying round the previous year Hungary, Estonia, Romania & Slovakia all made their debuts and were joined by Russia, Lithuania & Poland. Elisabeth Andreassen was back again. Having been half of Chips for Sweden in 1982 and half of Bobbysocks for Norway in 1985, she was again back for Norway this time with Jan Werner Danielsen. Evridiki tried again for Cyprus and just as she had 2 years earlier she finished 11th. Sigga had ditched her fellow member of Stjornin and Heart2Heart and came back on her own. Marie Bergman had been a memeber of Family Four for Sweden in 1971 and 1972. She returned 22 years after her last appearance this time with Roger Pontare who himself would return to the contest 6 years later. Half of the Bosnian duo, Alma Cardzic, was making the first of 2 appearances. Much was made of the age of the Dutch singer before the contest, she was 59, but whether it was her age or her song which gave her the poor result remains open to debate. A major advancement was made with the giving of votes this year as for the first time video links were used to speak to the spokespeople. The voting itself was incredibly one-sided, although after the first 3 sets of votes (Sweden, Finland & Ireland) it looked as though Hungary would run away with the title as they had scored 12 from each jury (the first (and only) time that any country had received the top marks from the first 3 juries). Ireland soon took the lead and never relinquished it. The song was seen by some commentators as a gentle attempt not to win, the jurors disagreed and it soon became the first song to score more than 200 points. Poland, on their debut, finished a distant 2nd but still had the best debut result ever. Hungary faded slightly but still finished 4th. At the other end of the spectrum for the debut makers, Lithuania became the 2nd country after Portugal in 1964 to score 0 on their debut. Estonia fared little better scoring just 2, thanks to the Greek jury (who incidentally were the only country not to vote for Ireland....they actually ignored all of the top 4 entries)
Results
1.(3) 226 points - Ireland - Rock N' Roll Kids - Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan
2.(24) 166 points - Poland - To Nie Ja - Edyta Gorniak
3.(14) 128 points - Germany - Wir geben 'ne Party - MeKaDo
4.(22) 122 points - Hungary - Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet - Friderika
5.(12) 97 points - Malta - More Than Love - Moira & Chris
6.(17) 76 points - Norway - Duett - Elisabeth Andreassen & Jan Werner Danielsen
7.(25) 74 points - France - Je suis un vrai garçon - Nina Morato
8.(8 ) 73 points - Portugal - Chamar a musica - Sara Tavares
9.(23) 70 points - Russia - Vyechniy stranik - Youddiph
10.(6) 63 points - United Kingdom - Lonely Symphony - Frances Ruffelle
11.(4) 51 points - Cyprus - Ime anthropos ke ego - Evridiki
12.(5) 49 points - Iceland - Nætur - Sigga
13.(1) 48 points - Sweden - Stjärnorna - Marie Bergman & Roger Pontare
14.(19) 44 points - Greece - To trehadiri - Costas Bigalis & The Sea Lovers
15.(18) 39 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Ostani kraj mene - Alma & Dejan
16.(7) 27 points - Croatia - Nek' ti bude ljubav sva - Tony Cetinski
17.(20) 19 points - Austria - Für den Frieden der Welt - Petra Frey
18.(21) 17 points - Spain - Ella no es ella - Alejandro Abad
19.(9) 15 points - Switzerland - Sto pregando - Duilio
(15) 15 points - Slovakia - Nekonecna piesen - Tublatanka
21.(11) 14 points - Romania - Dincolo de nori - Dan Bittman
22.(2) 11 points - Finland - Bye Bye Baby - CatCat
23.(13) 4 points - Netherlands - Waar is de zon - Willeke Alberti
24.(10) 2 points - Estonia - Nagu merelaine - Silvi Vrait
25.(16) 0 points - Lithuania - Lopsine mylimai - Oyvidijus Vysniauskas
Having made history by winning the contest for 3 years running the Irish again made history by hosting the contest for the 3rd consecutive year, and for the 2nd consecutive year at exactly the same venue (another first). The contest itself produced a somewhat controversial winner. The controversy surrounded the song itself which only had 8 short lines of singing and over 2 and a half minutes of instrumental. Some people considered it not to be a song at all but an instrumental. The protests made no difference and Norway won their second contest. Rolf Løvland, had written Norway's previous winner in 1985 (and also provided backing vocals on that as well) and Secret Garden was his group. Owing much to Irish violinist Fionnuala Shery, and perhaps influenced by the interval act the previous year, the victory was never in doubt. There were 3 artists making their first appearance. Croatian group Magazin included Danijela who would return 3 years later as a soloist. Darja Svarger appeared for Slovenia and returned 4 years later. Alexandros Panayi was the Cypriot representative and returned 5 years later as half of Voice. Russia were represented by a bizarre looking man in heavy make-up singing a "Lullaby for a volcano". Belgian representative, Frédéric Etherlinck, was the grandson of a Nobel Prize winner.
Results
1.(5) 148 points - Norway - Nocturne - Secret Garden
2.(9) 119 points - Spain - Vuelve conmigo - Anabel Conde
3.(18 ) 100 points - Sweden - Se på mej - Jan Johansen
4.(12) 94 points - France - Il me donne rendez-vous - Nathalie Santamaria
5.(19) 92 points - Denmark - Fra Mols til Skagen - Aud Wilken
6.(11) 91 points - Croatia - Nostalgija - Magazin & Lidija
7.(20) 84 points - Slovenia - Prisluhni mi - Darja Svajger
8.(21) 81 points - Israel - Amen - Liora
9.(17) 79 points - Cyprus - Sti fotia - Alexandros Panayi
10.(15) 76 points - United Kingdom - Love City Groove - Love City Groove
(22) 76 points - Malta - Keep Me In Mind - Mike Spiteri
12.(23) 68 points - Greece - Pia prosefhi - Elina Konstantopoulou
13.(8 ) 67 points - Austria - Die Welt dreht sich verkehrt - Stella Jones
14.(2) 44 points - Ireland - Dreamin' - Eddie Friel
15.(7) 31 points - Iceland - Nuna - Bo Halldorsson
16.(10) 21 points - Turkey - Sev - Arzu Ece
17.(6) 17 points - Russia - Kolibelnaya dlya vulkana - Philip Kirkorov
18.(1) 15 points - Poland - Sama - Justyna
19.(4) 14 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Dvadeset prvi vijek - Davor Popovic
20.(14) 8 points - Belgium - La voix est libre - Frédéric Etherlinck
21.(16) 5 points - Portugal - Baunilha e chocolate - To Cruz
22.(13) 3 points - Hungary - Új név a régi ház falán - Csaba Szigeti
23.(3) 1 point - Germany - Verliebt in dich - Stone & Stone
For the first time ever there was a pre qualifying contest involving all entries (except hosts Norway). The juries heard a recording of the songs from all 29 of the countries wanting to take part, including Macedonia trying to make their debut. The juries then scored the songs based on the recording alone with the top 22 scoring countries qualifying for the final. Amongst those missing out were Germany, the one and only ESC final they have missed. Also missing out were Denmark, Israel, Russia, Romania, Macedonia & Hungary. Ireland returned to winning ways scoring their 4th victory in 5 years (although they had a huge hand in the 1995 winning song as well). Portugal scored their highest ever position finishing 6th. Elisabeth Andreassen was back for a 4th time, but for the first time as a soloist. Her complete record at Eurovision reads 1982 - 8th, 1985 - 1st, 1994 - 6th, 1996 - 2nd - an impressive record. Mariana Efstratiou returned for Greece 7 years after her debut. Turkish entrant Sebnem Paker would return the following year, as would the female half of the Estonian duo, Maarja-Liis Ilus. Cypriot Constantinos Christoforiou made the first of his 3 appearances. In the voting Ireland took the lead early on and, despite losing it briefly to Croatia, was never really challenged. Norway finished 2nd despite not having a single top mark awarded to them.
