Eurovision Song Contest 2009
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The 54th Euro Vision Song Contest was held in Moscow on May 12th, 14th and 16th 2009. The winner was with a record of 387 points of the Norwegian contribution Fairytale by Alexander Rybak.
Host country was the first time Russia after the Russian contribution Believe by Dima Bilan at the 53rd Euro Vision Song Contest in Belgrade had won.
Although tradition since 2002, Moscow refrained make the competition a motto. As early as next year this custom was continued. The two semi-final rounds of the moderation pair Natalja Wodjanowa ( Top Model ) and Andrei Malakhov ( TV presenter ) moderated. The finale was presented by actor and presenter Ivan Urgant and the singer and ESC participant in 2000 Alsou. Thus another moderator pair was used as in the final for the first time in the history of the ESC in the semifinals.
- 3.1 Scoring (1st Semifinal )
- 4.1 Scoring (2nd Semifinal )
- 5.1 Scoring ( Final )
- 5.2 Twelve points
- 5.3 Marcel- Bezençon price
- 6.1 Return of Slovakia
- 6.2 boycott plans in advance
- 6.3 Participation of Latvia
- 6.4 Participation of Georgia
- 6.5 Resolution of Slavic Pride
New voting rule
In this year came for the first time since 1996 nationwide juries used. The countries voting was composed of equal numbers of spectators and jury vote. In the semifinals, scored the televoting for the first nine places. The 10th grid position was awarded by the jury wildcard to the country that has received the most votes from the jury and was not placed among the top nine places in the televoting.
Each panel consisted of five members, who should have a professional relationship to music. They were allowed to be involved in any form of competition titles. Each member created his personal ranking list according to the current pattern since 1975. These points were tallied and shall be determined by the same system, the jury points. These points were added together with those of the televoting.
Participating countries
- Countries in the final
- Countries that have not reached the final
- Countries that have participated in the past in the Euro Vision Song Contest, but not in 2009
Deadline of broadcasters at the European Broadcasting Union was 4 January 2009. European Broadcasting Union was, however, until 12 January, the full list of participants out. It would have taken 43 countries, which would have corresponded to the number of participants last year. On 11 March 2009, however, Georgia withdrew participation, as Georgia did not want to change the lyrics of We do not wanna put. Thus, there were 42 countries ( by a country less than last year ) in the participant list after several countries had withdrawn its premature cancellation. San Marino did not participate. As a declaration named San Marino financial reasons. Slovakia was there again after eleven years of abstinence.
Semi-final draw
- Participants in the first semi-finals
- Participants in the second semi-finals
- Voters countries in the 1st semi-final
- Voters countries in the 2nd semi-final
- Albania Albania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatia Croatia
- Macedonia Macedonia
- Montenegro Montenegro
- Slovenia Slovenia
- Serbia Serbia
- Denmark Denmark
- Estonia Estonia
- Finland Finland
- Iceland Iceland
- Norway Norway
- Sweden Sweden
- Armenia Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Georgia Georgia
- Israel Israel
- Moldova Moldova
- Ukraine Ukraine
- Belarus Belarus
- Malta Malta
- Poland Poland
- Switzerland Switzerland
- Slovakia Slovakia
- Czech Republic Czech Republic
- Hungary Hungary
Semi-final 1
The first semi-final took place on 12 May 2009.
The exact placement of each country in the semifinals were not announced until after the finale to avoid interference.
1 The tenth qualifying place certain a jury. Their highly gewertetes land that was not part of the top nine places of TeleVote vote, was the tenth -place finish, regardless of the TeleVote result.
Scoring (1st Semifinal )
Semi-final 2
The second semi-final took place on 14 May 2009.
The exact placement of each country in the semifinals were not announced until after the finale to avoid interference.
1 The tenth qualifying place certain a jury. Their highly gewertetes land that was not part of the top nine places of TeleVote vote, was the tenth -place finish, regardless of the TeleVote result.
Scoring (2nd Semifinal )
Final
The finale was held on 16 May 2009.
The Big Four and the host country automatically qualified for the final. The starting numbers were chosen at random after the two semi-finals on two press conferences.
Case of a tie, the highest single score decided.
Scoring ( Final )
1 Due to a technical error in Hungary Only the votes via SMS votes were registered.
2 During the vote, a technical problem with the Norwegian telephone operator. As a result, Norway agreed only with the help of the jury vote.
Twelve points
Marcel- Bezençon price
The artist award was voted for the last time of former winners. The winners of the Marcel- Bezençon Prize were:
- Press Award for Best Song - Norway Norway - Fairytale - Alexander Rybak
- Artist Award for the best performers - France France - Patricia Kaas - Et s'il le fallait fair
- Composers Award for the best composition / Text - Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina - Aleksandar Covic ( m & t) - Bistra voda - Regina
Background
Return of Slovakia
Slovakia participated for the first time since 1998 part again. Already in the previous year, Slovakia had shown interest in participating, but you could as well in the years since 1998, could not attend due to financial difficulties. ; 2008, for example, had to pay high costs for the STV broadcast of the Olympic Games.
