Eurovision Song Contest 2004

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**Eurovision Song Contest 2004**

Date	15 May 2004 (Semi-final on 12 May 2004)
Presenter	Korhan Abay, Meltem Cumbul
Host Broadcaster	TRT
Director	Sven Stojanovic
Venue	Abdi İpekçi Arena, Istanbul, Turkey
Winning Song	Wild Dances (Ukraine)
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Number of Songs	24 in final, another 12 DNQ from the semi-final
Countries Making Début	Andorra, Albania, Belarus, and Serbia and Montenegro
Nul points	Switzerland (in the Semi-final)
Interval Act	Sertab Erener, Fire of Anatolia

The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the forty-ninth Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, with the final on 15 May 2004, and the new semi-final three days earlier, on 12 May 2004. The hosting national broadcaster of the contest was TRT. The Ukrainian singer Ruslana Lyzhichko won the contest with the song "Wild Dances", and a score of 280 points. It is notable that this was only Ukraine's second participation in the contest. The official generic logo of the contest was first used this year, with the heart-shaped flag in the centre to be changed for future contests. The slogan for Istanbul's contest was "Under The Same Sky", which communicated the importance of a united Europe and Turkish integration.

This year's Eurovision was the first contest to be a two-day event, with one qualifying round held on a Wednesday and the grand final held on the following Saturday. Under this new format, byes into the final were given to the 'Big 4'; the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain (as the largest financial contributors to the European Broadcasting Union) and the ten highest placed finishers in the 2003 contest. It was also the first contest to be broadcast in high definition format. Andorra, Albania and Belarus participated in the Contest for the first time, Serbia and Montenegro returned after a 12-year hiatus (however, they had participated as FR Yugoslavia the previous time) and Monaco returned after an absence of 25 years. All participating countries had the right to vote in both the qualifying round and the grand final. This was the first year in which all 36 participating countries voted based on a public phone vote. However France, Poland and Russia did not broadcast the semi-final (as they were not participating in it) and therefore did not give votes for it like the other thirty-three countries.

The hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul were Korhan Abay and Meltem Cumbul. In the semi-final and the final, Meltem Cumbul warmed up the audience with a sing-a-long of Eurovision classic "Nel blu di pinto di blu (Volare)", originally by Domenico Modugno. Sertab Erener returned to the stage in the final to perform "Everyway That I Can", the 2003 winning song, and one of her new songs called "Leave". Sertab also interviewed contestants in the green room. The Turkish dance ensemble "Fire of Anatolia" performed as the interval act. An official CD was released and, for the first time, the entire contest was released on DVD.

An hour after the semi-final had been aired, the European Broadcasting Union discovered that there had been problems with the vote counting in Monaco and Croatia. Digame, an affiliate of Deutsche Telekom, who had been responsible for processing all the votes, reported that they had encountered problems with their calculation software, and there was a problem with text message voting in Croatia. Consequently, some votes were not counted in the results announced at the end of the broadcast of the semi-final. When the results were corrected to include these additional votes, they were found not to have affected which countries had qualified for the Final.

1 Individual Entries
2 Final 2004-05-15
3 Semi-Final 2004-05-12
4 Voting structure
5 Score sheet
6 Spokespersons
7 Map
8 External links

The presenters, Meltem Cumbul and Korhan Abay.

Ruslana performing Wild Dances for Ukraine at Eurovision 2004.

[edit] Individual Entries

Individual Entries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

Albania - Andorra - Austria - Belarus - Belgium - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Croatia - Cyprus - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Iceland - Ireland - Israel - Latvia - Lithuania - Republic of Macedonia - Malta - Monaco - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Russia - Serbia and Montenegro - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Turkey - Ukraine - United Kingdom

Note: Countries in italics are semi-finalists who did not advance to the final.

[edit] Final 2004-05-15

Countries in bold automatically qualified for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 Final.