Results
1.(17) 162 points - Ireland - The Voice - Eimear Quinn
2.(12) 114 points - Norway - I Evighet - Elisabeth Andreassen
3.(23) 100 points - Sweden - Den Vilda - One More Time
4.(7) 98 points - Croatia - Sveta ljubav - Maja Blagdan
5.(11) 94 points - Estonia - Kaelakee hääl - Maarja-Liis Ilus & Ivo Linna
6.(4) 92 points - Portugal - O meu coração não tem cor - Lucia Moniz
7.(15) 78 points - Netherlands - De erste keer - Maxine & Franklin Brown
8.(2) 77 points - United Kingdom - Ooh aah...Just A Little Bit - Gina G
9.(5) 72 points - Cyprus - Mono yia mas - Constantinos
10.(6) 68 points - Malta - In A Woman's Heart - Miriam Christine
(8 ) 68 points - Austria - Weil's dr guat got - George Nussbaumer
12.(1) 57 points - Turkey - Besinci mevsim - Sebnem Paker
13.(19) 51 points - Iceland - Sjúbídú - Anna Mjöll
14.(10) 36 points - Greece - Emis forame to himona anixiatika - Mariana Efstratiou
15.(20) 31 points - Poland - Chce zna? swój grzech - Kasia Kowalska
16.(9) 22 points - Switzerland - Mon cœur l'aime - Kathy Leander
(16) 22 points - Belgium - Liefde is een kaartspel - Lisa del Bo
18.(22) 19 points - Slovakia - Kym nas mas - Marcel Palonder
19.(13) 18 points - France - Diwanit Bugale - Dan ar Braz et l'Héritage des Celtes
20.(3) 17 points - Spain - ¡Ay, qué deseo! - Antonio Carbonell
21.(14) 16 points - Slovenia - Dan najlepših sanj - Regina
22.(21) 13 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Za našu ljubav - Amila Glamocak
23.(18 ) 9 points - Finland - Niin kaunis on taivas - Jasmine
After a year's break in Norway the contest returned to The Point Theatre in Dublin for the 3rd time in 4 years. Italy returned to the contest for the last time, preferring to concentrate on the San Remo festival. However they went out with a bang finishing 4th. Turkey finished in the top 10 for only the second time in 22 years with the returning Sebnem Paker finishing 3rd. Maarja-Liis Ilus returned for Estonia this time on her own. Alma Cardzic returned for Bosnia & Herzegovina also on her own this time. The winning entry was sung by Katrina & The Waves who had had a huge Worldwide hit in the mid 1980s with "Walking On Sunshine". The margin of victory was enormous. They scored a new highest score, beating the previous best by 1 point, and they finished 70 points ahead of their nearest challenger. A record 10 countries gave it top marks with a further 5 giving it 10 points. In fact only 6 of the voting countries didn't have the song in their top 3 and only 2 of those (Spain and Malta) giving it less than 6 points. It remains one of the most comprehensive victories in ESC history. At the other end of the table Norway scored their 4th 0 points. They were joined on 0 points by Portugal who hadn't scored 0 since their debut 33 years earlier. There was a major change to the voting in 1997 with the introduction of televoting in Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Rather than a jury deciding on the votes the watching millions could have their say. Over the next couple of years more and more countries used televoting until it became standard.
Results
1.(24) 227 points - United Kingdom - Love Shine A Light - Katrina & The Waves
2.(5) 157 points - Ireland - Mysterious Woman - Marc Roberts
3.(2) 121 points - Turkey - Dinle - Sebnem Paker & Grup Etnic
4.(9) 114 points - Italy - Fiumi di parole - Jalisse
5.(1) 97 points - Cyprus - Mana mou - Hara & Andreas Konstantinou
6.(10) 96 points - Spain - Sin rencor - Marcos Llunas
7.(22) 95 points - France - Sentiment songes - Fanny
8.(13) 82 points - Estonia - Kelatuud maa - Maarja
9.(18 ) 66 points - Malta - Let Me Fly - Debbie Scerri
10.(6) 60 points - Slovenia - Zbudi se - Tanja Ribic
11.(12) 54 points - Poland - Ale Jestem - Anna-Maria Jopek
12.(17) 39 points - Greece - Horepse - Marianna Zorba
(19) 39 points - Hungary - Miért kell, hogy elmenj? - VIP
14.(16) 36 points - Sweden - Bara hon älskar mig - Blond
15.(20) 33 points - Russia - Primadonna - Alla Pugacheva
16.(21) 25 points - Denmark - Stemmen i mit liv - Kølig Kaj
17.(23) 24 points - Croatia - Probudi me - ENI
18.(11) 22 points - Germany - Zeit - Bianca Shomburg
(14) 22 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Goodbye - Alma Cardzic
20.(25) 18 points - Iceland - Minn hinsti dans - Paul Oscar
21.(4) 12 points - Austria - One Step - Bettina Soriat
22.(7) 5 points - Switzerland - Dentro di me - Barbara Berta
(8 ) 5 points - Netherlands - Niemand heeft nog tijd - Mrs Einstein
24.(3) 0 points - Norway - San Francisco - Tor Endresen
(15) 0 points - Portugal - Antes do adeus - Célia Lawson
Birmingham the 5th city in the United Kingdom to host the contest. Macedonia finally made their debut in the contest 2 years after failing in the 1996 preselection process. The contest was shrouded with controversy from the moment the Israeli entrant was announced. Dana International was a transsexual. Many Israeli politicians and dignitaries objected to her taking part. However she did take part and the controversy factor played it's part in the huge audiences that watched all accross the continent. Returning to the contest was Danijela, who'd been part of Croatian group Magazin 3 years previously. Chiara made her debut for Malta, equalling their best ever finish, and would return 7 years later to do the same again. Edsilia represented the Netherlands scoring their best result since their win 23 years before. Edsilia would return 9 years later with a lot less success. Switzerlands scored their 3rd 0 points. The voting was close throughout. With Israel ahead most of the time but Malta, UK, Netherlands were never too far behind. Croatia and Belgium always scored well but were never challenging. With 2 countries to vote (Turkey & Macedonia) the scores were Israel 159, Malta 155, UK 144, Netherlands 140. Turkey gave 5 to leaders Israel, 7 to the Netherlands (to effectively end their challenge) and 10 to Malta to give them the lead by a point. 12 to the United Kingdom meant any one of the top 3 could win with the final set of votes. Malta was leading on 165, Israel on 164 and UK on 156. With only their 8, 10 and 12 to give out Macedonia had not yet given any of the top 3 any points at all. The 8 points went to Israel putting them on 172, meaning that the UK could not win despite getting the 10 points from Macedonia. It all hinged on who Macedonia gave their 12 to - if it went to Malta they would win, if it went to anyone else Israel would win. It came as no real surprise when Macedonia awarded their 12 to neighbours Croatia thus handing a 3rd victory to Israel.
