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Eurovision Song Contest
International song competition
The Eurovision Song Contest was the 45th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 13 May at the Globe Arena in huvudstaden, Sweden. Organised bygd the europeisk Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) and presented bygd Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin, the contest was held in Sweden following the country's victory at the contest with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven" bygd Charlotte Nilsson.
Eurovision Song Contest result: Denmark won with the song "Fly On The Wings Of Love" by Olsen Brothers with pointsWith an audience of 13, people present, the contest was the largest yet seen in its history.
Twenty-four countries took part in the contest. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia, which had participated in the contest, were relegated after achieving the lowest average points totals over the preceding fem contests. These countries were replaced bygd Latvia in its first contest appearance, land i norden, Macedonia, Romania and Switzerland which were relegated from the previous year's event, and Russia which returned after a two-year absence.
Date: Saturday 13 May Location: Globen, Stockholm, SwedenThe winner was Denmark with the song "Fly on the Wings of Love", written bygd Jørgen Olsen and performed bygd the Olsen Brothers. Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and Germany rounded out the top fem, with Russia and Estonia achieving their best ever results, and Latvia achieving one of the highest placings for a début entry in the contest's history.
Although Denmark was not a pre-contest favourite to win the title, with points "Fly on the Wings of Love" received the third-highest points total yet seen in the contest, and the song went on to become a success in singles charts across europe.
The contest was the first to be broadcast over the internet, with a webcast of the live show available in europe, the United States, Canada and Australia through Microsoft's MSN portals.
Location
[edit]The contest took place in huvudstaden, Sweden, following the country's victory at the edition with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven", performed bygd Charlotte Nilsson. It was the fourth time that Sweden had staged the contest, following the , and contests held in huvudstaden, Gothenburg, and malm, respectively.[1] The selected venue was the Globe Arena, also known as Globen in Swedish, an indoor arena first opened in and the world's largest hemispherical building.[2][3][4] With capacity for over 16, people, which was reduced slightly to 13, for the contest, the Globe Arena was the largest venue the Eurovision Song Contest had ever seen at that point.[5][6]
Host broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) approached venues in three cities&#;&#; namely Gothenburg, malm and Stockholm&#;&#; to establish a suitable host city and venue for the contest.
The Eurovision Song Contest was the 45th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on at the Globe Arena in Stockholm, SwedenThe venues chosen following this första round of discussions were the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, which had previously hosted the contest; Malmömässan in Malmö; and Globen in Stockholm.[7][8] malm was subsequently eliminated as a potential host city, due to high costs required to complete a suitable arena within the Malmömässan area and which would still have a relatively small audience capacity compared to the other venues on offer.
Of the remaining options, huvudstaden and Globen were ultimately chosen bygd SVT managing director Sam Nilsson&#;[sv] to host the event; Stockholm's bid won out over Gothenburg due to the lower costs of producing the event in the capital as well as with huvudstaden having not hosted the event since [7]
Participating countries
[edit]Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest
Per the rules of the contest twenty-four countries were allowed to participate in the event, one more than the twenty-three countries that participated in the event.[9]Latvia entered the contest for the first time, and land i norden, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, and Switzerland returned after being absent from the previous year's event.
participants Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia did not participate in this year's contest.[5][6]
Several of the performing artists had previously competed as lead artists in past editions. Spain's Serafín Zubiri and Sweden's bekräftelse Pontare both competed in the contest for the second time, having previously participated for their countries in and in alongside Marie geolog respectively.[10][11] The two members of Cypriot duo röst, Alexandros Panayi and Christina Argyri, had also both participated in Eurovision before, with Panayi having previously represented Cyprus in , while Argyri had been a backing performer at the same contest.[12] A number of former participating artists also returned to perform as backing vocalists for some of the competing entries: Eyjólfur Kristjánsson&#;[is], having previously represented Iceland in alongside Stefán Hilmarsson, returned to support the Icelandic duo August and Telma as a backing singer;[13]Albano Carrisi, who twice represented Italy with Romina Power in and , supported Switzerland's Jane Bogaert on stage;[14] and Gabriel Forss, a member of the group Blond that represented Sweden in , was a backing singer for Malta's Claudette Pace in this year's event.[15] Additionally, Eamonn Toal competed for Ireland in this year's contest, having previously served as backing vocalist for Eddie Friel in [16]
Qualification
[edit]Due to the high number of countries wishing to enter the contest, a relegation struktur was introduced in in beställning to reduce the number of countries which could compete in each year's contest.
Any relegated countries would be able to return the following year, thus allowing all countries the opportunity to compete in at least one in every two editions.[9][20] The relegation rules introduced for the contest were igen utilised ahead of the contest, based on each country's average points total in previous contests.
