What rules are Eurovision contest?

Sisters Tolmachey Presented Russia at Eurovision 2014. In the final of the competition held in Copenhagen on May 10, Anastasia and Maria performed the song "Shine" ("Shine"). One of the authors of the composition was Philipp Kirkorov.
AiFR.ru talks about how the winner of the show is chosen.

About the emergence of "Eurovision"

Eurovision Song Contest was first held in Switzerland in 1956 as an alternative to the Italian festival in San Remo (this festival leads its history since 1951, with minor breaks, it is carried out annually up to the present time). So, the organizers of the new competition decided that only representatives of countries belonging to the European Broadcasting Union (EED) can participate in it, therefore, it is not entirely true to call "Eurovision" with a competition of exclusively European countries, because representatives of Israel, Cyprus, Egypt also participate in it et al. countries that geographically refer to other parts of the world.

Sisters Tolmachevyov will present Russia at Eurovision. Photo: www.globallookpress.com.

General Rules for the Competition

In all his history, Eurovision rules changed only a few times, the last time the changes touched the principle of voting for the song favorite. The key aspects of the current edition of the rules are as follows:

Due to the large number of participants, the competition takes place in several stages: first - semi-finals, which are obliged to pass by representatives of all countries, except the country hosting the competition, as well as the "Big Founders" of Eurovision Foundation Countries - Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Italy.

Representatives of those countries that in the semifinals took from the first to the tenth place are allowed to the final of the competition. In total, 26 countries are submitted in the final of the competition - 20 leaders of semi-finals, five members of the big five and a representative of the country host.

Eurovision 2014 Final will be held in B & W Halls, in fact, an industrial building. Photo: www.globallookpress.com.

Rules of the audience voting

It is not always clear how exactly the points between the participants are distributed. In fact, everything is not so difficult.

Voting takes place in every country that sent his participant to the competition. According to the results of the voting, the number of votes given for one song is calculated. The song that received most of all votes, receives 12 points - and this is the maximum evaluation. The second song of the song gained 10 points, the third - 8 points. Then the songs in descending are obtained 7, 6, 5 - and so right up to one point each.

Until 1997, the voting took place only among the specially selected national jury. However, it was decided to carry out an experiment and allow TV viewers to vote for the composition you like. So since 1998, in all countries, televisor was introduced using SMS messages or phone calls, while they were all paid. The national jury from nowend did not participate in the distribution of points, but played the role of "insurance" so that if a technical failure occurs in any country - to put points to contestants on their own. After the end of the vote, each country in turn is invited to announce the results.

Due to the large number of participating countries, only higher points (12, 10 and 8 points) are called, and the distribution of other points of the audience is seen on an interactive scoreboard.

If it happens that several participants receive the same number of points in the final or semifinals of the competition, the winner is determined by the results of only the public voting: the song that has received more points from the viewers becomes the winner.

If in this case the winner will not be detected, then they look at the evaluation of the jury - the song, which was higher than the members of the jury from all countries, becomes the winner.

• No more than 45 countries of active members of the European Broadcasting Union take part in the competition.
• In the final of the competition, it is guaranteed to participate to 5 countries: the country-organizer and founding countries of the competition - Germany, Spain, France and the UK.
• All participating countries are their own national qualifying contests. The rules of their holding establishes the TV company participating in Eurovision at its own discretion. It is necessary to ensure proper transparency of the process.
• No more than 40 countries can take part in the semifinals of the competition. The organizing committee of the competition with the help of a draw determines how these countries will be divided into two semifinals.
• 25 countries take part in the competition final.
• The order of performance in all concerts is determined by the draw. From each semi-final for 10 countries will be released in the final of the competition.

Song Requirements and Speech

• The Song (Text and Music) Competition (Text and Music) should not be issued or publicly executed until October 1, preceding the competition.
• The maximum duration of the song should be 3 minutes.
• During each performance on stage, there are the right to be up to 6 people not under the age of 16.
• It is forbidden to release animals on the scene.
• The choice of the language of execution is free.
• All artists must perform a song live, accompanied by a minus phonogram.
• The lyrics and performance should not create a negative reputation of the competition.
• Songs containing political statements or advertising, swearing or obscene expressions are not allowed to competition.
• Artists are not allowed to represent more than one country in Eurovision in the current year.

Sanctions

The song can be disqualified for the following reasons:

• If the artist, a member of a delegation or a representative does not fulfill the requirements of the television company of the Organizer or the Executive Director of the EBU and can prevent their actions to hold or show the show.
• If the performance of the artist differs from the planned and shown on the general rehearsals and thereby interferes with the organization or show show.
• If participants (television company or artist) are trying to violate the rules for holding a competition at any stage of its preparation or conduct or plan to break them during the show themselves.

The decision on disqualification is made by the Organizing Committee of the Competition on the recommendation of the Executive Director of the ESU.