Results
1.(8 ) 172 points - Israel - Diva - Dana International
2.(16) 166 points - United Kingdom - Where Are You? - Imaani
3.(10) 165 points - Malta - The One That I Love - Chiara
4.(18 ) 150 points - Netherlands - Hemel en aarde - Edsilia
5.(1) 131 points - Croatia - Neka mi ne svane - Danijela
6.(20) 122 points - Belgium - Dis oui - Mélanie Cohl
7.(9) 86 points - Germany - Guildo hat euch lieb! - Guildo Horn & Die Orthopädischen Strümpfe
8.(22) 79 points - Norway - Alltid sommer - Lars A Fredriksen
9.(13) 64 points - Ireland - Is Always Over Now? - Dawn Martin
10.(19) 53 points - Sweden - Kärleken är - Jill Johnson
11.(17) 37 points - Cyprus - Yenesis - Michael Hajiyanni
12.(14) 36 points - Portugal - Se eu te pudesse abraçar - Alma Lusa
(23) 36 points - Estonia - Mere lapsed - Koit Toome
14.(24) 25 points - Turkey - Unutamazsin - Tüzmen
15.(21) 22 points - Finland - Aava - Edea
16.(4) 21 points - Spain - ¿Qué voy a hacer sin ti? - Mikael Herzog
17.(7) 19 points - Poland - To Takie Proste - Sixteen
18.(12) 17 points - Slovenia - Naj bogovi slišijo - Vili Resnik
19.(25) 16 points - Macedonia - Ne zori zoro - Vlado Janevski
20.(2) 12 points - Greece - Mia krifi evesthisia - Thalassa
21.(6) 8 points - Slovakia - Modlitba - Katarina Hasprova
22.(15) 6 points - Romania - Eu Cred - Malina Olinescu
23.(11) 4 points - Hungary - A holnap már nem lesz szomorú - Charlie
24.(3) 3 points - France - Où aller - Marie Line
25.(5) 0 points - Switzerland - Laß Ihn - Guv'nor
For the second time Jerusalem played host to the contest...and for the second time a song in a contest one of the songs used the host city in it's title....the first instance being in Jerusalem 20 years previously!. The language rule was removed in 1999 meaning the countries could send their entry in any language. 12 countries took advantage of this, including 9 singing entirely in English. Germany went down the multilingual route using German, Turkish and English. Israel used English and Hebrew. Bosnia & Herzegovina used Bosnian and French. Returning to the contest 5 years after their 0 point debut were Lithuania. They faired marginally better this year, finally breaking their duck with 13 points. Doris Dragovic returned this year for Croatia 13 years after she appeared for Yugoslavia. Darja Svajger returned for Slovenia 4 years after her debut. Selma Björnsdottir appeared for Iceland and returned 6 years later. Eden were Israel's representatives. A member of their group, Eddie Butler, returned 7 years later. The voting was close between Sweden and Iceland all the way through with Iceland holding the lead for long periods. With Bosnia & Herzegovina & Estonia still to vote however Sweden held a slender 3 point lead. When the Bosnian votes ignored the Icelandic entry and gave 12 to the Swedes victory was assured. Because the song used synthesised backing voices, Croatia's score was later reduced by 33% to 79. This reduction was applicable for the calculation of five-year averages to determine participation in future contests, but it was decided to leave the actual placement in the 1999 result unaffected.
Results
1.(15) 163 points - Sweden - Take Me To Your Heaven - Charlotte Nilsson
2.(13) 146 points - Iceland - All Out Of Luck - Selma
3.(21) 140 points - Germany - Reise nach Jerusalem - Kudüs'e seyahat - Sürpriz
4.(4) 118 points - Croatia - Marija Magdalena - Doris
5.(19) 93 points - Israel - Yom Huledet (Happy Birthday) - Eden
6.(23) 90 points - Estonia - Diamond Of Night - Evelin Samuel & Camille
7.(22) 86 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Putnici - Dino & Béatrice
8.(9) 71 points - Denmark - This Time I Mean It - Michael Teschl & Trine Jepsen
(11) 71 points - Netherlands - One Good Reason - Marlayne
10.(18 ) 65 points - Austria - Reflection - Bobbie Singer
11.(6) 50 points - Slovenia - For A Thousand Years - Darja Svajger
12.(2) 38 points - Belgium - Like The Wind - Vanessa Chinitor
(5) 38 points - United Kingdom - Say It Again
14.(8 ) 35 points - Norway - Living My Life Without You - Van Eijk
15.(20) 32 points - Malta - Believe 'n Peace - Times 3
16.(7) 21 points - Turkey - Dön Artik - Tugba Onal & Grup Mistik
17.(17) 18 points - Ireland - When You Need Me - The Mullans
18.(12) 17 points - Poland - Przytul mnie mocno - Mietek Szczesniak
19.(10) 14 points - France - Je veux donner ma voix - Nayah
20.(1) 13 points - Lithuania - Strazdas - Aiste
21.(16) 12 points - Portugal - Como tudo começou - Rui Bandiera
22.(14) 2 points - Cyprus - Tha'ne erotas - Marlain
23.(3) 1 point - Spain - No quiero escuchar - Lydia
Eurovision Song Contest in the 2000s
The first contest of the new millennium was the second contest to be held in Stockholm. Latvia entered the contest for the first time finishing a creditable 3rd. Roger Pontare returned for Sweden 6 years after he'd appeared with Marie Bergman. Serafin Zubiri returned for Spain after 8 years. Alexandros Panayi returned for Cyprus as a member of Voice, 5 years after being a solo artist. Israel opened the contest in controversial style with a stage show which included 2 men kissing and the group waving a Syrian flag. Unlike 2 years previously though controversy didn't help the Israeli cause. Linda for the Netherlands appeared in a huge dress which later revealed her dancers. Nikki French for the UK perhaps summed up her country's attitude to Eurovision by singing "Don't Play That Song Again" which gave them their worst result to date. The voting was one sided as Denmark received 12 points from the first country to vote, Israel, and never relinquished their lead finally finishing 40 points ahead of nearest rivals Russia. The Danes had not won for 37 years and the Olsen Brothers were the oldest winners to date.
Results
1.(14) 195 points - Denmark - Fly On The Wings Of Love - The Olsen Brothers
2.(9) 155 points - Russia - Solo - Alsou
3.(21) 136 points - Latvia - My Star - Brainstorm
4.(4) 98 points - Estonia - Once In A Lifetime - Ines
5.(15) 96 points - Germany - Wadde Hadde Dudde Da? - Stefan Raab
6.(23) 92 points - Ireland - Millennium Of Love - Eamonn Toal
7.(18 ) 88 points - Sweden - When Spirits Are Calling My Name
8.(7) 73 points - Malta - Desire - Claudette Pace
9.(17) 70 points - Croatia - Kada zaspu andeli (Ostani) - Goran Karan
10.(22) 59 points - Turkey - Yorgunum anla - Pinhar & The SOS
11.(8 ) 57 points - Norway - My Heart Goes Boom - Charmed
12.(12) 45 points - Iceland - Tell Me! - August & Telma
13.(2) 40 points - Netherlands - No Goodbyes - Linda
14.(24) 34 points - Austria - All To You - The Rounder Girls
15.(19) 29 points - Macedonia - 100% te ljubam - XXL
16.(3) 28 points - United Kingdom - Don't Play That Song Again - Nicki French
17.(6) 25 points - Romania - The Moon / Luna - Taxi
18.(13) 18 points - Spain - Colgado de un sueño - Serafin Zubiri
(20) 18 points - Finland - A Little Bit - Nina Astrom
20.(16) 14 points - Switzerland - La vita cos'è - Jane Bogaert
21.(11) 8 points - Cyprus - Nomiza - Voice
22.(1) 7 points - Israel - Sameyakh - Ping Pong
23.(5) 5 points - France - On aura le ciel - Sofia Mestari
24.(10) 2 points - Belgium - Envie de vivre - Nathalie Source
The 2001 contest saw a new era dawn in the history of the contest with a country from the so-called "new school" winning for the first time. Estonia's victory could not have been more surprising. A rank 50-1 outsider with the bookmakers pre-contest it was considered a no hoper. It just goes to show that bookmakers should stick to horses and dogs. Greece returned to the contest after a 2 year break with their biggest success to date. Using a group who were based in Scandinavia was a clever ploy as Greece finished 3rd even without their biggest ally, Cyprus. Half of Antique, Helena Papaprizou, returned 4 years later to claim Greece's first victory. Also returning, this time 5 years later, would be Malta's Fabrizio Faniello with a great deal less success than Helena. The Dutch entry could have caused confusion. Called "Out On My Own" it was similar to the Norwegian entry called "On My Own". To add to the confusion both the Dutch and German entrants were called Michelle. There was something familiar about the Swedish entry this year. It was later revealed to be a possible plagiarism of the Belgian entry from 1996. It has never been officially called as such but many ESC fans consider it to be a blatant rip off of the earlier entry. That's not to say all ESC fans. There are some who just don't see the similarities at all. The voting was again one sided as Estonia took an early lead. Denmark did have the lead for a while but 4 consecutive 12 points to Estonia meant victory was theirs. Having had the oldest winners the previous years Dave Benton took that record from Jorgen Olsen by a matter of months.
