Eurovision Song Contest 2000

The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was the 45th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Stockholm, Sweden, following Charlotte Nilsson's win at the 1999 contest in Jerusalem, Israel with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven". The contest was held on 13 May 2000 at the Globe Arena. 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. The presenters were Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin.

Eurovision Song Contest 2000
Dates
Final	13 May 2000 (2000-05-13)
Host
Venue	Globe Arena Stockholm, Sweden
Presenter(s)	Kattis Ahlström Anders Lundin
Directed by	Marius Bratten
Executive supervisor	Christine Marchal-Ortiz
Executive producer	Svante Stockselius
Host broadcaster	Sveriges Television (SVT)
Interval act	"Once Upon a Time Europe Was Covered With Ice" film
Website	eurovision.tv/event/stockholm-2000
Participants
Number of entries	24
Debuting countries	Latvia
Returning countries	Finland  Macedonia  Romania  Russia   Switzerland
Non-returning countries	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Lithuania  Poland  Portugal  Slovenia
Participation map      Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2000
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points	None
Winning song	Denmark "Fly on the Wings of Love"

The winner of the 2000 contest was the Olsen Brothers who represented Denmark with the song "Fly on the Wings of Love" (originally: Smuk som et stjerneskud). The song was written by one of the brothers, Jørgen Olsen. On the day of their victory, Jørgen Olsen was 50 years and 61 days of age, making him the oldest artist yet to win the contest. However, he would not hold the record for long, as Dave Benton triumphed in the following year at the age of 50 years and 101 days, breaking the record by 40 days. The combined ages of The Olsen Brothers make them the oldest aged act ever to win the contest.[1] The Globe Arena was, at the time, the largest venue chosen to host the contest with a capacity of 16,000 spectators. The postcards used to introduce each country participating involved Swedish themes that incorporated each nation in some respect. All the postcards are filmed in Stockholm, Sweden, however, the only exception is the postcard for Sweden, which is filmed before Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. The logo for the contest, a pair of open mouth lips, was chosen by SVT, and was described by its designers as "a sensual, yet stylistically pure mouth representing song, dialogue and speech", and was later one of the possible choices for the generic logo introduced at the 2004 Contest.[2]

The favourite in this year's contest was Estonia, who was also a fan favourite and praised by the press.[2] However, as the voting results came in, Denmark immediately took control of the scoreboard, beating Russia into second place and Latvia into 3rd place. Slovakia, Greece and Hungary decided not to compete for financial reasons.[2] 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 meaning that five countries could return. These countries were: Finland, North Macedonia, Romania, Russia and Switzerland. Latvia also joined the contest as the only country to debut.

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.[2] Such a disc was attempted in the previous year, however it lacked four of the competing songs. Sponsored by Microsoft, the contest was also broadcast in Australia, Canada, Japan and the United States via the internet for the first time.

Location

Globe Arena, Stockholm - host venue of the 2000 contest.

Stockholm

Malmö

Gothenburg

Locations of the candidate cities: the chosen host city is marked in blue, while the eliminated cities are marked in red.

SVT announced on 7 July 1999 that the contest would be hosted by the Globe Arena in Stockholm. Other possible candidates had been Scandinavium in Gothenburg and Malmömässan in Malmö. They had previously hosted Eurovision Song Contest 1985 and 1992 respectively. The Globe was said to be chosen because Stockholm had not hosted the contest since 1975 and that it would be somewhat cheaper than the other options.[3]

Format

Design

The graphic design programme for this year's contest was developed by Stockholm Design Lab and was centred around a stylised mouth symbol. It was given the Excellent Swedish Design award later that year.[4] The softness of the mouth was contrasted with a pointy typeface, made specifically for the contest. During each performance, a distorted version of each performing country's flag would be shown within the mouth next to the stage.

Interval act

The intermission during the finale of the ESC was "Once Upon a Time Europe Was Covered With Ice", a movie/song directed, composed and edited by Johan Söderberg and produced by John Nordling.[5] For the film Söderberg had traveled all over Europe to record children performing the score. On stage were violinist Caroline Lundgren (who appeared during the opening dressed in a traditional Swedish costume and exclaimed “Welcome Europe!"), drummer Strängnäs Trumkorps plus street musicians from Stockholm and dancers from the Bounce Streetdance Company.