Sanctions can be applied to the television company, up to the elimination of participation in subsequent show in case of violation of the rules or withdrawing an application after December 14 of the year preceding the holding of the competition. Such a sanction cannot be imposed on more than 3 years.

• In the final and semi-finals of Eurovision-2010, the voting will be carried out among the viewers and professional jury out of 5 people. TV viewers and jury will have 50% of the weight in determining the results of the competition.
• The best tens of total voting in each of the semi-finals will be released in the competition final.
• During the semi-finals and Eurovision-2010 finals in Oslo, the voting will be open from the moment of the first song started and will last another 15 minutes at the end of the fulfillment of the last song.
• Vote for the country of own location is not allowed.
• In the case of a technical or other malfunction in television, only the results of the voting of the national jury will be taken into account.

Definition of the winner

The winner of the competition is the song that scores the most points upon completion of the voting.

In the case of a draw in the last place in the semifinals, which gives the right to enter the final, or for the first place in the final, the winner becomes the song that received points from the largest number of countries. If this quantity is also the same, the country becomes the winner who received the greatest number of 12-point estimates. If this quantity is the same, then 10 point rates are considered, etc.

If in the semi-final of the above procedure, it was not possible to identify the finalist, the right to enter the final will be given to that country that performed before (in order) in this semifinals.

In the final, if this procedure does not help determine the winner, both songs are proclaimed by the winners of the competition.

Eurovision is one of the largest musical contests in the world, which is held every year and attracts the participation of the best performers from the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union. In this regard, being a viewer of the project, you can see the fascinating speeches of representatives of not only European states, but also countries like Israel and Egypt. According to the rules from each country, only one singer can perform, and the winner is determined by the results of the voting of the audience from around the world.

History of Eurovision

The very first Eurovision contest was organized in Switzerland in the mid-fifties of the last century. The reason for his holding was the desire to create a project similar to the large Italian festival called "San Remo". The main goal, according to Marseille Bezon, was the opportunity to unite in the work of the nation, scattered in the post-war time.

Despite the fact that the festival in Italy is held now, Eurovision is still significantly ahead of him and became the most popular and expected event of the year. Today, friends, relatives and even companies unfamiliar to each other of people, the total number of more than one hundred million, are collected together to see the performances of the participants and vote for the favorite.

Before each Eurovision contest, participants who want to become the finalists of the project are held by the qualifying round, following which the list of countries participating this year is determined. Four founder countries become indisputable participants - Germany, United Kingdom, Spain and France, which are combined under the name "Big Four ESU".

If we talk about the winners of Eurovision, then the most awesome country is worth named the UK. Despite the fact that Ireland occupied the first places more often than her (seven to five), but in the number of second places this country is the leader, since it is for fifteen such victories. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the UK often had to become the venue for the competition, as France refused this advantage.

Spectators are often asked why the American singer (Katrina Leskanish with the Cambridge group Waves or Ozzy Gina J.) or from Dukesserburg is performed from England. The fact is that a representative from a particular country can be completely any person, regardless of nationality and even citizenship.

Interesting Facts from Eurovision History

In the entire history of the competition, the leaders became the most unexpected performers, and our country was dispersed only by the middle of zero. We decided to make a selection of the most interesting moments for you.

• The victory at the very first competition went to the Swiss performer Lis Asia for the song Refrain.
• Since 1959, composers may not be included in the professional jury.
• In 1960, Eurovision was first shown live, alive, only in Finland.
• 1988 - sign for Celine Dion. It's now knows her now, and then it was a starry hour for a nobody famous girl.
• The winner in 1986 was the singer from Belgium, which was only thirteen years old. For the history of Eurovision in the competition took part and eleven-, and twelve-year singers. Today it is impossible, since the age limit is 16 years old, and for talents, younger, children's, Eurovision.
• The rule suggests that the participants are obliged to perform a song in the language of their country, was introduced in 1966.
• In the victory for Spain La La La (1968), this word is repeated 138 times.
• After taking the first place at once, 4 countries (1969) decided to correct the rules: if several leading countries are gaining the same number of points, the performers again execute their number again, and the decision takes the jury.
• Philip Kirkorov, who represented our country in 1995, took only the seventeenth place, and next year Russia did not participate in the project at all.
• - Not the first fry of this kind in the history of Eurovision. In 2007, the winner almost became (the image created by the artist from Ukraine Andrei Danilko), who eventually took the honorable second place. And almost ten years before this, the viewers from Israel named Dana International (1998) surprised by their transsexuality of the audience.
• 2000 - the first noticeable achievement of Russia. Alsu took second place. The following successful representative was the group "Tattoo", which took third place.

The best songs of Eurovision in history

To understand what kind of music Europe loves, a music service called Deezer created a rating of the best hits-winners of the show.