Results
1.(20) 198 points - Estonia - Everybody - Tanel Padar & Dave Benton
2.(23) 177 points - Denmark - Never Ever Let You Go - Rollo & King
3.(22) 147 points - Greece - Die For You - Antique
4.(14) 142 points - France - Je n'ai que mon âme - Natasha St Pier
5.(7) 100 points - Sweden - Listen To Your Heartbeat - Friends
6.(13) 76 points - Spain - Dile que la quiero - David Civera
7.(17) 70 points - Slovenia - Energy - Nusa Derenda
8.(19) 66 points - Germany - Wer Liebe lebt - Michelle
9.(21) 48 points - Malta - Another Summer Night - Fabrizio Fannielo
10.(10) 42 points - Croatia - Strings Of My Heart - Vanna
11.(15) 41 points - Turkey - Sevgiliye Son - Sedat Yüce
12.(6) 37 points - Russia - Lady Alpine Blue - Mumiy Troll
13.(8 ) 35 points - Lithuania - You Got Style - Skamp
14.(3) 29 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Hano - Nino Prses
15.(16) 28 points - United Kingdom - No Dream Impossible - Lindsay
16.(5) 25 points - Israel - En Davar - Tal Sondak
17.(11) 18 points - Portugal - Só sei ser feliz assim - MTM
18.(1) 16 points - Netherlands - Out On My Own - Michelle
(9) 16 points - Latvia - Too Much - Arnis Mednis
20.(18) 11 points - Poland - 2 Long - Piasek
21.(12) 6 points - Ireland - Without Your Love - Gary O'Shaughnessey
22.(2) 3 points - Iceland - Angel - 2Tricky
(4) 3 points - Norway - On My Own - Haldor Lægreid
After speculation as to whether the Estonian broadcaster could afford to hold it, the contest moved to a country in the former Soviet Union for the first time. As one Baltic nation held the contest another wins it. Latvia only gained entry to the contest after the Portuguese had declined to take part. Constantinos Christoforiou returned for Cyprus, this time as part of boy-band One, 6 years after he first took part. He would return again 3 years later. Karolina Goceva represented Macedonia and would return 5 years later. After being a backing vocalist for Sweden in 1999 and Malta in 2000, Sahlene represented the home nation. Corinna May represented Germany. She'd been chosen to represent Germany in 1999 but her song was disqualified. Monica Anghel was half of the Romanian duo. She was Romania's representative in 1996 but that song did not make it through the qualifying round. The Slovenian entry was the most controversial of the evening being performed by 3 men dressed as female air hostesses. The voting was close throughout between Malta and Latvia. Malta held a slender lead for almost half of the voting. After the Swiss votes Latvia took the lead and held it until the end. With only one country left to vote Latvia held a 3 point lead over the Maltese. The last country to vote was Lithuania who gave Malta 3 points to tie the score. Surely they wouldn't ignore their neighbours Latvia. They didn't and gave them 12. The win owed as much to performance as to the song. Marie N had 3 costume changes during the performance.
Results
1.(23) 176 points - Latvia - I Wanna - Marie N
2.(20) 164 points - Malta - 7th Wonder - Ira Losco
3.(2) 111 points - United Kingdom - Come Back - Jessica Garlick
(8 ) 111 points - Estonia - Runaway - Sahlene
5.(17) 104 points - France - Il faut du temps - Sandrine François
6.(1) 85 points - Cyprus - Gimme - One
7.(5) 81 points - Spain - Europe's Living A Celebration - Rosa
8.(12) 72 points - Sweden - Never Let It Go - Afro-Dite
9.(21) 71 points - Romania - Tell Me Why - Monica Anghel & Marcel Pavel
10.(7) 55 points - Russia - Northern Girl - Prime Minister
11.(6) 44 points - Croatia - Everything I Want - Vesna Pisarovic
12.(10) 37 points - Israel - Light A Candle - Sarit Hadad
13.(15) 33 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Fairytales About Love - Maja Tatic
(16) 33 points - Belgium - Sister - Sergio & The Ladies
(22) 33 points - Slovenia - Samo ljubezen - Sestre
16.(19) 29 points - Turkey - Leylaklar soldu kalbinde - Buket Bengisu & Group Sapphire
17.(4) 27 points - Greece - S.A.G.A.P.O. - Michalis Rakintzis
18.(3) 26 points - Austria - Say A Word - Manuel Ortega
19.(9) 25 points - Macedonia - Od nas zavesi - Karolina
20.(13) 24 points - Finland - Addicted To You - Laura
21.(18 ) 17 points - Germany - I Can't Live Without Music - Corinna May
22.(11) 15 points - Switzerland - Dans le jardin de mon âme - Francine Jordi
23.(24) 12 points - Lithuania - Happy You - Aivaras
24.(14) 7 points - Denmark - Tell Me Who You Are - Mahlene
The contest stayed in the Baltics moving from Estonia to Latvia. It was the biggest contest ever with 26 countries taking part, including the introduction of Ukraine. The hosts were 2 of Latvia's previous participants, Marie Naumova, the winner from 2002, and Renars Kaupers, who was singer with Brainstorm. Ich Troje represented Poland and would return 3 years later. The Russian representatives were t.A.T.u. who had had a massive Europe wide hit earlier in the year with "All The Things She Said". Rumours of them appearing naked on stage and engaging in various lesbian activites were unfounded. The Belgian entry took the language rule literaly by performing in an imaginary language. The United Kingdom reached new lows, both in performance and result. Singing completely off key and out of time it came as no real surprise that for the first time the UK finished last and got 0 points. It looked for a long while that the hosts would join the UK on 0 points and but for a little neighbour voting from Estonia, they may well have done. The voting was incredibly close throughout. The lead was never more than 7 points all the way through. The lead was held by Turkey for a long while. Belgium then took the lead and held it until the final set of votes. Russia were also in with a chance of taking the title. With only Slovenia to vote the socres were Belgium 162, Turkey 157, Russia 152. The Slovenians gave only 3 to Belgium meaning that Turkey needed 10 or more to win and Russia could not now win. With their 10 and 12 to award there was still no sign of points for Turkey. When the 10 points went to Turkey the scenes in the greenroom were of wild Turkish celebrations. 12 points to Russia meant that only 3 points separated the top 3 songs. After 28 years of waiting and only 3 top 10 finishes Turkey were victorious. It was also the first time that a song drawn in position #4 had won the contest.
Results
1.(4) 167 points - Turkey - Everyway That I Can - Sertab Erener
2.(22) 165 points - Belgium - Sanomi - Urban Trad
3.(11) 164 points - Russia - Ne ver, ne boisja - t.A.T.u.
4.(18 ) 123 points - Norway - I'm Not Afraid To Move On - Jostein Hasselgård
5.(25) 107 points - Sweden - Give Me Your Love - Fame
6.(2) 101 points - Austria - Weil der Mensch zählt - Alf Poier
7.(20) 90 points - Poland - Keine Grenzen-Zadnych granic - Ich Troje
8.(1) 81 points - Iceland - Open Your Heart - Birgitta
(12) 81 points - Spain - Dime - Beth
10.(24) 73 points - Romania - Don't Break My Heart - Nicola
11.(3) 53 points - Ireland - We've Got The World Tonight - Mickey Harte
(10) 53 points - Germany - Let's Get Happy - Lou
13.(14) 45 points - Netherlands - One More Night - Esther Hart
14.(16) 30 points - Ukraine - Hasta la vista - Olexandr
15.(8 ) 29 points - Croatia - Vise nisam tvoje - Claudia Beni
16.(6) 27 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Ne brini - Mija Martina
17.(17) 25 points - Greece - Never Let You Go - Mando
18.(19) 19 points - France - Monts et merveilles - Louisa Bailleche
19.(13) 17 points - Israel - Words For Love - Lior Narkis
20.(9) 15 points - Cyprus - Feeling Alive - Stelios Constantas
21.(23) 14 points - Estonia - Eighties Coming Back - Ruffus
22.(7) 13 points - Portugal - Deixa-me sonhar - Rita Guerra
23.(26) 7 points - Slovenia - Nanana - Karmen
24.(21) 5 points - Latvia - Hello From Mars - FLY
25.(5) 4 points - Malta - To Dream Again - Lyn Chircop
26.(15) 0 points - United Kingdom - Cry Baby - Jemini
ESC 2004
For the first time ever the contest was held over 2 days. With 36 entries the contest was too large to hold on 1 day. So the organisers decided that the Big 4 countries (France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom) plus the 10 highest scorers from Riga (not including any of the Big 4 countries) would qualify directly for the final in Istanbul. All other entries would have to qualify from a televised semi-final where the top 10 scoring countries would qualify for the final. Monaco returned to the contest 25 years after their last appearance. Albania, Andorra, Belarus and Serbia & Montenegro all made their debuts (although some argue that Serbia & Montenegro should be credited for Yugoslavia's last entry in 1992). Poland, France and Russia didn't televise the Semi-Final as they had already qualified for the final. From 2005 it has been mandatory for all countries to broadcast both the Semi-Final and Final irrespective of participation in either of them. After a short interval the 10 qualifiers were announced as Serbia & Montenegro, Malta, Netherlands, Albania, Ukraine, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Greece and Cyprus. Switzerland went down in history as having the most unappreciated song in the history of the contest. 32 countries could have voted for it - not one of them did and it ended last with 0 points.
