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The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the 49th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Istanbul, Turkey, following the country's victory at the 2003 contest with the song "Everyway That I Can" by Sertab Erener. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), the contest was held at the Abdi İpekçi Arena, and, for the first time, consisted of a semi-final on 12 May, and a final on 15 May 2004.[1] The two live shows were presented by Turkish actors Korhan Abay and Meltem Cumbul. It was the first time that Turkey had hosted the contest, 29 years after the country made its debut, and was also the first time since the 1998 contest in Birmingham that it was not hosted in the host country's capital city. This was the only edition of the contest that was hosted in a city other than the host nation's capital in the 21st century, until Germany picked Düsseldorf as the host city for the 2011 edition.

Eurovision Song Contest 2004
Under the Same Sky
Dates
Semi-final	12 May 2004 (2004-05-12)
Final	15 May 2004 (2004-05-15)
Host
Venue	Abdi İpekçi Arena Istanbul, Turkey
Presenter(s)	Korhan Abay Meltem Cumbul
Directed by	Sven Stojanovic
Executive supervisor	Svante Stockselius
Executive producer	Bülent Osma
Host broadcaster	Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT)
Opening act	Sertab Erener
Interval act	Semi-final: ABBA: The Last Video Final: Fire of Anatolia
Website	eurovision.tv/event/istanbul-2004
Participants
Number of entries	36
Debuting countries	Albania  Andorra  Belarus  Serbia and Montenegro
Returning countries	Denmark  Finland  Lithuania  North Macedonia  Monaco   Switzerland
Non-returning countries	None
Participation map      Participating countries     Did not qualify from the semi final     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2004
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points in semi-finals	Switzerland
Winning song	Ukraine "Wild Dances"
2003 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 2005

Thirty-six countries participated in the contest, beating the record of twenty-six in the previous edition. Albania, Andorra, Belarus and Serbia and Montenegro took part for the first time this year. The old relegation system was replaced with a semi-final format. This was done in order to accommodate the increasing number of countries who wished to participate. The new format allowed all countries to participate every year, rather than being forced to sit out per the relegation rules, which had been the standard since 1994. Because of this, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Macedonia, Monaco and Switzerland all returned to the contest, Monaco not having competed since 1979.

The winner was Ukraine with the song "Wild Dances", performed by Ruslana who wrote it with her husband Oleksandr Ksenofontov. This was Ukraine's first victory in the contest, only one year after the country made its debut in 2003. Serbia and Montenegro, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Sweden rounded out the top five. Due to the expansion of the contest, this year was the first time in which a non-winning entry scored over 200 points. Prior to this contest, only the winning entries in 1994 and 1997 had passed this mark. In this contest, the top 3 songs all got over 200 points. An official CD was released and, for the first time, the entire contest was released on DVD which included the semi-final and the final.

Location

Istanbul was chosen as the host city of the 2004 edition following Turkey's victory in the 2003 contest in Riga, Latvia with Sertab Erener's "Everyway That I Can". Originally the Mydonose Showland, an entertainment center in the form of a giant pyramid tent near to Atatürk International Airport was chosen by host broadcaster TRT to host the event,[2] but was later changed to the Abdi İpekçi Arena as the contest approached due to its bigger capacity.[1] The Mydonose Showland was demolished in 2009 after a fire destroyed it in April that year.[3][4] The Abdi İpekçi Arena closed after the 2016/2017 basketball season and was demolished in early 2018.[5][6]

A number of other venues in the city were reported as possible venues, these included Ataköy Athletics Arena and Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Center (ICEC), the latter of which lost out to Mydonose Showland.[7] Istanbul Chamber of Commerce president Mehmet Yıldırım offered the World Trade Center Istanbul (WTCI) as a venue for the event and confirmed that the Chamber would also provide financial support for the contest's organisation.[8]

Format

Visual design

The contest's new official generic logo was used for the first time this year, with the heart-shaped flag in the centre due to be changed for future contests. The slogan for Istanbul's contest was "Under the Same Sky", which communicated the importance of a united Europe and Turkish integration.

Voting structure

Every country in the competition, including those who did not qualify for the final, were allowed to vote for other countries. After all performances were completed, each country opened their phone lines to allow their viewers to vote for their favourite song. Voting for the country in which you are situated is not allowed, however. Each country awarded points based on the number of votes cast for each song: the song which received the most viewer votes was awarded 12 points, the second 10 points, the third 8 points and then 7, 6, 5, etc. down to 1.