1. Euphoria and singer from Sweden (2012).
2. Only Teardrops from Denmark (2013).
3. Unforgettable Copter Wurst with Rise Like A Phoenix (2014) composition.
4. Also very concerned hard Rock Lordi Group And the song Hard Rock Hallelujah from Finland (2006).
5. The performance of two musicians - from Ireland and Norway - called Secret Garden with the song Nocturne (1995).
6. Johnny Logan from Ireland and his composition Hold Me Now (1987).
7. ABBA WATERLOO (Sweden) with a hit called Hold Me Now (1974).
8. Satellite Song Lena Mayer Landrut (2010).
9. Gina Ji and Ooh Aah ... Just a Little Bit from the UK (1996).
10. Finally, the charming Italian Toto Kutuno with the song Insieme (1990).

It should be noted that each year of the event is associated with completely unexpected decisions and victories. What it depends on - from the unpredictable tastes of listeners or from the desire of the performers themselves to produce as a brighter impression as possible, we do not know. But we look forward to the continuation of this musical history.

21.05.2015

the right thing is considered the main musical event of the year in Europe. This competition is very emotional and Azarten not only for participants, but also for viewers from different countries that are going near the screens and sick with the whole soul for their artist. In addition, Eurovision is a spectacular show, the preparation for which it begins almost the day after the next winner was named and the country organizer of the next competition was determined.

But no matter how much millions of people hoped that for the next year, Eurovision will come home to them, most of them have to experience a slight disappointment. The winner can be only one. And it is for him that even losers are rejoiced. After all, it means that another talent was revealed and received a ticket to the musical Olympus.

History of Eurovision

The idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a competition appeared in the middle of the last century. It is then representatives European Broadcasting Unionthought to take the first step towards the cultural association of different countries belonging to its composition. The idea of \u200b\u200borganizing the international song competition was first made by Marcel Besanon. At that time he stood at the head of the Swiss television. This happened in the fiftieth year. But only five years later the offer was approved. On the General Assembly Evs.which took place in Rome, it was decided not only to start the embodiment of the idea about a song contest, in which representatives from all European countries will be able to participate, but it was agreed to use the festival as a sample, which was held in Italian San Remo.. Officially stated that the purpose Eurovision is the search for talents and their promotion on the international scene. However, in fact, the competition was designed to increase the popularity of TV, which in those years has not yet reached modern scale.

First Eurovision Passed fifty sixth in May. Then the participants accepted Switzerland. The concert took place in Lugano. Representatives from all of the seven countries arrived at him. Each musician made two numbers. It was an unprecedented event for Eurovision. Subsequently, the number of participants has increased, and each of them had only one chance to show itself. The first winner of the most popular song contest was Swiss Liz Assia.

Since the number of people who want to show themselves in a popular musical competition is steadily growing, in the fourth year of the new millennium it was decided to divide the competition into two parts. From that moment on, the semi-final is initially carried out, within which everyone can speak, and only then the final starts, to which not all gets. And after another four years the semifinal was two. And this is despite the fact that sometimes countries refuse to reveal their candidate, and in some cases, states that are usually sent by Eurovision performers, for one reason or another refrain from participation.

For many years of Eurovision, the winners most often became representatives of Ireland. As many times, the musicians from this country were on the pedestal. Five times won the Competition France, United Kingdom, Sweden and Lukovębug. It is worth remembering that the famous group of avva and world famous artist Celine Dion They started their career from victory at this competition.

Eurovision Winners in the New Millennium

Today, no one can remember all the participants who tried to drop their glory on the Eurovision scene. The list of winners is also too large to make it reproduce it. Yes, and today it does not make a lot of sense to return to the middle of the last century and try to restore the names of everyone who ever tasted the sweet feeling of triumph. But the winners who entered the history of the competition in the twenty-first century, remember not so difficult. At the moment there were only fourteen. In anticipation
It's time to summarize the previous years.

2000

In 2000. Palm Championship got a duet from Denmark - Olsen Brothers.. Niels and Jürgen Olsen performed a song that was a fifty-year-old anniversary of the competition, he recognized one of his best in his entire history and took the honorary sixth place.

2001

In 2001 The Estonian duet came to the Eurovision scene, consisting of Padar Taper and Dave Benton. The back-vocal was hip-hopp 2xl team. With his performance, talented musicians brought the first in the history of Estonia victory on this prestigious competition. And Tannel Padar managed to penetrate the hearts of the audience and very soon became the most famous rocker at home.

2002

In 2002eurovision victory went to Latvia. She won singer Marie N.. Maria Naumova has Russian roots. However, despite the joy of victory, no bonuses from her did not receive a performer. Moreover, at the moment it is the only participant in the contest, the song of which was published exclusively in Latvia. In 2003, when Eurovision was held in Riga, Maria became one of his leading.

