Eurovision Song Contest 2000

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Eurovision Song Contest 2000
Final	13 May 2000
Presenter(s)	Kattis Ahlström, Anders Lundin
Director	Marius Bratten
Host broadcaster	SVT
Venue	Stockholm Globe Arena, Stockholm, Sweden
Winning song	Denmark "Fly on the Wings of Love"
Voting system
Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Number of entries	24
Debuting countries	Latvia
Returning countries	Finland  FYR Macedonia  Romania  Russia  Switzerland
Withdrawing countries	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Lithuania  Poland  Portugal  Slovenia
Nul points	None
Interval act	"Street Musicians from Stockholm" film
Eurovision Song Contest
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The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was the 45th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 13, 2000 in the Globen Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, following Charlotte Nilsson's victory in Jerusalem the previous year. It was the first time since 1996 that the contest was held on mainland Europe. The contest was the second to be held in Stockholm, and the fourth held in Sweden. Presenters were Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin. The contest was won by the Olsen Brothers who represented Denmark with the song “Fly on the Wings of Love” (originally: Smuk som et stjerneskud). Before the contest, the song was ranked low in most predictions, so the victory was a surprise for many. This year the contest entered a new era in which the production of the show was more exuberant and extravagant. The Globen Arena was, at the time, the largest venue chosen to host the contest with a capacity of 16,000 spectators. The popularity of the contest also excelled throughout Europe because of the televoting procedure, introduced in 1998, that was becoming more common in participating nations. The postcards used to introduce each country participating involved Swedish themes that incorporated each nation in some respect.

For the first time, an official CD compilation was released; it contained all of the songs of the participating nations and was available throughout Europe. The fans would no longer have to search for their favourite singles containing the individual song. Such a disc was attempted in the previous year, however it lacked four of the entries which basically defeated the whole idea. The disc was also only released in Israel and therefore only available on import in many other countries.

The favourite in this year’s contest was Estonia, who was also a fan favourite and praised by the press. Russia and Latvia also anticipated good results. However, as the voting results came in, Denmark immediately took control of the scoreboard, with only a minor challenge from eventual second-place finisher Russia. As expected, Ireland reached a respectable result of 6th place with their traditional ballad. Latvia was very successful in their debut, reaching 3rd place.

There were some controversies concerning some participating countries. Israel, who opened the contest, entered a group who waved Israeli and Syrian flags advocating peace between the two nations. The two male singers in the group also ran up to each other and kissed for a brief moment. Another striking contribution came from Germany’s Stefan Raab who pursued Europe’s comedic vote. Sweden's unusual song and performance dealt with indigenous people's struggle for their rights. The Russian delegation petitioned for the Olsen Brothers to be disqualified, after they had used a vocoder to give Jorgen Olsen an electronic sound to his voice during one of the verses of their performance. This issue was turned down by the EBU.

In the Netherlands, the Eurovision Song Contest programme was taken off air halfway through because of the Enschede fireworks disaster that happened earlier that day. As a result, televoting had to be suspended and the Dutch votes were given by a stand-by professional jury instead, who had been able to keep watching the programme.

The contest was not broadcast in the Vatican, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, however it was broadcast in Australia, Japan, the United States and via the internet for the first time.

Slovakia, Greece and Hungary decided not to compete for financial reasons. The countries with the five lowest average scores over the previous five contests who had participated in 1999, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia were excluded. Italy continued to decline to participate.

Contents 1 Results 2 Score sheet 2.1 12 points 3 Spokespersons 4 Map

[edit] Results

Draw	Country	Language	Artist(s)	Song	Translation	Place	Points
1	Israel	Hebrew	PingPong	Sameyach	Be Happy	22	7
2	Netherlands	English	Linda Wagenmakers	No Goodbyes	-	13	40
3	United Kingdom	English	Nicki French	Don't Play That Song Again	-	16	28
4	Estonia	English	Ines	Once In A Lifetime	-	4	98
5	France	French	Sofia Mestari	On Aura Le Ciel	We'll have the Sky	23	5
6	Romania	English	Taxi	The Moon	-	17	25
7	Malta	English, Maltese	Claudette Pace	Desire	-	8	73
8	Norway	English	Charmed	My Heart Goes Boom	-	11	57
9	Russia	English	Alsou	Solo		2	155
10	Belgium	French	Nathalie Sorce	Envie De Vivre	The Wish to Live	24	2
11	Cyprus	Greek, Italian	Alexandros and Christina	Nomiza	I Believed	21	8
12	Iceland	English	August & Telma	Tell Me!	-	12	45
13	Spain	Spanish	Serafin Zubiri	Colgado de un sueño	Hanging from a Dream	18	18
14	Denmark	English	Olsen Brothers	Fly on the Wings of Love	-	1	195
15	Germany	German, English	Stefan Raab	Wadde Hadde Dudde Da?	What do you have there?	5	96
16	Switzerland	Italian	Jane Bogaert	La Vita Cos'e	What is Life?	20	14
17	Croatia	Croatian	Goran Karan	Kad Zaspu Anđeli	When Angels Fall Asleep	9	70
18	Sweden	English	Roger Pontare	When Spirits Are Calling My Name		7	88
19	FYR Macedonia	English, Macedonian	XXL	100% te ljubam	I Love you 100%	15	29
20	Finland	English	Nina Åström	A Little Bit	-	18	18
21	Latvia	English	Brainstorm	My Star	-	3	136
22	Turkey	English, Turkish	Pınar Ayhan & The SOS	Yorgunum Anla	Understand that I'm Weary	10	59
23	Ireland	English	Eamonn Toal	Millennium Of Love	-	6	92
24	Austria	English	The Rounder Girls	All To You	-	14	34

