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The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 was the 46th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, following the country's victory at the 2000 contest with the song "Fly on the Wings of Love" by Olsen Brothers. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR), the contest was held at the Parken Stadium on 12 May 2001. The contest was presented by Danish television presenter Natasja Crone Back and actor Søren Pilmark.[1]

Eurovision Song Contest 2001
Dates
Final	12 May 2001 (2001-05-12)
Host
Venue	Parken Stadium Copenhagen, Denmark
Presenter(s)	Natasja Crone Back Søren Pilmark
Directed by	Jan Frifelt
Executive supervisor	Christine Marchal-Ortiz
Executive producer	Jørgen Ramskov
Host broadcaster	DR
Opening act	"Fly on the Wings of Love" and "Walk Right Back" performed by the Olsen Brothers
Interval act	Medley of Aqua hits performed by Aqua feat. Safri Duo
Website	eurovision.tv/event/copenhagen-2001
Participants
Number of entries	23
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Greece  Lithuania  Poland  Portugal  Slovenia
Non-returning countries	Austria  Belgium  Cyprus  Finland  Macedonia  Romania  Switzerland
Participation map      Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2001
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs.
Nul points in final	None
Winning song	Estonia "Everybody"
2000 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 2002

Twenty-three countries took part in the contest. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, and Slovenia returned after their relegation from the previous edition. Greece also returned after their two-year absence, following financial trouble.[2] Meanwhile, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Macedonia, Romania, and Switzerland were relegated.

The winner was Estonia with the song "Everybody", performed by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL, and written by Ivar Must and Maian-Anna Karmas. This was the first time the contest was won by one the countries from the former Eastern bloc that debuted in the contest in the 1990s. Denmark, Greece, France and Sweden rounded out the top five with Greece achieving its best result up to that point in the contest. Further down the table, Slovenia equalled their best result from 1995, finishing seventh. Meanwhile, Ireland finished in 21st place, giving the nation its worst placement up to that point.

Location

Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, was the chosen host city. The venue choice for the contest was Parken Stadium, the national football stadium, located in the Indre Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from 1990 to 1992.

The Danish national broadcaster DR faced some problems whilst organising the contest such as a lack of funds and the search for a suitable venue. The three largest cities in Denmark - Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense - all made bids to host the contest. Eventually, DR chose the large football stadium Parken as the host venue, 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 with room for an audience of 38,000, breaking the record of 16,000 held by the previous year's hosts Sweden.[1] However, the scale of it all wasn't entirely a success: many audience members could not see the stage, and for many entries the hall appeared to be too big.[2]

Production

The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 was produced by the Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR). Jørgen Ramskov served as executive producer, Jan Frifelt served as director and Christine Marchal-Ortiz served as Executive Supervisor. Television presenter Natasja Crone Back and actor Søren Pilmark were the presenters of the 2001 contest.[3]

Rehearsals in the venue for the competing acts were held from 7 to 12 May 2001. Four technical rehearsals from 7 to 10 May and two dress rehearsals on 11 and 12 May were held in a lead up to the contest.[4]

The logo for this year's contest was developed by Danish companies Kontactpunkt, 2Graphic Design and EventRelations. It 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 made of the same four rings. The whole rig could be formed into various shapes to add to each country's staging. The design was described by its designers as "a modern expression of a heart which symbolises openness, warmth, attitudes, pulse and movement".[5]

The draw to the determine the running order of competing countries was held on 21 November 2000.[6][7]

A compilation album featuring all 23 competing entries was released on 5 May 2001 by EMI Records and CMC International.[8]

Opening and interval acts

The show was opened by the last year's Eurovision winners, the Olsen Brothers, with a snippet from their winning Eurovision song "Fly on the Wings of Love", followed by their latest single "Walk Right Back".

The interval-act featured medley of Aqua songs performed by Aqua and Safri Duo.

Format

Entries

Each participating broadcaster was represented in the contest by one song, which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration. A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country's performance, and all performers must have reached the age of 16 in the year of the contest. Selected entries were not permitted to be released commercially before 1 January 2001, and were then only allowed to be released in the country they represented until after the contest was held. Entries were required to be selected by each country's participating broadcaster by 11 March, and the final submission date for all selected entries to be received by the contest organisers was set for 16 March. This submission was required to include a sound recording of the entry and backing track for use during the contest, a video presentation of the song on stage being performed by the artists, and the text of the song lyrics in its original language and translations in French and English for distribution to the participating broadcasters, their commentators and juries.[6]

