Eurovision Song Contest 2000
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| Eurovision Song Contest 2000 | |
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| Dates | |
| Final | 13 May 2000 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Ericsson Globe, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Presenter(s) | Kattis Ahlström, Anders Lundin |
| Directed by | Marius Bratten |
| Host broadcaster |  SVT |
| Website | eurovision |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 24 |
| Debuting countries |  Latvia |
| Returning countries |  Finland{{country data {{{1}}} | flag link/core | variant = | size = | name = | altvar = | altlink = in the Eurovision Song Contest }} Romania Russia Switzerland |
| Non-returning countries |  Bosnia and Herzegovina Lithuania Poland Portugal Slovenia |
| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs |
| Winning song |  Denmark"Fly on the Wings of Love" |
The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was the 45th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 13 May, 2000 at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden, following Charlotte Nilsson's victory in Jerusalem the previous year. 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. Presenters were Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin. The contest was won by the Olsen Brothers who represented Denmark with the song “Fly on the Wings of Love” (originally: Smuk som et stjerneskud).
Before the contest, the song was ranked low in most predictions[citation needed], so the victory was a surprise for many. The Ericsson Globe 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.
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. Such a disc was attempted in the previous year, however it lacked four of the entries which basically defeated the whole idea.
The favourite in this year’s contest was Estonia[citation needed], who was also a fan favourite and praised by the press[citation needed]. Russia and Latvia also anticipated good results.[citation needed] However, as the voting results came in, Denmark immediately took control of the scoreboard, with only a minor challenge from eventual second-place finisher Russia. As expected[citation needed], Ireland reached a respectable result of 6th place with their traditional ballad. Latvia was successful in their debut, reaching 3rd place.
There were some controversies concerning some participating countries. [citation needed] 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. Another striking contribution came from Germany’s Stefan Raab who pursued Europe’s comedic vote. Sweden's unusual song and performance dealt with indigenous people's struggle for their rights. The Russian delegation petitioned for the Olsen Brothers to be disqualified, after they had used a vocoder to give Jorgen Olsen an electronic sound to his voice during one of the verses of their performance. This issue was rejected by the EBU.
In the Netherlands, the Eurovision Song Contest programme was taken off air halfway through because of the Enschede fireworks disaster that happened earlier that day. As a result, televoting had to be suspended and the Dutch votes were given by a stand-by professional jury instead[citation needed], who had been able to keep watching the programme.
The contest was not broadcast in Italy, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. However, it was broadcast in Australia, Japan, the United States and via the internet for the first time.
Slovakia, Greece and Hungary decided not to compete for financial reasons. 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. Italy continued to decline to participate.
Individual Entries
Template:2000 Eurovision Song Contest entries
Results
Score sheet
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 points. In exceptional circumstances where televoting was not possible, a jury was used instead: Russia, FYR Macedonia, Turkey and Romania. The Dutch votes were the votes of the backup jury due to interrupted broadcasting of the contest in the Netherlands, due to a disaster in the Dutch town of Enschede.
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Israel | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Netherlands | 40 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||
| United Kingdom | 28 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Estonia | 98 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 3 | ||
| France | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Romania | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Malta | 73 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Norway | 57 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Russia | 155 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | ||
| Belgium | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cyprus | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Iceland | 45 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Spain | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Denmark | 195 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 12 | 10 | ||
| Germany | 96 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 12 | ||
| Switzerland | 14 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Croatia | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 6 | ||
| Sweden | 88 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 0 | ||
| FYR Macedonia | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Finland | 18 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Latvia | 136 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 8 | ||
| Turkey | 59 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Ireland | 92 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | ||
| Austria | 34 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | ||
12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:
| N. | Recipient nation | Voting nation |
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| 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 | FYR Macedonia | |
| Sweden | Turkey |
Commentators
- Israel - No commentator
- Netherlands - Willem van Beusekom
- United Kingdom - Terry Wogan
- Estonia - Marko Reikop
- France - Julien Lepers
- Romania - TBD
- Malta - TBD
- Norway - Jostein Pedersen
- Russia - Alexey Zhuravlev & Tatiana Godunova
- Belgium - Jean-Pierre Hautier (RTBF), André Vermeulen & Anja Daems (VRT)
- Cyprus - Evi Papamichail
- Iceland - Gísli Marteinn Baldursson
- Spain - José Luis Uribarri
- Denmark - Keld Heick
- Germany - Peter Urban
- Switzerland - TBD
- Croatia - Aleksandar Kostadinov
- Sweden - Pernilla Månsson Colt
- FYR Macedonia - Milanka Rašik
- Finland - Jani Juntunen
- Latvia - TBD
- Turkey - Ömer Önder
- Ireland - Marty Whelan
- Austria - Andi Knoll
Spokespersons
- Israel - Yoav Ginai
- Netherlands - Marlayne (Dutch representative in 1999)
- United Kingdom - Colin Berry
- Estonia - Evelin Samuel (Estonian representative in 1999)
- France - Marie Myriam (French representative in 1977)
- Romania - Andreea Marin
- Malta - Valerie Vella
- Norway - Marit Åslein
- Russia - Zhanna Agalakova
- Belgium - Thomas Van Hamme
- Cyprus - Loukas Hamatsos
- Iceland - Ragnheiður Elín Clausen
- Spain - Hugo de Campos
- Denmark - Michael Teschl (Danish representative in 1999)
- Germany - Axel Bulthaupt
- Switzerland - Astrid Von Stockar
- Croatia - Marko Rašica
- Sweden - Malin Ekander
- FYR Macedonia - Sandra Todorovska
- Finland - Pia Mäkinen
- Latvia - Lauris Reiniks
- Turkey - Osman Erkan
- Ireland - Derek Mooney
- Austria - Dodo Roscic
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