2003

In 2003. Turkhanka rose on the podium Serrtab Erene. At the moment, it is one of the most successful performers in the style of Pop in his country. Her name in Turkey knows absolutely everything. And at the competition in honor of the fifty-year-old Jubilee of Eurovision, the song, who once brought the victory of Serrtab, took the tenth among the best.

2004

In 2004. The winner was the representative of Ukraine - the singer Ruslana. Her speech was a real furyor. For him, Ruslana received the honorary title of People's Artist of Ukraine.

2005

In 2005 Good luck smiled Grechanka Elena Papariswhich came to the stage of this competition for the second time. Four years before the triumphal victory, it was part of the group called "Antique", which could not rise above the third position.

2006

In 2006 Eurovision concussioned heavy chords of hard rock, and on the stage there were hot Finnish guys in the costumes of mythical mandes with a good fraction of irony sang about all the bundes worthy of decent horror. Creation lordi Groups Literally blew up the public and deprived Russians a chance to take the first place, for which in that year many seriously hoped.

2007

In 2007. Pop singer from Serbia Maria Sheriffovich Performed a song in his native language. Her " Prayer"It was heard, despite the fact that she was not at the traditional English for the competition, and Maria became the winner.

2008

In 2008 The first in the history of Eurovision is the victory of Russia. Dmitry Bilan.Who failed to move back in the direction of Hard Rockers, brought the competition to Moscow. His beautiful song made a big impression on the audience. And the spectacular number in which Evgeny Plushenko took part was remembered for a long time.

2009

In 2009 In Eurovision, a kind of record was installed. The young artist who represented Norway managed to gain the largest number of points in the history of the competition. The triumphant was a native of Belarus Alexander Rybak With its incendiary, fabulous song.

2010

In 2010 year Representative Germany Lena Mayer Landrut She became an undisputed favorite of the competition. A year later, she again went to the Eurovision scene, as a participant. But twice luck did not smile at her.

2011

In 2011 Victory went to Duet from Azerbaijan Ell & Nikki.. From Nigyar Jamal and Eldar Gasimova turned out to be very beautiful and harmonious tandem, which simply could not be without attention.

2012

In 2012 Swedish of marocan-Berber origin Lorin I managed to break away from the performers from Russia and took the honorable first place at the competition. Today it is very popular.

2013

In 2013 No surprises did not happen. Singer from Denmark Emmili de Forest It was propheted before the competence. The performer from early childhood was engaged in music and possesses very good vocal data and bright appearance.

2014

In 2014 Many fans of Eurovision were waiting for a real shock. The first place in the competition was taken by a bearded woman Copter Wurst. The real name of the singer who hides under this pseudonym, Thomas Neurvit. He represented Austria. Despite the fact that not everyone was satisfied with this choice, it's hard to deny that the song was beautiful, the performer's voice is strong, and the image is just very memorable.

Very soon the next Eurovision is started - 2015. Singers from many countries will gather together to compete with each other in the skill and please numerous spectators. The show will surely be bright and colorful. Well, the name of the next winner will soon be known to the entire continent.

2015

In 2015. The winner of Eurovision was the representative of Switzerland Mons Zelmerlev. Even before the final vote, many nicknamed the singer "King of the scene."

2016

In 2016.the winner of Eurovision was the representative of Ukraine - Jamala. She performed a song 1944. It is possible to see her speech below:

2017

In 2017. The winner of the Eurovision Contest, which was held in Kiev (Ukraine), became the representative of Portugal Salvador Collected. At the competition, he spoke with the song Amar Pelos Dois ("Love for Two"). According to the results of the vote, the jury and the audience, the representative of Portugal scored 758 votes. You can see his speech below:

2018

In 2018, the winner was Netta Barzilai (Israel) with the song "Toy" ("Toy")

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Eurovision is an annual music competition of songs, which is held among performers from countries belonging to the European Broadcasting Union (EMU). Therefore, among the participants of the competition, you can see performers from Israel and other countries outside Europe. From each member country to Eurovision, one participant is sent, which performs one song. The winner of the competition is determined by the voting of viewers and the jury from each participating country.

For the first time, Eurovision Music Competition was held in 1956. A contest appeared as a result of the transformation of the Italian festival of San Remo. Marseille Beon, who loved this project very much, saw in the competition the opportunity to unite nations in the post-war time. Festival in San Remo exists to this day. And Eurovision today is one of the most anticipated and popular events in the musical life of Europe. Every year more than 100 million viewers worldwide observes each year.

Every year, the preliminary selection procedure is undergoing before the competition, which helps to decide on the list of participating countries. The performers from the countries of the Big Four ESU -, - come to the competition automatically.

It can be said that the most awesome country at Eurovision is the United Kingdom. Of course, I became a winner more often (7 times against 5 victories of Britain), but the British were held for the second place, France and Luxembourg, like England, won 5 times, but they took no more than three times.