In the event of a tie, the number of countries to vote for the tying songs would be counted, and the song having the most countries awarding points to it, would be the winner. In the event of a further tie, then the previously used method of counting back on the number of 12 points, 10 points etc., would be used to find an eventual winner.

This was also the first year that the scores were only re-read by the hosts in one language. Before 2004 every point was repeated in French and English, but due to 36 countries voting, and more in years to come, in 2004 to save time the hosts only re-read each score in one language. This was in the opposite of the original country representative spoke in.

Opening and interval acts

A new ABBA video was shown in the semi-final, briefly outlining how ABBA started and what the response was of the first record company they approached. It featured small puppets of the band performing snippets of their songs (the voices being the ones of the band) and featured Rik Mayall as the record company manager.[1] This was cut from the Eurovision Song Contest DVD and released separately. References to the video that were made running up to the showing of it were also cut.

In the semi-final and the final, Meltem Cumbul warmed up the audience with a sing-a-long of Eurovision classic "Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare)", originally performed by Domenico Modugno. Sertab Erener returned to the stage in the final to perform "Everyway That I Can", the 2003 winning song, and one of her new songs called "Leave". Sertab also interviewed contestants in the green room. The Turkish dance ensemble Fire of Anatolia performed as the interval act.[1]

Participating countries

This year's Eurovision contest was the first to be a two-day event, with one qualifying round held on a Wednesday and the grand final held on the following Saturday. Under this new format, byes into the final were given to the 'Big 4'; France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom (as the largest financial contributors to the European Broadcasting Union) and the ten highest placed finishers in the 2003 contest.

Andorra, Albania, Belarus and Serbia and Montenegro participated in the contest for the first time, with Monaco returning after a 25-year absence. Luxembourg were due to return after an absence of 11 years, but later pulled out after money issues arose between RTL and the EBU. Hungary was also due to return after last participating in 1998, however at the end they did not take part in the contest.[9] Hungary would eventually return to the contest one year later.

All participating countries had the right to vote in both the qualifying round and the grand final. This was the first year in which all 36 participating countries voted based on a public phone vote, in the final. However France, Poland and Russia did not broadcast the semi-final (as they were not participating in it) and therefore did not give votes for it like the other thirty-three countries. In Belgium, the French-language RTBF did not broadcast the semi-final, but the Dutch-language VRT did. Monaco's televoting results in the semi final were rendered invalid and a back-up jury had to be used, but no problems occurred in the final.

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Stefan Raab (backing singer for Max)	Germany	2000

Semi-final

The semi-final was held on 12 May 2004 at 21:00 (CET). 22 countries performed and all participants voted except France, Poland and Russia who opted not to broadcast the show.

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[10]	Points	Place[11]
1	Finland	Jari Sillanpää	"Takes 2 to Tango"	English	51	14
2	Belarus	Aleksandra and Konstantin	"My Galileo"	English	10	19
3	Switzerland	Piero and the MusicStars	"Celebrate"	English	0	22
4	Latvia	Fomins and Kleins	"Dziesma par laimi"	Latvian	23	17
5	Israel	David D'Or	"Leha'amin" (להאמין)	Hebrew, English	57	11
6	Andorra	Marta Roure	"Jugarem a estimar-nos"	Catalan	12	18
7	Portugal	Sofia Vitória	"Foi magia"	Portuguese	38	15
8	Malta	Julie and Ludwig	"On Again... Off Again"	English	74	8
9	Monaco	Maryon	"Notre planète"	French	10	19
10	Greece	Sakis Rouvas	"Shake It"	English	238	3
11	Ukraine	Ruslana	"Wild Dances"	English, Ukrainian	256	2
12	Lithuania	Linas and Simona	"What's Happened to Your Love"	English	26	16
13	Albania	Anjeza Shahini	"The Image of You"	English	167	4
14	Cyprus	Lisa Andreas	"Stronger Every Minute"	English	149	5
15	Macedonia	Toše Proeski	"Life"	English	71	10
16	Slovenia	Platin	"Stay Forever"	English	5	21
17	Estonia	Neiokõsõ	"Tii"	Võro	57	11
18	Croatia	Ivan Mikulić	"You Are the Only One"	English	72	9
19	Denmark	Tomas Thordarson	"Shame on You"	English	56	13
20	Serbia and Montenegro	Željko Joksimović and Ad-Hoc Orchestra	"Lane moje" (Лане моје)	Serbian	263	1
21	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Deen	"In the Disco"	English	133	7
22	Netherlands	Re-Union	"Without You"	English	146	6

Final

The finalists were:

• the four automatic qualifiers France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom;
• the top 10 countries from the 2003 contest (other than the automatic qualifiers);
• the top 10 countries from the 2004 semi-final.

