Eurovision Song Contest 1997
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1997 |
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| Final | 3 May 1997 |
| Presenter(s) | Carrie Crowley Ronan Keating |
| Conductor | Frank McNamara |
| Host broadcaster |  RTÉ |
| Venue | Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland |
| Winning song |  United Kingdom"Love Shine a Light" |
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| Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs | |
| Number of entries | 25 |
| Debuting countries | None |
| Returning countries |  Italy |
| Withdrawing countries | .svg/22px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png){kind=small} Belgium Finland Israel Romania Slovakia |
| Nul points |  Norway Portugal |
| Interval act | Ronan Keating, Boyzone |
| Eurovision Song Contest | |
| ◄1996 • 1998► | |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1997, the 42nd in the series, was held in Dublin, Ireland, on 3 May 1997. The presenters were Ronan Keating and Carrie Crowley.
Katrina and the Waves, representing the United Kingdom, were the winners of the 1997 contest with the song Love Shine a Light and Marc Roberts from Ireland came second with Mysterious Woman. The winning song scored an unprecedented 227 points; it received points from all participating countries, including five sets of 10 points and a record-breaking ten sets of the maximum 12 points. Love Shine a Light is still regarded as one of the most successful Eurovision winners ever,[1] and was the closing song in the medleys that opened the 50th anniversary show "Congratulations" in Copenhagen 2005, and ESC 2006 Semi-final in Athens.
After the controversy over the pre-selection in 1996, the European Broadcasting Union introduced a new system for 1997: the countries with the lowest average scores over the previous four years would be excluded from the 1997 contest, and those with the lowest averages over the previous five years would be excluded from future contests (save that every country so excluded for one year would automatically be allowed to participate the following year), with so many countries being omitted as would reduce the number of participants each year to 25.
The Italian national broadcaster RAI declared that this year was their last year of participating at the Eurovision Song Contest[citation needed].
Israel declined to participate as the Contest was held on its Holocaust Remembrance Day, granting a reprieve to Bosnia-Herzegovina which would otherwise have been excluded due to its low point average over the last four years. RTÉ almost ended up bankrupt due to the high costs of staging its fourth contest in five years. Yet, despite crippling costs for staging the event, RTÉ once again produced a highly spectacular show which included a giant modern stage. This was the third Eurovision set to be designed by Paula Farrell, who had previously been involved with the 1988 and 1994 contests.
There was a wide array of different styles this year. Denmark brought a rap song, Croatia came with their version of the Spice Girls and Sweden brought a mid '1980s style boy band. The music was in general more modern than before, and for the first time in six years, an up-tempo song won.
This year, televoting was tested in five countries: Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The results of the televoting countries were in some cases pretty different from those which used a jury. Iceland received 16 of its 18 points from these five countries.
Long-time Irish conductor Noel Kelehan was not the host conductor this year, that duty was fulfilled by Frank McNamara. However, from this year it was allowed to use playback, and in 1999, the orchestra was completely abolished.
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[edit] Results
| Draw | Country | Language | Artist | Song | English Translation | Place | Points |
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| 1 |  Cyprus |
Greek | Hara & Andreas Konstantinou | Mana mu (Μάνα μου) |
Motherland | 5 | 98 |
| 2 |  Turkey |
Turkish | Şebnem Paker & Grup Etnic | Dinle | Listen | 3 | 121 |
| 3 | Norway |
Norwegian | Tor Endresen | San Francisco | - | 24 | 0 |
| 4 |  Austria |
German | Bettina Soriat | One Step | - | 21 | 12 |
| 5 | Ireland |
English | Marc Roberts | Mysterious Woman | - | 2 | 157 |
| 6 |  Slovenia |
Slovene | Tanja Ribič | Zbudi se | Wake Up | 10 | 60 |
| 7 |  Switzerland |
Italian | Barbara Berta | Dentro di me | Inside of Me | 22 | 5 |
| 8 |  Netherlands |
Dutch | Mrs. Einstein | Niemand heeft nog tijd | No One Has Time Anymore | 22 | 5 |
| 9 | Italy |
Italian | Jalisse | Fiumi di parole | Rivers of Words | 4 | 114 |
| 10 |  Spain |
Spanish | Marcos Llunas | Sin rencor | Without Grudge | 6 | 96 |
| 11 |  Germany |
German | Bianca Shomburg | Zeit | Time | 18 | 22 |
| 12 |  Poland |
Polish | Anna Maria Jopek | Ale jestem | But I Am | 11 | 54 |
| 13 |  Estonia |
Estonian | Maarja-Liis Ilus | Keelatud maa | Forbidden Land | 8 | 82 |
| 14 | .svg/22px-Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_(1992-1998).svg.png){kind=small} Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian | Alma Čardžić | Goodbye | - | 18 | 22 |