FULL SEMI-FINAL RESULTS
1.(20) 263 points - Serbia & Montenegro - Lane moje - Zeljko Joksimovic & Ad Hoc Orchestra
2.(11) 256 points - Ukraine - Wild Dances - Ruslana
3.(10) 238 points - Greece - Shake It - Sakis Rouvas
4.(13) 167 points - Albania - Image Of You - Anjeza Shahini
5.(14) 149 points - Cyprus - Stronger Every Minute - Lisa Andreas
6.(22) 146 points - Netherlands - Without You - Re-Union
7.(21) 133 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - In The Disco - Deen
8.(8 ) 74 points - Malta - On Again...Off Again - Julie & Ludwig
9.(18 ) 72 points - Croatia - You Are The Only One - Ivan Mikulic
10.(15) 71 points - Macedonia - Life Is - Tose Proeski
11.(5) 57 points - Israel - Leha'amin - David D'Or
(17) 57 points - Estonia - Tii - Neiokõsõ
13.(19) 56 points - Denmark - Shame On You - Tomas Thordarson
14.(1) 51 points - Finland - Two To Tango - Jari Sillanpää
15.(7) 38 points - Portugal - Foi Magia - Sofia Vitoria
16.(12) 26 points - Lithuania - What Happened To Our Love? - Linas & Simona
17.(4) 23 points - Latvia - Dziesma par laimi - Fomins & Kleins
18.(6) 12 points - Andorra - Jugarem a estimar-nos - Marta Roure
19.(2) 10 points - Belarus - My Galileo - Alexandra & Konstantin
(9) 10 points - Monaco - Notre planète - Maryon
21.(16) 5 points - Slovenia - Stay Forever - Platin
22.(3) 0 points - Switzerland - Celebrate - Piero & The Music Stars
The final of the 2004 contest took place 3 days after the semi-final. The 10 qualifying countries joined the 14 pre-qualified countries in the final. There were no returning artists in the final at all, although many of the backing singers had been here before. Also none of the entrants have returned to date. However there were a couple of entries written by previous participants. The Bosnian entry was written by Vesna Pisarovic who'd sung for Croatia 2 years previously. Stefan Raab wrote the German entry, which, unlike his previous 2 compositions, was not a comedy record. Serbian representative Zeljko Joksimovic would return to write the Bosnian entry 2 years later. The voting was a long winded process with all the 12 losing semi-finalists as well as the 24 finalists voting. Debutants Serbia & Montenegro held the lead for almost half the voting. When Iceland gave Ukraine 12 points they took the lead and were never challenged after that. The year after their debut Ukraine had won the contest. With 36 countries voting the scores at the top of the leaderboard were a lot larger than previously. The top 3 all outscored the previous highest score.
Results
1.(10) 280 points - Ukraine - Wild Dances - Ruslana
2.(5) 263 points - Serbia & Montenegro - Lane Moje - Zeljko Joksimovic & Ad Hoc Orchestra
3.(16) 252 points - Greece - Shake It! - Sakis Rouvas
4.(22) 195 points - Turkey - For Real - Athena
5.(21) 170 points - Cyprus - Stronger Every Minute - Lisa Andreas
(24) 170 points - Sweden - It Hurts - Lena Philipsson
7.(9) 107 points - Albania - The Image Of You - Anjeza Shahini
8.(8 ) 93 points - Germany - Can't Wait Until Tonight - Max
9.(12) 91 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - In The Disco - Deen
10.(1) 87 points - Spain - Para llenarme de ti - Ramon
11.(14) 67 points - Russia - Believe Me - Julia Savicheva
12.(6) 50 points - Malta - On Again...Off Again - Julie & Ludwig
(11) 50 points - Croatia - You Are The Only One - Ivan Mikulic
14.(15) 47 points - Macedonia - Life Is - Tose Proeski
15.(4) 40 points - France - À chaque pas - Jonatan Cerrada
16.(20) 29 points - United Kingdom - Hold Onto Our Love - James Fox
17.(19) 27 points - Poland - Love Song - Blue Café
18.(23) 18 points - Romania - I Admit - Sanda Ladosi
19.(17) 16 points - Iceland - Heaven - Jonsi
20.(7) 11 points - Netherlands - Without You - Re-Union
21.(2) 9 points - Austria - Du bist - Tie Break
22.(13) 7 points - Belgium - 1 Life - Xandee
(18 ) 7 points - Ireland - If My World Stopped Turning
24.(3) 3 points - Norway - High - Knut Anders Sørum
ESC 2005
The Semi-Final of the 2005 contest was larger than the 2004 Semi-Final. Moldova and Bulgaria joined the contest for the first time and Hungary returned for the first time in 7 years. The Lebanon had initially joined and had selected their song, but later withdrew due to financial reasons, although rumours were rife that they withdrew because the broadcaster refused to show the Israeli entry. So with 25 countries vying for the remaining 10 places in the final the competition was steep. Iceland were the only country to have a returning artist with Selma returning 6 years after being a runner up. She fared less well this year failing to qualify. The 10 qualifiers were Hungary, Romania, Norway, Moldova, Israel, Denmark, Macedonia, Croatia, Switzerland & Latvia.
Full Semi-Final Results
1.(14) 235 points - Romania - Let Me Try - Luminita Anghel & Sistem
2.(4) 207 points - Moldova - Boonika Bate Tobe - Zdob Si Zdub
3.(24) 185 points - Denmark - Talking To You - Jakob Sviestrup
4.(20) 169 points - Croatia - Vukovi umiru sami - Boris Novokovic featuring Lado Members
5.(15) 167 points - Hungary - Forogl vilag! - NOX
6.(13) 164 points - Norway - In My Dreams - Wig Wam
7.(7) 158 points - Israel - Hasheket shenish'ar - Shiri Maymon
8.(19) 114 points - Switzerland - Cool Vibes - Vanilla Ninja
9.(17) 97 points - Macedonia - Make My Day - Martin Vucic
10.(5) 85 points - Latvia - The War Is Not Over - Walters & Khaza
11.(25) 81 points - Poland - Czarna dziewczyna - Ivan & Delfin
12.(23) 69 points - Slovenia - Stop - Omar Naber
13.(8 ) 67 points - Belarus - Love Me Tonight - Angelica Agurbash
14.(9) 53 points - Netherlands - My Impossible Dream - Glennis Grace
(22) 53 points - Ireland - Love? - Donna & Joe
16.(10) 52 points - Iceland - If I Had Your Love - Selma
17.(3) 51 points - Portugal - Amar - 2B
18.(16) 50 points - Finland - Why? - Geir Rönning
19.(21) 49 points - Bulgaria - Lorrain - Kaffe
20.(12) 31 points - Estonia - Let's Get Loud - Suntribe
21.(1) 30 points - Austria - Y Asi - Global.kryner
22.(11) 29 points - Belgium - Le grand soir - Nuno Resende
23.(18 ) 27 points - Andorra - La mirada interior - Marian van der Wal
24.(6) 22 points - Monaco - Tout de moi - Lise Darly
25.(2) 17 points - Lithuania - Little By Little - Laura & The Lovers
The Final took place 2 days after the semi-final. Once again the 10 qualifiers joined the Big 4 and the 10 highest scorers from the previous year. Helena Paparizou returned for Greece, this time without the other half of Antique. Chiara returned for Malta 7 years to improve her position by 1 place. Constantinos Christoforiou returned for the last of his 3 appearances for Cyprus. The Ukrainian entry caused some controversy, being added straight into the national final without going through the qualification process. The biggest talking point, however, was the fact that the countries that finished in the bottom 4 positions were the so-called Big 4 nations. The Big 4 have a guaranteed place in the final every year but with poor performance such as this their guaranteed place does not seem justified. The voting was fairly close early on with the lead changing hands regularly. Once Greece finally took the lead they didn't relinquish it. 31 years after their debut it was the longest wait for a first win so far - beating Belgiums 30 year wait by 1 year.
