Eurovision Song Contest 2004

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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 Template:Escyr 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 the contest was hosted in Turkey, 29 years after they made their debut, and was also the first time since the Template:Escyr contest in Birmingham that it was not hosted in the host country's capital city.

Thirty-six countries participated in the contest, beating the record of twenty-six in the previous edition. Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty 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 Template:Escyr. Because of this, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty all returned to the contest, Monaco not having competed since Template:Escyr.

The winner was Template:Esccnty 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. Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty 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 for Template:Esccnty and the Template:Esccnty 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

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Abdi İpekçi Arena, Istanbul – host venue of the 2004 contest.

Template:Location map+ Istanbul was chosen as the host city of the 2004 edition following Turkey's victory in the Template:Escyr contest in Riga, Latvia with "Everyway That I Can" by Sertab Erener. Originally the Mydonose Showland, an entertainment center in the form of a giant pyramid tent near Atatürk International Airport, was chosen by Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) to host the event,[2] but the venue was later changed to the Abdi İpekçi Arena as the contest approached due to its bigger capacity.[1] The Mydonose Showland, later renamed the Istanbul Show Center, was demolished in 2009 after a fire destroyed it in April that year.[3][4] The Abdi İpekçi Arena was 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]

Participants

Script error: No such module "labelled list hatnote". Template:Interlanguage link info Template:ESC 2004 participants 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'; Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and the Template:Esccnty –whose broadcasters were the largest financial contributors to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)– and the ten highest placed finishers in the Template:Escyr contest.

Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty participated in the contest for the first time, with Template:Esccnty returning after a 25-year absence. Template:Esccnty were due to return after an absence of 11 years, but later pulled out after money issues arose between RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg (RTL) and the EBU. Template:Esccnty was also due to return after last participating in 1998, but ultimately they did not take part in the contest.[9] Hungary would eventually return to the contest the following year, while Luxembourg would not return to the contest until 2024.

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 Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty 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 Script error: No such module "Lang". (RTBF) did not broadcast the semi-final, but the Dutch-language Script error: No such module "Lang". (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.

Stefan Raab, who had represented Template:Esccnty, provided backing vocals for his country.

Eurovision Song Contest 2004 participants[10]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s)
Template:Esc RTSH Anjeza Shahini "The Image of You" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc RTVA Marta Roure "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Catalan Template:Ill
Template:Esc ORF Tie Break "Script error: No such module "Lang"." German Peter Zimmermann
Template:Esc BTRC Aleksandra and Konstantin "My Galileo" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc VRT Xandee "1 Life" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc PBSBiH Deen "In the Disco" English Vesna Pisarović
Template:Esc HRT Ivan Mikulić "You Are the Only One" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc CyBC Lisa Andreas "Stronger Every Minute" English Mike Connaris
Template:Esc DR Tomas Thordarson "Shame on You" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc ETV Neiokõsõ "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Võro Template:Hlist
Template:Esc YLE Jari Sillanpää "Takes 2 to Tango" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Lang". Jonatan Cerrada "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French, Spanish Template:Hlist
Template:Esc NDRTemplate:Efn Max "Can't Wait Until Tonight" English, Turkish Stefan Raab
Template:Esc ERT Sakis Rouvas "Shake It" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc RÚV Jónsi "Heaven" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc RTÉ Chris Doran "If My World Stopped Turning" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc IBA David D'Or "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".) Hebrew, English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc LTV Fomins and Kleins "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Latvian Template:Hlist
Template:Esc LRT Linas and Simona "What's Happened to Your Love" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc MRT Toše Proeski "Life" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc PBS Julie and Ludwig "On Again... Off Again" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc TMC Maryon "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Template:Hlist
Template:Esc NOS Re-union "Without You" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc NRK Knut Anders Sørum "High" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc TVP Blue Café "Love Song" English, Spanish Template:Hlist
Template:Esc RTP Sofia Vitória "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Portuguese Paulo Neves
Template:Esc TVR Sanda "I Admit" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc C1R Yulia Savicheva "Believe Me" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc UJRT Željko Joksimović and Template:Ill "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".) Serbian Template:Hlist
Template:Esc RTVSLO Platin "Stay Forever" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc TVE Ramón "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Spanish Kike Santander
Template:Esc SVT Lena Philipsson "It Hurts" English Thomas "Orup" Eriksson
Template:Esc SRG SSR Piero and the MusicStars "Celebrate" English Greg Manning
Template:Esc TRT Athena "For Real" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc NTU Ruslana "Wild Dances" English, Ukrainian Template:Hlist
Template:Esc BBC James Fox "Hold On to Our Love" English Template:Hlist