The citizenship of performers at Eurovision does not matter. This is confirmed by participation in the competition of Katrina Leskanish. She was born in America, and performed with the WAVES group from Cambridge. Another foreigner representing the UK competition was Ozzy Gina J., and Grechanka Nana Muskuri and Belgian Lara Fabian in 1963 and 1988, respectively, advocated Luxembourg. By the way, the victory in 1988 went to Switzerland, which was represented by the Canadian singer Celine Dion. It was the victory at the competition that turned nobody who is not a well-known singer in the real star.

In 1986, the contest won the 13-year-old Belgian Sandra Kim with the song "J'aime La Vie". Now the rules of Eurovision have established an age limit for performers - you can take part in the competition from 16 years.

For the final of the competition there are special strict rules. For example, the scene cannot be amplifiers, the drummer must play on the shock installation provided. The performer can use instrumental minus. Any song, the duration of which is more than 3 minutes, can be disqualified, that "brevity - sister of the talent" remembers everything.

In Lugano (Switzerland), the first Eurovision contest took place. The competition was attended by 7 countries with two performers / songs on the country. The victory won Lis Asia from Switzerland with the song "Refrain". Fox went around the Belgian song "The Drowned Men of The River Seine".

The second competition "Eurovision" was held in the German city of Frankfurt am Main. For the first time participation in the competition adopted Austria, United Kingdom and. The victory won the Kori Brockken from the Netherlands, who performed the song "Net Als Toen". It was in 1957 that a rule was taken that the duration of the song should be no more than three minutes.

The venue of the competition was the city of Hilversum (). The third place went to the Italian singer Domenico Motuno, who performed the song "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Vlu". Later, this song was recorded entitled "Volare" and became a real hit. The victory went to Andre Clave from France with the song "Dors Mon Amour". The United Kingdom did not participate in this competition.

Cannes, France. The United Kingdom returned to Eurovision and ranked second with the song "Sing Little Birdie", bypassing only one point French song "Oui, Oui, Oui, Oui". The winner was Holland with the song "Een Beetje". Starting this year, the professional composers are forbidden to enter the jury.

The Netherlands refuses the second time to hold a competition and Eurovision goes for the first time in the UK. Frenchwoman Jacqueline Boyer with the composition "Tom Pillibi" ranked first, the second went to the British with their song "Looking High, High, High", which Bryan Jones fulfilled. This year, the number of participating countries increased to 13 at the expense of Norwegian and returned Luxembourg who joined the contest. 1960 also became the first year when the final of the competition was shown live. For such a step, Finland was solved.

Eurovision returns to Cannes (France). The victory won Luxembourg with the song "Nous Les Amoureux", which was performed by Jean-Claude Pascal. The second place from 16 participating countries was taken by the United Kingdom, which was represented by the group The Allisons.

The venue of the competition was Luxembourg. The song "Un PREMIER AMOUR", which Frankienka Isabelle was performed around, ranked first by typing 26 points.

France refuses the third time to hold "Eurovision" and the competition again takes place in London. Luxembourg presents the Greek singer Nana Muskuri, the French pop star represents Monaco. For the first time in the history of the Competition, Norway scored zero glasses. The victory won Denmark with the song "Dansevise", which Greta and Jürgen Ingmanns were performed.

The festival takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark. The second place is again occupied by the United Kingdom - Matt Monroe with the song "I Love The Little Things". Later, the "Walk Away" song was very popular - a revised version of the composition of the Austrian member of this year. The victory went to Italy with the song "Non Ho L'Eta", which was performed by the 16-year-old Gilola Chinkvetti.

In Naples (Italy), the victory wins Luxembourg with the song French Serzh Gensbura, which was performed by 17-year-old France Gall. The United Kingdom for the fifth time for 8 years takes second place thanks to the singer Kati Kirby, who performed the song "I Belong".

The victory at the competition goes Udo Yurgens with the song "Merci Chery", which was represented by Austria. From this year, the rule takes effect that the song presented at the competition should be executed in the state language of the artist.

The competition takes place in Vienna (Austria). For the first time, Luxembourg serves Wiki Leandros with the song "L'Amour Est Bleu", which later became the classics. Victory this year got Sandy Show with the song "Puppet On A String". The United Kingdom is first ranked first.

London, Great Britain. The competition takes place in Royal Albert Hall. The first place was taken by the Spanish singer Massiel with the song "La La La". In this song, the word "La" was used 138 times. British Cliff Richard with the song "Congratoulations" lagged behind the Spanish on one point and took second place.

Eurovision is held in Madrid, Spain. The only time in the history of the competition was first ranked four countries at once. The Netherlands with the song "De Troubadour" performed by Lenny Cür, France with Un Jour Enfant, performed by Frieda Bokcara, United Kingdom with "Boom Bang A Bang" performed by Lulu and Spain with the song "Vivo Cantando", which Salome performed ( Maria Rose Marco).