The final was held on 15 May 2004 at 21:00 (CET) and was won by Ukraine.

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[10]	Points	Place[12]
1	Spain	Ramón	"Para llenarme de ti"	Spanish	87	10
2	Austria	Tie Break	"Du bist"	German	9	21
3	Norway	Knut Anders Sørum	"High"	English	3	24
4	France	Jonatan Cerrada	"À chaque pas"	French, Spanish	40	15
5	Serbia and Montenegro	Željko Joksimović and Ad-Hoc Orchestra	"Lane moje" (Лане моје)	Serbian	263	2
6	Malta	Julie and Ludwig	"On Again... Off Again"	English	50	12
7	Netherlands	Re-Union	"Without You"	English	11	20
8	Germany	Max	"Can't Wait Until Tonight"	English, Turkish	93	8
9	Albania	Anjeza Shahini	"The Image of You"	English	106	7
10	Ukraine	Ruslana	"Wild Dances"	English, Ukrainian	280	1
11	Croatia	Ivan Mikulić	"You Are the Only One"	English	50	12
12	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Deen	"In the Disco"	English	91	9
13	Belgium	Xandee	"1 Life"	English	7	22
14	Russia	Julia Savicheva	"Believe Me"	English	67	11
15	Macedonia	Toše Proeski	"Life"	English	47	14
16	Greece	Sakis Rouvas	"Shake It"	English	252	3
17	Iceland	Jónsi	"Heaven"	English	16	19
18	Ireland	Chris Doran	"If My World Stopped Turning"	English	7	22
19	Poland	Blue Café	"Love Song"	English, Spanish	27	17
20	United Kingdom	James Fox	"Hold On to Our Love"	English	29	16
21	Cyprus	Lisa Andreas	"Stronger Every Minute"	English	170	5
22	Turkey	Athena	"For Real"	English	195	4
23	Romania	Sanda	"I Admit"	English	18	18
24	Sweden	Lena Philipsson	"It Hurts"	English	170	5

Detailed voting results

Semi-final

Detailed voting results of the semi-final[13][14]

Voting procedure used:   100% televoting   100% jury vote		Total score	Andorra	Albania	Austria	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Belgium	Belarus	Switzerland	Serbia and Montenegro	Cyprus	Germany	Denmark	Estonia	Spain	Finland	United Kingdom	Greece	Croatia	Ireland	Israel	Iceland	Lithuania	Latvia	Monaco	Macedonia	Malta	Netherlands	Norway	Portugal	Romania	Sweden	Slovenia	Turkey	Ukraine
Contestants	Finland	51		7			1				6			7	3			5				3			6	2			3			8
	Belarus	10												2								1	2												5
	Switzerland	0
	Latvia	23						4						5						4	2		6		2
	Israel	57	3	5	1		2	3		3	2	1	2		4	2	2	3									6	2		7	5			4
	Andorra	12													12
	Portugal	38	12				4		7						6										1						8
	Malta	74	5	6		4		1					4	10			5	1	1	1	6	2	7	7		4		3		4			1		2
	Monaco	10	4	2							4
	Greece	238	8	12	5	5	10	8	3	10	12	10	3	4	7	5	12		6	2	12	6	8	6	4	7	12	6	5	8	12	4	4	12	10
	Ukraine	256	10	3	4	7	8	12	2	8	8	6	6	12	10	8	7	7	8	10	10	10	12	10	5	8	10	7	7	12	7	6	8	8
	Lithuania	26						2			7							2		3	1			8			3
	Albania	167	6		7	6	5		10	6	1	8	7	1	2	6	6	8	7	5	4	4		5	3	12	8	5	8	2	6	7	5	6	1
	Cyprus	149	2		6		6	6	1	2		4	5	6	1	7	10	12	2	8	3	8	4	3	12		5	10	4	3	1	3	3	5	7
	Macedonia	71		8	2	8			5	12		3	1					4	5								1	1			4	2	6	3	6
	Slovenia	5				1													3							1
	Estonia	57		1						4						12	1					7	10	12					1	5		1			3
	Croatia	72			8	10		7	6	5		5				1							3	1		6		4		1			7		8
	Denmark	56				3					3			3		4					5	12			10		2		6		2	5		1
	Serbia and Montenegro	263	1	4	12	12	7	10	12		10	12	10		8	10	8	10	12	6	8		1	4	7	10	4	12	10	10	10	12	12	7	12
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	133		10	10		3		8	7		7	12				4		10	7						5		8	12			10	10	10
	Netherlands	146	7		3	2	12	5	4	1	5	2	8	8	5	3	3	6	4	12	7	5	5	2	8	3	7		2	6	3		2	2	4

