Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest

This article deals with the history of Belgium as participants in the Euro Vision Song Contest.

Belgium has been increasing since the first contest in 1956. The only victory was achieved by the 13 - year-old Sandra Kim J'aime la vie with the song the country in 1986. With eight " red lanterns " Belgium is behind Norway and Finland, the country that landed the third most in the last place.

TV station

The two Belgian TV channel RTBF in French-speaking and Dutch-speaking VRT, alternate annually with the participation from, the competition is, however, every year emitted from two transmitters comment in the respective language. The first appearance was in 1956 the Walloon transmitter to, since the change was constantly maintained. Was Belgium as not eligible to participate for example in 1994 due to a bad previous result by the Flemish channels, the French channels only came 1995 on the train.

Success in competition

RTBF is compared to VRT significantly more successful: not only the only victory in 1986 goes to the account of French-language radio station, but also the two second places in 1978 and 2003, the highest rankings of the Flemish radio station are the sixth place in 2010 and seventh places in 1967. in 1969 and 1977. Moreover, are among the last eight places only two posts by RTBF, namely in 1962 and 2000. Prior to sixth place in 2010, there had been no Flemish placing in the top ten for more than 30 years, in 1977 the group reached Dream Express seventh. On the other hand, managed from 2005 to 2009, none of the two stations to qualify for the final. This changed in 2010 with a contribution of the VRT.

Language

According to the change of the television station, change to the rule, the language in which the contributions are presented. The Walloon contributions have been presented up to and including 2000 and 2005 entirely in French, 2003 Sanomi was presented in a fantasy language before it was fully introduced in 2007 and 2009 in the semi-finals each contribute in English. VRT, however, has often used the opportunity to carry forward all or part of its contribution to English, if the rules allowed this, such as in 1975 when the song changed to English from the second verse, and in all Flemish contributions since 1999. 1977 each country would have to imagine the rules according to his song in the local language, but since Belgium - like Germany - had already chosen his post prior to the announcement of the scheme, both countries were allowed to compete with an English song. 2008 there has been with O Julissi Na Jalini of Ishtar again a song in an imaginary language.

Some contributions have also been included in the other national language as well as in the third national language German and English.

National preliminaries

For many years, the Flemish TV station complex national preliminary rounds ( Euro Song ) containing usually semi-final rounds and 2006 quarter-final rounds served. Many preliminary contributions were national hits, such as Belle Perez ' Un mundo bailando 2006., The French-language stations relied on the other hand, in recent years on preliminary decisions with very few subscribers ( such as 2005) or internal competitions (such B. 2007). Also, VRT 2010 went to internal selection over.

Commercial success

Despite poor performance in 2004 and 2006 both Xandees and Kate Ryan's Contribution Number - one hits in Belgium were. The Walloon posts from previous years were significantly less commercially successful.

List of posts

Color legend: - Victories. - A tie to the last place. - Contributions finals.

Miscellaneous

Belgium is among the seven countries in 1956 in the first edition of the Euro Vision Song Contest took part in the one that had to wait the longest for his first victory in 1986, it took part already 31 times
Belgium has never voluntarily surrendered to participate, the misfire 1994, 1997 and 2001 resulted from all of a bad year placement.
The country, which Belgium has given the most points is average, Armenia: the semi-finals in 2006 included, the country received on average 11.3 points - twice 12 and even 10 Most points has received Belgium since 1975 by the Dutch neighbors - 6, 3 on average.
Belgium is the country whose contributions most - were included (1956 both contributions in 1962, 1971 and 1979) - at least not by the artist, who introduced the song in the competition. In addition, competition in general, the Belgian contribution in 1979 was the last to fall into this category.
The Belgian singer Fud Leclerc is the only singer in the competition, which has four times represent the same country in the same language.
In the semifinals, 2007, Belgium received a total of 14 points - 12 of which came from the first time participating Georgia.

Documents

Former Participating countries: Andorra | Yugoslavia | Serbia and Montenegro

Redeemed participations or futile efforts: Lebanon | Liechtenstein

Belgium in the Euro Vision Song Contest

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