EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2004

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. 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 dipinto 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.
It is also noted that Serbia and Montenegro finished 1st in the Semi-Final with 263 points and then finished 2nd in the Final with 263 points.

The presenters, Meltem Cumbul and Korhan Abay.

Ruslana performing ''Wild Dances'' for Ukraine at Eurovision 2004.

Contents

Individual Entries

Final 2004-05-15

Semi-Final 2004-05-12

Voting structure

Score sheet

Spokespersons

Map

External links

Individual Entries

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	''	Spanish	Ramón	Para llenarme de ti	To Be Filled By You	10	87
2		German	Tie Break	Du bist	You Are	21	9
3		English	Knut Anders Sørum	High	-	24	3
4	''	French, Spanish	Jonatan Cerrada	À chaque pas	With Every Step	15	40
5	''	Serbian	Željko Joksimović	Lane moje	My Sweetheart	2	263
6	''	English	Julie & Ludwig	On Again... Off Again	-	12	50
7		English	Re-union	Without You	-	20	11
8	''	English	Max	Can't Wait Until Tonight	-	8	93
9	''	English	Anjeza Shahini	The Image Of You	-	7	106
'10'	''	'English, Ukrainian'	'Ruslana'	'Wild Dances'	-	'1'	'280'
11		English	Ivan Mikulić	You Are The Only One	-	13	50
12	''	English	Deen	In The Disco	-	9	91
13		English	Xandee	1 Life	-	22	7
14	''	English	Julia Savicheva	Believe Me	-	11	67
15	FYR Macedonia	English	Toše Proeski	Life	-	14	47
16	''	English	Sakis Rouvas	Shake It	-	3	252
17		English	Jónsi	Heaven	-	19	16
18		English	Chris Doran	If My World Stops Turning	-	23	7
19		English, Spanish	Blue Café	Love Song	-	17	27
20	''	English	James Fox	Hold on to our Love	-	16	29
21	''	English	Lisa Andreas	Stronger Every Minute	-	5=	170
22	''	English	Athena	For Real	-	4	195
23		English	Sanda	I Admit	-	18	18
24	''	English	Lena Philipsson	It Hurts	-	5=	170

Semi-Final 2004-05-12

''Shaded countries qualified for the Eurovision Final''

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

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.

Score sheet

	AD	AL	AT	BA	BE	BY	CH	CS	CY	DE	DK	EE	ES	FI	FR	GB	GR	HR	IE	IL	IS	LT	LV	MC	MK	MT	NL	NO	PL	PT	RO	RU	SE	SI	TR	UA
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.

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

★ FYR Macedonia - Karolina Petkovska

★ 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

★ Malta - Valletta - Ms Clair Agius

★ Monaco - Ms Anne Allegrini

★ 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)

Map

★ Green = Participating countries

★ Yellow = Countries who have participated in the past but didn't this year

★ Red = Countries who didn't progress from the semi-final to the final

External links

★ Official website

★ EBU press notice regarding voting problems in the semi-final

★ Details about the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul

★ Video Clips (BBC Eurovision 2004) (Realplayer)