Eurovision Song Contest 2002

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The Eurovision Song Contest 2002 was the 47th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 25 May 2002 at the Saku Suurhall in Tallinn, Estonia, and presented by Annely Peebo and Marko Matvere. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Script error: No such module "Lang". (ETV), who staged the event after winning the Template:Escyr for Template:Esccnty with the song "Everybody" by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL.[1] It was the first Eurovision Song Contest held in one of the former Soviet republics.

Broadcasters from twenty-four countries participated in the contest. Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty returned after their relegation from the previous edition. Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty were relegated due to their poor results in 2001. It was the first (and only) time Ireland and Norway were relegated from the contest. Template:Esccnty was also set to sit out this year, but when Template:Esccnty announced their non-participation, due to internal problems at its broadcaster, it left a spot open for Latvia to take, as the country had finished higher the year before than any of the other relegated countries. This would go on to be very fortunate for Latvia as it ended up winning the contest with the song "I Wanna", performed by Marie N, who wrote it alongside Marats Samauskis. Template:Esccnty, the Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty rounded out the top five. Malta achieved their best result in their Eurovision history, coming second. Further down the table, Template:Esccnty finished twenty-fourth and last, their worst result up until that point, despite having been declared one of the favourites to win the competition beforehand.

Location

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Saku Suurhall, Tallinn – host venue of the 2002 contest.

Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, Script error: No such module "convert". south of Helsinki in Finland. Tallinn's Old Town is one of the best preserved and intact medieval cities in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[2]

Venue

Early in the proceedings, media outlets had begun speculating whether Script error: No such module "Lang". (ETV) would be able to host the contest, citing a lack of a suitable venue and budgetary concerns. Due to this, Maltese broadcaster Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) and Dutch broadcaster Script error: No such module "Lang". (NOS) both expressed interest in hosting in the event in respective countries instead of Estonia.[3][4] However, worries were put to rest when a combination of fundraising activities and the Estonian Government enabled them to host the event.[1]

On 19 June 2001, it was announced that Estonia would still host the 2002 contest.[5] The Saku Suurhall was ultimately chosen as the venue for the contest. It is the largest indoor arena in Estonia, built in 2001 and holds up to 10,000 people. It is named after the Estonian brewery and soft drink company Saku.

Participants

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Broadcasters from a total of 24 countries competed in the 2002 contest, which included the 16 top placing countries from the previous year's contest and Latvia, alongside the seven returning countries, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Macedonia, Romania, and Switzerland, which had been relegated from competing in the 2001 contest. These seven countries replaced the bottom 5 countries from the 2001 contest - Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, and Poland, all of which were relegated from taking part in this year's contest, as well as Portugal, who decided not to compete. The draw for the running order took place on 9 November 2001.[7]

Several of the performing artists had previously competed in past editions. Constantinos Christoforou, a member of One, had represented Template:Esccnty; while Philippos Constantinos, another member of the band, had provided backing vocals for Template:Esccnty. Template:Ill, a member of Template:Ill representing Belgium, had provided backing vocals for the Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty; while Template:Ill, another member of the band, had also provided backing vocals for the Netherlands in 1996.[8] Sahlene representing Estonia, had provided backing vocals for Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty. Monica Anghel had represented Template:Esccnty, but failed to progress from the qualifying round. In addition, Christina Argyri, who represented Template:Esccnty as part of Template:Ill, and Template:Ill, who represented Template:Esccnty with Template:Ill, provided backing vocals for the same country.[9]

Eurovision Song Contest 2002 participants[10]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s)
Template:Esc ORF Manuel Ortega "Say a Word" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc VRT Template:Ill "Sister" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc PBSBiH Maja "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".) Serbian, English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc HRT Vesna Pisarović "Everything I Want" English Milana Vlaović
Template:Esc CyBC One "Gimme" English George Theofanous
Template:Esc DR Malene "Tell Me Who You Are" English Michael Ronson
Template:Esc ETV Sahlene "Runaway" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc YLE Laura "Addicted to You" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Lang". Sandrine François "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Template:Hlist
Template:Esc NDRTemplate:Efn Corinna May "I Can't Live Without Music" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc ERT Michalis Rakintzis "S.A.G.A.P.O." English Michalis Rakintzis
Template:Esc IBA Sarit Hadad "Light a Candle" Hebrew, English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc LTV Marie N "I Wanna" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc LRT Aivaras "Happy You" English Aivaras Stepukonis
Template:Esc MRT Karolina "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".) Macedonian Template:Hlist
Template:Esc PBS Ira Losco "7th Wonder" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc TVR Monica Anghel and Marcel Pavel "Tell Me Why" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc ORT Prime Minister "Northern Girl" English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc RTVSLO Sestre "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Slovene Template:Hlist
Template:Esc TVE Rosa "Europe's Living a Celebration" Spanish Template:Hlist
Template:Esc SVT Afro-dite "Never Let It Go" English Template:Ill
Template:Esc SRG SSR Francine Jordi "Script error: No such module "Lang"." French Francine Lehmann
Template:Esc TRT Template:Ill and Group Safir "Script error: No such module "Lang"." Turkish, English Template:Hlist
Template:Esc BBC Jessica Garlick "Come Back" English Martyn Baylay

