Eurovision Song Contest 2004

**Eurovision Song Contest 2004**
	Official logo of the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest
Date	12 May 2004, 15 May 2004
Presenter	Korhan Abay, Meltem Cumbul
Host Broadcaster	TRT
Venue	Abdi Ipekci Arena, Istanbul, Turkey
Winning Song	Wild Dances
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Number of Songs	24 in final, another 14 DNQ from semi-final
Countries Making Debut	Andorra, Albania, Belarus
Nul points	Switzerland
Interval Act	Sertab Erener, Fire of Anatolia

The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the fifty-first Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Abdi Ipekci Arena in Istanbul, Turkey on the 12 May 2006 (for the semi-final) and 15 May 2006 (for the final). The hosting national broadcaster of the contest was TRT. The Ukrainian singer Ruslana Lyzhichko won the contest with the song "Wild Dances" with a score of 280 points. It is notible that this was only the second participation for Ukraine. The official logo of the contest was established during this edition with the possibility of the heart-shaped flag in the center 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 years Eurovision was the first contest to be a two-day event, with one qualifying round held on a Wednesday and the grand finale held on the following Saturday. Under this new format, byes into the final were given to 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. It was also the first contest to be broadcast in high definition format. Andorra, Albania and Belarus participated in the Contest for the first time, Serbia and Montenegro returned after a 12-year hiatus 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 finale. This was the first year in which all 36 participating countries voted based on a public phone vote.

The hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul were Korhan Abay and Meltem Cumbul. In the semi-final and final, Meltem Cumbul warmed-up the audience with a sing-a-long of Eurovision classic "Nel blu di pinto di blu (Volare)" 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 the votes from Monaco, 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 Semi-Final broadcast. When the results were corrected, to include these additional votes, they were found not to have affected which countries had qualified for the Final.

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The presenters, Meltem Cumbul and Korhan Abay.

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Ruslana performing Wild Dances for Ukraine at Eurovision 2004.

Final 2004-05-15

Bolded Countries have earned a spot in the final for the 2005 ESC

Country	Language	Artist	Song	Translation	Place	Points
Albania	English	Anjeza Shahini	The Image Of You	-	7	106
Austria	German	Tie Break	Du bist	You Are	21	9
Belgium	English	Xandee	1 Life	-	22	17
Bosnia and Herzegovina	English	Deen	In The Disco	-	9	91
Croatia	English	Ivan Mikulić	You Are The Only One	-	13	50
Cyprus	English	Lisa Andreas	Stronger Every Minute	-	5	170
France	French	Jonatan Cerrada	A Chaque Pas	With Every Step	15	40
FYR Macedonia	English	Toše Proeski	Life	-	10	71
Germany	English, Turkish	Max	Can't Wait Until Tonight	-	8	93
Greece	English	Sakis Rouvas	Shake It	-	3	238
Iceland	English	Jónsi	Heaven	-	19	16
Ireland	English	Chris Doran	If My World Stops Turning	-	22	7
Malta	English	Julie & Ludwig	On Again... Off Again	-	12	50
Netherlands	English	Re-union	Without You	-	20	11
Norway	English	Knut Anders Sørum	High	-	24	3
Poland	English	Blue Café	Love Song	-	17	27
Romania	English	Sanda	I Admit	-	18	18
Russia	English	Julia Savicheva	Believe Me	-	11	67
Serbia and Montenegro	Serbian	Željko Joksimović	Lane Moje	My Sweetheart	2	263
Spain	English	Ramón	Para llenarme de ti	To Be Filled By You	10	87
Sweden	English	Lena Philipsson	It Hurts	-	6	170
Turkey	English	Athena	For Real	-	4	195
Ukraine	English, Ukrainian	Ruslana	Wild Dances	-	1	280
United Kingdom	English	James Fox	Hold on to our Love	-	16	29

Semi-Final 2004-05-12

Shaded countries qualified for the Eurovision Final

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

Voting structure

Every country in the competition, including those who did not qualify for the final, was allowed to vote for the winners. After all performances were completed, each country opened their phonelines to allow their viewers to nominate their favourite song. Voting for your own country 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. This system allows for all countries to get at least a couple of points (regardless of whether they win the favour of any particular country).

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	File:ESCbb1J.png AT		File:ESCbb1J.png	BY	ESCbb1J.png	CS		ESCbb1J.png	ESCbb1J.png	EE			ESCbb1J.png					IL		LT		MC	MK	MT	ESCbb1J.png					RU	ESCbb1J.png	SI		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
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
Monaco - Ms Anne Allegrini
FYR Macedonia - Karolina Petkovska
Malta - Valletta - Ms Clair Agius
The Netherlands - Ms Esther Hart (Dutch representant 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

File:ESC2004.GIF

Green = Participating countries
Yellow = Countries who have participated in the past but don't this year
Red = Countries who didn't survive the semi-final

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