Boycott plans in advance
Due to the Russian actions during the Caucasus war in 2008 there were in many countries - especially in Eastern Europe - Considerations to boycott the contest because of it. These countries were:
- Georgia, which had already confirmed that it would not participate, but in December, decided after winning the Junior Euro Song Contest, to participate and
- The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
From the Estonian Minister of Culture Laine Jänes, the suggestion to boycott the contest together with Latvia and Lithuania came. Lithuania held his boycott as an option open in case of conflict in the Caucasus should persist. In Latvia, however, were both state television Latvijas Televizija as well as the famous composer and former Latvian Minister of Culture Raimonds Pauls against a retreat. Finally LTV confirmed his participation in the Competition in Moscow.
Also Estonian Television ETV confirmed his participation in the Concours, after a survey, 66 % of Estonians were in favor of participation. On October 31, eventually moved also the Lithuanian television, LRT, after.
Participation of Latvia
After the confirmation of the Latvian television you planned the preliminary round Eirodziesma 2009 (German " Euro song" ). Until November 30 contributions were submitted, and on December 9, the 21 participants were released.
Due to strong budget cuts by the Latvian Government on the state broadcaster LTV in the amount of three million euros Latvia withdrew his pledge back shortly. On 12 January, it signed up again. Also, a national final was initiated because enough sponsors invested.
Participation of Georgia
Georgia reported the Items We Do not Wanna Put In at the band " Stephane & 3G " to the competition. Due to the provocative statement against Russia's Prime Minister Putin, Georgia was asked to change it. Because Georgia was not ready to, it pulled back instead his contribution and was not entitled to vote (unlike Serbia - Montenegro 2006).
Resolution of Slavic Pride
On May 16, at 10:50 clock the " Slavic Pride 2009 ", a peaceful demonstration of respect for the rights of homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals (LGBT ), who wanted to use the public of the Euro Vision Song Contest, to draw attention to their oppression was to make, forcibly stopped and 40 people arrested, including human rights activists Nikolai Alexeyev and Peter Tatchell. Other persons attending journalists wanted to give interviews, were also arrested. Additionally, in other places, where the demonstration was originally supposed to take place, arrested counter-demonstrators to maintain public order there. According to Interfax total of 71 people were arrested. The Associated Press reported that journalists trying to report on the incidents, were threatened with arrests and were expelled by force.
The Dutch television was considering to get out because of these violations of fundamental rights such as freedom of expression, freedom of speech and freedom of the press, from the transfer of Euro Vision Song Contest.
Politicians like the green Bundestag member Volker Beck and artists like Guildo Horn condemned the actions of the Russian state.
Venue
The Olimpijski Arena in Moscow was the venue for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2009. Summarizes hall for sports, and television events 10000-16000 spectators and was built for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
National qualifications
- Albania Albania: Up to 18 October were interested Albanian artists to submit their suggestions for the title Festivali i Këngës, the candidates were on 19 and 20 December determined for the final round on December 21 in two semifinals. Chosen Kejsi Tola.
- Andorra Andorra: Andorra sought his performers in a final round of three contributions. The composer had the Andorran nationality own or show a residence in Andorra. Desirability songs were mainly in Catalan language.
- Armenia Armenia: The Armenian television conducted a preliminary decision public.
- Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan internal auditions were held to find suitable participants for the Euro Vision Song Contest.
- Belgium: In Belgium, the Walloon TV station took an internal choice. The system was used by RTBF in 2007.
- Bulgaria: See: Be A Star
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosnia took an internal election this year. The winner was presented in the show bra Eursong 2009.
- Danemark Denmark: See: Dansk Melodi Grand Prix
- Germany Germany: For the first time since 1995, there were in Germany again, an internal choice and thus no televised preliminary decision. This gave the NDR on 16 December known. Participation condition was, among other things, that the authors / composers were already represented in the official charts, also a member of the GEMA or a comparable company was provided. The artist had " in singing and stage presentation under live conditions safely and learn " to be. The post was internally selected by a five-member jury of the ARD who seeks, among other things Guildo Horn, who had Germany in 1998 represented the ESC, Sylvia Kollek, in the past juror in Germany for the superstar, and radio and television presenter Peter Urban, who in the recent years had commented on the euro Vision song Contest for German television, belonged. The result was announced on Monday, February 9.
- Estonia: The Estonian Eesti Laul 2009 preliminary round was held on March 9, 2009. In the preliminary round competed ten posts for the ticket to Moscow, which were announced on 11 December. What was new was that artists could simply apply and are not selected by ETV.