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	Translation	Place	Points
1	Spain	Spanish	Ramón	Para llenarme de ti	To Be Filled By You	10	87
2	Austria	German	Tie Break	Du bist	You Are	21	9
3	Norway	English	Knut Anders Sørum	High	-	24	3
4	France	French, Spanish	Jonatan Cerrada	A Chaque Pas	With Every Step	15	40
5	Serbia and Montenegro	Serbian	Željko Joksimović	Lane Moje	My Sweetheart	2	263
6	Malta	English	Julie & Ludwig	On Again... Off Again	-	12	50
7	Netherlands	English	Re-union	Without You	-	20	11
8	Germany	English, Turkish	Max	Can't Wait Until Tonight	-	8	93
9	Albania	English	Anjeza Shahini	The Image Of You	-	7	106
10	Ukraine	English, Ukrainian	Ruslana	Wild Dances	-	1	280
11	Croatia	English	Ivan Mikulić	You Are The Only One	-	13	50
12	Bosnia and Herzegovina	English	Deen	In The Disco	-	9	91
13	Belgium	English	Xandee	1 Life	-	22	7
14	Russia	English	Julia Savicheva	Believe Me	-	11	67
15	FYR Macedonia	English	Toše Proeski	Life	-	14	47
16	Greece	English	Sakis Rouvas	Shake It	-	3	252
17	Iceland	English	Jónsi	Heaven	-	19	16
18	Ireland	English	Chris Doran	If My World Stops Turning	-	23	7
19	Poland	English	Blue Café	Love Song	-	17	27
20	United Kingdom	English	James Fox	Hold on to our Love	-	16	29
21	Cyprus	English	Lisa Andreas	Stronger Every Minute	-	5	170
22	Turkey	English	Athena	For Real	-	4	195
23	Romania	English	Sanda	I Admit	-	18	18
24	Sweden	English	Lena Philipsson	It Hurts	-	6	170

[edit] Semi-Final 2004-05-12

Shaded countries qualified for the Eurovision Final

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	Translation	Place	Points
1	Finland	English	Jari Sillanpää	Takes 2 to Tango	-	14	51
2	Belarus	English	Aleksandra & Konstantin	My Gallileo	-	19	10
3	Switzerland	English	Piero & The Musicstars	Celebrate	-	22	0
4	Latvia	Latvian	Fomins & Kleins	Dziesma Par Laimi	Song About Happiness	17	23
5	Israel	English, Hebrew	David D'or	Lehaamin	To Believe	11	57
6	Andorra	Catalan	Marta Roure	Jugarem a estimar-nos	We'll Be Playing at Loving Each Other	18	12
7	Portugal	Portuguese	Sofia Vitória	Foi Magia	It Was Magic	15	38
8	Malta	English	Julie & Ludwig	On Again... Off Again	-	8	74
9	Monaco	French	Maryon	Notre planète	Our Planet	20	10
10	Greece	English	Sakis Rouvas	Shake It	-	3	238
11	Ukraine	English, Ukrainian	Ruslana	Wild Dances		2	256
12	Lithuania	English	Linas & Simona	What's Happened to Your Love?	-	16	26
13	Albania	English	Anjeza Shahini	The Image Of You	-	4	167
14	Cyprus	English	Lisa Andreas	Stronger Every Minute	-	5	149
15	FYR Macedonia	English	Toše Proeski	Life	-	10	71
16	Slovenia	English	Platin	Stay Forever	-	21	5
17	Estonia	Võro	Neiokõsõ	Tii	The Way	12	57
18	Croatia	English	Ivan Mikulić	You Are The Only One	-	9	72
19	Denmark	English	Tomas Thordarson	Shame On You	-	13	56
20	Serbia and Montenegro	Serbian	Željko Joksimović	Lane Moje	My Sweetheart	1	263
21	Bosnia and Herzegovina	English	Deen	In The Disco	-	7	133
22	Netherlands	English	Re-union	Without You	-	6	146

[edit] Voting structure

Every country in the competition, including those who did not qualify for the final, were allowed to vote for other countries. After all performances were completed, each country opened their phonelines to allow their viewers to vote for their favourite song. Voting for the country in which you are situated is not allowed, however.

According to the way in which viewers placed their vote, each country awarded points: the country which received the most viewer votes was awarded 12 points, the second 10 points, the third 8 points and then 7, 6, 5, etc. down to 1.

In the event of a tie, the number of countries to vote for the tying songs would be counted, and the song having the most countries awarding points to it, would be the eventual winner. In the event of a further tie, then the usual method of counting back on the number of 12 points, 10 points etc, would be used to find an eventual winner.