The venue of the competition was determined by the drawing between the winning countries of 1969. As a result, the competition took place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This year, the rules were made to the rules for which the possibility of victory of several participants was excluded at the same time. In the event that several performers receive the same number of points, they must re-execute the song and the jury, except for representatives of countries applying for the first place, again determined the winner. If, in this case, there will be a draw, the Grand Prix will receive both countries. In 1970, due to disagreement with the voting system, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Finland refused to participate in the competition. As a result, the number of participants in the competition decreased to 12. The victory went to the Irish singer Dane with the song "All Kinds of Everything", the eased Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, who took only the fourth place.

Dublin. This year, the rule restricting the number of performers on the stage has entered into force. The first place was taken by the representative of Monaco Severin with the song "Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue".

Monaco refused to hold a contest and Eurovision runs in Edinburgh, Scotland. The winner was the Greek girl who lives in Germany, but by Luxembourg - Wiki Leandros with the song "APRES TOI".

Competition takes place in Luxembourg. For the first time, Israel is accepted for the first time, which required adoption of additional security measures. Rules once again changed, now the Contractor could independently choose the language of the song. For the second year in a row, Luxembourg won with the song "Tu Te Reconnaitras", which was performed by Anna-Maria David. ABBA with the song "Ring Ring" failed in the National Selection Competition.

Brighton, United Kingdom. For the first time, Greece is accepted for the first time. From France, no one acted in connection with the death of President George Pompidou. The first place was taken by the Swedish group of Abba with their famous song "Waterloo".

Stockholm, Sweden. Turkey first takes part in Eurovision. Due to the participation of Turkey, Greece refuses to participate in the competition, thus expressing his protest against the Turkish invasion of Northern Cyprus. France and Malta returned to the competition. The winner was the Netherlands with the song "Ding-A-Dong" in the execution of groups of tich-in.

Hague, Netherlands. Turkey refuses to participate in the competition, in connection with which Greece is returning. The third time for the history of the competition is the winner of the United Kingdom with the song "Save Your Kisses for Me", which was performed by the Brotherhood Of Men.

London, Great Britain. Competition rules undergo small changes. Perform songs again only in the state language of the artist. The victory this year won France with the song "L'Oiseau et L'Enfant", which was performed by Marie Miriam, who became a star in France.

Paris, France. Turkey and Denmark come back to the competition. The victory went to Israel due to the memorable song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" performed by the Yehar of Cohen and the Alphabet Group.

Eurovision is held in Jerusalem ,. Turkey once again refuses to take part in the competition. The victory went to the owners who were represented by Atari and Milk & Hani Gali with the composition "Hallelujah".

Israel refused not only from holding a competition, but also from participation in Eurovision. The competition was held in the Hague, the Netherlands. Turkey returned to the participants of the competition, for the first time participation in Eurovision adopted Morocco. The victory went to Irish Johnni Logan, who performed the song "What's Another Year".

Dublin, Ireland. Yugoslavia and Israel returned to the competition. For the first time participation in the competition took Cyprus. The British Bucks Fizz group won the British group, who performed the song "Making Your Mind Up". In second place, Germany is located, the rescue from Britain is only 4 points.

Harrogit, United Kingdom. The first place went to Germany with the song "Ein Bißchen Frieden", which singer Nicole performed. This song was recorded in six languages \u200b\u200band came out first in the charts of all European countries.

Munich, Germany. Luxembourg decided to send Corinn Ermome to the "Prepared Singer" contest. And this decision justified itself - she ranked first, ahead of the Israeli singer from the Hazu.

Eurovision is held in Luxembourg. British group "Belle and the Devotions" sprout at the end of their performances. The victory won Sweden with the song "Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Lee" performed by "Herrey's".

Gothenburg, Sweden. The victory went to the Norwegian group "BobbySocks" with the song "La Det Swinge". For the first time in the history of the competition, its broadcast was carried out only through the satellite.

Bergen, Norway. Victory in the Thirtieth, Jubilee, Eurovision Contest won a 13-year-old Sandra Kim, who performed the composition "J'aime La Vie". Belgium became the first. The leading contest was the Minister of Culture of Norway Ase Kleveland, who took the third place in 1966.

Brussels,. The first place was taken by Irishman Johnny Logan, who performed the song "Hold Me Now". He became the first one who twice won Eurovision.

Dublin, Ireland. Thanks to the singer Celine Dion with the song "Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi", Switzerland takes first place in the competition. Just one scot from it was lagging behind the UK representative Scott Fitzgerald.

Lausanne, Switzerland. The thirty-fourth Eurovision contest was remembered by the fact that two participants were completely children: 11-year-old Natalie Pak represented France and 12-year-old Gilly Natan, who performed for Israel. It was because of these participants a rule was taken that the competition participants should not be less than 16 years. The winner of this year was Yugoslavia with the song "Rock Me" performed by Riva. The United Kingdom again takes second place.