- Finland Finland: The Finnish decider Euroviisut 2009 consisted of three semifinals of four artists, a second -chance round and a final. The semi-finals were held on 9, 16 and 23 January. The Second Chance and the finals were both held on 31 January 2009. From the semi-finals two songs each qualified directly for the finals, the other two for the Second Chance, from which two qualified.
- France: In France there was an internal option like in previous years, the broadcaster France Télévisions. One condition was that year, unlike last Song Contest, that the song had to be sung in French language.
- Greece Greece: Sakis Rouvas ERT has chosen to represent Greece. His song This Is Our Night was chosen in a preliminary decision, which was moderated by the Maggira Sisters.
- Ireland Ireland: In Ireland there was a finale on February 22.
- Iceland Iceland: In Iceland, there were, as in previous years, the qualifying Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins. He was discharged in January and February 2009. There were two semi-final rounds and a final round.
- Croatia: The Croatian Dora preliminary round consisted of a semi-final with 14 songs on February 27 and a final with 16 songs (10 songs and 6 semi-final jury songs) on February 28. The event took place Opatija.
- Latvia Latvia: The Latvian participants was selected by the qualifying Eirodziesma 2009. There was a semi-final on 27 February with 20 participants in which 10 songs came into the final on 28 February by a televoting. There, the three participants was selected for the Super Final by a combination of jury and televoting. This super finals was exclusively decided by the audience.
- Lithuania Lithuania: The Lithuanian Lietuvos Danu daina preliminary round consisted of several semi-final rounds and a final.
- Malta Malta: Because of the meager results of the last years (2006, last place, 2007 and 2008 do not qualify for the final) one has the responsibility extracted from the Malta Song Board and transferred to a four-member committee. This has designed a partially new decider: Between 8 November and 19 January, the 80 pre-selected songs were presented. Of these 80 tracks 15 tracks were selected by a jury, who came into the final. Five other title given the Televoter. In the final, a jury selected three of these 20 tracks for the Super Final. There, the Maltese candidate for Moscow was determined by televoting.
- Macedonia Macedonia: Macedonia established its representative fixed by the qualifying Skopje. There were two semi-finals take place on 19 and 20 February. The first eight songs of each semi-final came the final. Was decided by a jury and televoting.
- Moldova Moldova: Moldova held on February 14 a national final with 20 songs. The winner was. Using a combination of a panel of the transmitter, a jury of Moldovan music experts and televoting
- Montenegro Montenegro: Montenegro chose a new system for the participants in 2009. They had an internal choice. On January 23, the transmitter RTCG announced that Andrea Demirović competes with the song Just Get out of My Life for Montenegro.
- Netherlands Netherlands: In the Netherlands, there was an internal selection. In the meantime, had Dutch fans a platform founded the Eurovisie Platform, which had the purpose of helping NOS to find the ideal candidate. NOS but chose not participants in this " Platform" from, but opted for De Toppers. On 1 February 2009, the song selection took place.
- Norway Norway: In Norway, there was again the qualifying Melodi Grand Prix. There were three semi-final, a Second Chance and a final round. A special feature was that had to be 50 % of all Norwegian songwriter.
- Poland Poland: Poland elected its participants through the qualifying round Piosenka dla Europy ' from.
- Portugal: See: Festival da Canção 2009
- Romania Romania: the representative for the Euro Vision Song Contest through the Selecţia Naţională was determined in Romania. 12 candidates from two semifinals came in the final 31 January 2009 against each other. For preliminary decision only Romanian composers were admitted.
- Russia Russia: The Russian broadcaster Channel One chose internally the 15 participants for the finals on March 7. There, the audience chose the three participants for the Super Final, which was chosen by a jury of eleven.
- Sweden Sweden: Sweden, as the participants selected in previous years, in Melodifestivalen. There were four semi-final rounds, a second -chance round and the finals, which were carried out in various cities throughout the country. As an improvement over previous years, 2009 saw the first time already in the semi-final rounds of a knock-out system, in which two songs competed against each other. The respective winners of a pairing pulled directly into the finals, the loser ended up in the Second Chance round.
- Switzerland Switzerland: the Swiss station SF 1 introduced in Switzerland in October, the internally selected artist. Title suggestions came, among others, Emel, Gimma and the Popstars contestant Arjeta Zuta.
- Serbia Serbia: Serbia moved as in 2007 and 2008 the winner of the Serbian music festivals Beovizija as participants approach. Was sung in Serbian.
- Slovakia Slovakia: Slovakia sought their representatives by a finale on March 8.
- Slovenia: The Slovenian EMA preliminary round was held in February 2009. 14 participants entered the semi-final against each other, eight of them qualified for the final tournament. In the final six contributions of composers were added that were set by the Slovenian television directly for the final. The winner was determined by a mix of tele - voting and jury.