| 15 | Portugal |
Portuguese | Célia Lawson | Antes do adeus | Before Goodbye | 24 | 0 |
| 16 |  Sweden |
Swedish | Blond | Bara hon älskar mig | If Only She Loves Me | 14 | 36 |
| 17 |  Greece |
Greek | Marianna Zorba | Horepse (Χόρεψε) |
Dance | 12 | 39 |
| 18 |  Malta |
English | Debbie Scerri | Let Me Fly | - | 9 | 66 |
| 19 |  Hungary |
Hungarian | V.I.P. | Miért kell, hogy elmenj? | Why Do You Have To Go? | 12 | 39 |
| 20 |  Russia |
Russian | Alla Pugacheva | Primadonna (Примадонна) |
Prima Donna | 15 | 33 |
| 21 |  Denmark |
Danish | Kølig Kaj | Stemmen i mit liv | The Voice In My Life | 16 | 25 |
| 22 |  France |
French | Fanny | Sentiments songes | Dream Feelings | 7 | 95 |
| 23 |  Croatia |
Croatian | E.N.I. | Probudi me | Awaken Me | 17 | 24 |
| 24 | United Kingdom |
English | Katrina & The Waves | Love Shine a Light | - | 1 | 227 |
| 25 |  Iceland |
Icelandic | Paul Oscar | Minn hinsti dans | My Final Dance | 20 | 18 |
[edit] Voting structure
Each country had a jury that awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs, or a televote, where the top ten most voted for songs were awarded the 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points.
Iceland got most of its 18 points from the 5 countries that used televoting. Ireland was ostensibly the best scoring country across the televoting countries, except they were able to score points from all 5 televoting countries. The United Kingdom was only eligible to receive points from 4 of them, since they couldn't vote for themselves. In fact, the UK received 12 points from all the other televoting countries except Germany, from whom they received 10 points: in other words, the UK earned 46 of 48 possible televote points that year; Ireland earned 47 of 60 possible televote points—including 12 from the UK.
[edit] Score sheet
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Cyprus | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 12 | |
| Turkey | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 7 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Austria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ireland | 8 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Slovenia | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Italy | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Spain | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Germany | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Poland | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Estonia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 2 | ||
| Bosnia-Herz | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Portugal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sweden | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | ||
| Greece | 12 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Malta | 5 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hungary | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 5 | ||
| Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Denmark | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | ||
| France | 3 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||
| Croatia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| United Kingdom | 7 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 8 | ||
| Iceland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
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[edit] 12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 point in the final:
| N. | To | From |
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| 10 | United Kingdom | Austria, Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Hungary, Russia, Denmark, France, Croatia |
| 3 | France | Norway, Poland, Estonia |
| 3 | Turkey | Spain, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| 2 | Cyprus | Greece, Iceland |
| 1 | Ireland | United Kingdom |
| 1 | Italy | Portugal |
| 1 | Spain | Malta |
| 1 | Estonia | Italy |
| 1 | Greece | Cyprus |
| 1 | Malta | Turkey |
| 1 | Russia | Slovenia |
[edit] Spokespersons
- Cyprus - Marios Skordis
- Turkey - Ömer Önder
- Norway - Ragnhild Sælthun Fjørtoft
- Austria - Adriana Zartl
- Ireland - Eileen Dunne
- Slovenia - Mojca Mavec
- Switzerland - Sandy Altermatt
- Netherlands - Corry Brokken
- Italy - Peppi Franzelin
- Spain - Belén Fernández de Henestrosa
- Germany - Christina
- Poland - Jan Chojnacki
- Estonia - Helene Tedre
- Bosnia-Herzegovina - Segmedina Srna
- Portugal - Cristina Esteves
- Sweden - Gösta Hanson
- Greece - Niki Karra
- Malta - Anna Bonanno
- Hungary - Györgyi Albert
- Russia - Arina Sharapova
- Denmark - Bent
- France - Frédéric Lopez & Marie Myriam
- Croatia - Davor Mestrovic
- United Kingdom - Colin Berry
- Iceland - Svanhildur Jakobsdóttir
[edit] Map
[edit] References
- ^ As noted on a TOTP2 Eurovision special, it ranks third in the rankings of points achieved as a percentage of maximum available with 227 out of 288 or 78.81%, behind Nicole's Ein bißchen Frieden in 1982 (161 out of 204 or 78.92%) and Brotherhood of Man's Save Your Kisses for Me in 1976 (164 out of 204 or 80.39%). For comparison, Elena Paparizou's 2005 win took 230 points out of a possible 456, or only 50.04%.
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