12 points

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

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
9	Serbia and Montenegro	Austria,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Croatia,  Germany,  Netherlands,  Slovenia,  Sweden,   Switzerland,  Ukraine
7	Greece	Albania,  Cyprus,  Israel,  Malta,  Romania,  Turkey,  United Kingdom
4	Ukraine	Belarus,  Estonia,  Lithuania,  Portugal
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Denmark,  Norway
	Cyprus	Greece,  Monaco
	Estonia	Finland,  Latvia
	Netherlands	Belgium,  Ireland
1	Albania	Macedonia
	Andorra	Spain
	Denmark	Iceland
	Macedonia	Serbia and Montenegro
	Portugal	Andorra

Final

Detailed voting results of the final[15][16]

Voting procedure used:   100% televoting		Total score	Andorra	Albania	Austria	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Belgium	Belarus	Switzerland	Serbia and Montenegro	Cyprus	Germany	Denmark	Estonia	Spain	Finland	France	United Kingdom	Greece	Croatia	Ireland	Israel	Iceland	Lithuania	Latvia	Monaco	Macedonia	Malta	Netherlands	Norway	Poland	Portugal	Romania	Russia	Sweden	Slovenia	Turkey	Ukraine
Contestants	Spain	87	12				7	2	6		7	2					8		3			8	1			3	1	3	4		1	12	5				2
	Austria	9															4		5
	Norway	3																																	3
	France	40	7	1			10								4											12						2		4
	Serbia and Montenegro	263	2	7	12	12	3	7	12		10	10	7	1	6	10	10	3	8	12	3	7	7	2	5	1	10	6	10	6	5	7	8	10	12	12	8	12
	Malta	50	6	3		1							1	6				2	1	2	6	4		4	6		3				3	1						1
	Netherlands	11					6							3														2
	Germany	93		2	10	3			10					2	12		7	4		1	4			1		7			3	1	6	8	4			3	5
	Albania	106			5	4	1		7	8		5	4			3	1	1	10	6	2		4		1		12	10	1	3			1		7	4	6
	Ukraine	280	10	5	4	6	5	10		10	8	6	5	12	8	8	2	5	7	8	7	12	12	12	12	6	8	8	7	7	12	10	6	12	10	8	12
	Croatia	50			3	10		5	3	5		1				1											5							5		5		7
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	91		10	7				5	6			8							10						4	4		2	10					8	10	7
	Belgium	7	1								1																		5
	Russia	67						12		1	6			8		4			2			6		8	10													10
	Macedonia	47		6		8			1	12										5								1								7	4	3
	Greece	252	8	12	2	5	8	6	4	7	12	7	3	5	7	6	6	12		7	5	10	6	10	7	10	7	12	6	2	7	6	12	7	4	6	10	8
	Iceland	16											2			2										5				5				2
	Ireland	7																7
	Poland	27									2	4			1				4				3	7											1			5
	United Kingdom	29						1						4							8		2		3			4			2		2	1	2
	Cyprus	170	4		6		4	8	2	3		8	6	7	3	7	5	10	12	4	10	3	10	5	4	2		7	8	4	4	3	3	6	6	1	1	4
	Turkey	195	3	8	8	7	12	3	8	2	4	12	10		2	5	12	6	6	3	1	2	5	3	2	8	6		12	8	8		10	8	5			6
	Romania	18									3				10							1										4
	Sweden	170	5	4	1	2	2	4		4	5	3	12	10	5	12	3	8			12	5	8	6	8		2	5		12	10	5	7	3		2	3	2

