Eurovision Song Contest 2001

Eurovision Song Contest 2001
Final	12 May 2001
Presenter(s)	Natasja Crone Back Søren Pilmark
Host broadcaster	DR
Venue	Parken Stadium Copenhagen, Denmark
Winning song	Estonia "Everybody"
Voting system
Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Number of entries	23
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Greece  Lithuania  Poland  Portugal  Slovenia
Withdrawing countries	Austria  Belgium  Cyprus  Finland  Macedonia  Romania  Switzerland
Nul points	None
Opening act	Olsen Brothers with "Fly on the Wings of Love" and "Walk Right Back"
Interval act	Aqua and Safri Duo
Participation Map      Participating participants     Countries who have participated in the past but did not this year
Eurovision Song Contest
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The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 was the 46th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 12 May 2001 in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was the first time in 36 years that Denmark hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, thanks to the Olsen Brothers' win the previous year in Stockholm. The presenters were Natasja Crone Back and Søren Pilmark. The contest was won by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL who represented Estonia with the song "Everybody". Dave Benton, from Aruba, was the first black person to win the Eurovision Song Contest.

The logo of the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest was made out of four circles, placed in the shape of a heart. The four circles were also present in the stage design, with the light construction was made of the same four rings.^[1]

The Danish national broadcaster faced some problems whilst organising the contest such as the lack of funds and the search for a suitable venue. The event was eventually located in the football stadium Parken, after the company running the stadium agreed to add a retractable roof to the building. This solution made it the biggest venue ever to host a Eurovision Song Contest, but the scale of it wasn't entirely a success: many of the 38,000 people in the audience could not see the stage, and for many entries the hall appeared to be too big.^[1]

All of the countries participating in this year's Eurovision were required to use televoting for the first time after becoming compulsory. The jury backup votes were only used by some countries with either technical problems with their televotes or a weak fixed-telephone infrastructure. Further changes occurred in the qualification process for the 2002 Contest: along with the "Big 4" countries, the top 15 placed countries of the country would qualify for next year's competition. The other spots for 2002 would be filled by countries that were excluded from the 2001 contest because of their low point average for the years 1996-2000.^[1]

France, Greece and Slovenia were the heavy favourites to win the contest, however as the voting progressed it became a two-horse race between Denmark and Estonia, with Estonia ending as the unexpected winners.^[1]

Controversy was again rife in the 2001 Contest: the United Kingdom TV commentator Terry Wogan repeatedly referred to the hosts as "Doctor Death and the Tooth Fairy/The Little Mermaid" after providing their entire commentary in rhyming couplets. So offended were the Danes that the BBC was obliged to issue an apology on Wogan's comments. Controversy also surrounded the Swedish song, "Listen To Your Heartbeat", which was repeatedly accused as a plagarism of the Belgian entry for the 1996 Contest, "Liefde is een kaartspel". Eventually the EBU decided for the matter to be settled in court, with the song allowed to compete as long as the courts did not declare the song as plagarism.^[1][2]

During the voting the Danish band Aqua performed with a medley of their singles, with percussion ensemble Safri Duo performing in the medley.^[1] Although enjoyable, people complained about it being a little bit "rude" as there was some swearing during the performance, both at the beginning and end of "Barbie Girl".

Contents 1 Individual Entries 2 Results 3 Voting structure 4 Score sheet 4.1 12 points 5 Other involved countries 6 Commentators 7 Spokespersons 8 References

The stage design for Eurovision 2001.

Individual Entries

Results

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	Place	Points
01	Netherlands	English	Michelle	"Out On My Own"	–	18	16
02	Iceland	English	Two Tricky	"Angel"	–	22	3
03	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnian, English	Nino Pršeš	"Hano"	Hannah	14	29
04	Norway	English	Haldor Lægreid	"On My Own"	–	22	3
05	Israel	Hebrew	Tal Sondak	"En Davar" (אין דבר)	Never mind	16	25
06	Russia	English	Mumiy Troll	"Lady Alpine Blue"	–	12	37
07	Sweden	English	Friends	"Listen To Your Heartbeat"	–	5	100
08	Lithuania	English, Lithuanian	SKAMP	"You Got Style"	–	13	35
09	Latvia	English	Arnis Mednis	"Too Much"	–	18	16
10	Croatia	English	Vanna	"Strings of My Heart"	–	10	42
11	Portugal	Portuguese	MTM	"Só sei ser feliz assim"	This is the only way I know to be happy	17	18
12	Ireland	English	Gary O'Shaughnessy	"Without Your Love"	–	21	6
13	Spain	Spanish	David Civera	"Dile que la quiero"	Tell her that I love her	6	76
14	France	French, English	Natasha St-Pier	"Je n'ai que mon âme"	All I have is my soul	4	142
15	Turkey	Turkish, English	Sedat Yüce	"Sevgiliye Son"	Goodbye my love	11	41
16	United Kingdom	English	Lindsay Dracass	"No Dream Impossible"	–	15	28
17	Slovenia	English	Nuša Derenda	"Energy"	–	7	70
18	Poland	English	PIASEK	"2 Long"	–	20	11
19	Germany	German, English	Michelle	"Wer Liebe lebt"	To live for love	8	66
20	Estonia	English	Tanel Padar, Dave Benton, 2XL	"Everybody"	–	1	198
21	Malta	English	Fabrizio Faniello	"Another Summer Night"	–	9	48
22	Greece	Greek, English	Antique	"Die for You"	–	3	147
23	Denmark	English	Rollo & King	"Never Ever Let You Go"	–	2	177