Final
1.(19) 230 points - Greece - My Number One - Helena Paparizou
2.(3) 192 points - Malta - Angel - Chiara
3.(4) 158 points - Romania - Let Me Try - Luminita Anghel & Sistem
4.(11) 154 points - Israel - Hasheket Shenish'ar - Shiri Maymon
5.(23) 153 points - Latvia - The War Is Not Over - Walters & Khaza
6.(7) 148 points - Moldova - Boonika Bate Tobe - Zdob Si Zdub
7.(12) 137 points - Serbia & Montenegro - Zauvijek moja - No Name
8.(22) 128 points - Switzerland - Cool Vibes - Vanilla Ninja
9.(5) 125 points - Norway - In My Dreams - Wig Wam
(13) 125 points - Denmark - Talking In Your Sleep - Jakob Sviestrup
11.(18) 115 points - Croatia - Vukovi umiru sami - Boris Novkovic featuring Lado Members
12.(1) 97 points - Hungary - Forogj vilag! - NOX
13.(6) 92 points - Turkey - Rimi rimi ley - Gülseren
14.(21) 79 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Call Me - Feminnem
15.(20) 57 points - Russia - Nobody Hurt No-one - Natalya Podolskaya
16.(8 ) 53 points - Albania - Tomorrow I Go - Ledina Celo
17.(15) 52 points - Macedonia - Make My Day - Martin Vucic
18.(9) 46 points - Cyprus - Ela Ela - Constantinos Christoforiou
19.(14) 30 points - Sweden - Las Vegas - Martin Steinmarck
(16) 30 points - Ukraine - Razom nas bahato - Greenjolly
21.(10) 28 points - Spain - Brujeria - Son de Sol
22.(2) 18 points - United Kingdom - Touch My Fire - Javine
23.(24) 11 points - France - Chacun pense à soi - Ortal
24.(17) 5 points - Germany - Run & Hide - Gracia
ESC 2006
The 51st Eurovison Song Contest was slightly smaller than the previous year. Austria and Hungary declined to take part and Serbia & Montenegro withdrew due to a scandal during their selection process. Armenia joined the contest so the number of participants stood at 37. The Semi-Final welcomed Carola back to ESC, once again representing Sweden and 15 years after she'd last appeared. She easily made it to the final. Also returning, after a shorter break of 3 years, were Ich Troje for Poland. They could not recreate their top 10 finish of 2003 and failed to make the final. Finland provided the main talking point with monster rockers Lordi appearing in masks with a hard rock (hallelujah) song. Lithuania were optimistic with their song called "We Are The Winners". Iceland had to change the lyrics of their song to remove a swear word from it. Silvia Night managed to upset almost everyone with her antics and failed to qualify for the final prompting another tantrum. The 10 qualifiers for the final were Russia, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Lithuania, Finland, Ukraine, Ireland, Sweden, Turkey and newcomers Armenia, who having opened the Semi-Final and closed the final became the first country to open and close the same contest.
FULL SEMI FINAL RESULTS
1.(16) 292 points - Finland - Hard Rock Hallelujah - Lordi
2.(22) 267 points - Bosnia & Herzigovina - Lejla - Hari Mata Hari
3.(13) 217 points - Russia - Never Let You Go - Dima Bilan
4.(20) 214 points - Sweden - Invincible - Carola
5.(18 ) 163 points - Lithuania - We Are The Winners - LT United
6.(1) 150 points - Armenia - Without Your Love - André
7.(15) 146 points - Ukraine - Show Me Your Love - Tina Karol
8.(14) 91 points - Turkey - Süper Star - Sibel Tüzün
9.(8 ) 79 points - Ireland - Every Song Is A Cry For Love - Brian Kennedy
10.(11) 76 points - Macedonia - Ninanajna - Elena Risteska
11.(12) 70 points - Poland - Follow My Heart - Ich Troje featuring the Real McCoy
12.(7) 69 points - Belgium - Je t'adore - Kate Ryan
13.(23) 62 points - Iceland - Congratulations - Silvia Night
14.(6) 58 points - Albania - Zjarr e ftohtë - Luiz Ejlli
15.(9) 57 points - Cyprus - Why Angels Cry - Annet Artani
16.(3) 49 points - Slovenia - Mr Nobody - Anzej Dezan
17.(2) 36 points - Bulgaria - Let Me Cry - Mariana Popova
18.(21) 2 points - Estonia - Through My Window - Sandra Oxenryd
19.(19) 26 points - Portugal - Coisas de nada - Nonstop
20.(17) 22 points - Netherlands - Amambanda - Treble
21.(10) 14 points - Monaco - La coco dance - Séverine Ferrer
22.(5) 10 points - Belarus - Mum - Polina Smolova
23.(4) 8 points - Andorra - Sense tu - Jenny
The final was once again held 2 days after the semi-final. 45 years after their debut, and having finished no higher than 6th previously, Finland emerged victorious holding the lead from start to finish. The monsters of rock Lordi had done 4 things that 40 previous Finnish entrants couldn't do. 1) win, 2) finish top 5, 3) score 100+ points and 4) finish ahead of the United Kingdom!!. Returning to the contest, along with Carola who had been in the Semi-Final, were Anna Vissi returning for Greece 26 years after her debut, and 24 years after her last appearance. Eddie Butler was a member of Israeli group Eden in 1999 and returned as a soloist 7 years later. Fabrizio Faniello returned for Malta and finished last avoiding the dreaded 0 points thanks to the Albanian voters. Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger were back again as composers and lyricist for the 18th time each (most, but not all, of them together). The Bosnian entry was written by Zeljko Joksimovic who'd been runner up for Serbia & Montenegro 2 years previously. Serbia & Montenegro themselves had to withdraw from the contest due to a voting scandal in their National Final. However they were still able to vote in the contest. The Big 4 once again fared poorly with Germany doing best finishing 14th. France and Spain were once again in the bottom 4 with the United Kingdom only a couple of places higher in 19th. Romania brought Italian back to the contest with parts of their song Tornero being sung in the language. They finished highest of the direct qualifiers, finishing 4th
Results
1.(17) 292 points - Finland - Hard Rock Hallelujah - Lordi
2.(10) 248 points - Russia - Never Let You Go - Dima Bilan
3.(13) 229 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Lejla - Hari Mata Hari
4.(12) 172 points - Romania - Tornero - Mihai Traistariu
5.(22) 170 points - Sweden - Invincible - Carola
6.(14) 162 points - Lithuania - We Are The Winners - LT United
7.(18 ) 145 points - Ukraine - Show Me Your Love - Tina Karol
8.(24) 129 points - Armenia - Without Your Love - André
9.(16) 128 points - Greece - Everything - Anna Vissi
10.(21) 93 points - Ireland - Every Song Is A Cry For Love - Brian Kennedy
11.(23) 91 points - Turkey - Süper star - Sibel Tüzün
12.(11) 56 points - Macedonia - Ninanajna - Elena Risteska
(20) 56 points - Croatia - Moja Stikla - Severina
14.(5) 36 points - Norway - Alvedansen - Christine Guldbrandsen
(8 ) 36 points - Germany - No No Never - Texas Lightning
16.(1) 30 points - Switzerland - If We All Give A Little - six4one
(4) 30 points - Latvia - I Hear Your Heart - Vocal Group Cosmos
18.(9) 26 points - Denmark - Twist Of Love - Sidsel Ben Semmane
19.(15) 25 points - United Kingdom - Teenage Life - Daz Sampson
20.(2) 22 points - Moldova - Loca - Arsenium featuring Natalia Gordienko & Connect R
21.(6) 18 points - Spain - Un Bloodymary - Las Ketchup
22.(19) 5 points - France - Il était temps - Virginie Pouchain
23.(3) 4 points - Israel - Together We Are One - Eddie Butler
24.(7) 1 point - Malta - I Do - Fabrizio Faniello
ESC 2007
A huge 42 countries took part in the 52nd Eurovision Song Contest. 28 of them in the semi-final vying for only 10 places in the final. Austria and Hungary returned after missing the 2006 contest. Serbia and Montenegro also returned, this time as two seperate countries. Georgia and the Czech Republic made their debuts. Monaco withdrew from the contest having failed to make it out of the Semi-Final since their return in 2004. Karolina Goceva returned for Macedonia, 5 years after her first appearance. Eirikur Hauksson was back for a 3rd attempt this time as a soloist having previously been a member of Icy in 1986 and Just4Fun in 1991. Evridiki was back for the 3rd time for Cyprus hoping not to finish 11th again. She didn't as she finished 15th. Edsilia Rombley was back for the Netherlands hoping to emulate her high finish of 1998, but it wasn't to be as she trailed in 21st. Olivia Lewis finally made it to the ESC after years of trying to win the Maltese National Final. Unfortunately for her her perseverance didn't pay off as she finished 25th. The Czech Repulic's debut was saved from an ignominous start by a single point received from the Estonian televoters. The 10 qualifiers were Belarus, Macedonia, Slovenia, Hungary, Georgia, Latvia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Moldova.
