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