Format

Visual design

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The stage design of the contest

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.

Contest overview

Semi-final

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  Countries participating in the semi-final
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  The top ten of the 2003 contest, who automatically qualify.
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  The "Big Four" countries, who automatically qualify.

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

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] Due to copyright purposes, this was cut from the Eurovision Song Contest DVD and released separately. References to the video before it was shown were also cut.

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  Qualifiers
Results of the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004[11]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Takes 2 to Tango" 51 14
2 Template:Esc Aleksandra and Konstantin "My Galileo" 10 19
3 Template:Esc Piero and the MusicStars "Celebrate" 0 22
4 Template:Esc Fomins and Kleins "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 23 17
5 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 57 11
6 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 12 18
7 Template:Esc Sofia Vitória "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 38 15
8 Template:Esc Julie and Ludwig "On Again... Off Again" 74 8
9 Template:Esc Maryon "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 10 19
10 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Shake It" 238 3
11 Template:Esc Ruslana "Wild Dances" 256 2
12 Template:Esc Linas and Simona "What's Happened to Your Love" 26 16
13 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "The Image of You" 167 4
14 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Stronger Every Minute" 149 5
15 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Life" 71 10
16 Template:Esc Platin "Stay Forever" 5 21
17 Template:Esc Neiokõsõ "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 57 11
18 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "You Are the Only One" 72 9
19 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Shame on You" 56 13
20 Template:Esc Template:Sortname and Ad-Hoc Orchestra "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 263 1
21 Template:Esc Deen "In the Disco" 133 7
22 Template:Esc Re-union "Without You" 146 6

Final

The finalists were:

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

In the semi-final and the final, Meltem Cumbul warmed up the audience with a sing-a-long of Eurovision classic "Script error: No such module "Lang".", 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]

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  Winner
Results of the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004[12]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1 Template:Esc Ramón "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 87 10
2 Template:Esc Tie Break "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 9 21
3 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "High" 3 24
4 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 40 15
5 Template:Esc Template:Sortname and Ad-Hoc Orchestra "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 263 2
6 Template:Esc Julie and Ludwig "On Again... Off Again" 50 12
7 Template:Esc Re-union "Without You" 11 20
8 Template:Esc Max "Can't Wait Until Tonight" 93 8
9 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "The Image of You" 106 7
10 Template:Esc Ruslana "Wild Dances" 280 1
11 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "You Are the Only One" 50 12
12 Template:Esc Deen "In the Disco" 91 9
13 Template:Esc Xandee "1 Life" 7 22
14 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Believe Me" 67 11
15 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Life" 47 14
16 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Shake It" 252 3
17 Template:Esc Jónsi "Heaven" 16 19
18 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "If My World Stopped Turning" 7 22
19 Template:Esc Blue Café "Love Song" 27 17
20 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Hold On to Our Love" 29 16
21 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "Stronger Every Minute" 170 5
22 Template:Esc Athena "For Real" 195 4
23 Template:Esc Sanda "I Admit" 18 18
24 Template:Esc Template:Sortname "It Hurts" 170 5

Spokespersons

Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson to announce its respective country's points in the final.[13] The voting order in the 2004 contest was determined alphabetically by each country's ISO two-letter country code. Template:Div col