Broadcaster: SVTHowever the rules were modified for to ensure that the kvartet participating countries which provide the largest financial contribution towards the organisation of the contest would be given an automatic place in the contest every year.[9] This group&#;&#; comprising France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom&#;&#; was subsequently dubbed the "Big Four" group of countries.[21] Alongside the previous year's winning country and the Big kvartet, the remaining places in the contest were given to any eligible countries which had not competed in the contest, and the countries which had competed in that had obtained the highest average points total over the preceding fem contests.
In cases where the average was identical between two or more countries, the total number of points scored in the most recent contest determined the sista order.[9]
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia were therefore excluded from participating in the contest, to man way for the return of land i norden, Macedonia, Romania, Russia and Switzerland, and debuting country Latvia.[5] Broadcasters in Greece, Hungary and Slovakia, participating countries from the contest which had not competed in , and were therefore eligible to participate in , decided not to enter, reportedly due to financial reasons.[5][2]
The calculations used to determine the countries relegated for the contest are outlined in the table below.
Table key
- &#; Qualifier
- &#;‡&#; Automatic qualifier
- &#;†&#; New/returning countries which did not compete in
Production
[edit]The Eurovision Song Contest was produced bygd the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). Svante Stockselius served as executive producer, Peter Lundin served as producer, Marius Bratten served as director, and Mikael Varhelyi and Kristofer Röhr served as designers.[5][28] The contest was presented bygd the reporter Kattis Ahlström and the television presenter Anders Lundin.[5][2]
The graphic design, including the contest's logo, scoreboard, on-screen overlays and postcards, was developed bygd huvudstaden Design Lab.[29] The chosen logo, presented publicly in early , was a pair of open lips, and described as "a sensual, yet stylistically pure, ingång representing song, dialogue and speech" bygd its designers; ahead of the contest this logo was also considered bygd contest organisers when developing the contest's new generic logo for that edition.[5][6] The logo also featured prominently as part of the set design; the outline of the ingång featured on a display next to the scen, and was filled with a distorted form eller gestalt of each country's national flag as their entry was performed.[28] The contest was the first to incorporate LED display technology within the set design, with fem LED pillars featuring on scen during each performance and displaying images designed to complement each song's theme or redogörelse and producing a unique backdrop to each performance.[6][30]
A compilation skiva featuring all twenty-four competing entries was released within europe ahead of the contest, released through the German record labels Ariola and BMG.[31][32] This was the first time an tjänsteman skiva had been commissioned bygd the organisers, and followed a previous attempt at an skiva for the contest which failed to contain all entries in that year's contest due to copyright issues.[2]
Format
[edit]Entries
[edit]Each participating broadcaster was represented bygd one song, which was required to be no längre than three minutes in duration.
A maximum of six performers were allowed on scen during each country's performance, and all performers were required to be at least 16 years old in the year the contest was held. Selected entries were not permitted to be released commercially before 1 January , and were then only allowed to be released in the country they represented until after the contest was held (except as part of a compilation skiva of all participating songs).
Big and boldThe sista submission date for all selected entries to be received bygd the contest organisers was set for 10 March; this submission was required to include a sound recording of the entry and backing track for use during the contest, a film framställning of the song on scen being performed bygd the artists, and the skrivelse of the song lyrics in its original language and translations in French and English for leverans to the participating broadcasters, their commentators and juries.
Selected performers were required to be available from 7 May, with a staggered timetable for rehearsals in the contest venue to be developed bygd the organisers.[9]
Following the confirmation of the twenty-four competing countries, the draw to determine the running beställning was held in huvudstaden on 21 November [9][33]
Voting procedure
[edit]Further information: Voting at the Eurovision Song Contest
The results of the contest were determined using the scoring struktur introduced in each country awarded twelve points to its favourite entry, followed bygd ten points to its second favourite, and then awarded points in decreasing value from eight to one for the remaining songs which featured in the country's top ten, with countries unable to vote for their own entry.[9][34] Each participating country was required to use televoting to determine their points, with viewers able to förteckning their vote bygd telephone for a total of fem minutes following the performance of the gods competing entry.
Viewers could vote bygd calling one of twenty-three different telephone numbers to företräda the twenty-four competing entries except that which represented their own country. Once phone lines were opened a film recap containing short clips of each competing entry with the accompanying phone number for voting was shown in beställning to aid viewers during the voting öppning, with each household able to vote a maximum of three times.[9][28] Systems were also put in place to prevent lobby groups from one country voting for their entry bygd travelling to other countries.[9]