Full Semi-Final Results
1.(15) 298 points - Serbia - Molitva - Marija Serifovic
2.(22) 224 points - Hungary - Unsubstantial Blues - Madgi Ruzsa
3.(26) 197 points - Turkey - Shake It Up Shekerim - Kenan Dogulu
4.(4) 176 points - Belarus - Work Your Magic - Koldun
5.(28 ) 168 points - Latvia - Questa Notte - Bonaparti.lv
6.(1) 146 points - Bulgaria - Water - Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankoulov
7.(25) 140 points - Slovenia - Cvet z juka - Alenka Gotar
8.(6) 123 points - Georgia - Visionary Dream - Sopho
9.(18 ) 97 points - Macedonia - Mojot svet - Karolina
10.(9) 91 points - Moldova - Fight - Natalia Barbu
11.(17) 88 points - Portugal - Dança comigo (Vem ser feliz) - Sabrina
12.(21) 80 points - Andorra - Salvem el mon - Anonymous
13.(5) 77 points - Iceland - Valentine Lost - Eirikur Hauksson
14.(14) 74 points - Poland - Time To Party - The Jet Set
15.(3) 65 points - Cyprus - Comme ci, comme ça - Evridiki
16.(13) 54 points - Croatia - Vjerujem u ljubav - Dragonfly feat Dado Topic
17.(11) 49 points - Albania - Hear My Plea - Frederik Ndoci
18.(19) 48 points - Norway - Ven a bailar conmigo - Guri Schanke
19.(12) 45 points - Denmark - Drama Queen - DQ
20.(8 ) 40 points - Switzerland - Vampires Are Alive - DJ BoBo
21.(10) 38 points - Netherlands - On Top Of The World - Edsilia Rombley
22.(7) 33 points - Montenegro - 'Ajde kro?i - Stevan Faddy
(23) 33 points - Estonia - Partners In Crime - Gerli Padar
24.(2) 17 points - Israel - Push The Button - Teapacks
25.(20) 15 points - Malta - Vertigo - Olivia Lewis
26.(24) 14 points - Belgium - Love Power - The KMGs
27.(27) 4 points - Austria - Get A Life...Get Alive - Eric Papilaya
28.(16) 1 point - Czech Republic - Mala Dama - Kabat
The final was held again 2 days after the semi-final. Newcomers to the final were Georgia (making their debut in the contest), Belarus (at their 4th attempt), Bulgaria (at their 3rd attempt) and Serbia (making their debut as an independant country). Macedonia, having qualified for the final for the 4th consecutive time, were the only country in the final with a returning artist, Karolina Gocheva. Slovenia on the other hand finally made the final on their 4th attempt. Ukraine had the main talking point of the contest with the drag act Verka Serduchka. The Big 4 all wanted to improve their poor finishes of recent years. Once again Germany faired best but still finished a distant 19th. Spain avoided finishing in the bottom 4 for the 3rd consecutive year by finishing 20th. France weren't so lucky finishing 22nd for the 2nd consecutive year (as they had finished 23rd in 2005 it has been a bad few years for France). It looked for a long time that the United Kingdom would finish on 0 points again, but 7 points from Ireland and a truly bizarre 12 from Malta saved them from it, but not from finishing in the bottom 3 again. For the 2nd year running the Albanian votes saved a country from scoring 0 points. This time the lucky recipients were Ireland. The voting was fairly close but Serbia were never really challenged greatly. Serbia officially won on their debut but the question remains - was it really their debut having appeared before with Montenegro.
Results
1.(17) 268 points - Serbia - Molitva - Marija Serifovic
2.(18 ) 235 points - Ukraine - Dancing Lasha Tumbai - Verka Serduchka
3.(15) 207 points - Russia - Song #1 - Serebro
4.(22) 163 points - Turkey - Shake It Up Shekerim - Kenan Dogulu
5.(21) 157 points - Bulgaria - Water - Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankulov
6.(3) 145 points - Belarus - Work Your Magic - Koldun
7.(10) 139 points - Greece - Yassou Maria - Sarbel
8.(23) 138 points - Armenia - Anytime You Need - Hayko
9.(8 ) 128 points - Hungary - Unsubstantial Blues - Madgi Ruzsa
10.(24) 109 points - Moldova - Fight - Natalia Barbu
11.(1) 106 points - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Rijeka bez imena - Marija Sestic
12.(11) 97 points - Georgia - Visionary Dream - Sopho
13.(20) 84 points - Romania - Liubi, Liubi, I Love You - Todomondo
14.(6) 73 points - Macedonia - Mojot Svet - Karolina
15.(7) 66 points - Slovenia - Cvet z juga - Alenka Gotar
16.(14) 54 points - Latvia - Questa Notte - Bonaparti.lv
17.(5) 53 points - Finland - Leave Me Alone - Hanna Pakarinen
18.(12) 51 points - Sweden - The Worrying Kind - The Ark
19.(16) 49 points - Germany - Frauen regier'n die welt - Roger Cicero
20.(2) 43 points - Spain - I Love You Mi Vida - DNash
21.(9) 28 points - Lithuania - Love Or Leave - 4Fun
22.(13) 19 points - France - L'amour à la française - Les Fatals Picards
(19) 19 points - United Kingdom - Flying The Flag (For You) - Scooch
24.(4) 5 points - Ireland - They Can't Stop The Spring - Dervish
ESC 2008
For the first time ever there were 2 semi-finals and 1 final for the Eurovision song contest. Only the defending champion (Serbia) and the Big 4 had automatically qualified for the final. The remaining places were to be filled by 10 songs from each Semi-Final. 9 of those songs were chosen by televotes and the final place was decided by a jury vote. In Semi-Final 1 the jury vote didn't make a difference as the song finishing 10th in the televotes was the jury pick. Dima Bilan returned to ESC hoping to improve on his 2nd place of two years previous. San Marino & Azerbaijan made their debuts in the contest with varying degrees of success. Ireland sent a puppet turkey called Dustin as their representative. Joke entries seemed to be the order of the day - but generally fared badly. The qualifiers were - Greece, Armenia, Russia, Norway, Israel, Azerbaijan, Romania, Finland, Bosnia & Herzegovina & Poland.