  1. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndPati Molné
  2. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndTemplate:Ill
  3. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndTemplate:Ill
  4. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndMija Martina
  5. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndTemplate:Ill
  6. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndDenis Kurian
  7. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndEmel Aykanat
  8. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndTemplate:Ill
  9. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndLoukas Hamatsos
  10. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndThomas Anders
  11. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndCamilla Ottesen
  12. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndMaarja-Liis Ilus
  13. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndAnne Igartiburu
  14. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndAnna Stenlund
  15. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndTemplate:Ill
  16. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndLorraine Kelly
  17. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndAlexis Kostalas
  18. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndBarbara Kolar
  19. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndJohnny Logan
  20. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndMerav Miller
  21. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndSigrún Ósk Kristjánsdóttir
  22. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndTemplate:Ill
  23. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndLauris Reiniks
  24. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndAnne Allegrini
  25. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndKarolina Petkovska
  26. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndClaire Agius
  27. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndEsther Hart
  28. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndIngvild Helljesen
  29. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndTemplate:Ill
  30. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndTemplate:Ill
  31. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndAndreea Marin
  32. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndYana Churikova
  33. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndJovan Radomir
  34. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndPeter Poles
  35. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndMeltem Ersan Yazgan
  36. Template:FlaguTemplate:SndPavlo Shylko

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Detailed voting results

Semi-final

Detailed voting results of the semi-final[14][15]
Voting procedure used:
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rowspan="22" Template:Vert header 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
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Final

Detailed voting results of the final[16][17]
Voting procedure used:
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rowspan="24" Template:Vert header 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
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Broadcasts

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators, are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries[18]
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Show(s)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Template:Flagu RTVA ATV All shows Template:Ill and Josep Lluís Trabal [19][20]
Template:Flagu ORF ORF 1 All shows Andi Knoll [21][22][23]
Template:Flagu BTRC Template:N/A All shows Ales Kruglyakov and Template:Ill [24][25]
Template:Flagu VRT TV1 All shows Template:N/A [26][27]
RTBF Script error: No such module "Lang". Final Jean-Pierre Hautier [28][29]
Script error: No such module "Lang". Template:N/A [29]
Template:Flagu PBSBiH BHTV 1, BH Radio 1 All shows Dejan Kukrić [30][31][32]
RTVFBiH FTV Final
Template:Flagu HRT HRT 2 Semi-final Template:N/A [33]
HRT 1 Final Template:N/A [34]
Template:Flagu CyBC Script error: No such module "Lang". All shows Template:N/A [35][36]
Template:Flagu DR DR1 All shows Jørgen de Mylius [37][38]
Template:Flagu ETV All shows Marko Reikop [39]
ER Script error: No such module "Lang". Mart Juur and Andrus Kivirähk
Template:Flagu YLE YLE TV2 All shows Markus Kajo and Template:Ill [40][41]
YLE FST Template:Ill [42][43]
Script error: No such module "Lang". Sanna Kojo and Jorma Hietamäki [44][45]
YLE Radio Vega Thomas Lundin [42]
Final Hans Johansson [46]
Template:Flagu Script error: No such module "Lang". France 3 Final Laurent Ruquier and Elsa Fayer [47][48]
Radio France Script error: No such module "Lang". Jean-Luc Delarue
Template:Flagu ARD Script error: No such module "Lang". Semi-final Peter Urban [22][49][50]
Script error: No such module "Lang". Final
Template:Flagu ERT NET All shows Template:N/A [35][36]
Template:Flagu RÚV Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". All shows Gísli Marteinn Baldursson [51][52][53]
Template:Flagu RTÉ N2 Semi-final Marty Whelan [54][55][56]
RTÉ One Final
Template:Flagu LTV Template:N/A All shows Template:Ill [57]
Template:Flagu LRT LTV All shows Darius Užkuraitis [58][59][60]
Template:Flagu PBS TVM All shows Eileen Montesin [61][62]
Template:Flagu TMC Monte Carlo All shows Template:Ill [47][63][64]
Template:Flagu PO Script error: No such module "Lang". All shows Willem van Beusekom and Cornald Maas [26][27][65]
Radio 2 Template:N/A
Template:Flagu NRK NRK2Template:Efn Semi-final Jostein Pedersen [66][67]
NRK1 Final
NRK P1 Template:N/A
Template:Flagu TVP TVP1 Final Artur Orzech [68][69]
Template:Flagu RTP Template:N/A All shows Eládio Clímaco [70]
Template:Flagu TVR Script error: No such module "Lang". All shows Template:N/A [71][72]
Template:Flagu Channel One Final Template:N/A [73]
Template:Flagu RTS RTS 1 Semi-final Template:N/A [74]
Final Duška Vučinić-Lučić and Template:Ill [75][76]
Template:Flagu RTVSLO SLO 2 Semi-final Andrea F [77][78]
SLO 1 Final
Template:N/A All shows Jernej Vene [77]
Template:Flagu TVE Script error: No such module "Lang". Semi-final Template:Ill [79]
Script error: No such module "Lang". Final [80]
Template:Flagu SVT SVT1 All shows Pekka Heino [66][67][81]
SR SR P4 Björn Kjellman and Carolina Norén [81]
Template:Flagu SRG SSR SF 2 Semi-final Marco Fritsche [21][22][47][63][82]
SF 1 Final Sandra Studer
TSR 2 Semi-final Jean-Marc Richard and Alain Morisod
TSR 1 Final
TSI 1 All shows Template:N/A
Template:Flagu TRT TRT 1, TRT Int All shows Template:N/A [83][84]
Template:Flagu NTU Script error: No such module "Lang". All shows Rodion Pryntsevsky [85][86][87]
Template:Flagu BBC BBC Three Semi-final Paddy O'Connell [88][89]
BBC One, BBC Prime Final Terry Wogan [47][90]
BBC Radio 2 Ken Bruce [91]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries[18]
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Show(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Template:Flagu SBS SBS TVTemplate:Efn All shows Des Mangan [92]
Template:Flagu BFBS BFBS 1Template:Efn Final Terry Wogan [93]