Format

For the first time, a slogan (or theme) was implemented. This year's theme was called 'A Modern Fairytale', which was evident in the postcards shown between the songs, which showed classic fairytales ending in modern Estonian situations.[11]

The postcards continued with the opening theme of "A Modern Fairytale" taking well known fairy tales and translating them into Estonian life through short films, with a moral at the end of each one of them.

Contest overview

The contest was held on 25 May 2002 at 22:00 EEST (21:00 CEST) and was won by Latvia. The table below outlines the participating countries, the order in which they performed, the competing artists and songs, and the results of the voting.

Latvia won with 176 points. Malta came second with 164 points, with Estonia, United Kingdom, France, Cyprus, Spain, Sweden, Romania and Russia completing the top ten. Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Lithuania and Denmark occupied the bottom five positions.

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Results of the Eurovision Song Contest 2002[12]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1 Template:Esc One "Gimme" 85 6
2 Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Sort". "Come Back" 111 3
3 Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Sort". "Say a Word" 26 18
4 Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Sort". "S.A.G.A.P.O." 27 17
5 Template:Esc Rosa "Europe's Living a Celebration" 81 7
6 Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Sort". "Everything I Want" 44 11
7 Template:Esc Prime Minister "Northern Girl" 55 10
8 Template:Esc Sahlene "Runaway" 111 3
9 Template:Esc Karolina "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 25 19
10 Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Sort". "Light a Candle" 37 12
11 Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Sort". "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 15 22
12 Template:Esc Afro-dite "Never Let It Go" 72 8
13 Template:Esc Laura "Addicted to You" 24 20
14 Template:Esc Malene "Tell Me Who You Are" 7 24
15 Template:Esc Maja "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 33 13
16 Template:Esc Sergio and the Ladies "Sister" 33 13
17 Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Sort". "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 104 5
18 Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Sort". "I Can't Live Without Music" 17 21
19 Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Sort". and Group Safir "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 29 16
20 Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Sort". "7th Wonder" 164 2
21 Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Sort". and Marcel Pavel "Tell Me Why" 71 9
22 Template:Esc Sestre "Script error: No such module "Lang"." 33 13
23 Template:Esc Script error: No such module "Sort". "I Wanna" 176 1
24 Template:Esc Aivaras "Happy You" 12 23

Spokespersons

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Detailed voting results

According to the EBU rules, 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. In the EBU's rules for the 2002 contest, it was stated; In the televoting, households shall not be permitted to vote more than three times.[7]

At this contest (and the following one) the broadcaster decided to reverse the song recaps - starting instead with the last performed song (24) and finishing with the first performed song (1). This was due to the apparent preference within public vote for songs in the later part of the running order in comparison to the songs nearer to the start.

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United Kingdom 111 12 7 6 4 5 6 2 8 6 7 6 1 8 2 10 8 5 8
Austria 26 1 1 7 5 12
Greece 27 12 1 8 6
Spain 81 7 2 4 6 6 12 7 6 12 12 7
Croatia 44 6 6 5 5 5 2 3 12
Russia 55 5 2 10 1 3 8 10 10 6
Estonia 111 7 3 5 3 6 2 12 10 8 10 4 4 8 2 2 6 12 7
Macedonia 25 3 4 1 5 12
Israel 37 5 1 5 1 2 10 5 5 3
Switzerland 15 5 3 2 3 1 1
Sweden 72 1 4 1 8 3 7 10 12 1 4 7 4 10
Finland 24 2 5 1 10 3 3
Denmark 7 4 1 1 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina 33 7 3 7 3 6 2 3 2
Belgium 33 4 1 7 3 4 2 10 2
France 104 10 3 8 3 7 10 8 12 5 8 10 6 4 3 2 5
Germany 17 1 2 2 1 3 3 4 1
Turkey 29 4 3 8 7 7
Malta 164 10 12 8 6 10 12 5 7 10 10 4 4 2 12 4 7 6 10 5 10 7 3
Romania 71 8 8 5 12 12 8 4 1 7 6
Slovenia 33 6 2 7 8 2 2 1 5
Latvia 176 4 8 10 10 12 2 10 12 7 12 8 5 6 7 5 8 8 12 6 7 5 12
Lithuania 12 4 2 6