- Spain: The Spanish decider had the name Euro Vision 2009: El retorno ( " return "). Artists could publish their songs on the MySpace page of the Spanish station TVE. Songs could be assigned to 10 categories: Pop Rock, Ballads, Metal, Electronic, Latin, Hip Hop, Indie, flamenco, R & B and others. From each category, five songs were selected by a jury and participated in one of three semi-finals. The top five songs from each semi-final came the final. Was decided by televoting and jury.
- Czech Republic Czech Republic: The public broadcaster Česká televise selected in an internal election Gipsy.cz to this year representatives of the Czech Republic. The viewers could decide the period 1 to 14 March, the purpose of which song Gipsy.cz compete in a vote by SMS. To select the two tracks Do You Want and Aven were Romale.
- Turkey Turkey: The Turkish broadcaster TRT took place this year, an internal election and elected as a representative from Hadise.
- Ukraine: A jury and the telephone audience decided in February 2009 of 15 finalists for Svitlana Loboda.
- Hungary Hungary: Hungary took an internal election this year. Only the third selected song went to Moscow.
- United Kingdom United Kingdom: the British decider Your Country Needs You was attended by six candidates who were selected by Andrew Lloyd Webber and other music experts. The winner was determined by televoting and sang a song written by Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Euro Vision Song Contest. Was presented the preliminary round of Euro Vision Dance Contest presenter Graham Norton. The winning song was sung in English.
- Belarus Belarus: The Belarusian preliminary decision was again the title of Euro Festival. 15 participants were selected internally by a jury, which then competed in a semi-final against each other. Two of these performers qualified by the jury's decision for the final. If the favorite of the televoting another gewewsen, this would be drafted as a third participant in the final. The winner was then again determined by a jury.
- Cyprus Republic of Cyprus In Cyprus, there was on January 31, a final with ten songs. Was decided by televoting. A total of 70 posts in the Cypriot television were submitted.
Others
- With 387 points, a difference of 169 points for second place is the Norwegian contribution to the successful of the previous history of the Euro Vision Song Contest. In addition, Fairytale is the first song since 2004 or since 1997 the first winner title that received points from all countries entitled to vote.
- In the semi-finals, the envelopes were first drawn virtually with the name of the qualified for the finals countries and no longer, as before over the years, using real envelopes.
- Svante Stockselius said that it was too soon for further rule changes yet and therefore the BIG -4- rule would continue to be made .
- The ARD was without Peter Urban as a commentator. Instead, commented hr3 Radio Host Tim Spring, both the semifinals and the finals.
- Terry Wogan commented for the BBC since this year after 38 years no longer the final. Graham Norton took over the post.
- Thomas Anders Thomas Hermanns sparked off as the Herald points ratings from Germany.
- The ORF rendered on the final day only from 23 clock live the scoring and then showed from 0.20 clock the contributions of the participating countries. Was justified this behavior with the simultaneous occurrence of the " Life Ball " opening, which were preferred to the ESC. Also, both semi-finals were not live, but transmit time offset to 0 clock on that day.
- The second semi-final in which Spain was entitled to vote, was not transferred from the Spanish TV station TVE, which is against the rules of the EBU. Instead of televoting, the evaluation of the back-up jury was given.
- In Azerbaijan interfering signals were sent by the transmitter during the Armenian ESC contribution, the phone numbers for Armenian contribution were locked so you could not vote for these from Azerbaijan. In addition, points were dimmed during the promulgation parts of the screen, so that the scoring for Armenia could not be traced. Hiding other participants at ESC is prohibited as per rules the participating States.
- The Armenian points Siruscho announcer who had participated in the previous year with the contribution Qele Qele at the Song Contest, held at the reading of the points a clipboard in the camera, on the back of the monument was to be seen Tatik Papik; in the background was to see a picture of it. This stone monument in Stepanakert is a symbol of the de facto independence of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh.
- At a cost of about 42 million euros, the event was the most expensive Euro Vision Song Contest.
- Launched in the United Kingdom Jade Ewen was after the contest for the new band member of the Sugababes.
- For the first time since 2000, won with Norway, a country that had already won the competition (1985 and 1995).
Television broadcasts in German-speaking countries participating
The first semi-final, in the voting rights in Germany and Switzerland had to play, was broadcast in Germany on the transmitter Phoenix and Switzerland on the transmitter SF two live at 21.00 clock. The second semi-final was shown by any station in Switzerland and in Germany as last year, only a time delay at 23.00 clock on NDR and at 0.05 hr clock on television. The final was televised in Germany on the first live at 21.00 clock and transmitted in Switzerland on SF zwei also to 21.00 clock.