OGAE Video Contest

OGAE Video Contest
Genre Music
Location(s) Various cities
Years active 2003 – present
Founded by OGAE
Website
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The OGAE Video Contest is a video event which, much like the OGAE Song Contest, is organised between branches of OGAE, the international fan club of the Eurovision Song Contest.

All OGAE national clubs can enter with an original song and video released in the previous 12 months in their countries. There is no obligation on the entry for the OGAE Video Contest to be sung in one of the country's official languages.

Participation

So far 39 countries have been represented at the contest at least once. These are listed here alongside the year in which they made their debut:

Year Country making its debut entry
2003  Albania,  Armenia,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Finland,  France,  Germany,  Greece,  Iceland,  Israel,  Italy,  Macedonia,  Malta,  Netherlands,  Norway,  Portugal,  Russia,  Slovenia,  Spain,  Turkey,  United Kingdom
2004  Bulgaria,  Croatia,  Luxembourg,  Serbia and Montenegro
2005  Ireland,  Kazakhstan (as Rest of The World),  Poland,  Ukraine
2006  Moldova,  Serbia,  South Africa (as Rest of The World)
2007  Andorra,  Austria,  Estonia,  Latvia,  Namibia (as Rest of The World)
2010  Australia (as Rest of The World)
2012  Belgium,  United States (as Rest of The World)
2013  Belarus
2014  Azerbaijan,  Montenegro,  Slovakia

OGAE Rest of the World represents countries that do not have an OGAE branch of their own. Their first participation came at the 2005 Contest, where they represented Kazakhstan.

Winners

Seven countries have won the contest since it began in 2003. The most successful countries in the contest are France and Russia, who have won the contest three times each.

Year Country Video Performer Points Host city
2003  France "Fan" Pascal Obispo 122 Turkey Istanbul
2004  Portugal "Cavaleiro Monge" Mariza 133 France Fontainebleau
2005  Ukraine "I Will Forget You" Svetlana Loboda 171 Portugal Lisbon
2006  Italy "Contromano" Nek 106 Turkey Izmir
2007  Russia "LML" Via Gra 198 Italy Florence
2008  Russia "Potselui" Via Gra 140 Russia Moscow
2009  Russia "Karma" Yin-Yang 142 Russia Saint Petersburg
2010  Poland "Kim tu jestem" Justyna Steczkowska 85 Russia Volgograd
2011  France "Lonely Lisa" Mylène Farmer 96 Poland Wrocław
2012  Italy "E´ l´amore che conta" Giorgia 135 France Paris
2013  Belgium "Papaoutai" Stromae 144 Italy Turin
2014  France "Tourner dans le vide" Indila 141 Belgium Brussels

Winners by country

Wins Country Years
3  France 2003, 2011, 2014
 Russia 2007, 2008, 2009
2  Italy 2006, 2012
1  Belgium 2013
 Poland 2010
 Portugal 2004
 Ukraine 2005

Winners by language

Wins Language Years Countries
4 French 2003, 2011, 2013, 2014 Belgium, France
2 English 2005, 2007 Russia, Ukraine
Italian 2006, 2012 Italy
Russian 2008, 2009 Russia
1 Portuguese 2004 Portugal
Polish 2010 Poland

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