12 points

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

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
8	Ukraine	Estonia,  Iceland,  Israel,  Latvia,  Lithuania,  Poland,  Russia,  Turkey
7	Serbia and Montenegro	Austria,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Croatia,  Slovenia,  Sweden,   Switzerland,  Ukraine
5	Greece	Albania,  Cyprus,  Malta,  Romania,  United Kingdom
4	Sweden	Denmark,  Finland,  Ireland,  Norway
	Turkey	Belgium,  France,  Germany,  Netherlands
2	Spain	Andorra,  Portugal
1	Albania	Macedonia
	Cyprus	Greece
	France	Monaco
	Germany	Spain
	Macedonia	Serbia and Montenegro
	Russia	Belarus

Spokespersons

Each country appointed a spokesperson to announce their respective country's points in the final.[17] The voting order in the 2004 contest was determined alphabetically by each country's ISO two-letter country code.

Broadcasts

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Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Show(s)	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Albania	All shows	TVSH	Leon Menkshi
Andorra	All shows	ATV	Meri Picart [ca] and Josep Lluís Trabal
Austria	All shows	ORF 2	Andi Knoll
	Final	Hitradio Ö3	Martin Blumenau [de]
Belarus	All shows	Belarus-1	Ales Kruglyakov
Belgium	All shows	VRT TV1	Dutch: André Vermeulen and Bart Peeters	[18]
	Final	RTBF La Une	French: Jean-Pierre Hautier
		VRT Radio 2	Dutch: Julien Put [nl] and Michel Follet
		RTBF La Première	French: Patrick Duhamel [fr] and Serges Otthiers
Bosnia and Herzegovina	All shows	BHTV1	Dejan Kukrić
Croatia	All shows	HRT	Aleksandar "Aco" Kostadinov
Cyprus	All shows	RIK 1	Evi Papamichail
Denmark	All shows	DR1	Jørgen de Mylius
Estonia	All shows	ETV	Marko Reikop	[19]
		Raadio 2	Vello Rand
Finland	All shows	YLE TV2	Finnish: Markus Kajo and Asko Murtomäki [fi]	[20]
		YLE FST	Swedish: Thomas Lundin [sv]
		YLE Radio Suomi	Finnish: Sanna Kojo and Jorma Hietamäki	[21]
France	Final	France 3	Laurent Ruquier and Elsa Fayer
		France Bleu	Jean-Luc Delarue
Germany	All shows	Das Erste	Peter Urban	[22]
		Deutschlandfunk/NDR 2	Thomas Mohr
Greece	All shows	NET	Dafni Bokota
Iceland	All shows	Sjónvarpið	Gísli Marteinn Baldursson	[23]
Ireland	All shows	RTÉ One	Marty Whelan	[24]
Israel	All shows	Channel 1	No commentator
Latvia	All shows	LTV	Kārlis Streips [lv]
Lithuania	All shows	LRT	Darius Užkuraitis
Macedonia	All shows	MRT	Milanka Rašić
Malta	All shows	TVM	Eileen Montesin
Monaco	All shows	TMC Monte Carlo	Bernard Montiel [fr] and Genie Godula [fr]
Netherlands	All shows	Nederland 2	Willem van Beusekom and Cornald Maas	[25]
		Radio 3FM	Hijlco Span and Ron Stoeltie [nl]
Norway	All shows	NRK1	Jostein Pedersen	[26]
Poland	Final	TVP1	Artur Orzech
Portugal	All shows	RTP1	Eládio Clímaco
Romania	All shows	TVR1	Andreea Demirgian
Russia	Final	Channel One	Yuriy Aksyuta [ru] and Yelena Batinova [ru]
Serbia and Montenegro	All shows	RTS1	Serbian: Duška Vučinić-Lučić
		TVCG 2	Montenegrin: Dražen Bauković and Tamara Ivanković
Slovenia	All shows	SLO1	Andrea F
Spain	Semi-final	La 2	Beatriz Pécker [es]
	Final	La Primera
Sweden	All shows	SVT1	Pekka Heino
		SR P3	Björn Kjellman and Carolina Norén	[27]
Switzerland	All shows	SF 1	German: Marco Fritsche	[28]
		TSR 1	French: Jean-Marc Richard and Alain Morisod
		TSI 1	Italian: Daniela Tami and Claudio Lazzarino
Turkey	All shows	TRT 1	Bülend Özveren and Didem Tolunay
	Final	TRT Radyo 3	Ümit Tunçağ, Osman Erkan and Gülşah Banda
Ukraine	All shows	First National	Rodion Pryntsevsky	[29]
United Kingdom	Semi-final	BBC Three	Paddy O'Connell
	Final	BBC One	Terry Wogan
		BBC Radio 2	Ken Bruce