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Allegation of vote swapping

This year saw allegations that the juries in certain countries were guilty of swapping votes among each other. According to the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, The French Head of Delegation allegedly said that members of the Cypriot delegation had approached him to swap votes. In addition to Cyprus, allegations were also made toward Greece, Russia, Macedonia, Malta and Romania.[22]

Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay live and in full the contest via television. Non-participating EBU member broadcasters were also able to relay the contest as "passive participants"; any passive countries wishing to participate in the following year's event were also required to provide a live broadcast of the contest or a deferred broadcast within 24 hours.[7] Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their viewers. 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
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Template:Flagu ORF ORF 1 Andi Knoll [23][24]
FM4 Stermann & Grissemann [25]
Template:Flagu VRT TV1 André Vermeulen and Bart Peeters [17][26]
Radio 2 Filip Pletinckx and Template:Ill
Radio Donna Template:Ill
RTBF Script error: No such module "Lang". Jean-Pierre Hautier [27]
Template:Flagu RTVFBiH FTV1 [28]
Template:Flagu HRT HRT 1 Ante Batinović [28]
Template:Flagu CyBC Script error: No such module "Lang". Evi Papamichail [13][29]
Template:Flagu DR DR1 Keld Heick [30]
Template:Flagu ETV Marko Reikop [31]
Template:Flagu YLE YLE TV2 Maria Guzenina and Template:Ill [32]
YLE FST Template:Ill [33]
YLE Radio Suomi Iris Mattila and Template:Ill [34]
YLE Radio Vega [35]
Template:Flagu Script error: No such module "Lang". France 3 Marc-Olivier Fogiel and Dave [36]
Template:Flagu ARD Script error: No such module "Lang". Peter Urban [37][38]
Template:Flagu LTV Template:Ill [39]
Template:Flagu LRT LRT Template:Ill [40][41]
Template:Flagu PBS TVM John Bundy [42][43]
Template:Flagu TVR Script error: No such module "Lang". [44]
Template:Flagu ORTTemplate:Efn Template:Ill [45][46]
Template:Flagu RTVSLO SLO 1 [47]
Template:Flagu TVE Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Efn José Luis Uribarri [48]
RNE Radio 1 Nieves Herrero and José María de Juana [49]
Template:Flagu SVT SVT1 Template:Ill and Christer Björkman [50]
SR SR P4 Carolina Norén and Björn Kjellman [51]
Template:Flagu SRG SSR SF 2 Sandra Studer [23]
TSR 1 Phil Mundwiller [36]
TSI 1 Jonathan Tedesco [52]
Template:Flagu TRT TRT 1 Template:Ill [18]
Template:Flagu BBC BBC OneTemplate:Efn Terry Wogan [53]
BBC Choice Jenny Eclair and Max Flint [54]
BBC Radio 2 Ken Bruce [55]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Template:Flagu SBS SBS TVTemplate:Efn Terry Wogan [56]
Template:Flagu BTRC [57]
Template:Flagu TV5 TV5 Québec CanadaTemplate:Efn [58]
Template:Flagu BFBS BFBS 1,Template:Efn BFBS Radio 2 [59][60]
Template:Flagu SvF [61]
Template:Flagu RÚV Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". Logi Bergmann Eiðsson [62]
Template:Flagu RTÉ RTÉ One Marty Whelan [63][64]
Template:Flagu PO Script error: No such module "Lang". Willem van Beusekom [26]
Radio 2
Template:Flagu NRK NRK1 Jostein Pedersen [65]
Template:Flagu TVP TVP1 Artur Orzech [66][67]
Template:Flagu RTP RTP1 Eládio Clímaco [68][69]
Template:Flagu NTU Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Efn [70]
Template:Flagdeco Yugoslavia RTS RTS 2 [71]

Marcel Bezençon Awards

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Laura Voutilainen, Template:Esccnty and winner of the inaugural Marcel Bezençon Awards' Fan 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,[72] and created by two former Swedish Eurovision participants, Christer Björkman and Eurovision winner Richard Herrey, the inaugural awards were presented as part of this year's event. Three awards were presented in 2002, with the winner of each award determined by the collective votes of a different group of individuals:[73][74][75]

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.[73][74]

Official album

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Notes

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References

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