[edit] Score sheet


Spain	12	0	0	0	7	2	6	0	7	2	0	0		0	8	0	3	0	0	8	1	0	0	3	1	3	4	0	1	12	5	0	0	0	2	0
Austria	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norway	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
France	7	1	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	0
Serbia & Montenegro	2	7	12	12	3	7	12		10	10	7	1	6	10	10	3	8	12	3	7	7	2	5	1	10	6	10	6	5	7	8	10	12	12	8	12
Malta	6	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	0	0	2	1	2	6	4	0	4	6	0	3		0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
The Netherlands	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Germany	0	2	10	3	0	0	10	0	0		0	2	12	0	7	4	0	1	4	0	0	1	0	7	0	0	3	1	6	8	4	0	0	3	5	0
Albania	0		5	4	1	0	7	8	0	5	4	0	0	3	1	1	10	6	2	0	4	0	1	0	12	10	1	3	0	0	1	0	7	4	6	0
Ukraine	10	5	4	6	5	10	0	10	8	6	5	12	8	8	2	5	7	8	7	12	12	12	12	6	8	8	7	7	12	10	6	12	10	8	12
Croatia	0	0	3	10	0	5	3	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	5	0	7
Bosnia & Herzegovina	0	10	7		0	0	5	6	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	2	10	0	0	0	0	8	10	7	0
Belgium	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Russia	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	1	6	0	0	8	0	4	0	0	2	0	0	6	0	8	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	10
FYR Macedonia	0	6	0	8	0	0	1	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	4	3
Greece	8	12	2	5	8	6	4	7	12	7	3	5	7	6	6	12		7	5	10	6	10	7	10	7	12	6	2	7	6	12	7	4	6	10	8
Iceland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	3	7	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	1	0	0	5
United Kingdom	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0		0	0	8	0	2	0	3	0	0	4	0	0	2	0	2	1	2	0	0	0
Cyprus	4	0	6	0	4	8	2	3		8	6	7	3	7	5	10	12	4	10	3	10	5	4	2	0	7	8	4	4	3	3	6	6	1	1	4
Turkey	3	8	8	7	12	3	8	2	4	12	10	0	2	5	12	6	6	3	1	2	5	3	2	8	6	0	12	8	8	0	10	8	5	0		6
Romania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4		0	0	0	0	0
Sweden	5	4	1	2	2	4	0	4	5	3	12	10	5	12	3	8	0	0	12	5	8	6	8	0	2	5	0	12	10	5	7	3		2	3	2
Rows are ordered by appearance, columns are ordered by voting order.

[edit] Spokespersons

In order of appearance on the final night

Andorra - Ms Pati Molné
Albania - Mr Zhani Ciko
Austria - Ms Dodo Roscic
Bosnia & Herzegovina - Mija Martina
Belgium - Ms Martine Prenen
Belarus - Mr Denis Kurian
Switzerland - Ms Emel Aykanat
Serbia & Montenegro - Ms Natasha Miljkovic
Cyprus - Mr Loukas Hamatsos
Germany - Mr Thomas Anders (former member of Modern Talking)
Denmark - Ms Camilla Ottesen
Estonia - Ms Maarja-Liis Ilus
Spain - Ms Anne Igartiburu
Finland - Ms Anna Stenlund
France - Mr Alex Taylor
United Kingdom - Ms Lorraine Kelly
Greece - Mr Alexis Kostalas
Croatia - Ms Barbara Kolar
Ireland - Mr Johnny Logan (the only double ESC winner at that time - in 1980 and 1987)
Israel - Ms Merav Miller
Iceland - Ms Sigrun Osk Kristjansdottir
Lithuania - Mr Rolandas Vilkoncius
Latvia - Mr Lauris Reiniks
Monaco - Ms Anne Allegrini
FYR Macedonia - Karolina Petkovska
Malta - Valletta - Ms Clair Agius
The Netherlands - Ms Esther Hart (Dutch representative in the 2003 contest)
Norway - Ms Ingvild Helljesen
Poland - Mr Maciej Orłoś
Portugal - Ms Isabel Angelino
Romania - Ms Andreea Marin
Russia - Ms Yana Churikova
Sweden - Mr Jovan Radomir
Slovenia - Mr Peter Poles
Turkey - Ms Meltem Ersan Yazgan
Ukraine - Mr Pavlo Shylko (DJ Pascha)