Incidents

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. The Russian delegation petitioned for the winning Olsen Brothers to be disqualified, after they had used a vocoder to give Jørgen Olsen an electronic sound to his voice, during one of the verses of their performance. This issue was rejected by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).[2]

In the Netherlands, NOS decided to take the Contest off air halfway through because of the Enschede fireworks disaster that happened earlier that day, so it could use the channel for continuous news broadcasts. Later, NOS declared that it was both for practical reasons as well as because they found it "inappropriate to broadcast a light entertainment programme on the night of such a catastrophic event". As a result, televoting had to be suspended and the Dutch votes were given by a stand-by jury instead.[2] The contest was later rebroadcast in full.

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous Year(s)
Al Bano (Jane Bogaert's backing vocalist)	Switzerland	1976, 1985 (both for  Italy and both with Romina Power)
Alexandros Panayi (part of Voice)	Cyprus	1995
Dawn Martin (Eamonn Toal's backing vocalist)	Ireland	1998
Serafín Zubiri	Spain	1992
Roger Pontare	Sweden	1994 (in a duet with Marie Bergman)

Results

Draw for the running order took place on 21 November 1999.[6]

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Language[7]	Place	Points
01	Israel	PingPong	"Sameach" (שמח)	Hebrew^1	22	7
02	Netherlands	Linda Wagenmakers	"No Goodbyes"	English	13	40
03	United Kingdom	Nicki French	"Don't Play That Song Again"	English	16	28
04	Estonia	Ines	"Once in a Lifetime"	English	4	98
05	France	Sofia Mestari	"On aura le ciel"	French	23	5
06	Romania	Taxi	"The Moon"	English	17	25
07	Malta	Claudette Pace	"Desire"	English^2	8	73
08	Norway	Charmed	"My Heart Goes Boom"	English	11	57
09	Russia	Alsou	"Solo"	English	2	155
10	Belgium	Nathalie Sorce	"Envie de vivre"	French	24	2
11	Cyprus	Voice	"Nomiza" (Νόμιζα)	Greek, Italian	21	8
12	Iceland	August & Telma	"Tell Me!"	English	12	45
13	Spain	Serafín Zubiri	"Colgado de un sueño"	Spanish	18	18
14	Denmark	Olsen Brothers	"Fly on the Wings of Love"	English	1	195
15	Germany	Stefan Raab	"Wadde hadde dudde da?"	German, English	5	96
16	Switzerland	Jane Bogaert	"La vita cos'è?"	Italian	20	14
17	Croatia	Goran Karan	"Kad zaspu anđeli"	Croatian	9	70
18	Sweden	Roger Pontare	"When Spirits Are Calling My Name"	English	7	88
19	Macedonia	XXL	"100% te ljubam" (100% те љубам)	Macedonian, English	15	29
20	Finland	Nina Åström	"A Little Bit"	English	18	18
21	Latvia	Brainstorm	"My Star"	English	3	136
22	Turkey	Pınar Ayhan & The SOS	"Yorgunum Anla"	Turkish, English	10	59
23	Ireland	Eamonn Toal	"Millennium of Love"	English	6	92
24	Austria	The Rounder Girls	"All to You"	English	14	34

1.^ Contains some words in English.

2.^ Contains some words in Maltese.

Scoreboard

According to the EBU rules of the 45th Eurovision Song Contest 2000 (published on 23 September 1999), all participating countries should have used televoting, where the top ten most voted for songs were awarded the 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s). In the televoting household shall not be permitted to vote more than three times. In exceptional circumstances where televoting was not possible, a jury was used instead:[8] Russia, Macedonia, Turkey and Romania.

The Dutch votes were the votes of the backup jury due to interrupted broadcasting of the contest in the Netherlands because of the fireworks disaster in the Dutch city of Enschede.