[edit] Score sheet

The majority of participating countries held a televote, where the top ten most voted for songs were awarded the 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. Russia, FYR Macedonia, Turkey and Romania used juries, and Croatia and Malta used a 50-50 system between televoting and jury votes. The Dutch votes were the votes of the backup jury due to interrupted broadcasting of the contest in the Netherlands, due to a disaster in the Dutch town of Enschede.

Voting procedure used: Red: Televote. Blue: Jury. Purple: 50:50
Israel		0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	8		0	0	2	0	5	0	0	8	5	1	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	1	0
United Kingdom	1	0		2	0	3	6	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	3	6	0	0
Estonia	6	7	4		0	6	7	4	0	2	6	5	0	4	5	0	6	6	0	8	10	2	7	3
France	0	2	0	0		0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romania	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	12	0	0	0	0	0
Malta	3	1	2	1	0	7		2	8	1	8	0	1	3	3	0	8	3	8	0	4	5	3	2
Norway	7	0	3	3	0	0	3		0	0	0	7	0	7	0	0	0	7	0	0	6	10	4	0
Russia	10	0	8	10	5	12	12	8		7	12	8	5	6	4	2	12	5	7	5	0	0	10	7
Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Cyprus	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	3	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
Iceland	5	0	0	6	0	0	0	7	0	0	0		0	12	0	0	0	8	0	0	7	0	0	0
Spain	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	2	0	10	0		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	12	10	12	8	7	1	8	10	12	10	4	12	10		12	10	0	12	0	10	12	1	12	10
Germany	0	8	5	0	10	0	0	3	4	6	0	6	12	2		12	1	0	0	2	8	0	5	12
Switzerland	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1
Croatia	0	0	0	0	8	8	0	0	10	0	0	0	2	0	6	6		0	10	6	0	8	0	6
Sweden	0	0	6	5	1	0	4	5	0	5	0	4	6	10	8	3	0		6	7	0	12	6	0
FYR Macedonia	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	10	0		0	0	0	0	0
Finland	0	5	0	7	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0		0	0	0	0
Latvia	4	4	7	12	3	0	0	12	1	12	1	10	7	8	7	7	0	10	3	12		0	8	8
Turkey	0	12	0	0	12	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	10	5	0	1	5	4	0		0	5
Ireland	2	3	10	4	4	2	10	6	0	4	7	2	3	5	0	8	5	4	0	1	1	7		4
Austria	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	8	0	2	4	0	0	0	3	5	4	2
The table is ordered by appearance.

[edit] 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 point in the final:

N.	To	From
8	Denmark	Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom,
4	Russia	Croatia, Cyprus, Malta, Romania
4	Latvia	Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Norway
3	Germany	Austria, Spain, Switzerland
2	Turkey	France, Netherlands
1	Iceland	Denmark
1	Romania	FYR Macedonia
1	Sweden	Turkey

[edit] Spokespersons

• Israel - Yoav Ginai
• The Netherlands - Marlayne
• United Kingdom - Colin Berry
• Estonia - Evelin Samuel
• France - Marie Myriam
• Romania - Andreea Marin
• Malta - Valerie Vella
• Norway - Marit Åslein
• Russia - Zhanna Agalakova
• Belgium - Thomas Van Hamme
• Cyprus - Loukas Hamatsos
• Iceland - Ragnhildur
• Spain - Hugo de Campos
• Denmark - Michael Teschl
• Germany - Axel Bulthaupt
• Switzerland - Astrid Von Stockar
• Croatia - Marko Rasica
• Sweden - Malin Ekander
• FYR Macedonia - Sandra Todorovska
• Finland - Pia Mäkinen
• Latvia - Lauris Reiniks
• Turkey - Osman Erkan
• Ireland - Derek Mooney
• Austria - Dodo Roscic

[edit] Map

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