Voting procedure

The results of the 2001 contest were determined through the same scoring system as had first been introduced in 1975: each country awarded twelve points to its favourite entry, followed by ten points to its second favourite, and then awarded points in decreasing value from eight to one for the remaining songs which featured in the country's top ten, with countries unable to vote for their own entry. Each participating country was required to use televoting to determine their points. Viewers had a total of five minutes to register their vote by calling one of twenty-two different telephone numbers to represent the twenty-three competing entries except that which represented their own country, with voting lines opening following the performance of the last competing entry. Once phone lines were opened a video recap containing short clips of each competing entry with the accompanying phone number for voting was shown in order to aid viewers during the voting window. Systems were also put in place to prevent lobby groups from one country voting for their song by travelling to other countries.[6]

Countries which were unable to hold a televote due to technological limitations were granted an exception, and their points were determined by an assembled jury of eight individuals, which was required to be split evenly between members of the public and music professionals, comprised additionally of an equal number of men and women, and below and above 30 years of age. Countries using televoting were also required to appoint a back-up jury of the same composition which would be called into action upon technical failure preventing the televote results from being used. Each jury member voted in secret and awarded between one and ten votes to each participating song, excluding that from their own country and with no abstentions permitted. The votes of each member were collected following the country's performance and then tallied by the non-voting jury chairperson to determine the points to be awarded.[6]

Participating countries

Per the rules of the contest twenty-three countries were allowed to participate in the event. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal and Slovenia returned after being relegated from the previous year's event. 2000 participants Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Macedonia, Romania and Switzerland were absent from this edition.

Qualification

Due to the high number of countries wishing to enter the contest a relegation system was introduced in 1993 in order to reduce the number of countries which could compete in each year's contest. Any relegated countries would be able to return the following year, thus allowing all countries the opportunity to compete in at least one in every two editions. The relegation rules introduced for the 1997 contest were again utilised ahead of the 2001 contest, based on each country's average points total in previous contests. The twenty-three participants were made up of the previous year's winning country, "Big Four" countries, the twelve countries which had obtained the highest average points total over the preceding five contests, and any eligible countries which did not compete in the 2000 contest. In cases where the average was identical between two or more countries the total number of points scored in the most recent contest determined the final order.[6]

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia returned after being excluded from participating in the 2000 contest, while Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Macedonia, Romania, Switzerland, the seven countries with the lowest average result in the past five contests, were relegated.

The calculations used to determine the countries relegated for the 2001 contest are outlined in the table below.[6]

Table key

  Automatic qualifier

  Qualifier

Rank	Country	Average	Yearly Point Totals
			1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
1	Latvia	136.00					136
2	United Kingdom	107.20	77	227	166	38	28
3	Ireland	98.60	162	157	64	18	92
4	Denmark	97.00		25		71	195
5	Russia	94.00		33			155
6	Israel	90.67			172	93	7
7	Sweden	88.00	100	36	53	163	88
8	Germany	86.00		22	86	140	96
9	Malta	80.80	68	66	165	32	73
10	Croatia	80.40	98	24	131	79[lower-alpha 1]	70
11	Estonia	80.00	94	82	36	90	98
12	Netherlands	68.80	78	5	150	71	40
13	Iceland	65.00	51	18		146	45
14	Norway	57.00	114	0	79	35	57
15	Turkey	56.60	57	121	25	21	59
16	Belgium	46.00	22		122	38	2
17	Austria	44.75	68	12		65	34
18	Cyprus	43.40	72	98	37	2	8
19	Spain	30.60	17	96	21	1	18
20	France	27.00	18	95	3	14	5
21	Macedonia	22.50			16		29
22	Finland	16.33	9		22		18
23	Romania	15.50			6		25
24	Switzerland	10.25	22	5	0		14

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)	Ref(s)
Tanel Padar (with Dave Benton and 2XL)	Estonia	2000 (as backing vocalist for Ines)	[10]

Participants and results

The contest took place on 12 May 2001. The table below outlines the participating countries, the order in which they performed, the competing artists and songs, and the results of the voting.[3]

The winner was Estonia represented by the song "Everybody", composed by Ivar Must, written by Maian-Anna Kärmas and performed by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL. This marked Estonia's first victory in the contest.[11] Norway meanwhile finished in last place for the ninth time.[12]

Prior to the contest Greece were hotly tipped to win by the bookmakers, Sweden the second favourites, with France, Slovenia and host country Denmark expected to round out the top 5. However, as the voting progressed it quickly became a two-horse race between host Denmark and surprisingly Estonia.[2]

Dave Benton, who was born and raised in Aruba, was the first black person and, at the age of 50 years and 101 days, the oldest contestant at the time to win the contest.[13]