Voting procedure used:   100% Televoting   100% Jury vote		Voters
		Total score	Israel	Netherlands	United Kingdom	Estonia	France	Romania	Malta	Norway	Russia	Belgium	Cyprus	Iceland	Spain	Denmark	Germany	Switzerland	Croatia	Sweden	Macedonia	Finland	Latvia	Turkey	Ireland	Austria
Contestants	Israel	7					6														1
	Netherlands	40	8				2		5			8	5	1	4		1		2					3	1
	United Kingdom	28	1			2		3	6				3						4				3	6
	Estonia	98	6	7	4			6	7	4		2	6	5		4	5		6	6		8	10	2	7	3
	France	5		2							3
	Romania	25									6								7		12
	Malta	73	3	1	2	1		7		2	8	1	8		1	3	3		8	3	8		4	5	3	2
	Norway	57	7		3	3			3					7		7				7			6	10	4
	Russia	155	10		8	10	5	12	12	8		7	12	8	5	6	4	2	12	5	7	5			10	7
	Belgium	2																			2
	Cyprus	8							1										3		4
	Iceland	45	5			6				7						12				8			7
	Spain	18						5			2		10					1
	Denmark	195	12	10	12	8	7	1	8	10	12	10	4	12	10		12	10		12		10	12	1	12	10
	Germany	96		8	5		10			3	4	6		6	12	2		12	1			2	8		5	12
	Switzerland	14		6							5												2			1
	Croatia	70					8	8			10				2		6	6			10	6		8		6
	Sweden	88			6	5	1		4	5		5		4	6	10	8	3			6	7		12	6
	Macedonia	29						10			7		2						10
	Finland	18		5		7		4												2
	Latvia	136	4	4	7	12	3			12	1	12	1	10	7	8	7	7		10	3	12			8	8
	Turkey	59		12			12			1		3				1	10	5		1	5	4				5
	Ireland	92	2	3	10	4	4	2	10	6		4	7	2	3	5		8	5	4		1	1	7		4
	Austria	34			1				2					3	8		2	4				3	5	4	2

12 points

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

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

Qualification for the 2001 contest

In addition to the Big Four and the host country of the 2001 contest, Denmark, the 12 countries with the highest average scores between 1996 and 2000 were allowed to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001.

Key:
     Automatically qualified
     Qualified

Rank	Country	Average	Score
			1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
1	Latvia	136.00					136
–	United Kingdom	107.20	77	227	166	38	28
2	Ireland	98.60	162	157	64	18	92
–	Denmark	97.00		25		71	195
3	Russia	94.00		33			155
4	Israel	90.67			172	93	7
5	Sweden	88.00	100	36	53	163	88
–	Germany	86.00		22	86	140	96
6	Malta	80.80	68	66	165	32	73
7	Croatia	80.40	98	24	131	79[lower-alpha 1]	70
8	Estonia	80.00	94	82	36	90	98
9	Netherlands	68.80	78	5	150	71	40
10	Iceland	65.00	51	18		146	45
11	Norway	57.00	114	0	79	35	57
12	Turkey	56.60	57	121	25	21	59
13	Belgium	46.00	22		122	38	2
14	Austria	44.75	68	12		65	34
15	Cyprus	43.40	72	98	37	2	8
–	Spain	30.60	17	96	21	1	18
–	France	27.00	18	95	3	14	5
16	Macedonia	22.50			16		29
17	Finland	16.33	9		22		18
18	Romania	15.50			6		25
19	Switzerland	10.25	22	5	0		14

International broadcasts and voting

Sponsored by Microsoft, the contest was also broadcast in Canada, Australia, Japan, the United States and all 18 European MSN sites via the internet for the first time.[9]

Voting and spokespersons

The spokespersons announced the score from their respective country's televote (or, in some cases, national jury) in running order.

1.  Israel – Yoav Ginai (Winner of the 1998 contest, as lyricist)[10]
2.  Netherlands – Marlayne (Dutch representative in 1999)
3.  United Kingdom – Colin Berry
4.  Estonia – Evelin Samuel (Estonian representative in 1999)[11]
5.  France – Marie Myriam (Winner of the 1977 contest)[12]
6.  Romania – Andreea Marin
7.  Malta – Valerie Vella[13]
8.  Norway – Marit Åslein
9.  Russia – Zhanna Agalakova
10.  Belgium – Thomas Van Hamme[12]
11.  Cyprus – Loukas Hamatsos[14]
12.  Iceland – Ragnheiður Elín Clausen
13.  Spain – Hugo de Campos
14.  Denmark – Michael Teschl (Danish representative in 1999)[15]
15.  Germany – Axel Bulthaupt
16.   Switzerland – Astrid Von Stockar
17.  Croatia – Marko Rašica[16]
18.  Sweden – Malin Ekander[17]
19.  Macedonia – Sandra Todorovska[18]
20.  Finland – Pia Mäkinen[19]
21.  Latvia – Lauris Reiniks (Latvian representative in 2003 as part of F.L.Y.)
22.  Turkey – Osman Erkan
23.  Ireland – Derek Mooney
24.  Austria – Dodo Roščić

Commentators

Most countries sent commentators to Stockholm or commented from their own country, in order to add insight to the participants and, if necessary, the provision of voting information.

