Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest

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Spain
Member station	TVE
National selection events	Eurocanción, Operación Triunfo, Misión Eurovisión, Salvemos Eurovisión
Appearances	47
First appearance	1961
Best result	1st, 1968, 1969
Worst result	Last, 1962, 1965, 1983, 1999
External links
Spain's page at Eurovision.tv

Spain debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1961, finishing 9th. Since 1999, Spain is one of the "Big Four" (along with France, Germany and the United Kingdom), and therefore automatically allowed to participate in the final because they are the four biggest financial contributors to the European Broadcasting Union.

Spain has won the contest twice, first in 1968 with the song "La, la, la" sung by Massiel and second one year later, when Salomé's "Vivo Cantando" was involved in a four way tie with Lulu's "Boom Bang-a-Bang", representing the United Kingdom, Frida Boccara's "Un jour, un enfant", representing France, and Lennie Kuhr's "De Troubadour"", representing The Netherlands. Spain has only hosted the contest once, in 1969, since lots were drawn after 1969's four way tie, and the contest was hosted by the Netherlands.

Spain was represented in the 50th anniversary special of Eurovision Congratulations by their 1973 entrants Mocedades, singing the song "Eres Tu". The song had made it into the top 14 for the special after being selected in an online vote by the voting public across Europe.

Contents 1 Selection process 2 Entries 3 Voting history 1975-2008 4 Hostings 5 References

[edit] Selection process

Until 1999, Spain's entries were selected internally by TVE, with some notable exceptions like the national preselection "Pasaporte a Dublín" in 1971. In 2000 and 2001, TVE organized a national preselection called "Eurocanción" where the Spanish representative was selected for the contest. From 2002 to 2004, the reality show Operación Triunfo was used to select the entry, until TVE decided not to host any further editions of the show. In 2005, a sort of national final was used, where the public chose their favorite song among a pre-selection made by TVE of unknown artists submitted to them by the record labels. The results were not good and by 2006 they returned to select the entry internally, with the same results. In 2007, Spain's entry was decided through the Misión Eurovisión 2007 show, with same result.

In 2008, TVE decided to select the Spanish entry through Salvemos Eurovisión ("Let`s save Eurovision"). The social networking website MySpace was involved in this process, as a webpage was created to make it possible for anyone to upload a song and proceed to a televised final if chosen by online voters or an expert jury. The result improved a little, but not much.

[edit] Entries

Year	Artist	Title	Place	Points
1961	Conchita Bautista	Estando contigo	9	8
1962	Víctor Balaguer	Llámame	13	0
1963	José Guardiola	Algo prodigioso	12	2
1964	Tim, Nelly & Tony	Caracola	12	1
1965	Conchita Bautista	Qué bueno, qué bueno	15	0
1966	Raphael	Yo soy aquél	7	9
1967	Raphael	Hablemos del amor	6	9
1968	Massiel	La La La	1	29
1969	Salomé	Vivo Cantando	1	18
1970	Julio Iglesias	Gwendolyne	4	8
1971	Karina	En un mundo nuevo	2	116
1972	Jaime Morey	Amanece	10	83
1973	Mocedades	Eres tú	2	125
1974	Peret	Canta y sé feliz	9	10
1975	Sergio y Estíbaliz	Tú volverás	10	53
1976	Braulio	Sobran las palabras	16	11
1977	Micky	Enséñame a cantar	9	52
1978	José Vélez	Bailemos un vals	9	65
1979	Betty Missiego	Su canción	2	116
1980	Trigo Limpio	Quédate esta noche	12	38
1981	Bacchelli	Y solo tú	14	38
1982	Lucía	Él	10	52
1983	Remedios Amaya	¿Quién maneja mi barca?	19	0
1984	Bravo	Lady, lady	3	106
1985	Paloma San Basilio	La fiesta terminó	14	36
1986	Cadillac	Valentino	10	51
1987	Patricia Kraus	No estás solo	19	10
1988	La Década	La chica que yo quiero (Made in Spain)	11	58
1989	Nina	Nacida para amar	6	88
1990	Azúcar Moreno	Bandido	5	96
1991	Sergio Dalma	Bailar pegados	4	119
1992	Serafín Zubiri	Todo esto es la música	14	37
1993	Eva Santamaría	Hombres	11	58
1994	Alejandro Abad	Ella no es ella	18	17
1995	Anabel Conde	Vuelve conmigo	2	119
1996	Antonio Carbonell	¡Ay, qué deseo!	20	17
1997	Marcos Llunas	Sin rencor	6	96
1998	Mikel Herzog	¿Qué voy a hacer sin ti?	16	21
1999	Lydia	No quiero escuchar	23	1
2000	Serafín Zubiri	Colgado de un sueño	18	18
2001	David Civera	Dile que la quiero	6	76
2002	Rosa	Europe's living a celebration	7	81
2003	Beth	Dime	8	81
2004	Ramón	Para llenarme de ti	10	87
2005	Son de Sol	Brujería	21	28
2006	Las Ketchup	Bloody Mary	21	18
2007	D'NASH	I Love You Mi Vida	20	43
2008	Rodolfo Chikilicuatre	Baila el Chiki-chiki	16	55

[edit] Voting history 1975-2008

This section ranks the countries that have received most points from Spain and those that have given most points to this country in the finals, since the current voting system was installed (1975-2008). ^[1]

Spain has given the most points to:

Rank	Country	Points
1	Germany	169
2	Italy	122
3	Greece	119
4	Ireland	118
5	United Kingdom	113

Spain has received the most points from:

Rank	Country	Points
1	Greece	146
2	Switzerland	127
3	Turkey	118
4	Belgium	112
5	Portugal	107

[edit] Hostings

Year	Location	Venue	Presenter
Eurovision Song Contest 1969	Madrid	Teatro Real	Laurita Valenzuela

[edit] References

1. ^ Spain Points At Eurovision

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