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Armenia	Armenia 1	Unknown	[30]
Australia	SBS TV	Des Mangan	[31]
Kosovo	RTK	Unknown	[30]
Puerto Rico	MSN	No commentator	[30]
United States	Israeli Network	Unknown	[30]

Incidents

Just before the Slovenian entry was about to be performed, the Turkish broadcaster accidentally took a commercial break which meant the Slovenian song was not heard by Turkish viewers.[1] There were technical problems when in a short hiatus halfway through the songs used for the advertising break the hosts tried to contact various parties in Europe. They tried contacting Germany, Spain and Turkey, but in the end were only able to get a response from Germany. During the Romanian postcard introduction, the information for the Romanian entry appeared on the screen, but was quickly taken away. A final minor hiccup occurred when, on her way to present the winner the trophy, Sertab Erener got her shoe stuck in a speaker grill by the side of the stage and had to be freed by stagehands. However this did not delay proceedings, and other than the above the show ran smoothly.

An hour after the semi-final had been aired, the European Broadcasting Union discovered that there had been problems with the vote counting in Monaco and Croatia. Digame, an affiliate of Deutsche Telekom, who had been responsible for processing all the votes (from 2004), reported that they had encountered problems with their calculation software, and there was a problem with text message voting in Croatia. When the votes were counted, results showed that Croatia had awarded themselves 4 points, which is against Eurovision rules. Later, an official EBU statement read that there had been technical problems at the side of the Croatian mobile service provider, who neglected to delete the illegal votes from the results. Consequently, some votes were not counted in the results announced at the end of the broadcast of the semi-final. When the results were corrected to include these additional votes, they were found not to have affected which countries had qualified for the final.[1]

This year was also notable as it was the first year that Turkey voted for Cyprus and the second year in a row that Cyprus voted for Turkey. Nevertheless, in a move that angered some Cypriots, when the country presented its votes no map of the island was shown (all other presenters were preceded with their country being highlighted on a map). This was due to Turkey's recognition of the northern half of the island as an independent republic (not recognised by any other state). It is likely Turkey pulled out of showing the map because it would have only highlighted the southern portion of the island, and thus angered the international community.[1]

Other awards

In addition to the main winner's trophy, the AP Awards and the Marcel Bezençon Awards were contested during the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest.

AP Awards

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Category	Country	Song	Performer(s)	Result	Points
Artist Award	Macedonia	"Life"	Toše Proeski	14	47
Composer Award	United Kingdom	"Hold Onto Our Love"	James Fox	16	29
Performance Award	Ukraine	"Wild Dances"	Ruslana	1	280
Song Award	Portugal	"Foi magia"	Sofia Vitória	15 SF	38 SF

Marcel Bezençon Awards

The Marcel Bezençon Awards, organised since 2002 by Sweden's then-Head of Delegation and 1992 representative Christer Björkman, and 1984 winner Richard Herrey, honours songs in the contest's final.[32] The awards are divided into three categories: the Artistic Award which was voted by previous winners of the contest, the Composer Award, and the Press Award.[33]

Category	Country	Song	Performer(s)	Composer(s)	Final result	Points
Artistic Award	Ukraine	"Wild Dances"	Ruslana	Oleksandr Ksenofontov Ruslana Lyzhychko	1	280
Composer Award	Cyprus	"Stronger Every Minute"	Lisa Andreas	Mike Connaris	5	170
Press Award	Serbia and Montenegro	"Lane moje" (Лане моје)	Željko Joksimović	Željko Joksimović	2	263

Official album

Eurovision Song Contest: Istanbul 2004 was the official compilation album of the 2004 contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by EMI Records and CMC International on 26 April 2004. The album featured all 36 songs that entered in the 2004 contest, including the semi-finalists that failed to qualify into the grand final.[34]

Charts

Chart (2004)	Peak position
German Compilation Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[35]	3

References

External links

• Official website
• EBU press notice regarding voting problems in the semi-final
• Details about the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul
• Video Clips (BBC Eurovision 2004) (RealPlayer)

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