Eurovision Song Contest 2000

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**Eurovision Song Contest 2000**

Date	13 May 2000
Presenter	Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin
Host Broadcaster	SVT
Director	Marius Bratten
Venue	Globen Arena, Stockholm, Sweden
Winning Song	Fly on the Wings of Love (Denmark)
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Number of Songs	24
Countries Making Debut	Latvia
Nul points	None
Interval Act	“Street Musicians from Stockholm” film

The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was the 45th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 13, 2000 in the Globen Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. The presenters were Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin. The contest was won by the Olsen Brothers who were representing Denmark with the song “Fly on the Wings of Love” (originally: Smuk som et stjerneskud).. This year the contest entered a new era in which the production of the show was more exuberant and extravagant. The Globen Arena was, by that time, the largest venue chosen to host the contest with a capacity of 16,000 spectators. The popularity of the contest also excelled throughout Europe because of the televoting procedure, introduced in 1998, that was becoming more common in other nations. The postcards used to introduce each country participating involved Swedish themes that incorporated each nation in some respect.

There was a new introduction of a CD compilation containing all the songs of the participating nations, which would be available everywhere in Europe. The fans would no longer have to search for their favourite singles containing the individual song.

The big favourite in this year’s contest was Estonia, who was also declared the fan favourite and praised by the press. Russia and Latvia also anticipated good results. As expected, Ireland reached a respectable result of 6th place with their traditional ballad. When the voting came Denmark immediately took control of the scoreboard, with only a minor challenge from second placed Russia. Latvia was very successful in their debut, reaching 3rd place.

There were some controversies concerning some participated 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 groups 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 offered an ode to the Native Americans in their unusual song and performance. 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 turned down by the EBU.

The UK TV commentator Terry Wogan said that Belgium was heading for a “nil points” entry, which would have come true had it not been for FYR Macedonia awarding the song two points.

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, who had been able to keep watching the programme.

1 Results
2 Voting structure
3 Score sheet
4 Map

The presenters, Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin.

Olsen Brothers performing Fly on the Wings of Love for Denmark at Eurovision 2000.

[edit] Results

Draw	Country	Language	Artist(s)	Song	Translation	Place	Points
1	Israel	Hebrew	PingPong	Sameach	Happy	22	7
2	Netherlands	English	Linda Wagenmakers	No Goodbyes	-	13	40
3	United Kingdom	English	Nicki French	Don't Play That Song Again	-	16	28
4	Estonia	English	Ines	Once In A Lifetime	-	4	98
5	France	French	Sofia Mestari	On Aura Le Ciel	We'll have the Sky	23	5
6	Romania	English	Taxi	The Moon	-	17	25
7	Malta	English, Maltese	Claudette Pace	Desire	-	8	73
8	Norway	English	Charmed	My Heart Goes Boom	-	11	57
9	Russia	English	Alsou	Solo	-	2	155
10	Belgium	French	Nathalie Sorce	Envie De Vivre	The Wish to Live	24	2
11	Cyprus	Greek, Italian	Voice	Nomiza	I Believed	21	8
12	Iceland	English	Einar Ágúst Víðisson & Telma Ágústsdóttir	Tell Me	-	12	45
13	Spain	Spanish	Serafin Zubiri	Colgado de un sueño	Hanging from a Dream	18	18
14	Denmark	English	Olsen Brothers	Fly On The Wings of Love	-	1	195
15	Germany	German	Stefan Raab	Wadde Hadde Dudde Da?	What do you have there?	5	96
16	Switzerland	Italian	Jane Bogaert	La Vita Cos'e	What is Life?	20	14
17	Croatia	Croatian	Goran Karan	Ostani	When Angels Fall Asleep	9	70
18	Sweden	English	Roger Pontare	When Spirits Are Calling My Name	-	7	88
19	FYR Macedonia	English, Macedonian	XXL	100% te ljubam	100% I Love you	15	29
20	Finland	English	Nina Åström	A Little Bit	-	18	18
21	Latvia	English	Brainstorm	My Star	-	3	136
22	Turkey	English, Turkish	Pinar Ayhan & The SOS	Yorgunum Anla	Understand that I'm Weary	10	59
23	Ireland	English	Eamonn Toal	Millennium of Love	-	6	92
24	Austria	English	The Rounder Girls	All To You	-	14	34

[edit] Voting structure

The majority of participating countries held a televote, where the top ten most voted for songs were awarded the 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. Russia, FYR Macedonia, Turkey and Romania used juries, and Croatia and Malta used a 50-50 system between televoting and jury votes. 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.

[edit] Score sheet

	IL	NL	GB	EE	FR	RO	MT	NO	RU	BE	CY	IS	ES	DK	DE	CH	HR	SE	MK	FI	LV	TR	IE	AT

Israel	x	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	8	x	0	0	2	0	5	0	0	8	5	1	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	1	0
United Kingdom	1	0	x	2	0	3	6	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	3	6	0	0
Estonia	6	7	4	x	0	6	7	4	0	2	6	5	0	4	5	0	6	6	0	8	10	2	7	3
France	0	2	0	0	x	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romania	0	0	0	0	0	x	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	12	0	0	0	0	0
Malta	3	1	2	1	0	7	x	2	8	1	8	0	1	3	3	0	8	3	8	0	4	5	3	2
Norway	7	0	3	3	0	0	3	x	0	0	0	7	0	7	0	0	0	7	0	0	6	10	4	0
Russia	10	0	8	10	5	12	12	8	x	7	12	8	5	6	4	2	12	5	7	5	0	0	10	7
Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	x	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Cyprus	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	x	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
Iceland	5	0	0	6	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	x	0	12	0	0	0	8	0	0	7	0	0	0
Spain	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	2	0	10	0	x	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	12	10	12	8	7	1	8	10	12	10	4	12	10	x	12	10	0	12	0	10	12	1	12	10
Germany	0	8	5	0	10	0	0	3	4	6	0	6	12	2	x	12	1	0	0	2	8	0	5	12
Switzerland	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	x	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1
Croatia	0	0	0	0	8	8	0	0	10	0	0	0	2	0	6	6	x	0	10	6	0	8	0	6
Sweden	0	0	6	5	1	0	4	5	0	5	0	4	6	10	8	3	0	x	6	7	0	12	6	0
FYR Macedonia	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	x	0	0	0	0	0
Finland	0	5	0	7	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	x	0	0	0	0
Latvia	4	4	7	12	3	0	0	12	1	12	1	10	7	8	7	7	0	10	3	12	x	0	8	8
Turkey	0	12	0	0	12	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	10	5	0	1	5	4	0	x	0	5
Ireland	2	3	10	4	4	2	10	6	0	4	7	2	3	5	0	8	5	4	0	1	1	7	x	4
Austria	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	8	0	2	4	0	0	0	3	5	4	2	x
The table is ordered by appearance.