1. (19) Greece - Secret Combination - Kalomira - 156 pts
2. (14) Armenia - Qele qele - Sirusho - 139 pts
3. (18) Russia - Believe - Dima Bilan - 135 pts
4. (9) Norway - Hold On, Be Strong - Maria Haukaas Storeng - 106 pts
5. (2) Israel - The Fire In Your Eyes - Boaz Mauda - 104 pts
6. (7) Azerbaijan - Day After Day - Elnur & Samir - 96 pts
7. (17) Romania - Pe-o margine de lume - Nico & Vlad - 94 pts
8. (16) Finland - Missä miehet ratsastaa - Teräsbetoni - 79 pts
9. (13) Bosnia & Herzegovina - Pokusaj - Laka - 72 pts
10. (10) Poland - For Life - Isis Gee - 42 pts
11. (4) Moldova - A Century Of Love - Geta Burlacu - 36 pts
(8 ) Slovenia - Vrag naj vzame - Rebeka Dremelj - 36 pts
13. (15) Netherlands - My Heart Belongs To You - Hind - 27 pts
14. (1) Montenegro - Zauvijek volim te - Stefan Filipovic - 23 pts
15. (11) Ireland - Irelande douze points - Dustin The Turkey - 22 pts
(12) Andorra - Casanova - Gisela - 22 pts
17. (6) Belgium - O julissi - Ishtar - 16 pts
18. (3) Estonia - Leto svet - Kreisiraadio - 8 pts
19. (5) San Marino - Complice - Miodio - 5 pts
The second semi-final took place 2 days after the first. The only returning competitor was former winner Charlotte Perrelli who had won as Charlotte Nilsson in 1999. The top 9 in the televoting qualified automatically as with the first semi - but this time the jury pick wasn't the song that finished 10th - but the one that finished 12th in the televoting...and was our returnee from Sweden. The 10 qualifiers were Ukraine, Portugal, Croatia, Denmark, Georgia, Latvia, Turkey, Iceland, Albania & Sweden. Portugal and Iceland both qualified from the semi-final for the first time since the system was introduced in 2004.
1. (4) Ukraine - Shady Lady - Ani Lorak - 152 pts
2. (19) Portugal - Senhora do mar - Vânia Fernandes - 120 pts
3. (11) Croatia - Romanca - Kralijevi Ulice & 75 Cent - 112 pts
(13) Denmark - All Night Long - Simon Mathew - 112 pts
5. (14) Georgia - Peace Will Come - Diana Gurtskaya - 107 pts
6. (10) Latvia - Wolves Of The Sea - Pirates Of The Sea - 86 pts
7. (3) Turkey - Deli - Mor ve Ötesi - 85 pts
8. (1) Iceland - This Is My Life - Euroband - 68 pts
9. (6) Albania - Zemrën e lamë peng - Olta Boka - 67 pts
10. (18 ) Macedonia - Let Me Love You - Tamara, Vrčak & Adrijan - 64 pts
11. (12) Bulgaria - DJ, Take Me Away - Deep Zone & Balthazar - 56 pts
12. (2) Sweden - Hero - Charlotte Perrelli - 54 pts
13. (7) Switzerland - Era stupendo - Paolo Meneguzzi - 47 pts
14. (16) Malta - Vodka - Morena - 38 pts
15. (17) Cyprus - Femme fatale - Evdokia Kadi - 37 pts
16. (5) Lithuania - Nomads In The Night - Jeronimus Milus - 30 pts
17. (9) Belarus - Hasta la vista - Ruslan Alehno - 27 pts
18. (8 ) Czech Republic - Have Some Fun - Tereza Kerndlova - 9 pts
19. (15) Hungary - Candlelight - Csézy - 6 pts
The final took place the Saturday after the 2 semi-finals had taken place. The finalists were the 10 qualifiers from each semi-final plus defending champions Serbia and the Big 4. Returning to the Eurovision stage were Dima Bilan & Charlotte Perrelli who'd both successfully negotiated the Semi's on their return (one slightly easier than the other). Dima was looking to improve on his 2nd place from 2006 whilst Charlotte was hoping to emulate Johnny Logan and become a double winner of the contest. The Serbian entry was written by former competitor (and host of this contest) Željko Joksimovic. The voting was predictable in parts and frankly bizarre in other parts (none more so than Bulgaria giving Germany 12 of the 14 points that they received all night - solely because one of the members of German representatives No Angels was Bulgarian). Spain had a pre-qualifying round hosted online through myspace and it was won convincingly by a bizarre act called Rodolfo Chickiliacuatre who wanted us to dance the "chiki chiki". France chose renowned musician Sébastien Tellier who appeared onstage in a golf-cart and for the first time ever performed the French entry entirely in English. The UK once again chose to pick a talent show loser - this time X Factor's Andy Abraham runner-up to Shayne Ward in 2006. There was a lot of controversy regarding the voting with so many of the top marks being predictable and the winner was clear very early on in the proceedings...not because it was the best song or best performance but because it had the biggest voting diaspora. Veteran UK commentator Terry Wogan was upset not only with the "friendly voting" but also with the last place achieved by the UK citing "institutionalised racism amongst Eastern European Nations" and that they would never vote for a black man east of Berlin...until it was pointed out to him that the only coloured winner of the contest represented Estonia - very much west of Berlin. Wogan would later resign as UK commentator after almost 40 years of doing the job. Dima Bilan became the 5th artist, and the first male, to finish both 1st & 2nd in ESC...the others were Lys Assia, Gigliola Cinquetti, Linda Martin & Elisabeth Andreassen
RESULTS
1. (24) - Russia - Believe - Dima Bilan - 272 pts
2. (18 ) - Ukraine - Shady Lady - Ani Lorak - 230 pts
3. (21) - Greece - Secret Combination - Kalomira - 218 pts
4. (5) - Armenia - Qele Qele - Sirusho - 199 pts
5. (25) - Norway - Hold On, Be Strong - 182 pts
6. (23) - Serbia - Oro - Jelena Tomašević feat. Bora Dugić - 160 pts
7. (12) - Turkey - Deli - Mor ve Ötesi - 138 pts
8. (20) - Azerbaijan - Day After Day - Elnur & Samir - 132 pts
9. (7) - Israel - The Fire In Your Eyes - Boaz Mauda - 124 pts
10. (6) - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Pokusaj - Laka - 110 pts
11. (14) - Latvia - Wolves Of The Sea - Pirates Of The Sea - 83 pts
(17) - Georgia - Peace Will Come - Diana Gurtskaya - 83 pts
13. (13) - Portugal - Senhora do mar - Vânia Fernandes - 69 pts
14. (11) - Iceland - This Is My Life - Euroband - 63 pts
15. (16) - Denmark - All Night Long - Simon Mathew - 60 pts
16. (3) - Albania - Zemrën e lamë peng - Olta Boka - 55 pts
(22) - Spain - Bailar el chiki chiki - Rodolfo Chikiliacuatre - 55 pts
18. (15) - Sweden - Hero - Charlotte Perrelli - 47 pts
(19) - France - Divine - Sébastien Tellier - 47 pts
20. (1) - Romania - Pe-o margine de lume - Nico & Vlad - 45 pts
21. (9) - Croatia - Romanca - Kraljevi Ulice feat 75 Cent - 44 pts
22. (8 ) - Finland - Missä miehet ratsastaa - Teräsbetoni - 35 pts
23. (4) - Germany - Disappear - No Angels - 14 pts
24. (10) - Poland - For Life - Isis Gee - 14 pts
25. (2) - United Kingdom - Even If - Andy Abraham - 14 pts