Zagreb, Yugoslavia. By this year, the number of participants has become relatively permanent, 22 countries took part in the competition. The victory in 1990 won Italian Toto Kutuno, who performed the song "Insieme: 1992".

Rome, Italy. This year, between France, with the song "C'EST Le Dernier Qui A Parle Qui A Raison", which was performed by Amina, and Sweden with Fangad AV En Stormvind. In the performance of Carol. Both participating countries scored 146 points. In accordance with the rules, in this case, the country won the country that more often received the greatest amount of points (12 points, 10, etc.). As a result, Sweden became the winner.

Malmo,. The first place at the competition occupies the Irish performer Linda Martin with the song Johnny Logan "Why Me?". Johnny Logan became the first artist who won the Grand Prix of Eurovision three times. Once as the author of the song and twice as a performer.

Milstrite, Ireland. In Eurovision, three former Yugoslav republics participated for the first time, which proclaimed their independence - ,. As a result, the number of contestants increased to 25. For the fifth time for the history of the contest, the victory was received by the representative of Ireland - the singer Niam Kavan, who performed the song "In Your Eyes".

Dublin, Ireland. This year, participation in the competition was first accepted, Hungary, and Russia. However, the number of competing has not changed, since this year Denmark, Belgium, Israel, Luxembourg, Italy, Turkey and Slovenia did not take part in the competition. The third in a row and all the sixth success came to Ireland with the song "Rock'n Roll Kids", which was performed by Paul Harrington and Charlie McGetygan. The debut of Russia at Eurovision brought the country of the 9th place. The country was represented by Judith (Maria Katz) with the song "Eternal Wanderer."

Dublin, Ireland. The composition of the participating countries continues to change. For the second time in Eurovision, Norway wins. This year, the SECRET GARDEN group, which performed the song "Nocturne" became the triumph. Philip Kirkorov with the song "Lullaby for the volcano" brought Russia only the 17th place.

Oslo, Norway. Due to the fact that a large number of countries expressed the desire to take part in the competition, a new selection system was introduced. It included an additional jury and a preliminary audio recognition that it was necessary to send to ESU. The number of participants was limited to 23. In 1996, Russia did not accept participation in Eurovision. The first place was taken by Ireland, thereby setting a record for the number of victories (seven). The winner's song was "The Voice" performed by Kyuinna.

Eurovision takes place in Dublin again, Ireland. The selection system was modified so that all countries can take part in the competition at least once every two years. The winner country of last year's competition takes part in the competition automatically. The remaining 17 participants are chosen in accordance with the middle score over the past 5 years. The victory won the United Kingdom with the song "Love Shine A Light", which was performed by Katrina and The Waves. Alla Pugacheva was performed from Russia with the song "Priadonna". However, neither the popularity of the singer in our country nor the monumentality of the song did not impress. As a result, only 15th place.

Birmingham, United Kingdom. This year the televisor system was launched to attract additional attention to the audience to the show. The winner of this year has made a lot of noise. Israel ranked first thanks to the singer - transsexual Dane International, who performed the song "Diva".

Jerusalem, Israel. The victory on Eurovision in 1999 won a representative of Sweden - Charlotte Nilson, who performed the song "Take Me To Your Heaven". This year, new rules were also adopted: you can perform songs in any language, you can also sing under the backing, replacing the orchestra. Russia this year did not take part in the competition.

Eurovision is held in Stockholm, Sweden. This year, the first noticeable speech of Russia in the competition took place. Our country occupied the 2nd place thanks to the singer Alsu. The first place was taken by two brothers Olsen from Denmark, who performed the song "Fly On The Wings Of Love".

Copenhagen, Denmark. The competition was held at the Parken stadium, 35,000 people were living for Eurovision, which became a record for the competition. Russia was represented by the Mumi Troll group with the Lady Alpine Blue Song. This year, our country occupied only the 12th place. The winners were Estonian performers Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2xl with the song "Everybody".

Eurovision contest is held in Tallinn, Estonia. Russia is a group of Prime Minister with the song "Northern Girl". The result is the 10th place. The winner of this contest was the singer Marie N from Latvia, who performed the song "I Wanna". For the Baltic countries, this was the second victory in a row.

Riga ,. Russia comes to the Wa-Bank and sends to Eurovision a scandalous group "Tattoo" with the composition "Do not believe, do not be afraid." The group took only third place. The first place was taken by Serrtab Erener from Turkey, which all struck by her song "Everyway That I Can" and the show she arranged on the Squonto Hall scene. This year, for the first time in Eurovision, Ukraine took part, which as a result occupied the 14th place.