Participating countries

•  Austria – Andi Knoll (ORF1), Stermann & Grissemann (FM4)[20]
•  Belgium – French: Jean-Pierre Hautier (RTBF La Une),[21] Dutch: André Vermeulen and Anja Daems (VRT TV1)[22]
•  Croatia – Aleksandar "Aco" Kostadinov (HRT 1)[23]
•  Cyprus – Evi Papamichail (RIK 1)[14]
•  Denmark – Keld Heick (DR1)[15]
•  Estonia – Marko Reikop (ETV)[24]
•  Finland – Jani Juntunen (Yle TV1)[25]
•  France – Julien Lepers (France 3)[21]
•  Germany – Peter Urban (Das Erste),[26] Thomas Mohr (Deutschlandfunk/NDR 2)[27]
•  Iceland – Gísli Marteinn Baldursson (Sjónvarpið)[28]
•  Ireland – Marty Whelan (RTÉ One),[29] Larry Gogan (RTÉ Radio 1)
•  Israel – No commentator
•  Latvia – Kārlis Streips (LTV)
•  Macedonia – Milanka Rašik (MTV 1)
•  Malta – Charlo Bonnici (TVM)
•  Netherlands – Willem van Beusekom (TV2),[30] Hijlco Span (Radio 2)
•  Norway – Jostein Pedersen (NRK1),[31] Stein Dag Jensen (NRK P1)
•  Romania – Leonard Miron (TVR1)[32]
•  Russia – Alexey Zhuravlev and Tatiana Godunova (Public Russian Television)
•  Spain – José Luis Uribarri (TVE1)[33]
•   Switzerland – German: Sandra Studer (SF2), French: Jean-Marc Richard (TSR 1), Italian: Jonathan Tedesco (TSI 1)
•  Sweden – Pernilla Månsson Colt and Christer Lundh (SVT2),[17] Carolina Norén (SR P3)[34]
•  Turkey – Ömer Önder (TRT 1)[35]
•  United Kingdom – Terry Wogan (BBC One), Ken Bruce (BBC Radio 2)

Non-participating countries

•  Australia – N/A (SBS TV)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina – Ismeta Dervoz-Krvavac (BHT)
•  Greece – Dafni Bokota (ET1)[36]
•  Japan – No commentator. The contest aired on July 14, 2000. (NHK-BS2)[37]
•  Lithuania – Ramūnas Česonis & Vilija Grigonytė (LTV)
•  Poland – Artur Orzech (TVP1)[38]
•  Portugal – Eládio Clímaco (RTP1)[39]
•  Slovenia – Miša Molk (SLO1)
•  FR Yugoslavia – There was no broadcast of the contest live, but Third channel of RTS aired just all the performances expect for Israeli performance, and the winning performance, without voting sequence. (RTS 3K)[40]

Official album

Eurovision Song Contest: Stockholm 2000
Compilation album by Eurovision Song Contest
Released	13 May 2000
Genre	Pop
Length	71:36
Label	EMI / CMC
Eurovision Song Contest chronology
Eurovision Song Contest: Stockholm 2000 (2000) Eurovision Song Contest: Copenhagen 2001 (2001)

Eurovision Song Contest: Stockholm 2000 was the official compilation album of the 2000 Contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by EMI Records and CMC International on 13 May 2000.[41] The album featured all 24 songs that entered in the 2000 contest, and was the first time that the EBU had produced such merchandise.[42]

Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
German Compilation Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[43]	3

Notes and references

Notes

1. Croatia scored 118 points in the 1999 contest, however due to controversy surrounding its usage of pre-recorded vocals in the live performance, its score was reduced by a third for the purpose of calculating the five-year average to determine participation in future contests.

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External links

• Official website