Incidents

Just before the Template:Esccntyn 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 Template:Esccntyn 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 Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty. 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 Template:Esccnty voted for Template:Esccnty and the second year in a row that Cyprus voted for Turkey. When the country presented its votes no map of the island was shown although all other presenters were preceded with their country being highlighted on a map. This was probably due to Turkey's recognition of the northern half of the island as an independent republic, which is not recognised by any other state.[1]

Marcel Bezençon Awards

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Lisa Andreas performing "Stronger Every Minute", the entry which won the inaugural Marcel Bezençon Awards' Composer Award

The Marcel Bezençon Awards, a series of awards held concurrently to the main contest, honour and celebrate the participants of the final of that year's Eurovision Song Contest. Named after one of the people influential in the creation of the contest,[94] and created by two former Swedish Eurovision participants, Christer Björkman (Template:Escyr) and Richard Herrey (Template:Escyr as a member of the winning group Herreys), the inaugural awards were presented at part of the Template:Escyr. Three awards were presented as part of the third edition of the awards in 2004, with the winner of each award determined by the collective votes of a different group of individuals. The Fan Award, which was presented in the previous two editions, was replaced by a Composer Award for the 2004 contest.[95][96][97]

  • The Press Award for the best competing song, as determined by the accredited press and media, was awarded to the Template:Esccnty, "Script error: No such module "Lang"." performed by Željko Joksimović and Ad Hoc Orchestra
  • The Artistic Award for the best artistic performance, as determined by previous Eurovision winners, was awarded to the Template:Esccnty, "Wild Dances" performed by Ruslana
  • The Composer Award for the best composition, as determined by the participating songwriters in the final, was awarded to the Template:Esccnty, "Stronger Every Minute", written by Mike Connaris and performed by Lisa Andreas

The winners each received a hand-blown glass trophy designed by Karin Hammar and created at the Template:Ill, which were handed out backstage prior to the contest proper.[95][96]

Official album

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Cover art of the 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.[98]

Charts

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Chart (2004) Peak
position

Notes

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References

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External links

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