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[14]	Points	Place[15]
1	Netherlands	Michelle	"Out on My Own"	English	16	18
2	Iceland	Two Tricky	"Angel"	English	3	22
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Nino	"Hano"	Bosnian, English	29	14
4	Norway	Haldor Lægreid	"On My Own"	English	3	22
5	Israel	Tal Sondak	"Ein Davar" (אין דבר)	Hebrew	25	16
6	Russia	Mumiy Troll	"Lady Alpine Blue"	English	37	12
7	Sweden	Friends	"Listen to Your Heartbeat"	English	100	5
8	Lithuania	Skamp	"You Got Style"	English, Lithuanian[lower-alpha 2]	35	13
9	Latvia	Arnis Mednis	"Too Much"	English	16	18
10	Croatia	Vanna	"Strings of My Heart"	English	42	10
11	Portugal	MTM	"Só sei ser feliz assim"	Portuguese	18	17
12	Ireland	Gary O'Shaughnessy	"Without Your Love"	English	6	21
13	Spain	David Civera	"Dile que la quiero"	Spanish	76	6
14	France	Natasha St-Pier	"Je n'ai que mon âme"	French, English	142	4
15	Turkey	Sedat Yüce	"Sevgiliye Son"	Turkish, English	41	11
16	United Kingdom	Lindsay Dracass	"No Dream Impossible"	English	28	15
17	Slovenia	Nuša Derenda	"Energy"	English	70	7
18	Poland	Piasek	"2 Long"	English	11	20
19	Germany	Michelle	"Wer Liebe lebt"	German, English	66	8
20	Estonia	Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL	"Everybody"	English	198	1
21	Malta	Fabrizio Faniello	"Another Summer Night"	English	48	9
22	Greece	Antique	"Die for You"	Greek, English	147	3
23	Denmark	Rollo and King	"Never Ever Let You Go"	English	177	2

Detailed voting results

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. Only three votes were allowed per household.[16]

According to the EBU rules, every broadcaster was free to make a choice between the full televoting system and the mixed 50-50 system.[16] In exceptional circumstances, where televoting was not possible at all, only a jury was used: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey and Russia. Only a few countries are confirmed to have used the mixed voting system: Croatia, Greece and Malta.

Detailed voting results[17][18]

Voting procedure used:   100% televoting   100% jury vote   50% jury and televote		Total score	Netherlands	Iceland	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Norway	Israel	Russia	Sweden	Lithuania	Latvia	Croatia	Portugal	Ireland	Spain	France	Turkey	United Kingdom	Slovenia	Poland	Germany	Estonia	Malta	Greece	Denmark
Contestants	Netherlands	16					5	1					6						4
	Iceland	3				1																			2
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	29							4			10							7				1		7
	Norway	3											3
	Israel	25			6											10	7							2
	Russia	37		5			3			10	8											4	2	5
	Sweden	100		7	3	2	8	2		2	6	4	5	8	5	2	8	8		5		7	8		10
	Lithuania	35	5	1	2		4	10	1		5			1				4	2
	Latvia	16								8												8
	Croatia	42			7												10		5		3		10	7
	Portugal	18													6	12
	Ireland	6											1					5
	Spain	76	7	2	5	4	12		5		4		7	3		5	6	3	1	1		3		8
	France	142	8	4	12	7	2	12	6	7	7	6	12	7	3		1	6	6	10	6	10		4	6
	Turkey	41	3									7				7					7		4	10	3
	United Kingdom	28	2					3		3	3	3	2	4	1					2	2		3
	Slovenia	70	4	6	10	6	1	4	7	4		8		2	2	1				6	4	5
	Poland	11							2										3		5				1
	Germany	66	1			3		8			1	1	10	6	10	6	3	2		4		1	5	1	4
	Estonia	198	12	10	4	10	6	6	8	12	12	2		10	8	8	12	12	12	12	10		12	12	8
	Malta	48		3	1	5		7	3	1					4		2	1		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		12	7		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:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
9	Estonia	Greece,  Latvia,  Lithuania,  Malta,  Netherlands,  Poland,  Slovenia,  Turkey,  United Kingdom
6	Denmark	Croatia,  Estonia,  Germany,  Iceland,  Ireland,  Norway
3	France	Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Portugal,  Russia
2	Greece	Spain,  Sweden
1	Spain	Israel
	Malta	Denmark
	Portugal	France

Spokespersons

Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing, in English or French, the votes for their respective country.[19][16] As had been the case since the 1994 contest, the spokespersons were connected via satellite and appeared in vision during the broadcast.[20] Spokespersons at the 2001 contest are listed below.[21]

