| Eurovision Song Contest 1984 |
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| Dates | |
| Final date | 5 May 1984 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Grand Theatre Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| Presenter(s) | Désirée Nosbusch |
| Conductor | Pierre Cao |
| Director | Rene Steichen |
| Host broadcaster | RTL |
| Opening act | In an introductory video, Pierre Cao and the RTL orchestra performed instrumental versions of all the past Eurovision winners from Luxembourg. |
| Interval act | Prague Theatre of Illuminated Drawings |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 19 |
| Debuting countries | None |
| Returning countries | Ireland |
| Withdrawing countries | Greece Israel |
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| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs |
| Nul points | None |
| Winning song | Sweden "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" |
| Eurovision Song Contest | |
| ◄1983 1985► | |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1984 was the 29th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 5 May 1984 in Luxembourg. The presenter was Désirée Nosbusch. Nosbusch, only 19 years old at the time, hosted the show in a lax manner, which was quite unusual for this show back then. She manifested her fluency in four languages when she switched between English, French, German and Luxembourgish in the course of her speech, often in the same sentence.
The Herreys were the winners of this Eurovision with the song, "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley". Their "golden shoes" have become a pop-cult classic since their win in 1984. The win was Sweden's second, and the first for a song performed in Swedish. The previous Swedish winner, "Waterloo" by ABBA in 1974, had been performed in English.
Israel withdrew from the contest due to a local memorial day commemorated on the same date. This year is also notable as one of the first contests where audible booing for an entry could be heard from the audience which occurred at the end of the UK's performance. It was said that the booing was due to English football fans causing damage in Luxembourg the year prior to the contest.
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Before the Contest, Sweden was not expected to win or even achieve a higher placing. In the run-up to the Contest, bookmakers Ladbrokes had the lowest odds on the songs from Ireland, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Sweden was considered a "dark horse" entry with high odds.
Each country had a jury that awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs.
At the close of the penultimate jury's votes, there was only a difference of six points between Sweden and Ireland (141 and 135 respectively). However, Yugoslavia was the only country who had not given any points to Ireland and the last jury, Portugal, gave Ireland only 2 points, thus crushing their chances of winning. Portugal's voting also cost Denmark, who had been lying on a very strong 3rd position, and even leading the score board for a short time, its 3rd place, when Portugal's 12 lifted Spain from 94 to 106 points, while Portugal at the same time had only given Denmark one point making Denmark's total 101 points. Despite this, this was Denmark's best position in over 20 years.
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| Sweden | 145 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 4 | ||
| Luxembourg | 39 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| France | 61 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Spain | 106 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 12 | ||||
| Norway | 29 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 63 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 6 | ||||
| Cyprus | 31 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | |||||||||||||||
| Belgium | 70 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||
| Ireland | 137 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 2 | |||
| Denmark | 101 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||
| Netherlands | 34 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 26 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Austria | 5 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Germany | 34 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Turkey | 37 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Finland | 46 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | |||||||||
| Switzerland | 30 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Italy | 70 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Portugal | 38 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:
| N. | Recipient nation | Voting nation |
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| 5 | Sweden | Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Ireland |
| 4 | Ireland | Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland |
| 2 | Belgium | France, Luxembourg |
| Denmark | Norway, United Kingdom | |
| Italy | Spain, Finland | |
| Spain | Portugal, Turkey | |
| 1 | Cyprus | Yugoslavia |
| France | Netherlands |
| Artist | Country | Previous year(s) |
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| Mary Roos | Germany | 1972 |
| Izolda Barudžija | Yugoslavia | 1982 (part of Aska) |
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