Istanbul ,. This year, the young singer Julia Savicheva performed for Russia. Many specialists believe that Julia spoke quite professional, she was able to overcome the excitement and performed worthy. However, it was not enough for victory, as a result, only the 11th place. The first place went to Ukrainian Ruslane, who performed an incendiary song with Hutsul motifs "Wild Dances".

Kiev, . In February 2005, the Eurovision Selection Tour is held in Russia: viewers by means of interactive voting chose the winner. According to the results of the audience voting, the singer Natalia Podolskaya won. With the song "Nobody Hurt No One" she represented our country in Kiev. At Eurovision, Natalia took only the 15th place. The victory went to the singer from Greece Helena Paparizou, who performed the song "My Number One".

The International Music Festival this year was held in Athens. Dima Bilan with the composition "Never Let You Go" first fought in the semifinals of Eurovision (since in 2005 Russia did not gain the required number of points), and then in the final, where he took second place. The victory went to the Finnish rock group "Lordi" with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah". The group performed on Eurovision in a monster costume than shocked many viewers of the competition.

Helsinki ,. Russia was a female trio "Silver", which was created shortly before the competition. Their song "Song No. 1" took the third place on Eurovision. The winner was the singer from Serbia Maria Sheriffovich with the composition of Prayer.

Eurovision-2008 passed in Belgrade, Serbia. Dima Bilan, whose song Believe brought our country from Russia to the competition for the competition. On the same stage with Bilan, the skater, Olympic champion Evgeny Plushenko, and the famous Hungarian violinist Edwin Marton. In second place was the Ukrainian singer Ani Lorak with a song on the music of Philip Kirkorov "Shady Lady", and on the third - Greek Kalomira with the SECRET Combination song.

The 54th Eurovision Contest was held in Moscow. Alexander Rybak, representing Norway, became the winner of the competition. By the number of scored points, the fisherman set an absolute record - in the final he scored 387 points. The famous French singer Patricia Kaas took part in this competition. For Azerbaijan made Arash with Aysel. A citizen of Ukraine performed for Russia - Anastasia Prikhodko with the song "Mamo". She took only the 11th place.

This year, the music festival has passed in Norway. The country has already held Eurovision on its territory for the third time. The first time "Eurovision" took place in Norway in 1986 due to the victory of the BobbySocks duet, the second time - in 1996 after the victory of the Secret Garden group and for the third time the right to hold a competition was received thanks to Alexander Fisherman. The winner of the 55th Music Competition "Eurovision" was the singer Lena Mayer-Landrut with the song "Satellite". Russia was represented by the music team of Peter Nalich with the "Lost and Forgotten" song. The guys occupied 11th place, but they themselves were satisfied with the result obtained.

56 Eurovision contest held in the city of Düsseldorf, located in Germany. The winner was a duet from Azerbaijan. The song "Running Scared" brought a duet 221 score. Alexey Vorobiev came from Russia, who scored 77 points and took only the 16th place.

Eurovision 2012 passed in Azerbaijan, in Baku, where a concert complex was built specifically for the competition, with a capacity of 20,000 seats. Montenegro returned to the participants.

The 58th Eurovision Contest passed in Malmo. Sweden took Evroshow for the fifth time. The winner was a representative with the song Only Teardrops. According to the results of the voting, the singer scored 281 points. Russian Dina Garipova ranked fifth. From participation in the competition refused: the Czech Republic. Slovakia, Turkey and Portugal. Returned to Eurovision Armenia.

The Eurovision 59th Competition was held in Denmark from 6 to 10 May. It was attended by 37 countries: representatives of Poland and Portugal returned to the international competition. For the first time, the finalists of the competition were performers from Montenegro and San Marino. The winner who scored 290 points was the performer from Austria Drag-Queen with the song Rise Like A Phoenix.

The anniversary, the 60th Eurovision Contest was held in Austria from 19 to 23 May 2015. The winner was the representative of Sweden - with the song "Heroes". Competitative from Russia Polina Gagarin with the composition "Million Voices" took the honorable second place, unconditionally won the sympathy of the European public. Representatives of 40 countries competed at the anniversary event, Ukraine for the first time refused to participate - due to economic difficulties. For the first time on Eurovision, the artist from Australia, who spent on special conditions.

"Eurovision" -2016 is the 61st song contest, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden, from 10 to 14 May. Representatives of 42 countries took part, including a performer from Australia, speaking on special conditions. The victory won a singer from Ukraine Jamala with the composition "1944". Russian Representative Sergey Lazarev with the song "You Are The Only One" took the third place, while having received the largest number of points - 361 - from TV viewers. In 2016, for the first time since 1975, the rules for holding a competition were changed: now the assessments of the jury are announced separately from the results of voting viewers.

The 62nd Eurovision Song Competition will be held in Kiev (Ukraine) from May 9 to 13. Ukraine takes a competition for the second time.

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