Broadcasts

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Most countries sent commentators to Copenhagen or commented from their own country, in order to add insight to the participants and, if necessary, the provision of voting information.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BHTV1	Ismeta Dervoz-Krvavac [bs]
Croatia	HRT 1	Aleksandar "Aco" Kostadinov
	HR2	Draginja Balaš
Denmark	DR1	Hans Otto Bisgaard [da] and Hilda Heick [da]
Estonia	ETV	Marko Reikop	[24]
	Raadio 2	Vello Rand
France	France 3	Marc-Olivier Fogiel and Dave
	France Bleu	Olivier Chiabodo [fr]
Germany	Das Erste	Peter Urban	[25]
	Deutschlandfunk/NDR 2	Thomas Mohr
Greece	ET1	Dafni Bokota
	ERA 1	Giorgos Mitropoulos
Iceland	Sjónvarpið	Gísli Marteinn Baldursson	[26]
Ireland	RTÉ One	Marty Whelan	[27]
	RTÉ Radio 1	Larry Gogan
Israel	Channel 1	No commentator
	Reshet Gimel	Daniel Pe'er
Latvia	LTV1	Kārlis Streips [lv]
Lithuania	LRT	Darius Užkuraitis
Malta	TVM	Alfred Borg
Netherlands	Nederland 2	Willem van Beusekom	[28]
	Radio 2	Hijlco Span
Norway	NRK1	Jostein Pedersen	[29]
	NRK P1	Stein Dag Jensen [no]
Poland	TVP1	Artur Orzech
Portugal	RTP1	Eládio Clímaco
Russia	ORT	Alexander Anatolyevich [ru] and Konstantin Mikhailov [ru]
Slovenia	SLO1	Andrea F
Spain	La Primera	José Luis Uribarri
Sweden	SVT1	Henrik Olsson
	SR P3	Carolina Norén	[30]
Turkey	TRT 1	Ömer Önder
	TRT Radyo 3	Ümit Tunçağ
United Kingdom	BBC One	Terry Wogan
	BBC Radio 2	Ken Bruce

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Australia	SBS TV[lower-alpha 3]	Terry Wogan, Effie[lower-alpha 4]	[31]
Austria	ORF 1	Andi Knoll
	FM4	Stermann & Grissemann	[32]
Belgium	RTBF La Une	French: Jean-Pierre Hautier
	VRT TV1	Dutch: André Vermeulen and Anja Daems	[33]
	RTBF La Première	French: Laurent Daube and Éric Russon
	VRT Radio 2	Dutch: Julien Put [nl] and Michel Follet
Cyprus	RIK 1	Evi Papamichail
Finland	YLE TV1	Jani Juntunen and Asko Murtomäki [fi]	[34]
	YLE Radio Vega	Unknown	[35]
Macedonia	MTV 2	Milanka Rašić
Romania	TVR2	Andreea Marin and Leonard Miron
Switzerland	SF 2	German: Sandra Studer
	TSR 1	French: Phil Mundwiller
	TSI 1	Italian: Jonathan Tedesco
Yugoslavia	YU Info	Unknown

Viewing figures

Country	Broadcaster	Nominal	Share	Ref(s)
Denmark	DR1	2.667.000[36]	95%	[37]
Malta	TVM	Unknown	94%
Slovenia	SLO1	Unknown	82%
United Kingdom	BBC One	6.500.000	35%
Germany	Das Erste	8.160.000	36,7%
Netherlands	NPO 2	3.600.000	Unknown
Norway	NRK1	Unknown	57%
Sweden	SVT1	Unknown	85%
France	France 3	5.000.000	30%
Poland	TVP1	4.500.500	Unknown
Greece	ERT1	Unknown	51%
Spain	La 1	5.630.000	45%
Portugal	RTP1	800.000	8,8%
Israel	Channel 1	453.000	19%
Belgium	VRT TV1	500.000	Unknown
Finland	YLE TV1	385.000	Unknown
Ireland	RTÉ One	500.000	Unknown
Russia	ORT	Unknown	31,1%	[38]
Latvia	LTV	712.600	54%	[39]

Incidents

Controversy was again rife in the contest: the United Kingdom TV commentator Terry Wogan repeatedly made critical comments about the hosts, and dubbed them "Doctor Death and the Tooth Fairy/The Little Mermaid" after providing their entire commentary in rhyming couplets.[40] The Danes were so offended that the BBC was obliged to issue an apology on Wogan's comments.[40]

Controversy also surrounded the Swedish song, "Listen To Your Heartbeat", which was repeatedly accused as a plagiarism of the Belgian entry for the 1996 contest, "Liefde is een kaartspel".[41] 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 plagiarism.[2][42] At first this was denied by the Swedish songwriters, one of whom was Thomas G:son, but after the Belgian songwriters and the author's organisation SABAM pressed for legal action, a cash settlement was agreed.[43][44]

During the voting the Danish band Aqua performed with a medley of their singles, with percussion ensemble Safri Duo performing in the medley.[2] 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".

Other awards

Barbara Dex Award

The Barbara Dex Award is the award, created by fansite House of Eurovision, was awarded to the performer deemed to have been the "worst dressed" among the participants.[45][46] The winner in 2001 was Polish representative Piasek, as determined by the visitors of the website House of Eurovision.[47][48][49]

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 2001

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[ru] Евровидение-2001

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