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. This year the EBU introduced for the first time a mix of voting systems (50% televoting and 50% jury) for those countries that didn't want to use 100% televoting. According to the EBU rules (published on 05/10/00), every broadcaster was free to make a choice between the full televoting system and the mixed 50-50 system. In exceptional circumstances, where televoting was not possible at all, only a jury was used: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Turkey and Russia. Only a few countries are confirmed to have used the mixed voting system: Croatia, Greece and Malta.

Score sheet

Voting procedure used: Red: Televote. Blue: Jury. Purple: 50/50		Voters
	Netherlands	16		0	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Iceland	3	0		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	29	0	0		0	0	0	4	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	1	0	7
	Norway	3	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Israel	25	0	0	6	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
	Russia	37	0	5	0	0	3		0	10	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	5	0
	Sweden	100	0	7	3	2	8	2		2	6	4	5	8	5	2	8	8	0	5	0	7	8	0	10
	Lithuania	35	5	1	2	0	4	10	1		5	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Latvia	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	0
	Croatia	42	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	10	0	5	0	3	0	10	7	0
	Portugal	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	6	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Ireland	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1		0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Spain	76	7	2	5	4	12	0	5	0	4	0	7	3		5	6	3	1	1	0	3	0	8	0
	France	142	8	4	12	7	2	12	6	7	7	6	12	7	3		1	6	6	10	6	10	0	4	6
	Turkey	41	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	7		0	0	0	7	0	4	10	3
	United Kingdom	28	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	3	3	2	4	1	0	0		0	2	2	0	3	0	0
	Slovenia	70	4	6	10	6	1	4	7	4	0	8	0	2	2	1	0	0		6	4	5	0	0	0
	Poland	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3		5	0	0	0	1
	Germany	66	1	0	0	3	0	8	0	0	1	1	10	6	10	6	3	2	0	4		1	5	1	4
	Estonia	198	12	10	4	10	6	6	8	12	12	2	0	10	8	8	12	12	12	12	10		12	12	8
	Malta	48	0	3	1	5	0	7	3	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	1	0	3	1	2		3	12
	Greece	147	6	8	8	8	10	5	12	5	2	5	4	5	12	3	5	7	8	8	8	6	7		5
	Denmark	177	10	12	0	12	7	0	10	6	10	12	8	12	7	4	4	10	10	7	12	12	6	6

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

Other involved countries

Australia 

Although Australia is not itself eligible to enter, the event was broadcast on SBS. As is the case each year, it did not however broadcast it live due to the difference in Australian time zones. This year, the broadcast contained a locally produced addition of a studio audience of young representatives from the competing countries. However, a number of complaints saw the United Kingdom's broadcast, including commentary from Terry Wogan, shown a few weeks later. [1]

Commentators

• Netherlands - Willem van Beusekom
• Iceland - Gísli Marteinn Baldursson
• Bosnia & Herzegovina - Ismeta Dervoz
• Norway - Jostein Pedersen
• Israel - No commentator
• Russia - Alexandr Anatolievich & Konstantin Mihailov
• Sweden - Henrik Olsson
• Lithuania - Darius Užkuraitis
• Latvia - TBC
• Croatia - TBC
• Portugal - Eládio Climaco
• Ireland - Marty Whelan
• Spain - José Luis Uribarri
• France - Marc-Olivier Fogiel & Dave
• Turkey - Bülend Özveren
• United Kingdom - Terry Wogan (BBC One), Ken Bruce (BBC Radio 2)
• Slovenia - TBC
• Poland - Artur Orzech
• Germany - Peter Urban
• Estonia - Marko Reikop
• Malta - TBC
• Greece - Daphne Bokota
• Denmark - Hans Otto Bisgaard

Spokespersons

• Netherlands - Marlayne (Dutch representative in 1999)
• Iceland - Eva María Jónsdóttir
• Bosnia & Herzegovina - Segmedina Srna
• Norway - Roald Øyen
• Israel - Yoav Ginai
• Russia - Larisa Verbitskaya
• Sweden - Josefine Sundström
• Lithuania - Loreta Tarozaite
• Latvia - Renars Kaupers
• Croatia - Danijela Trbovic
• Portugal - Margarida Mercês de Mello
• Ireland - Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh
• Spain - Jennifer Rope
• France - Corinne Hermès (Luxembourgish representative in 1983)
• Turkey - Meltem Ersan Yazgan
• United Kingdom - Colin Berry
• Slovenia - Mojca Mavec
• Poland - Maciej Orłoś
• Germany - Axel Bulthaupt
• Estonia - Elektra
• Malta - Claire Fabri
• Greece - Alexis Kostalas
• Denmark - Gry Johansen (Danish representative in 1983)

References